Organization:SIGraDi

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The Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital, SIGraDi (Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics) gathers researchers, educators and professionals in architecture, urban design, communication design, Product Design and Art whose work involves the new digital media. It is an organization sister to ACADIA, eCAADe, CAADRIA and ASCAAD (see below).

SIGraDi organizes a yearly Congress when the most recent and state of the art digital technologies and applications are presented and debated.

Goals

  • Facilitate the interchange of information about digital graphics.
  • Connect research centers yet disconnected in Latin America.
  • Foster institutions and organs for the convergence and diffusion of each region's activities in the realm of Digital Graphics.
  • Keep a registry of people and institutions devoted to the production, research and education in our fields of knowledge.
  • Foster seminars and congresses.[1]

Annual Congress

SIGraDi congresses are intended as a region wide effort for the interchange of experiences, debate of our disciplines' advancements and the creation of references for the iberoamerican groups involved in digital media applied to education, research and professional practice

Themes

The Congress intends to generate a synthesis of research and collective intelligence, where the academic communities of the countries in Latin America and the World can share their knowledge, in a space devoted for presentations and discussions about work on this subject applied to various disciplines . The setting for our encounter is within the realms of design and project management at all different scales, and art in its multiple expressions, which anticipates a varied and valuable exchange that will promote self-assessment and reformulation of educational paradigms. We invite you to contribute from different areas of interest and from different types of approaches. Suggested, but not exclusive, thematic axes are:

  • Design Theory and Practice in Digital Contexts: Performance based design, Interdisciplinary design, Theories of design and Conceptual models, Projective research, Innovation and creativity, Design Cognition
  • Teaching in Digital Contexts and History of the Media:Education in digital contexts, Educating future designers, Platforms and MooC’s, Digital heritage, Media archaeology.
  • Digital Manufacturing and Construction:Automated construction, Rapid prototyping, Maker culture, Architectural Robotics.
  • Information, Modelling, and Simulations:Building Information Modelling (BIM), Simulations, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Smart cities
  • Information, Processing and Visualization:Visualization of information, Big Data, Computer vision, Image processing.
  • Morphogenesis, synthesis, and analysis of shapes:Parametric modelling, Generative systems, Complex and self-organized systems, Shape grammar
  • Interfaces and devices: Augmented and virtual reality, Interaction design, User Interfaces and User Experiences (UI/UX), Robotics, Responsive environments, sensors and feedback, Physical computing
  • Cultural Industries and Artistic Practices:Gaming and Digital animation, Interactive art, Digital art, Multimedia production
  • Crowdthinking:Collaborative and collective design, Social media and Gamification, Creative Commons and Open Source, Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding, Citizen science and Open science, Research, Learning, and Knowledge Networks, Distributed intelligences, Cloud computing

SIGraDi Congresses

The annual SIGraDi congress is the main event organised under auspices of the association. It is organised by a member in good standing, who volunteers for the organisation. The organiser is supported by members of the International Executive Committee.

During the years, SIGraDi has developed the policy to circulate the conference location in such a way that southern, central and northern areas of Latin America are reached regularly.

In the past years, the following SIGraDi Congresses have been organised[1]

Year Place Institution Theme
1997 Buenos Aires Universidad de Buenos Aires No subject
1998 Mar del Plata Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata No subject
1999 Montevideo Universidad de la República No subject
2000 Rio de Janeiro Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Construindo (n)o Espaço Digital
2001 Concepción Universidad del Bio Bio No subject
2002 Caracas Universidad Central de Venezuela No subject
2003 Rosario Universidad Nacional de Rosario Cultura Digital y Diferenciación
2004 São Leopoldo Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos[2] El Sentido y el Universo Digital
2005 Lima Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas Visión y Visualización
2006 Santiago Universidad de Chile Post Digital
2007 México, D. F. Universidad La Salle La Comunicación en la Comunidad Visual
2008 La Habana Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría Gráfica Digital e Informática Aplicada: Cooperación, Integración y Desarrollo
2009 São Paulo Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie De lo Moderno a lo Digital: Desafios de una Transición
2010 Bogotá Universidad de Los Andes Disrupción, modelación y construcción: Dialogos cambiantes
2011 Santa Fe Universidad Nacional del Litoral[3] Cultura Aumentada
2012 Fortaleza Universidade Federal do Ceará Forma(in)formación
2013 Valparaiso Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María[4] Knowledge-based Design
2014 Montevideo Universidad de la República Design in Freedom
2015 Santa Catarina Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Información de Proyecto para la interacción
2016 Buenos Aires Universidad de Buenos Aires Crowdthinking
2017 Concepción Universidad de Concepción Resilience Design

Arturo Montagú [5] Award for outstanding contributions

Year Place Recipients
2005 Lima Julio Bermúdez (Argentina)
2006 Santiago Diana Rodríguez Barros (Argentina)
2007 México, D. F. Leonardo Combes (Argentina)
2008 La Habana Without Award
2009 São Paulo Gonzalo Vélez Jahn (Venezuela)
2010 Bogotá Bob Martens (Netherlands)
2011 Santa Fe Alfredo Stipech (Argentina)
2012 Fortaleza Eduardo Nardelli (Brazil)
2013 Valparaiso Pablo C. Herrera (Perú)
2014 Montevideo Maria Elena Tosello (Argentina)
2015 Santa Catarina Rodrigo García Alvarado (Chile)
2016 Buenos Aires Guillermo Vásquez de Velasco (Perú)
2017 Concepción Gabriela Celani (Brazil)

Sister organizations

There are sister organizations around the world that provide more accessible regional forae for the discussion of computing and design. The major ones are

  • eCAADe - Association for Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe, since 1982.
  • CAADRIA - Association for Computer Aided Architectural Design in Asia, since 1996.
  • ACADIA - Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture, since 1981.
  • ASCAAD - Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design, since 2001.

Other organizations and resources

  • [CAAD Futures] - Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures, since 1985.
  • [CUMINCAD] - Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design.[6] with public CumInCAD records available via an Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) feed and records are available via multiple bibliographic archives and citation indexes online.[7][8][9]

External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 See more detailed information at http://www.sigradi.org
  2. See São Leopoldo Congress Website at http://ncg.unisinos.br/sigradi2004/
  3. http://www.fadu.unl.edu.ar/sigradi2011/
  4. http://sigradi2013.org/index.php/SIGraDi/index
  5. http://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/ijac20053309.content.pdf
  6. Read: Paper 249c: CUMINCAD.ES: A First Step Towards Multilingual Digital Libraries in CAAD in http://www.scix.net/db/use/bibliography/Show?249c
  7. "Architexturez CumInCAD OAI-PMH Mirror". Architexturez. http://cumincad.architexturez.net/arc/sigradi. Retrieved 24 November 2012. 
  8. "DBLP". DBLP. University of Trier. http://dblp.org/. Retrieved 14 February 2017. 
  9. "Researchgate". ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/. Retrieved 22 September 2012.