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 Click on a title to read about the conference... STREMAH 2009 22-24 July 2009, Tallinn, Estonia Planning 'Smart' City-Regions in an Age of Neoliberalizing Urbanism 26-28 August 2009, Manchester Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation 3-5 September 2009, Hatfield UK Urban Morphology and Urban Transformation - ISUF 2009 4-7 September 2009, Guangzhou, China Urban Technologies for Urban Sustainability 6-9 September 2009, Berlin, Germany Towards New Eco-Compact Cities AVOE V 24-26 September 2009, Bologna, Italy 5th International PhD seminar "Urbanism & Urbanisation" 1-3 October 2009 Leuven, Belgium Revitalising Built Environments 12-16 October 2009, Istanbul, Turkey The Diverse Suburb 22-24 October 2009, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development 3-5 November 2009, Tripoli, Libya FIELD/WORK 6th AHRA International Conference 20-21 November 2009, Edinburgh Eco-City World Summit 2009 13-15 December 2009, Istanbul, Turkey Conferences Archive
STREMAH 2009 
Organised by: Wessex Institute of Technology, UK Visit the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: www.wessex.ac.uk/stremah2009cfpb.html STREMAH 2009 is the 11th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture. The meeting, which has taken place on a regular basis over more than 20 years, has become an event attracting specialists from all over the world. It offers a channel for state-of-the-art technology and the most up-to-date scientific discoveries to be applied to the conservation of our architectural heritage. The importance of the architectural heritage for the historical identity of a region, town or nation is now widely recognised throughout the world. In order to take care of our heritage we need to look beyond borders and continents to benefit from the experience gained by others and to gain a better understanding of its cultural background. This series of conferences marks an important contribution as each meeting gathers the most recent advances in research and up-to-date studies of heritage buildings and makes them accessible to wide circles of interested people. STREMAH is now well established as the most important conference of its type. The conference will aim to bring together scholars and professionals to discuss a variety of topics related to architectural and maritime heritage. In addition to the regular topics covered during STREMAH conferences, the meeting will discuss the future of historic harbours, dockyards and other similar maritime structures in today's world, as well as the function of historic vessels and their heritage value. This leads to problems such as the role of development schemes and the relationship between tourism and maritime heritage and the need to protect the latter by suitable legislation and support initiatives. Conference Topics
Full conference information is available at:
Submit an abstract via the conference website: www.wessex.ac.uk/stremah2009cfpb.html
or submit an abstract directly by sending an email to Rachel Creasey on rcreasey@wessex.ac.uk.
Further information
Enquiries and suggestions concerning the conference should be forwarded to:
Rachael Creasey
Planning 'Smart' City-Regions
CALL FOR PAPERS: Due 6 February 2009
Session Convenors:
Any student looking to gain some rudimentary understanding of the form, character and planning of contemporary cities across the global urban landscape could be forgiven for being a touch bewildered by some of the mixed messages available. On one level, they would be informed that, amid the purportedly inescapable ascendence of a neoliberal global political economy, cities are increasingly being subjected to the vagaries of market rule, or, perhaps more accurately, a mode of 'state-authored market fundamentalism' (Peck, 2004). Some of the most notable economic and environmental impacts of this neoliberal urbanism (Wilson, 2004) sees urban regions being further stretched in the form of untrammeled suburban and ex-urban sprawl and the formation of private sector-led edge cities, alongside a fragmentation or splintering vis-a-vis a rise in privatized housing communities and gentrified enclaves, all leading to unavoidable increases in automobile travel and a related erosion of public space and the public realm. This neoliberal urbanism also appears to be embedding in erstwhile 'statist' districts of the city, not least through the third-wave gentrification of social housing. And, notably, it is also fostering heightened social inequalities and an intense 'enclosure' of cities in the global south, as highlighted in recent work by Mike Davis and Loic Wacquant. Crucially, this is also a landscape that implicates the decision-making of planners, albeit they themselves are increasingly subjectified with 'entrepreneurial' values (Sandercock, 1998).
