Playing Models: 2023 aims to address the fundamental conceptual and technological shifts that AI and computational storytelling instruments (AR/VR) have introduced to design and engineering disciplines and how they are transforming millennia-old traditions of architecture and design thinking. The conference questions Beaux-Arts and Bauhaus-Modernist design pedagogies and post-industrialization design approaches aspiring to efficiency and optimization. During the workshop, Playing Models strives to explore, discuss and develop such concepts in the form of texts, images, videos, and 3d models.

Topics:

• Performing Plays: A panel on facing the challenge of automated craftsmanship.
• Sculpting Images: A panel on ways of articulating projects, specifically architectural projects, in the realm of contemporary, artificially intelligent imaging technologies.
• Texting Symbols: A panel that aims to discuss modalities of human/machine emancipation by symbolic means.
• Staging Machines: A group of panelists, designers, artists, and storytellers will address questions about data and the power of machines to design, narrate, and reimagine our world.

Registration:

The conference attendance is free of charge, but requires registration.

• Register for attending in-person: link
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