Call for Papers | Peer-reviewed Paper Sessions

Deadlines
Abstracts due April 06, 2010 (optional but encouraged)
Deadline for full papers May 11
Notification of Accepted Papers July 5th NEW DATE
Revised Accepted Papers due July 22

Looking at design activity and research in terms of their capability to stream, screen and embed information, the conference co-chairs seek paper proposals that reveal how today’s digital designs are foremost responsive and evolving according to the conditions associated with information processing, connectivity and media. Accepted papers will be included in the peer-reviewed paper sessions and proceedings of the conference. Architects, engineers, media artists, scientists, researchers and graduate/post graduate students in related fields of inquiry are all invited to submit works that explore, but are not limited to, the following topics:

  • Interface between analog and digital systems
  • Evolutionary systems, adaptations and optimizations
  • Geometric and mathematical modeling of complexity
  • Open Source platforms and interfaces
  • Information and network theories applied to design systems
  • Data processing and digital fabrication technologies
  • Responsive environments and dynamic feedback
  • Behavioral simulation in performance-based modeling
  • Approaches to multi-dimensional scales in architecture and the environment
  • Parallel processing in network-enabled collaborative research and design
  • Representation and visualization of data sets
  • Interdisciplinary streaming, screening and re-sampling of information
  • Urban computing and locative media

Evaluation Process

Papers will be evaluated according to the value of their contribution, originality, procedural soundness, and legibility. They should contextualize the work relative to previous efforts; explain the research approach and the significance of the findings. Papers will be reviewed by an international panel of experts in a blind peer-reviewed process and will be chosen according to both merit and fit to the conference theme.

Submission Guidelines

Abstract: Should be maximum 500 words and include a description on the way information is being streamed, processed, analyzed and used in the research. Your abstract may not include any identifying marks or authors name. Use standard letter size or A4 format saved as PDF.

Full Papers: Use standard letter size or A4 format saved as PDF. Text should be maximum 2500 words. Images with captions can be included. A flow diagram describing the way information is used and processed in the research is encouraged but not mandatory. If the paper is accepted, the author will be asked to make revisions based on the blind review comments and to reformat according to a more specific set of formatting guidelines for publishing. Your paper and filename may not include any identifying marks or authors name.

Go to the 'Submission' tab on this website and create an account as author and follow the submission guidelines.

Welcome

The ACADIA 2010 conference will focus on the changing nature of information and its impact on architectural education, research and practice. With the ever-increasing integration of information technologies in the design laboratory, the discipline of architecture has changed profoundly in recent years. The emerging fields of digital fabrication, generative and evolutionary modeling among others, are now at the core of investigations in a growing community of digital design practitioners and researchers.

ACADIA 2010 will explore the ways designers, architects, engineers and scientists collect, analyze and assemble information through computational systems that redefine the notions of design performance and optimization, evolutionary and responsive models. These notions are today inherently related to the possibilities and limitations offered by our increasing computational capabilities, and the way information shapes relations between the human, the environment, and the machine.

ACADIA 2010 will gather leading practitioners, theorists, and researchers who will examine the relation that architecture has with technology and information, and how the latter propels today’s most innovative design experimentations and research. The conference will be centered on a series of peer-reviewed paper sessions and a groundbreaking exhibition including peer-reviewed projects.

ACADIA 2010: October 21st to 24th 2010, The Cooper Union, NY

Conference Chairs: 
Aaron Sprecher, Shai Yeshayahu and Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa