[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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