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INTRODUCTION TO COLLABORATIVE DESIGNOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The world is confronted at the beginning of the 21 st century with a paradigm shift. On one hand, the world witnesses the culture of globalization. On the other hand, the supremacy of the scientific mind has created a highly sophisticated technological environment. Moreover, the world witnesses a growing global concern for ecological problems, for human rights, and for redefining democratic values.
This paradigm shift reflects on the man-made environments and the process of design. The complexity of design context of the built environment in addition to the growing concerns of customization that reflects the growing concerns for human right and democratic values, suggest a methodological approach to architecture and urban design. This method highlights the need for storing and exchanging design intelligence in addition to encouraging people to participate into the design process from its early stages.
This paradigm shift is coupled with a rapid progress in communication systems. The emerging communication technologies is reshaping the world by redefining the way people communicate and accordingly reshape social relationships and result into new social-civil body where people are interconnected.
Open source communities are an interpretation of the emerging social structure through the World Wide Web. The open source communities have achieved distinguish progress in exchanging human intelligence in many fields: encyclopedias, software design, collective news, .etc. The application of using open source concepts in the field of architectural and urban design is still limited.
The goal of this study is to investigate the possibility of establishing an open source collaborative design process. The study focuses on defining the emerging concepts of collaboration and open source in order to define a model for open collaborative design process. As the communication between users with different backgrounds is an essential factor for the success of an open collaborative community, the study focuses on the use of pattern language as a common language between professional and non-professional users within an open collaborative design space.