Ethics & Consequence
Intelligence

The crowded, dilapidated buildings in the city started to disappear. Scaffolding went up overnight. Streets that had been lined with laundry…

If everything is essential, then nothing is. We use the word essential constantly. In meetings, strategies, and briefs, things are described…

It’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…

Over the course of 2024, we have looked at Connections, Conviction and Convergence in our cascading examination of critical thinking among t…

As we consider the “now” and soon arriving “then”, we are confronted with our own lack of initiative regarding the consequential questions w…

DesignIntelligence (Michael LeFevre, DI:) We’re talking with Lynn Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a principal and the West Sustainability Services…

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the average hospital consumes more than 100 times as much energy as a standar…

Editor’s Note:DesignIntelligence’s theme for Q4 2024 is “Consequential Questions.” To address our theme, we call on a presenter from our rec…

Modernism, viewed as a style in addition to a movement, has a fascinating and tumultuous history. Early modernism’s design ethos had an imag…

Most of us would consider ourselves visionary leaders with ambitious goals to grow our firms, positively impact the communities we serve and…

DesignIntelligence / Michael LeFevre (DI): We’re talking with Adrian Parr Zaretsky, dean of the College of Design at the University of Orego…

The light of western democracy may not yet have dimmed, but it is certainly flickering, and the closing quarter of 2024 will have a profound…