Extended deadline: 2 October CAADRIA 2016 Call for Papers (abridged) Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing 21st International Conference of the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia 30 March - 2 April 2016 Abstract due: 2 October 2015 Submit to: www.caadria-review.org The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Design (MSD), Melbourne, Australia; in collaboration with RMIT University Today, human activities constitute the primary environmental impact on the planet. In this context, commitments to sustainability, or minimization of damage, prove insufficient. To develop regenerative, capabilities, architectural design needs to extend beyond the form and function of things in contained projects and engage with the management of complex systems. Such systems involve multiple types of dynamic phenomena – biotic and abiotic, technical and cultural – and can be understood as living. Engagement with such living systems implies manipulation of pervasive and unceasing change, irrespective of whether it is accepted by design stakeholders or actively managed towards homeostatic or homeorhetic conditions. Responding to this challenge, CAADRIA 2016 seeks to interrogate the notion of continuity and the applicable architectural toolsets in order to map and discover opportunities for innovation. For the full version of the call and further information, see: https://www.academia.edu/13830081/Living_Systems_and_Micro-Utopias_Towards_Continuous_Designing And the conference website: http://caadria2016.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------