This special issue encourages contributions that address the urgent promises and risks that digital infrastructures, tools, and approaches hold. 

The conference is intended as a moment of reflection to verify the state of the art, rediscover aspects of Brazilian work that have remained in the shadows or even unknown, relaunch studies and offer support to ongoing protection and enhancement activities, with a view to fruitful collaboration between research institutes and institutes of the Ministry of Culture.

GAM invites interested authors from various disciplines to explore aspects of architecture that are unspectacular, not worth seeing, unplanned, or provisional.

Contributions must seek to explore how innovations in architectural archiving and exhibition practices can help project new ideas into the future.

The aim of this panel is to attempt a reconstruction of the design processes of theatrical, artistic or musical performances that took the urban space as a stage, as well as the collaborative relationships established between artists, directors, performers, architects and town planners.

Against the background of the movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge, this session seeks to explore 19th-century Ottoman architecture.

The conference addresses scholars from different disciplines in order to trace the multiple aspects that accompany the transfer of architecture from antiquity to the present day.

Papers are invited to problematize the meaning of design and to address these questions in contexts including, but not limited to, activism, politics, economy, everyday life, disasters, education, management, health and medicine, digital technologies, user-experience, production and consumption networks, marketing, and media.

The editors ask how love is, or may have been, an underlying motivator of built and speculative spaces, and how the materiality of both may sustain object-attachments for ongoing expressions of amorous affect?

The editors are looking for buildings that can illustrate the relationship between more or less open ‘indeterminacy’ and affordance.

The editors seek contributions that aim to discover how disappearances are spatially manifested (human/non-human, living/non-living, material/symbolic) and how the appearances of certain things have led to the disappearances of others.