The symposium SCAD 2011 welcomes innovative, refreshing perspectives from all quarters. If in doubt, please establish contact with the symposium co-chairs. The following non-exhaustive list of topics remains a core fous:

Design Paradigms and Practices

  • design as problem solving
  • artificial intelligence for design
  • parametric and generative design
  • biophilic design
  • adaptive, transformable architecture
  • evidence-based design
  • universal design
  • sustainable built environments, and design
  • assistive technologies for spatial design
  • collaborative design
  • user participation in design
  • people-centred design

Spatial Cognition and Architecture Design Creativity

  • characterizing creative processes
  • creativity enhancement aids
  • external representations as
    design support techniques
  • mental models in design activity
  • perception and shape processing
  • gestures in design communication
  • communicating design (thinking) to other designers,
    students and clients
  • diversity of creative design processes

Spatial Informatics of Design

  • design semantics, spatial semantics
  • modular representations, ontologies
  • design and functional simulation
  • spatial design assistance systems
  • soft computing, machine learning for design
  • representing and reasoning about 3D space
  • qualitative modelling and reasoning
  • geometric spatial reasoning
  • qualitative spatial and temporal reasoning
  • visual and diagrammatic reasoning
  • diagnosis and hypothetical reasoning
  • non-monotonic reasoning
  • constraint-based reasoning
  • architectural pattern and feature descriptions
  • requirement consistency, recommendation systems
  • wayfinding, orientation and cognitive mapping
  • models of indoor space
  • indoor spatial awareness
  • advanced building simulation
  • behaviour modelling (agents, and artefacts)
  • virtual reality and design
  • industry standards and frameworks:
    Industry Foundation Classes (IFC),
    Building Information Models (BIM)
  • construction and architecture informatics