CDRF 2023: The 5th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication College of Architecture and Urban Planning (CAUP), Tongji University Shanghai, China, June 24, 2023 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdrf2023 |
About DigitalFUTURES
DigitalFUTURES is an educational initiative launched in 2011. Over the years, DigitalFUTURES has organized an annual series of activities consisting of workshops, lectures, conferences, and exhibitions hosted over the summer months by Tongji University. Instructors from some of the leading schools of architecture have been invited to run workshops, and leading architects and scholars have been invited to present papers at the conference. In addition to fostering international collaboration and interaction, DigitalFUTURES also promotes theoretical and scientific research on computational design, robotic fabrication, and other aspects of architectural intelligence. It spawned a series of book publications, a peer reviewed journal and an international PhD program.
2023 Conference Theme: Phygital Intelligence
Architecture is currently facing a physical-digital era that requires a re-consideration and re-assembly of traditional concepts. From digital twins to meta-universes, a series of technological trends have projected the futures of architectural production and inhabitation in the planetary scale. From global warming, geopolitical wars to the pandemic, a series of social and ecological upheavals have also unveiled the urgency to re-define the relationship between globalization and locality.
To proposes new methodologies and new tools within the architectural ontology of the phygital future, we need to fundamentally rethink the boundary between the virtual and the real. What is the future of the relationship between physical space and virtual intelligent technologies? Will they coexist in parallel, or will they integrate and synergize together?
To meet the challenges of the current existential crisis, we also need to fundamentally rethink the relationship between architecture, nature, and human society in this phygital era. Is there a way in which the phygital nature of architectural production and inhabitation could provide a conceptually new model of sustainability as opposed to merely offering more engineering solutions?
As the theme of DigitalFUTURES 2023, Phygital Intelligence intends to promote a series of scholarly dialogues on these technological, social and ecological transformations in architecture. The key objective is to redefine the term "digital twin" and to investigate the role of phygital intelligence in architectural production in all the transcended territories of the virtual and the real, the individual and the collective, as well as the global and the local.
Research Topics
The 5th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2023) provides a global platform for advanced researches addressing Phygital Intelligence in architecture. Among the topics covered by the papers include, but not limited to, architecture theories, tools, methods and procedures in:
- Designs: Complex Networks, Multi-agent Systems, Parametric Morphology, AI-augmented generative designs.
- Simulation: Computation and Visualization of Carbon Performance, Day Lighting and Building Acoustics, Human Behavior and Comfort, Urban/Building Microclimate.
- Optimization: Digital Twin Workflow, Performance-based Form Finding, AI-augmented Design Optimization.
- Construction: Architectural Robotics, Digital Customization, Automated Fabrication, and Human-Machine Collaboration.
- Operation: City/Building Information modeling, Internet of Things in Built Environment, Blockchain and NFT Architecture.
- Inhabitation: Metaverse, Interactive Environments, Dynamic Structure, Ubiquitous Computation and Smart Environment.
Submission Guidelines
Papers are peer reviewed in two stages: the abstract and the full paper. Submissions must be original and cannot be submitted simultaneously to another journal or conference. We strongly prohibit plagiarism (including self-plagiarism). During the review process and prior to publication, the originality of the paper will be checked several times. Upon submission, all submissions will be reviewed by the Committee for quality, originality, and relevance.
- Abstract: Approximately 600 words, including the title, 3-5 keywords, 1-3 figures, and key references.
- Full paper: A maximum of 10 pages fitting the CDRF paper template (ca. 3000-4000 words), including the title, abstract, keywords, figures/tables/charts, and references.
- Format: PDF.
- Language: English.
