Intelligent & Informed
Victoria University of Wellington’s Faculty of Architecture and Design is hosting Intelligent & Informed: the 24th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) from 12 April—18 April 2019.
CAADRIA is an international conference run by the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia. The Association promotes teaching and research in Computer-Aided Architectural Design throughout Asia and has members on six continents. The first CAADRIA was held in Hong Kong in 1996 and has since been held in different countries across the Asia-Pacific region. This is the first time the conference has been held in New Zealand.
The theme of the 2019 conference is ‘Intelligent and Informed’, focussing on research that combines both human and machine elements. Conference topics cover everything from machine learning to digital conservation to human-computer interaction.
The keynote speakers for the conference are Professor Philip Beesley from the University of Waterloo and the European Design School, Professor Chris Speed from the University of Edinburgh, and Professor Justyna Karakiewicz from the University of Melbourne.
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 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.
“We are absolutely thrilled to host the conference for the first time in New Zealand. We received an overwhelming resonance and will have record-breaking 170 presentations responding in particular to our theme in computational architecture: Intelligent & Informed,” says Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design and conference host.
As well as workshops and talks, the conference also includes the I & I – Digital Art Exhibition by academics from the Faculty of Architecture and Design. The exhibit discusses and extends the conference theme by examining how contemporary tools can be used to advance or alter the notion of 'making'. The 10 artists and designers involved in the exhibit will demonstrate new approaches to navigating the disciplines of photography, ceramics, industrial design, media arts through new eyes. You can preview some of the works on the Exhibition page.
The conference is sponsored by Forum 8 and Fuzor.
Find out more about CAADRIA 2019 or register for the conference at https://caadria2019.nz/.