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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
