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SUMMARY:Buildings as social platforms / Designing Innovation in Constructi
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Paolo Tombesi\nA lecture (in English) open to everybody 
 in ENAC\, anticipating on the doctoral week on BUILDINGS AS SOCIAL PLATFOR
 MS June 2012.\nWe would like to invite you for an ENAC lecture by Paolo To
 mbesi.\n\nBUILDINGS AS SOCIAL PLATFORMS\n\nWe tend to analyse building art
 ifacts and building results from particular vantage points that\, dependin
 g on one’s disciplinary allegiances\, may have to do with compositional 
 strategies\, technological choices\, technical performance\, procurement m
 ethods\, cultural significance\, urban function\, cost\, asset management\
 , value in use\, life cycles\, et cetera. The challenge posed by these lec
 tures 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 specia
 lised expertise and scholarship? \n\nDesigning Innovation in Construction
 \n\nWhat is the role of technical progress within a construction sector co
 mmitted to the sustainable generation of social and economic value? Is the
  definition of progress in construction tied to the nature of building wor
 k 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 co
 nstruction and urban history by establishing preferred technological traje
 ctories?\nThe lecture will seek answers to these questions by drawing atte
 ntion to the supply-demand relationships underpinning the procurement of c
 onstruction artifacts\, and clarifying the difference between ‘invention
 ’ and ‘innovation’ in the development of building products.\nIn doin
 g so\, the discussion will introduce two significant elements in the acade
 mia-industry-government relationship in construction: 1) the cost-benefit 
 equation in the generation of new knowledge\; and 2) the possible qualitat
 ive distribution of research investment opportunities across markets and r
 egions.
LOCATION:Espace Archizoom\, SG Building EPFL
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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