Design Modelling Symposium

of machine-learned knowledge into everyday decision-making processes is reshaping the scope of human agency. Meanwhile, moves toward greater care for the existing built environment call for renewed attention to materials — not as passive means of action, but as active agents shaping societal change. These disruptive factors compel us, the DMS community, to reassess the very role of building designers today. Who decides what? What decides for whom? How can we control the impact of these decisions? What is not to be decided — and why?