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“We always overestimate the

change that will occur in the

next two years and

underestimate

the change that will occur in

the next 10.”

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SNAP SHOT:

Disrupt or be Disrupt (ed)

Forces driving Disruption

Substantially turns Circular

The Challenges Ahead

Circular Design

What Needs to Change

Ask yourself this Question

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DISRUPT OR BE DISRUPT

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Disrupt /dɪs̍ rʌpt/

To change the traditional way

that an industry operates,

especially in a new and effective

way.

“Disruption displaces an

existing market, industry, or

technology and produces

something new and more

efficient and worthwhile. It is at

once destructive and creative.”

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DISRUPTION OF

THE RETAIL

INDUSTRY:

Amazon don’t think like a

retailer. They think like a

technology innovation and

data company that just

happens to sell things.

Perfecting the last mile and

impact the Overall In-store

Customer Experience.

21 ways Amazon changed the face of retail

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DISRUPTION OF

THE HOSPITALITY

INDUSTRY:

Platforms connect

producers and consumers

-hosts and travelers and

facilitate their interactions

and exchange.

Rethinking value creation.

Rethinking value

consumption.

Rethinking quality control.

Rethinking scale.

How The Hotel Industry Got Blindsided ... And Why Yours Could Be Next

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INNOVATORS –

CREATING A

BETTER MOUSE

TRAP:

Apple took some of the

technology that was

perfected in the US

military and just

connected the dots to

create unique customer

experience.

They upended a

competitor within the

industry.

Why Apple, Tesla, and Uber Are Not ‘Disruptive’

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DISRUPTION WITHIN

THE INDUSTRY:

A $40 Billion company

without a single car.

Making it easy to get a ride

and to get people out of their

cars and ultimately not own a

vehicle.

Uber has just been disrupted

by the concept of driverless

cars.

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INNOVATORS – NOT

DISRUPTERS:

The Transport market in the

early 1900s did got disrupted

with the debut of the lower-

priced Ford Model T in 1908.

Tesla with an high-end product

is just a better vehicle that has

kept cars on the road. Instead

of taking them off the road.

Disruptive innovation

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DISRUPTION OF

CARGO AND

LONG DISTANCE

INDUSTRY:

Hyperloop is a new way to

move cargo and people

and things at airline speeds

for the price of a bus ticket.

Think: broadband for

transportation.

Impacting three types of

transportation.

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FORCES DRIVING DISRUPTION

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THE CHANGED

ECONOMY – GLOBAL

& DIGITAL:

Placing a premium on Creativity

& Innovation.

Rapid advancement of

technology & globalization.

Allows new business models to

be introduced.

At an ever-increasing rate & with

rapidly declining costs.

Disrupt or be Disrupt

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DIGITAL

DARWINISM –

SURVIVAL OF THE

FITTEST

Transformational Change,

where technology & society

evolve faster than your ability

to adapt.

No business is too big or small

to fall.

Only 71 of the companies

remain today from the 1955

Fortune 500 list.

Digital Transformation and the Race Against Digital Darwinism

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THE THIRD WAVE

OF

GLOBALIZATION:

Globalization started with

removing boundaries for

goods and then came the

Great Convergence : IT & the

People flow.

The world is now being

unshackled from its third

constraint, as labour is made

mobile by robots allowing

people to offer their services

remotely.

The third wave of globalisation may be the hardest

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SUSTAINABILITY TURNS CIRCULAR

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THE AGE OF THE

ANTHROPOCENE IS

ON US:

The point of overshoot was

reached 7 months into the

year 2016 when humanity had

used up a full year's allotment

of natural resources such as

water, food and clean air.

Where human activities

started to have a significant

global impact on earth's

ecosystems.

The Age of the Anthropocene is on us

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CRADLE TO

CRADLE HAS GONE

MAINSTREAM:

Reusing vs just recycling.

We have to meet the growing

demand for materials without

destroying the environment.

The production of 5 steel,

cement, plastic, paper and

aluminium, accounts for nearly

half of all industrial emissions.

Sustainable Materials with both eyes open

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THE CIRCULAR

ECONOMY IS HERE:

Moving to a model of

restorative & regenerative by

Design.

Today's linear ‘take, make,

dispose’ economic model relies

on large quantities of cheap,

easily accessible materials &

energy, and is a model that is

reaching its physical limits.

