PLAYING MODELS 2023: Artificial Intelligence, Architecture and Storytelling

PLAYING MODELS aims to address the fundamental conceptual and technological shifts that AI and computational storytelling instruments have introduced to design and engineering disciplines and how they are transforming millennia-old traditions of architecture and design thinking. This conference is at the vanguard of artificial intelligence and design and aims to produce reliable and valid data about implementing new technologies in architectural design practice. The purpose of the conference is to compile experiences in implementing AI and computational storytelling instruments to create models of architectural design. The conference is intended to bring together researchers, practitioners, philosophers, and theorists across multiple disciplines to discuss new paradigms of architectural thinking and production.

The conference is arranged as a series of short presentations and panel discussions over the course of two days, engendering close discourse and lively debate.

Conference website: https://www.ai-share-lab.com/playing-models-2023

Organized by Karla Saldana Ochoa, Adil Bokhari, Lee-Su Huang, and Nikola Marincic

Dates: November 2nd and 3rd 2023

Place:

The in-person event will be held at the John and Anne Sofarelli Family Gallery—Univesity of Florida School of Architecture (registration warrants entry) The conference attendance is free of charge, but requires registration. The event will also be streamed online.

Register for attending in-person: link

Register for attending online: link

AGENDA

Staging Machines: Immunizing tactics for sustaining constructive alienations

moderated by Karla Saldana

Julian Besems / The Bartlett / School of Architecture

Heidi Boisvert / University of Florida / School of Theatre + Dance

Tina Tallon / University of Florida / School of Music

Performing Plays: Facing the challenge of automated craftmanship

moderated by Lee-Su Huang

Pierluigi D’Acunto / TU Munich / School of Engineering and Design

Igor Pantic / The Bartlett / School of Architecture

Benjamin Ennemoser / Texas A&M / School of Architecture

Sculpting Images: Engendering a geometry in the free-form and free-structure condition

moderated by Adil Bokhari

Laure Michelon / UCLA / Architecture and Urban Design

Riccardo Villa / TU Vienna / Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics

Agostino Nickl / ETH Zurich / Chair of Digital Architectonics

Texting Symbols: Negentropic writing beyond the planetary common sense

moderated by Nikola Marincic

Vera Bühlmann / TU Vienna / Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics

Michael Doyle / Universite Laval / School of Architecture

Philippe Morel / The Bartlett /  School of Architecture

Playing Models is proudly sponsored by:

University of Florida College of Design, Construction, and Planning

University of Florida School of Architecture

University of Florida Citylab Orlando

Florida Climate Institute at the University of Florida

University of Florida AI2 Center

ETH Zurich