Competing in Architecture. Crowdsourcing as a Research Tool

Forfattere

  • Clare Newton Associate Professor of Learning Environments, Director of the Bachelor of Environments The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
  • Sarah Backhouse Architect, Research Associate The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.746

Emneord (Nøkkelord):

Crowdsourcing, architectural competitions, multidisciplinary designs, prefabrication for schools, competitions as research.

Sammendrag

Architectural competitions are powerful strategies for generating visual ideas for new futures. Academic research generates new knowledge based on rigorous investigations of informed propositions. This paper describes an unusual merging of a research process with a competition process using crowdsourcing to leverage knowledge. The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the pre-eminent funding body of academic research for universities across Australia. In 2010 a multidisciplinary academic team, with twelve industry partners including six education departments, successfully sought ARC research funding.  The application proposed an unprecedented strategy to include an open Ideas Competition in the middle year of a three-year research program as a form of crowdsourcing to leverage knowledge between academia and industry. The research project, entitled Future Proofing Schools, was focused on Australia’s relocatable school buildings.


Nedlastinger

Publisert

2013-12-20

Hvordan referere

Newton, C., & Backhouse, S. (2013). Competing in Architecture. Crowdsourcing as a Research Tool. FormAkademisk, 6(4). https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.746

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