Home Genome Project
Team
Daniel Smithwick and Kent Larson
Project Brief
The home is becoming a center for preventative health care, energy production, distributed work, and new forms of learning, entertainment, and communication. We are developing techniques for capturing and encoding concepts related to human needs, activities, values, and practices. We are investigating solutions built from an expanding set of building blocks, or “genes,” which can be combined and recombined in various ways to create a unique assembly of spaces and systems.
We are developing algorithms to match individuals to design solutions in a process analogous to that used to match customer profiles to music, movies, and books, as well as new fabrication and supply-chain technologies for efficient production. We are exploring how to tap the collective intelligence of distributed groups of people and companies to create an expanding set of solutions.
