Future Design Research Symposium
Experiments, Disruptions, Affordances
ABP Symposium: 29-30 September 2022.
Hosted by Advanced Digital Design and Fabrication (ADD+F) Research Hub
Digital technologies offer new possibilities for contemporary design practice, construction industry and education. Research and development are strongly coupled with technological advancement and innovation. Informatics and automation have impacted all aspects of our lives and societies, in architectural design, landscape ecology, and construction; it opens up new potentials for creative thinking, experimentation, and exploration.
What does the future hold in terms of disruption and affordances for design research?
How does design research create synergies with industry to solve our environmental crisis? What are the new trajectories in design research through artificial intelligence and smart materials? What is the role of design research in education?
This symposium investigates how emerging creative practices can produce meaningful social and cultural transformations, technological innovation, and advancement in construction and fabrication.
Future Design Research in industry, practice and education will unfold over two days of presentations, round table discussions, and networking. With over 30 international and national speakers, thought leaders and educators from construction industry, creative practice and research institutions, the symposium aims to outline the potential for Design Research innovations in Education, Practice, and Industry in the digital age. The event will tap into new synergies for design as a research methodology through various forms of practices, pedagogical models, and R&D activities in the industry. We will discuss and debate the role of design research and, more critically, its implication and impact on our disciplines and society.
The symposium lays the theoretical grounds for the forth-coming exhibition on future prototyping in March 2023 at the Dulux Gallery at the Melbourne School of Design.
Co-convenors:
Leire Asensio, Dr Rochus Hinkel, and Dr Paul Loh.
Co-directors ADD+F research hub.
Symposium partners:
This Symposium is made possible by the generous support of the Robert Garland Treseder Fellowship and the Creative Futures Design Research and Education Fund.
Contact:
Opening and Welcome to Country
Co-convenors
Leire Asensio-Villoria
Associate Professor Rochus Hinkel
Dr Paul Loh
Keynote speakers
Jenny Wu
Panellists
Associate Professor Ajibade Aibinu
Professor Alisa Andrasek
Amalia Athanassopoulos
Associate Professor James Birt
Colin Chapman
Associate Professor Lilian Chee
Dr Kathryn Coleman
Associate Professor Katherine Dafforn
Daniel Davis
Professor Hélène Frichot
Tim Goring
Prof Katja Hoelttae-Otto
Associate Professor Dominik Holzer
Associate Professor Julie Jupp
Assistant Professor Immanuel Koh
Dr Nano Langenheim
Assistant Professor Tomás Méndez Echenagucia
Professor Ana Miljacki
Maki Onishi
Dr Mehran Oraee
Associate Professor Uwe Rieger
Linde Ryckeboer
Associate Professor Roland Snooks
Associate Professor Kate Tregloan
Video recordings from the 2022 Future Design Research Symposium are now available.
Keynote speeches
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Keynote 1: Inlays, Loose Fits, and Other Puzzling Forms of Assembly
In this lecture, Jenny Wu discussed the exploratory ideas, objects, and assembly sensibilities that drive their work for the Los Angeles based architecture firm Oyler Wu Collaborative, as well as the multi-scalar approach to their architectural application.
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Keynote 2: What matters in design (secondary and higher) education now and for the future
A lecture on the future of design education by Carroll Go-Sam and Prof Lisa Grocott.
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Keynote 3: Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty
A lecture by Theodore Spyropoulos, Director of the Architectural Association Design Research Lab, exploring how current lines of architectural thought champion representational models of historical appropriation, dogmatic styles, or an all-out rejection of architecture having meaningful social or political agency through design.
Design Research and Industry
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From Disruption to Control (and back) > Transforming your Project with Data
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts. Moderated by A/Prof Dominik Holzer and Dr Mehran Oraee, with speakers Jerad Tinnin, Linde Ryckeboer and Tim Goring.
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Scale and Network
This lecture discusses how contemporary creative research intertwines with architectural practice and residential projects of onishimaki+hyakudayuki architects and miya akiko architecture atelier. Moderated by Do Djordje Stojanovic and Dr Shin Yokoo, with speakers Maki Onishi and Miya Akiko.
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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
The session reflects on how contemporary tools and new practices may afford us expanded capacities to work towards addressing the challenges of climate change. Moderated by Leire Asensio-Villoria and David Mah, with speakers Brice Richard and Jakob B. Strømann-Andersen.
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The Sound of Architecture
This session investigates the interrelationships between architecture, sound design and music. Moderated by Dr Sofia Colabella and Dr Alberto Pugnale, with speakers Prof Trevor Cox, Peter Fearnside, A/Prof Tomás Méndez Echenagucia and Kah-Fai Lee.
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Strategies for Innovation through Research
This session provides insight into what strategies and methodological approaches are needed to effectively initiate, develop, and translate research into practice in the built environment field. Moderated by A/Prof Ajibade Aibinu, Dr Mehran Oraee and Dr Vidal Paton-Cole, with speakers Prof Rafael Sacks and A/Prof Julie Jupp.
Design Research and Practice
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Interspecies Design
Questions around nonhuman beings as collaborators in the design process are important in the conditions of multiple and increasingly acute environmental crises. Moderated by Dr Stanslav Roudavski, with speakers Dr Kylie Soanes and A/Prof Katherine Dafforn.
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From Hybrid Environments to Altered Realities
This panel presents experimental projects that explore new applications of augmented, virtual and mixed reality projects in design research and practice. Moderated by A/Prof Rochus Hinkel, with speakers A/Prof Uwe Rieger and Anna Davis.
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Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence, Materials and Systems
This session investigates the future for emerging trajectories in discovery using AI, composite material, and autonomous systems. Moderated by Dr Paul Loh, with speakers A/Prof Immanuel Koh and A/Prof Roland Snooks.
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Landscape Terrain Modelling
This session discusses the rapid and often divergent development of software, tools and techniques evolving in the field of digital terrain modelling. Moderated by Dr Nano Langenheim, with speakers Prof Peter Petschek and Thomas Chapman.
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Digital World Building – Digital Social Spaces
This panel engages in a discussion about building the new world of digital social spaces. Moderated by Leire Asensio-Villoria and David Mah, with speakers Helmut Kinzler and Eric Wong.
Design Research and Education
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Creative Practice Research and its Messy Methods
This panel pays particular attention to creative practice research that is supported by a feminist ethos and inspired by a critical storytelling approach. Moderated by Prof Hélène Frichot, with speakers Prof Naomi Stead, Prof Ana Miljacki and A/Prof Lilian Chee.
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Overlapping Emergences: Design Education between Disciplines and the Digital
This panel explores technologies as inspirations, tools and outcomes of newly emergent educational approaches. Moderated by A/Prof Kate Tregloan, with speakers A/Prof James Birt, Prof Katja Holtta-Otto, Prof Mónica Ponce de León and Colin Simpson.
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Learning from Making: Design and Prototyping
This session asks about how education has shifted and what the hurdles and future trajectories are for prototyping and fabrication in architecture and design education. Moderated by A/Prof Rochus Hinkel, with speakers Dr Scott Mayson, Prof Alisa Andrasek and Jack Halls.
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Speculating on the Present: Risky Encounters in school-based Design Education
The panel discusses how we exist in the world, and how design education might rethink, reimagine and revisit how design can help us make sense of being in the world. Moderated by Dr Kathryn Coleman, with speakers Prof Lisa Grocott, Adam Douglas Hill and Colin Chapman.
