Fwd: COOPERATIVE BUILDINGS"

Katherine Goff (ilt-l who-is-at carbon.cudenver.edu,Katherine_Goff@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:17:46 -0600

In light of the recent discussion on architecture, I thought some of
you might be interested.
Kathie

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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 14:56:07 +0200 (MET DST)
From: "Dr.Dr.Norbert Streitz" <streitz who-is-at darmstadt.gmd.de>
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Subject: Call for Papers: International Workshop on "COOPERATIVE
BUILDINGS"

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Announcement and Call for Papers


International Workshop

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at the crossroads of
information and communication technology,
new work practices and organizational innovation,
architecture and facility management

25.- 26. February 1998

Darmstadt, Germany

Organized by

German National Research Center for Information Technology
(GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH)

http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/CoopBuild98/

OBJECTIVES

The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners
who develop and use innovative work environments by making use of
recent advances in information and communication technology, new
concepts in work organisation, and a comprehensive perspective on
office building design.
Attention wil be focussed on ways and means to enable and support
flexible forms of communication and collaboration for a variety of
groups ranging from small local teams to large distributed
organizations,
utilizing a seamless integration of physical and digital objects, of
real
work spaces and virtual information spaces embedded in real
architectural
environments.

MOTIVATION

In the future, individual and cooperative work in organizations will be
characterized by a degree of flexibility and dynamics that will go far
beyond many of today's developments and examples. On demand and ad-hoc
teams, virtual organizations, distributed and mobile workers are only
initial examples of organizational innovation to be expected in the
future. The role of information and communication technology in this
development is manifold. On the one hand, it initiates and triggers new
forms of communication and cooperation processes. On the other hand,
it provides the infrastructure and application software needed to meet
the requirements which result from new ideas on organizing work
practices.
Contents and participants of work as well as contexts, processes and
structures will be changing frequently. It is time to reflect these
developments in the design of equally flexible and dynamic work
spaces.

The advent of information and communication technology already changed
work processes and contents of work significantly. However, the design
of work spaces, especially the physical work environments realized in
offices and buildings, remained almost unchanged. Current work spaces
are not prepared for or oriented towards a comprehensive integration of
the IT-infrastructure supporting work processes with the infrastructure
for managing and operating the building (=> facility management).

To facilitate the evolution of new forms of work and organization
at a high level of quality, it is necessary to integrate innovative
information and communication technology (hardware, software, networks)
with powerful spatial and physical structures (=> "roomware").
This results also in new challenges for architectural design: more
flexible and adaptable building structures, dynamic reconfigurability
of offices and work places, computer-based planning and building models
which exist and are maintained for the lifetime of buildings.

APPROACH

The concept of a "Cooperative Building" suggests a setting made to
foster human collaboration and communication. While it serves the
purpose of cooperation it is at the same time "cooperative" towards its
inhabitants. A Cooperative Building is an environment, which offers the
people who live and work in and around it, special and unprecedented
facilities for communication and cooperation purposes. It adapts
dynamically as working conditions or technological conditions change.

The workshop is meant to discuss what it takes to design and build
Cooperative Buildings as models and examples of future work
environments blending real and virtual worlds. Since this endeavor
requires a highly interdisciplinary approach, we will focus especially
on the relationships between organisational, architectural, and
technological factors.

Pertinent aspects have been investigated and realized in various places
of the world in recent years. This workshop is a place to report on and
to discuss relevant research, prototypes, experiments, pioneering
efforts
etc. and to learn from experience; it is a place to draw conclusions for
an integrated development in the future and to bring up new aspects
and ideas.

TOPICS

While reports on specific aspects and solutions are not excluded,
workshop participants are encouraged to strive for presenting
papers and reports which integrate views and topics from different
disciplines. Some specific areas of interest are:

What work organization proposes and asks for:

- flexible work organization models
- dynamic assignment of tasks and work spaces
- ad hoc and on demand teams
- teleworking scenarios and requirements
- virtual organizations
- flexible work areas such as business/ science club
- dynamic sharing of office space
- virtual offices
- mobility and reachability management
- workflow management
- workgroup computing
- adaptive information management
- virtual group and project meetings
.....

