The Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable, Living Planet

Mitra Kanaani is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects (FAIA) and a fellow and Distinguished Professor of the Association Collegiate Schools of Architecture (DPACSA). Mitra holds a DArch, with a focus on Performative Architecture, and an MArch, with a minor in Structural Engineering, as well as a Master of Urban Planning and a BA in Musicology. She is the former chair of the NewSchool of Architecture and an active researcher, author, and editor. She is currently on the California Architect Board, a Global Associate faculty with BIHE, and their liaison with the UIA.

Preface: The Background of the Idea, Objectives, and the Conceptual Framework of the Publication – Meanings and Various Domains of Smart Design Thinking; Introduction: The Design Imagination – Is Smart Design Enough?; Prologue: Architects, Smart Futures, and Climate Change; PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 1 Various Domains of Smartness in Design Thinking, Theoretical Discourses, and Approaches; 1.1. Emerging Smart Design Thinking: A Utopian Futuristic Trend, and an Enduring Theoretical Discourse, ….or an Interim Stance? 1.1.1. Understanding the Emerging Domains of Smart Design Thinking Concepts and Intelligent Design Methodologies in Architecture: Background, Theoretical Tenets, and Various Facets of Smart Thinking in Architectural Design and Conceptualization 1.1.2 The Smart City Is More than Just Technology and Data Collection: A Critical Stance 1.2. The United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals, How Smart Design Can Promote Equity among the Underserved Inhabitants of Cities 1.3. A Smart Paradigm for Participatory Urban Design 1.4. Smart Responsive Design Thinking in Neuroarchitecture: Towards creating homeostasis balance, equitability, diversity, inclusivity, interactivity, and social performativity in the built environment 1.4.1. Neuro-Architecture for Cognitive Ecologies: Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive Smart Design 1.4.2. Smart Design for Promoting Social Performativity and Interactivity of All the Senses 1.4.3. Neuromorphic Architecture at a Turning Point 1.5. AI and the Morphology of the City _AI’s Dynamic Power in Shaping the Future of Urban Design 1.6. Lived Multi-species High-Density Utopias: Smart City Design for Healthy and Diverse Communities in the Post‑Anthropocene 1.7. Smart City and the Concept of Safety: The Meaning of Safety in Smart City’s Organizational Systems and Infrastructure 1.8. Examining the Presence of Intelligent Design in Low-Tech and High-Tech Designs Leading to Eco-Tech Smart Architectural Design Strategies 1.9. Towards Performative, Environmentally Responsive Architecture 1.10. Smart Urban Resiliency Concepts and Goals: How Can Cities Become Smart but also Sustainable and Resilient 1.11.“Designing Smart Retrofits using Nature’s Patterns”: Designing Sustainability into Existing Communities 1.12. From Smart to Autonomous Cities on the Eve of AI: Some Provocations for Architects and Designers 1.13 Smart Architecture to Reduce Whole-Life Carbon in Buildings and Infrastructure 1.14. Blockchain Technology for Smart Thinking: The Intangible Digital Assets for AI‑Enabled Monitoring and Improving Process Performance and Reducing Building Impacts on Ecology PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 2 Smart Design Methodologies and Concepts for Intelligent Typologies and User Needs 2.1 Smart Design’s Methodology as Research-Informed-Design 2.1.1 Searching Through Smart Design Methods for Architecture 2.1.2 For(m) and Against Architectural Intelligence: Design as Research, Again 2.2 Br(AI)n City: The AI Enhanced City of the Future 2.3. City as Spaceship – Spaceship as City 2.3.1 City As A Spaceship (CAAS) 2.3.2 Outer Space Activities and the Future of Smart Habitats on Earth 2.4. Smart Assistive Design Concepts for Enhancing Independent Living in Domestic Environments 2.5. DeafSpace: Cultural Origins, Architectural Applications and Lessons for Dwelling in a