EuropIA.11: 11th International Conference on Design Sciences & Technology
Digital Thinking in Architecture, Civil Engineering, Archaeology, Urban Planning and Design : Finding the Ways — September: 19-21, 2007 – Montreal – Quebec – Canada

New digital cultures bring inevitable changes to our world and to the techniques, research methods and practices of design. The computer technology transforms slowly but surely the professions of environmental planning, architecture, archaeology and design. In recent years, we witness the emergence of digital methods using computer not only for facilitating technical tasks, but also to analyse project’s performance or amplify the creative thinking of designers. Educating the future professionals has become a real challenge due to the clash between fast developing technology and slower evolving new design thinking and values redefinition.

Confronting multi-disciplinary theoretical, teaching and practice experiences at the Europia11, will help finding the ways to the future of design.

Topics:

• Digital Design Thinking
• Environmental Design: Changing Values
• Digital Methods in Archaeology and Heritage Reconstruction
• Design Process and Know-how Communication

And EuropIA relevant subjects:

• Archaeology and Reconstruction
• Building and Construction Robotics
• Collaborative Design
• Design Education
• Design Support Environments
• Design Knowledge Representations
• Design Methods Process and Creativity
• Digital Fabrication and Prototyping
• Ecological and Sustainable Design
• Heritage Conservation and Reconstruction
• Human and Machine Intelligence
• Intelligent Design and Planning Tools
• Intelligent, Interactive and Responsive Environments
• Knowledge Based Design and Generative Systems
• Urban Design
• Virtual and Augmented Reality

Important Dates:

• December 1, 2006: Call for papers – Open
• March 15, 2007: Submission Full paper deadline
• April 30, 2007: Notifications to Authors
• June 15, 2007: Final papers camera ready

Papers Submission
Papers should be maximum 12 pages in length (a full page of text is about 500 words), i.e. your contribution might be around 5000 words long (including references) plus figures. Papers must be submitted in a word format to the following address: eia11-submit {at} europia.org.

Reviewing

• All papers will be reviewed using a blind refereeing process by at least two members of the International Advisory Board.
• The proceedings of the conference will be published by Europia – Publishers, Paris, France
• Special issue of the Journal: IJDST (http://europia.org/DST)

Link: http://europia.org/EIA11