23rd International Seminar on Urban Form

The theme of the 23rd International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) is ‘Urban Morphology and the Resilient City’. 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: urban morphological theory, urban morphology and urban design/planning, urban morphology and sustainability, transformation and resilience in urban development, cities in the global era, urban form in Asia, and comparative urban morphology.

Further details: isuf2016@nju.edu.cn

Call for Entries: Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World, 2nd Edition

Oxford Brooks – Expressions of interest to contribute to the second revised edition of the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World are now invited. more….

Call for Workshop Organizers

The Design & The City conference explores citizen-centered design approaches for the smart city, addressing how social media, big data and other digital technologies may contribute to more sustainable, liveable and sociable urban communities. Specific focus of the conference is on the expanding role of designers as initiators, innovators, campaigners, connectors, organizers, critics and imagineers of alternative urban futures.

We are inviting proposals from designers, activists, researchers, media labs, and others for workshops to be held on April 22, 2016. Workshops are unique opportunities for engaging practitioners, researchers and conference attendees in a productive discussion. more…

Design After Planning: Examining the Shift from Epistemology to Topology

The question of how different types of ‘planning’ should deal with uncertainty has taken on fresh importance. On the one hand, existential threats such as climate change, overpopulation, and new forms of global conflict expand the temporal and spatial horizons of our sense of responsibility as never before. On the other, the world is constructed increasingly as emergent, complex and non-linear; the ‘wicked’ problems it throws up are not amenable to modernist, top-down solutions. more….

Inheriting the City: Advancing Understandings of Urban Heritage

Update 15/10/15: We have received a fantastic response to the first call for papers, drawing responses from over 35 different countries and a diverse range of disciplines including architecture, urban planning, heritage management, tourism studies and many more. The second call for papers is now open more….

Creative Placemaking and Beyond: Continuing and re-invigorating the arts-led conversation.

Final Call for Papers. Deadline Sun 25th Oct, 2015

This session will continue the interrogation of notions of creative placemaking started at the RGS 2015 annual conference, aiming to take this conversation to the US and broaden international and sectora/practice discussion.

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Mediated Cities

Intellect Books will launch its ‘Mediated Cities’ book series with three volumes at the conference ‘Digital-Cultural Ecology and the Medium-Sized City’, April 2016. Bristol, UK.

The first volumes are:

Digital Futures and the City of Today: New Technologies and Physical Spaces. ISBN: 978-1-78320-560-8
Filming the City: Urban Documents, Design Practices & Social Criticism Through the Lens. ISBN: 978-1-78320-554-7
Imaging the City: Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations. ISBN: 978-1-78320-557-8

The series is a cross disciplinary investigation of the modern, technologically laden, urban experience – its design, planning, representation, visualisation etc. It welcomes contributions from the perspective of urban design, planning, cultural studies, digital art, emerging technologies, social media, film, photography and more.

For details on the publications, see:
http://architecturemps.com/publications-2/

ICE Urban Design and Planning

ICE Urban Design and Planning announces a themed issue for 2016 regarding urban design education.

For the first time in human history, the majority of the world’s population lives in urban areas. From European and North American post-industrial cities to expanding mega-cities in Africa, South America and Asia and from established and new ‘global’ cities to the many forms of urban sprawl, settlement patterns across the world are undergoing rapid changes that carry profound implications for people’s relationships to community, culture, politics, the economy and the environment.

The 2015 Urban Design and Planning themed issue will include papers about the ways urban design education are preparing the next generation of urban designers to address the global conditions noted above – and others as identified by authors.

The deadline for abstracts is 1 November 2015. The deadline for manuscripts is 1 February 2016.

To request further details and full journal guidelines, please contact:
Sarah Brown T: +44 20 7665 2249;
E: sarah.brown@icepublishing.com

Narratives of Loneliness, Multidisciplinary perspectives from the 21st century

Creative, provocative, informed, scholarly chapters pertaining to 21st century urban design / built environment on the subject of loneliness and/or isolation.

The book seeks to capture a broad range of narratives, critiques, observations and de/constructions of loneliness which identify, in some way the ‘lonelinesses’ particular to our current century. The anthology is mainly academic and therefore contributions should be based on, or refer to, research and/or practice and be theoretically grounded.

Abstracts or expressions of interest of no more than 150 words should be sent to the lead editor, Olivia Sagan by November 30th 2015 at olivia.sagan@bishopg.ac.uk

14th International Docomomo Conference

DOCOMOMO International is pleased to invite you to take part in the 14th International DOCOMOMO Conference that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 6th to 9th September 2016, under the theme Adaptive Re-use. The Modern Movement Towards the Future, by sending a paper proposal.

Please submit your abstract before October 18, 2015 at docomomo2016.exordo.com.

All the instructions at www.docomomo2016.com.

Calls for papers

Details of submissions of papers etc