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Publication of ACADIA 2024 'Designing Change' Proceedings
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Published: July 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
ACADIA is pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings from 2024 conference Designing Change. The proceedings, a three-volume compilation, document ACADIA’s 44th conference co-edited by conference chairs Jason S. Johnson, Alicia Nahmad Vazquez, Kristen Forward, Guy Gardner, Daniel Hapton, Matthew Parker, Jinmo Rhee, Joshua Taron. The volumes contain the technical papers presented at the conference; the peer-reviewed projects; presentations from the new Ideation Lab; keynote conversations; essays by the 2024 ACADIA Award recipients; documentation of the workshops.
Proceedings Book 1 of the proceedings organize 60 technical papers that were accepted through a rigorous peer-review process in four sections organizing the thematic prompts: Material Design Thinking, Digital Naturalism, Material Hyperlocalism, Applied Research – New Craft Models, Integrated Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities. Each section takes these thematic prompts and organizes them into sections of Small, Medium, Large, and X-Large. The papers present a broad array of research, including innovative work in robotic fabrication, materials science, machine learning, and augmented/virtual reality.
Proceedings Book 2 documents all of the keynote conversations, awards, workshops, and the new Ideation Lab submissions. Especially noteworthy are the Ideation Lab submission presented at the conference—a new format introduced this year to encourage teams to connect to others in the community for future partnerships and opportunities. This document also includes special lectures held by the New Modes of Practice Keynote Panel (Michail Desyllas, Helen Goodland, Oliver Krieg & Gilles Retsin) in addition to the Panel Discussion & Book Launch ‘Graph Vision’ (Vardouli, Dana Cupkova & Shelby Doyle).
A third volume, Projects Books, containing 27 peer-reviewed project submissions and 6 invited projects.
Thank you all to those who were able to join us in person, and for those who missed out please enjoy these published proceedings. Thank you to the ACADIA President Shelby Doyle, Vice-President Jenny Sabin, and the ACADIA Board of Directors.