Bill Miller’s Geodesign Workflow can be applied to any land-based geodesign project. The Geodesign Workflow reflects many of Steinitz’s models, although in language and steps more familiar to most planners. It also streamlines the process, removing the iterations involved in the Steinitz framework, resulting in a seemingly more linear framework.
However, as Miller notes, while the process appears linear in its presentation, it is never linear in practice. As we learned in last week’s lesson on incorporating feedback into the Steinitz Geodesign Framework, there are always reversals and instances of looping back through the geodesign process as the team encounters errors or new information.
Bill Miller and Carl Steinitz have worked together back and forth on development of this workflow. And while the two may disagree on some of the finer points, they agree that the workflow achieves the same purpose as the Steinitz methodology as a framework for geodesign. For many, including this author, the Geodesign Workflow enhances one’s overall understanding of Steinitz’s more theoretical framework by grounding it in more common language and practical application.
From here, I will let Bill Miller explain the workflow himself. Miller’s Geodesign Workflow is outlined in a series of slides presented in the linked PDF below:
Geodesign: Project Workflow PDF