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Modelling Workflow Data, Collaboration and Dynamic Modelling Practice

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This paper details the development of a digital model for a complex, large-scale façade design and presents an analytic framework for approaching design modelling as a case of distributed creative practice. Drawing on digital design theory, philosophy of mind and anthropology, we introduce the framework of cognitive ecology to analyse modelling practice around the façade design for the new IOC headquarters and show how this practice entails the simultaneous development of computational processes and collaborative workflows. Situated across 3XN architects and GXN innovation’s internal R&D and design departments, we discuss how dynamic and coupled workflows add value to new forms of collaborative practice that are vitally engaged with extending capacity for computational and creative design thinking.

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  1. Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard

  2. 3XN Architects and GXN Innovation, Kanonbådsvej 8, 1437, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Kenn Clausen

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  1. Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, Versailles, India

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  2. University of the Arts, Berlin, India

    Christoph Gengnagel

  3. Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Champs sur Marne, Australia

    Olivier Baverel

  4. Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Jane Burry

  5. School of Architecture + Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Caitlin Mueller

  6. ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France

    Minh Man Nguyen

  7. Philippe Rahm architects, Paris, France

    Philippe Rahm

  8. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

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Poulsgaard, K.S., Clausen, K. (2018). Modelling Workflow Data, Collaboration and Dynamic Modelling Practice. In: De Rycke, K., et al. Humanizing Digital Reality. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5_41

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