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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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(Call) Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures 2019 |
Things are nothing without being defined by someone. All things including creation or social phenomenon have been given meaning through being understood.
In 2019, the theme of the conference is "Hello, Culture" borrowing from "Hello, World" which is used in all programming languages. As if to say hello to a new world, we are looking forward to meeting with a new cultural area. The new and diverse cultural areas will be defined through contemporary architectural, design, engineer and other researches. |
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(Call) Intelligent & Informed: 24th International Conference of Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia |
The territories of computational design are ever-changing and represent a substantial region that remains uncharted; one with expanding and permeable boundaries that continue to be fully breached. This ocean of opportunity implores researchers to embark on ambitious journeys of exploration. Undulating and temporal, computational design needs research that engages explicitly with the innovative, intelligent and informed exploitation of computational design, and with the array of computational technologies that the discipline may engage with. |
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(Call) “Resilient Design” - International Journal of Architectural Computing SIGraDi Special Issue |
The challenges of globalization as well as the impact of migration on an accelerated and changing world, promotes the resilience of neighborhoods, cities, landscapes, buildings, materials, structures, communities, individuals, and organizations. In this scenario, design –in its different forms– is no stranger to this transformation, revealing itself as a laboratory of experimental solutions. Digital technology, parametric design, manufacturing, fabrication, algorithms, AI, simulations, performance, BIM, SIG, among other technologies, provide the infrastructure for new possibilities. |
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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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(Call) 90-minute sessions at the Texas Society of Architects 79th Annual Convention and Design Expo 2018 TxA Emerging Design + Technology. |
The TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference brings experimental research and exploration among academics and practitioners to a broad audience of designers, practicing architects, construction industry executives, building products manufacturers, students, and other researchers. It takes advantage of the collection of over 3,000 representatives of these fields at the Texas Society of Architects Annual Convention and Design Expo to create a forum for sharing new ideas being formulated in schools of architecture and elsewhere. |
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(Outreach), (Call) GSM IV 2018: Connecting People, Spaces and Machines - The Informed Nomadic Monad |
The GSM IV conference covers a variety of specific yet strongly connected topics as Nomadic Swarms, Nomadic Cities, Robotic Buildings, Informed Materials, Monads and Nomads, Scalable Interactions, as will be targeted by the keynote speeches, the call for papers and the hands-on workshops.
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Scalable energy production, whereas the constituting components are considered to be energy producers in themselves
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Vertical [urban] farming, both in new and in existing structures
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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) Call for Videos, ROB|ARCH 2018: Radical Cross-Disciplinarity |
Every two years, as part of the Rob|Arch conference on robotic fabrication in architecture, art, and design, we send out a Call for Videos and publish the best submissions on the Robots in Architecture Vimeo channel. The videos of the past years were accessed more than 1.3 million times, making the Vimeo channel a central hub for anyone investigating new and exciting robotic applications.
As part of this year’s Rob|Arch we are again asking architects, designers, researchers, artists and anyone else working with robots in a creative way to submit their videos as part of the Rob|Arch 2018 Call for Videos. |
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(Call) IJAC: International Journal of Architectural Computing Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in Architecture: Autonomy, agency and indeterminacy |
Adaptivity, agency and autonomy are concepts closely associated not only with the performative aspects of architectural interventions but also with the nature of the techniques and tools that produce them. These terms might imply an enhanced relationship between architecture, its inhabitants and its environment; a complex link between architecture, its production and its tools; or a capacity of architecture to produce new conditions and grounds on which it could be engaged. |
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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. |