SmartGeometry 2011 Copenhagen: Workshop Applications now open!

The SmartGeometry Group is pleased to announce that the Workshop Application process is now open:

http://www.smartgeometry.org/content/sg-2011-workshop-applications-...

Workshops are built around the challenge "Building the Invisible: Informing Digital Design with Real World Data". Information about each Workshop Cluster can be found here:

Cyber Gardens
Use the Force
Urban Feeds
Suspended Dreams
Interacting with the City
Agent Construction
Authored Sensing
Performing Skins
Responsive Acoustic Surfacing
Hybrid Space Structure Typologies

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

Applications to attend the SmartGeometry 2011 Workshop in Copenhagen will close on 31st January 2011. General Conference registration will open within 1 month.

We hope to see you there!

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Workshop 28th-31st March

Shop Talk 1 April

Symposium 2 April

Reception 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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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.

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.