Digital Placemaking
Media Architecture Biennale 2016
1 - 4 June, Sydney, Australia
Media Architecture Biennale 2016
About the Event
The theme for the Media Architecture Biennale in 2016 (MAB16) is ‘Digital Placemaking’. MAB16 brings together architects, designers, artists, academia, government and industry in a shared exploration of how technology and digital media as part of a ‘Smart Cities’ approach can lead to more livable city environments.
MAB16 is held for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere, in conjunction with Vivid Sydney, the largest festival of light art, music and ideas, and the International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’16) in Brisbane.
Important Dates
Papers
| Short & long papers | Late-breaking works (posters) | |
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| Submission deadline | ||
| Notification of acceptance | April 30 | |
| Camera-ready submission | May 7, 11:59pm PST |
Doctoral consortium
| Submission deadline | |
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| Notification of acceptance |
Awards
| Award entries close | |
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| Shortlist announced |
Student design competition
| Registration closes | April 8, 8am AEST |
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| 24-hour challenge starts | April 9, 8am AEST |
| Winners announced | April 22 |
Registration & Tickets
Tickets are now available. Visit the registration page to see ticket options.
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Events
The Conference
1 June 2016
The 2-day conference will include public keynotes and presentations by industry professionals, academics and researchers from around the world.
Symposia
2 June 2016
MAB16 will host three symposia: The Digital Publics Symposium, The Smart Cities & Urban Innovation Symposium and The City Leaders' Summit.
Workshops
1 June 2016
The workshops at MAB16 are an interactive, dynamic forum with an opportunity for exchanging ideas, forming communities, sharing knowledge, getting in touch, networking, inspirations, prototyping and much more.
Doctoral consortium
1 June 2016
The Doctoral Consortium at MAB is a full-day workshop. The session is primarily intended to highlight and cofer around the work of research students, fellows and doctoral candidates working at the intersections of public space, digital media, socio-cultural analysis and theory, techno-artistic practicies and critique.
Student design competition
9 April 2016
MAB24H is an intense and fun worldwide competition. In teams of up to 5 people you will have to respond to a brief provided at the start of the challenge. You will have 24 hours to create your design, write your paper, maintain your blog and shoot/produce your video.
Exhibition & awards
Exhibition
Through its many components MAB16 will showcase outstanding media architecture artworks that explore experimental materials and practices for creating places in the urban environments of contemporary cities. The MAB16 exhibition will primarily focus on showcasing local, emerging artists and their culturally diverse approach to creativity in this field of interactive public art.
Awards
The Media Architecture Awards are given to outstanding projects at the intersection of architecture, media and interaction design. Three projects are nominated in each of the five categories – Animated Architecture; Money Architecture; Participatory Architecture and Urban Interaction; Spatial Media Art and Future Trends and Prototypes. The winners in each category will be announced during the award ceremony on the evening of June 3rd, 2016.
Get Involved
Call for papers
We invite interested parties from a variety a of backgrounds – be it human-computer interaction, urban design and planning, engineering, arts, humanities, sociology, and more – to participate in joint discussions about how Media Architecture can best contribute to placemaking.
Doctoral consortium
We invite research students, fellows and doctoral candidates to submit papers to the Doctoral Consortium. We also invite doctoral candidates completing their PhD research in the field of media architecture to submit their position papers for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium.
Call for student volunteers
Join the student volunteers team to recieve a free registration to attend MAB16. This is a great opportunity to meet and network with international academic and industrial researchers to share your interest in media architecture with other students.
Student design competition
Register your team for the 2016 MAB24H design challenge. Teams can be made up of up to 5 people. All participants must be enrolled in a university program or other tertiary institution at the time of the challenge.