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Essays, research, and perspectives from senior design leaders on the future of the profession.
Article · 6 min readExperimenting Is Everywhere. Transformation Isn’t.AI Readiness Field Notes, No. 1. Design firms are trying the tools. Very few have changed how they lead, price, staff or deliver the work. …
November 2026MKMichael Keene
Article · 4 min readHow to Run an AI SWOT Analysis at Your Design FirmA practical, step-by-step guide for architecture and design firm leaders to diagnose where AI strengthens and threatens their practice. …
October 2026DFDesign Futures Council
Article · 18 min readWhere’s Waldo? Finding the Human in Human-AI Collaboration at Design FirmsAdapted by the Design Futures Council from articles Patrick Scannell wrote for attendees of DFC’s September 2026 Leadership Summit, and from…
September 2026PSPat Scannell
Article · 4 min readThe Magic Wand Doesn’t Ask: AI and the Lessons of Normal Accidents, with Patrick ScannellA structural engineer skipped one recalculation. A year later, 114 people died. Technologist Patrick Scannell on what that has to do with ho…
August 2026DFDesign Futures Council
Article · 6 min readThe Misplaced Search for Human EssenceIt’s not what AI cannot do. AI is doing what we thought only humans could do At Wimbledon in 2023, IBM deployed an AI announcer that doesn’t…
May 2026DFDesign Futures Council
Article · 6 min readThe Digital Twin: Planning the Future of Workplace DesignCloud-based Digital Twin Platform at CO Architects – Images courtesy CO Architects What Is a Digital Twin? Nowadays, many of us feel technol…
August 2024CIChikara Inamura
Article · 12 min readComing Together“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality … a single garment of…
August 2024MLMichael LeFevre
Article · 15 min readThe AI Revolution in AECArtificial Intelligence (AI) has powered its way into the world’s minds in the last two years, largely due to the emergence of ChatGPT and L…
July 2024RKRobert K. Otani
Article · 11 min readBefore and AfterAuthor’s email: Attached is my draft titled “AI Musings — JA” for your thoughts, feedback, input or disposal as you see fit. For fun I ran i…
May 2024JAJim Anderson
Article · 6 min readLeading the ChargeArchitects face intense pressure as they grapple with the challenge of integrating automation and AI into the design process. Combined with …
May 2024CCCharlie Cichetti
Article · 12 min readCommunication in the AI AgeLooking at news feeds today, 1 it is almost impossible to escape yet another article, press release or announcement about artificial intelli…
May 2024AWAngela Watson
Article · 12 min readThe Biological Paradigm in the Technological FutureArtificial intelligence and immersive technologies hold enormous potential to help practitioners design buildings that work in symbiosis wit…
January 2024DBDeeDee Birch