Workshop on “Architecture and Ambient Intelligence”

Workshop Programme Announcement

In the context of the 2nd IET Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE06)
5-6 July 2006, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Hellas
http://conferences.iee.org/ie06/index.htm

Workshop Organisers

Prof. Dimitris Papalexopoulos, School of Architecture, N.T.U.A., Greece
Prof. Antonino Saggio, Department of Architecture, University «La Sapienza», Italy

Scope and objectives

The workshop will tend to establish an open list of research issues relating Architecture to Ambient Intelligence (AmI).
AmI components are disseminated to space, from the small scale to the large geographical one. They could be fixed to one place or mobile, integrated to the building fabric or clipped on.
AmI components are located. Even when they are mobile, their trajectories are conditioned by the structure of the supporting space. The functionality of an AmI system is related to the functionality of the space that hosts it. The development of AmI environments integrates space requirements and, at the same time, architectural design must shelter activities augmented with AmI.
Interaction design is already an issue for architectural thinking, linked to the design of physical / digital dispositifs prompting, but not defining in detail the activities sheltered.

We could start to establish an open list of issues:

• How existing spaces are redefined through AmI developments?
• How new spaces are designed to include an Intelligent Environment perspective?
• Is Ambient Intelligence proposing a new paradigm for Architecture?
• In what particular way future transformation and interaction could be taken into consideration in the initial architectural space design phase?
• How do we deal with instable space identities?
• How do we represent and construct the “not yet defined in its details”?
• How do we define the constructability of evolving intelligent environments?
• What is the materiality of evolving supports of desire instead of predefined frames of needs?
  

Submitted papers must discuss aspects, concepts, ideas or present applicable metaphors or practices. The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness and to stimulate discussion; therefore prospective authors must be able to support their opinion. Contribution of attendants is important, thus a set of discussion topics will be distributed beforehand.

Submission Instructions

Those wishing to present a paper are requested to submit their manuscript, via email, to Prof. Dimitris Papalexopoulos (dplxs@otenet.gr ), not later than May 10, 2006. Formatting guidelines can be found at the conference site. The papers will be reviewed by the Workshop PC. Papers selected for presentation will be included in the conference proceedings to be published by IET (http://www.theiet.org/).