HYBRIDS & HAECCEITIES
Philadelphia, PA \\ The University of Pennsylvania \\ October 26 - November 1, 2020
Hybrids & Haecceities asks how technology enables, reflects, and challenges established disciplinary boundaries and design practices. Haecceities describes the discrete qualities or properties of objects that define them as unique, while Hybrids are entities with characteristics enhanced by the process of combining two or more elements with different properties.
Hybrids & Haecceities aligns with a fundamental shift away from abstract generalized models of design and production towards custom or bespoke design now possible at an unprecedented scale due to Industry 4.0. However, Industry 4.0 also risks unparalleled levels of consumption with profound social, political, economic and environmental impact. Hence, this conference encourages papers exploring modes of research and practice that enable embodied and situated means of engaging with technology, society, culture, and the material world.
Acadia 2020 invites contributions on how Hybrids & Haecceities poses new ideas and approaches to architectural design, practice and theory viewed through the following topics:
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Performative Design: Structural and Material Synthesis
• Responsive Systems and Environments
• Smart Cities and Technology in the Public Realm
• Energy Modeling, Simulation, and Prototyping
• Virtual and Augmented Environments
• Autonomous Systems: Robot Platforms and Multi-Modal Sensing
• Robotic Fabrication & Integrated Design
• Advanced Materials and Production Methods
• New Ecologies and Bio-Tech Design
• Aesthetics, Art and Technology
• Historical, Theoretical, and Critical Analysis of Architectural Design and Production
• Disruptive Modes of Practice
Works may be submitted in one of the following categories:
1. Full Papers (4,000 words)
2. Work-In-Progress Papers (2,000 words)
3. Projects for Exhibition
Accepted works will be included in one of the following:
• Accepted papers will be included in the Conference Proceedings: Full Paper Presentations (full sessions with Q&A), Work-In-Progress Paper Sessions (shorter sessions with Q&A)
• Accepted projects will be included in the Project Exhibition and the Exhibition Catalog
PAPER TEMPLATES
Submission link and template info forthcoming -- please check this page for updates.
IMPORTANT DATES
• SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Full Papers and Work-In Progress for Blind Peer-Review: May 1, 2020
• SUBMISSION DEADLINE for Projects for Blind Peer-Review: May 1, 2020
Contact: 2020@acadia.org
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