Violet Whitney on Mitigating risk in pre-development using Delve
In the first lecture for the 2022 Fall Urbanism Lecture series, co-hosted by the City Design & Development Program (CDD), SMArchS Urbanism Program, and Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism at MIT Violet Whitney presented part of her work that focuses on how technology shapes the design process and urban experience.
Whitney displayed her multidisciplinary team’s work at Sidewalk Labs, developing technology for more sustainable places, presenting the possibilities for optimizing units, and maximizing opportunities for developers using their generative design tool, Delve. The software uses computational geometry models and machine learning to evaluate designs for the real estate development industry. It can produce several iterations of the different variables and regulations at a site to assess program fixes that meet the criteria sought within designing neighborhoods that are embedded with sustainable characteristics while economically viable.
By Sylvia Jimenez, Norman B. (1938) and Muriel Leventhal Fellow, Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism.
