Perhaps what we need is a philosophy of Slow Engineering, inspired by the Slow Food Movement. The Slow Food Movement started in 1986 to protest the fast-food restaurants then springing up across Italy. In 2015, Ed Quesenberry suggested that Slow Engineering might focus on overcoming our relentless fetish for speed and consider how the assumption that “time is money” undergirds much of engineering practice. But I think that Slow Engineering might dig deeper into what makes for good and just design. For Slow Engineering, we need to do the same, and I would suggest that these elements allow us to think through the “perfect storm” that brought about the tragic collapse of the FIU bridge.

Source: Forbes April 30, 2018 13:24 UTC