P L A I A

3 June 2026 – On 3^rd June, the first workshop of series PLAIA organized took place at TU Delft. Practitioners and academics worked together on the basis of actual projects several firms proposed, to map and discuss professional and academics perspectives on AI and soft values in architecture.

PLAIA organized a Workshop series to bring together academia and practice on the topic of AI and soft values in architecture. Through a set of sessions, we tackle current professional and interdisciplinary needs, opportunities, and gaps across representative stakeholder groups. Understanding the different perspectives is essential. The multidisciplinarity of different fields involved (such as cognitive sciences, built environment, computer science, and economics) requires to map disciplinary perspectives and terminology, identify datasets and methods, and explore AI opportunities through stakeholder engagement and the development of shared perspectives.

Last week workshop at TU Delft brought together experts from the Municipality of Eindhoven, Eindhoven University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Convergence Program, TANGRAM Architekten, GROOSMAN, ArchiTech Company, EGM Architecten, Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, and other firms and entities.

We started the afternoon with a welcoming moment, project updates, and a greatly inspiring presentation by Dennis Kaspori. We then worked by using actual projects by TANGRAM Architekten, GROOSMAN and ArchiTech Company to map how AI can support the design of buildings that improve the social, emotional, and physiological wellbeing of all occupants. Experts from architecture, social and cognitive science, and AI came together to identify methods from different fields that can strengthen AI-supported design, tensions between hard and soft values, and where AI can meaningfully help and where human judgment must stay in the lead.

We look forward to the next PLAIA Workshop on 9^th July 2026.