The Journal of Architectural Education Issue 71:2 seeks Scholarship of Design, Design as Scholarship, and Micro-Narratives that critically examine architecture’s prevailing
26 August 2016
25 August 2016
Digital landscape architecture conference 2017
Digital Landscape Architecture
7-10 June 2017, Bernburg, Germany
7-10 June 2017, Bernburg, Germany
"For the 18th DLA Conference, the Editors and the Board of Editors of the Journal of
Digital Landscape Architecture cordially invite you to submit proposals for original,
unpublished
Design Principles & Practices conference
Design Principles & Practices
2-4 March 2017, Toronto
We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, virtual
17 August 2016
Intellect journals collection
The Library has recently purchased a collection of journals from Intellect. Some that may be of interest to the School of Architecture and Design include:
The journals can be accessed via LibrarySearch or the Ingenta database.
11 August 2016
Help us improve the Library website
From the Library News blog:
The Library website gives you access to hundreds of thousands of resources, but is the information easy to find?
This online usability test will help us find out.
If you have any “I really like…”, “I can never find…” or "You should…” comments, you can tell us at the end.
Please share your thoughts on how we can improve the website, it will only take 10 minutes.
Go to the Library website user testing page and have a go!
8 August 2016
New books in the library
Some new books for the library are listed a below - a mix of print and e-books. Send any purchase suggestions to Tristan.
The Acoustic City
"How does sound shape urban life? What do soundscapes reveal about the experience of modernity? This innovative essay collection explores a series of critical themes including the diversity of urban soundscapes; acoustic flanerie and different ways of listening to the city; the emergence of specific associations between place, music and sound; and the acoustic ecology of architecture, landscape and urban design"
Hong Kong Architecture 1945 - 2015: From Colonial to Global
"This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global - the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture. The book reveals hardships the city encountered in the 1950s and the glamour enjoyed in the 1980s. It depicts the public and private developments, and especially the public housing which has sheltered millions of residents. The author identifies the architects practising in the formative years and the representatives of a rising generation after the 1980s. Suffering from land shortage and a dense environment, the urban development of Hong Kong has in the past 70 years met the changing demands of fluctuating economic activities and
Interstices 17
Interstices
In 2016, after many years of publishing the work of emerging and established researchers,Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is resuming its earlier commitment to the publication of postgraduate student research design projects. Recent or ongoing postgraduate researchers in architecture and related art and design fields are invited to submit projects for a new peer-reviewed section of the journal.
Projects should be complete at the time of submission and are to include a design synopsis of 1500 words.
Project documentation and the synopsis should meet the following criteria:
- Be original and unpublished previously
- In the case of visual material, include no more than six indicative views of the proposal
- In the case of moving image, animated sequences, or audio works, not exceed 4 minutes duration
- Include a scholarly and critically contextualising synopsis for the project coauthored by both the project’s creator and the supervisor(s) involved. The synopsis should bear the name of the researcher as the primary author and the supervisor as the secondary author.
- Establish an overt relationship with a particular journal issue thematic (where this exists).
While there is no specific thematic for issue 17, project authors may choose in this case to focus on the issue’s sub-theme, Return to Origins, when considering submissions.
Please submit full project documentation for the Interstices 17 journal issue to Dr Sue Hedges (shedges[AT]aut.ac.nz) by 8 August 2016. 22 August 2016
More information at the Interstices website.
Institutional Modernism: Public Art and Architecture
Institutional Modernism: Public Art and Architecture
1-3 December 2016, Canberra
The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). Proposals for papers should address the conference theme 'The Work of Art'.
More information: http://goo.gl/YtRvN4
Proposal due date: 26 August 2016.
1-3 December 2016, Canberra
The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). Proposals for papers should address the conference theme 'The Work of Art'.
More information: http://goo.gl/YtRvN4
Proposal due date: 26 August 2016.
ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe
ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe
Call for papers: 'Paradoxical Southeast Asia'.
Call for papers: 'Paradoxical Southeast Asia'.
'In Southeast Asia, a space characterized by intense regional and global traffic networks since the sixteenth century, the architectural landscape is often seen as a palimpsest of styles. The hybrid and syncretic nature of Southeast Asian architectural forms is seen as the result of the successive waves of contacts that marked the history of this part of the world called by some the "Asian Mediterranean." (F. Gipoloux). In this genealogy of architectural types, the colonial moment has been often considered a rupture that introduced radically new forms in vernacular architecture. Following this logic, the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century are considered as moments of further intensification of this architectural acculturation. The adoption of the international style in the megacities of the
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice
Call for Papers: Volume 2 Issue 1
Call for Papers: Volume 2 Issue 1
Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (DRTP) promotes and disseminates contemporary drawing practice and research in its current cultural and disciplinary diversity. The journal encourages pluralist forms of discourse, addressing current issues of theory and practice. It is concerned with drawing as an interactive process and product, as a form of writing or visual narrative, as a model of representation; an investigative, descriptive or interpretive pursuit, a recording and communicative tool; an interactive and dynamic 'site of conception'; as performance, an aid to critical thinking, an interpretative medium and as a site of production.
DRTP invites practitioners, researchers, educators and theorists in the disciplines of fine art, architecture, design, visual communication, technology, craft, animation, etc. to contribute articles, projects, essay and papers that deal with the various knowledges and representations of drawing.
More information: http://goo.gl/fMnGZr
Deadline 5 September 2016.
More information: http://goo.gl/fMnGZr
Deadline 5 September 2016.
