Category Archives: Architecture

PhD scholarships at Aarhus University Denmark

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Aarhus University has some fascinating PhD scholarships available, please feel free to circulate!

http://talent.au.dk/phd/arts/open-calls/

Virtual Culture (4+4 or 5+3)

Design materials for interaction design (5+3)

Participatory IT (5+3)

Heritage Studies (4+4 or 5+3)

Centre for Cultural Epidemics, Anthropology (4+4 or 5+3)

Interacting Minds Centre (5+3)

Theory and practice of IT-project management (5+3)

The art museum of the 21st century (5+3)

industrial PhDs

http://talent.au.dk/phd/arts/application/industrial-phd-programme/

upcoming CFPs

Academic, Architecture, Conference, design, Digital Humanities, game, virtual heritage
START*DUE*CONFERENCETHEMELOCATION
15-nov-1220-jul-12media architecture biennaleMedia architecture Biennale 2012Aarhus Denmark
08-nov-1231-jul-12Digital engagement in archaeologyDigital Engagement in Archaeology ConferenceLondon UK
14-okt-1213-aug-12Nordic CHIMaking sense through design WORKSHOPSCopenhagen DK
15-maj-1301-sep-12CAADRIACAADRIASingapore
17-apr-1315-sep-12Crafting the futureCrafting the future-designer´s practice knowledgeGothenburg Sweden
28-jan-1315-sep-12LMMGSLearning in museums through mobile games and storiesVercors, French Alps
13-nov-1217-sep-12ambient gamingSecond International Workshop on Ambient Gaming (AmGam’12) AND AESTHETICS (13)Pisa Italy
27-apr-1319-sep-12CHI2013Paris France
14-maj-1310-dec-12FDG 2012Foundations of Digital GamesCrete
02-sep-1308-jan-13interact 2013designing for diversityCapetown South Africa
01-jul-1301-feb-13CAADFUTURES2013Global Design & Local MaterializationShanghai China
11-dec-12?Cultural heritage onlineCULTURAL HERITAGE on line – Trusted Digital Repositories & Trusted ProfessionalsFlorence italy
26-mar-13?CAA2013Across Time and Space:Computer Applications in Archeology (sessions and workshops)Perth Australia
?Digital Humanities 2013University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA (2013)Nebraska USA

cfp: MEDIA ARCHITECTURE

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http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/wp-content/uploads/MAB_2012-Call_for_papers.pdf MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE 2012
November 15-17, 2012
Aarhus, Denmark
Building on the successful event in Vienna 2010, Media Architecture Biennale 2012 brings together artists, practitioners and researchers from academia and industry in the ongoing exploration of the meeting between architecture and digital media. The 2012 Biennale comprises an academic conference track, exhibitions, and industry sessions, as well as a full day of workshops. Our vision is to provide an excellent forum for debate and knowledge exchange; to offer a unique opportunity that brings together the best minds and organizations; and to highlight state-of-the-art and experimental research in media architecture.

Important Dates for Papers
Papers submission deadline: July 20, 2012
Notification of acceptance: Sept 5
Camera-ready submission: Sept 25
Conference: Nov 15-17 2012

Call For Papers – SIGraDi 2012

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The XVI SIGraDi Conference will take place in Fortaleza, Brazil, between November 14th and 16th 2012, focusing the debates on the theme form[in]formation. The challenges and efforts of our times are related to information. They deal with the progressive processes in which data is organized, and how this information can be communicated in various shapes and perceived as knowledge. Contemporary processes of design and production of the object, architecture and the city, require the digital manipulation of information. This manipulation allowed the resurgence of design processes based on emerging shapes, using algorithms and grammar; it is this digital progress that allows for the information management of BIM and other protocols of collaborative tasks; it also allows the idea formation in virtual realities, or even incorporated by the matter itself, through CAD-CAM technologies.

It is this process of formation, this continuos flux of reducing entropy, that comprises our matter. It is acknowledging this flux that we propose the XVI SIGRaDi Conference: the investigation of the processes of form[in]formation.

