Foresight &
Intelligence
Essays, research, and perspectives from senior design leaders on the future of the profession.
We live in a time of confusion. As truth is increasingly treated as subjective, the notion of a shared or universal truth has eroded. Withou…
If everything is essential, then nothing is. We use the word essential constantly. In meetings, strategies, and briefs, things are described…
It’s not what AI cannot do. AI is doing what we thought only humans could do At Wimbledon in 2023, IBM deployed an AI announcer that doesn’t…
60,000. That is how many workers Foxconn replaced with robots at its Kunshan factory in 2016. Sixty thousand people made redundant by machin…
Over the course of 2024, we have looked at Connections, Conviction and Convergence in our cascading examination of critical thinking among t…
As we consider the “now” and soon arriving “then”, we are confronted with our own lack of initiative regarding the consequential questions w…
DesignIntelligence (Michael LeFevre, DI:) We’re talking with Lynn Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a principal and the West Sustainability Services…
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the average hospital consumes more than 100 times as much energy as a standar…
Editor’s Note:DesignIntelligence’s theme for Q4 2024 is “Consequential Questions.” To address our theme, we call on a presenter from our rec…
Modernism, viewed as a style in addition to a movement, has a fascinating and tumultuous history. Early modernism’s design ethos had an imag…
Most of us would consider ourselves visionary leaders with ambitious goals to grow our firms, positively impact the communities we serve and…
DesignIntelligence / Michael LeFevre (DI): We’re talking with Adrian Parr Zaretsky, dean of the College of Design at the University of Orego…
