Data-Informed Design Democratization: Engaging design stakeholders for creating livable built environments

Md Zishaan Khan, Halil Erhan, Elif Sezen Yagmur Kilimci

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Abstract

Fostering an inclusive and democratic decision-making process is essential to developing liveable, socially acceptable, and environmentally conscious built environments. For informed decision-making in this process, stakeholders’ understanding of design data plays an important role, as do the other disciplines embracing data-informed discourses and cultures. However, more work is needed to develop novel platforms for supporting data-informed decision-making in built environment design. Public engagement and town hall meetings are common methods to engage the public. They are often restricted by time, space, and participation scope. The online tools for data democratization in various fields offer opportunities to promote a democratic discourse; although their purpose varies, their characteristics can guide the search for novel approaches adopting a new class of tools for building design. We propose a conceptual framework for evaluating and designing tools supporting data-informed [built environment] design democratization through inclusive discourses called Di-Dem. As a contribution, we demonstrated the application of the framework in evaluating ten platforms offered for similar purposes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2024
EditorsOdysseas Kontovourkis, Marios C. Phocas, Gabriel Wurzer
PublisherEducation and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Pages475-484
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789491207389
Publication statusPublished - 2024
Event42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2024 - Nicosia, Cyprus
Duration: 9 Sept 202413 Sept 2024

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe
Volume2
ISSN (Print)2684-1843

Conference

Conference42nd Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, eCAADe 2024
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityNicosia
Period9/09/2413/09/24

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2024, Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe. All rights reserved.

Keywords

  • Data Democratization
  • Data-informed Participation
  • Democratic Discourse in Built Environment Design
  • Engaging Stakeholders
  • Inclusive Data Visualization

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