Sustainable Materials with both eyes open

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THE CHALLENGE AHEAD

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THERE IS AN

URGENT NEED FOR

CHANGE:

“Four decades of international

AEC industry publications

reinforce poor communication

and information transmission;

coordination; and teamwork

issues, are the cause of

countless performance

problems on numerous

projects.” A Weippert & S. L. Kajewski

The Queensland University of Technology

AEC industry culture: a need for change

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RISK IS

TRANSFERRED

DOWNSTREAM:

AEC Industry is in the

constricted space of “passing

risk downstream" depending

solely on cost-arbitrage, and

reactive nature of the industry to

client problems.

Cost and schedule blowouts are

the norm in construction. Large

projects typically take 20%

longer to finish than scheduled

and are up to 60-80% over

budget.

Project- shop mentality

AEC industry culture: a need for change

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ARCHITECTURE

NEEDS A REBOOT:

Move away from a project-shop

mentality and evolve using

viable, practical business

knowledge.

“The culture of architecture, for

its own internal logic,

unwittingly exemplifies the

economic and social divides

that made our economy

vulnerable to recession in the

first place.” Robert B Reich

Aftershock

The Indicator: The Next Architecture, Part 1

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THE NATURE OF

COMPETITION HAS

CHANGED

Technology is advancing

exponentially —and

converging.

Computing,

Medicine,

Artificial intelligence,

3D printing,

Robotics,

Nanomaterials and Synthetic

biology

allows one industry to rapidly

disrupt another —before

market leaders even know

what hit them.

How the Nature of Competition Has Changed

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CIRCULAR DESIGN

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EMBRACE THE

CIRCULAR DESIGN

MOVEMENT:

The AEC industry answer to

sustainability is chained to the

past, it is chained to the concept

of green material with no or

minimum ability to recycle.

“Transitioning to the circular

economy is one of the most

important design challenges of

our time. For designers, it

means rethinking traditional

approaches and retraining in

circular principles.”Tim Brown

CEO -IDEO

New Circular Design Guide –IDEO &Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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AGORA GARDEN

BY VINCENT

CALLEBAUT:

A Cradle to Cradle concept

Biotechnological prototype.

Reinventing the industrial and

architectural processes to

produce clean solutions and

to create industrial cycle

where everything is reused.

The symbiosis of human

actions and their positive

impact on the nature.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut

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SMART CITIES OF

THE FUTURE:

Material Tracking:

Cheaper & More flexible built

environments components are

modularized and tracked

enabling a local market for

recused building materials.

Asset Tracking: Precious metals

‘mined” from products

accumulated in cities and

cascaded back into different

use cycles.

Inside BIG IDEAS – The incubators WHERE architects become inventors

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CITIES MOVING TOWARDS

CIRCULAR DESIGN

Vancouver moving towards

a culture of restorative and

regenerative by design.

The Circular Cities Network

was launched in October

2016 with a global network of

nine pioneering cities: Austin,

Boulder, Copenhagen,

London, Ljubljana, New York

City, Peterborough, Phoenix

and Rio De Janerio.

Creating a circular economy in Vancouver through government action

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WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE

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THE PRACTICE HAS

TO EVOLVE

Architecture which was once

prime has moved further down

the food chain.

As we are moving away from the

client and the decision making

and making ourselves irrelevant

over time.

“For architecture the conditions

have changed more in the last 30

years than they changed in the

previous two centuries, yet we still

act as if it’s the same profession.”Rem Koolhaas -OMA

Batik, Biennale and the Death of the Skyscraper. Interview with Rem Koolhaas

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LEAVE THE

INDUSTRIAL

ECONOMY

Architecture is not seen to

understand business and

where it is going.

“There's a notion that you

can't build big buildings for

owners who have highly

specific needs because needs

change and therefore that

building will be compromised

by its specificity. So architects

are placed in a market of

building shells."

Interview with Clive Wilkinson

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"Edison’s electric light did not

come about from the

continuous improvement of

the candle…“Oren Harari

Business Professor

University of San Francisco

"If I had asked people what

they wanted, they’d have

told me ‘a faster horse’!”Henry Ford

Ford Motors

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DESIGN THINKING -

THE CUSTOMER

EXPERIENCE:

Unlock Client experience

through throughDesign

Thinking.

Understand business of our

clients.

Craft the UX journey.

Remove all Pain points.

Reduce complexity.

Adapt to the changing

environment of the business

in global digital environment.

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WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE

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ADOPT MODULAR

CONCEPTS:

What if we can build like

Lego?

Design for construability

Build Elsewhere in dry

conditions.

Assemble at site with

minimum intrusion to the

environment.

Highly repeatable Module.

