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(Call) Hybrids & Haecceities: ACADIA 2020 Conference |
ACADIA 2020 will be hosted by the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design in Philadelphia, PA. The event will consist of workshops October 26-28, followed by the main conference October 29-31, 2020. |
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(Call) SimAUD 2020: Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design |
Simulation and design computation cover a wide range of scales across space and time: As planners, we are used to shift between the very large and the very small, employing tools that let us predict performance in aggregated or real time. In this continuum of possible scales, we must seek reasonable abstractions on which we base our solution-seeking strategy, to be carried out by ourselves or by computers and machines acting on our behalf. |
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(Call) 38th ECAADE Conference, Berlin Anthropologic – Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age … From smart to behavioral … From digital to material |
Humans and technology today form an inseparable link that have profound implications for Earth’s ecosystems – leading to the debate for a new era: the Anthropologic. In recent years, the transition from analog to digital architecture has materialized through increasing availability of novel software and new methods in digital architecture fabrication – tooling. The cognitive and digital turn implies ubiquitous computing, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and material intelligence, but to mention a few. |
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(Outreach) ROB|ARCH 2020: ON-SITE ROBOTICS |
Within the emergent field of research and design utilising robotic technology, the true potential is being explored deeper than ever before. Not only within the confines of research and development of high-end technology companies, but also through real world applications on construction sites the globe over. Boundaries between design and construction are beginning to blur as these technologies play an ever-increasing role from conception to physical realisation. |
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(Call) From Craft to Construction – Transitioning from the experimental scale to industrial production |
This issue of the Journal on Construction Robotics examines the ways in which experimental research impacts the construction site. By examining the connection (and gaps) between experimental research and industrial-scale construction, this issue examines the current and future role of robotics in the AEC industry. |
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(Call) SiGraDi 2020: Transformative Design - Convergence between natural and artificial systems |
The main theme proposed for the SIGraDi 2020 International Conference is Transformative design, stressing on the paramount role of design, architecture and project disciplines for the sustaining of life, by means of a strong synergy with conventional and disruptive technologies, in order to find a convergence between natural and artificial systems.
Project disciplines are pushed and amplified through the different technologies which trigger and encourage transformations in material, social and cultural matters to improve living standards. Analyze, investigate, discuss and problematize about the transformations in life that design implies, allows us to expand the boundaries of knowledge in professional, academic and research issues around an integrative, multidisciplinary and systematic visión forward-looking welfare for every living being in the ecosystem.
In this framework, many questions arise such as: ¿What are the role that technology will play in different material, social and cultural transformations? ¿Is it possible to present systemic, contextualized and sustainable design solutions by the means of using analog, digital or mixed technologies? ¿How to present ethical design solutions through the relationship between design, technology, and biology? ¿ Which are the emerging academic paradigms in project disciplines with a sustainability approach? ¿ Is it possible to start a transition between design for human being and design for the ecosystem? ¿What is the mediation between technology and society in relation to the displacement of communities and the post-conflict situation?
These are some of the questions that you can present to start a discussion around the topic of the transforming design in the SIGraDI 2020. Interrogations that become increasingly important as the design and architecture are placed as facilitators to preserve life, allowing human beings to transform and adapt to different crises such as: respect for the human rights, caring about biodiversity, climatic change, pollution and even the search for peace.
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(Call) 25th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia
RE: Anthropocene, Design in The Age of Humans |
What if we are already in the Anthropocene epoch where the function of the Earth system is being impacted by human activities? What if our actions indeed are significant enough to have a critical force on the Earth as a system? The term Anthropocene (The Age of Humans) has gained increasing recognition as a description of a critical geological stage of our planet when we face the consequences of human activities on the earth’s ecosystem on a global scale. |
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(Call) International symposium on the future of cities organized by the Advanced Architecture Group of IAAC
Responsive Cities Symposium_Disrupting through Circular Design |
It is clear that what comes next for our buildings and cities is a future full of challenges. With more than half of the world’s population currently living in cities, and 70% expected to by 2050, urban areas face huge pressure to meet their residents’ needs. Increased urbanisation is pushing for cities to respond through more accessible housing, energy, food and water, as well as more efficient transportation systems. This is resulting in an undeniable rise of resource consumption, and ultimately resulting in growing amounts of greenhouse gas emissions and waste. |
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(Call) Call for Papers International Journal of Architectural Computing
Impact and Collective Empathy |
"Technology Is the answer, but what was the question?" Cedric Price |
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(Outreach) Open call for proposals to organize the 2020 eCAADe Regional International Symposium |
In addition to the annual conference, eCAADe also holds a Regional International Symposium, which is hosted by a different University each year. The conference is midyear, between December and May, and the contributions are published as a Workshop Proceedings booklet and on CD-ROM. Contributions to workshops will be catalogued by the CUMINCAD project (Cumulative Index on CAD). |
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(Call) International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Architectural Design |
The International Conference on Emerging Technologies in Architectural Design (ICETAD2019) which will be held at Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Sciences in Toronto, Canada from 17th to 18th of October 2019. Papers are now being accepted and the final submission date is 1st August 2019. |
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(Call) FABRICATE 2020 |
From computational design, to material performance and manipulation, to robotic fabrication, FABRICATE promotes the full spectrum of research and creative practice currently occurring within Architecture & Engineering. |
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(Call) "Intelligent and Informed": special issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing |
Papers are invited for a Special Issue coordinated by a team from the CAADRIA organisation
The theme of the issue is ‘Intelligent and Informed’. Papers are invited that address ideas of intelligent application of computation and on the integration of human interaction with computer- mediated processes.
