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{{Short description|Computing as applied to design}}

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The terms '''design computing''' and other relevant terms including '''design and computation''' and '''computational design''' refer to the study and practice of design activities through the application and development of novel ideas and techniques in computing. One of the early groups to coin this term was the [[Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition]] at the [[University of Sydney]] in Australia, which for nearlymore than fifty years (latesince 1960sthe tolate today1960s) pioneered the research, teaching, and consulting of design and computational technologies. This group organised the academic conference series "Artificial Intelligence in Design (AID)"<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789401052382|title=Artificial Intelligence in Design ’92'92 {{!}} John S. Gero {{!}} Springer|language=en}}</ref> published by Springer during that period. AID was later renamed "Design Computing and Cognition (DCC)"<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dccconferences.org/dcc18/|title=Eighth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition DCC'18 or DCC18|last=Gero|first=John|website=dccconferences.org|access-date=2017-11-13}}</ref> and is currently a leading biannual conference in the field. Other notable groups in this area are the Design and Computation<ref>architecture.mit.edu/computation/program/overview</ref> group at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]]'s School of Architecture + Planning and the Computational Design<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://arch.gatech.edu/computational-design|title=Computational Design {{!}} School of Architecture {{!}} Georgia Institute of Technology {{!}} Atlanta, GA|website=arch.gatech.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-13}}</ref> group at [[Georgia Tech]].

Whilst these terms share in general an interest in computational technologies and design activity, there are important differences in the various approaches, theories, and applications. For example, while in some circles the term "computational design" refers in general to the creation of new computational tools and methods in the context of [[computational thinking]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=3132087|title=Ubiquity: Computational design|website=ubiquity.acm.org|access-date=2017-11-13}}</ref> design computing is concerned with bridging these two fields in order to build an increased understanding of design.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319149554#aboutBook|title=Design Computing and Cognition '14 {{!}} John S. Gero {{!}} Springer|language=en}}</ref>.

The Bachelor of Design Computing (BDesComp)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://sydney.edu.au/courses/courses/uc/bachelor-of-design-computing.html|title=Bachelor of Design Computing|author=|date=|website=The University of Sydney|accessdateaccess-date=18 April 2018}}</ref> was created in 2003 at the [[University of Sydney]] and continues to be a leading programme in interaction design and creative technologies, now hosted by the [http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/research/designlab/index.shtml Design Lab]. In that context, design computing is defined to be ''the use and development of computational models of design processes and digital media to assist and/or automate various aspects of the design process with the goal of producing higher quality and new design forms''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au//bitstream/2123/1024/1/architecture_2004.pdf|title=Faculty of Architecture Handbook 2004|last=|first=|date=|website=University of Sydney Library|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>.

==Areas==

In recent years a number of research and education areas have been grouped under the umbrella term "Designdesign Computingcomputing", namely:

*[[Artificial Intelligenceintelligence]] in Designdesign

*[[Expert system]]s and [[knowledge-based systems]]

*[[Artificial Architecture]]

*Expert and Knowledge-based Systems

*[[Computational creativity]]

*[[Computer-Aidedaided Designdesign]]

*[[Responsive computer-aided design]]

*[[Digital architecture]]

*[[Digital morphogenesis]]

*Visual and Spatialspatial Modellingmodelling

*Computational Analogyanalogy

*Automated Designdesign Systemssystems

*Design Supportsupport Systemssystems

*[[Computer-supported Supportedcooperative Cooperative Workwork]] (CSCW)

*[[Building Informationinformation Modelingmodeling]] (BIM)

*[[Extended reality]] (XR)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zellner |first1=Peter |title=Hybrid space : new forms in digital architecture |date=1999 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |___location=London |isbn=0500341737}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Baradaran Rahimi|first1=Farzan|last2=Levy|first2=Richard M.|last3=Boyd|first3=Jeffrey E.|date=2021-02-01|title=Hybrid Space: An Emerging Opportunity That Alternative Reality Technologies Offer to the Museums|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331218793065|journal=Space and Culture|language=en|volume=24|issue=1|pages=83–96|doi=10.1177/1206331218793065|bibcode=2021SpCul..24...83B |s2cid=149847590 |issn=1206-3312|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and [[spatial computing]]

*Digital place-making<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hespanhol |first1=Luke |last2=Haeusler |first2=Hank |last3=Tomitsch |first3=Martin |last4=Tscherteu |first4=Gernot |title=Media architecture compendium : digital placemaking |date=2017 |publisher=Avedition |___location=Stuttgart, Germany |isbn=9783899862515}}</ref>

==Research groups==

The main research groups working in this area span from Faculties of Architecture, Engineering and Computer Science. Australia has been a pioneer in this area. For the last five decades the [[Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition]] (KCDC), currently known as the Design Lab, at the [[University of Sydney]] has been active in establishing this area of research and teaching. The [[University of Sydney]] offers a Bachelor of Design Computing ([http://sydney.edu.au/architecture/study/bdescomp.shtml]) and the [[University of New South Wales]] also in [[Sydney]] a Bachelor of Computational Design ([https://www.be.unsw.edu.au/undergraduate-degrees/computational-design/about-computational-design]). In the US this research area is also known as "Design and Computation", namely at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ([[MIT]]). Other relevant research groups include:

*Critical Research in Digital Architecture ([https://web.archive.org/web/20091024123004/http://www.crida.net/ CRIDA]), Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne

*School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon

*Department of Computer Science, University College London

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*Faculty of Architecture, [[Istanbul Bilgi University]], Turkey

*Centre of IT and Architecture (CITA), [[The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts]], Copenhagen

*Institute of Architectural Algorithms & Applications ([http://labaaa.org Inst.AAA]), Southeast University, Nanjing

*Department of Experimental and Digital Design and Construction, University of Kassel, Germany

*Computational Media Design ([https://science.ucalgary.ca/computational-media-design CMD]) program, University of Calgary, Canada

*School of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Urbanism ([https://www.fec.unicamp.br/english/ FEC-Unicamp]), University of Campinas, Brazil

*Computation, Appearance, and Manufacturing group ([http://cam.mpi-inf.mpg.de/?view=home CAM]), Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany

==Conferences==

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==External links==

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