We
get people talking about architecture. For half a decade we have
enabled architectural designers, clients and developers experience the
build before it is build.MissionQualifying
architectural development by enabling clients, designers, investors and
developers to experience the build before it is build.DescriptionModern
construction and urban development projects involve a diverse range of
people with different competences – highly skilled architects, engineers
and craftsmen, well-meaning developers and advisors, sharp experts,
politicians, artists and many others. However, one specific
group of people that everybody wants to involve is often left without
direct influence: the very people who will use the
buildings once they are finished. In recent years, many attempts have
been made to take advantage of end user competences, to include them in
the processes to gain added value – economic as well as emotional - in
construction projects. Despite mixed experiences and results, consensus
is that effective user involvement has the potential to create the
desired added value for all parties involved in the construction
project. Technology has opened new channels that ease
communication between the man on the street and the decision makers; it
enables a shorter planning phase and a longer development phase, and
thus a much larger window of opportunity for user involvement.
What is missing is a platform where all involved parties can meet on
equal terms – a place where one person's background knowledge, level of
abstraction, communication and visualization skills do not block other
people's perceptions – a tool that breaks down hierarchies, invites
everybody to get involved, animates creativity and innovation and
increases the pleasure of participating in and taking responsibility for
the future. That platform, that place, that tool is Utopian City_Scape.