10 Reasons to Redesign Your Dated AEC Website

I browsed through a couple of dozen engineering firm websites recently. These were companies with a turnover between 10 and 20 million dollars. To my surprise, many had a website that looked like something from the 1990s. The sites were not just visually unimaginative. They were like obligatory printed brochures converted into a website; not very engaging or […]

Megatrends Shaping Cities of the Future

I had the pleasure of attending the most prominent Finnish seminar on residential business last week. There were several interesting presentations on innovation and case studies of new ways of residential construction. Tuuli Kaskinen, CEO at Demos Effect, talked about megatrends pertaining to city living. Kaskinen started by showing a photo of the suburb of […]

Making space: instructions in joint building activities

1 Introduction This contribution reports on an interdisciplinary study using multimodal space-based interaction analysis (Hausendorf et al., 2016) to investigate co-orientation, co-ordination and co-operation (Hausendorf, 2013) during interactional activities that structure the material space. In the two cases discussed here, participants are engaged in the making of a sandal from animal rawhide using a flint […]