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The 24 Hour Design Cycle: An Experiment in Design Collaboration over the Internet

Year: 1999

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: This paper describes a Virtual Design Studio exercise involving three academic institutions University - Hong Kong (China), ETH Zurich (Switzerland), and University of Washington, Seattle (USA) - whereby teachers and students, obviously on three different continents and in three different time zones, roughly eight hours apart, were working on a common design project using computer-aided design systems, video-conferencing and a web-based central database that managed and displayed all works throughout the process. The 24 hour design cycle is a metaphor for a more open and international approach to design, facilitated through computer networks. It implies a new form of collective authorship and distributed credits and thus deals with some of the essential challenges and opportunities the internet poses to creative disciplines.

Source: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

DOI: 10.52842/conf.caadria.1999.181

Authors: Urs Hirschberg, Gerhard Schmitt, David Kurmann, Branko Kolarevic, Brian R. Johnson, Dirk Donath

Institutions: ETH Zurich, University of Washington, University of Hong Kong

Language: English

Topic: Architecture and Computational Design

Subfield: Architecture

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: University of Hong Kong