Crowdsourcing the Obama Presidential Center: An Alternative Design Delivery Model: Democratizing Architectural Design (2017)
article⁄Crowdsourcing the Obama Presidential Center: An Alternative Design Delivery Model: Democratizing Architectural Design (2017)
abstract⁄In this article, we present crowdsourcing as a design delivery method for publicly funded buildings, and compare it to the traditional Request for Proposals RFP. We explore the potential of crowdsourcing through the use of an online design competition for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, IL, which the authors administered at Arcbazar.com, a crowdsourcing platform.Competition procedures have been applied in architectural practice since antiquity, from the Parthenon and the Hagia Sophia to thousands of seminal buildings around the globe. However, with the advent of digital technologies and outreach to a more interconnected world, crowdsourcing allows even the most mundane design challenges to go through the fair competition protocol. We argue that crowdsourcing can help democratize architectural design acquisition by giving a level playing field to designers, and produce a more just, competitive, and creative design product.
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2017 |
| Authors |
As, Imdat; Nagakura, Takehiko. |
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ACADIA 2017: DISCIPLINES & DISRUPTION |
| Pages |
118-127 |
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| Entry filename |
crowdsourcing-obama-presidential-center |
