Submission Deadline: Thursday, August 1, 2013
We invite you to send in 300-word abstract proposals for academic papers related to these thematic areas. The African Perspectives Scientific Committee will review all abstracts before selecting papers to be presented at the conference. Also invited are proposals for projects, cultural interventions, and other presentation media, associated with these themes, these will also be reviewed before selection. We particularly invite graduate student proposals on themes of interest, which will help us develop a student workshop, which will run in parallel to the event.
Theme 1 : The African Diaspora Culture and the Inter-disciplinary Arts
Theme 2 : Housing Cultures
Theme 3 : African Cities and Mass Housing
Theme 4 : The physical and virtual worlds of Africa
Theme 5 : The Green Imperative & New Technologies for Urban Africa
ArchiAfrika is broadening the discourse on Africa’s built environment to encompass the role of socio-cultural design inspired development. Our goal is to promote design strategies developed within the continent which address the challenges of our future and engage the next generation of professionals in this critical dialogue. We publish a magazine, news items on African architecture and organize the biannual African Perspectives conference.
For more information on ArchiAfrika and its initiatives please visit our website at www.archiafrika.org and our facebook page http://www.facebook.com/ArchiAfrika