Thursday, October 3, 2013

Ideas Seminar: Ming-Chun Lee


Ideas Seminar: Ming-Chun Lee
Date: September, 27, 2013

Professor Ming-Chun Lee has been working the digital technologies in urban design, planning processes and integrating computers into every aspect of urban design and planning. He talked about GeoDesign, digital visualization, GIS, 3D graphic media in urban design. GeoDesign is an approach to city planning, land use and natural resource management that takes into geospatial modeling, impact simulations to facilitate urban design using geographic information system (GIS) data. GIS is collection of data for managing, visualizing and analyzing geographic information. GeoDesign brings GIS into the design process and allows initial design sketches to be investigated for suitability against a lot of database layers describing a variety of physical and social factors of our real world for the spatial extent of the project.

GeoDesign enables designers to think about data as part of a creative decision-making process and to translate geospatial analysis into urban design. Through design thinking, coupled with GIS analysis and digital programming, we can make urban scenarios as much we want. Data mapping helps us assess the consequences of different scenarios. I can understand the analysis of physical planning issues and problems, and how to use digital technologies in urban design processes, and the creation of design solutions during his lecture. I think the advantage of the digital approach to GeoDesign, GIS is an effective tool for analyzing complex spatial relationships within urban environments and further refining their design solutions based on knowledge learned from spatial analysis processes. In addition, designers can explore ways to better integrate GIS with other digital visualization programs for effective presentations and communications. Similar tools will save a lot of time spent in the debugging process and increase efficiency.

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