[alife] Call for Submissions: Living Architectures Workshop 2017 ECAL 2017, September 4
Andrew Adamatzky
andrew.adamatzky at uwe.ac.uk
Tue Jun 13 01:18:10 PDT 2017
Call for Submissions:
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Living Architectures Workshop 2017
ECAL 2017, September 4, Lyon, France
http://uncomp.uwe.ac.uk/LIAR/Living%20Architectures%20Workshop%202017.html
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Living Architecture is about buildings that function and behave as
living creatures: they breath, think, dream, and fall in love with their
inhabitants. Living Architecture can be thought as a step “beyond”
biomimicry where things are not “like” biological systems, they have
original physiology and perform “as” living things, so that these
spaces are new kinds of localised nature as it were that is programmable.
Living Architecture looks at forms of programmable matter and
programmable environments (where spatial relationships between things
starts to create effects - contingencies and position in time and space
actually influence events), where technological convergences are
forming new kinds of organisms --- organisms that we can inhabit and
have a physical/chemical/computational conversation with.
Organizers
Martin Hanczyc (University of Trento, Italy)
Andy Adamatzky (UWE, Bristol, UK)
Barbara Imhof (LIQUIFER, Austria)
Juan Nogales (ISBE, Spain)
Topics included but not limited to are
architectural concepts borrowed from plants, social insects and aquatic
environments;protocols for ‘synthetic ecosystem’ design
engineering foundational concepts for computationally processing,
recycling, remediating and synthesising valuable compounds from waste;
transferable principles for the construction of living architecture;
evolutionary design of buildings and cities;
neural networks integrated into buildings;
self-growing buildings;
speculations on would-be cities of future and integration of human
beings into fabric of building environment.
Important dates
Papers submission ends 15th July 2017
Decisions are made 15th August 2017
There is no page limit but be wise.
Submit your paper to LIAR2017 here
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=liar2017
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