Design Education in the Nordic Countries
Design Education in the Nordic Countries
23-24 September 2016, Helsinki
23-24 September 2016, Helsinki
The conference examines interaction within the Nordic region and in the international framework. What was the relation to the German Bauhaus and other 20th century progressive design schools in Europe and in the USA? What kind of connections were there to design schools of the Baltic countries during Soviet era and later. And how is it now: what is the status of education in national design policies of the Nordic countries?
We welcome abstracts for 20 minutes conference papers from scholars from a diverse range of disciplines on the theme of design education. Topics that may be considered include, but are not limited to:
- Methods of research in design education
- Locality / nationality as context of design education
- Interaction and collaboration between Nordic actors of design education
- Bauhaus and other "foreign" influences in Nordic design education
- Links to design schools in the region of the former Soviet Union
- Professionals coming outside of design education
- Characteristics of contemporary design education in the Nordic countries
- Design policies and design education in the Nordic countries
- Turning points in design education
- Continuum and ruptures in the design curriculum
- Role of history in design education
Deadline for submission: 15 August 2016 [abstracts of up to 250 words by 12 August 2016 to pekka.korvenmaa [AT] aalto.fi]
VIRAL, Inaugural Issue of Technology | Architecture + Design
VIRAL, Inaugural Issue of Technology | Architecture + Design
VIRAL--the inaugural call for papers for TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD)--asks whether architecture is once again on the threshold of significant changes in the material, technical and procedural context of design. In the twenty-first century, information technologies are transforming how buildings are designed, constructed, delivered, occupied and assessed. From crowdsourcing to collective wisdom, information technology is redefining our relation to the environment and to each other. Yet, to what extent are architects, and those who educate them, actively involved in articulating a path for such technologies within their work—be it in their research, scholarship, or design work? Alternatively, to what extent are architectural educators cautious, resistant, or critical of this highly speculative engagement with barely recognizable or material forms of technology?
TAD seeks contributions from scholars, educators, designers, and architects who research, test and create using these emerging technologies and who seek to articulate and theorize the impact they will have on the built environment. The journal seeks articles that feature primary research in information technologies and their impact on materials, construction, structures, building systems, energy studies, environmental design, sustainability and resiliency, project delivery, and practice-based innovations. Papers should advance scholarship with a focus on the impact, translation and integration of technology in architecture and design.
Submissions due 1 September 2016.
More information at the journal website.
VIRAL--the inaugural call for papers for TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD)--asks whether architecture is once again on the threshold of significant changes in the material, technical and procedural context of design. In the twenty-first century, information technologies are transforming how buildings are designed, constructed, delivered, occupied and assessed. From crowdsourcing to collective wisdom, information technology is redefining our relation to the environment and to each other. Yet, to what extent are architects, and those who educate them, actively involved in articulating a path for such technologies within their work—be it in their research, scholarship, or design work? Alternatively, to what extent are architectural educators cautious, resistant, or critical of this highly speculative engagement with barely recognizable or material forms of technology?
TAD seeks contributions from scholars, educators, designers, and architects who research, test and create using these emerging technologies and who seek to articulate and theorize the impact they will have on the built environment. The journal seeks articles that feature primary research in information technologies and their impact on materials, construction, structures, building systems, energy studies, environmental design, sustainability and resiliency, project delivery, and practice-based innovations. Papers should advance scholarship with a focus on the impact, translation and integration of technology in architecture and design.
Submissions due 1 September 2016.
More information at the journal website.
Critical Collaborations: Neutralizing Power in Art and Design History
Critical Collaborations: Neutralizing Power in Art and Design History
15-18 February 2017, New York
15-18 February 2017, New York
We welcome submissions that look to histories of art and design collaboration that confront and disarm power structures, be they institutional, research methods-based, or material. This panel aims to foster a dynamic discussion that will address projects that focus on histories of collaboration and engagement practices. Contributions focusing on non-Western contexts will be favored to consider not what history or design mean in various constituencies, but what present collaboration across geographies can afford the intellectual, social and cultural aspects of art and design.
Potential Subject Areas: 1) Art History-Decorative Arts/Textiles/ Design History; 2) Interdisciplinary-Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Art Criticism; 3) Interdisciplinary-Studio Art & Art History
Deadline for submission: 30 August 2016
Housing the Future – Resilient and Sustainable Design
Housing the Future – Resilient and Sustainable Design
9-10 February 2017, London South Bank University
9-10 February 2017, London South Bank University
As part of its book series on design and planning approaches to housing AMPS calls for submissions to the third book of the series. The Housing the Future series is a unique combination of:
i. Built projects by planners, urban designers and architects
ii. Essays from academics in these fields describing theory, practice or educational design projects in these areas
iii. Student projects (typically those of the academics in section two)
Book title: Housing the Future – Resilient and Sustainable Design.
The first round of chapter submissions are collected through the housing strand of the 'Living Sustainability: An Environmental Critique of Design and Building Practices, Locally and Globally' conference.
Abstract submission due 20 October 2016.
More information at the conference website.
The first round of chapter submissions are collected through the housing strand of the 'Living Sustainability: An Environmental Critique of Design and Building Practices, Locally and Globally' conference.
Abstract submission due 20 October 2016.
More information at the conference website.
The Politics of Environments: Architectures, Natures and Data
The Politics of Environments: Architectures, Natures and Data
20-23 April 2017, Tallinn
Authors are welcome to submit analytical papers, theoretically well-grounded case studies, or architectural counter-projects for presentations while indicating their preference for one of these tracks: 'Optimised urban ecosystems', 'Architectural turn to nature?' or '"Big data" and urban subjectification'.
More information on the conference themes available here: http://www.architecturesnaturesdata.com/
Proposals due 1 November 2016.
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