Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture will host smartgeometry June 1-6, 2020. Smartgeometry (sg2020) is a bi-annual Workshop + Conference, this year entitled sg2020 Vision. The Workshop + Conference is a gathering of the global community of innovators and pioneers in the fields of architecture, design, and engineering.
The Workshop is a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of academia, professional practice, and industry. Workshop participants come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration. The call for workshop clusters is now open to proposals through Friday, 20 December 2019.
Learn more on the sg2020 website.
sg2020 Vision
Humans change the world. Design both enables and realizes this change. But the current rate and reach of global transformation challenges design to learn, adapt, and act. The climate crisis, urbanization, population growth (and decline in some places), and technological complexity each pose deep issues for design.
Design needs new views, tools, and practices. Practitioners and researchers must understand and embrace the design, science, and social policy of sustainability, robotics, big data, machine learning, the Internet of things, the data economy, and much more.
Design’s scope, reach, technologies, and tools will all change radically. But to what end? And how?
At sg2020 we seek new visions for design and new strategies for achieving wise change. We seek viewpoints that expand our capabilities to deal with the existential issues we face.
Workshop Clusters
The sg2020 workshops are a unique creative cauldron attracting attendees from across the world of academia, professional practice, and industry. The workshops are open to 100 applicants who come together for four intensive days of design and collaboration.
Workshops are organized around 10 clusters, each a unique hub of expertise, comprised of people, knowledge, tools, and materials. Clusters are led by two champions exploring a specific area related to the challenge, lasting for four days in equal partnership with 10 collaborators each.
Physical prototyping is encouraged to complement digital investigations and to help answer ambitious research questions related to the challenge. Carnegie Mellon has extensive physical prototyping facilities and applicants are encouraged to use these. A public exhibition party will be held on the last day showcasing the outcome of the workshops.
Champions are also encouraged to form their own collaborations with the host university or sponsorships with local firms to provide additional equipment as needed.
A budget will be provided to each cluster for workshop materials. Travel, accommodation, and registration will be covered for each cluster’s two champions.
Workshop Proposals
Deadline extended to Friday, 20 December 2019
The call for clusters is now open to proposals which respond in innovative ways to this year's challenge. To submit a proposal, please send up to two pages describing your objectives, a clear schedule, expected costs, sponsors, requirements, outcomes, etc. as well as a one page CV or bio for each champion.
Please send applications to registrar@smartgeometry.org by 20 December 2019.