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Designing the Dynamic is a 4-day – hands on – workshop held from the 21st to the 24th of November, 2011 at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. The workshop consists of four projects:

 

Introduction

In considering the future fabric of cities, designers are faced with complex tradeoffs between material, energy, comfort, cost performance and a delicate understanding of the affordances needed by those who use it. Successful design decision-making relies on design team interaction between individuals of very diverse expertise and points of departure, notably between the generalists (a group to which architects belong) and specialists with deep expert knowledge in particular areas.

This research intensive will bring together built environment designers with specialists from mathematics, engineering, material science, computer science and immerse them in the extreme dynamic context of sailing boat design.

It will investigate better ways to represent performance feedback in real time in virtual and physical models and setting up multi-criteria optimisation where these criteria can be of a very hybrid nature.

By bringing built environment designers into the world of sail boat racing where tiny increments in boat performance are critical to the chance of winning, where recorded and tacit knowledge of the experienced sailor are as critical to success as scientific analysis, where the challenges involve the complexity of fluid dynamics and continuously and unpredictably changing conditions and the fastest route is never the shortest, wits will be sharpened, preconceptions left behind.

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