Topic: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NEXT 11
Time: Saturday and Sunday, October 8-9, 2022
Day 1 Starts: October 8, 12:00 GMT
Day 1 Ends: October 8, 21:00 GMT
Day 2 Starts: October 9, 12:00 GMT
Day 2 Ends: October 9, 21:00 GMT
Where: Zoom, hosted by PA
Duration: Two Days Conference
Total Hours: 18 Hours
Format: Online
Hosts: Hamid Hassanzadeh, and Michael Pryor
Collaborators: ParametricArchitecture and DesignMorphine
Early-bird Registration: €56 (Till 23:59 GMT, August 31, 2022)
General Registration: €69 (Till 23:59 GMT, October 7, 2022)
“Skip Forward to the Future of Design”
Computational Design: NEXT
Introduction:
THE PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: An online interactive conference with global frontiers. Two-day online conference with live presentations, tutorials, interactive Sessions, live mentorship & panel discussions. A collaborative initiative by ParametricArchitecture (PA) and DesignMorphine (DM). Computational Design: NEXT 11 brings together pioneers and professionals from all industries to meet and discuss new emerging technologies in art, architecture, design, and manufacturing.
Computational Design: NEXT is a joint effort by some of the world’s leading experts in computational design to create an online learning platform that will also serve as a full-fledged online conference. ParametricArchitecture (PA), one of the leading media platforms concentrating on computational design and its different subsets, will host the event, including conversations, dialogues, tutorials, and mentoring to a worldwide audience via thought-provoking and relevant speeches.
Following the success of CD Next 1-10, Computational Design: NEXT 11 takes another step forward in exploring new-age design technologies by worldwide technology champions. The conference will take place on Saturday and Sunday, October 8-9, 2022, and will include workshops, panel discussions, technology demos, and presentations.
Important Notes:
- Details about the guests will be published soon
- The entire conference will be recorded, and videos will be available for participants just a day after the conference.
- A certificate of attendance will be provided to all participants of the conference.
- We will send the Zoom link just a week before the conference starts.
- You can make payments in cryptocurrencies. For more details, please email us at [email protected].
- The event has a capacity of 400 people, and limited (100) spots are allocated for early-bird registrations.
- Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable. Please read before you register.
Guest Speakers:
Winka Dubbeldam
Winka Dubbeldam, the founder and principal of Archi-Tectonics, will present and showcase some of her creative work at the upcoming Computational Design: NEXT 11 conference. Winka is a seasoned academic and design leader, serving as Chair and Miller Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. She also taught advanced architectural design studios at Columbia University and Harvard University, among other prestigious institutions. Dubbeldam was named one of the Design Intelligence 30 Most Admired Educators in 2015. She was the External Examiner at the Architectural Association London (2006-2009) and is currently the External Examiner at the Bartlett UCL in London (2019-present). She has been a juror and chaired many international and national award juries, lectured, and was the keynote speaker at international conferences. Winka is one of the creative directors for CityX for the Virtual Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale [2021].
Daniel Koehler
Daniel Koehler is an urbanist, architect, and assistant professor for architecture computation at UT Austin, will commence a lecture and a Q&A session showcasing his works and tools at the Computational Design: NEXT 11 conference. Daniel researched at the Bartlett in London and Innsbruck University, where he wrote his Ph.D., published as “The Mereological City,” a study on the part-relationships between architecture and its city in the modern period. Daniel’s work has been exhibited in Prague, Milan, Venice, Graz, Montreal, London, and Austin and is part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. His current research focuses on the urban implications of distributive technologies, which are designed utilizing sets, data, interfaces, and their architecture.
