The Global Workshop

A discussion of the ground breaking teaching activities of the Dutch architect Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) at various institutions around the world.

Design for socially responsible behavior: A classification of influence based on intended user experience

Design for Development: A Capability Approach

In this article I suggest a ‘capability approach’ towards designing for society, and particularly, the world’s poor. I will explain that this approach assigns a central place to human capabilities in our discussions of justice and development and criticizes a focus on utility or preference satisfaction. In the literature on the capability...

Integration of Life Cycle Assessment Into Agent-Based Modeling: Toward Informed Decisions on Evolving Infrastructure Systems

A method is presented that allows for a life cycle assessment (LCA) to provide environmental information on an energy infrastructure system while it evolves. Energy conversion facilities are represented in an agent-based model (ABM) as distinct instances of technologies with owners capable of making decisions based on economic and environmental...