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ELICITING ENVIRONMENTS: ACTUATING RESPONSE      

Symposium and exhibition focused on Emerging Design Trends that Embed Interactive Intelligence
and Responsive Behavior Into Architectural Matter


Carnegie Mellon University, 6-10 February 2014

Conference Chairs and Moderators:

Frank Melendez
Dana Cupkova

Invited Speakers:
Omar Kahn
Jenny Sabin
Andrew Atwood
Jason Kelly Johnson + Nataly Gattegno
Mike Szivos

Workshops:
Processing led by Michael Szivos and Madeline Gannon
Firefly led by Jason Kelly Johnson and Zachary Jacobson-Weaver

Sponsors:

Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture
Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture dFabLab
College of Fine Arts
Frank-Ratchye Studio for Creative InquirySchool of Design

Exhibit Venue:
College of Art and Design’s Great Hall

A symposium and exhibition focusing on current computational, sensing and fabrication technologies provide new opportunities for architects and designers to embed intelligence and responsive behavior directly into architectural matter. Such design tactics not only elicit new sensibilities and socio-aesthetic desires, but also instrumentalize new understandings of hierarchies, networks and organization of building systems controls. Responsive technologies play a critical role in advancing the evolving relationships between humans, constructed environments, administrative controls and natural systems. Systems that mitigate human-machine-environment interaction are evolving to encompass more complex methods of collecting and managing data that can produce subtle differences in feedback and response. 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.  New technologies directly affect design methodologies and thus design education. 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.
   
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