
Big rocks and monkeys: Why you need an innovation strategy
An innovation strategy dictates how an organisation searches for solutions, synthesises ideas and selects which initiatives get funded.
An innovation strategy dictates how an organisation searches for solutions, synthesises ideas and selects which initiatives get funded.
A case study demonstrating how a manufacturer’s modelling and shop drawing processes can be automated using mass customisation.
This article argues that the architectural profession must free itself from the dogma and flawed biases of what we think an architect is to save it.
This article suggests that the master-apprentice model is central to architectural wage theft and explores how AI may offer a solution.
The big bang of generative design and AI is coming. But will it enter us into a world of post-Cambrian architectural diversity or become a Weapon of Mass Architectural Destruction?
Parametric Monkey 2022 year in review and where we are headed to achieve our aim of helping AEC businesses do better things.
This article rethinks BIM 1.0’s processes, which focuses on standardisation, and postulates how it can evolve to BIM 2.0 via systematisation.
This case study highlights how mass timber construction sequencing can be captured and codified in Dynamo to achieve automation at scale.
As organisations turn to automated solutions to streamline their workflows, greater consistency is needed to reap the benefit of these tools.
Technical debt is the term used to describe how shortcuts taken today to hit a deadline means more work tomorrow.
True digital transformation means harnessing technology to do better things, including how knowledge is captured for the digital age.
Paul Wintour and Matt Bishop discuss the concept of a Product vs Project mindset in construction and the importance of structured data.
A look at what it takes to become a technology-led organisation in the AEC industry for digital transformation.
This is a story of the great tech delusion, deep pockets and why two of the most valuable startups in the world failed.
Used inappropriately, generative design is not only counterproductive to the design, it is determinantal to the advancement of AEC industry.
Paul Wintour (Parametric Monkey) and Matt Bishop (BVT) discuss how they created a framework for innovation for the development of Prenguin.
A look at the Dynamo Player user interface (UI), as well as how to go about designing your own UI using third-party plug-ins.
A look at waterfall and agile project management and how organisations can run a design sprint for better decision making.
This article debunks some of the myths around ideation and discusses how organisations can improve their odds of success.
A look at how AEC organisations can harness User Experience (UX) research to improve their in-house software solutions.
A detailed case study looking at generative design and how to define design goals (fitness) and the solution space.
A look at innovation through a process known as marginal gains and continuous improvements used widely both in sport and business.
An alternative perspective on the open letter to Autodesk, suggesting a whole rethink of Revit and the next-generation AEC platform.
This article unpacks the requirement of a fabrication-level model, known as ‘LOD400’ and discusses how to improve the BIM process.
Rediscovering Flux explores the downfall of Flux Metro and the lessons that can be learnt when developing generative design software.
Finding North is a tale of how a simple oversight in understanding the orientation of North can have devastating consequences.
This article explores the science of decision-making and how to avoid cognitive biases in identify innovation opportunities.
What do the terms ‘disruption’ and ‘innovation’ really mean? The article presents disruption theory as a framework to sort fact from fiction.
A case study demonstrating the parametric modelling and digital fabrication used on UTS Central, Sydney project.
Learn how to harness the power of Dynamo to improve operational effectiveness by improving both productivity and profitability.
This article explores some of the research around learning and suggests a framework for architects to learn to learn.
An explanation of common terminology used in computational design grouped them into six taxonomies including algorithms and natural systems.
A brief history of computation in architectural design over 5 eras: 2D drafting, 3D modelling, BIM, computational design & machine learning.
This article explores common misconceptions about BIM adoption and offers an alternative perspective to negotiate these arguments.
Learn how to extend Revit’s conceptual modelling capabilities by combining it with various interoperability plug-ins, to create a BIM ecosystem.
Study Revit’s inability to deal with complex geometry and how this can be overcome by integrating Rhino and Grasshopper.
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