Marziah Zad
Marziah Zad, an award-winning architect, Researcher, co-founder of UDA, and the academic coordinator of the Master in Advanced Ecological Buildings at IAAC, will deliver a 45-minute lecture and a 15-minute Q&A session at the Computational Design: NEXT 11. Marziah Zad developed professional design experience in Lebanon, Spain, Iran, and West Coast USA before co-founding Ashrafi & Zad Design in 2019. Ashrafi & Zad combines a professional background in digital tools and advanced, lightweight design with aspirations of place-making, inclusion, and accessibility. Working from the intimate scale to the territorial, the practice has been awarded multiple distinctions for design and completed projects. Marziah has architecture instructional experience at the University of Oregon, San Jose State University, and The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona. As an instructor in practice, much of her teaching is based on research and focuses on the connection between advanced digital design strategies and inclusive design.
Theo Sarantoglou Lalis
Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, an architect, founding director at LASSA Architects, and teaching staff at the Architectural Association, London, will contribute with a 45-minute lecture followed by a 15-minute Q&A session at the Computational Design: NEXT 11 conference. Theo is a French and Greek architect. He currently teaches at the Architectural Association in London. He has taught postgraduate studios at Harvard and Columbia and undergraduate studios at Chalmers and LTU in Sweden. He has lectured internationally and run architecture and urban design workshops in the US, South America, Europe, and Asia. He received his master’s from the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) in London and has been a registered architect at the ARB since 2003. He has experience practicing architecture in 18 countries and has been a registered architect since 2001.
Masoud Akbarzadeh
Masoud Akbarzadeh, Assistant Professor of Architecture in Structures and Construction Technologies at the University of Pennsylvania and Director at Polyhedral Structures Laboratory, will showcase his amazing research and practice projects in a 45-minute lecture followed by a 15-minute Q&A session at the upcoming conference Computational Design: NEXT 11. Masoud Akbarzadeh is a designer with academic background and experience in architectural design, computation, and structural engineering. He holds a D.Sc. from the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich, where he was a research assistant in the Block Research Group. In addition, he has two degrees from MIT: a Master of Science in Architecture Studies (Computation) and a MArch, the thesis for which earned him the renowned SOM award. He also has a degree in Earthquake Engineering and Dynamics of Structures from the Iran University of Science and Technology and a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering. His main research topic is Three-Dimensional Graphical Statics, a novel geometric method of structural design in three dimensions. In 2020, he received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award to extend the methods of 3D/Polyhedral Graphic Statics for Education, Design, and Optimization of High-Performance Structures. He is also a Co-PI in a $4.6 million grant funded by National Science Foundation to investigate high-performance, self-Morphing building blocks across scales toward a Sustainable Future. Has also received a $2.4 Million ARPA-E Grant to Research the Design of Carbon-Negative Buildings starting September 2022.
Hassan Ragab
Hassan Ragab, an architect, and an interdisciplinary designer, will showcase and discuss his amazing design and fabrication works in our online conference “Computational Design: NEXT 11”. Hassan is an Egyptian designer with an architectural background living in Southern California. His experiences vary between exhibition design, product, furniture design, and textile design. Hassan’s work is better associated with computation, experimentation, and digital fabrication. Currently, Hassan is providing computational design solutions in the AEC industry for a mega architectural project in downtown LA.
Daniel Bolojan
Daniel Bolojan, the founder of nonstandardstudio, senior architect in CoopHimmelblau, and an Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University’s school of architecture, will address the audience at the coming Computational Design event: NEXT 11 conference. Bolojan established his research studio, Nonstandardstudio, in 2013. Daniel’s design research has evolved over the years as a result of Nonstandardstudio’s work at the intersection of generative design, computation, multi-agent systems, machine learning, and deep learning. He has taught several design studios and seminars at the Institute of Structure and Design-University of Innsbruck, Florida International University Miami, and has led numerous international workshops and conference workshops on applying complex systems and Neural Networks in architectural design. Upon graduation, he joined the internationally renowned architectural practice CoopHimmelblau as a Computational Designer, where he had the opportunity to work on numerous internationally renowned projects and competitions. Daniel held the position of Junior Associate, Computational Design Specialist & Founder, and Head of Chbl|Code at CoopHimmelblau. As the head of Chbl|Code, he held the leading role of developing custom computational design tools, computational design strategies, virtual and augmented reality applications, machine learning tools, neural networks, and robotic fabrication processes. He is responsible for the office’s current drive to develop deep learning strategies to augment the designer’s native abilities via the DeepHimmelblau neural network.
