The fourth in our Future of Design series – which looks at how new and changing technologies are affecting the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries – sees Maria Mingallon explore how designers all around the world have united to fight the COVID-19 pandemic using at-home 3D printers and ask what decentralised manufacturing could mean for our collective future.

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In my last article, I promised you all a sequel on examples of artificial intelligence applications in the architecture, engineering and construction industry. Rest assured that is still on my mind but the extraordinary times we live in urge for a change of direction in my original plan. New Zealand announced emergency level 4 and made the lockdown measures effective at midnight on Wednesday 25th March. Like most of you reading this article, we closed down the office and made ourselves ready to ‘work from home’. I was not surprised […]

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