A Proposed Map of a Geodesign Research Agenda: Eleven Key Questions in an Eight-pole Space

摘要

The development of a robust and credible geodesign discipline will depend equally upon an ever-growing inventory of excellent real-world examples of projects embodying geodesign principles, and upon the development and pursuit of a rich and rigorous research agenda that informs geodesign theory and practice. To this end, following a consideration of several precedents from the GIS literature, a research space with eight poles is proposed. Mapping twenty or so not-quite-randomly collected examples of proposed research questions into this space yields a promising framework for an emergent research agenda, summarized by eleven key geodesign research questions. Acknowledgment: Mike Flaxman, of Geodesign Technologies Inc., was intimately involved in the development of the first draft of these ideas, and the presentation of same at the 2015 ESRI Geodesign Summit. Twelve additional colleagues, named in the text below, greatly assisted the enterprise by offering their suggested research questions, and agreeing to their publication.