And yet, at the same time our keenly intrepid student would encounter a whole range of debates within geography, planning, and environmental studies pertaining to the creation of 'smart growth' and the fostering of 'eco-towns', 'creative cities', 'urban villages', 'new urbanist' developments, 'master-planned' communities, and informational superhighways and post-industrial corridors of growth. Each of these examples – and they increasingly operate on a global scale – emphasizes a decisive role for planners working together with developers, infrastructure providers, key economic actors and political elites, all with aspirations to create and shape an economically creative, ecologically sustainable, and socially inclusive urban-regional environment. Often this also aims to cultivate a renewal of the civic realm, and perhaps even a reversal of uncontrolled automobile-dependent suburban sprawl. In some crucial respects, these aspirational discourses would seem to imply either a departure from, or at least some compromising of, a market-fundamentalist neoliberal urban landscape and vernacular.
All of which raises some searching questions about how, as scholars of planning and environmental geography, we are to evaluate these seemingly competing claims. For instance, how far do strategies to induce creative cities, smart growth and new urbanist principles represent a meaningful departure from neoliberalism? Or, alternatively, do these ostensibly progressive moments in the planning process represent a further embedding of privatized power, in the process de-politicizing potential conflict, and fostering fresh opportunities for developers to realize surplus value? This session is keen to explore these tensions, and seeks papers which examine the connections between 'local' transitions and the 'general' urbanization process. We would also particularly welcome papers the that explore new emergent paradigms of 'smart' urban development, and contributions along the following themes would be most welcome:
Further information
Abstracts and expressions of interest with full contact details should be emailed by 6th February 2009 to one of the organizers at the following email addresses:
David Gibbs: D.C.Gibbs@hull.ac.uk
Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation
Call for Papers - due 12 January 2009
How do we find out about design, as both practice and object, including
the processes of designing, crafting and manufacture, marketing and
consumption?
A variety of methods and sources ranging from observation,
participation, interview and oral history, to object analysis and
documentary and visual interpretation is used in order to understand the
processes and products of design and material culture. In both
researching design and preparing resultant outcomes, designers, design
historians, practitioners of design studies, material culture studies,
popular culture studies and literary studies use words, whether written
or spoken, to describe visual and material processes and objects.
Understanding design involves the use and translation of sources, both
pictorial/material and written/verbal as our keynote speakers Jeffrey L.
Meikle, Professor of American Studies and Art History at the University
of Texas and Dr Paul Jobling, Senior Lecturer, History of Art and Design
at the University of Brighton, will explore.
As is fitting in the wake of the Design History Society's 30th
Anniversary and following the 21st Anniversary of the Journal of Design
History, Writing Design encourages participants to reflect on their
sources, historiography and methodology, research, dissemination and
teaching processes to examine the issues mobilised by articulating
design and material culture with language and the ways in which writing
about objects has conditioned our understanding of design. Writing
Design is inclusive in its interests; the following list of indicative
themes is not intended to be prescriptive, exclusive or exhaustive:
Writing Design aims to showcase papers which will enhance the practice
of design history in the future and to publish double-blind
peer-reviewed outcomes from the conference. Therefore all proposal must
represent original research, not previously published. Proposals from
postgraduate researchers are encouraged and the Design History Society
offers bursaries to support student members' conference attendance.
Proposals are invited in three formats, each containing an anonymised
abstract and accompanied by a separate 50-word biography:
(a) Papers: A 400-word abstract proposing a presentation of 25 minutes.
All proposals will be subject to double-blind peer review, based on contribution to the conference theme and clarity of question, context, method and outcome. Proposals must be without formatting and sent in the body of an email, or as a Word document, to Jessica Kelly, j.4.kelly@herts.ac.uk by 5 pm GMT Monday 12th January 2009. Proposals which are late or do not fit these formats will be returned. The results
of peer review will be issued in March and full papers are required for circulation to panel participants by August 3rd 2009.
Based in the Faculty for the Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of Hertfordshire, the tVAD research group examines relationships between text, narrative and image.
See http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/tvad/event030909.html for more information about tVAD and the excellent air, road and rail transport links UH enjoys, being only 20 minutes from central London. We look forward to welcoming you to Writing Design!
Further information
Dr Grace Lees-Maffei MA RCA FHEA
Coordinator
Urban morphology and urban transformation
Call for Papers - due 31 December 2008
The Sixteenth International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2009), co-hosted by South China University of Technology and Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau, will take place in Guangzhou, China from Friday 4 September to Monday 7 September 2009. The theme of the conference is Urban morphology and urban transformation. The organizers and the Council of ISUF invite participation in the Conference by interested academics and professionals. Topics on which proposals are particularly welcome include:
Proposals for papers should take the form of abstracts of papers, in either English or Chinese. They should be prepared in the following format: title of paper, author(s) name, affiliation, address, e-mail address, telephone number, key words and 250-word abstract. They should be addressed to Professor Yinsheng Tian, Department of Architecture, College of Architecture and Civil Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, P. R. China (e-mail ISUF2009@scut.edu.cn).