The sub themes for SIGraDi 2012 are related to the new procedures, media and practices of urban and architectonic design, the diverse manifestations of art, and design. The abstract submission should consider this multiplicity, choosing the topic that best suits the approach or envision of the work, according to the following tracks:

  • Poetics of design
  • Information modeling and Simulation
  • Information design and interface
  • Design Process
  • Collaborative environment as a support for design
  • New production systems
  • Teaching strategies and curriculum

Schedule and abstracts

We invite you to submit abstracts with a maximum of 600 words until April 15th 2012. Abstracts may be written in Spanish, Portuguese or English. You must also indicate your work interest area, approach and category. You can add five (5) keywords and a synthesis image.

Abstracts will be reviewed and evaluated through a blind peer review process by an International Scientific Committee. Criteria for acceptance are relevance, originality, premises, level of development and clarity of presentation.

The notification of acceptance is expected before July 15th 2012, and the full papers can be submitted until September 15th 2012.

All conference information and communication will be available through the conference website http://www.sigradi2012.com.br and through email contato@sigradi2012.com.br

Biofeedback and Virtual Environments journal article out

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It has been published:
Erik Champion and Andrew Dekker, Biofeedback And Virtual Environments, International Journal of Architectural Computing, Multi Science Publishing, ISSN 1478-0771 (Print), Volume 9, Number 4 / December 2011. Full Text PDF (481.5 KB), DOI 10.1260/1478-0771.9.4.377, Pages 377-396. Online Date: Friday, February 03, 2012.

CFP: 30th eCAADe 2012, Prague – 2nd CfP

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30th eCAADe Conference September 12 — 14, 2012
Czech Technical University in Prague Faculty of Architecture Prague, Czech Republic
ecaade2012
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282249788460217
http://www.ecaade.org
DIGITAL PHYSICALITY | PHYSICAL DIGITALITY SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

Digitality is the condition of living in a world where ubiquitous information and communication technology is embedded in the physical world. Although it is possible to point out what is “digital” and what is “real,” the distinction has become pointless, and it has no more explanatory power for our environment, buildings, and behaviour. Material objects are invested with communication means, teams are communicating even when not together, and buildings can sense and respond to the environment, each other, and to inhabitants.

Digital is no longer an add-on, extra, or separate software. Reality is partly digital and partly physical. The implication of this condition is not clear however, and we need to investigate its potential. We have to search for new strategies that acknowledge the synergetic qualities of the physical and the digital. This is not limited to artifacts or what we design, but it also influences the process, methods, and what or how we teach. For the conference therefore, we are looking for contributions that explore this synergy.

Authors are encouraged to submit their work on the conference theme.

Subjects may be, but are not limited to: CAAD curriculum. Modes of production. New design concepts and strategies. Mass customization. Collaborative design. Digital aids to design creativity. User participation in design. Generative design. Virtual architecture. Shape studies. Virtual reality. Precedence and prototypes. Web-based design. Design tool development. Human-Computer Interaction. Simulation, prediction, and evaluation. City modelling. Digital applications in construction.

IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstracts – – – – – – – – – – -4 February 2012
For extended abstracts, use the template on the website: http://ecaade2012.molab.eu/submission.htm
Abstracts must be uploaded via the eCAADe 2012 OpenConf website (start by the end of January).
Acceptance of papers – – – – – – – – – 26 March 2012
Submission of full papers – – – – – – -3 June 2012
Deadline early registration- – – – – – -3 June 2012
eCAADe workshops – – – – – – – – – -10-11 September 2012
eCAADe conference – – – – – – – – -12-14 September 2012
Contact email: ecaade2012@fa.cvut.cz
Conference organizers: Henri Achten and Dana Matejovska Cabinet of Architectural Modelling Faculty of Architecture Czech Technical University in Prague Czech Republic

IJAC – International Journal of Architectural Computing

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IJAC | International Journal of Architectural Computing*
We invite authors to submit original research papers for the issue scheduled for May/June 2012, under the title

Augmented Culture**
Gabriela Celani and Eduardo Nardelli
Guest editors
Deadline January 15th, 2012

Augmented Culture talks about a combination of interdependent social and technological meanings in a complex, multiple, interactive and interconnected context. It acknowledges that a new social and cultural paradigm is being developed as the old barriers of time, space and language are ruptured and transcended. In our knowledge-based civilization, we inhabit interconnected societies where new relational forms are configured. Additionally, cultural expressions have been qualitatively augmented starting from their integration with information and communication technologies, which have dramatically enhanced not only their creative and reflective processes, but also the realization and construction of cultural objects.

