Experimental Use of Strategic Choice Approach (SCA) by Individuals as an Architectural Design Tool

Todella, Elena; Lami, Isabella Maria; Armando, Alessandro

doi:10.1007/s10726-018-9567-9

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“…Accordingly, the challenge is to coordinate different operations, which have different amounts of potential in terms of time, profitability, and values [31]. In regards to the second issue, the point is that the effect of a plan or project cannot be determined linearly from the original schema: the final state achieved does not always fully correspond to the expected one [32][33][34]. Moreover, the effect of an urban regeneration operation can be something more than physical transformation of the urban fabric: consider the narratives in newspapers and social media, the interaction with other projects, etc.…”

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How Can I Help You? Questioning the Role of Evaluation Techniques in Democratic Decision-Making Processes

Lami

Moroni

2020

Sustainability

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In the past, evaluation techniques were considered to be “decisional techniques”, “decisional tools”. There was a rough idea that, after the important data had been collected, the technique in question would, by itself, indicate the best decision. Evaluations of this kind clearly depended on the more or less implicit adoption of a “rational-comprehensive model”, which tended to downplay the ethical and political dimension of decisions, while stressing the role of both technique and technicians. This approach has been widely criticized. Partly as a result of such criticism, many evaluation techniques are now considered to be not “decisional tools” but forms of “decision aid”. The problem is that the expression “decision aid” lacks clarity and is by no means unequivocal in urban decisional situations. We believe in this regard that there is a gap in research and in the academic literature. Starting from this conviction, the article presents an investigation of what being a “decision aid” might mean for a technical evaluation today. The aim is to provide a conceptual framework within which to critically revisit and rediscuss the question, with particular regard to urban sustainability issues.

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confidence: 99%

How Can I Help You? Questioning the Role of Evaluation Techniques in Democratic Decision-Making Processes

Lami

Moroni

2020

Sustainability

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“…The paper investigates SCA in its possible interface with architectural design, as a way of structuring and cooperating with the design process (Todella et al 2018;Tavella and Lami 2019;Lami and Tavella 2019). SCA and architectural design process can be both intended as cyclic and "in progress" process of conflicts and negotiations (Armando et al 2015;Todella et al 2018) and "running labs" about realworld problems (Latour and Woolgar 1979;Latour 1988). Moreover, SCA modes and phases are similar to the way architects think and draft alternatives (through sketches and drawings), even if in architectural design there is not a formal definition of different steps to define a transformation project.…”

Section: Strategic Choice Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this, a shared problem definition, values and perceptions enable to enlarge the participants' knowledge and consequential shared decisions about the problem situation. Consequently, we argue that architectural design tools-drawings, schemes, diagrams, but also videos and texts-contribute to the construction of a better shared reality (Todella et al 2018), thanks to the models' capability of transferring and translate knowledge (Pidd 2003;Franco 2013) and of enabling a wider understanding of the real problem.…”

Section: Strategic Choice Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Aesthetic Perspectives in Group Decision and Negotiation Practice

2020

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This paper explores the role of the aesthetics in Group Decision and Negotiation (GDN) practice, specifically how it affects the methods and the cognitive processes in the architectural field. We intend aesthetics as “scientia cognitionis sensitivæ”, a particular process and way of knowing and experiencing the problem through senses, imagination and empathy. We argue that (a) aesthetics and aesthetic features can (and do) convey knowledge about the problem; (b) we can distinguish between two kinds of aesthetics, one of the process and one of the product and (c) the aesthetics can contribute to create a “plural subject”. The issue is investigated through a decision problem about the transformation of an iconic building in the centre of Turin (Italy), in two ways: (1) by merging the Strategic Choice Approach (SCA) with architectural design and (2) by approaching the same issue with Storytelling, as a method for problem-based instruction. Considering the aesthetics as a specific form of language, the paper offers innovative considerations about the role of representation and visualisation tools and models—drawing, scheme, diagrams, but also video and text—as support for group decisions and negotiations, in the construction of knowledge within decisional processes.

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“…As a result, organizational conflicts are minimized. Based on those advantages, the SCA can be successfully applied to different contexts such as public policy planning (Friend et al 1974); managing uncertainty (Sutton et al 1986); motivational appeals (Shelby 1991); policy alternatives for the transportation, storage, and distribution of liquefied gas (Friend 1992); urban planning (Khakee and Strömberg 1993); political change (Collier and Norden 1992); international relations (Lake and Powell 1999); community planning for rural education (Friend 2004); location and marketing conflicts (Friend 2004); transformation of industrial relations (Leggett 2005); water resources planning (Levino and Morais 2013); spatial planning (Diller and Oberding 2017), and architectural design (Todella et al 2018).…”

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A group decision model for credit granting in the financial market

Schotten

Morais

2019

Financ Innov

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Group decision models that contemplate the particularities of the decision-making process help organizations pursue their strategic objectives. In the financial market, the primary interest of organizations consists in ensuring financial returns, which guarantee stability for the organization. This study identifies major problems in the current process of credit granting in the financial market and argues the need for automatizing the organizational decision process while respecting the autonomy of decision-makers. To this end, this study proposes a group decision model based on the Strategic Choice Approach (SCA) for granting credit in a financial market organization. The results show that the adoption of the proposed model offers considerable gains in terms of organizational goals, transparency of the decision-making process, security for decision-makers, and reduction of organizational conflicts.

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Experimental Use of Strategic Choice Approach (SCA) by Individuals as an Architectural Design Tool

Cited by 21 publications

References 18 publications

How Can I Help You? Questioning the Role of Evaluation Techniques in Democratic Decision-Making Processes

How Can I Help You? Questioning the Role of Evaluation Techniques in Democratic Decision-Making Processes

Aesthetic Perspectives in Group Decision and Negotiation Practice

A group decision model for credit granting in the financial market

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