SIGraDi
The Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital, SIGraDi 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.
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
Annual congress
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, Simulations, Geographic Information Systems, 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, 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
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
| Year | Place | Institution | Theme |
| 1997 | Buenos Aires | Universidad de Buenos Aires | No subject |
| 1998 | Mar del Plata | Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata | No subject |
| 1999 | Montevideo | Universidad de la República | No subject |
| 2000 | Rio de Janeiro | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Construindo o Espaço Digital |
| 2001 | Concepción | Universidad del Bio Bio | No subject |
| 2002 | Caracas | Universidad Central de Venezuela | No subject |
| 2003 | Rosario | Universidad Nacional de Rosario | Cultura Digital y Diferenciación |
| 2004 | São Leopoldo | Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos | El Sentido y el Universo Digital |
| 2005 | Lima | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas | Visión y Visualización |
| 2006 | Santiago | Universidad de Chile | Post Digital |
| 2007 | México, D. F. | Universidad La Salle | La Comunicación en la Comunidad Visual |
| 2008 | La Habana | Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría | Gráfica Digital e Informática Aplicada: Cooperación, Integración y Desarrollo |
| 2009 | São Paulo | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie | De lo Moderno a lo Digital: Desafios de una Transición |
| 2010 | Bogotá | Universidad de Los Andes | Disrupción, modelación y construcción: Dialogos cambiantes |
| 2011 | Santa Fe | Universidad Nacional del Litoral | Cultura Aumentada |
| 2012 | Fortaleza | Universidade Federal do Ceará | Formaformación |
| 2013 | Valparaiso | Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María | Knowledge-based Design |
| 2014 | Montevideo | Universidad de la República | Design in Freedom |
| 2015 | Santa Catarina | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina | Información de Proyecto para la interacción |
| 2016 | Buenos Aires | Universidad de Buenos Aires | Crowdthinking |
| 2017 | Concepción | Universidad de Concepción | Resilience Design |
| 2018 | São Carlos | Universidade de São Paulo | |
| 2019 | Porto | University of Porto |