Embodied Energy Through Time: Architecture and its Histories of Resource Consumption
Panel Session: EAHN biannual conference, Madrid (2022)
Madrid, Spain
June 15 2022
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CfP for panel session for EAHN Madrid 2022
Panel chairs: Barnabas Calder (University of Liverpool) and G. A. Bremner (University of Edinburgh)
The global Climate Emergency is the most urgent and vital challenge of our time. Yet architectural history has only taken tentative steps in reassessing its responsibility towards this challenge. This panel invites applicants to consider how the history of buildings/architecture can be better understood as a process of networked material assemblage in which energy inputs are considered a (if not the) key transformative factor. We particularly encourage historic case studies that seek to bridge the gap between assumed and known energy inputs, bringing new data sets to bear as evidence of architecture as an energetic process. Proposals from all periods and places will be considered, and we especially welcome topics which offer new insight and data relating to architecture of the agrarian millennia and industrial periods before 1900.
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Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings: A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group
Auckland, New Zealand
February 28 2022 - February 28 2022
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Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings:
A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group
The 39th annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand
The 16th conference of the Australasian Urban History / Planning History Group
School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, 24-27 November 2022
Call for Papers: Abstracts due by 28 February 2022
Abstracts are invited for Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings: A Joint Conference of SAHANZ and the Australasian UHPH Group.
With long-shared disciplinary interests in the design of cities and urban areas, architects and planners have an intersecting (crossing) lineage through numerous historical figures, movements and events. Historically, many individuals practised as both architects and town/city planners. As the discipline of planning evolved, the two professions diverged, yet remained entwined in a relationship of confluence and convergence. In various places, tensions emerged. Some cast planning as bureaucratic regulation while others saw architecture as overly concerned with aesthetics. The term urban design was increasingly used to describe the form of practice that architects had originally understood town planning to be, and planners also, but as the public realm dimension of a broader policy mandate. The heritage discipline, too, matured – with the retention of heritage value becoming an enticement for some built environment professionals and a burden for others. Class, ethnicity, gender, migration and inequality have all compounded the diversity of experience, even as common challenges have emerged, from the hegemony of private property rights and the functional dominance of engineering, to the imperatives of environmental sustainability and reconciliation of socio-cultural injustices.
Aptly hosted by a School of Architecture and Planning, this first joint conference of SAHANZ and the UHPH Group will explore matters of common interest.
We seek papers that examine historical moments demonstrating overlap, collaboration, tension or dispute between built environment disciplines, including architecture, planning, urban design, landscape architecture and heritage conservation. This may include:
- Figures, movements and/or events that have a place within both architectural history and urban/planning history;
- Groups and individuals who have interacted across two or more built environment disciplines;
- Large-scale visions or policies and individual projects built under them;
- Planning processes that have enabled some projects to be realised and ensured the curtailment of others;
- Projects that have challenged planning policies and processes;
- Projects led by architects and/or planners working as developers; and
- Relationships between the disciplines of architecture and planning in tertiary institutions that have taught programmes in both.
We welcome papers from, and beyond, the Asia-Pacific region, and papers that explore Indigenous, alternative or marginalised experiences and practices. Papers that extend to infrastructure and community projects are also welcome.
Open sessions will be available to accommodate papers of relevance to the histories of our disciplines that do not fit under the broad conference umbrella of Ngā Pūtahitanga / Crossings.
At this stage, we plan to follow a hybrid conference model, and remain hopeful that a more open global context will allow us to welcome a majority of delegates to Auckland for a full programme including tours, a dinner and other networking opportunities.
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INTERSTICES:Call for Creative Design Research Projects
INTERSTICES: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts - 21
October 15 2021 - November 10 2021
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INTERSTICES:
Journal of Architecture & Related Arts - 21
Call for Creative
Design Research Projects
Continuing our commitment to publishing works of emerging design research, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invite postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.
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Architectural Training and Research in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy, 1950s-1980s
Stockholm/online
September 09 2021 - September 10 2021
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Architectural Training and Research in the Foreign Aid-Funded Knowledge Economy, 1950s-1980s.
Two-day symposium, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm, 9-10 September 2021.
CALL FOR PAPERS / Submission deadline: 1 April 2021.