Neil Leach:
Neil Leach, an architect, curator and writer, will be addressing the audience at the upcoming Computational Design: NEXT 11 conference. Neil is currently Visiting Professor at Harvard University GSD, Professor at the European Graduate School, Gao Feng Professor at Tongji University, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. His research interests fall broadly into two fields, critical theory and digital design. In the field of critical theory, he has published a number of monographs and edited volumes, dealing largely with the impact of importing theoretical tools from critical theory into an architectural arena. These include Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (Routledge, 1997); The Anaesthetics of Architecture (MIT Press, 1999); Millennium Culture (Ellipsis, 1999); Architecture and Revolution: Contemporary Perspectives on Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge, 1999); The Hieroglyphics of Space: Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis (Routledge, 2002), China (Map Office, 2004) and Camouflage (MIT Press, 2006). In the field of digital design, he has published a number of edited volumes, including Designing for a Digital World (Wiley, 2002), Digital Tectonics (Wiley, 2004) and Digital Cities (Wiley, 2009) and 3D Printed Body Architecture (Wiley, 2017). He has also been co-curator of the Fast Forward exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2004, the Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2006, and the (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2008.
Guest Tutors:
Cody Thurston
Cody Thurston, a member of the 3D design team at DECKERS BRANDS and a 3D visualizer, will be tutoring computational design tools and how to use them in product design in a 90-minute tutorial at the upcoming Computational Design: NEXT 11 conference. Cody works in a team that aids all internal brands in deckers with modeling, rendering, and manufacturing footwear. Cody specializes in advanced concepts, tooling modeling, parametric design, and photorealistic renderings. Outside of footwear. Cody aims to connect the outdoors and emerging tech. In his work, he is currently exploring 3D scanning for conservation, parametric fishing lures, and NFT evolutionary plant growth.
Milad Showkatbakhsh
Milad Showkatbakhsh, Co-Founder of Wallacei, Ph.D. from the Architectural Association, and Studio Master of Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] Postgraduate Program at AA, will be teaching a 90-minute tutorial using different computational design tools at the upcoming conference Computational Design: NEXT 11. Milad Showkatbakhsh obtained his BSc. in Architectural Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University. Then he completed his M.Arch. from Pratt Institute, where he graduated with the Sidney Katz award for design excellence in 2015. Also, he holds a Ph.D. from the Architectural Association School of Architecture titled “Homeostatic Urban Morphologies: an Evolutionary Model to Generate Urban Morphologies with Embedded Homeostatic Behaviours.” Dr. Milad Showkatbakhsh is the Studio Master of Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] Postgraduate Programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). He also co-directs AA Istanbul Visiting School and AA Dlab, focusing on integrating algorithmic design methods with large-scale digital fabrication tools. Milad’s research interest is the application of biological principles of intelligence in architecture and urban design through rigorous computational processes. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He co-founded ‘Wallacei’, an evolutionary and analytic engine with embedded machine learning algorithms that give users full control over their evolutionary simulations in Grasshopper 3D.
Co.Re. Lab’s
Inana Abdelli and Kesra Mansuri, founders of Co.Re. Lab’s are joining our upcoming conference Computational Design: Next 11, where they will deliver a 90-minute tutorial. Co.Re. Lab’s “Computational Research Lab’s” is a design research group founded by Inana Abdelli and Kesra Mansuri in 2018. They investigate generative design approaches and digital manufacturing methodologies in Adana, Turkey. They aim to discover resiliency mechanisms toward rapid advancements in digital design processes. Currently, they are focusing on additive manufacturing of clay and porcelain bodies.
