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Looking for submissions to the 12th volume of the journal “Preservation Education and Research” published by the University of Minnesota Press.

If interested, contact us and details of the submission process will be forthcoming.

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Wednesday, Oct. 7th, 2020 & Thursday, Oct 8th, 2020
Benediktbeuern, Germany

In order to achieve the ambitious governmental and societal goals in CO2 reduction which are needed to mitigate global climate change requires the contribution of all sectors including buildings and the construction industry. Historic and traditional buildings compose a considerable part of the worldwide building stock. Solutions are needed that respect the historic fabric of these buildings and yet contribute to energy efficiency improvements and CO2 reduction.

The 4th International Conference on Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings EEHB2020 aims to present new research and best practices on a wide range of topics relating to energy efficiency in historic buildings. This year, the focus will be on the role digital technologies can play in improving the energy performance of historic buildings, whilst respecting the principles of conservation. In this context, the aim is to take a closer look at the interfaces between digital building models and the building simulation and the question of the necessary accuracy of both 3D digitisation and hygrothermal or building energy performance simulation tools. Both technologies – 3D scans and building simulation – have been available for a long time, but so far there are no automated processes for converting 3D scans into the energetic building simulation. In addition, more research is also needed on the degree of accuracy of the building survey using digital methods in order to represent a historical building accurately.

Abstracts will be selected based on their relevancy to the general theme of the conference, novelty, quality, advancement of the field and state of completion of the research or practice they are presenting. Selected abstracts will be invited for presentation at the workshop on “Recording historic buildings using digital workflows – Designing the intersection from 3D model to building simulation” on Monday, Oct. 5th, 2020, & Tuesday, Oct. 6th, 2020 before the main conference. Also, a poster session is planned. 

The following is meant to illustrate, but not limit, the scope of the conference: 

• State of the art and beyond approaches for the use of digital technologies to improve the energy performance of historic buildings 
• From 3D point clouds to building simulations – workflows and accuracy aspects within model creation 
• Approaches for digitisation of the energy refurbishment process 
• Tools and methods for analysis, planning, refurbishment to facility management
• Building and district level applications 
• Challenges in preservation of 20th-century historic buildings
• Development of new technical retrofit measures appropriate for different types of historic buildings
• Good practices presenting state of the art both in terms of achieved results and decision-making processes
• Investigations based in social sciences and humanities
• Need for training and education, knowledge sharing and critical analyses of the science-practice gap
• Laws, regulations and policies at international, national, regional and local level

Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long and must describe the research objectives, scope and method, as well as the main findings and implications of the work. 
Abstracts are due on February 25th, 2020. 

– Extension of Deadline for Abstracts to March 10th, 2020 

Please submit your abstracts under the following email-address: submission@eehb2020.org

For further details, please see: www.eehb2020.org

The conference is organised jointly by the Fraunhofer Centre for Conservation and Energy Performance of Historic Buildings and the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt and with the support of the Bezirk Oberbayern.

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Organised by Deljana Iossifova (The University of Manchester, UK) & David Kostenwein (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Urban enclaves are increasingly shaping our cities. A globalized real estate market and socioeconomic inequality contribute to the emergence of enclaves like favelas, slums and gated communities. Urban borderlands are the sociomaterial spaces in-between sociospatially dissimilar adjacent parts of fragmented cities: in-between urban enclaves, built and un-built, old and new, modern and traditional, rich and poor, planned and unplanned, formal and informal, permanent and temporary, local and migrant. Although often dominated by lines of divisions, such as walls and fences, urban borderlands can enable the inter- and transaction between disparate and otherwise disjointed social groups, infrastructures and ecosystems.
We are interested in the genealogy of borders, boundaries and borderlands in the city, including – but not limited to – the following: the processes of boundary delimitation; the triggers (such as insecurity or mistrust) and consequences of bordering; the occupation, appropriation, use or abandonment of in-between spaces; the strategies and tactics for maintenance and negotiation of borderlands; the transformation of individual, group and neighbourhood/city identities; human-environment interactions in urban borderlands. We are particularly interested in research that draws on systems theory.

