#Geodesign Summit Day 3 AM
The goal of the final day of the summit is to develop a way forward.
Jack Dangermond highlighted the key communities that want/should be involved: research/education/professional practioners/technology. He drew them in a venn diagram with a overlap.
The opening session focused on developing a research agenda by reviewing in detail what the IdeaLab groups identified as their key research and activity goals. Most of the first session involved IdeaLab leaders rehashing yesterday’s presentations in more detail. Few groups synthesized their many topics/goals into a few key items or actions, which I found frustrating. I do think the details of the discussions are valuable, but they need to be better distilled for use.
The final session, led by Jack Dangermond, aimed to define next steps for growing geodesign. Among the topics:
How to
- “unbrand” geodesign from ESRI
- collect and share content of this event or create a book on the topic
- fund future research
- communicate about geodesign
- build an international community
- engage engineers/construction players
- develop a slogan (“avoid being bad”)
The one specific effort we discussed involved a geodesign challenge, a competition to encourage projects using geodesign with big money prize(s). That evolved in several ideas included the awarding of geodesign Special Achievement Award.
ESRI helped cover some travel and lodging costs related to Directions Media’s attendance at the Summit.
