Digital technologies and media influence almost every moment of our daily lives. Together with increasingly agile management systems, technological advancements – including computers, the internet, algorithms, artificial intelligence and the cloud – have reinvented nearly every business.1 Practising landscape architecture in this environment raises two questions regarding authorship: first, how data, information and designs are shared; and second, how ideas and outcomes are produced.
Open-source resources offer unprecedented access to collaborative communities in which to exchange ideas. In 2015, Italian architect Carlo Ratti and designer Matthew Claudel from MIT’s Senseable City Lab expanded the notion of collaborative community in their manifesto , exploring how the public can be involved The authors envision an alternative future for the profession, arguing for a paradigm shift from sole authorship to a more collaborative model of architectural production. In other words, authorship in digital design culture is radically changing practice.