Time of Climate Change 2.6. Smart Architecture for the Blind 2.7. People-Centered Smart Learning Ecosystems: Frameworks of reference for optimal design and planning to support individual well-being and learning by being 2.8. The Body in Healing Technology 2.9. Smart Design for Human Responsiveness and Movement 2.9.1 Proportioned and Smart Architecture 2.9.2 Smart Home Design for People with Dementia 2.9.3 Smart Design and AI for Developmental Disabilities: Characteristics of People with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Other Developmental Disabilities PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 3 Smart Materiality 3.1. On Science of the Materials for the Built Environments – The Role of Biomimetics/Biomimicry and Development of Strength and Promoting Natural Forms and Function Inspired by Nature: Bioreceptive Materials for Future Artificial Ecologies – Epizoochory: Evolution of Material and Methods 3.2. Smart Ways to Enclose Buildings: Using Super-Strong, Super-Hard, and Flexible Biomaterials Designed with Nano- and Mesoscale Technology 3.3. Smart Materials as Architectured Porous and Hybrid Systems to Produce Performative Building Components 3.4. Fractal-Based Porous Concrete Components Design and 3D Printing 3.5. Advancing Tunable Acoustics through Smart Materials and Reconfigurable Kerf Structures 3.6. Smart Tectonics for the Design of Building Structural Systems 3.7. Smart Building Sensibilities: Future Buildings Will Be Smarter, Greener, Cleaner, Connected, Adaptable … and Driven by Digital Rather Than Spatial Technology PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 4 Smart Design for a Changing Climate 4.1. Panarchistic Architecture: A Paradigm in Wildlife Resilience 4.2. Connecting Architecture and Agriculture for a Climate-Smart Future 4.3. Anti-desertification Architecture: Aeolian Assemblies 4.4. The Stacked City as a Model for High‑Density Low‑Carbon Urbanization: Comparison of the Vertical and Horizontal City Models for Urban Development in Hot Climate Zones and their Potential to Achieve Net‑Zero Carbon Emissions 4.5. Sustainable Smart Cold Living Habitats – Lesson from Antarctica for Other Earth Locations in the Light of Climate Crisis 4.6. Envisioning Ecological Planning Merged with Smart Technologies and Density 4.7. The Intelligence of Buildings: Information and Bioclimatic Design 4.8. Smart Energy Harvesting from Natural and Artificial Aquatic Systems 4.9. Amphibious Structures for Smart Flood Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation 4.10. Smart Ocean Living: Speculative Design of the North Atlantic Floating Archipelago 4.11. Aquatic Structures: Designing Marine Futures 4.12. Expansion in the Water: Growth and Design Processes to Grow Living Islands PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 5 On Smart Design Mobility and in Defiance of Pollution 5.1. Smart Mobility and the Future of Cities 5.2. Smart Airports: Evolving Airports for a More Human‑Focused Journey 5.3. The Future of Advanced Air Mobility and the Role of the Airports 5.4. Space Station Architecture Precursor for a Comprehensive Smarter Architectural Design Study: The Triangular‑Tetrahedral (Tri‑Tet) Space Station 5.5. Mobile Architecture for, with, and by the People: Smart Design Responses to Climate Change Challenges PARADIGMATIC CATEGORY 6Simulation and Advancements Trajectories in Digital Technologies and Data-Driven Smart Designs 6.1. Simulation-Driven Eco-Social Design: Towards Creating Smart Designs 6.2. Smart Prototyping: From Data-Driven Mass-Customization to Community-Enabled Co-Production 6.3. Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) Industry 4.0 and Beyond: Building Construction Automation through 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Toward Lower Environmental Impacts 6.4. Nesting Fabrication: An Integrated Approach Using Existing Tools to Minimize Waste in Large-Scale Freeform Construction 6.5. Huma-Robot Reconfigurations: Advancing Feminist Technoscience Perspectives for Human-Robot-Collaboration in Architecture and Construction