"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
There is a question we often forget to ask, and it became the centrepiece of a three-hour workshop I delivered last week at Politecnico di Milano as part of a BIM Management master's programme. When an information model is delivered to the client,how do we know...
Last week, I was organising my thoughts around a lesson for a client, and the lesson was aimed at Project Managers, so it had a little bit on what does it mean to manage a BIM project and a little bit of practical insight on...
A few weeks ago, before all hell broke loose on the new ISO 19650, I talked about the Italian attempt at proposing codified professional profiles when it comes to Artificial Intelligence through a technical norm (UNI 11621-8: 2026). Though we all know this will result...
For the workshop I did in Bolzano, and I wanted to do something different, since I have way too many people and way too few assistants to do a proper workshop using LEGO Serious Play, so I grabbed some of the sets in the new...
0. The Road So Far...
The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we've settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic's educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something...
Paul Valéry rejected inspiration as miracle, seeing creativity as the discipline of thought in motion. This week, we parallel his notion of mental “operations” with computational procedures in design: iteration, optimisation, constraint, and recombination, and challenge the dichotomy between intuition and automation. Drawing on contemporary...
I am not ready. I am so not ready. I feel like I just got back from Taiwan (which I did), Rome in between, and now I must prepare to depart for Denmark and I am so not ready for the Design Week. Still, the...
Some people asked me what I think of AI in the new Revit 2027. Other people asked me what I think of the entire Autodesk Cloud ecosystem being rebranded as Forma. More people requested I express an opinion on the lack of mention to agentic...
There’s a game I’d like to play (queue The Cranberries): take two EIRs from the last month, any project really, and delete project name and phase. Then place them in front of somebody else and ask them to guess. Which kind of project? Is it...
