AI as one intelligence among many.
Not the answer to urban complexity, but a participant whose role has to be designed together with the people and practices that already hold a neighbourhood together.
Can the craft intelligence held in human practice, living ecologies and material cultures meet AI to design new neighbourhood infrastructures?
Neighbourhoods are where cities are actually lived, maintained and improvised: waste routes, repair economies, energy, food, care and public space. They are also where technological transformation lands hardest.
Reshaping one another at the scale of the block.
Urban systems design
The neighbourhood as a system of systems, maintained every day by the people who use it.
Craft intelligence
Know how, knowledge and intelligence held in practice, often tacit and mostly unrecorded.
Technological transformation
AI and platforms reorganising work and infrastructure faster than design frameworks can follow.
Four terms to read the research by.
N.S.E.I
Neighbourhood scale everyday infrastructures: the systems of the block and the street that people rely on without noticing.
M-ID
Multi Intelligence Design: design as the capability to let human, ecological, institutional and artificial intelligences decide together.
Craft intelligence
Read in levels and thresholds, not as something AI either can or cannot copy.
Intermediation
The designed layer between intelligences, where who keeps the knowledge and its value gets decided.
Research through design.
The designing is the inquiry itself. Every reading, advising session, prototype and course becomes an entry: what was done or made, what it taught, and where it goes next.
Follow the research as it happens.