Submission details are at: www.architecturalcomputing.org |
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(Competition) Ubiquity and Autonomy: ACADIA 2019 Austin |
ACADIA 2019 will be hosted by The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX. The event will consist of workshops October 21-23, followed by the main conference October 24-26, 2019. |
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(Outreach) Detailed programme, eCAADe 2018 |
SESSION 1.1.1: FABRICATION: ROBOTICS
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Thermal Compositions Through Robot Based Thermal Mass Distribution
Isak Worre Foged, Mads Brath Jensen |
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Computing craft: Early stage development of a robotically-supported 3D printing system for cob structures
Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Mohamed Gomaa, Aikaterini Chatzivasileiadi, Wassim Jabi, Nicholas Mario Wardhana |
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(Outreach) CAADRIA Workshop 2018 |
The ongoing adoption of increasingly complex forms of synthetic intelligence in all facets of contemporary life requires a rethinking of human-AI collaboration within the design process. This workshop will utilize a series of software platforms to explore the generative and transformative potentials of programming models including convolutional neural networks and model based intelligent agents on the architectural design process. Specifically, we will explore how these techniques can be linked with contemporary methods for scanning the physical realm into the digital and it’s redeploymen |
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(Call) ACADIA 2018 conference
RECALIBRATION: on imprecision and infidelity |
Through the theme of recalibration, this year’s ACADIA conference presents a challenge to shift our direct gaze from the machine in order observe it and its context from alternative viewpoints. This act of rhetorical refocusing is also accompanied by a physical relocation, this year’s conference being held for the first time outside of the US and Canada. The 2018 conference will take place in a location that is at once a dense contemporary megalopolis and a site of extraordinary difference and contrast. |
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(Call) Call for abstracts / workshops for Design & Decision Support Systems in Architecture and Urban Planning |
The DDSS conference aims to bring together senior scientists and young (PhD) researchers from all over the world in an intimate setting. In the conference there is ample room for discussions during the presentations and outside the official program. Cross-fertilization between the ages and between disciplines is deemed neccesary to advance DDSS research. |
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(Call) Eighth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'18 or DCC18 |
Design is a fundamentally important topic in disciplines ranging from the more commonly associated fields of engineering, information technology and architecture, to emerging areas in the social sciences and life sciences. |
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(Call) The 23rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia |
The 23rd International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in AsiaRapidly evolving technologies are increasingly shaping our societies as well as our understanding of the discipline of architecture. Computational developments in fields such as machine learning and data mining enable the creation of learning networks that involve architects alongside algorithms in developing new understanding. |
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(Media/Scan) Thomas Heatherwick and others win ACADIA's 2017 Awards of Excellence |
The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture has announced the recipients of the 2017 Awards for Excellence. |
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(Outreach) the 13th European Architectural Envisioning Conference – EAEA13
Envisioning Architecture: Space | Time | Meaning |
Over 45 papers are now expected to be presented at the Conference, plus Keynote presentations from Marcos Novak, Daniel Pletinckx and Lorraine Farrelly. A Civic Reception in the magnificent City Chambers will take place on the evening of the 6th followed by an event- Flythrough: Visions of Time and Space - in the nearby award-winning new building of City of Glasgow College.
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(Call) eCAADe2017 - Call for Workshop Proposal |
The eCAADe 2017 Organizing Committee would like to invite researchers, professionals, designers and industry practitioners to propose and organize interesting workshops to build up an intense participation and an insight discussion with small groups of eCAADe participants. Workshop chairs have an opportunity to share their original research and practical development experiences on specific new challenges and emerging issues of architectural and design computing. |
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(Call) Augmented Materials – A Hybrid Design Medium in Architectural Design |
Imagine that materials have an ability to sense each manipulation, and send relative data to a processor to encode transformation algorithms and to execute digital 3D-models altering in real-time… |
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(Call) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2-4 November 2017
ACADIA 2017: Disciplines & Disruption |
What is the state of computation in architecture today, and where are the predominant transformations beginning to take shape for designers and the built environment? |
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(Call) Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU)
CAADRIA2017 |
Data structures and network protocols now integrate operations of entire industries, and digital workflows encompass virtually all stages of architectural production. Buildings and the processes they undergo are represented by digital building information models, which are shared across disciplines to generate options and support decisions before they are committed to built form. Yet, there are limits to the reach of digital modeling and predictability. The tools and frameworks within which building information models are created and used, are themselves subject to constraints and forces similar to those that impede architectural production and maintenance, including technical glitches, noise, error, versioning and compatibility issues, limits to quantifiability, questions of cost effectiveness, incomplete “information”, and challenges of interpretation and negotiation. The question arises whether more powerful tools resolve challenges, or whether, in doing so, they encourage us to venture deeper into territories where yet more challenges are encountered? However, our field of computer-aided architectural design engages also that which cannot, or cannot yet, be readily described or modelled. We thus negotiate the reach of formal representation, deepening appreciations of human agency and creativity and laying foundations for industry-transforming technologies. |
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(Call) IJAC 2017: Special ACADIA Edited Issue
Effect and Affect: Designing and making with data-integrated techniques |
We are pleased to announce the call for the 2017 Special ACADIA Edited Issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) journal. |
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(Call) CAAD FUTURES 2017: Future Trajectories of Computation in Design |
The 17th Conference of CAADFutures (Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures) will be held in Istanbul in 2017 with the theme Future Trajectories of Computations in Design.
