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
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Keynote 2: What matters in design (secondary and higher) education now and for the future
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Keynote 3: Towards the Certainty of Uncertainty
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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.
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Scale and Network
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Urbanism in the Age of Climate Change
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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The Sound of Architecture
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Strategies for Innovation through Research
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
Design Research and Practice
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Interspecies Design
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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From Hybrid Environments to Altered Realities
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Frontiers: Artificial Intelligence, Materials and Systems
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Landscape Terrain Modelling
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Digital World Building – Digital Social Spaces
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
Design Research and Education
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Creative Practice Research and its Messy Methods
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Overlapping Emergences: Design Education between Disciplines and the Digital
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Learning from Making: Design and Prototyping
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.
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Speculating on the Present: Risky Encounters in school-based Design Education
This session scrutinises how data can be used across design, construction, and operation via three highly diverse approaches by renowned industry experts.