We welcome theoretical contributions as well as those aimed at informing policy, design and planning for more appropriate decision-making that fosters the integration of underprivileged socioeconomic, ethnic or otherwise marginalized urban groups or species.
We invite the submission of abstracts from participants across all stages of their career and any discipline or geographic region. We are planning a Split Session with one (or more) paper sessions followed by a World Café discussing opportunities for future collaboration.

Please submit your abstract (max. 300 words) including your name, affiliation and title of your talk by 31 January 2020 to Dr Deljana Iossifova (deljana.iossifova@manchester.ac.uk) and David Kostenwein (david.kostenwein@istp.ethz.ch). Please include ‘RGS-IBG Urban Borderlands Session’ in the subject of your email.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

January 10, 2020 | Submission draft paper
February 10, 2020 | Submission of final paper

13 – 15 May 2020, Villa Vittoria, Florence, Italy

Florence Heri-Tech was launched in 2018 by the Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Florence (DIEF) and Florence Biennial Art and Restoration Fair. The idea was to create a synergy between Cultural Heritage and New Technologies. The Conference involves a large number of research projects and scholars from around the world and puts the industry’s current issues under the spotlight, specifically on issues related to innovative techniques and technologies for Cultural Heritage. The Conference is part of the Florence Biennial Art and Restoration Fair, an international event attracting prestigious institutions and companies and creating a unique opportunity to bring together the academic word with industry.
The city of Florence will therefore be the international heart of Restoration and Cultural and Environmental assets as well as a forum for meeting and discussing for experts and enthusiasts from around the world. The Conference will be a significant opportunity for exchange between researchers and companies for the promotion of productive excellence, technological evolution, the greater use of culture for younger sections of the population and specialization in the educational field for graduates and PhD students.

To find out more see here.

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Complexity and the City – Life, Design and Commerce in the Built Environment

Conference: 17-19 June 2020
Place: City, University or London.
ABSTRACTS: (Round One): DEC 2019 

https://architecturemps.com/london-2020/


SUBMISSIONS:
Abstracts received later in December will be included in Round One reviews immediately. Later submissions will be included in Round Two.

https://architecturemps.com/london-2020/

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STRANDS:
Urban Design | Architecture | Sustainability | Engineering | Housing | Public Health | Sociology | Economics | Business | Governance | Art and Culture  |  History


PUBLISHERS:
Routledge | UCL Press | Intellect Books | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Vernon Press | Libri Publishing.


PREVIOUS & UPCOMING BOOKS:
– Design Education. Routledge. 2021
– Urban Histories in Practice. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2020
– Narrating the City. Intellect Books. 2020
– Critical Practices in Architecture and Place Making. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2020
– Designing for Health & Wellbeing. Vernon Press. 2019
– Global Dimensions in Housing. Libri Publishing. 2018
– From Conflict to Inclusion in Housing. UCL Press, 2017
– Visioning Technologies. Routledge, Taylor&Francis. 2016
– Filming the City. Intellect Books. 2014
– Housing the Future. Libri Publishing, 2015
– Housing Solutions Through Design. Libri Publishing. 2016
– Digital Futures and the City. Intellect Books, 2014.
– Imaging the City. Intellect Books. 2014       


CALL:
The first years of the 1970s saw the introduction of a whole series of notions that would mutually inform our reading of the metropolis: social justice and the city, sustainability, defensible space, and urban centres as sites of public health. It saw the emergence of concepts such as the global city, urban economics, the post-industrial society and the cultural city. From art, design and cultural perspectives, post-modernism would critique of the whole modernist project.

Five decades after complexity theory was first applied to our reading of the city, this conference revisits its consequences. It reconsiders the city as an adaptive, self-organising and unpredictable system of interconnecting interventions, forces and perspectives. It asks how these competing and mutually reinforcing factors came into play and how they operate today. It questions how the city has been, and continues to be, informed by the practices of multiple disciplines.


