Architecture Design Conference Brings Leading Digital Researchers to UC's DAAP

This fall, some of the leading digital design researchers working in architecture will gather in Cincinnati to investigate how their discipline can improve humanity’s changing relationship with the Earth.

ACADIA 2015 COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGIES: Design in the Anthropocene

will take place Oct. 19-25 at the University of Cincinnati DAAP School of Architecture and Interior Design and the 21c Museum Hotel. The conference is the annual gathering of The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and in addition to several days of presenters, it will feature workshops Oct. 19-21 and an architectural hackathon Oct. 25.

In 2000, Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist

Paul Crutzen

proposed that the world had entered a new geological age. He termed it the Anthropocene, a period in which human activity had grown and was now a new geophysical force on Earth. With the emergence of the Anthropocene comes a fundamental shift in human consciousness as our social, psychic and philosophical space becomes infiltrated by nonhuman, digital entities. The result of this shift is a new period of environmental anxiety and existential uncertainty.

ACADIA 2015 will bring keynote speakers including

Nader Tehrani

,

Philippe Rahm

,

Stefan Behnisch

,

Francois Roche

,

Cristina Diaz Moreno, and Efrén Garcia Grinda

together to question whether architecture should embark on establishing new affiliations beyond the human. Does the discipline need to be fundamentally redefined to address its significance beyond humanity? If the Anthropocene is instigating an existential threat to humanity, ACADIA 2015 will examine how architecture can create new material, formal and spacial aesthetics that take into account human and nonhuman uses.

Reduced-price,

early registration

for ACADIA 2015 is open until Sept. 13.

DETAILS

ACADIA 2015

COMPUTATIONAL ECOLOGIES: Design in the Anthropocene

Workshops: Oct. 19-21 at The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

Conference: Oct. 22-24, 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m., at the 21c Museum Hotel, 609 Walnut St., Cincinnati

CONTACT INFORMATION

William Williams

Stephen Slaughter

Ming Tang

Mara Marcu

http://2015.acadia.org/index.html

(513) 556-6426

ABOUT ACADIA

The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture

is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. The group facilitates critical investigations into the role of computation in architecture, planning and building science, encouraging innovation in design creativity, sustainability and education.

ABOUT DAAP

The University of Cincinnati College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning

(DAAP) is a comprehensive research and design institution offering undergraduate majors in Architecture, Art History, Fashion Design, Fine Arts, Graphic Communication Design, Horticulture, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Urban Planning, and Urban Studies. DAAP also offers the following graduate degrees in Architecture, Art Education, Community Planning, Design, Fine Arts, and Regional Development Planning.

DAAP’s primary mission is the creation of a better visual and design environment, which is achieved through excellence in educational programs, research, creative works, and service to the community, the faculty, the students, and administrative officers. DAAP’s programs within the University of Cincinnati's College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning are, year-after-year, ranked among the very best in both a world and national class. Visit DAAP at

daap.uc.edu

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