Host: Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
Chairman: Stefan
Wrona
The 2002 eCAADe conference theme focused on the wide sphere of two overlapping design worlds: the real and the virtual. As the sphere of CAAD continues to expand, the question of how these worlds can be effectively and creatively inter-related will be raised and explored. Network based distributed environments produce new conditions for design and design education. Opportunities and limitations derived from the emerging globalization of distributed design education offer new challenges for architectural schools. The special aim of the Warsaw conference was to make explicit the connections between the developments in the computer mediated world and the real world. Suggested topics were:
• Hybrid
design environments - formal schemes and practical
design implementations
• Design interpretation of the real in the context
of emergence of virtual environments
• Experiments and research with virtual worlds
• Pragmatic and imaginary scenarios of virtual
worlds developments
• Design methods in collaborative teams
• Creative implementations of digital environments
for design practices
• Multiple media implementation in architectural
education and practice
• Management of real and virtual data in design
processes
• Educational solutions - methodologies and technical
solutions
Proceedings: The eCAADe 2002 proceedings are available in book and CD-ROM format from Stefan Wrona.