15 ​​The Soul, the Silence, and the Twin with Chikara Inamura

07/10/2025 25 min Temporada 1 Episodio 15

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When a building is completed, it often stops talking to us. All the knowledge, intelligence, and memory that shaped it disappear into the walls.In this Café Zai conversation, Kimon Onuma and Chikara Inamura, Director of Digital Technology at CO Architects, explore what it means for a building to have a soul in the digital age. We discuss why architectural education is “broken,” how information has become the new material of design, and why data access should be treated as a civil right under the ADA.Together they ask:– What is the minimum viable digital twin every building needs?– Can architects adopt a Hippocratic Oath for information safety?– And what happens when the intelligence of a building is lost at handover?This is a conversation about ethics, material, and meaning, where architecture, AI, and access converge.A video of this session is also available hereVisit Chikara's websiteand LinkedIn