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In this episode, Winka Dubbeldam, Founding Partner Archi-Tectonics NYC LLC and Director & CEO at SCI-Arc Los Angeles. A renowned architect and educator, shares her journey from Europe to the US, her influences, and her insights on the future of architecture with AI and sustainability.key topics Winka's career journey from the Netherlands to the US Influences from Rem Koolhaas, Stephen Hall, Bernard Chumi, and Peter Eiserman Evolution of teaching methods with digital tools and AI The role of

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AI has removed the friction that once forced teams to define coherent structures, leading to what Patrick Neeman calls a "Winchester Mystery House" of isolated features. We examine this velocity-versus-structure trade-off alongside Lucas Plabst’s findings that participants may withhold critical insights from AI moderators, threatening the validity of our data. Finally, we confront the dangerous shortcuts in our field, from synthesizing survey responses to using high-fidelity tools that

Send us Fan Mail Somewhere along the way, we picked up the idea that there's a correct way to do this. The right routine. The right tools. The right path, on the right timeline, that looks right in the feed. And when our creative life doesn't match it, we assume we're the problem. We're not. There's no rubric. There never was. In this episode, we sit with Toni Morrison, who published her first novel at 39, writing before dawn as a single mother with a full-time job, and what her life says abo...

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CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Luis Salazar Betancourt · Tech Soft 3DAdvances in computational design and additive manufacturing have enabled increasingly complex geometry, but industrial AI adoption remains constrained by a fundamental challenge: relating CAD design data to manufacturing behavior and downstream business processes. Geometry, process data, and enterprise information are typically analyzed in isolation, making it difficult to understand how design decisions

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Maria Claudia Valverde Rojas · University of Stuttgart, IntCDCThis presentation introduces a design and research framework that integrates geometry generation with real-world climatic and ecological data to support more-than-human thermal comfort in the exterior of building envelopes. Over the past two years, I have developed architected porous cellular structures, periodic and non-periodic, based on adaptive density minimal surfaces (ADMS) and

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Wasil Rezk · BeyondMathA new generation of AI models is emerging — not just faster approximators, but intelligent systems that understand and generate physics.This talk explores how foundational physics AI breaks from the surrogate modeling paradigm. Unlike models that rely on customer-provided simulation data or narrow datasets, BeyondMath’s models are trained on self-generated data rooted in first principles — not interpolating outcomes, but

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Shahroz Khan · Compute MaritimeWater transport, which accounts for approximately 90% of global trade, is essential to economic growth but poses a significant environmental challenge. In 2020, shipping emitted 1.4 billion tonnes of CO₂, nearly 3% of global emissions. Without decisive action, this figure could rise to 18% by 2050. To address this, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) is increasing regulatory and financial pressure on

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Wesley Essink · Siemens Digital Industries SoftwareEngineering design is increasingly shaped by diverse sources of data (e.g. scans, images, measurements, simulation, requirements, reference geometries etc.). Traditional geometry modeling approaches often struggle to integrate these datasets in a flexible and scalable way. Implicit modeling offers a powerful alternative: a geometry representation that naturally incorporates engineering data into

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Rhushik Matroja · Cognitive Design SystemsMechanical engineering has been limited by the capabilities of traditional CAD software, most of which are built on architectures that are more than 30 years old. How can we design the products of the next 30 years using technology created three decades ago?AI can introduce a real paradigm shift in how we conceive and develop products, but engineers must remain at the centre of the process. As an engineer,

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Moritz Rietschel · RavenTwenty years of community-built Grasshopper infrastructure, decades of firm knowledge, scattered documentation, and forum posts that solved your problem in 2011.The problem has never been capability - it has been access.Raven is a code agent for Grasshopper that works across 900+ plugins through the native API. Rather than replacing existing tools, it functions as an infrastructure layer: connecting users to what was

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Anne Pasman, Emmy Kerssen · Saxion HogeschoolCPAP therapy is used to treat patients with sleep apnea by providing constant air pressure through a mask during sleep. For many patients (75,4%), standard masks fit poorly or require tight adjustment, causing issues such as pressure points or leakage resulting in dry eyes, skin irritation, and finally even therapy discontinuation (30%). Personalized CPAP masks can improve fit and comfort and reduce

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Michele Pescatore, Carol Fanjul · AiA Life DesignersMichele Pescatore and Carol Fanjul of AiA Life Designers present a simulation-driven workflow that brings environmental analysis into the earliest stages of architectural design, where decisions have the greatest influence on a project's environmental performance but actionable feedback is usually missing.Conventional environmental tools require detailed BIM models or expert-level

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Oluwaseyi Sosanya · Gravity SketchSpatial computing is regularly framed as a future breakthrough. In certain workflows, it is already delivering measurable value.Oluwaseyi Sosanya examines where immersive technologies are making a tangible impact in product development today, with particular attention to cable harnessing and automotive clay modeling. These are workflows where teams still depend on physical prototypes to evaluate critical

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Rebeka Melber · Istari DigitalAI coding tools didn't just accelerate software development — they changed who gets to build. A comparable shift is underway in hardware.Rebeka Melber examines how AI paired with connected engineering infrastructure is lowering the barrier to hardware innovation. The argument isn't that AI replaces deep expertise. It's that it expands who can contribute meaningfully to the design process — and earlier in it. When more

CDFAM Computational Design Symposium — Barcelona 2026Javier Blanco Cordero · QuixEngineering teams have found AI useful for discrete tasks: SQL queries, graphs, summaries. Higher-value work, root cause analysis, physics-based ML, production deployment, remains out of reach. The standard diagnosis is that the models need to improve. Javier Blanco Cordero's experience points the other way: the models are already sufficient. The infrastructure surrounding them is not.Using a real rotor balancing case

Quercus Hernández · Emmi AIRecorded at the CDFAM Computational Design Symposium, Barcelona 2026.In this episodePresentation AbstractEngineering is entering a new paradigm where AI is no longer limited to accelerating isolated simulations, but is becoming a foundational layer of the industrial design and manufacturing stack. Across sectors such as automotive, energy, semiconductors, and aerospace, engineering workflows remain constrained by slow simulation feedback loops, fragmented CAD-to-CAE