Artificial Intelligence for engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM) Special Issue - Design creativity

This special issue of AIEDAM will be devoted to papers concerned with Design Creativity.

Engineering design relies on creative thought to produce new and exciting products, systems, and services. The study of creativity provides many opportunities for interdisciplinary research between engineering, cognitive science, and computer science. This special issue aims to capture a snapshot of some of the best work at this intersection of areas.

For this issue, while papers with normal AI content are desired, we will broaden the scope to include papers that explicitly discuss creative thinking, types of reasoning, and explicit use

Journal of Peer Production

"Two years ago, a special issue of the Journal of Peer Production on shared machine shops described them as the “occupied factories of peer production theory”. The authors of that issue compiled a theoretically-grounded and empirically informed analysis of member-owned spaces like hacklabs, hackerspaces and makerspaces — spaces that first appeared

SIGraDI Congress - "Resilience Design"

22-24 November 2017, Concepción, Chile

The theme chosen "Resilience Design " reveals the researchers' concern about the issues related to our reality of climate change and natural disasters, associated with the states of vulnerability and risk, with their wide effects on society and how to inhabit the territory. These issues are fundamental and of great importance in the discipline and in the field of design and architecture, as they are also relevant for collaborative work, with emerging areas of the arts and human sciences.

Thinking about Resilience Design is to place ourselves on new scenarios of reflection and action, where supported by transdisciplinary thinking and collaborative design, allow us a

sIREN Conference 2017: Arts and Digital Practices

30 – 31 May 2017, ECA – Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

sIREN ‘Art and Digital Practices Conference’ will explore digital practices and their social impact in contemporary artistic contexts. It seeks to create an interdisciplinary platform of communication among artistic practices, technologies, theory, artistic collaboration and digital media.

The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole, from practice-led to process-focused and people-centered research. To this end, an interactive format of hands-on workshops, papers and a performance session will lay the foundations for a creative dialogue among artists, theorists, academics and practitioners. The aim is to debate on key practical and philosophical challenges that contribute to the broader discussion of what it means to use digital tools as a form of artistic inquiry.

This conference will provide an arena for academics across disciplines for extending the debate of interdisciplinary practices and their appropriate methods  as well as their potential. We welcome and encourage proposals for papers across a wide range of related subject areas – such as fine and digital media art, architectural design, music and sound studies, geography, anthropology, cultural and film studies.

Themes to explore include:

• The intersection of art and science
• Testing the boundaries between scientific method and artistic experimentation. We intend to discuss the role of the artist in blurring this discursive separation, and examine emergent forms of such interdisciplinary practice.
• Digital arts and urbanism
• Approaching “digital urbanism” through exploring the themes of multiculturalism, sustainability and community, contemporary mobilities,  digital art and design processes. We want to investigate how digital arts form part of the political dynamics of urban space and contribute in digital place-making.
• Data analysis in art practice
• Surveying artistic methods that rely upon the production or mapping of data-sets. We are interested in systems, tools and approaches for identifying patterns in creative processes and shaping this data into material form.
• Computation and creative processes
• Investigating the role of computer technology in forming and mediating creative practice. In particular, we aim to address some of the issues, challenges and opportunities, arising from the present ubiquity of computing devices.

The conference will include research papers, position papers, performance presentation,

Education through Architecture and Work on the Self?

Interdisciplinary Workshop at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, 9 – 10 June 2017

Does architecture sensitize people not only aesthetically, but also ethically? And connected with that: Should the architect fulfil the wishes of his client and the expectations of society, or should he not rather educate them, even against their will? The history of architecture and its theories is after all

Foorprint: Delft Architecture Theory Journal

Call for papers: Footprint #22: Exploring Architectural Form: A Configurative Triad

This issue of Footprint aims to explore the discussions that currently gravitate around the question of architectural form, by inviting architects to reflect on the latest developments in the field of formal studies within architectural and urban theory, design, research, and pedagogy. Footprint 22 aims to collect a comprehensive set of state-of-the-art approaches to the question of

Thresholds 46: Scatter!

Thresholds journal, the annual peer-review journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture.

“We wish to look at the history of architectural dissemination, while holding our gaze to a swift, saturated and scattered connectivity. Asking, w­hat modes of circulation were employed in various periods of history to elevate and publicize an architecture? How was architecture distributed by actors and vehicles that are both foreign to its discourse or an essential part of it?  What is the power of non-architectural documents such as cartographies, letters, stamps or money in the distribution of

ZEMCH 2018 International Conference

We would like to welcome you to the ZEMCH 2018 International Conference which will be hosted by the Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne, Australia.

ZEMCH is an acronym of Zero Energy Mass Custom Home aiming to tackle issues arising in the delivery of socially, economically and environmentally sustainable built environments in developed and developing countries, which accommodate people with different socio-economic backgrounds

Ardeth #2: BOTTEGA: Ecology of Design Practice

This special issue of Ardeth invites contributions that will address the ecology of contemporary architectural practice. “Ecology of practice” (Stengers 2010) is a politically sensitive concept used to capture and understand contemporary design practice. We invite contributions that will:

• scrutinize architectural practice as complex ecology involving actors with variable ontology, scale and politics
• reflect theoretically and analytically on the concept of ‘practice’ and trace how practice has been tackled from different perspectives: from the ‘Story of Practice’ of Cuff and Blau’s

Small Settlements in China and Southeast Asia – Call for Case Studies

The WHITRAP (World Heritage Institute of Training and Research for the Asia and the Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO) based in Tongji University, Shanghai, invites experts and scholars in related field to submit case studies and good practices on sustainable development of small settlements in China and in the Southeast Asia Region.

From the Library blog:

With the NAS renovations in full swing near Swanston Library it will be noisy. Until Friday 24 February we advise that you consider studying in other locations. Carlton Library, nearby in Building 94, is a good alternative or better still study in the brand new NAS Library spaces. To access those spaces go to Building 10 Level 4 and take the escalator to Level 5.

Great new Library space ready for you to use.

We are constantly monitoring the noise levels at Swanton Library and will advise if any

European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools 2017 conference

University of Greenwich, London
10-13 September 2017

Theme: creation/recreation

‘Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.’ — Patrick Geddes

Landscapes are in every way embedded in creative processes, from design to their making, from planning to their management, engaging different and often disparate community expectations. Of course the endlessly creative natural processes, from geology, to plants, to ecology and so on provide the prime matter with which the landscape professions are concerned.

Creation almost always provokes a responsive reaction, sometimes as an opposing natural force or process, and often a human response ranging from approval and celebration to extremes of disgust and opposition. Creation can result in transformation as well as revolution – for better or for worse. The processes of transformation and revolution in design are an inherent part of the creative process, and it is often the moments of conflict or tension that can be the most creative. These catalysts may be found in creation and reactions across all practices in landscape, and thus we encourage participants to explore these active and often difficult situations they find in the course of their work.

Topics that may be addressed in the conference include, but are not limited to:

• Design and Invention
• Innovation and Technologies
• Urbanism and Planning
• Creative Destruction/Revolution
• Consultation and Co-creation
• Landscape Democracy
• Planting and Ecological Processes
• Remediation, Reclamation, Amelioration and Restoration
• Collaboration and Community Engagement
• Urban Development and Gentrification
• Natural Disasters, War Relief and Rebuilding
• Materials and Waste

We invite abstracts for oral paper presentations under any of the above themes. We encourage those specifically dealing with areas of conflict or tension in landscape processes. We welcome submissions across the range of research, education, and practice in landscape architecture, planning, management, science, and all associated fields.

Deadline for abstracts: 6 March 2017.

More information at the ECLAS website.