Just yesterday I came across this great presentation by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels at Ted 2009.
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It became clear that the value comes – not only – from the final result, but from the process of the creation and all the discussions related to it.
For me this sounds very familar from discussions around scenario planning, where also the main value is not so much in the final result (the future will be different anyway), but in the conversations and discussions that lead to it.
I also like the view of their office and storage with all the architecture models collected for future use.
Now, here comes the twist or the question that haunts me: How do you do this in a distributed environment, where teams a scattered around the globe and interaction is with 2 hour phone conferences and document sharing? How do you create a continous interactions and joint conversations along the process? How do you do brainstorming on the Internet?
Is a wiki infrastructure the right answer?
Or does it just not work efficiently?