Abstracts of papers must be received on or before 31 December 2008. Notification of whether abstracts have been accepted will be provided by 1 March 2009. Those whose abstracts have been accepted will be required to pay a registration fee by 15 June 2009 to have their papers included in the conference programme. The registration fee includes membership of ISUF, and conference lunches and dinners.
Following acceptance of abstracts, submission of papers (not exceeding 4000 words) is optional. If submitted, they should be received by Professor Tian by 15 July 2009. Authors should consult the notes for the guidance of contributors to Urban Morphology, available on the ISUF website (www.urbanform.org) or in recent copies of the journal, before preparing their papers. Selected papers may be published after the conference.
The official conference languages are English and Chinese. There will be a New Researchers' Forum, in which researchers new to the field are invited to take part. New researchers should indicate when they submit their abstracts whether they would like to be included in the New Researchers' Forum.
The city of Guangzhou, with over 2000 years of history, is the third largest city in China. Capital of one of the most economically dynamic provinces in China and located some 120 kilometres north west of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is the southern gateway of China. A number of excursions to places in the city and the region will be featured.
Key dates
Abstracts due: 31 December 2008
Conference organising committee
Further information
Enquiries and suggestions concerning the conference should be forwarded to:
Professor Yinsheng Tian
URBAN TECHNOLOGIES FOR URBAN SUSTAINABILITY:
Introduction
The International Federation for Housing and Planning invites you to come to Berlin 6–9 September 2009 to learn, look, discuss, share ideas and find solutions. Experts will inform you, young planners will provoke you, the vibrant city of Berlin will tell you stories about lost and new invented places.
In Berlin we will listen to the top engineers and scientists demonstrating the latest developments in their specific branch.
We will visit research centres and high tech companies and discuss the solutions they offer. This exchange of knowledge and experience will improve the ability for both of those who create new ideas, and of those who have to implement and apply technical solutions, to use effectively the results of their experience.
Technical solutions
Never before in 95 years of IFHP has a congress been so specifically focussed on the role companies can play in providing technical solutions to sustainable and climate-proof urban development.
Practicable ideas and performable innovations will be central to the proceedings, a meeting place for entrepreneurs, policy makers, developers, practitioners and all the other professionals involved in sustainable urban development. Interactive exchange is the key word.
Congress themes
Further information
You can read more about the congress on the official Congress website, or by downloading the first announcement.
Jens Krause
Towards New Eco-Compact Cities:
Triennale V International Conference
Programme
24 September
Triennale V - DAY I
25 September
Triennale V – DAY II
26 September
ECCN Founding Congress
Registration fees
Before 30/06/2009:
After 30/06/2009:
Eco Compact City Network
An Eco Compact City (ECC) is a city built and developed in balance with the natural environment. It is a city with clear boundaries, with an optimun ratio between density and network of open public spaces defined by urban mixed-use blocks.
It is a city made of a federation of organic urban neighborhoods and districts, but it can also be a metropolis.
The optimum density that caracterizes the Eco Compact City allows the existence of a rich system of small retail, while allowing the creation of an efficient public transit system.
The ECC allows its inhabitants to live within a pedestrian-friendly environment that encourages pedestrian movements, the use of the public transit, and discourages the intensive us of automobiles. The main goal of an ECC is to create a rich-interactive urban environment that optimize the use of natural resources and dramatically reduces the pollution of both the air and the natural landscape.
The first pattern of a ECC was presented in Bruxelles at the Awarding Cerimony of the European Prize for Architecture 2008 at the Foundation for the Architecture. It shows a city of 250.000 inhabitants built over 2000 ha. The ECCN pattern was created by AVOE as a collage of the best 88 urban neighborhoods built in Europe in the last 25 years.
The main goal of the new ECCN is to spread the culture of the ECC as the eco-alternative to the crisis of the contemporary city and society.
