23 May ISO 19650 Part 3 is here, and…
0. The Road So Far...
"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."
"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."
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...
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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...
I know, I know, the new ISO is out and bla bla bla, but I gave you a week of mournful silence last week and, for now, let me quote you Nick Fury. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZkGQkOAFoQ Some weeks ago, I wrote an article on “advanced BIM,” whatever that means,...
Last week I tried to map the current ISO 19650-1:2018 with the concepts as they're now laid out in the DIS/ISO 19650-1:2026, in public consultation until June 2nd. I hope if was helpful to all those who were feeling lost, but the changes aren't the...
Well, the new draft of the ISO 19650 has been out for public consultation for a week, now, and I have the feeling nobody's actually consulting the thing, because the heat of the debate has been around the "disappearance of BIM". I already wrote about...
“Advanced BIM”: what does that even mean? “Advanced BIM” is one of those expressions that sound authoritative and yet, when you ask what it actually describes, the answers become very vague very quickly. The statement doesn't mean anything, and it drives me crazy equally quickly. In...