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Student: John Lucente
Advisor: Scott Shall
Content Experts: Dan Faoro, Kurt Nieswender, Masataka Yoshikawa
There has been a rapid evolution, implementation, and commercialization of Artificial Intelligence (Ai) technology over the past several years. Beginning with the partnership of OpenAi and Microsoft in 2019, early adopters have grown exponentially in its use. In architecture specifically, the first exhibition of Ai was held in 2019, and a growing list of progressive architectural firms have incorporated it into their practice since (Leach 2022). Leach described Ai’s strength is in its ability to reduce mundane or repetitive tasks, thus allowing the architect to concentrate efforts elsewhere.
As Ai implementation continues to grow, Social Media Platforms’ (SMPs) adoption seem to have matured with SMPs engaging with almost every aspect of our everyday lives. One area that has gone critically under researched however, are the ways that SMPs can aid in public opinion research, even though as Lian & Dong have highlighted, “…social media can yield a better and more comprehensive understanding of public perceptions of special topics in a more scientific manner.” (Dong and Lian 2021) Coinciding with SMPs potential ability to better survey public opinion is the need for Advocacy Planning and Plural Planning approaches. As Vibhuti Raina explains; “Advocacy planning occurs due to differences in the opinions of public and government… If there would not have been groups opposing the singular public plan, plural plans and advocate planners to advocate them would not have been born.” (Raina 2018). And as Paul Davidoff explained back in 1965; often times in plural planning advocacy, groups lack the resources necessary to propose alternative plans and thus an unbalance of power is derived (Davidoff 1965).
Therefore, this thesis’ primary objective to investigate how Ai image generation can provide a means to reduce resources required when conducting plural planning advocacy design. And as an additional outcome, hypothesize the potential efficacy of SMPs in estimating public opinion on plural planning designs. As a vehicle for this investigation, this thesis provides a plural planning design proposal for a speculative Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in Downtown Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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