The book contains the papers developed from the presentations atthe Distributed Intelligence in Design Symposium, held inSalford in May 2009. In this context, Distributed Intelligencerefers to the interdisciplinary knowledge of a range of differentindividuals in different organisations, with different backgroundsand experience, and the symposium discussed the media, technologiesand behaviours required to support their successful collaboration. The book focusses on:how parametric and generative design media can be coupled withand managed alongside Building Information Modelling tools andsystemshow the cross-disciplinary knowledge is distributed andcoordinated across different software, participants andorganizationsthe characteristics of the evolving creative and collaborativepracticeshow built environment education should be adapted to thisdigitally-networked practice and highly distributed intelligence indesignThe chapters address a range of innovative developments,methodologies, applications, research work and theoreticalarguments, to present current experience and expectations ascollaborative practice becomes critical in the designof future built environments.