EFRI-SEED 2015 Workshop and MRS Symposium Travel: Innovating Next Generation Building Materials that Adapt and Respond to Users and the Environment

本次研讨会和相关研讨会将汇集建筑师、科学家和工程师，他们正在开创新的协作模式，以创新适应并响应用户和环境的下一代建筑材料。重要的是，本次研讨会将有一个相关的研讨会，首次将参与美国国家科学基金会十大新兴前沿研究创新计划(EFRI)、能源与环境设计科学(SEED)：工程可持续建筑、美国各地项目的建筑师聚集在一起。EFRI-SEED首席研究员将讨论这些新的协作模式的成功和失败，以及在我们的建筑学校实施设计研究基础设施的下一步措施，以确保这种类型的尖端研究对可持续设计领域具有持久性和长期影响。尽管在设计、材料科学、生物和信息技术以及工程学方面有了巨大的创新，但科学家、建筑师和工程师之间的直接互动和合作是罕见的。科学家、工程师和建筑师都有必要理解与我们生活和工作的建筑相关的关键社会、环境和技术问题。这项研究被认为特别重要，因为它代表了为公共利益而努力实现共同目标的多个学科的融合。其目的是，这种性质的研究将使科学家、工程师和设计师能够让公众对新技术和证实这些技术的基础研究感到兴奋，并提供一种有效的工具来招收和培训学生。这次研讨会为开拓这一前沿的研究人员之间的智力交流提供了一个难得的机会，并使下一代研究人员参与到这一讨论中。

This symposium and associated workshop will bring together architects, scientists and engineers who are pioneering new models for collaboration towards the innovation of next generation building materials that adapt and respond to users and the environment. Importantly, this symposium will feature an associated workshop that will bring together for the first time the architects who are a part of the ten winning NSF Emerging Frontiers for Research Innovation Program (EFRI), Science of Energy and Environmental Design (SEED): Engineering Sustainable Buildings, projects across the US. The EFRI-SEED principal investigators will discuss the successes and failures of these new collaborative models and next steps for implementing design research infrastructure in our architecture schools to ensure that this type of cutting edge research has longevity and long-term impact upon the field of sustainable design. Deans and Chairs at participating schools will be invited to the workshop.Although there have been tremendous innovations in design, material sciences, bio and information technologies, and engineering, direct interactions and collaborations between scientists, architects and engineers are rare. Scientists, engineers and architects all share the need to comprehend key social, environmental and technological issues associated with the buildings we live and work in. The research is considered particularly important as it represents a fusion of disciplines working towards a common goal for the public interest. The intent is that research of this nature will allow scientists, engineers and designers to engage the public in the excitement of new technologies and the basic research that bears them out, as well as, offering an effective tool to recruit and train students. This symposium provides a singular opportunity for intellectual exchange between investigators pioneering this frontier and to involve next generation researchers in this discussion.