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Automation Takes Command: toward a design typology

This paper explores the impact of technology on design processes and introduces a Design Typology to categorize design acts for automation. It addresses the tension between academia and industry due to technological advancements and predicts the future trend of designers shifting towards design analysis over creation. Historical parallels and automation progression are discussed, leading to the development of a classification system for forecasting automated design acts. The paper emphasizes the importance of recognizing technological changes in the field of design.

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Automation Takes Command: toward a design typology

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  1. Automation Takes Command: toward a design typology Joseph A. Betz Associate Professor of Architecture Department of Architecture & Construction Management

  2. Introduction • Technology is changing the design process • Certain design acts are now automated • Some acts of design change from creation to analysis • Design acts can be categorized into Typologies • This paper develops a Design Typology • Based on the theory and argument developed in: "Epistemology, Technology and Organization: the affects of change in architectural design," Proceedings of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Annual Conference, at Nashville, Tenn., June 2003

  3. Background The Dilemma Tension between academia and industry • industry is moving toward one type of technology platform for economic reasons that academia cannot use for pedagogical and assessment ones. • technology is rendering specific types of knowledge obsolete and vice versa • historical precedents in other disciplines • automation reduces the designer to observer • new act being created called design analysis

  4. Design Typology Design Typology is used to predict whether a particular design act can be automated or not. Conceptual Evidence • progression of automated design • parallels with mechanization (mechanical automation) and design automation • software examples (see paper for examples)

  5. Progression of Automated Software First use of design automated process • highly standardized assemblies • limited number of components • modular system • example: prefabricated industrial buildings Next step was to automate engineering aspects • prescriptive design (i.e, AISC steel design rules) • applied science, linear in decision making • measurable solution and predictable outcome

  6. Historical Parallels Provide clues to patterns of modernization Aspects of mechanization during the Industrial Revolution: • standardization: a modular component system • assembly line: linear process of production Power source, raw material, flow and product of each: • Mechanization: internal combustion engine; iron/steel; canal/railroad; consumer items • Design automation: computer technology; information; the Internet; professional/management services

  7. Setting the Categories • Variables organized into a chart as forecasting tool • Chart is like a diagram and is reductive • Intent is clarity over an impossibly large set of facts • Three categories: • Theoretical/Philosophical Operating Model • Mode of Production • Design Solution • Classification System • comparative polar test • preliminary only

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  9. Conclusion 1. Need to recognize that technology is driving change • evidence (technological and historical) to support this • result is the creation of a new design act 2. Ramification of not recognizing this change • effects on the graduates we prepare for the profession • relationship between academia and industry 3. Forecast for the future • fewer designers doing design creation • more designers dong design analysis • reduction in the total number of designers

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