This thesis reconceptualises communication in digital design as an integrated social and
technical process. The friction in the communicative processes pertaining to digital design
can be traced to the fact that current research and practice emphasise technical concerns at
the expense of social aspects of design communication. With the advent of BIM (Building
Information Modelling), a code model of communication (machine-to-machine) is
inadequately applied to design communication. This imbalance is addressed in this thesis …