Online + Global | Conference Dates: November 3-6
REALIGNMENTS: Toward Critical Computation
At the convergence of social, political, and environmental crises and a global pandemic, ACADIA2021 reflects on realigning our practices to allow for alternative and constructive ways of knowledge and world making to address these issues.
Realignments: Toward Critical Computation requires resonance across technical tools and conceptual approaches. The conference invites submissions of recent research, practice, and theory that align with but are not limited to integrations of the following approaches and methods.
Approaches
- Critical Computation, Participatory, and Emancipatory Design
- Computational Publics
- Intersectionality in Computational Design
- Interdisciplinarity, and Experiments in Collaboration
- Data, Bias, and Ethics
- Politics of Access
- Environmental Crisis
- Architectures of Care
- Design Emergency
- Cities, Health, and Policies
Methods and Tools
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Statistical Approaches
- Robotic Construction, and Operations
- Distributed Fabrication, and Inter/Intra Operability
- Adaptation, Responsiveness, and Interactivity
- New Materials, and Construction Practices
- Spatial Computing, Sensing, and VR/AR/MR
- Environmental, and Regenerative Design
- Low vs. High Tech, and Analog vs. Digital
- Emerging Pedagogies
SUBMISSION TYPES & DEADLINES
1. Technical Papers
Full papers (4,000 words) and Work-In-Progress Papers (2,000 words) are invited for submission. All paper submissions are subject to blind peer-review. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and authors will be invited to produce a short video presentation for the conference. Published papers will be included in the CumInCad database. All ACADIA papers are searchable through Web of Science Platform and Scopus.
- Full and Work-in-Progress Papers Submission Deadline: July 18, 2021
- Notification of Acceptance: By September 14, 2021
- Revised Papers Due: October 8, 2021
- Presentation Videos Due: October 15, 2021
2. Projects
Project submissions will be blind peer reviewed. Projects will be published in a special Projects publication and featured on the ACADIA website. Select submissions may be invited to contribute a video presentation and/or participate in a discussion panel during the virtual conference.
- Submission Requirements: 600 word text (excluding citations and captions) plus a maximum of 10 Images
- Submission Deadline: July 18, 2021
- Notification of Acceptance: By September 20, 2021
- Revised/formatted Materials Due: October 8, 2021
3. Field Notes
Field Notes are an invitation for shorter pieces that may include provocative artifacts regarding the culture and practice of computational design: experimental ideas, behind-the-scenes, observations, brief narratives, provocations, and manifestoes. Submissions will be jury selected and published in the Projects Catalog and as a special feature on the ACADIA website. Select submissions may be invited to participate in a discussion panel during the virtual conference.
- Submission Requirements: 800-1000 word texts max; images are permitted and image-based essays are also welcome.
- Field Notes Submission Deadline: July 18, 2021
- Notification of Acceptance: By September 20, 2021
- Revised/formatted Materials Due: October 8, 2021
SUBMISSION TEMPLATES
Required submission template and style guide here: Technical Paper and Project and FieldNotes.
PUBLICATION ETHICS GUIDELINES
By submitting your work to the ACADIA 2021 conference, you agree to the ACADIA Publication Ethics Guidelines.