Design Modelling Symposium 2017

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The Design Modelling Symposium, a meeting of the world's leading experts in Generative Design, took place in 2017 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles from 16 to 20 September. This year's theme Humanizing Digital Reality: International Biennial "Design Modelling Symposium" is an interdisciplinary and international platform of architects, developers and scientists organised as a biennial; first in Berlin in 2009, 2011 and 2013, then in Copenhagen in 2015. More than 300 professionals and academics, from 33 countries, debate during 3 days after a weekend of workshops and Master Classes.

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The Keynotes :

NADER TEHRANI

Union Cooper, Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture

ACHIM MENGES

University of Stuttgart, Institute for Computational Design, Director

TOMAS DIEZ

IAAC, Fab City Research Lab, Director

ANTOINE PICON

Harvard University, Graduate school of design, Professor and Research Director

JEAN FRANÇOIS CARON

Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Navier Laboratory, Research Director

JANE BURRY

Swinburne University

School of design, Dean

USMAN HAQUE

Thingful & Pachube, Founder

CAITLIN MUELLER

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Building Technology Program, Assistant Professor

CARLO RATTI

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senseable City Lab, Director

SOPHIE LE BOURVA

University of Cambridge, Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment

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Humanizing Digital Reality

HOSTED BY ENSA-V VERSAILLES

Design Modelling Symposium Paris

design-modelling-symposium.com

The Referent is Klaas de Rycke, Professor at ENSA-V, info@design-modelling-symposium.com and Associate Architect at Bollinger + Grohmann.
Editors : Klaas De Rycke – Christoph Gengnagel – Olivier Baverel – Jane Burry – Caitlin Mueller – Minh Man Nguyen – Philoppe Rahm – Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

All papers here : https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5

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DMS 2017 - Humanising Digital Modelling and Design In architecture, the fundamental principles of design, planning and construction have changed radically. Computer Aided Design (CAD), Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) are now integral components of the planning, design and construction processes. But instead of questioning the influence of CAD or CAM on architecture, we could turn the question around: how much of digital modelling and design is human? To what extent does man control his environment today? In line with the positivist movement of the 19th century, man controls his environment and remains the determining factor in providing and implementing solutions. But what is the limit of this human control? Do the complex algorithms we use for urban planning meet our expectations? Do today's innovations overturn human-controlled algorithms in a space where humans are controlled by algorithms? Are the power of computers, the multiplication of robots in architecture in particular, not only there to make us rediscover what we already know but can they take us further to imagine the city of the future?