- Paper template download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wnqgLTXI6wGHs5Uiw2qECQUapRZjqvS7?usp=sharing; https://pan.baidu.com/s/1CCVypHLks615L-S18u2knQ?pwd=CDRF
- Submission address: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cdrf2023
Dates
- Deadline for Abstract Submission:
15 November, 202229 November, 2022 - Notification of Abstract Acceptance:
10 December, 202226 December, 2022 - Deadline for Full Paper Submission:
10 February, 2023 - Notification of Full Paper Acceptance: 10 April, 2023
- Deadline for Revised Full Paper Submission: 01 May, 2023
- Conference: 24 June, 2023
Committees
Honorary Advisors (in alphabetical order of last name)
- Prof. Dr. Philippe Block, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Prof. Dr. Jane Burry, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Prof. Dr. Mark Burry, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
- Prof. Dr. Ximing Chen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Prof. Dr. Lieyun Ding, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Chief Engineer. Dr. Jian Gong, Shanghai Construction Group (SCG), China
- Prof. Dr. Guoqiang Li, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Jiaping Liu, Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, China
- Prof. Areti Markopoulou, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Spain
- Prof. Dr. Achim Menges, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Prof. Dr. Antoine Picon, GSD, USA
- Prof. Dr. Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), UK
- Prof. Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Royal Danish Academy, Denmark
- Prof. Dr. Zhiqiang Wu, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Yimin (Mike) Xie, RMIT University, Australia
- Prof. Dr. Xianzhong Zhao, Tongji University, China
Organization Committees
- Prof. Dr. Philip F. Yuan, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Neil Leach, Tongji University, China
Scientific Committees (in alphabetical order of last name)
- Dr. Felix Amtsberg, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Alisa Andrasek, RMIT University, Australia
- Nic Bao, RMIT University, Australia
- Prof. Dr. Thomas Bock, Technical University of Munich, Germany
- Serban Bodea, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Assistant Prof. Biayna Bogisian, Florida International University in Miami, USA
- Assistant Prof. Daniel Bolojan, Florida Atlantic University, USA
- Associate Prof. Dr. Matias Del Campo, University of Michigan, USA
- Prof. Brad Cantrell, University of Virginia, USA
- Associate Prof. Dr. Tengwen Chang, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, China
- Associate Prof. Dr. Kristof Crolla, University of Hong Kong, China
- Assistant Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Marcus Farr, Tongji University, China
- Melissa Goldman, University of Virginia, USA
- Associate Prof. Dr. Yunsong Han, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
- Associate Prof. Dr. Hua Hao, Southeast University, China
- Wanyu He, Xkool, China
- Prof. Dr. Tim Heath, University of Nottingham, UK
- Associate Prof. Alvin Huang, University of Southern California, USA
- Associate Prof. Dr. Weixin Huang, Tsinghua University, China
- Prof. Dr. Guohua Ji, Nanjing University, China
- Gene Ting-Chun Kao, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Assistant Prof. Dr. Immanuel Koh, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
- Prof. Dr. Neil Leach, Tongji University, China
- Dr. Guan Lee, University College London, UK
- Associate Prof. Dr. Hyejin Lee, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Biao Li, Southeast University, China
- Prof. Dr. Linxue Li, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Yujie Lu, Tongji University, China
- Associate Prof. Dr. Peng Luo, Tongji University, China
- Andrea Macruz, Tongji University, China
- Assistant Prof. Sandra Manninger, University of Michigan, USA
- Associate Prof. Dr. Wes McGee, University of Michigan, USA
- Assistant Research Fellow, Dr. Xianchuan Meng, Nanjing University, China
- Virginia Melnyk, Tongji University, China/Clemson University, USA
- Dr. Kris Mun, University of Minnesota, USA
- Guvenc Ozel, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Gilles Retsin, University College London, UK
- Klaas de Rycke, Bollinger + Grohmann, Germany
- Prof. Bob Sheil, University College London, UK
- Prof. Dr. Xing Shi, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Miroslaw J. Skibniewski, University of Maryland, USA
- Associate Prof. Dr. Roland Snooks, RMIT University, Australia
- Satoru Sugihara, Architectural Technology Laboratorial Venture
- Associate Prof. Dr. Chengyu Sun, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Kostas Terzidis, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Tessmann, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
- Associate Prof. Kathy Velikov, University of Michigan, USA
- Tomas Vivanco, Tongji University, China
- Dr. Xiang Wang, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Makoto Sei Watanabe, Tokyo City University, Japan
- Dr. Dylan Wood, University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Dr. Jing Wu, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
- Prof. Dr. Leiqing Xu, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Weiguo Xu, Tsinghua University, China
- Prof. Michael Weinstock, The Architectural Association, UK
- Dr. Chao Yan, Tongji University, China
- Associate Prof. Dr. Feng Yang, Tongji University, China
- Associate Research Fellow, Dr. Jiawei Yao, Tongji University, China
- Assistant Prof. Kaiho Yu, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
- Prof. Dr. Philip F. Yuan, Tongji University, China
- Prof. Dr. Xu Zhen, Tianjin University, China
Publication
In addition to being included in the CumInCAD index, accepted papers will be published by Springer in the Proceedings of DigitalFUTURES—The 5th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2023) in 2023.
In addition, papers that closely address the conference theme may also be published in the Architectural Intelligence Journal (with an extension and additional review process).
Proceedings of the previous conferences:
- CDRF 2022: forthcoming
- CDRF 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-5983-6
- CDRF 2020: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-33-4400-6
- CDRF 2019: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-8153-9
- Architectural Intelligence Journal (ARI): https://www.springer.com/journal/44223/
Venue
The conference will be held in College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai, China.
Contact
For details of DigitalFUTURES 2023 see: https://www.digitalfutures.world
If you have any questions regarding submissions, please email to: digitalfutures@tongji.edu.cn