In this sense, an Augmented Culture compels us to investigate the wide and complex spectrum of the variables that express the interdisciplinary, collective and participative constructions of our present age, so strongly related to visual culture, information culture and interface culture. Thus, we consider it necessary to concentrate, to expand, to spread and to share exploratory, descriptive or explanatory experiences and productions of such phenomena. The attempt is to define a multidimensional theoretical framework that while recognizing today’s state-of-the-art and tendencies, providing us with a critical viewpoint.

Authors are invited to submit complete and original papers that have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration for another journal. The submissions should be full-length papers (3000 – 5000 words, maximum length 6000 words) complete with illustrations reporting original research or practice.

Papers must be submitted only by the IJAC online system at http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/review/author/submit.php Please type “Augmented Culture” in the “Optional Comments” box in the form.

More information about IJAC can be seen at: http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/jour/about.html
Detailed instructions for authors can be seen at http://www.multi-science.co.uk/gen_authors.htm
A template can be downloaded from: http://www.architecturalcomputing.org/downloads/IJAC_paper_template09.doc

Important dates

Deadline for submitting papers: January 15th, 2012
Notification of acceptance sent to authors: March 15th, 2012 Final papers due: March 31st, 2012
Publication date: May/June 2012

ATHENS: HERITAGE AND MODERNITY

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From January 5th to 15th, 2012

This 11 day visit of Athens focuses on the preservation and conservation issues facing the city. The program involves a series of lectures and visits lead by Athenian architects, historians, conservators and planners who have been grappling with the problem of preserving monuments and culture in the midst of a bustling modern city.

Subjects covered will include:

● History and evolution of the city

● Art and culture of the city over time

● Conservation of the major archaeological monuments

● The modern city and the archaeological areas

● Modern urban development and architecture

You can get further information on this program at http://sangeministudies.org under the Athens link. The deadline for applications is November 15, 2011.

This program is specialized and is intended for students or professionals engaged in History, Archaeology, Architecture Art History, Architecture, Urban Planning, Anthropology, Conservation and Historic Preservation. It is not intended for the general public. People with no background in these fields, or familiarity with Greek culture and history, are unsuitable applicants for this program.

If you know any students, scholars or others interested in this type of visit, please inform them about our program. We would appreciate it if you could list our program on your organization’s website as an available educational resource.

We have a flyer that you may wish to post on your department notice board or forward to interested parties. You can print this from our website at the following link: Athens flyer.

August visit to Scandinavia via Singapore itinerary

Architecture, design, game, virtual heritage

I am landing in the Nordic region to finish a book project on organic design theories in early modern Nordic Architecture (Aalto, Asplund, Lewerentz, Fehn, Utzon and also some less well known architects like Kampmann and Knutsen). The main writing is based on a 90,000 word thesis, (plus a 30,000 word subthesis on pastmodern architecture), but I need to update the references, develop a more critical and philosophical approach, and take a great many photos! Rough itinerary so far is below.

BTW: I’d appreciate knowing of cultural heritage and digital media research centres that are open to visitors.

Wednesday10-Aug-11land in Singapore
Thursday11-Aug-11Fly to Copenhagen, travel to Aarhus
Friday12-Aug-11Aarhus to Aalborg to Skagen
Saturday13-Aug-11Skagen to Frederikshavn to Oslo
Sunday14-Aug-11Oslo to Hamar
Monday15-Aug-11Oslo/Gothenburg
Tuesday16-Aug-11Gothenburg to Lund
Wednesday17-Aug-11Lund
Thursday18-Aug-11Lund
Friday19-Aug-11Lund
Saturday20-Aug-11Lund
Sunday21-Aug-11Lund/Malmo
Monday22-Aug-11Stockholm
Tuesday23-Aug-11Stockholm>Helsinki
Wednesday24-Aug-11Helsinki
Thursday25-Aug-11Helsinki
Friday26-Aug-11Helsinki>Jyvaskyla
Saturday27-Aug-11Jyvaskyla
Sunday28-Aug-11Jyvaskyla
Monday29-Aug-11Jyvaskyla: talk on cultural heritage and gaming.
Tuesday30-Aug-11Rovaniemi>Tampere
Wednesday31-Aug-11Tampere>Copenhagen
Thursday1-Sep-11Copenhagen back to Auckland
Friday2-Sep-11Auckland

