A Mind Lab for Open Data Design
THE NEW OPEN is a flagship project of the Department of Architecture @ TU Delft, initiated and led by Georg Vrachliotis and the Theory of Architecture and Digital Culture Group to explore the role of open data for design and social change.【⚡】
As we adjust to our extremely digital post-pandemic age, we are reaching a powerful turning point. At this crossroads, we have the opportunity to reimagine the scope and parameters of our digital footprints to empower ourselves, each other and the makers of our built environments through harnessing our datascapes into transformational design.【🙌】
Architects have been dabbling in the idea of working with data since the first computers. A new portal is now opening to channel collective open data into potentially sentient spaces, through a hybrid collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence. Architects and designers can now share the complex task of sorting and applying the vast data that informs those with an intelligence that is trained to focus intently on this task.
With this partnership, the architect and the designer are freed to focus on the conceptual and curatorial aspects of environments, and on serving the needs of holistic networks of people and buildings. Working with open data, supported by artificial intelligence and machine learning, transforms the role of the architect and allows the discipline to bring the collective voice, and spiritual considerations, into transformational design.【✨】
Amid this acceleration of the digitised architectural discipline, it is crucial to reconsider our environmental footprint.
Architects are constantly inventing new shapes, spaces and devices, building cities and forming landscapes; data is creeping “under our skin,” digital tools and data-based processes are coding, transcoding and recoding our lives, our bodies, the places we live in; the objects, surfaces and materials that surround us; our climate on earth.【🌎】
The 21st century will require us to develop concepts for thinking about design in an open data-based way that deeply considers ecology.
Open mindsets, not just datasets. *
Open mindsets, not just datasets. *
Open Society
The way landscapes, cities and buildings look and are organised, how they touch us emotionally and become part of communication and collective memory, how they can perform elements of the transformations we need; all shape our ideas of “self” and “society”.
An open society is considered one of the most significant civil-society projects handed down to us from our architectural ancestors: Architects Jaap Bakema, Frei Otto and Fritz Haller; the Club of Rome and the Bouwcentrum Rotterdam, laid the philosophical groundwork for an open data society, where democratic design informed public spaces.【✌️】
THE NEW OPEN builds on these historical references to inspire today’s visions for a future open data society.
New Ways of Seeing
In a world drowning in data and pixelating in data fog, THE NEW OPEN initiates data optimism, data literacy, and new ways of seeing, processing, interpreting and sharing data in collaboration with artificial intelligence. 【🤖】
Future Design
We aim to address today and tomorrow’s most pressing concerns, from sustainable building materials and better design, to data literacy and data democracy, to curating the cohesive fabric of highly functioning, ecologically savvy smart societies. 【🏇】
Co-Creative Mindset
We will explore “openness” by overcoming data sharing anxiety and scepticism, democratising data, making our collective data cloud more visible and useful for everyone, and fostering a co-creative mindset in the design of our living environments.【🤝】
Inspire Architectural Practice
We hope to unlock a new open data culture that will transform architecture, promote radically new design, and grow resources to advise, inspire, and inform architectural practice, business decisions and planning.【🎯】
Perspectives *
Perspectives *
THE NEW OPEN will look at a curated mix of key topics for the future through three perspectives【🔍】
Design Perspective
Open data has great potential in the design of sustainable space. Open data exists on urban mobility, water infrastructure, energy consumption and the use of public spaces, but data on the design of buildings is comparatively scarce. THE NEW OPEN aims to close that gap in climate-conscious design.
Narrative Perspective
Data is not just counting, it’s the recounting of our communal digital journeys. Unlocking the narrative of these journeys through storytelling transforms data into knowledge and wisdom, which gives it meaning. THE NEW OPEN aims to harness meaningful data into change making built environments.
Global Change Perspective
Data is jurisdictionless, it covers all human life across digital space and allows us to imagine our future as a more global whole. What new forms of collaboration will develop in the global open data future among cities, institutions and citizens? THE NEW OPEN will look at the potential social, cultural and political change on the horizon.
Be Open
Be Open
Through a vibrant mix of digital and analogue experiences, ever-evolving critical topics in the cultural, political and social arenas will be addressed to bring open data futures to life, and to support the creators of tomorrow in their critical work.
These will include a podcast and a book series, live and digital talks, workshops, exhibitions, social media happenings and a fellowship program featuring special projects with creative visionaries.
Get in touch
We look forward to collaborating with you to co-create the visions of the future.
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General inquiries: weareopen@newopen.design
Editor in Chief: Georg Vrachliotis georg@newopen.design
Research Coordinator: Dennis Pohl dennis@newopen.design
A mind lab for open data design and social change
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