Design Modelling Symposium 2011 - Complexity and Responsibility

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...The complexity of the interconnected and often competing information required to shape a building - be it explicitly describable or not - still remains a challenge for contemporary computational processes. A future architectural practice needs to cultivate a critical awareness of such limitations in order to develop successful future strategies for design interaction and implementation of computational possibilities.

This critical dialogue aims to expand the findings of computational processes within the field of architecture to develop a broader and less exotic building practice that bears more subtle but powerful traces of the complex tool set and approaches we have developed and studied over recent years.

With this symposium, thus we would like to promote discussion on new strategies for a reasonable and innovative implementation of digital potential in truly innovative and radical design guided by both responsibility towards processes and the consequences they initiate.