Dear all,
Following my message about Design Community, please find below 2 announcments of
conference on Design sciences and technologies that our emerging-community is
organising.
Best regards
Khaldoun
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Design and emerging e-commerce environnement -
14 - 15 November, 2000
University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K
http://europia.org/DEECE
The term "e-commerce" is gaining currency with the burgeoning of the Internet as a
medium for commercial transactions. Anyone with a credit card and a networked PC can
browse on-line catalogues of books, computer games, clothing or airline schedules,
place orders and bookings electronically and receive the goods and services by post a
few days later. This extension of mail ordering provides a simple grasp of the
potential of e-commerce, and suggests its extrapolation into other areas of commerce
and design practice.
There are some obvious links between e-commerce and design. Such systems have to be
designed. There are artefacts to be designed to interface with and house the
electronic environments, the hardware, the ubiquitous electronic devices. But there
are also
design implications of e-commerce for products, structures, architecture, the city
and planning. What becomes of the concept of the product, commercial center, the
home, the school and the suburb in the light of e-commerce?
Design and e-commerce also come together as we think of how design is to operate as a
practice within the emerging e-commerce environment. How do designers participate in
business-to-business e-commerce, with other designers, consultants and suppliers? How
do they market and deliver their services on-line? What tools and services do
designers need? Designers design electronic environments. They also populate them
with their own activities.
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Advances in Design Sciences and Technology
Architecture - Civil Engineering - Urban Planning - Policy Analysis
25-27 April 2001 Delft, The Netherlands
http://europia.org/eia8
Goals and objectives of EuropIA conferences:
The Europia Conferences are organized as a cross-platform for the study and analysis
of the application of the information, communication and computer technologies to
architecture, building engineering, civil engineering, urban design, urban planning
and policy analysis.
What makes this conference unique is the interaction of different disciplines
(building informatics, hydroinformatics, design education, etc.) regarding their
approach, methods and techniques for the application of advanced technologies to
architecture, civil engineering, building engineering, urban planning and policy
analysis. Specifics of disciplines are not the subject of the conference but serve as
cases. Cross-platform discussions and interactions help to enhance scope of these
technologies beyond their existing application limits.
Furthermore, we seek a discussion of terms and conditions for introducing new tools
(offered by the latest technology developments) and new strategies (required by the
inevitable changes of the professional and educational working environments of
architecture, building engineering, civil engineering, urban design, urban planning
and policy analysis).
Relevant subjects and themes include but are not limited to following topics:
* Design Methods
* Collaborative Design
* Product Modelling
* Intelligent CAD/ -CAM/ -CIM/ -GIS
* Design Informatics
* Planning Informatics
* Building Informatics
* Construction Informatics
* Geoinformatics
* Hydroinformatics
* Design Support Environments
* Design Information Environments
* Design Decision Support Systems
* Design Knowledge Representations
* Human and Machine Intelligence
* Image Processing (applications and components)
* Remote sensing (applications and components)
* Building and Construction Robotics
* Computer Vision (applications and components)
* Design Education
* Virtual Design Studio
* Machine Training and Learning Systems
* Interactive Virtual Campus (Distance Teaching and Learning Environments)
* Design Case-based Reasoning
* Artificial Intelligence
* Intelligent Design and Planning Tools
* Computer Graphics
* Interactive Virtual Realities for Design and Planning of the Built Environment
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