Experiments, Disruptions, Affordances - Future Design Research

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.

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne

Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne

Advanced Digital Design + Fabrication Research Hub, University of Melbourne

Federation Square, Melbourne

Contact:

msd-symposium@unimelb.edu.au

Opening and Welcome to Country

Senior Cultural Heritage Advisor, Boon Wurrung Foundation

Dean of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne

Co-convenors

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, Co-convenor and Co-director ADD+F Research Hub, The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor in Architecture and Design, Co-convenor and Co-director ADD+F Research Hub, The University of Melbourne

Head of the Abedian School of Architecture, Faculty of Society and Design, Bond University, Co-convenor and Co-director ADD+F Research Hub

Keynote speakers

Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the University of Salford

Senior Lecturer, Indigenous Engagem, University of Queensland

Monash University Design Education

Professor, OST University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil Switzerland

Director, Architectural Association DRL / Minimaforms

Robert Garland Treseder Fellow 2022 / Co-director, Oyler Wu Collaborative Inc. / Faculty, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc)

Panellists

Associate Professor - Quantity Surveying and Construct, Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne

Architect, Professor of Japan Womens University, miya akiko architecture atelier

RMIT Architecture, Professor of Design Innovation Technologies, Director, AIARCH & Biothing

Executive Director - Resolve Insight

Assoc Dean Engagement, Assoc Prof Film Screen and Creative Media, Faculty of Society and Design @ Bond University

Victorian Academy Teaching Excellence Program

National CAD Manager, Senior Landscape Architect, Realm Studios

Leader, Research by Design Cluster, Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering, National University of Singapore

Lecturer in Architectural Design, ABP, UoM

Senior Lecturer, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne

Macquarie University, Associate Professor, Natural Sciences (with contributions from the Reef Design Lab and others)

Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia

Senior Researcher HASSELL

Ambassador, Blak Douglas Inc.

Founder of Marshall Day Acoustics Australia

Director, Bachelor of Design Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, The University of Melbourne

Siemens ecodomus Digital TWIN lead APAC

University of Melbourne Graduate, Fab Lab Coordinator

Postdoctoral Fellow, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, UoM

Professor of Engineering Design, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor in Digital Architecture and Associate Dean (Academic Resources), The University of Melbourne

Associate Professor of Digital Engineering, The University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Faculty of Engineering and IT (FEIT)

Associate Director / Head of VR, ZHVR Group

Assistant Professor, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Lecturer In Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne

Principal at JWA

Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design, The University of Melbourne

Interim Dean, School of Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University

Assitant Professor, Department of Architecture, University of Washington

Professor of Architecture at MIT

Architect, Professor of Yokohama National University, Onishimaki + Hyakudayuki Architects

Lecturer In Building Information Modelling, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne

Lecturer in Construction Management, The University of Melbourne

Dean and Professor School of Architecture, Princeton University

Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, The University of Melbourne

Regional Head of Strategy, Arup

Associate Professor Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland

Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design, The University of Melbourne

Digital Engineering Lead, BESIX Watpac

Professor, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Education Innovation Designer, Monash University

Senior lecturer in the School of Architecture and Design, RMIT

Research Fellow, Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne

Director, Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT

Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, The University of Melbourne

Director of Innovation and Sustainibility / Partner at Henning Larsen

Senior Associate, HASSELL

Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), BEL+T, The University of Melbourne

Architect, Senior Lecturer, Production Designer, Eric Wong

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore

Video recordings from the 2022 Future Design Research Symposium are now available.

Co-convenors:

Symposium partners:

Contact:

Opening and Welcome to Country

Co-convenors

Keynote speakers

Panellists

Amalia Athanassopoulos

Colin Chapman

Daniel Davis

Tim Goring

Associate Professor Julie Jupp

Professor Ana Miljacki

Linde Ryckeboer

Associate Professor Roland Snooks

Keynote speeches

Keynote 1: Inlays, Loose Fits, and Other Puzzling Forms of Assembly

Keynote 2: What matters in design (secondary and higher) education now and for the future

Keynote 3: Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty

Design Research and Industry

From Disruption to Control (and back) > Transforming your Project with Data

Scale and Network

Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change

The Sound of Architecture

Strategies for Innovation through Research

Design Research and Practice

Interspecies Design

From Hybrid Environments to Altered Realities

Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence, Materials and Systems

Landscape Terrain Modelling

Digital World Building – Digital Social Spaces

Design Research and Education

Creative Practice Research and its Messy Methods

Overlapping Emergences: Design Education between Disciplines and the Digital

Learning from Making: Design and Prototyping

Speculating on the Present: Risky Encounters in school-based Design Education