eCAADe2020 TU Berlin
Anthropologic
architecture and fabrication in the cognitive age
Conference Theme
Anthropologic - Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age
... From smart to behavioral
... From digital to material
Context:
In recent years the paradigm shift from analog to digital architecture has materialized through increasing availability of digital tools including scripting software and digital architecture fabrication – tooling. The second digital turn implies ubiquitous computing, augmented reality and material intelligence, but to mention a few. Novel design strategies overwhelm our discipline of architecture, encouraging a re-thinking of architecture, the architect’s role and responsibility and a general understanding of what the architectural craft is. The urban environment may serve as testing ground.
Objectives:
It aims at discussing research results of the first years after the second digital turn.
We propose a conference theme that critically questions the idea of the digital as purely technical interface and encourages the extension of the digital towards, or rather back, to the material world. Hence we would like to include the topic of digital-theory as part of education and research in computer aided architecture and design. The conference theme focuses on technical solutions fostering feedback into architectonic culture, an evolution of the human-machine interface, ubiquitous computing and machine learning. Submissions from related disciplines – biology, machine learning, computer sciences, big data, information – are welcome.
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Tracks | not limited to:
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Design and Computation of urban and local systems – XS to XL
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Digital Perception of Space - Cyber–physical Systems (VR, AR) – design strategies
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Health and Materials in Architecture
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Education of the Architect as systemic planner – cybernetics, feedback, theory
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Making through Code - built by data
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Robotic Tectonics
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The unconscious City
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Culture / Shift through ubiquitous computing / scripting and lingua franca
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BioData for architectural design
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BioTectonics | bio-hacking architecture
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Cognizant Architecture - what if buildings could think
Workshops | Exhibition
Workshop themes hover around the general theme of the conference. We are looking for a variety of workshops researching and testing the convergence between material and cognition, between the craft of code, form and performance. Invited are interdisciplinary teams and workshop leaders who understand the subject of digital craft and fabrication as accelerator for a cultural and architectural shift. We particularly welcome workshop proposals from the architectural open source community. In specificity to the conference subject we do encourage workshops that do not limit their research to a specific laboratory situation in one university, but understand an urban environment, e.g. Berlin as their testing ground. The issue of data may want to be regarded as relevant material for producing architecture.
Workshop Venue
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Technical University Berlin
The exhibition, taking place in the Architecture Building of TU Berlin will feature workshop outcomes plastic and experimental computational archifacts - a call for exhibition contribution will be launched in spring 2020.
Keynote speakers
To be announced
Important dates
Deadline abstracts
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Acceptance of papers
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Submission of full papers
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Call for Workshops
Call for Exhibition
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Acceptance of
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- workshops and exhibitions
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Submission of camera ready full papers
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eCAADe workshops
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eCAADe conference
01. Februar 2020
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01. April 2020
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01. Juni 2020
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14.-15. September 2020
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16.-18. September 2020
Location
Institute of Architecture
Team
Liss C. Werner
Chair
Assist. Professor | Research Lab Leader
computational architecture & cybernetics
Institute of Architecture
Technical University Berlin
Contact
Liss C. Werner
Technical University Berlin
Fak VI Planen Bauen Umwelt
Institute of Architecture
CyPhyLab | Room A 609
Straße des 17. Juni 152
DE-10623 Berlin
Tel. +49 30 314-26122
E-Mail : liss.c.werner@tu-berlin.de