http://www.twtik.org/keer2012/
2011年6月28日 星期二
Extreme Affordability session: ACSA 100 Call for Papers
Dear colleagues and students,
Amid the deafening buzz about digital fabrication, you must have wondered about its relevance and value to the most pressing problems facing the people at the "Base of the Pyramid," in all parts of the resource-challenged world. If you did, please consider writing for the following session at the 100th ACSA Annual Meeting in 2012.
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: September 14, 2011 (But don't wait!)
Click here for complete submission requements and deadlines.
100_6: DIGITAL GEO-POLITICS
At the Base of the Pyramid: Digital Design and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability
Mahesh Daas, Ball State U.
Over 4,000,000,000 people live on less than 4 dollars a day. That is 68% of the world’s population. The advanced markets in the West consist of 0.75 billion people, or a whopping 2% of the world’s population. In a few more decades, world population is projected to cross 9,000,000,000 and a large portion of the people living at the Base of the Pyramid. While we often hear about only the social justice and moral arguments about the need to address the needs of the people at the “Base of the Pyramid,” C. K. Prahalad, Mohammad Yunus and others have convincingly demonstrated that the markets at the “Base of the Pyramid” are viable and dynamic markets full of social entrepreneurial potential. The need is there as well as the opportunity. Now we turn to the world of architecture.
Digital design, performance simulation and manufacturing technologies have been buzz words of late in the architectural circles, at least in the West. So far, much of the design and research in these areas within has been aimed at mature and resource-rich markets in highly developed countries that are at the top 2% of the world’s economy. Despite significant advances in manufacturing, business modeling, “reverse innovation” and logistics in general, architectural world remains largely aimed at producing one-off pieces in and for resource-rich markets. Affordability--let alone extreme affordability--remains largely missing from current discourses in architecture. Further, even within USA, there exists a need for extreme affordability in what is now being defined as the “fourth world.” As Vijay Govindarajan pointed out, “reverse innovation” (innovation in developing world for developing and developed world) has been gaining momen
tum, particularly in China and India. While there exist plenty of examples in the industrial and consumer product design domains, we are hard-pressed to find even a handful of examples of innovation for extreme affordability in architecture. Despite all the talk about mass customization, architectural designers seem to place more importance on the “customization” part while ignoring the “mass” part. Moreover, there is a paucity of research on strategies and tactics of how to reach billions of people in the developing world through innovation (not just invention or wild speculation) in all aspects of architecture.
The session invites papers addressing the questions of relevance, means, and methods. What are the technological and design problems of manufacturing buildings or building components or related products for extreme affordability? What are the impediments and opportunities in pursuing innovation for extreme affordability? What are some of the immediate and long term design research questions? How can these questions be integrated into architectural curricula? How can these questions address opportunities for mainstream or alternative professional practices? What are some successful examples that made a difference and hold potential to reach millions if not billions of people at the Base of the Pyramid?
Mahesh Daas
Chair and Irving Distinguished Professor
Department of Architecture
Ball State University
+1 765 285 1904
Steering Committee, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
Advisory Board Member, International Digital Media and Arts Association
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Architectural Computing
Amid the deafening buzz about digital fabrication, you must have wondered about its relevance and value to the most pressing problems facing the people at the "Base of the Pyramid," in all parts of the resource-challenged world. If you did, please consider writing for the following session at the 100th ACSA Annual Meeting in 2012.
Call for Papers
Submission Deadline: September 14, 2011 (But don't wait!)
Click here for complete submission requements and deadlines.
100_6: DIGITAL GEO-POLITICS
At the Base of the Pyramid: Digital Design and Manufacturing for Extreme Affordability
Mahesh Daas, Ball State U.
Over 4,000,000,000 people live on less than 4 dollars a day. That is 68% of the world’s population. The advanced markets in the West consist of 0.75 billion people, or a whopping 2% of the world’s population. In a few more decades, world population is projected to cross 9,000,000,000 and a large portion of the people living at the Base of the Pyramid. While we often hear about only the social justice and moral arguments about the need to address the needs of the people at the “Base of the Pyramid,” C. K. Prahalad, Mohammad Yunus and others have convincingly demonstrated that the markets at the “Base of the Pyramid” are viable and dynamic markets full of social entrepreneurial potential. The need is there as well as the opportunity. Now we turn to the world of architecture.
Digital design, performance simulation and manufacturing technologies have been buzz words of late in the architectural circles, at least in the West. So far, much of the design and research in these areas within has been aimed at mature and resource-rich markets in highly developed countries that are at the top 2% of the world’s economy. Despite significant advances in manufacturing, business modeling, “reverse innovation” and logistics in general, architectural world remains largely aimed at producing one-off pieces in and for resource-rich markets. Affordability--let alone extreme affordability--remains largely missing from current discourses in architecture. Further, even within USA, there exists a need for extreme affordability in what is now being defined as the “fourth world.” As Vijay Govindarajan pointed out, “reverse innovation” (innovation in developing world for developing and developed world) has been gaining momen
tum, particularly in China and India. While there exist plenty of examples in the industrial and consumer product design domains, we are hard-pressed to find even a handful of examples of innovation for extreme affordability in architecture. Despite all the talk about mass customization, architectural designers seem to place more importance on the “customization” part while ignoring the “mass” part. Moreover, there is a paucity of research on strategies and tactics of how to reach billions of people in the developing world through innovation (not just invention or wild speculation) in all aspects of architecture.
