Buildings as social platforms / Designing Innovation in Construction
Event details
| Date | 03.05.2012 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Paolo Tombesi |
| Location |
Espace Archizoom, SG Building EPFL
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
A lecture (in English) open to everybody in ENAC, anticipating on the doctoral week on BUILDINGS AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS June 2012.
We would like to invite you for an ENAC lecture by Paolo Tombesi.
BUILDINGS AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS
We tend to analyse building artifacts and building results from particular vantage points that, depending on one’s disciplinary allegiances, may have to do with compositional strategies, technological choices, technical performance, procurement methods, cultural significance, urban function, cost, asset management, value in use, life cycles, et cetera. The challenge posed by these lectures is one of recomposition. Can we set up a ‘technical’ discussion about the built environment that acquires sophistication by bringing these dimensions together rather than by separating them into strands of specialised expertise and scholarship?
Designing Innovation in Construction
What is the role of technical progress within a construction sector committed to the sustainable generation of social and economic value? Is the definition of progress in construction tied to the nature of building work and the composition of building markets, or is it the result of factors external to the industry? In either case, can we design the course of construction and urban history by establishing preferred technological trajectories?
The lecture will seek answers to these questions by drawing attention to the supply-demand relationships underpinning the procurement of construction artifacts, and clarifying the difference between ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ in the development of building products.
In doing so, the discussion will introduce two significant elements in the academia-industry-government relationship in construction: 1) the cost-benefit equation in the generation of new knowledge; and 2) the possible qualitative distribution of research investment opportunities across markets and regions.
We would like to invite you for an ENAC lecture by Paolo Tombesi.
BUILDINGS AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS
We tend to analyse building artifacts and building results from particular vantage points that, depending on one’s disciplinary allegiances, may have to do with compositional strategies, technological choices, technical performance, procurement methods, cultural significance, urban function, cost, asset management, value in use, life cycles, et cetera. The challenge posed by these lectures is one of recomposition. Can we set up a ‘technical’ discussion about the built environment that acquires sophistication by bringing these dimensions together rather than by separating them into strands of specialised expertise and scholarship?
Designing Innovation in Construction
What is the role of technical progress within a construction sector committed to the sustainable generation of social and economic value? Is the definition of progress in construction tied to the nature of building work and the composition of building markets, or is it the result of factors external to the industry? In either case, can we design the course of construction and urban history by establishing preferred technological trajectories?
The lecture will seek answers to these questions by drawing attention to the supply-demand relationships underpinning the procurement of construction artifacts, and clarifying the difference between ‘invention’ and ‘innovation’ in the development of building products.
In doing so, the discussion will introduce two significant elements in the academia-industry-government relationship in construction: 1) the cost-benefit equation in the generation of new knowledge; and 2) the possible qualitative distribution of research investment opportunities across markets and regions.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Sytse de Maat