What Kind of Digital Society Do We Want to Live In?

What Kind of Digital Society Do We Want to Live In? Remarks on Digital Transformation in Architecture and Urban Planning How can we operably map and simulate digital transformation in architecture and urban planning? Today these processes are poorly understood. Many current studies on digital transformation are only treating questions of economic efficiency. Sustainability and social impact only play a minor role. Decisive definitions, concepts and terms stay unclear. Therefore this contribution develops an open experimental testbed for sustainable and innovative environments (ETSIE) for three different digital transformation scenarios using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs). It is shown that the traditional growth-oriented scenario is structurally very similar to the current SARS-CoV-2 scenario. Only when all stakeholders adjust and unify their way of reasoning, an innovative and sustainable turnaround in a third scenario becomes possible. The current pandemic is able to accelerate digital transformation to a certain extent. But the pandemic does not guarantee for a distinct sustainable and innovative future development. It will be up to our own decision, whether we want to continue to pursue primarily commercial interests, or whether we see the sustainable benefits of a solidary community in a healthy, functional and innovative environment. City models such as the current "15-Minute City" based on "Die gegliederte und aufgelockerte Stadt" by Rainer, Göderitz and Hoffmann (1957) can offer practical solutions here. The decision will be up to us, how we want to keep it. Together we all finally have to decide in what kind of digital society we want to live in.     «

What Kind of Digital Society Do We Want to Live In? Remarks on Digital Transformation in Architecture and Urban Planning How can we operably map and simulate digital transformation in architecture and urban planning? Today these processes are poorly understood. Many current studies on digital transformation are only treating questions of economic efficiency. Sustainability and social impact only play a minor role. Decisive definitions, concepts and terms stay unclear. Therefore this contribut...     »