Nature Inspired Design- relevant conferences

Upcoming conferences, workshops and other events

In no particular order. If any submission deadlines are mentioned please confirm them with the conference organisers!

Third Iteration: Third Internation Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts

30 November- 2 December, 2005, Melbourne, Australia
(Deadline: Papers for review: September 9)
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~iterate/TI/index.html
Speakers include Peter Bentley and Casey Reas.

London Design Festival 2005

15-30 September, 2005, London, UK
http://www.londondesignfestival.com/
The 3rd London Design Festival, covering all aspects of design. Last year had 70 exhibitions, events, seminars, screenings, lectures and 150,000 visitors, and this year promises to be even bigger.

European Conference on Complex Systems Satellite Workshop: Embracing Complexity in Design

17 November, 2005, Paris
(Deadline: Papers: September 18; Registration: October 31)
http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/ecid/eccs_workshop.html
Part of the activities of the Embracing Complexity in Design cluster.
The aim of the workshop is to link together the design community and the complexity community and report the state of the art in research which exploits and encourages this cross-fertilization. Members of the design community are increasingly coming to understand the importance of complexity theory, while members of the complexity community are increasingly coming to understand that the challenges facing design researchers offer rich opportunities to both apply and advance complexity science.

The hypothesis of the cluster is that complexity exists across every aspect of design, including:

• many designed products and systems are inherently complex, e.g. aeroplanes, buildings, cities, microchips, information systems, manufacturers, organisations.
• the social and economic context of design is complex, embracing market economics, legal regulation, social trends, mass culture, fashion, diffusion of innovation and much more.
• the process of designing can involve complex social dynamics, with many people processing and exchanging complex heterogeneous information over complex human and communication networks, in the context of many changing constraints
• designers need to understand the often complex dynamic processes used to fabricate and manufacture products and systems: design, products and processes co-evolve.

Next Biomimetics meeting

23 September, 2005, Bath, UK
(Deadline: ASAP!)
The theme for this meeting will be Commercial Biomimetics, in light of increasing interest in this area.

CEC 2005

2-5 September, 2005, Edinburgh, UK
(Deadline: Submissions closed)
http://cec2005.org/
The 2005 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation.

Eco-Architecture 2006

14-16 June, 2006, New Forest UK
(Deadline: ASAP)
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/eco-arch06/
The First International Conference on the Harmonisation Between Architecture and Nature.

Fifth International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems

6-9 November, 2005, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Deadline: Papers: July 1; Sessions/tutorials: June 12)
http://his05.hybridsystem.com/
HIS'05 brings together researchers, developers, practitioners, and users of soft computing, computational intelligence, agents, and several other intelligent computing techniques.

Adapative Computing in Design and Manufacture 2006

25-27 April, 2006, Bristol, UK
(Deadline: Papers: October 20; Posters:?)
http://www.ad-comtech.co.uk
Linked to the 'Discovery in Design' cluster, part of the Design 21 program. The conference aims to explore the integration of evolutionary search, exploration and optimisation and associated Computational Intelligence.

Sustainable Innovation '05- Centre for Sustainable Design 10th international conference

24-25 October, 2005, Brussels, Belgium
(Deadline: ?)
http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/

ECAL 05- VIIIth European Conference on Artificial Life

5-9 September, 2005, Kent, UK
(Deadline: Paper submissions closed, but workshop submissions open until 15-27 May)
http://www.ecal2005.org
Interesting workshops, including Unconventional Computing, Systems Biology, and Active agents and their environments as dynamical systems.

Design and Nature 2006- 3rd International Conference Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering

24-26 May, 2006, New Forest, UK
(Deadline:open)
http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2006/design06/

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