The conception of design today becomes more open, communicative and relational. Designers facing this new paradigm are ever active as they focus on the increasing complexity of planning processes, on innovation of new techniques and materials, and on producing multiple levels of abstraction and decomposition rather than on the basic application of a framed profession that is learned. For the designer in the multidisciplinary world of the 21st century, computation provides a powerful medium for the extension of understanding other disciplines.
In accordance with this global change in the field of design, the 17th CAADFutures seeks to establish a foundation for multidisciplinary thinking. The theme calls for relevant ideas from the domains of mathematics, computer science, biology, philosophy, etc. and introduces varying reflections and speculations on the future trajectories of computation in design as well as on the education of designers. In the continued progression of new ways of thinking, establishing such a discourse for the future of computation in design aims not only gathering latest research, design practice and pedagogical results but also to reveal the possible phenomena, factors and forces that will influence these trajectories in design with an exploratory perspective.
Research papers and exhibition submissions are invited across a range of topics that generally include CAAD curriculum, Design theories in digital age, Urban design, Design cognition, Shape and Form studies, Algorithmic and parametric design, Data analytics, Performance-based design, Modeling and Simulation, Building information modeling, Digital design tools and devices, Human-Computer interaction, Collaborative Design, Fabrication technologies, Augmented and virtual reality, Digital design education. Researchers from the fields of architecture, design, urban design, computer science, engineering, and other disciplines who follow these issues are invited, with special encouragement to doctoral students, to submit research papers and critical essays, and to attend the conference in order to widen our discussion about the future trajectories of computation in design. |
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(Call) International Journal for Digital Art History: DAH-Journal, issue 3
Disruptions and Genealogies of the Digital in Architecture |
In the realm of Digital Art History, architecture represents a broad field in which the use of various computational methods provide extraordinary tools not only for architects but also for art historians and information scientists. Art historians use computers to reconstruct historical architecture through 3D renderings and to document listed buildings and structures using video drones to gather visual data for research and conservation. |
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(Call) CfP: ACADIA 2016 - Posthuman Frontiers: Data, Designers and Cognitive Machines |
POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: DATA, DESIGNERS AND COGNITIVE MACHINES will foster design work and research from the worlds of practice and academia that lie at the intersection between procedural design, designed environments and autonomous machines. More specifically, this conference will seek to explore recent work within the current trend in computational design to develop and apply quasi-cognitive machines; the integration of software, information, fabrication and sensing to generate mechanisms for interfacing with the physical realm. The conference invites the submission of papers and projects that explore and interrogate these questions through interdisciplinary endeavors involving fields such as material science, biology, art, computer graphics, civil engineering, and human-computer interaction.
Proceduralized practices and externalized knowledge are beginning to take on identity, instrumentality, and momentum of their own. Design now operates through complex entanglements and feedbacks with computational as well as physical matter. The processes and products of design are now intertwined with an emergent tool-stream that not only imbues us and our built environments with novel interfaces, senses and sensibilities, but that also produces spontaneous material and informational hordes as byproducts of its autocatalytic processes. For example, it is no longer just a question of how to work with big data, but the quality of data, the politics of data, and how data-driven processes impact design judgment, decision-making and aesthetics. The panoramic influence of the (human) designer—the sole genius—is abandoned. In response, contemporary design ecologies operate through autonomous and semiautonomous states, in collaboration with nonhuman agents such as tools, machines, materials and sometimes animals. Artifice and information are increasingly imbued with agency, observance and emergence; the objects of design have gained their own autonomies. Points of observation as well as creative capacities can also be occupied by objects, by communities of objects, and thus also by tools, and respective tool streams. Reflective judgment, knowledge, and intent are being less and less understood as the authority of design decisions and new discourses of subjectivity, aesthetics and ontology are now part of the field.
POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: DATA, DESIGNERS AND COGNITIVE MACHINES will focus on computational design at the architectural, urban and material scales that operates and defines itself through these paradigms, procedures and capacities. The conference theme is additionally intended to foster discourse around the term posthuman, which has not yet been adequately defined and theorized in a satisfactory fashion within the architectural community. Keynotes and session discussions during the conference will present a genuine opportunity to explore this theme as a novel discourse for computational design in architecture. |