Design From The Inside-Out

Critically Adopting Big Data Methods

Book chapter (2017)

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S. Golchehr Royal College of Art
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2017

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English

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Abstract

The emergence of Big Data and data mining has provoked a large debate on the role of data collection and analysis in many fields (Anderson, 2008; Bollier, 2010; Kitchin, 2014; Mayer-Schönberger & Cukier, 2013). Within the architectural profession it has resulted in two distinctive attitudes towards these new advances. Some architectural practices praise technology and adopt Big Data — often uncritically — to inform their design projects, while others reject computer-mediated approaches entirely and take an antagonistic stance towards a technology-dominated society and environment.