Ili Shchanikov
Ili Shchanikov, Computational designer, educator, and co-founder at Heracléum Sosnówskyi, will be delivering a 90-minute tutorial at the Computational Design: NEXT 11 conference. Ili studied architecture and holds two graduate M.Arch degrees from Russia in (2010 and 2015). He has been studying computational design since 2014, and his current field of interest is the study of the history and theory of computational architecture in conjunction with philosophy. Ili Shchanikov has been teaching computational design at Moscow Architectural Institute for three years as a lecturer. He co-founded Heracléum Sosnówskyi, an architectural bureau that not only does architecture but also education: they ran educational courses in parametric design and visualization for students, organized in such a way that some of the students could study for free. Ili was a member of the Simplex Noise team that consults, develops, and implements computational tools and technologies for design automation. He is also, the founder of Surface Calculated, an interior jewelry brand exploring digital form-finding techniques, including not only general issues of mass-customization products, but above all shaping techniques, including the study of patterns, folding, layering, and superposition, as well as the interrelationship of families of elements.
Program Outline for Computational Design: NEXT 11
Day 01: Saturday, October 8, 2022
[Time Zone: GMT]
All sessions/tracks are led by the following panelists unless specified otherwise:
– Hamid Hassanzadeh (Turkey) – Founder & Editor in Chief, Parametric Architecture
– Michael Pryor (USA) – Design Director & Computational Designer, DesignMorphine
Welcome Note & Set-up
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM (GMT or UTC)
Guest Speaker 1: Winka Dubbeldam / Archi-Tectonics / (Lecture + Q&A)
12:30 – 13:30 UTC
Duration – 60 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Workshop 1: Ili Shchanikov
13:45 – 15:15 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 90 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Guest Speaker 2: Neil Leach (Lecture + Q&A)
15:30 – 16:30 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
Guest Speaker 3: Daniel Koehler (Lecture + Q&A)
16:30 – 17:30 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Workshop 2: Cody Thurston
17:45 – 19:15 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Guest Speaker 4: Masoud Akbarzadeh (Lecture + Q&A)
19:30 – 20:30 UTC
Duration – 60 Minutes
End of Day 1: Endnote by Hamid Hassanzadeh
20:30 – 20:45 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 15 Minutes
Day 2: Sunday, October 9, 2022
Welcome Note & Set-up
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM (GMT or UTC)
Guest Speaker 5: Marziah Zad (Lecture + Q&A)
12:15 – 13:15 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Workshop 3: Kesra Mansuri & Inana Abdelli (Co.Re. Lab’s)
13:30 – 15:00 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 90 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Guest Speaker 6: Theo Sarantoglou Lalis / LASSA Architects
15:15 – 16:15 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
Guest Speaker 7: Daniel Bolojan (Lecture + Q&A)
16:15 – 17:15 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Workshop 4: Milad Showkatbakhsh / AA EmTech Lab
17:30 – 19:00 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 90 Minutes
Break time for 15 minutes.
Guest Speaker 8: Hassan Ragab (Lecture + Q&A)
19:15 – 20:15 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 60 Minutes
End of Day 2: Vote of thanks by organizers & speakers
20:15 – 20:45 (GMT or UTC)
Duration – 30 Minutes
Topic: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NEXT 11
Time: Saturday and Sunday, October 8-9, 2022
Day 1 Starts: October 8, 12:00 GMT
Day 1 Ends: October 8, 21:00 GMT
Day 2 Starts: October 9, 12:00 GMT
Day 2 Ends: October 9, 21:00 GMT
Where: Zoom, hosted by PA
Duration: Two Days Conference
Total Hours: 18 Hours
Format: Online
Hosts: Hamid Hassanzadeh, and Michael Pryor
Collaborators: ParametricArchitecture and DesignMorphine
Early-bird Registration: €56 (Till 23:59 GMT, August 31, 2022)
General Registration: €69 (Till 23:59 GMT, October 7, 2022)
