Foresight &
Intelligence
Essays, research, and perspectives from senior design leaders on the future of the profession.
Article · 13 min readTo Speed or Not to Speed?If there’s anything capitalism and the climate have in common, it is a sense of urgency. We’re all told they are both, in equal but opposing…
October 2024DBDeeDee Birch
Article · 12 min readI Think We CanAs I reflect, I’ve only made a handful of significant, conscious, major decisions over the course of my life. Amazingly, each worked out for…
October 2024MLMichael LeFevre
Article · 6 min readQuestions and ConsequencesDesign is one of the few endeavors that generates more answers than questions. For any given program or budget, there are always multiple po…
October 2024SSScott Simpson
Article · 5 min readContext: ConvergenceBut how do we approach this “obligation to endure” as she called it. As leaders, we face many competing interests. Those of our firms versus…
September 2024MLMichael LeFevre
Article · 6 min readInterdependent ConvergenceThe idea of convergence is derived from the readily described visuals of things on individual paths redirecting to come together, forming a …
September 2024DGDave Gilmore
Article · 11 min readLeading LinesDesignIntelligence/Michael LeFevre (DI): We’re talking with Erika Moody, FIIDA, president of Helix Architecture + Design and 2024-25 preside…
September 2024EMErika Moody
Article · 5 min readDisasters, Dictators or Data?Urban areas often seem unmanageable, with enduring problems of traffic congestion, crime and poor quality of life. Something needs to change…
September 2024PMPatrick MacLeamy
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 · 8 min readConvergence: Buildings, Biology and SymbiosisLanguage determines the boundaries of the built environment. As a core component of human cognition, words shape the aspirations, intentions…
August 2024DBDeeDee Birch
Article · 7 min readThree-Part Harmony: The Winning DialogueAfter years of asking firm leaders their priorities, the same themes consistently rise to the top: Fill the pipeline and win more work. Crea…
August 2024DJDez Joslin
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