Looking for something to do this weekend? Intrigued by the role new and responsive fabrication and sensing technologies could play in architectural design? Have you considered attending ELICITING ENVIRONMENTS | ACTUATING RESPONSE? This mini-symposium and exhibition, held from February 7 – 10 at the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture, will focus on “emerging design trends that embed adaptive behavior into architectural matter.”
Organized and moderated by CMU School of Architecture faculty Dana Cupkova and Frank Melendez, the symposium will include an opening reception and keynote lecture by Omar Khan on Friday, a full day of workshops and lectures on Saturday, and a closing lecture on Monday evening. The accompanying exhibition will present mechanic prototypes and artifacts from the invited speakers and others, on display in the Carnegie Mellon College of Fine Art’s Great Hall, giving visitors direct exposure to a sampling of the interactive models being discussed.
“From surveillance strategies to user-initiated interaction and hackable surfaces to locally controlled responsiveness within design processes, the computerization of our environment provokes a series of critical questions about technology and design-thinking. ELICITING ENVIRONMENTS | ACTUATING RESPONSE will engage the practitioners who are defining future possibilities for sensory intelligence in architectural design, to present, discuss and speculate on the role and potential for actuated responsiveness in imminent built environments.”