From the 1950s to the late 1980s, the politics and economies of foreign aid – instigated by both the ‘capitalist West’ as well as the ‘communist East’ – gave rise to a whole infrastructure destined to assist the progress of ‘developing countries’ on their ‘path to development’. The various North-South exchanges that took place in the name of ‘development’ have left a deep imprint on the geopolitical landscape of postcolonial Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Largely instituted through bilateral relations between individual states, these ‘aid’ initiatives involved not only financial and material resources but also various forms of knowledge and expertise; as such, the modalities of this global, foreign aid-funded infrastructure boosted the creation and reinforcement of all sorts of institutional actors to efficiently exchange knowledge – largely through training courses, educational programs and/or research projects. In the light of widespread rural migration and intensive, rapid urbanization processes, expertise on the built environment was a particularly salient form of knowledge to the aims of foreign aid. Hence, architecture, urbanism and planning were no strangers to an emerging foreign aid-funded knowledge economy – a context in which the production and circulation of knowledge were intimately tied to the political-economic value attributed to them by foreign aid diplomacy.
How did architectural knowledge figure in foreign aid-sourced international relations, and what frameworks were set in place to efficiently exchange that knowledge? For this two-day symposium, we seek scholarly work that critically analyzes, contextualizes, or theorizes the establishment and functioning of such institutional actors, training courses, educational programs, research centers, and other infrastructures for knowledge exchange that emerged under the aegis of development and targeted ‘Third World’ clients. We welcome a wide range of methodological and creative perspectives as well as less empirical (but well-informed) theoretical approaches that interpret this phenomenon from a postcolonial or decolonizing perspective. We also encourage contributions that scrutinize the intersections of these histories with discussions of gender, race, religion and nationalism.
This two-day symposium will be held in Stockholm on 9-10 September 2021. In light of the current pandemic the event will be organized either in a hybrid format, allowing for both in-person and online attendance, or, if health regulations dictate, as a fully online event. The symposium is envisioned as one long, thematically well-focused discussion, without parallel strands, and aims to bring 12 to 15 established as well as young scholars together from every discipline that engages with the topics outlined above.
We’re happy to receive anonymized abstracts of up to 300 words and 1 optional image until 1 April 2021, submitted via email to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Acceptance will be dependent on an anonymous review of the abstract by the scientific committee. If a different format than that of a presentation based on a paper would be more suitable to your work, please contact us (same deadline applies).
Scientific committee: Sebastiaan Loosen (KTH), Erik Sigge (MIT), Helena Mattsson (KTH), Viviana d’Auria (KU Leuven) and Kenny Cupers (University of Basel).
Please visit our website to find the full CFP and up-to-date information: architectureforeignaid.arch.kth.se
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Call for papers ABE Journal
Small-scale Building Enterprise and Global Home Ownership in the Age of Economic Expansion
ABE Journal
July 31 2021
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Section guest-edited by Panayotis Tournikiotis, Professor, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Dr. Konstantina Kalfa, Research Associate (NTUA) and Dr. Stavros Alifragkis, Research Associate (NTUA) for ABE Journal - Architecture beyond Europe.
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ARDETH #10 CFP
Competency
July 16 2021 - October 14 2021
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The etymology of competency (English), competenza (Italian), and competence (French) derives from the Latin word competentia, which means "meeting together, in agreement and symmetry.” Competens, the present participle of the Latin verb competere, has been used to describe "sufficiency of qualification" since the eighteen century. The Latin competere, from which competition also originates, is a compound of cum – "with, together," and petere, "to strive, seek, fall upon, rush at, attack." We may identify here the notions of making an effort together, achieving something with dedication, and having something that marks differences from others. In contemporary usage, competence is the quality of being competent, while competition is the act of competing. Competency is thus contingent on the conditions of competition. Yet, the overlapping of meanings is not limited to Latin roots. Competency, in Chinese translation, encompasses the meanings of the words 权限 quanxian (jurisdiction and limits of authority) 才干 caigan, 能力 nengli (ability) and 埶 yi (skillfulness and cleverness). Bruno Latour’s semiotic analyses of industrial practice at Abidjan reveal that the case for vocational training for the industrial worker is based on the production of incompetence.1 Within the governance of vocational training, workers learned the skills needed to carry out the immediate task but not enough to gain the complete competence to grasp the broader processes to enable competitiveness outside the framework of colonial industrialization and modernization.
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