“The world is becoming too fast, too complex, too networked for any company to have all the answers inside.” Yochai Benkler
This past weekend myself and consultants Jan Liska and Paolo Serra from Autodesk Global Consulting Delivery participated in the public AEC Hackathon in Copenhagen Denmark. These AEC Hackathon events are where experts from the built environment and tech innovators get together to break silos in the AEC industry.
This AEC Hackathon was hosted by the inspiring innovation lab BLOXHUB that also hosts the Danish Architecture Center in a building designed by famed Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. There were 159 attendees participating from 39 countries. Participants were from local universities such as KADK, KEA, and DTU with the majority from industry such as SWECO, COWI, Ramboll, Goldbeck, and many others.
The public AEC Hackathon events are open to anyone to show up and form teams to participate.
1. Identify a challenge in your everyday work.
2. Work on one of the…