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Foresight and Design : Composing Future Places / Mark C. Childs

Publication year: 2022

ISBN: 9781032148168

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Every plan, pro-forma, design, building contract, and construction schedule is a proposal about future places. To help improve such proposals, Foresight and Design: Composing Future Places presents conceptual tools to inform design and outline the need for designers to rigorously think about potential futures. Our built compositions are constantly transforming due to continuing urbanization, demographic shifts, climate change, the evolution of virtual worlds, economic and health disparities, and other unforeseen trends. Five brief case studies interspersed between the chapters serve as examples of practitioners exercising foresight through these practices. Contributions include a description of a regional design process in Afghanistan by Anthony Fettes of Sasaki Architects, and an exploration into the Indigenous Futurism model-making competition by Anjelica Gallegos.


Subject: Architecture, Architectural Design, Architectural Drawing, Architectural Presentation, Professional Practice, Sustainable Architecture, City and Urban Planning, Urban Design, Built Environment, Planning