New paper on Biofeedback and Architecture to be presented at CAADRIA 2011, 27-29 April

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I just sent the final paper off to the organizers of CAADRIA 2011.
It is rather a rare paper by Andrew Dekker and myself  as it talks about atmosphere, 19th Century German empathy theory, Heidegger (indirectly), Wild Divine biofeedback and Zombies. Actually it is not really about Zombies but about how indirect biofeedback could be used for architectural visualization, social worlds and virtual places in general. I was trying to make the case for indirect biofeedback to augment the environment, and to allow enhanced information or interaction based on mastering/achieving calm, rather than on raising excitement levels. It is a step in my attempt to convey an experience of holy places and cultural sites using (indirect) biofeedback. Biofeedback has been seen as highly subjective, variable, and unreliable as a direct interaction method which is one of the reasons I am so interested it as indirect and augmenting rather than direct and dominant. Anyway, the abstract follows:

INDIRECT BIOFED ARCHITECTURE
Strategies to best utilise biofeedback tools and interaction metaphors within digital architectural environments

This paper explains potential benefits of indirect biofeed-back used within interactive virtual environments, and reflects on an earlier study that allowed for the dynamic modification of a virtual environment’s graphic shaders, music and artificial intelligence (of Non Playing Characters) based on the biofeedback of the player. It then examines both the potential and the issues in applying biofeed-back (already effective for games) to digital architectural environ-ments, and suggests potential uses such as personalization, object creation, atmospheric augmentation, filtering, and tracking.

Call for Work, FABRICATE LONDON 15-16 APRIL 2011

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FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011.

http://www.fabricate2011.org/submissions/
Central to the aim of FABRICATE is to interrogate and disseminate difference, similarity and innovation across design and making practices in industry and academia. Submissions will be independently blind reviewed by two members of an international panel of experts. Selected submissions will be featured in ‘FABRICATE: Making Digital Architecture’ published by Riverside Architectural Press.

CFP: History and heritage in games and virtual worlds: Special Issue of Games and Culture

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Title: History and heritage in games and virtual worlds: Special Issue of Games and Culture (SAGE).

The virtual worlds of modern games provide a unique way for us to interact with our memories, interpretations, beliefs, and traditions. This can be the digital simulation and interpretation cultural heritage in the real world, or the equally real social legacies of online communities. We invite you to tackle the complex issues of making these histories come alive in this special issue of Games and Culture.

Submissions can include (but are not limited to):
• Critiques of games and online worlds that involve historical situations or heritage sites.
• Guidelines and arguments as to the design and experience of games and virtual worlds for history and heritage
• Interviews (both physical-world and in-world) with designers of the above games and virtual worlds.
• Critiques or evaluations of sandbox games and virtual environments regarding history and heritage.
• Reports on accidental or planned historical or cultural events, artifacts and rituals that take place in games and virtual worlds.
• Explorations on how to best utilize the unique interactive, technical and psychological aspects of games and virtual worlds for the purpose of historical or heritage-based learning.

This special issue of Games and Culture has two overarching goals:

• To provide case studies involving the design, use and evaluation of history and heritage-based games and virtual worlds.
• To outline the key theoretical debates pertaining to the issues raised by the design, use and evaluation of these games and virtual worlds.
Authors are encouraged to include a critical perspective, including discussions of the strengths and weaknesses of their own methods.

EDITORS
Erik Champion and Jeffrey Jacobson

SUBMISSION
A one-page abstract describing the scope of your manuscript should be sent to invirtualworlds@gmail.com by September 10, 2010. Please include proposed topic, an overview of chosen methods and tools, and what games or virtual worlds you will explore in your manuscript.

Abstracts accepted for this special issue will be asked to submit manuscripts electronically to Games and Culture at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/games by January 7, 2010. Submissions must be Microsoft Word or Word Perfect file format, conform to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (Sixth Edition) style guidelines, and indicate in the cover letter that you wish to be considered for this special issue. Manuscripts may not exceed 9000 words, one or two images may be included.

KEY DATES
Abstracts Due: Friday 10 September 2010

Abstract Judgments Due to Authors: Friday 8 October 2010
Full Papers Due: Friday 7 January 2011
Decision Letters and Revision Suggestions For Papers By: Monday 21 February 2011
Final Drafts Due: Monday 4 April 2011
Final Decision/Revision Response Due To Authors: Monday 16 May 2011
Final Manuscript Due: Monday 13 June 2011
Copyedited and Typeset Proofs Completed By: August 1 2011

Publication Date: October 2011 16.4 issue

For any inquiries please email Erik or Jeffrey via invirtualworlds@gmail.com

cfp: final call for DMACH 2011

Architecture, Conference, virtual heritage

cfp: DMACH 2011 Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage

Organized by The Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, Jordan Al-Turath Foundation, Saudi Arabia

In collaboration with Queen Rania Institute of Tourism and Heritage, Hashemite University

16-17 March, 2011 Amman -Jordan

Over the past few years, a remarkable increase has occurred in the use of digital techniques for the documentation, management, and communication of cultural heritage. This has drastically transformed the way we capture, store, process, represent and disseminate information. The techniques employed have evolved from standard surveying and CAD tools and/or traditional photogrammetry into laser scanning virtual reality and fully automated video-based techniques. However, it is often argued that digital media tend to create and compile value-free content and thus are inefficient in capturing and communicating cultural and symbolic meanings. Digital media, as any other medium, tend to amplify or reduce the cultural phenomena as a result of their constraints and limitations. Thus the issue of using digital media for cultu

Abstract submission must be in English with a length of max. 500 words. Full paper submission could be in either English or Arabic. You are asked to identify the research track for your paper.

Abstracts should be e-mailed to scientific committee co-chairs (dmach11). Full paper submissions are required to be done online through the conference Website:

http://www.csaar-center.org/conference/DMACH2011/openconf/

Submissions will be peer reviewed.

All papers accepted for publication will be published inthe conference proceedings, which will be available to delegates at the time of registration. In addition, papers will be published in a volume of CSAAR Transactions on the Built Environment (ISSN 1992-7320).

Best Paper Award (3 Awards)

The Best Paper Award is presented to the individual(s) judged by a separate awards committee to have written the best paper appearing in DMACH & CSAAR conference proceedings. The Award shall be 300 USD and a certificate. In case there is more than one author for the paper, the award shall be divided equally among all authors and each shall receive a certificate. Judging shall be on the bases of general quality, originality, subject matter, and timeliness.

cfp: Haunted Houses & Imaginary Cities

Architecture, Conference

“Once Upon a Place; Haunted Houses & Imaginary Citiess -International Conference on Architecture and Fiction”

Deadline: 2010-04-06

Once upon a Place haunted houses & imaginary cities is an international conference devoted to an emerging theme, taking place on the occasion of the Lisbon Triennial of Architecture 2010 and matching its official opening and exhibitions. Conference Venue – 10-14 October 2010 Funda Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal …
Contact: onceuponaplace@gmail.com
URL: http://www.onceuponaplace.fa.utl.pt

the origins of archaeology as non-western profession

Architecture,

Nabodinus, Last Great King of Babylon – Archaeology Expert (UK)
http://www.archaeologyexpert.co.uk/Nabodinus.html

As a “science” however it can be traced back to Sir William Stukeleyhttp://heritage-key.com/world/worlds-first-archaeologists-and-their-role-defining-history

I still wonder if the Roman emperor Hadrian could be considered a revivalist architect or archaeologist.
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/907

The Villa Adriana (at Tivoli, near Rome) is an exceptional complex of classical buildings created in the 2nd century A.D. by the Roman emperor Hadrian. It combines the best elements of the architectural heritage of Egypt, Greece and Rome in the form of an ‘ideal city’.