Conference Date: 28-29 October 2013
CFP Deadline: 30 April 2013
http://www.geodesignpku.org/
Geodesign is a new term for an age-old practice-planning, designing, implementing and evaluating changes to our built & natural environment–transformed by modern software tools and scientific models that make interactive impact analysis possible, so that designers can continually evaluate the impacts of their proposals. The Internet and modern communications technologies-including embedded and remote sensors, multi-media feedback, web-based interactions, group decision making, mobile devices, social networks, crowd-sourced data collection, and others –can now be coupled with scientific advances in understanding and analysis of Earth's natural systems as well as our urban environments. The range of geodesign challenges is enormous, from real-world problems of housing, transportation, air and water pollution, and energy distribution, to questions of effective computer interfaces, collaborative design approaches, and decision--‐support graphics and presentations.
Geodesign projects leverage the powers of digital computing (CAD, BIM, GIS) and communications technologies to foster information--‐based design and provide timely feedback about implications of proposed designs, often including impacts and evaluations covering a larger area, greater complexity, or longer time--‐frame than the immediate design proposal (e.g. the impacts over time on watershed--‐scale hydrological processes of a single proposed dam, or the aggregate carbon footprint of many individual building component /system decisions.)
This new geodesign paradigm offers the possibility of maximizing beneficial impacts (and minimizing deleterious ones) in responsible, sustainable, synthetic design projects of enormous complexity and large, even global, scope essential for new approaches to sustainable urbanism and even planetary survival.
This 2013 Geodesign International Conference builds upon recent advances in the US and elsewhere, in bringing together a combination of experts – designers, scientists, public policy experts and decision makers – to present and discuss current projects, emerging models of geodesign practice, and speculate on directions and improvements for the future.
Invited international experts will provide a theoretical basis for the conference discussion; practitioners from around the world are invited to submit geodesign success stories, cautionary tales and provocative presentations…
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