The session invites papers addressing the questions of relevance, means, and methods. What are the technological and design problems of manufacturing buildings or building components or related products for extreme affordability? What are the impediments and opportunities in pursuing innovation for extreme affordability? What are some of the immediate and long term design research questions? How can these questions be integrated into architectural curricula? How can these questions address opportunities for mainstream or alternative professional practices? What are some successful examples that made a difference and hold potential to reach millions if not billions of people at the Base of the Pyramid?
Mahesh Daas
Chair and Irving Distinguished Professor
Department of Architecture
Ball State University
+1 765 285 1904
Steering Committee, Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture
Advisory Board Member, International Digital Media and Arts Association
Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Architectural Computing
CAADRIA 2012 Beyond Codes and Pixels: Call for Papers - Abstract Due September 5, 2011
CAADRIA 2012
Beyond Codes and Pixels
The 17th International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA)
Dates: April 25-28, 2012
Host: School of Architecture, Hindustan University, Chennai, India
Submission guidelines and other information:http://caadria2012.org
From “brick and mortar” to “nuts and bolts”, and on to “codes and pixels”, the scope of architectural design technology, research and education is characterised by continuous expansion. On this journey of enrichment, digitally enabled thinkers help to rethink and to recast the building blocks, perceptive lenses, expressive features and analytical frames of architectural design in particular and of how humans perceive and make choices in general. Acknowledging that the possibilities of current digital processes and tools are far from exhausted, this conference seeks new thoughts, fresh approaches and a surge forward: What comes next?
Digital tools for seeing the new and for choosing what is best are deployed no longer just in the design studio and on the construction site. They mediate performances and experiences of the spaces and constraints of not only the creatively expressible and of the physically inhabitable, but increasingly also of the socially desirable. The organizers of this conference set out to investigate the future role of computer-aided architectural design (CAAD) research in this context.
CAADRIA 2012 invites submissions of original research papers, posters and exhibitions on topics in computational architectural design research, including but not limited to the following areas and aspects:
● Design intelligence and automation
● Design cognition and analysis
● Digital fabrication and construction
● Generative, parametric, and evolutionary design
● Digital documentation and design documentation
● Simulation and visualisation
● Animation and virtualisation
● Human-computer interaction
● Collaborative design
● Education in CAAD
● Ubiquitous and mobile design computing
● Practice-based and interdisciplinary CAAD
● Theory, philosophy, and methodology of CAAD
Young researchers currently involved in postgraduate studies are invited to apply for the Young CAADRIA Award and to submit their research-in-progress to the CAADRIA 2012 Postgraduate Student Consortium.
Important Dates
● Abstract submission: September 5, 2011
● Abstract acceptance notification: September 26, 2011
● Full paper submission: December 5, 2011
● Full paper acceptance notification: January 16, 2012
● Poster and exhibition submission: February 1, 2012
● Round Table submission: February 1, 2012
● Postgraduate Student Consortium submission: February 1, 2012
● Young CAADRIA Award submission: February 1, 2012
● Sasada Award nomination deadline: November 30, 2011 (a separate call for nominations will be issued in due course)
CAADRIA 2012 Host Organising Committee
Prof. Lt. Col. (Retd) A. B. Das, Dean, School of Architecture, Hindustan University (chair)
Mrs. Sheeba Chander, School of Architecture, Hindustan University (convener)
Mrs. Devyani Gangopadhyay, School of Architecture, Hindustan University (co-convener)
Ar. R. Balaji, School of Architecture, Hindustan University (executive co-ordinator)
Contact: caadria@hindustanuniv.ac.in
CAADRIA 2012 Paper Selection Committee
Thomas Fischer, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China (chair)
Kaustuv De Biswas, School of Architecture, Hindustan University
Jeremy J. Ham, Deakin University, Australia
Weixin Huang, Tsinghua University, China
Ryusuke Naka, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan
Contact: psc@caadria-review.org
2011年6月21日 星期二
7月9日到16日要去美國HCII 2011 ORLANDO CONFERENCE
7月9日到16日要去美國HCII 2011 ORLANDO CONFERENCE
發表PAPER：
Video Interaction Mechanism in Performance Space ─ Performers, Performing Space vs. Audiences
PaoShu Wang, Yinghsiu Huang, Tunghai University, Taiwan.2011年6月20日 星期一
徵求所上一名國科會兼任助理
徵求一名國科會兼任助理
1。必須為工設所學生或是碩一新生。
2。必須要有工業設計背景，要有產品設計經驗者；
3。時間從7月1日開始到101年3月31日。每週meeting一次，每月有4000元獎學金。
4。工作內容主要協助進行國科會計畫，國小能源教具開發，產品設計建模，及相關的研究記錄。
5。意者請洽黃老師。
100學年度大四畢業設計要開跑了
每當參加完大四的謝師晏後，看到不是結束；而是許多人的另一個階段的開始，
也包含新的大四畢業設計的開始。
這個星期三中午12：00，與新一批的大四學生，即將展開另一段新的設計之旅。
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