Collaboration, cooperation, disension. Ways of approaching group work in the times digital fabrication
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5821/jida.2017.5224Abstract
After more than two decades in the use advanced digital tools in architecture, one of the witnessed consequences has been the tendency these tools has to homogenize and flatten through their data processing protocols the nuances and diversity of participants’ inputs into the creative process. This homogenization is traditionally manifested in cooperative ways of working, in which all participants have to folow the same direction according to a same goal. Collaborative ways of working, however, do not have to follow this model, and can actually incorporate dissent within themselves as a way of recognizing the plurality of interests existing when working in realms such as the public space. Based on two experiences of collaborative construction workshops that used digital fabrication techniques, the following paper discusses models of subversion of these homogenizing processes as part of a learning process in which working collaboratively does not mean to submit a main line of action.