What information technology can provide:

- computer-supported cooperative work environments
- hypermedia/ multimedia information systems
- new forms of human-computer interaction
- multimedia conferencing
- electronic meeting rooms
- interactive electronic walls
- smart, active and adaptive rooms
- things that think
- augmented reality
- ubiquitous computing
- network infrastructure
- wireless networks
- mobile and nomadic computing
- active badges
- personal orientation systems
- multimodal interfaces
- recognition of movements, gestures, etc;
- tracing and tracking objects
- visualization techniques
- virtual reality applications
- public information systems and kiosks
- security infrastructure
.....

What architecture has to offer:

- Information Buildings with
integral building, space und business management
- transformation of work spaces to living spaces and vice versa
- new building typologies
- new planning and construction methods
- flexible building structures (construction, facade, walls ...)
- integral facility management
- flexible technical systems
(heating, air conditioning, installations ...)
- flexible and ergonomic interior design
(furniture, lighting, acoustics)
- intelligent building components
- sustainable, smart, and recycling materials
- stand alone energy concepts
- personal feedback of energy and material flows
- daylight-technologies
- hybrid combinations of information technologies and natural forces
- AI techniques for building design and maintenance
- sustainable concepts for urban design and architecture
.....

PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

In order to preserve the characteristics of a workshop, the number
of presentations and attendees will be limited for the benefit of
structured discussion and sufficient opportunities for informal
exchange of ideas. The workshop languages are English and
in some cases German.

Prospective attendees are invited to submit and present a paper
(English is preferred but German is also possible), which will be
evaluated with regard to its relevance to the workshop and published
in the Proceedings.

There are two types of papers:

- full length papers for a 20 minutes presentation
10 pages maximum incl. a 200 word abstract
- short papers for a 10 minutes presentation
5 pages maximum incl. a 100 word abstract

In parallel to the hard copy version of the manuscripts,
we strongly encourage electronic submissions in Postscript.
Details will be announced on the website.

The format and the publisher of the proceedings will be announced
with the information about acceptance of the papers.

Please submit your papers before 11. November 1997
to the programme chair at the following address:

Dr. Dr. Norbert Streitz
GMD-IPSI
Dolivostr. 15
D - 64293 Darmstadt
Germany

For more information and update of details in the future
please check the workshop's website at

http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/CoopBuild98/

Conference Chairs
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Heinz-Juergen Burkhardt GMD-TKT, Darmstadt
Norbert A. Streitz GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt

Programme Committee
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Norbert A. Streitz (Chair) GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt

Roy Ascott University of Wales College Newport

Knut Bahr GMD-TKT, Darmstadt

Hans-Joerg Bullinger FhG-IAO, Stuttgart

Heinz-Juergen Burkhardt GMD-TKT, Darmstadt

Ernest Edmonds University of Loughborough

Kay Friedrichs ifib, University of Karlsruhe

Wilhelm Glaser University of Tuebingen

Volker Hartkopf Carnegie Mellon University

Ludger Hovestadt University of Kaiserslautern

Hiroshi Ishii MIT MediaLab

Christel Kumbruck provet, Kassel

Saadi Lahlou Electricite de France, Paris

Gale Moore University of Toronto

Tom Moran Xerox PARC

William Mitchell MIT School of Architecture

Steven Poltrock Boeing Company, Seattle

Ralf Reichwald Technical University Muenchen

Jun Rekimoto SONY Computer Science Lab, Tokyo

Ken Sakamura University of Tokyo

Gerhard Schmitt ETH Zuerich

Jean Schweitzer Siemens Saarbruecken

Ralf Steinmetz GMD-IPSI and Darmstadt University of
Technology

Heinz Thielmann GMD-TKT, Darmstadt

Organization Committee
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Knut Bahr GMD-TKT, Darmstadt
Heinz-Juergen Burkhardt GMD-TKT, Darmstadt
Joerg Geissler GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt
Shin'ichi Konomi GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt
Rolf Reinema GMD-TKT, Darmstadt

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