Geodesign Process Analytics: Focus on Design as a Process and Its Outcomes

Chiara Cocco, Christian Rezende Freitas, Ana Clara Mourão Moura and Michele Campagna
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Chiara Cocco: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09042 Cagliari, Italy
Christian Rezende Freitas: School of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-140, Brazil
Ana Clara Mourão Moura: School of Architecture and Urbanism, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte 30130-140, Brazil
Michele Campagna: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, 09042 Cagliari, Italy

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: This paper argues that the opportunities offered by currently available collaborative Planning Support Systems (PSS) are useful not only for applying a systems approach and coordinating actors in the planning process, but also for tracking the evolution of design alternatives toward a final plan. The availability of process log-data in the latest PSS opens new paths for understanding (geo)design dynamics. With the aim of taking full advantage of this new data source, a novel Geodesign Process Analytics is described in detail from log-data extraction and pre-processing methods and tools to the development of the set of spatial, performance, temporal and design evolution indicators. The study also demonstrates how the proposed measures are appropriate for display in a dynamic dashboard, making available a real-time process analysis tool to the team coordinators, thus supporting their leading role in facilitating the geodesign process. The research assumptions were tested using the Geodesignhub PSS and data from a geodesign study developed within the International Geodesign Collaboration.

Keywords: geodesign; process mining; log data; planning support systems; collaboration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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