The Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (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 (see below).
SIGraDi organizes a yearly Congress when the most recent and state of the art digital technologies and applications are presented and debated.
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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.[1]
SIGraDi congresses are intended as a region wide effort for the interchange of experiences, debate of our disciplines' advancements and the creation of references for the iberoamerican groups involved in digital media applied to education, research and professional practice
Views and reflexions. Theory. Philosophy. Architecture. Creativity and spatiality in design. Traditional and Digital desinerly logics. New paradigms. New cultural environments.
Graphic computerized expression. Generated geometries. Modeling. Visualization. Animation. Hypermedia.
General aspects of didactics. Pedagogic strategies. Design of curricular and extra curricular systems for undergraduate and graduate courses.
Information networks for pedagogic proposals. Virtual classes. Discussion forae. Integration philosophy at national, iberoamerican and international levels.
Urban Design. Landscape Design. Structural and Civil Design. Industrial, textile and graphic design.
Virtual surveying and reconstruction.
Applications. Digital Art.[1]
The annual SIGraDi congress is the main event organised under auspices of the association. 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[1]
| Year | Place | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Buenos Aires | Universidad de Buenos Aires |
| 1998 | Mar del Plata | Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata |
| 1999 | Montevideo | Universidad de la República |
| 2000 | Rio de Janeiro | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| 2001 | Concepción | Universidad del Bio Bio |
| 2002 | Caracas | Universidad Central de Venezuela |
| 2003 | Rosario | Universidad Nacional de Rosario |
| 2004 | São Leopoldo | Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos[2] |
| 2005 | Lima | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas |
| 2006 | Santiago | Universidad de Chile |
| 2007 | Mexico | Universidad de La Salle |
| 2008 | La Habana | CUJAE |
| 2009 | São Paulo | Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (2009, November) |
There are sister organizations around the world that provide more accessible regional forae for the discussion of computing and design. The major ones are