{"id":23478,"date":"2023-11-25T01:39:57","date_gmt":"2023-11-25T09:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/beyond-automation-change-how-you-think-with-computational-design\/"},"modified":"2023-11-25T01:39:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-25T09:39:59","slug":"beyond-automation-change-how-you-think-with-computational-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/beyond-automation-change-how-you-think-with-computational-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Automation – Change How You Think With Computational Design"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Through the ever-increasing speed and capacity of computers, computation enables dealing with tasks that were traditionally either too time-consuming or too challenging to be accomplished sustainably by humans alone. However, computation is not just about automating traditional processes or tedious activities; it\u2019s about shifting the way we think and design.<\/p>\n

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To learn more about computational design, please refer to the chapter\u00a0\u201cIntroduction to Computational Design: Subsets, Challenges in Practice and Emerging Roles\u201d\u00a0<\/em>by the author as part of a Springer book\u00a0Industry 4.0 for the Built Environment<\/a>, edited by Marzia Bolpagni, Rui Gavina, and Diogo Rodrigo Ribeiro.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cComputational\u201d is not \u201cComputer-aided,\u201d and why it\u2019s important.\u00a0<\/h2>\n

As early as in the 1960s, researcher and visionary Nicholas Negroponte highlighted the distinction between \u201ccomputer-aided,\u201d which is about traditional processes supported by computation tools, and \u201ccomputerized,\u201d or \u201cdigitalized,\u201d which is about new processes enabled by computers. Later on, in the 2000s, Kostas Terzidis went one step further with the term \u201ccomputational,\u201d highlighting the distinction between the uses of the technique (the computers, as in computer-aided or digitalized) and the uses of the thinking paradigm (the computation, as in computational design).<\/p>\n