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Humanizing Digital Reality

Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017

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  • Answers questions about the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much human is in control of its surroundings

  • Poses new challenges to match the complex algorithms that we use for city planning to their expectations for living

  • Questions whether inventions reverse the humanly controlled algorithms into a space where humans are controlled by the algorithms

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Table of contents (56 chapters)

  1. Material Practice

  2. Structural Innovation

  3. Data Farming

  4. Data Shaping Cities

  5. Thermodynamic Practice

  6. Scientific Contributions

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About this book

This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings? How far does our reach as humans really go? Do the complex algorithms that we use for city planning nowadays live up to their expectations and do they offer enough quality? How much data do we have and can we control? Are today’s inventions reversing the humanly controlled algorithms into a space where humans are controlled by the algorithms? Are processing power, robots for the digital environment and construction in particular not only there to rediscover what we already knew and know or do they really bring us further into the fields of constructing and architecture?

The chapter authors were invited speakers at the 6th Symposium "Design Modelling Symposium: Humanizing Digital Reality", which took place in  Ensa-Versailles, France from 16 - 20 September 2017.   

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ecole Nationale SupĂ©rieure d’Architecture de Versailles, Versailles, India

    Klaas De Rycke

  • University of the Arts, Berlin, India

    Christoph Gengnagel

  • Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Champs sur Marne, Australia

    Olivier Baverel

  • Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

    Jane Burry

  • School of Architecture + Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

    Caitlin Mueller

  • ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Paris, France

    Minh Man Nguyen

  • Philippe Rahm architects, Paris, France

    Philippe Rahm

  • The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Humanizing Digital Reality

  • Book Subtitle: Design Modelling Symposium Paris 2017

  • Editors: Klaas De Rycke, Christoph Gengnagel, Olivier Baverel, Jane Burry, Caitlin Mueller, Minh Man Nguyen, Philippe Rahm, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6611-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6610-8Published: 02 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4915-7Published: 23 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6611-5Published: 15 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXI, 684

  • Number of Illustrations: 82 b/w illustrations, 402 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Building Construction and Design, Solid Mechanics, Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design, Energy Efficiency

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