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Workshop
aim: The workshop aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in computation and urban design to discuss their views on the future of city planning and design, and to identify key issues, technologies and applications in the development of adaptive, generative urban design processes.
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Workshop format: The workshop will be divided in two parts, one from 9:00 to 10:45, followed by another from 11:00 to 12:30, with a short coffee break in between. The first part will start with a brief introduction, followed by six selected presentations (15 min each) on formulation, evaluation, and generation of urban plans. The second part will start with a short summary of the key topics raised by the morning presentations, followed by a discussion aimed at identifying the most important and promising issues for future research in the field of generative urban design.
Scope: The workshop scope will include formulation, evaluation, and generation of urban plans. Topics include, but are not limited to:
• generative urban design with shape rules;
• defining pattern languages for urban design;
• shape grammars applied to urban adaptive systems;
• encompassing emergent behavior in town planning;
• interfaces for participative urban design;
• generative tools for urban design based on shape grammars, genetic algorithms, etc. ;
• the use of parametric models in urban design;
• urban models for different scales – from city to site planning;
• evaluation models, including space syntax.
Motivation: Urban Design is an enduring activity where the dynamics of contemporary society continually introduce unforeseen changes in town development processes.
Traditional planning, in which a master plan is used to respond to all the contextual needs through a formal layout, has been the main approach to urban design, although its limitations are quite well known. In fact, the rigidity of this approach fails to respond to the dynamic evolution of the context.
New technologies can be used to support an alternative approach, in which adaptive design systems are able to respond more accurately to the needs and complexity of the contemporary city. This approach should satisfy, on the one hand, the need for planning and urban management on behalf of public entities, and on the other, the need for responding to the evolving demands of private agents.
The workshop aims at exploring the use of urban patterns, space syntax, shape grammars, parametric design, adaptive systems, and other formalisms, as the basis for developing an alternative approach grounded in the development of generative design systems for urban design.
Submission information: Contributions to the workshop should be submitted in the form of brief position papers or extended abstracts, approximately 1000 words long; however, longer contributions are welcome. Figures as appropriate and full references should be included.
These contributions will be assessed by the workshop committee for inclusion in the workshop proceedings. They should outline a piece of original research, present a summary of a theoretical analysis, assess or describe existing tools, or contain a succinct review of the state of the art of some aspect of generative urban design research.
Six of the accepted contributions will be selected for oral presentation during the workshop, considering three main criteria: a) to cover formulation, evaluation, and generation issues; b) to cover a variety of technologies and tools; c) potential to raise interesting discussions.
Please submit your workshop position paper in MS Word, RTF or PDF format, to one of the Workshop Chairs, formatted according to the DCC06 paper guidelines.
Registration: Attendees at the workshop need to register either as an addition to the DCC'08 conference registration at a cost of $25, or if not registered for the conference at a cost of $75. Please go the Registration page to register.