In Your experience, has Speckle fixed BIM yet?

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:speckle: Hello All beautiful users of Speckle. :speckle:

NO BS => need this survey filled! :spiral_notepad: explanation bellow :point_down:
https://forms.gle/3iX5UzS4WNzqZFQF8

6yo I moved to Denmark to pursue career and education in Denmark :denmark: , in the architectural industry. I have deep appreciation for the urban planning here and just for the daily experience of existing here. :office: :bank: :houses:

I got my education and worked for my dream studio in Copenhagen until 2yo when I burned out while I was being laid off.
While not the main reason for my :heart_on_fire: burnout :heart_on_fire: , though absolutely a major contributing factor, was the sheer inefficiency of the software we were using which differed in no way from my previous AEC software which I used as an engineer for years, before coming to Denmark.

I am studying Software Design master :computer: in Copenhagen atm and since I learned about
:speckle: Speckle maybe a year ago I was thoroughly fascinated, as it was addressing ‘vendor lock in’ which I had a feeling was the elephant in the room. So I explored the topic deeper for my research project and sorta went down the rabbit hole ( Youtube vid on the topic! → great watch to understand why it feels like prehistory in CAD in 2020ies.)

Long story short, I needed to come to some conclusions in my paper and me and my Research buddy we figured that the only way how to evaluate whether Speckle is fixing what is unfunctional in BIM would be to ask Speckle’s users! so I would be super happy if you could answer my survey for the project!
https://forms.gle/3iX5UzS4WNzqZFQF8

I absolutely plan to get into Speckle more and add to its community from the coding perspective, perhaps for my Master thesis, however now I am kindly asking for you help! please share you experience!

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While compiling the results - you should mention to ITU that Speckle offers full enterprise Workspaces for Academia at no cost!

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I will mention it in my defense! THX Jonathon

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also fun fact, in case it helps: i’ve dug into this quite a bit during my phd. if there’s one section I’d really love you to glimpse through is this one (section 2.5, but the whole chapter is actually fun):

The tl;dr is: it is, of course a political problem too (vendors doing vendor things, like rent extraction), but:

  • we’ve been solving a technical problem, where actually we should’ve been solving a human problem (that of communication)
  • there have been many attempts, ideas, starts and implementations - going as far back as the early days of CAD - to solve for this - but, in my view, BIM hijacked the whole thing into endless bureaucracy.
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That is some extensive research on the topic!
Very interesting point there by Kvan about non-existent collaboration when it is cooperation. Semantically close but I’ve never realized it. Designers and engineers hate to collaborate and would always choose to rather have control over the smallest indivisible part that they understand and are responsible. It might get changed by a review or needs of others but then the changing of the design is back to one designer only. THX for sharing this!

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My pleasure!

My take on this: hate is a strong word. Same could be said by many architect-developer relationships. This adversarial situations are - if you ask me - artificially constructed by us, and a result of increasing specialisation and disciplines “claiming” their territory. Some parts are necessary, some purely wrongly incentivised processes.

You build trust by building shared context. You build shared context by talking and exchanging information and identifying the design’s parameters and how they interrelate (eg. more units > more parking > not enough urban space > no municipality approval). This is the part we want Speckle to play: de-risk conversations with data and make them 100x faster and accessible.

I can keep on going - i’ll go back to work :smiley: