42nd Annual Conference: “eCAADe2024 – Data-Driven Intelligence”

Dear Colleagues, 

The Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe - eCAADe - will organise the 42nd annual conference at University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. The workshops will take place from 09th to 10th of September 2024 and the conference will take place from 11th to 13th of September 2024. On behalf of the Conference Organisation Committee, we would like to invite you to join the Workshops and/or the Conference. 

The conference theme is "Data-Driven Intelligence". More information about the conference schedule and topics can be found at: http://2024.ecaade.org

Conference Theme

During the 2020s and beyond, the field of computational design and fabrication will face a number of new challenges and opportunities offered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). These technologies represent a new era of data-driven intelligence, which is steadily gaining increasing influence in other fields, but as yet has had little impact in architecture. At the core of this new technological shift, data will be collected, processed, shared, and used as a decision-making tool to resolve a multitude of social, economic, and environmental issues.

In view of this paradigm shift, the conference attempts to provide the ground for presenting and discussing possibilities offered by data-driven intelligence across a range of thematic areas. These diverse themes might in turn influence and provide the ground for reconsidering architectural knowledge and practice in the future. In parallel, the conference attempts to critically reflect upon, discuss and question the future of applying data-driven intelligence in architectural knowledge and practice. What are the risks posed by the use of data-driven intelligence in architecture? In this new era, what will the role of architects be? Does this mark the beginning of a reconsideration of the way architects participate in the creation of knowledge and practice, or will it bring about their marginalisation? What will the social, economic, and environmental impact of data-driven intelligence be?

The conference endeavours to address the theme of data-driven intelligence in architectural knowledge and practice spherically. It also looks to explore the advantages and disadvantages that this can bring to the discipline, but also the possibilities that it might offer, with particular emphasis on computational design and fabrication. In view of this perspective, the eCAADe 2024 conference ‘Data-Driven Intelligence’ invites authors to submit their work on the conference theme. [Read Exended Version]

Topics Include but are not limited to:

Conference Tracks

Data-Driven Intelligence:

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Design and Built Environment

Building Information Modelling, Parametric and Generative Design

Collaborative and Participative Design

Data Acquisition, Big Data and Digital Twins in Architecture

Design Concepts, Strategies and Experimentation

Design Tools Development and Application

Digital Design and Construction for Sustainable Built Environment

Education in Computational Design and Digital Fabrication

Human-Computer Interaction in Design

Information Technology and Digital Heritage

Internet of Things for Built Environment

Numerical Control and Robotic Fabrication

Shape, Form, Geometry and Material Studies

Smart and Responsive Design and Optimization of Structures

Smart Cities, Simulation, Prediction and Evaluation

Theory and Practice in Computational Design and Digital Fabrication

Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality in Architecture

Abstracts should have 300 words plus references. Abstracts should be strictly anonymous. Please avoid any affiliations. After a double-blind peer-review process, the successful abstracts will be further developed and submitted as full papers.

Authors are invited to submit their Abstracts by January 15th via the eCAADe OpenConf system.

Abstracts Submission Link: https://ecaade.org/conf24/papers/openconf.php