ACADIA 2009

reForm()
How architects, engineers, artists and designers are using hardware, software and middleware technologies to create a new tomorrow
No longer just drawn or built, our homes, offices, factories and cities are being increasingly programmed, filled with sensors and shaped by new parameters.  These strategies and devices give us the ability to produce new types of spaces that actively respond to users and the natural environment, radically altering the ideas of ambience, site and context.
While those who carefully produce these new spaces – the architects, engineers, contractors, artists and designers - are busy understanding how buildings can adapt by changing form or operation, questions about the reasons that drive reform remain.  What creative urges underlie this change and why should our environments undergo responsive transformations? Are deeper unidentified cultural forces at play?
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects, is proud to host “reForm()” – the 2009 international conference of the  Association of Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA) – a conference about tomorrow’s visionary architecture and the hardware, software and middleware systems that work to revolutionize our daily lives.