Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital

What Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital does

Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital (SIGraDi) is a Uruguayan non-profit academic society founded in 1997 and domiciled in Montevideo, organized around the promotion and dissemination of computer graphics and emerging digital technologies in architecture, design, art, and related disciplines across Ibero-America. Its core product is a rotating annual international conference held at host universities in different Latin American and Iberian cities (e.g., Buenos Aires 1997, São Paulo 2018, Punta del Este 2023, Barcelona 2024, Córdoba 2025, Barcelona 2026), which typically gathers 200+ authors, 100+ presentations, and submissions from 25+ countries, with a PhD Workshop and the free online SIGraDi Forum as supplementary programming. Peer-reviewed proceedings are distributed through the Blucher Design Proceedings platform and indexed in CumInCAD, with top-scoring papers invited for extended publication in the SAGE International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC) and the Universidade de São Paulo's Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos journal.

SIGraDi monetizes primarily through tiered conference registration fees (e.g., Author + Dinner USD 360, Author USD 280, Attendant + Dinner USD 175, Attendant USD 95, Student USD 50 for the 2023 Punta del Este edition), annual membership dues, and co-organized programming partnerships such as BIODIG 2026 with Universitat Internacional de Catalunya and the Digital Futures educational partnership on bio-design, AI, and VR/VA. The society is governed by a 10-member elected International Executive Committee and a 150+ member International Scientific Committee, and is integrated with sister societies eCAADe (Europe), ACADIA (North America), CAADRIA (Asia/Oceania), and ASCAAD (West Asia/North Africa). The Arturo Montagú Award, given annually since 2007, is its primary recognition program, and the Homo Faber traveling exhibition on digital fabrication extends its programmatic footprint. Technology is not proprietary: SIGraDi is a knowledge-sharing platform rather than a software vendor, and its channels are the sigradi.org website, social media (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube), email to members, and Zoom-delivered online sessions.

Name

Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital

Legal name

Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital

Website

https://sigradi.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1997

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

SIGraDi is a Uruguayan non-profit academic society founded in 1997 that runs an annual rotating international conference, peer-reviewed proceedings, the SIGraDi Forum, and the PhD Workshop to advance digital graphics and computational design research across architecture and design in Ibero-America.

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Product category

Academic Professional Society

NAICS

Newspaper, Periodical, Book, and Directory Publishers (5131), Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (54172)

SIC

Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Scholarly Societies & Conference Proceedings Publishing (MPAJABAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Academic & Scholarly Journals Publishing (Peer-Reviewed) (MPAJABAC), Social Sciences Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAD)

Keywords

• Digital graphics research
• Academic conference services
• Computational design education
• Architectural visualization research
• Professional society membership

Headquarters

HQ city

Montevideo

HQ country

Uruguay

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Conference Registration Fees: SIGraDi generates revenue through registration fees for its annual conferences. Different tiers exist for authors, attendants, and students, with pricing varying by inclusion of conference dinner and other amenities. Conferences may be held in-person or online.
2. Membership Dues: Annual membership fees support participation in the society's governance, conferences, and publications.
3. Digital Futures Conference Partnership: Partnership with Digital Futures for co-organized educational programming including conferences and workshops on bio-design, AI, VR/VA topics.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Sociedad Iberoamericana de Gráfica Digital is an Iberoamerican academic society that organizes an annual scholarly congress on digital graphics, computational design, and architecture, publishes peer-reviewed proceedings, and confers academic awards. It is a non-profit, membership-based organization that convenes researchers, educators, and practitioners across the Iberoamerican region to advance the study and application of digital graphics in design disciplines.

Product overview

The Ibero-American Society for Digital Graphics (SIGraDi) is a non-profit academic society founded in 1997 that promotes the dissemination and exchange of ideas in computer graphics and emerging technologies across professional practice, education, and research in Architecture, Design, Art, and related disciplines. SIGraDi's product portfolio centers on its annual conference (SIGraDi Annual Conference), the peer-reviewed SIGraDi Proceedings and Conference Papers published through Blucher Design Proceedings and CumInCAD, the SIGraDi Books Publication Program, and the online SIGraDi Forum and PhD Workshop as supplementary programs. The society also administers the Arturo Montagú Award for recognition of outstanding contributions. The portfolio is organized around knowledge sharing, research collaboration, and professional community building rather than a commercial software product.

