FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION (DCC'04)


A DCC WORKSHOP ON
COGNITION AND COMPUTATION IN DIGITAL DESIGN
18th July 2004 MIT USA

workshop chairs
Rivka Oxman
Technion Israel
Yu-Tung Liu  National Chiao-Tung University Taiwan

program committee
Thomas Kvan
University of Hong Kong HK
Branko Kolarevic University of Pennsylvania USA


09:00-09:10       Introduction

Digital Design Thinking

Rivka Oxman

Faculty of Architecture and T.P., Technion, Israel

09:10-09:30       Keynote Presentation 

Design Latency: Evolution and Impurity in Digital Design

Mark Goulthorpe

Department of Architecture, MIT, USA


09:30-10:20       Theme I: Digital Design-Theory, Methodology and Techniques
                       
Introduction and Theme Chair: TBA

Digital enhanced cognitive digital design methodology in non-standard architectures

Kent Neo

University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

 

Design unfolding

Hung-Ming Cheng

Chung Kuo Institute of Technology, Taiwan

 

Towards non-linearity and indeterminacy in design

Branko Kolarevic

University of Pennsylvania, USA

 

Graphic space: particle streaming techniques in generating virtual geometries

Johan Bettum

ArchiGlobe, Oslo, Norway

 

Digital thinking as an author of cross-stylistic architectural discourse

Emmanouil Vermisso

Syracuse University, USA

                        Summary and Discussion


10:20-11:10       Theme II: Representational issues in Digital Design
                       
Introduction and Theme Chair: TBA

Why is formal notation helpful in design cognition research

Omer Akin and Hoda Moustapha

School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

 

Efficiency of sketches

Sebastian Schneider and Udo Lindeman

Department for Product Development, TU Munich, Germany

 

Order and diversity

Jose Pinto Duarte

Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

 

Notes on the educational use of shape grammars

Gabriela Celani

Universidade Estadual de Campinos, Brazil

                        Summary and Discussion


11:10-12:00       Theme III: New Design Paradigms: Models and Tools
                       
Introduction and Theme Chair: TBA

                                Nexus 2004
                       
Hernan Dias Alonso and Florencia Pita
                       
Xefirotarch, Ca, USA

Responsive architecture

Tristan d’Estrée  Sterk (to be presented by Rivka Oxman)

Emerging Technologies, Art Institute, Chicago, USA

 

Digital design fabrication

Larry Sass
            
Department of Architecture, MIT, USA 

 

Mediaor: a cognitive model for integrating physical and digital design

Yu-Pin Ma and Taysheng Jeng

Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

 

Summary and Discussion

 


12:00-12:30       Summary and Workshop Discussion
                       
 Summary Chair: TBA


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