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