Making digital collaboration "more betterer"

Making digital collaboration “more betterer” Simple views onto complex problems David Harrison

urbandictionary.com: more betterer Used when someone running a project or task needs to explain to people he is answerable to, who don't have the skills or knowledge to understand what is going on, that the project is still at an early stage (prototype or rough cut) and will significantly improve in quality of appearance and content by the time it is finished. This is the initial look and feel which is very rough but we are going to spoodle it all up and make it more betterer before we finish.

http://onemansblog.com/2007/09/05/wheres-osha-when-you-need-em/ Digital collaboration Architecture is an could be “more betterer” outcome-centric industry

Writing board with an architectural drawing New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1550–1295 B.C Burj Dubai St Paul’s Cathedral Adrian Smith, (Skidmore, Owings and Merrill), 2009 Sir Christopher Wren, 1673 We have developed a rich visual vocabulary for communication but lack similar experience in the ﬁeld of digital collaboration Images wikipedia.org

What has changed about architectural collaboration?

Digital collaboration has shifted our perceptions + increased the volume, frequency & speed we can exchange data

I am not interested in “long term” (hypothetical) digital collaboration ...but it is pretty....

I am interested in real world collaboration (First Life) ...which unlike this image is not nearly as sexy....

Ah, that’s better.... ...managed chaos, uncontrolled order, or a bit of both?

Building Information Models Or so we are led to believe result in better digital collaboration

BIM is not a golden bullet Controlled Complicated Computer-centric Centrally managed Costly to produce + maintain ...and difﬁcult to interpret without a face

Frequently Exchanged File Formats Factors Impacting Data Sharing: Total Respondents Reinventing Collaboration Across Internal & External Project Teams Interoperability in the Construction Industry Patrick Aragon, 2006 Adobe Systems SmartMarket Report, 2007 McGraw Hill Construction BIM Demand by Firms SmartMarket Report, 2007 McGraw Hill Construction As a digital collaboration tool BIM does not address industry issues

Gartner Group, 2006 Why the need for digital Principles are decision aids collaboration principles? in a rapidly moving environment

Digital collaboration principles assist: Team, client & vendor relationships, tools development and business planning

1. Simplicity Collaboration is hard enough 2. Ubiquity without technology barriers

3. Decentralisation Scaling efﬁciently and quickly is 4. Modular design key to long-term success Image wikipedia.org

5. Information awareness Too much data will always 6. Context sensitivity plague digital collaboration

People, processes and 7. Evolutionary semantics architecture change over time

Highly connected data will The Project Information Cloud increase the overall knowledge of the project team

Conclusions We lack a vocabulary for digital architectural collaboration This vocabulary needs to be evolutionary not revolutionary BIM is a productive tool, but it does not address collaboration issues The seven principles proposed will help establish the Project Information Cloud

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Making digital collaboration "more betterer"

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