ACADIA 2024 celebrates a moment of change where advances in digital technology, fabrication, AI, blockchains, cyberspaces and metaverses have created new expectations that remove authority from a central source.

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Participatory and Democratic practices that enable and empower all stakeholders to be active participants in the design and fabrication process are being valued. Blockchains, digital fabrication and AIs are changing how we make decisions and {RE} distributing ways of thinking and making.