The conference of the Design Modelling Symposium 2017 Humanizing Digital Reality will be held in Paris, at ENSA-V, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, from the 18th to the 20th of September 2017.

Do the complex algorithms we use today for urban planning meet their expectations and offer sufficient quality? How much data do we have and can we control? Today’s inventions reverse algorithms controlled by humanity in a space where humans are controlled by algorithms?

The Design Modelling Symposium will try to provide answers and exchanges on the following issues in a professional and academic setting.

In this framework, the Advanced Architecture Group is proposing three different papers presenting the investigations which are currently being developed at IAAC.   

What are the benefits and the possibilities in design with robotics? In the “Design and Modelling of Matter” session, Stephanie Chaltel will present the paper “Monolithic Earthen Shells Digital Fabrication: Hybrid Workflow” by Bravo and Chaltel.

How is the digitalization of the weather, of the total physical environment, of realtime data influencing design? During the Design and Modelling Physics session, Alex Dubor will present the findings of the Terraperforma project, developed in the OTF program 2016/17, titled “Energy Efficient Design for 3D Printed Earth Architecture” by Dubor, Cabay and Chronis.

How do digital tools create an environment for helping team designing projects? “City Gaming and Participation” is a researched developed in the MaCT with two case studies in MUMBAI and Barcelona led by Markopoulou, Ingrassia, Chronis, and Richard, which will be presented by Areti Markopoulou in the Design and Modelling of Data session.

Additionally, Fab City Lab Director Tomas Diez will be one of the keynote speakers of the Data Farming session, in the second day of the Symposium. Tomas will lecture about “Seven Short Reflections on Cities, Data, Economy and Politics”.