The adoption of multidimensional exploration methodology to the design-driven innovation and production practices in AEC industry

Abstract

The new horizon for research & development in AEC is directed through an interdisciplinary design-thinking approach. The design paradigms are not only as they were about form and function but now also about efficiency, sustainability, productivity, desirability, feasibility, and viability in current day. As a result of this approach, the term design innovation approves oneself. Correspondingly, emerging technologies such as robotic fabrication & construction tools, self-fabrication & assembly, information and communication technologies, computer science and related software technologies, enable the designers and engineers to push the edges of their creativity, productivity and sensitivity upon global issues. The emergence of those new technologies is defined as digitalism, and both academy and industry have almost totally adapted to this digital-design thinking approach. Consequently, the smooth communication between machines, makers and designers dominates the progression in architecture, science, technology and engineering. However, because of this shift, a research gap has emerged between new academic research and classical industrial production as theory and practice do not overlap anymore. For the adoption of this emergent holistic design-thinking approaches; a new learning methodology has been introduced by the authors under the title of 'Multidimensional Exploration Methodology.