Encoding Experience: Rethinking how software shapes our spaces

Interactive workshop exploring how design software could better support belonging, participation and human experience in built environments

How might design software – a quiet force behind our built environments – evolve to expand belonging? Join our interactive session and reflect on how today’s tools influence design decisions, especially in terms of whose perspectives are highlighted and whose voices get left out.

Explore thought-provoking prototypes based on research into experience of architecture and advances in AI. Dip in and out of curated discussion, critique and collaborative sketching groups. Together, let’s reimagine design software to invite broader participation, bring lived experience into decision-making and empower more people to have a say in shaping their places. Whether you’re a practitioner, student or simply care about the impact of space on our communities, you’ll leave with fresh insights – and having played a part in redefining future design technologies.