1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence in Design (2009), Manchester, United Kingdom

The GC workshop consists of hands-on activity, with tutors drawn from the most important groups investing in computational design in industry and academia. The goals of the workshop will be to explore in depth what can be done with computational design tools by the attendees. It will create a critical forum based on professionals who actually practice the skill of parametric and computational geometry. The workshop will be a great opportunity to meet and work with the most important players both from the academic and commercial worlds. The workshop is supported by Bentley Systems and the SmartGeometry Group, and organised in collaboration with MInD Research Group, University of Salford, UK.

The symposium will investigate the emerging concept of “Distributed Intelligence in Design”. Experts, intellectuals, academics and practitioners in the field of architectural design and production, considered to be leading figures in the field, will debate the direction of technologies and practices that are deemed as influential in setting the agenda for future research, practice and education.
The symposium is organised in collaboration with the Sub-working Group, Free Form Design (FFD), of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS), MInD Research group of the University of Salford, RIBA Northwest and the Centre for Construction Innovation (CCI) in Manchester.

Invited speakers:

Brent Allpress, RMIT Architecture, Australia

Peter Brandon, University of Salford, UK

Andrew Borgart, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Cristiano Ceccato, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK

Matias del Campo, SPAN Architects, Austria

Robin Drogemuller, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Rita Cristina Ferreira, DWG Arquitetura e Sistemas, Brazil

Manfred Grohmann, Bollinger & Grohmann, Germany

Sean Hanna, UCL Bartlett, UK

Lars Hesselgren, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, Smart Geometry, UK

Arto Kiviniemi, Granlund, Finland

Bryan Lawson, University of Sheffield, UK

Eduardo Lyon, Universidad Católica, Chile

Volker Mueller, Bentley Systems Incorporated, USA

Carlos Perez, McNeel Europe

Martin Riese, Gehry Technologies, Hong Kong

David Rutten, Robert McNeel & Associates

Paul Seletsky, Skidmore Owings and Merrill, USA

Hugh Whitehead, Foster and Partners, UK

Chris Williams, University of Bath, UK