he Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) is a long-term research platform exploring immersive socio-technical environments in which stakeholders can collaboratively frame and solve problems and discuss and make decisions in a variety of application domains and different disciplines.
“The story and results reported in this book will inspire developers who aim to have an impact.” – Pierre Dillenbourg, EPFL Center for Digital Education
“This is a timely and interesting book and one that is rewarding to read... The book is well written and well illustrated and is a treasure for anyone wishing to better understand how emerging interactive technologies will affect the practice of collaborative planning.” – Morten Fjeld, Ph.D., Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
“Leading-edge efforts today at building environments that integrate construction of visual, table-top, virtual-reality, or tangible artifacts with group discourse and system feedback must build on the heritage meticulously documented in this volume to make further progress.” – Gerry Stahl, Drexel University, Philadelphia
“...it provides practical understanding of how to successfully engage, with insight about the methods for mutual learning and active consensus-building—not passive ‘stakeholder’ meetings. This is crucial for tapping local knowledge and, ultimately, making better cities.” – Emily Talen, Ph.D., Arizona State University
“As a lifelong learner, educator, practitioner, problem solver, and leader I found this book compelling on account of the authors’ new ideas, revelations, and advanced methodologies to support creativity, learning, and design.” – Richard Byyny, University of Colorado, Boulder
“The application and lessons learned from research and tools outlined in this book can lead to more productive, informed, and enlightened conversation as well as better decision making in many different fields and endeavors.” – Paul Tabolt, University of Colorado, Boulder