Collective intelligence: An analytical simulation of social interaction with architectural system

Abstract

This paper proposes an architectural system interactive to both users and the environmental condition in real-time. While nature acts as a global control for the system, the user can alter it locally. Due to the increasing digitization of our contemporary culture, there is an unprecedented capacity for information to flow in our physical and socially net-worked world that can be used to inform design problems and processes. Live and real-time information sources, like Twitter, could be virtually scanned for specific data input associated to a particular geometrical manipulation. This process enables a collective group of users to inform the system. As the number of users increases there is collaboration for defining the form which is different from single user interaction. Since the model is associated with a specific definition of generative behaviours as described by the words, these definitions could be used as the keywords to manipulate its form. In this research these keywords act as data input from Twitter account and the model reacts in real-time and its form changes according to that specific keyword. An analytical simulation runs over the digital model which has been conceived by users to show how it is performing according to environmental conditions.