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The Arab Society for Computation in Architecture, Art and Design (ASCAAD) is a society of those who teach, conduct research and practice in computational design in the Arab World regions of West Asia, and North Africa. ASCAAD is also active in Central Asia, Sub-Sahara Africa, and the Mediterranean.

ASCAAD is one of five regional sister organizations that promote computational design research and education worldwide, including ACADIA (North America), eCAADe (Europe), SIGraDi (Latin America), and CAADRIA (Asia), in addition to the global CAAD Futures organization.

ASCAAD aims to facilitate communication and information exchange regarding the use of computational design technology in architecture, planning, building science, and the arts, that are dramatically challenging our fundamental assumptions, theories, and practices of conventional design paradigm. Since 2005, the society has been holding conferences and educational events that are hosted by a different university each time. The output of the conferences and contributions from the educational events are published as a Conference Proceedings book.