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How is data reshaping design? | “Data Across Scales:Reshaping Design”.

United Kingdom Architecture News - Apr 16, 2015 - 09:21   4652 views

How is data reshaping design? |  “Data Across Scales:Reshaping Design”.

The Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Doctor of Design Program are hosting the international interdisciplinary conference “Data Across Scales: Reshaping Design”.

Bringing together design researchers and practitioners, the conference inquires into the role of ‘data’ in design and how it is steering its practice across all scales.

With the rapid increase of information technologies in our personal and professional lives, we produce, share, collect, archive, use and misuse, consciously or unconsciously an immense amount of data. This burst of data production and collection has already had a profound impact on the way we organise ourselves as a community. It drastically changes the way in which we conceive, materialize and experience designs and the physical world. These on-going transformations have permeated all layers of social debates including issues of openness, transparency and civil participation.

The conference will comprise four panels, “Data-driven design”, “Programming the physical world”, “Urban design and big data” and “Open data and civic media”, and a poster session that aim to reveal and discuss how the accessibility and processing of ‘data’ is shifting the design practices.

The conference is taking place on April 17th, 2015 in Piper Auditorium and is free and open to the general public.The opening reception and our poster session, hosted by the Loeb Library at Harvard GSD, is taking place on the 16th of April at 8pm.

 

Keynote speakers

Edith K. Ackermann, MIT Architecture / Media Lab / HGSD Cambridge, MA. USA
“Digital Portraiture and the Quantified Self: Paradoxes and Ironies of Living by the Numbers”

Mario Carpo, Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory, The Bartlett, UCL, London-“Computation, Simulation, Optimization, and the New Style of Big Data”

 

Panel speakers

Rahul Bhargava and Emily Bhargava, MIT Center for Civic Media, Connection Lab, Cambridge, MA
“Data Analysis as Civic Engagement: a new arts ­based approach”

Andrea L. M. Hansen,  Harvard Graduate School of Design and Fluxscape
“Visualizing Systems: Reading and Representing the Human Environment”

Michael Hansmeyer, Benjamin Dillenburger
“Mesh Mining”

Paul Keel, Jeffrey Huang, Jianxi Luo, Patrick Winston
“Design Decoder: Mapping the Genealogy of Design Ideas”

Panagiotis Michalatos, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
“The environment as a signal: design in scale spaces”

Sarah Dickinson, Janina Mueller, Ann Whiteside and Inés Zalduendo, Loeb Library, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
“Data Projections: The Case for Open Access”

Dietmar Offenhuber, Northeastern University
“The pigeon in the haystack – design before and after the fact”
Jessica Rosencrantz, Nervous System, USA
“Growing Objects”
Alma Steingart, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“Rendering Higher Dimensions”
Gentiane Venture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
“Towards individual robotics design: Using human motion for enhanced Human-Robot Interaction experience”
Etienne Turpin, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong, Australia
“Mesoscalarity: Data Polities and Designed Engagement”
Andrew Witt, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
“Machine Ecologies, Modular Intelligence”
Alan Wiig, Temple University Urban Apps and Maps Studios, Worcester, Massachusetts
“The geography of data centers and the networked urban condition”
Moderators
Ozlem Altinkaya
Joëlle Bitton
Wendy W Fok
Jose Luis Garcia del Castillo
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