Design Tech

A collaborative research study to understand how technology can build more democratic design practice.

A research study commissioned by Connected Places Catapult, and undertaken in partnership with Open Systems Lab and Centre for Spatial Technology, the work explores how digital technologies continue to automate and augment the current practices of the building and urban design profession

Through a series of interviews, written work, and events, explore how the paradigm of design is being altered and reinvented in the age of A and automation.

The published piece presents an essay outlining how the design profession could go beyond the optimisation and automation currently gearing our cities towards efficiency, consumption and extraction—and outline the potential for technology to enable better quality, more democratic, and sustainable places to live.