The ECCN aims at creating a forum for towns and city officials, public and private developers, architects, engineers, to share the best examples of new ECC and spread the culture of the ECC in order to create a better environment for the social, economical, and cultural life. The ECC will organize evey year:
Further information
Gabriele Tagliaventi
Transcending the discipline:
Call for papers - Due 3 April 2009
The department of Architecture, Urbanism and Planning of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, organizes the 5th international PhD seminar, "Urbanism & Urbanisation" on 'Transcending the discipline'.
Urbanism & Urbanization as receptors of multiple practices, discourses and realities' in Leuven, from October 1-3, 2009.
The seminar invites Ph.D. work that addresses the discipline of urbanism, and encourages contributions that highlight its trans-disciplinary nature. Contributions will be organized in thematic sessions and workshops, with established scholars as dedicated respondents.
In addition, the seminar offers a series of thematic lectures. The first confirmed keynote speaker is professor Antoine Picon. More information about his contribution and additional speakers will be announced on the seminar website soon.
Submission deadline and general information
Ph.D. researchers are invited to submit a 400 word abstract to uu@asro.kuleuven.be by 3 April 2009. For more information about the seminar please visit www.uu2009.be.
Michael Ryckewaert
Revitalising Built Environments:
Call for Papers - Due 30 January 2009 (Extended)
International Symposium Jointly organised by:
The organising committee of the International Symposium on "Revitalising Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places For New Uses' is pleased to announce that the symposium will be held in Istanbul 12 – 16 October 2009. This symposium is the 4th of a series of international symposia organized by the IAPS -International Association of People-Environment Studies- Network on "Culture and Space in the Built Environment", with the objective of bringing together participants from various disciplines. The first symposium of the network was "Culture and Space in the Home Environment" in Istanbul in 1997, then "Traditional Environments in a New Millenium: Defining Principles and Professional Practice', in Amasya in 2001, and 'Social Change and Spatial Transformation in Housing Environments' in Istanbul in 2005. The IAPS Housing Network has also organized four international symposia since 1989 in the United Kingdom, Poland and Sweden. These events are now recognized as an established tradition of the IAPS community and in international architectural and urban research, a tradition that combines research studies within an interdisciplinary framework with high relevance for practice. It will be the primary aim of the organizers of this symposium to build on these tradition.
Symposium theme
Significant investments of monetary resources and professional expertise during the last three decades in many countries have led to numerous projects and programmes concerning urban regeneration, housing renovation, and the revitalisation of old neighborhoods. Some of these investments have led to problematic unintended consequences whereas others have been considered successes. The common approach used in recent years has been based largely on quantifiable criteria related to the functional and physical performance of buildings, the financial return of monetary investments, and projections about demographic and economic trends; it has been rare to explicitly integrate the aspirations, preferences and values of local residents living in or adjacent to many projects.
The key question today is how can future projects define a comprehensive programme of work if they continue to ignore the point of view of the local population? Instead of relying heavily on technical solutions by professionals, both quantitative and qualitative approaches are necessary which would involve a wide range of actors from the public and private sectors including citizens. The economic, functional and physical lifespan of buildings should be reconsidered in relation to the diversity of meanings, including the contested meanings of some projects which reflect the diverse values that different groups of the population attribute to the built environment before renovation works are defined.
The two IAPS Networks organizing this symposium have accumulated considerable scientific knowledge which can be integrated with professional know-how in order to deal effectively with the challenge of requalifying the existing built environment. In contrast to terms such as urban regeneration, housing rehabilitation, upgrading and retrofit, the term requalifying is used as a verb to underline the multi-actor process, the multiple criteria and the meanings and values used during the reconfiguration of existing buildings and public spaces in urban areas in order to improve the quality of life of residents. Authors are invited to submit papers that consider key theoretical and methodological issues, post-occupancy evaluations, or present case studies that illustrate specific principles and methods as well as examples of best practice, in relation to:
Who should attend
Keynote speakers
The names will be announced following their confirmation.
Committees
Scientific Committee
Steering committee
Convenors
Sponsors
Publication
Deadlines
Call for Papers
Deadline for submission of abstracts (with biographical note) - 9 January 2009
Preliminary programme
12 October - registration
Instructions to Authors
The Organizing Committee of the 4th Culture & Space Symposium welcomes the submission of original contributions for presentation at this Symposium. Abstracts should be submitted electronically through the web page no later than 09th January 2009. Abstracts received after this date will not be considered. You will have to submit an abstract if you wish to present a paper; you will not be able to register papers without submitting the abstract first. Papers will be considered only if they are not published or submitted for presentation elsewhere.