Optimizing labour cost

Schedule driven.

Build without severe weather

constraints.

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MODULAR

CONCEPT for

NEW YORK BY

STUDIO DROR:

Tower design for 100

Varicks. New York a series

of irregularly stacked boxes

held within a frame that

uses a structural geometry

the studio has been

developing over the past

few years, which it calls

QuaDror.

Studio Dror's conceptual tower designs for New York offer three takes on high-rise architecture

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NESTLE MODULAR

FACTORY:

A series of purpose-built

factory sections

Brought, ready-to-use, directly

to the site Connected to each

other according to

requirements.

Expanded, moved or its

function transformed without

having to start from scratch.

Less than 12 months vs 18 and

24 months.

50%-60% of the cost of

traditional build out.

Flexible, fast and functional: Nestlé to adopt modular factories.

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BECOME

INVENTORS &

INDUSTRIAL

DESIGNER:

QuaDror: A structural support

system. A new space truss

geometry that unfolds

manifold design initiatives &

adapt to various conditions and

configurations.

The access to knowledge is

changing, and access to

specialists. It creates different

discussions and different

results.

QuaDror - collapsible system allows for rapid assembly and a transition from closed and flat to open and self-standing.

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ARCHITECTS AS

INVENTORS AND

INDUSTRIAL

DESIGNER:

A cutting-edge structure: an

eccentric 17-story office tower

with steel ribbons wrapped

around floor-to-ceiling glass

windows.

Steel bands that will cover the

buildings exterior like a spider-

web -structures —not interior

columns —will support the

tower, serving as an

exoskeleton.

This L.A. office building is crazier than it looks:

Eric Owen Moss Architects

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B.I.G IDEAS –

ARCHITECTS &

INVENTORS:

Solving the architects’

experimental concepts for a

building.

Designing materials for these

buildings that may also go to

market.

Performing in-house

simulations for things like wind,

solar, shadow, acoustics, and

snow accumulation.

To build smarter buildings.

Inside BIG IDEAS – The incubators WHERE architects become inventors

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STUDY & ADOPT

NEW MATERIALS &

NEW

CONSTRUCTION

METHODS:

MIT Space-Age Material that

is ten times stronger than

steel but is only 5% as dense,

and it could revolutionize

architecture on Earth.

MIT: Machines and buildings

will be replicating, self-

assembling, and repairing

themselves soon.

MIT Prof: Self-Assembling and Repairing Buildings Are On the Way MIT Invented Space Age material

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INVEST IN

RESEARCH &

INNOVATION:

Understanding that the

technological advances in the

AEC industry such as, BIM and

other such technologies, are

advances in a predictable

linear fashion.

Innovative design solutions

and experimentation with new

manufacturing techniques are

still confined to academic

circles and research

institutions.

The Construction Business Goes Digital

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CONVERGE WITH

ADVANCE

TECHNOLOGY:

Designers & builders need to

up their game with data-driven

design, drone mapping, 3-D

printing and more innovations.

The industry lags behind other

fields in spending to develop

innovations.

Cumbersome organizational

structures and high financial

stakes make it difficult for AEC

professionals to experiment.

Gensler Completes the World’s First 3D-Printed Office Building Microsoft's HoloLens Would Let Builders See Their New Building Before It's Actually There

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TRAIN TO DATA MINE

& LEVERAGE

INFORMATION:

The lack of an evidence-based

approach to city planning has

ruined cities all over the world.

But data-mining techniques are

finally revealing the rules that

make cities successful, vibrant

places to live.

This new era of city science

could change that and help

create vibrant, vital living spaces

for millions of people around the

world.

Data Mining Reveals the Four Urban Conditions That Create Vibrant City Life

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THINK PRODUCTS &

MOVE INTO

MANUFACTURING

Architects & Engineers in the

future will have to work together

to extend their present arm

length involvement to work as

members of one firm and

expand into the role of Product

Designers with a bent for

Manufacturing.

Think Start-up.

Think Kit of Parts.

Design to Replicate.

Deliver Value & Scale.

Price to Target Market.

Flexible, fast and functional: Nestlé to adopt modular factories.

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SCOTT NAZARIAN -

BUILDING A BETTER

STARSHIP:

“The scale of what we’re

designing has shifted from

products, to companies, to

economic systems. Who

we’re designing for has

expanded from a solitary user

to an intimately connected

web of people, spanning the

globe.” Tim Brown

CEO -IDEO

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ASK YOURSELF THIS

QUESTION:

What’s the risk of standing still?

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