The ACADIA 2016 Conference brings together recent research and design work from practice and academia that is positioned at the intersection of procedural design, digital environments, and autonomous machines. POSTHUMAN FRONTIERS: DATA, DESIGNERS, AND COGNITIVE MACHINES brings together architects, designers, material scientists, engineers, programmers, and artists to explore the current trend in computational design to develop and apply quasi-cognitive machines and to advance the integration of software, information, fabrication, and sensing in the generation of mechanisms for interfacing with the physical realm. October 27-29, 2016 | Universitu of Michigan Taubman College | Ann Arbor, MI