Towards Integrative Design: Bio-Inspired and Digitally Fabricated

We are pleased to invite you to the “Towards Integrative Design” Symposium, where experts and thinkers will explore the challenges facing our built environment and present innovative responses that lead to long-lasting structures, bio-integrated materials, and inclusive living environments for all beings. We seek contributions from practitioners, researchers and theorists addressing the profound transformations driven by digital technologies, such as 3D printing, robotics, and autonomous systems. The symposium aims to generate discussions on design-driven, innovative construction for regenerative architecture that integrates biological principles into architectural and material practices, generating positive environmental impacts. It focuses on exploring the intersections between bio-integrated architecture and advanced computational design processes. We are particularly interested in implementation strategies, scaling-up current state-of-the-art, and translating research into practical applications. Additionally, we seek practitioners who adopt an integrated approach, where function, design, fabrication, and computation are seamlessly intertwined into a unified design strategy and workflow. The event will showcase novel projects and research in sustainable building construction, computational design, robotic fabrication, and material innovation such as the characterisation of responsiveness properties of biomaterials or the use of mycelium in high performance environments.