DigitalFUTURES

DigitalFUTURES 2025 

Registration

7:00 - 8:00   

Venue: 1F Lobby, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Opening Ceremony

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

8:00 - 8:15 Opening Introduction

8:15 - 8:30 Opening Remarks

8:30 - 8:50 General Introduction

Plenary Lecture: Hernan Diaz Alonzo

Director/Chief Executive Officer of SCI-Arc

Founder and Principal of HDA-x

8:50 - 9:20   

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

9:20 - 9:50 Group Photo

Plenary Lecture: Hengtao Shen

Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology at Tongji University

Distinguished Professor of National High level Talents

Fellow of the Academia Europaea

9:50 - 10:20   

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Workshop Team Introduction (3 minutes per group)

10:20 - 12:30

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Plenary Lecture: Achim Menges

Professor at the University of Stuttgart

Founding Director of the Institute for Computational Design and Construction & Integrative Computational Design and Construction for Architecture 

DigitalFUTURES Fellow

13:00 - 14:00

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Workshop Group Teaching

14:00 - 17:00

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Plenary Lecture: Weiguo Xu

Professor at the School of Architecture of Tsinghua University

Co-founder of DADA

DigitalFUTURES Fellow

17:00 - 18:00

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Group Teaching

9:00 - 17:00

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Plenary Lecture: Kostas Grigoriadis

Associate Professor at University College London

Associate Editor in Chief of Architectural Intelligence

17:00 - 18:00   

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Group Teaching

9:00 - 17:00    

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Plenary Lecture: Shajay Bhooshan 

Associate Director, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA)

Head of ZHA Computation and Design group (ZHACODE)

17:00 - 18:00 

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Group Teaching

9:00 - 17:00  

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Youth Student Forum

17:00 - 18:00

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Group Teaching

9:00 - 17:00 

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Plenary Speech & Tutor Forum：Gangyi Tan 

Professor and doctoral supervisor, Dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Deputy editor-in-Pchief of New Architecture

17:00 - 18:00    

Venue: D1 Lecture Hall, 5F, Building D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Group Teaching

9:00 - 15:00

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Industrialization Forum

15:00 - 18:00 

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Group Teaching

9:00 - 17:00

Venue: Classrooms, Building B & D, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Tutor Forum

17:00 - 18:00

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

The CDRF Conference Registration

18:00 - 20:00 

Venue: 1F Lobby, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

The CDRF Conference Registration

7:00 - 8:00    

Venue: 1F Lobby, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

The CDRF International Conference Opening Ceremony

8:00 - 8:15 Opening Introduction

8:15 - 8:30 Opening Remarks

8:30 - 8:50 General Introduction

Plenary Lecture: Norman Hack

Tenure-track Professor for Digital Building Fabrication, Institute of Structural Design, Technische Universität Braunschweig

8:50 - 9:30   

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Final Presentation of Workshop Outcomes

8:00 - 12:00    

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Closing Event & Awarding Ceremony

13:00 - 13:10 Opening Introduction

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Plenary Lecture: Marcos Cruz

Professor of Innovative Environments at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London

Co-founder of the Bio-ID Laboratory

Former Dean of the Bartlett School of Architecture 

13:10 - 13:50   

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Awarding Ceremony

13:50 - 14:05   'Coding Award' 

14:05 - 14:40   'Project Awards'

14:40 - 15:10   'Young Awards' 

15:10 - 15:30   'CDRF Best Papers' 

                       & 'CDRF Best Presentation' 

                       & 'ARI Best Papers' 

15:30 - 16:00   'DigitalFUTURES Awards'

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Workshop Participants Certificate Awarding Ceremony 

16:00 - 16:30   

Venue: 2F Bell Hall Auditorium, Building B, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Exhibition Opening

16:30 - 16:45  Move to the Building C Exhibition Hall

16:45 - 17:00  Exhibition Introduction

17:00 - 17:15  Opening Remarks 

17:15 - 18:00  Free Viewing

Venue: GF Exhibition Hall, Building C, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University