A Commune in the Ivory Tower? - A New Approach to Architecture
summary
A live experiment replaces architect-as-bottleneck with an advice process: anyone can decide after they seek advice from everyone and from experts. The session uses QR forms and small-group work to collect 424 responses in real time, synthesizes themes (trust, accountability, expertise, time cost, psychological safety), and publishes a Creative Commons dataset. The concrete claim is that decision quality improves when advice is gathered and listened to; early results show mixed confidence but actionable concerns and patterns.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to the keynote
- 2:38Check-in and participation setup
- 6:28The Ivory Tower problem in architecture
- 10:19Introducing the advice process
- 11:22Concerns about the advice process
- 16:40First reflections on worries
- 23:25Assessing confidence in the advice process
- 26:55Second reflections on confidence
- 33:55Next steps and closing thoughts
- 37:07Final checkout and Q&A
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