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Interior Ecologies
The conference will delve into the intersection between the built environment and new emerging ecologies, exploring the impact of digitalization on interior architecture and its relationship to computational ecologies, social media, non-human relations, postnatural territories, videogames, and artificial intelligence.
Stones Between the Fronts: Anti-Fascist Monuments on the Territory of Former-Yugoslavia
Once standing for solidarity among the populations of the republics and autonomous provinces, now the monuments are a testament to political and social disunity. Disputes and wars have made differences visible in the new nation states, contributing to conflicts based on ethnicity, nationalist sentiment and religious allegiance.
Epidemic Urbanism Initiative 2023 International Design Competition: Webinars with Jury and Commentators
The webinars will feature short design videos prepared by the shortlisted teams that include design professionals, architecture students, and healthcare practitioners.
The Architecture of Food
From farms and agricultural homesteads that served historic markets to ethnic food enclaves, the city is an experiment in democracy, architecture, and flavor. How has the Washington metropolitan area facilitated the production and dissemination of foodstuffs across the region? How have patterns of work shaped patterns of eating? How does a focus on food generate new types of research methodologies?
Society of Architectural Historians Virtual Conference Component
Virtual 2023 features a diverse range of sessions, discussions, and networking opportunities.
Value. Use. Property. On the Spatial Dimensions of Land Issues
Responding to increasing land prices and rents, for instance in Germany, a discussion about possible solutions and methods to avoid land speculation has evolved.
High-Tech Heritage: (Im)Permanence of Innovation
The conference focuses on High-Tech Architecture of the 1970s to the 1990s as heritage, aiming to create an architectural-historical basis for further research on their preservation.
Getty Conservation Guest Scholars Program
The program provides opportunities for professionals to pursue research on topics that contribute to the advancement of practice in the conservation field.
STOÀ Journal n. 9, Year IV, Issue 1/3, [Inteferences]
This issue of Stoà does not question the need to recognise, manage and capitalise on these contingencies, be they theoretical, cultural, disciplinary, technical, legal, economic, political, social or otherwise. Rather, it seeks to explore how this can be done, seeking to understand the methods and approaches through which disruption can be productively used.
Production Studies International Conference 2024: Transforming Knowledges of Architecture, Design and Labour
Production Studies research is concerned with mainstream design-labour relations and its histories; with wider practices where design or intellectual labour is separated from production; and—recognising that in many parts of the world building takes place through self-organised processes—with other modes and possibilities of building production.
Architecture, Villages, and their Entangled Histories: Rural-urban Encounters in the Islamic World
This panel invites papers which examine the making of villages in the Islamic world from the medieval era to the second half of the twentieth century.
Tange transnational – Japanese futures for European cities
The panel aims at examining Tange‘s influence on European architecture and urban planning in a comprehensive way.