On June 23rd, IntCDC and the IRIS-3D project “Towards Human-Robot Co-Agency” received the Equitable Spaces Award, presented by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning and part of the Women in Architecture Festival, 2025.
The Equitable Spaces Award celebrates student work that addresses the diversity in planning and design in the building industry through research-driven, critical, and design-based approaches. The judges: “The project integrates perspectives from feminist technoscience, a transdisciplinary field offering distinct ways of thinking about societies, technologies, bodies, power, and environments, to develop a HRC method that attracts skilled staff and supports skills and decision-making while considering uncertainties inherent in construction. Specifically, the project uses methods from experimental democracy to ensure a fair and responsible development process for the HRC method that engages a diverse set of potential users.”
Principal Investigators:
Prof. Achim Menges, Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD),
Tenure-Track-Prof. Dr. Thomas Wortmann, Institute for Computational Design and Construction, Department for Computing in Architecture (ICD/CA)
Prof. Dr. Cordula Kropp, Institute for Social Sciences (SOWI)
Researchers:
Gili Ron, Institute for Computational Design and Construction, Department for Computing in Architecture (ICD/CA)
Amelie Schreck, Institute for Social Sciences (SOWI)
IaaC Wordshop Collaborators:
Dr. Samuel Leder and Lasath Siriwardena, Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD)
The research was supported by the Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems (IRIS) under Az. 33-7533-9-19/54/5 in Reflecting Intelligent Systems for Diversity, Demography and Democracy (IRIS-3D) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2120/1 – 390831618.
