About DigitalFUTURES Shanghai

In 2011, DigitalFUTURES started out as an annual series of academic events, consisting of a conference, workshops and exhibition, hosted by the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai. It has since expanded to become a year round global platform. However, the original series of events in Shanghai remains central to its mission. The aim of DigitalFUTURES is to encourage international collaboration and interaction, and to promote theoretical and scientific research into computational design, robotic fabrication, and other areas of architectural intelligence.

2022 Conference Theme: Hybrid Intelligence

What constitutes the head of the architect is neither its ‘consciousness' nor its ‘idea', but the tertiary retention that enables the heritage of circuits of transindividuation to which it is connected and which precede it as its preindividual milieu, supersaturated with potentials - which endows it with the power to dream and to realize its dreams.

----Bernard Stiegler, translated by Daniel Ross

The past 30 years has witnessed the myriad ways in which digital technology not only improves the dynamicity of communication between human and machine, but also provides entirely new directions for innovation and creation. In the digitally structured process of architectural design and construction, machines are not limited to visualizations and realizations of the conceived form by architects, but involved directly in the creation process. The essence of creativity is no longer limited to the mere informational landscape of the human mind. With shared tools, libraries and procedures, it now includes an array of intelligent machines capable of extending human intentions outward, away from the individual, forming a hybrid intelligence. Architecture will become a collective endeavor, in which not only is architectural knowledge collectively produced,
but also design intent can be formed by decentralized networks of creativities. The digital will be not so much about expanding methods of generating and fabricating architectural objects as it is concerned with cultivating a new context of understanding the central nature of design, creativity and even architecture itself.

Research Topics

The “2022 DigitalFUTURES—The 4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022)” provides an international platform for advanced researches addressing Hybrid Intelligence in architecture. The focuses of the papers include, but not limited to, architecture theories, tools, methods and procedures in:

• Computation and Formation
  • Rule-based morphology
  • Performance-driven form-finding
  • AI-augmented generative design
• Simulation and Optimization
  • Cross scale: urban and architecture
  • Multiple objectives: environmental and structural
  • Full life circle: design, fabrication and operation
• Data Acquisition and Prediction
  • Ubiquitous perception and multi-scale data 
  • Three-dimensional spatial data and smart cities
  • Internet of Things, Blockchain and Information Modeling
  • Complex network and multi-agent system
  • Human-factors data collection and evaluation
• Perception and Interaction
  • Digital twin
  • Immersive Technology / VR / AR
  • Responsive materials and dynamic structure
  • Machine communication and interaction
• Materialization and Construction
  • New materiality
  • Performative tectonics
  • Robotic fabrication
  • Automated assembly
  • Human-machine collaboration

Submission Guidelines

As part of DigitalFUTURES 2022, the 4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022) theme Hybrid Intelligence, is calling for paper submissions. The peer-review of the papers is carried out in two stages: abstract and full paper. All submissions must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Plagiarism (including self-plagiarism) is strongly prohibited. Paper originality will be checked for several times during the review process and before publication. All submissions will be refereed for quality, originality, and relevance by the Committee. 

• Language: English
• Abstract: 600 words, including title, 3-5 keywords, 1-3 figures and key references.
• Full paper: 3000-5000 words, including title, abstract, keywords, figures/tables/charts and references.
• Key words: 3-5 words.
• Each Figure should above 300dpi.
• Format: PDF and MS Word-compatible file.

Dates

• Online Submission System Open: 8 December 2021
• Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 January 2022
• Abstract Submission Deadline: 17 January 2022
• Abstract Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2022
• Full Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March 2022
• Full Paper Acceptance Notification: 10 April 2022
• Revised Full Paper Submission Deadline: 01 May 2022
• Conference: 25-26 June 2022

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

The accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of the 2022 DigitalFUTURES—The 4th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2022) published by Springer. Within the accepted papers, the papers that are closely addressing the conference theme could be published (with proper revision and extension) in the second issue of the Architectural Intelligence journal in 2022.

Proceedings of the previous conferences:

• 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

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 2022 see: https://www.digitalfutures.world

For details of DigitalFUTURES International PhD Courses see: http://digitalfutures.tongji.edu.cn/

All questions about submissions should be emailed to digitalfutures@tongji.edu.cn