L'apprentissage des conversations de conception. Analyse exploratoire des pratiques discursives et graphiques médiées par ordinateur.

A large proportion of architects’ educational and professional activities take place in the form of informal and formal discussions revolving around design artefacts, such as blueprints, sketches and models. However, there has been little investigation into the multimodal resources mobilized by designers in order to collectively simulate experiments on their projects. In this thesis, we focus on remote mediated-by-computer design conversations in which architects jointly mobilise speech, inscription practices and artefacts handling for the purpose of examining how these function in the negotiation and joint development of architectural design knowledge.
On the basis of a cross-cutting theoretical appraisal to the design conversation and on-field observations of remote synchronous meetings between professional designers, this exploratory study aims to describe and define the interactional processes implemented by architects in order to develop a shared reasoning on their project.
The cross-disciplinary approach developed in the course of this research results in the formulation of a theoretical and analytical framework for studying the interactional organization behind jointly constructing the meaning of an architectural design. It also offers a better understanding of the fundamental links between graphical and discursive activities in communication between architects, while examining their digital mediations.