Geodesign Changing Geography by Design Rajesh C Mathur Vice Chairman NIIT GIS Ltd

GeodesignChanging Geography by Design

Rajesh C MathurVice ChairmanNIIT GIS Ltd.

The Synapse

Geography Design

Geodesign

Design is the process of originating and developing a plan for a product,structure, system or component with intention.

… Wikipedia

Some Definitions of Design

Design is aesthetic composition.

… design student

Design is a plan for arranging elements in a such a wayas to best accomplish a particular purpose.

… Charles Eames

Some Definitions of Design

Design is applied imagination.

… anonymous

Design is a bridge between the abstraction of researchand the tangible requirement of real life.

… Glenn Lowery

Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changingexisting situations into preferred ones.

… Herbert Simon

Geography & Design

Geography is the Science of Our World

Design is About Purpose & Seeing the Future

GIS Worlds

Geodesign is About

Geographic Planning & Decision Making

Extending GIS to Support Creative Designing

GISDESIGN PLAN

Evaluation

GeoDesign is an Evolutionary Step

Like GIS, it will Be Applied in Many Fields

• Creating Many New Opportunities

By Individuals

By GroupsBy Society on the Web

Making Smart Growth Smarter with Geodesign

Smart Growth is called “smart” growth because it seeks to strike an intelligent

balance between Unfettered sprawl

&Restrictive no-growth policies

Making Smart Growth Smarter with Geodesign

Sketching Discussion Revise & Render

Final 2 D & 3D Map

Planners Stakeholder’s vision /feedback Final ProductPlanners

Conventional Planning Process

Geodesign for Smart Growth

Geodesign combines the information capacity of GIS with decision making processGeodesign combines the information capacity of GIS with decision making process

• Sketching Sketching • Spatially informed Models Spatially informed Models • Fast FeedbackFast Feedback• Iteration Iteration

Definition of Geodesign

Geodesign is design in geographic space …

It unites the art and creativity of design With

the power and science of geospatial technology

Geodesign can produce more informed, data based

design options and decisions

Integrating geospatial technologies into the design

process with the goal of living more harmoniously with nature

GeoDesign is designing with nature in mind.

GeoDesign is changing geography by design.

- - Carl Steinitz

Defining Geographic Space

Moving beyond geography and landscape … to geo-scape

Geo-scape is the planet’s life-zone.

land + waterbelow + surface + above

physical + biological + social + economic

Scope of Geodesign

The Scope of Geodesign

Surface Below, On, Above

Land Geology, Water, Air

2D/2.5D 3D/4D

Rural Urban

Outside Buildings Inside Buildings

Objects Events, Concepts, Relationships

Modeling Spatial Information

SOILS

ELEVATION

VEGETATION

RAIN FALL

SLOPE

EROSIONPOTENTIAL

EROSIONHAZARD

Regional Geo-scape

Urban Geo-scape

Global Geo-scape

Geodesign Challenges

Challenge #1

Develop a comprehensive understandingof geodesign and then work together to translate that

understanding into a shared vision.

definition and scope of geodesignthe nature of design

the technology of geodesignwhat it means to be a designer (geo-designer)

Geodesign Challenges

Challenge #2

Develop an appropriate “design centric” GIS technology.

Easy to understandEasy to use

Rapid creation and modification of entitiesOn-the-fly assessment

Dashboard authoring toolsScenario management toolsCollaboration environment

Geodesign Challenges

Challenge #3

Apply that technology to a wide variety ofgeo-spatial design problems.

Financial ServicesForestry

Health CareHuman Services

MiningPetroleumPlanning

Public SafetyState & Local Gov

SurveyingTelecommunications

TransportationUtilities

Water Resources

AgricultureConservation

DefenseEducation

EngineeringFacilities ManagementFederal Government

Geodesign Challenges

Challenge #4

Work together to establish a discipline of geodesign,both in practice and academia.

Geographic and Environmental SciencesLandscape Architecture

Urban and Regional PlanningArchitecture and Engineering

Operations ResearchComputer Science

GIS

The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it

-Late Prof. C K Prahlad

Rajesh C Mathur

Rajesh.mathur@niit-tech.com