The editors are seeking contributions that investigate the possible reconfiguration, reuse, and optimization of the extensive existing social housing units spread worldwide.
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The Modern Backdrop: Urban Modernisation and Representations of the Working-Class (1950- 1975)
The plans and hopes of architects, planners, and city councils when developing modern infrastructure and housing not only focussed on elevating living standards; modern housing estates were also believed to support the development of ‘new communities’ within which pre-existing and widespread social problems would dissolve.
Adaptive Reuse: Design Transformations for Community Healthcare
Global health crises, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, create an urgent need to transform existing buildings and sites for both ongoing community care and emergency treatment. This adaptive reuse is the theme of the 2023 EUI Design Competition.
Celebrations at Court: Ephemeral Objects, Materials, and Machineries in the Early Modern Period
With this international conference the organizers wish to explore the appearances and functions of ephemeral objects, materials, and machineries used at court festivities, and their relations to spectacles and performances in general.
As Found: International colloquium on adaptive reuse
The colloquium aims to discuss how contemporary architecture deals with the existing built environment ‘as found’ from four different angles.
Contesti 1. WASTELANDS. Recycling urban spaces for the shrinking city.
This issue of CONTESTI aims to stimulate an international debate on decommissioning and shrinkage processes.
Drawings as Objects of Knowledge Part II. The Archive Nurtures a Culture of Circularity
This symposium views drawings as important moderators in this process of re-use and re-appropriation. The
past imagined through the drawing can predict a future that is no longer pure and linear, but hybrid and
layered.
Building for the Nation Abroad
This colloquium aims to discuss the challenges of building for the nation abroad with a particular
focus on the process of negotiation between the many actors involved.
War Diaries: Ecologies of Post-war Reconstructions
This call explores the rarely considered but complex ecologies and ecological entanglements emerging after violence and destruction.
Visions of Welfare
An international conference discussing the role of women in the creation of the spaces of the post-war Welfare States.
Architectural Humanities Research Association Research Student Symposium 2023. Research in crisis: tactics and methods.
The aim of the symposium is to explore the use of research tactics and methods in Architectural Humanities in the context of crisis.
Lo Squaderno no. 65 Care and Critical Action
The aim of the issue is to develop a framework that addresses the small scale to the large scale, self and social relations, the material and the discursive to host narratives, typologies, and practices of care as critical action.