Smart Design Thinking

One of the chapter authors of The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture and Urbanism, sharing details of the publication, which is now on pre-order.

A seminal work, the companion is edited by Professor Mitra Kanaani and features contributions from foremost thinkers in the field worldwide, including Matias del Campo, Paul Toyne, Neil Leach, Patrik Schumacher, and Claudia Pasquero, among others.

My contribution to the publication is the chapter “Panarchistic Architecture: A Paradigm in Wildlife Resilience”, which succinctly presents the paradigm’s primary precepts and its potential to shape the future of living with wildfire in urban, peri-urban, and wildland environments.

Description

“This comprehensive companion surveys intelligent design thinking in architecture and urbanism, investigates multiple facets of "smart" approaches to design thinking that augment the potentials of user experiences as well as his/her physical and mental interactions with the built environment. Split into six paradigms, this volume looks at the theoretical and historical background of smart design, smart design methodologies and typologies, smart materials, smart design for extreme weather and climatic regions, as well as climate change issues and side effects, smart mobility, and the role of digital technologies and simulations in architectural and urban design. Often at odds with each other, this volume places emphasis on smart design for various typologies and user groups, emphasizing on advancements in form-making and implementation of technology for healthy and sustainable living environments.”

Find further information here.