TO SUBMIT AN ABSTRACT:

https://architecturemps.com/london-2020/

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This two-day event, organised in collaboration with the International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, wants to bring together interested researchers from the fields of conservation and philosophy to discuss authenticity, replicas, and the ethics of conservation/restoration. The symposium seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary discussion and communication between scholars concerned with aesthetics, conservation and replication, the philosophy of art and its interaction with art restoration, and the instantiation of forgeries and their relationship to ethical and institutional concerns.

The event will be held in Hastings, East Sussex, UK on November 26th and 27th 2020. The deadline for the submission of proposals is Friday 7 February 2020, 5pm.

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To make the conference as inclusive as possible, delegates can attend in-person but can also avoid travel costs by making their presentation as a pre-recorded film. It will be permanently available via the AMPS YouTube channel. Alternatively, they may be able to present virtually via skype. In all cases, written papers are also acceptable.

Possible Formats include:

Pre-recorded film (20 minutes) | Skype (20 minutes) | In-person Presentations (20 minutes) | Written Papers (3,000 words) *

* After review selected authors will be invited to extend their initial 3000 words paper to full book chapter or journal article length.

Key Dates:

10 Feb 2020: Abstract Submissions (Round One) *   |    20 Feb 2020:  Abstract Feedback

20 Feb 2020:  Conference Registration opens

10 April 2020: Abstract Submissions (Round Two)    |    20 April 2020:  Abstract Feedback

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As part of the 8th Euroacademia International Conference
‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’
Ghent, Belgium, 25 – 26 October 2019

Deadline: 25th of September 2019

Urban image construction is a reflection, expression and constitutive factor of local identity formation and dynamics. Cities simultaneously localize identities and connect them with wider global signs of utility, function and symbolic order. Elasticity of the label identity accommodates everything that surrounds us as presence or absence, persistence or change. As a theatrical scenery, cities change after each act, sometimes with discrete adaptations, sometimes with radical interventions. If the scenery is composed of streets, parks, roads, museums, monuments, shopping malls and buildings connected through the intricate network of the perpetual and cumulative actions of its inhabitants, every adaptation and intervention affects its multi-dimensional identities. Changes in urban visual identities unfold as a form of public art feeding from the immense potential of social imaginary significations accommodated by a time’s perception of stability, structure and continuity. Urban change is itself a production of meaning, interpretation and identity making practices.

As the chaotic canvases of cities are being stretched over a framework of identity, its further exploration seems more than appropriate. Amidst the incredibly rapid urban growth crowding more than half of the world population in towns and cities, the questions are only going to keep multiplying. How are city identities made and re-made, used and abused, imagined and narrated, politicised and communicated, expressed and projected, imposed and marketed? And above all, how do they thrive within the dynamic interpolation of the nexus of local-global, centre-periphery, urban – suburban, old and new. As out-dated as these dichotomies may sound, in many places their daily life is far from over. As old cities became new capitals and new capitals struggle for more capital, the challenges of maintaining public-driven collective identities in the face of cultural fragmentation and diversification, coupled with consumer-attractiveness is turning them into urban palimpsests. Urban environments reflect the human needs and values. In an increasingly globalized world, the human beings are becoming more citizens of the world than citizens of the cities. The increasing mobility of the new pilgrims of globalization creates more of the same in the logic of universalized urban functionality. Within this logic, the cities are now in the position to re-evaluate their impact on the world and shape their future in a manner that assumes a wider responsibility that evades a localized mentality. Urban local identities are becoming increasingly thin and rely strongly on negotiating a local specificity with universalized functionality and global responsibility. An increasing need for uniqueness and distinctiveness foster site-specificity aimed at placing a particular urban identity within a global economic hierarchy. Public art became essential for affirming distinctive local urban identities in a universe of serialization and commodification.

As the research on cultural identities of the city is becoming more abundant, this panel aims at adopting a wide-lens inter-disciplinary approach, while focusing on various processes affecting identities in the urban context in its global-regional-national-local interplay.