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Functional benefit

Products and services

• Annual Iberoamerican Congress on Digital Graphics
• Peer-reviewed SIGraDi publications and proceedings
• SIGraDi academic membership

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1997European sister society collaboration. SIGraDi works with eCAADe for knowledge exchange and joint activities in computational design research across Europe and Ibero-America.
• ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1997North American sister society. Collaboration for sharing research and best practices in digital architecture between North America and Ibero-America.
• CAADRIA (Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1997Asia/Oceania sister society partnership for international research collaboration in computational design.
• ASCAAD (Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1997West Asia/North Africa sister society collaboration for architectural computing research exchange.
• Blucher Design ProceedingscoreTechnology or IntegrationStrategic publishing partnership for conference proceedings. SIGraDi papers published through Blucher platform with ISBN, making publications accessible to academic institutions.
• CumInCAD (Cumulative Index of Computer Aided Architectural Design)coreTechnology or IntegrationDatabase distribution partnership for SIGraDi conference papers. CumInCAD provides indexing and accessibility for CAAD literature worldwide.
• SAGE Journal / International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerJournal partnership for extended publication of top-scoring conference papers. SIGraDi invites highest-rated authors to submit extended versions to IJAC.
• Universidade de São Paulo - Gestão & Tecnologia de Projetos JournalcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership with USP journal for extended publication opportunities of SIGraDi conference papers in Portuguese-language academic venue.
• CAAD Futures FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on CAAD Futures conference activities and research dissemination in computer-aided architectural design.
• Digital FuturesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-organized educational programming including conferences and workshops on bio-design, AI, VR/VA topics featuring faculty from AA School, UCL Bartlett, ETH Zurich, ICD Stuttgart, Harvard GSD, and other leading institutions.
• Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) - iBAG BarcelonaminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHost institution for BIODIG 2026 conference. Prof. Alberto T. Estévez serves as Director of iBAG-UIC Barcelona and Conference President.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• CAAD Futures Foundation: An organization dedicated to CAAD Futures conferences, which address the same computational architectural design research community as SIGraDi. Listed as a strategic minor partner and a recurring collaborator on research dissemination.
• CAADRIA (Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia): SIGraDi's Asia/Oceania sister society, organizing annual conferences and publishing CAAD research for the Asian academic architecture community. Operates with the same scholarly-society, conference-and-proceedings model that defines SIGraDi.
• eCAADe (Education and research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe): SIGraDi's European sister society and most direct peer — both are regional scholarly societies dedicated to CAAD research that organize annual conferences, publish proceedings, and serve academic researchers in architecture and computational design. The two societies co-organized a joint conference in Porto (2019).
• ASCAAD (Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design): SIGraDi's West Asia/North Africa sister society covering CAAD research across the Arab region. Shares the academic society model, conference-driven programming, and Ibero-American–style regional research mandate.
• ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture): SIGraDi's North American sister society, with an equivalent mandate to advance computational design in architecture through annual conferences and peer-reviewed proceedings. ACADIA serves as the parallel peer organization for the U.S. and Canada.

Emerging players

• Digital Futures: Co-organized educational programming with SIGraDi on bio-design, AI, VR/VA topics featuring faculty from AA School, UCL Bartlett, ETH Zurich, ICD Stuttgart, and Harvard GSD. Overlaps with SIGraDi's emerging-technology focus but is positioned as a forward-looking design platform with global institutional partners.

Regional players

• Unión Iberoamericana de Arquitectos (UIA American Region): Regional umbrella for architectural professional organizations across Ibero-America. Comparable to SIGraDi in geographic scope and stakeholder base (Ibero-American architects) but focused on professional practice, accreditation, and policy rather than CAAD research conferences.

Broad incumbents

• International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR): Umbrella organization for design research societies, providing a peer venue to SIGraDi's regional CAAD conferences. Covers the broader design research community and serves as a meta-level connector of which SIGraDi is a candidate regional affiliate.
• Cumulus Association: International association of art, design, and media education, with a broader mandate covering design schools and curricula worldwide. Comparable to SIGraDi as an academic society serving design researchers, but Cumulus operates at a global, multi-disciplinary scale rather than a regional CAAD focus.
• Design Research Society: Long-established international society for design research with peer-reviewed journals and biennial conferences. Comparable to SIGraDi in its scholarly-society model but operates at a global, multi-disciplinary scale across design research.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• Instagraminstagram.com/sigradi_official
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