The ACADIA 2016 Conference, held October 27-29, 2016 at the University of Michigan Taubman College, will foster design work and research from the worlds of practice and academia that lie at the intersection between procedural design, designed environments and autonomous machines. More specifically, this conference will seek to explore recent work within the current trend in computational design to develop and apply quasi-cognitive machines; the integration of software, information, fabrication and sensing to generate mechanisms for interfacing with the physical realm.
Specific topics around big data, sensate systems, and embedded responsiveness will combine interdisciplinary endeavors involving fields such as material science, biology, art, computer graphics, civil engineering, and human-computer interaction.
The ACADIA 2016 exhibition POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: DATA, DESIGNERS AND COGNITIVE MACHINES will be held at the 3000sf Liberty Research Annex Gallery in downtown Ann Arbor, and will highlight experimental projects and design work in which methods, processes, and techniques have been developed or discovered that illuminate the conference theme.
More information available at http://2016.acadia.org/