SIGraDi

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]

YearPlaceInstitutionTheme
1997Buenos AiresUniversidad de Buenos AiresNo subject
1998Mar del PlataUniversidad Nacional de Mar del PlataNo subject
1999MontevideoUniversidad de la RepúblicaNo subject
2000Rio de JaneiroUniversidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroConstruindo (n)o Espaço Digital
2001ConcepciónUniversidad del Bio BioNo subject
2002CaracasUniversidad Central de VenezuelaNo subject
2003RosarioUniversidad Nacional de RosarioCultura Digital y Diferenciación
2004São LeopoldoUniversidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos[2]El Sentido y el Universo Digital
2005LimaUniversidad Peruana de Ciencias AplicadasVisión y Visualización
2006SantiagoUniversidad de ChilePost Digital
2007México, D. F.Universidad La SalleLa Comunicación en la Comunidad Visual
2008La HabanaInstituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio EcheverríaGráfica Digital e Informática Aplicada: Cooperación, Integración y Desarrollo
2009São PauloUniversidade Presbiteriana MackenzieDe lo Moderno a lo Digital: Desafios de una Transición
2010BogotáUniversidad de Los AndesDisrupción, modelación y construcción: Dialogos cambiantes
2011Santa FeUniversidad Nacional del Litoral[3]Cultura Aumentada
2012FortalezaUniversidade Federal do CearáForma(in)formación
2013ValparaisoUniversidad Técnica Federico Santa María[4]Knowledge-based Design
2014MontevideoUniversidad de la RepúblicaDesign in Freedom
2015Santa CatarinaUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaInformación de Proyecto para la interacción
2016Buenos AiresUniversidad de Buenos AiresCrowdthinking
2017ConcepciónUniversidad de ConcepciónResilience Design

Arturo Montagú [5] Award for outstanding contributions

YearPlaceRecipients
2005LimaJulio Bermúdez (Argentina)
2006SantiagoDiana Rodríguez Barros (Argentina)
2007México, D. F.Leonardo Combes (Argentina)
2008La HabanaWithout Award
2009São PauloGonzalo Vélez Jahn (Venezuela)
2010BogotáBob Martens (Netherlands)
2011Santa FeAlfredo Stipech (Argentina)
2012FortalezaEduardo Nardelli (Brazil)
2013ValparaisoPablo C. Herrera (Perú)
2014MontevideoMaria Elena Tosello (Argentina)
2015Santa CatarinaRodrigo García Alvarado (Chile)
2016Buenos AiresGuillermo Vásquez de Velasco (Perú)
2017ConcepciónGabriela 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]

References

  1. 1 2 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. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
  8. ↑ "DBLP". DBLP. University of Trier. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "Researchgate". ResearchGate. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
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