SmartGeometry 2011 Copenhagen

The SmartGeometry Group is pleased to announce that the annual SG event will take place in Copenhagen 28th March – 2nd April 2011. The event will be the key event in the year for discussing, learning and networking about the emerging practice of digital parametrics within the AEC community.

The event will come in three parts, a Workshop (28th-31st March), a public Shop Talk (1 April), and a public Symposium andReception (2 April). These events follow the highly successful previous SG events in Barcelona 2010, San Francisco 2009, Munich 2008, New York 2007, Cambridge/London, UK 2006 and multiple preceding events.

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The SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop will take place at CITA http://cita.karch.dk/

This year's Challenge is entitled:
BUILDING THE INVISIBLE
Informing Digital Design with Real World Data

THE PREMISE
Vast streams of data offer a rich resource for designers. By incorporating external information into our design processes the autonomy of the design is challenged. User data, energy calculations, embedded sensing, material and structural simulation, human behaviour and perception, particle flows and force fields allows design to be situated and responsive. From the simulation of megacities to the solid modelling of material systems, design has the potential to be informed by the real. Design sits not separate from is environment but inhabits an ecological system, open, dynamic and interdependent, diverse, partially self-organising, adaptive, and fragile. Across scale and within time we now have the chance to instil architecture with an immanent intelligence creating new relationships between the user, the built and its ecosphere.

THE OPPORTUNITY
Systems theorists suggest that data is only a raw material. It can be differentiated from information, knowledge and wisdom. Understanding is multi-levelled: understanding of relations, understanding of patterns, understanding of principles. As digital designers our challenge is in harnessing the power of computation to assist us in informing our design process. Computers help us collect, manage and analyse the environment and inform us about an abundance of data. Our challenge is to use these inputs in a meaningful way to help us make better informed design decisions.

THE AIM
SG 2011 explores how the incorporation of real world data challenges existing design thinking. The SG 2011 workshop aim is to create physical prototypes of design systems to be exhibited in the SG2011 exhibition.

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The SmartGeometry Group is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the use of computational tools in architecture and engineering. SG brings professionals, academics, and industry together to explore the next generation of digital design. SG Workshops are non-platform specific, believing it is the methodology, not the tool, that matters.

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Permalink Reply by michaeldrobnik on November 29, 2010 at 3:17pm

Oh great, another promising location! Looking forward
Cheers Michael

Permalink Reply by Shane Burger on November 29, 2010 at 4:46pm

In addition to announcing the Location, Date, and Challenge for SG2011, we are also announcing the Call for Workshop Cluster Proposals...

The SG2011 workshop will be organised around Clusters. Clusters are hubs of expertise. They comprise of people, knowledge, tools, materials and machines. The Clusters provide a focus for workshop participants (approx. ten participants per cluster) working together, within a common framework. Clusters provide a forum for exchange of ideas, processes, and techniques and act as a catalyst for design resolution.

This open invitation will be extended to anyone either in SG community or beyond to submit cluster proposals.

http://www.smartgeometry.org/content/workshop-call-clusters

Attachments:

SmartGeometry2011_Call_For_Clusters.pdf, 206 KB

Permalink Reply by robin on December 5, 2010 at 5:41am

fantastic subject ! as a matter of interest, is there still to be the affiliation | sponsorship from bentley systems in SG2011?

Permalink Reply by Shane Burger on December 5, 2010 at 7:53pm

We have been speaking with Bentley about continuing their support for our endeavors into this year, as they have been very generous over the previous years.

Why do you ask?

Permalink Reply by robin on December 6, 2010 at 10:59am

thanks for the response Shane ... i ask for a couple reasons; post sg2010 there seemed to be some scepticism over Bentley's involvement in 2011, the recent press on the forthcoming workshop / conference made no mention of Bentley, and also the fact that the event has been advertised on the grasshopper forum ... just got me thinking ... needless to say i will be there for the duration of sg2011 !

Permalink Reply by Shane Burger on December 6, 2010 at 11:02am

The only reason why Bentley's name wasn't mentioned is that we haven't officially signed an agreement with them. That is being resolved now. We look forward to partnering with them and others for SG2011!

Permalink Reply by robin on December 6, 2010 at 11:12am

bring on Copenhagen !

Permalink Reply by Shane Burger on December 11, 2010 at 2:10pm

2 days left to propose Workshop Clusters!

Post any questions here, or email 2011@smartgeometry.org.

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