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Description
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.
Human intelligence and creativity deliver the hegemonic direction for the field of computer-mediated architectural design research; an area where the computational component is a core aspect of the investigation. The actors in this are both witness to, and instigators of, the exciting, consequent, well-founded research that continues to deliver new knowledge, insights, and information.
This, then, explains the specific overarching theme of the conference: ‘Intelligent and Informed’.
The scope of this theme is driven by the intention to take in aspects of machine intelligence, and a wide range of potential research that engages with the intelligent exploitation of computer-mediated techniques in Architecture.
Speaker Bios
Professor Beesley is a pioneer in the field of responsive interactive architecture. He is the director of the Living Architecture Systems Group, an international consortium of researchers, creators, and industry developing far-reaching experimental architecture and producing projects ranging from haute couture to complex electronic systems.
Professor Chris Speed explores how design provides methods to adapt and creative products and services within a networked society, with a focus on transgressive design interventions like coffee machines that order their own ethical supplies and hairdryers that ask you to wait for the right time to blow dry your hair.
Professor Justyna Karakiewicz researches urban design and architecture through design in practice, with a focus on sustainability. Her work has won several awards. Professor Karakiewicz’s latest work considers the opportunities in coupled natural urban systems, engaging computer, social, and economic sciences with design.