Experimenting by putting people back at the center While experimentation plays a decisive role in the innovation process, for German architect Jana Revedin, it must not lose sight of what’s essential: the benefits for users. Founder of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture™, she returns to the raison d’être of architecture: people, and the living world in general. “Adaptability is our most urgent task, because our projects need to transform themselves following the changing needs of society. For this, experimentation is crucial. Experimentation, the action or process of trying out new ideas, methods, or activities, can be first of all understood as research on future building structures and materials, but secondly as an applied trial-and-error exploration of design processes that meet our user’s needs. It should be noted that experimental participatory design ‘with and by the people’ has gained momentum in the design practices of the younger generation of architects and encourages more collaborative, experiential and iterative forms of ‘active pedagogy’”. READ the full interview in Constructing a sustainable future POINT OF VIEW 90
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