Submitted abstracts and papers will be reviewed by an international scientific committee.
Abstracts Submission
Carefully read the guidelines on the Symposium website before submitting your abstract. Acknowledgement of the receipt of your submission will be returned to your e-mail address immediately upon submission. If you do not receive the confirmation e-mail, please contact info@culturespace2009.org
Proposals can be of three different kinds:
A. Papers: All abstracts (600-800 words in English) should contain title, author(s) / first name / last name / position / affiliation / telephone / fax number / email / correspondence address / title and abstract text / keywords. All authors must also submit brief resume at the same time.
B. Symposia: Each symposia will cover one or two slot hosting four speakers (either four papers, or a symposium introduction and/or a discussant plus three papers) Each symposia proposal should contain the following items:
i. Title of the symposia
C. Posters: Each poster should be 70 cm width x 100 cm height. Abstract of the poster should be 600 words.
Registration fees
Type - Before 1 June 2009 / 1 June - 4 September 2009
Further information
All the necessary details, (such as submission of abstract and papers, payment of registration fees, Cancellation policy, hotel accommodations, social events, general local information, venues, city etc.) will be announced on the symposium website.
Symposium website:
Scientific secretariat contact:
Scientific information contact:
The Diverse Suburb:
Call for Papers - Due 31 January 2009
In recent years, conventional accounts of suburban homogeneity have been called into question. Scholars, journalists, community organizers, and advocates have noted the growing racial, ethnic, and class diversity of many suburbs, and have speculated about what these shifts mean for our understanding of suburban life. At the same time, scholars of the 'new suburban history' have brought to light the buried histories of poor white suburbs, of suburbs of color, and of the women whose varied roles within suburban communities defied neat categorizations based on place. Organizations and individuals who fight for social and economic justice, meanwhile, have continued to encounter suburban resistance to equity and inclusion.
The National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra invites academics, activists, and policymakers to an international and interdisciplinary conference that will consider the challenging and emergent phenomenon of suburban diversity. What are the implications of this growing diversity? To what extent is this apparent growth simply a rediscovery of differences long written out of suburban history? How is suburban diversity linked to processes, such as globalization, that operate above and cut across the local scale?
Do the changing suburbs present new opportunities for creating a more just and equitable society?
We welcome proposals for individual papers, organized sessions, and roundtables that address these questions from a variety of approaches. Topics might include, but are not limited to:
Confirmed Speakers include:
Nancy Denton, State University of New York Albany
To submit an abstract, please visit our website at www.hofstra.edu/diversesuburb.
Individual paper abstracts should be limited to 200 words and submitted through the conference website before January 31, 2009. Proposals for organized paper sessions, panels, and roundtables should be sent to Christopher Niedt (Christopher.Niedt@hofstra.edu) as soon as possible; please include the names and contact information for all confirmed and potential participants.
Further information
Christopher Niedt
Fifth International Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS - closes 15 February 2009
Introduction
The increasing urbanization of many parts of the world coupled with other global issues such as environmental pollution, energy consumption, and resources shortage are resulting in major urban crises in many parts of the world. In an effort to explore and map the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development, Department of Architecture and Urban planning at Al-Fateh University and the Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region (CSAAR) have joined together to organize an international conference on sustainable architecture and urban development.
The conference aims to address the various aspects of urban development in accordance with the principles of sustainability. The conference will address issues such as ecological and social sustainability, transit-oriented development, neotraditional design, eco-friendly development, economic and environmental sustainability, environmentalism, regionalism and architectural design. In addition, the conference will explore how neighborhood design can further a sustainable region and how local culture and history can interact with new urbanism concepts to create a new mix of urban development options. Of particular interest for the conference is sustainability in the Arab world cities. These cities undergo one of the fastest rates of developments in the world. This rapid, often erratic, growth has not occurred without unwanted consequences in the built environment.
The theme of the conference is "Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development". It aims to provide a forum to examine and discuss solution-oriented methods for implementing sustainable development and urbanism, and to stimulate more ideas and useful insights regarding architecture and urban development within the context of sustainability. The conference welcomes papers that address issues related to sustainability in urban development and planning in the Arab region and elsewhere. In the interest of tackling these issues from multiple perspectives, we invite a wide array of research approaches, ranging from critical-theoretical interrogations to experimental-empirical studies that would encompass not only the spatial and physical aspects of the built environment, but also the social, economic, legislative, and ecological contexts and consequences.