Some example of topics may include (but are not limited to):

•       Collective Memory, Identity and Urban Image Construction
•       Appropriation, Instrumentalisation and Functualisation of Public Spaces
•       Contemporary Nomadism and the City as a Common Denominator for Collective Identities
•       Architecture as ‘Politics with Bricks and Mortar’
•       History, Heritage and Urban Change
•       Urban Regeneration Projects, Landmark Buildings and ‘Starchitects’
•       Non-Places and (Non)Identity
•       Immigrants and the Cultural Identity of Cities
•       City Marketing and City Branding
•       Cities and Public Goods
•       European Capitals of Culture and European Identity
•       Cities and Sites of Memorialisation
•       Identity Creation and the Cultural Offer of the City
•       Urban Cultural Heritage as Identity-Anchor
•       Minor Places: Dominant Culture and Site-Specific Urban Identities
•       Creative Changes of the Cities
•       Art and Industry in Urban Development
•       Urban Aesthetics
•       Urban Installations
•       Critical Architecture
•       Urbanism and Social Intervention: Inclusion of the Marginalized
•       Centre/Periphery Nexuses in Contemporary Urban Development
•       Cities and the Quality of Life
•       Urban Landscapes and Sustainable Cities
•       Contemporary Cities and Environmental Responsibility
•       Ugliness, Kitsch and Value in Shaping Contemporary Urban Spaces
•       Urban Sites of Identification
•       Temporary Urban Interventions
•       Architecture as Public Art

For complete information before applying see full details of the conference at:
http://euroacademia.eu/conference/8eupe/

You can apply on-line by completing the Application Form on the conference website or by sending 300 words titled abstract together with the details of contact and affiliation until 25th of September 2019 at application@euroacademia.org

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05 to 07 May 2020, Edinburgh, Scotland

Deadline now extended to Thursday, 17th October.

Climate change is threatening historic places across the world, especially in the world’s northern regions. The international Adapt Northern Heritage Conference 2020 will explore practices and research concerned with:

• assessing the environmental impacts of climate change and their associated risks on historic places

• planning and/or implementing adaptation measures to make historic places more resilient to climate change, where possible, or alternatively manage their loss.

This peer-review conference offers themed parallel sessions over the course of two days with oral and poster presentations. On the third day, relevant case study visits and other social activities are on offer, details of which will be announced in autumn 2019.

The conference is organised by the European project Adapt Northern Heritage (2017-2020), which is supported by the European Union, Iceland and Norway through the Interreg Programme for the Northern Periphery and Arctic. The project has researched climate change adaptation for historic places and supported communities in understanding better the impacts of climate change on their heritage sites and preparing for their adaptation.

Abstracts of a maximum of 300 words, including a short biography of a maximum of 100 words, are to be submitted online only via the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/cfp/ANH2020

More information can be found here:

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Ten-minute champions at Forging Ahead: New Perspectives on Heritage Ironwork

Are you passionate about one particular piece of ironwork? Could you speak about it for 10 minutes? Will you win over the audience and persuade everyone that yours is the best?

If you’ve answered yes to all of the above, then this is your chance to speak at the V&A.

The 10-minute champions slot at our Conference Forging Ahead at the V&A on 14th November will give you the opportunity to share your enthusiasm with an inspiring pitch that will win over the crowds. Think Dragon’s Den meets the opposite of Room 101

Whether it’s a nail or a scroll, a suit of armour or a gun barrel, a pier, hinge, lock or clock, we want to hear what makes you tick.

Who will be crowned the Heritage Ironwork Champion of 2019 at our 10th Anniversary Conference (the ironwork equivalent of the Oscars)? The audience vote will decide on the night.

Rules:

• Open to anyone who works with or is involved with metals
• Must be ‘heritage’ but that could include ‘heritage of the future’ so no date restrictions
• Can be any size, from a pin to a pylon
• You could champion a particular style or practitioner but it must be via an object  Must be illustrated by no more than 10 slides (a slide a minute)
• Champion must be able to stand up and speak for their choice in an engaging way

Submissions by way of a brief synopsis of your pitch and brief bio by Friday 30th August to: NHIG Conference Team via info@nhig.org.uk Subject Heading: 10-minute champions

Successful pitches will be informed that they have been selected by 30th September 2019

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