The Office of the Vice President for Outreach and Communications and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile invite you to the presentation of the book Idea Política Pública at the 38th Santiago International Book Fair (FILSA 2018).
Following its debut in Zurich, the exhibition CLOUD68-Papeles y voces, an initiative by the Fundación de Arquitectura Frágil, will be presented in Santiago at the Patricia Ready Gallery.
Architecture, design, engineering, and innovation in wood take center stage at Wood Week 2018, where more than 100 projects from across Chile and Latin America will be presented to the jury. This showcase, which highlights wood in all its forms, will feature new regional ventures from Arica to Punta Arenas, as well as celebrate the work of female artisans who craft this noble material.
Featuring two talks on models that have driven societal change—spanning both urban development and technology—the Master’s in City, Anthropocene, and Built Environment at FAD U.Finis Terrae will host the "Models of Reality Transformation" event on Thursday, April 12, at 7:30 PM.
Eleven of Brazil's leading lighting companies will participate in the "La Luz de Brasil" exhibition at the Marriott Hotel on October 17. The event will feature architectural, industrial, and decorative lighting solutions, alongside talks, product showcases, and demonstrations of the technology currently being developed by the Brazilian industry.
The launch of the final ARQDOCS publication of 2018 will take place on Thursday, December 6, at 7:00 PM. The event will feature a keynote lecture by researcher, architect, and historian Beatriz Colomina at the FADEU Auditorium.
Researcher Rodrigo Contreras of the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics (MAS) will deliver this lecture as part of the "Architecture of Selection" series. Organized by the School of Architecture at Universidad Finis Terrae, the series will explore the theme of distance throughout the second semester of 2018.
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Beyond AI_ded Design:
Looking Forward, Looking Backward
Thirty years after its founding, SIGraDi and the University of Chile invite the academic, professional, and creative community to participate in the 30th international congress of the Ibero-American Society of Digital Graphics, to be held in Santiago at the University of Chile from November 18 to 20, 2026.
This gathering marks a symbolic return to the University of Chile, which hosted SIGraDi 2006 two decades ago under the theme "The Human Factor." At that time, we invited participants to reflect critically on the role humans played in the emerging world of digital design. That critical look at the past—and the future—is more relevant than ever in the face of even more disruptive technologies.
In this spirit, we are proposing the concept of "AI_ded Design," a notion that updates the legacy of CAD (Computer-Aided Design) and projects it toward a new horizon where design, architecture, and urbanism are redefined by algorithmic structures, intelligent environments, and autonomous systems mediated by Artificial Intelligence.
We invite you to think beyond computer-aided design. We aim to open a space for discussion on a form of design where computation—increasingly transparent, ubiquitous, and autonomous—gives way to new forms of cognition, agency, emergence, distributed processes, and a necessary technological ethics that reconfigures design practices.
To stimulate this collective conversation, we propose four open questions:
What have we learned in these 30 years?
What have we improved in these 30 years?
What have we achieved in these 30 years?
What challenges are emerging in the relationship between humans, machines, and environments?