Topics of Interest
Important Dates
Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2009
Full Paper submission for review: March 30, 2009
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2009
Deadline for final papers: June 30, 2009
Submission and Relevant Information
Abstract submission must be in English with about 600 words. Full paper submission could be either in English or Arabic. Abstract and full paper submissions should be sent in MS Word or PDF document format. Abstracts should be e-mailed to scientific committee chairs. Full paper submissions are required to be done online at the conference Website: www.csaar-center.org/conference/SD2009
Full paper format, submission guidelines, registration, accommodation and further information are available at the conference website. For further information about submissions, please contact scientific committee chairs.
International Advisory Committee
Scientific Committee Co-Chairs
Conference Manager
International Scientific Committee
Further information
CSAAR Center
FIELD/WORK
Call for Papers - Due 31 March 2009
The Architectural Humanities Research Association is a non-profit academic organisation that provides an inclusive and comprehensive network for researchers in architectural humanities across the UK and overseas. It promotes, supports, develops and disseminates high-quality research in the areas of architectural history, theory, culture, design and urbanism.
Fieldwork has always been integral to the work of architects and landscape architects and the many forms of associated scholarship, from the site visit to the grand tour to the social survey. We visit sites - real and imagined - to collect, order, and interpret data, to establish parameters, frameworks, contexts, and outlines for design work. As the sites of design work and scholarship have become increasingly complex and mediated, the questions as to what and where the field is, how we collect data, how we ensure its reliability, and how it informs design work have renewed practical and theoretical significance. New configurations of fieldwork have blurred traditional distinctions between subject and object, observer and observed, audience and performer, material and immaterial, and even fact and fiction.
Relationships between the field, data and creative work have, as a consequence, become integral to many contemporary forms of design practice and research.
In this respect, design based disciplines such as architecture and landscape architecture share a wider heritage with empirically-oriented disciplines such as anthropology, ethnography, archaeology, material culture and geography amongst others. This conference seeks to examine the question of fieldwork in its historical, contemporary, disciplinary and inter-disciplinary terms. The conference aims to explore the meaning, relevance and specificity of the term to architecture and landscape architecture by consciously stretching normative inherited conceptions of site visit to include notions of crime scene, reconnaissance, pilgrimage and beyond into corelate practices. The conference also seeks to draw attention to and consider the often ignored routines of design work, the habitual or casual handling of 'data', 'evidence', 'facts', 'parameters'
or 'contexts'. Included in this is the wider issue of what it is to work in the field, the trip to the field, tramissions from the field, the translations between field and studio, and the processing of data after the field. With an emphasis on the interplay between theory and practice, and a focused commitment to exploring the particularities of design work, we invite critical, historical and creative approaches to the legacy, currency and potentiality of Field/work, that seek to complicate, extend, contest and subvert the normative sites, practices and itineraries of field/work:
to the field:
in the field:
from the field:
between field and studio:
after the field:
Participation:
We initially invite 500 word abstracts from researchers, educators, practitioners in architecture, landscape architecture and related disciplines for papers which reflect on and explore the theme from a range of standpoints (historical, theoretical, experiential, ethical, political, pedagogical, other). Inventories, case studies, innovative methodologies which enrich or elucidate Field/work are welcome. The conference aims to address the conventions of praxis-action and field-work acrtoss media, scales, cultures, to articulate current discourses on the topic and to identify critical dilemmas and opportunities for future practices of design and research. Selected papers will be published as an edited book as part of the AHRA series.
Timetable:
March 31st 2009 - Submission of abstracts
Submissions by email to: ahra2009@ed.ac.uk
Further information
AHRA conference 2009
Eco-City World Summit 2009
Preliminary notice
We are currently organizing the Ecocity World Summit 2009 which will be held on 13-15 December, 2009 in Istanbul.
The theme of the Ecocity 2009 Conference, "Global Environmental Balances", focuses on finding new approaches towards a new ecologically oriented world order for future generations. Besides underlining the importance of eco-thinking, ethics, eco-politics and the methods to reach an ecological awareness, issues such as spatial planning policies and natural resource management, energy provision technologies, eco-architecture and design and environmentally friendly building materials will also be discussed by scientists, politicians and environment experts in the perspective of the third millennium.
To this end, following sub-topics of the conference are determined as:
Further information will be available soon.
Further information
Organizing Committee
Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Cengiz
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