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Issue 9:2

Innovation

The focus area for this issue seeks to explore inventive topics from different aspects of the built environment. Innovation captures new ideas, methods, strategies, products, forms, designs, etc. Innovation is the action or process of innovating, introducing, or presenting novelties and modifying what is established by introducing new elements or forms. It is a change introduced to an existing product. Imaginative ideas include improvements that capture how components or processes are modified or configured in designs, systems, or domains, like building materials, data processing, digital fabrication, computation, history and theory of innovation. Innovation is critical to the success of any endeavor, such as an organization, enterprise, field or discipline, or industry. Invention is the primary driver of advancement in the built environment and other sectors, as it provides approaches, resources, and concepts generated and realized, leading to a better and more sustainable built environment. Invention guides all disciplines, and inventive ideas involve various players with diverse incentives.

Articles
9.2
A Nexus of Ties and Networks of Transfiguration
While invention may remain in some circles the purview of the lone genius, innovation is undeniably social, political,...
A Nexus of Ties and Networks of Transfiguration
9.2
The Act of Innovating and Ingenuity of Innovation: Rethinking Creative Approaches to Building Sustainable Environments
Innovation has been discussed in various contexts, with scholars describing it as both the act of inventing ideas...
The Act of Innovating and Ingenuity of Innovation: Rethinking Creative Approaches to Building Sustainable Environments
9.2
Tryin’ to Make it Real, Compared to What?
“In architecture, the everyday, local, and Indigenous vernacular reminds us of the tangible, material realities...
Tryin’ to Make it Real, Compared to What?
9.2
Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Climate Change
“Buildings should be smart but simple to operate, letting nature do the work as much as possible, with a gentle...
Indigenous Knowledge, Innovation, and Climate Change
9.2
Innovation Doesn’t Care, But We Must
“In this research, we propose a novel workflow for doing a thing through application of some technology”—I...
Innovation Doesn’t Care, But We Must
9.2
You Should Patent That!
“Within the field, architecture faculty are trained to ‘design think,’ and their solutions come quickly....
You Should Patent That!
9.2
Technologies of Holding, Containing, Maintaining, and Caring
“Steven J. Jackson argues that in the dominant understanding of technological progress, innovation is assumed...
Technologies of Holding, Containing, Maintaining, and Caring
9.2
Instrumental and Constraint-Driven Thinnings Construction
When Andrew Witt discusses the increasing tendency towards automation in design, he begins by distinguishing between...
Instrumental and Constraint-Driven Thinnings Construction
9.2
Plane Delivery: Towards a Physical Grammar for Large-Scale Digital Fabrication
There will come a day when computers and robots will participate regularly in designing, fabricating, and delivering...
Plane Delivery: Towards a Physical Grammar for Large-Scale Digital Fabrication
9.2
An Ecology of Light: The Synthesis of Light and Structure
Over the 50-year trajectory of my studio’s work, observers often comment upon the works’ consistency: attention...
An Ecology of Light: The Synthesis of Light and Structure