Design and Shape Computation Workshop 06 Wednesday 8 March 2006 at The Open University Goals of the workshop The workshop is intended to explore current developments in theory, implementation and applications of shape computation in design, particularly generative methods. It will assess the state of recent research. The workshop is timely with several projects nearing completion ranging from PhD’s to research monographs, including George Stiny's book on Shape to be published in March. The Design and Shape Computation community has assembled at various times, especially through meetings at UCLA and MIT under institutional, professional and NSF initiatives and most recently in July 2004 under the auspices of the Design Computation and Cognition Conference (DCC04) in Boston. This workshop is intended as a local UK sequel to these meetings and prelude to the next DCC conference in Eindhoven July 2006. The workshop will review current work and frame promising areas for future research. In addition we will devote some time to exploring issues around Design Education and the role and place of Design as a Discipline in University teaching and research. The format of the day workshop is as round table discussion prompted by participants' accounts of their recent work. A possible agenda is given below with a very draft list of people who might like to give accounts in some form to the various areas of discussion. This is just a first suggestion to give some shape to the workshop.

Department of Design and Innovation Maps and directions …………………………. NSF/MIT Workshop on Shape Computation '99 Design Computation and Cognition Conference '04 Design Computation and Cognition Conference '06

Programme 10.00 Coffee at Berrill building 11.00 Welcome (D block Wilson building - Seminar room 4) Chris Earl George Stiny 11.30 Session 1 Generative Design - Theory and Implementation Iestyn Jowers Chris Earl Rob Baldock Scott Chase 12.30 Lunch 14.00 Session 2 Applications - Product Design, Engineering and Architecture Hau Hing Chau Mei Choo Ang Kristina Shea William Fawcett Miquel Prats 15.00 Tea 15.15 Session 3 Generation in Design Education Steve Garner Alison McKay 15.45 Plans and projects 16.00 Finish List of participants Sumbul Ahmad (Strathclyde University) sumbul.ahmad@strath.ac.uk Mei Choo Ang (University of Leeds) menmca@leeds.ac.uk Rob Baldock (University of Cambridge) rdb27@eng.cam.ac.uk Scott Chase (Strathclyde University) s.c.chase@strath.ac.uk Hau Hing Chau (University of Leeds) h.h.chau@leeds.ac.uk Chris Earl (The Open University) c.f.earl@open.ac.uk William Fawcett (University of Cambridge) wfawcett@carltd.com Steve Garner (The Open University) s.w.garner@open.ac.uk Iestyn Jowers (University of Cambridge) ij218@hermes.cam.ac.uk Lionel March (UCLA) lmarch@ucla.edu Alison McKay (University of Leeds) a.mckay@leeds.ac.uk Gareth Paterson (The Open University) g.a.paterson@open.ac.uk Miquel Prats (The Open University) m.prats@open.ac.uk Kristina Shea (TU München) Kristina.shea@pe.mw.tum.de George Stiny (MIT) stiny@mit.edu For further information please contact: Miquel Prats m.prats@open.ac.uk +44 (0)1908 653 554 Department of Design and Innovation The Open University Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA