eCAADe and IRU 4: Information Design

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eCAADe andIRU 4 Information Design

• dr. Johan Verbeke
• Hogeschool voor Wetenschap Kunst
• Sint-Lucas Architecture
• Brussels - Belgium

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eCAADe

• Education and research in Computer Aided
  Architectural Design in Europe
• International organisation
• Large membership
• www.ecaade.org

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To further the general aims of the promotion of
exchange and collaboration, the Association sets
out to

• Create an information network about CAAD
  activities and facilities of special interest
  existing in the schools
• Search for solutions to facilitate the exchange
  of staff, students teaching programs and computer
  software between schools

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General aims eCAADe (continued)

• Make specific proposals towards the creation of
  closer relations between education, research and
  practice
• Establish contact with governmental,
  international and professional organisations and
  agencies.

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Annual Conference

• 2002 Warsaw University of Technology - Faculty
  of Architecture (Poland) (18-21/9)
• Design Education - Connecting the Real and the
  Virtual
• www.ecaade2002.pl
• 2003 Graz University of Technology - Faculty of
  Architecture (Austria)

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DIGITAL eCAADe PROCEEDINGS

• Covers 1983-2000
• pdf-format
• ISBN 0-9523687-9-X

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CUMINCAD

• http//itc.fgg.uni-lj.si/cumincad/
• CumInCAD is a cumulative index of publications
  about computer aided architectural design.
• It includes bibliographic information about over
  3000 papers from journals and conferences.

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CUMINCAD

• ACADIA
• CAADRIA
• eCAADe
• SIGRADI
• CAAD Futures
• AVOCAAD

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eCAADe Board

• Andy Brown (University of Liverpool) is current
  president
• Other members include
• Henri Achten, TUEindhoven
• Jelena Petric, Strathclyde University
• Tom Maver, Strathclyde University
• Johan Verbeke, WK, Sint-Lucas

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IRU 4

• This IRU researches and develops information
  structures and tools needed to incorporate the
  user-oriented information from the three
  different dimensional viewpoints intentional,
  structural and functional.
• Some of the projects in this IRU aim at designer
  education.

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IRU 4

• Links to other IRUs
• Wide variety in themes VR, environmental
  management, urban problems, energy assessment,
  architectural design decision processes, ...
• Bring user orientation on foreground
• Develop three viewpoints.