A Question of Time. In Search of Temporal Strategies for an Architecture of Transition

In architecture, space occupies a central place; sometimes to the detriment of time, which is too often neglected, even though it is a key factor for thinking about ecological, social and economic transition. Given the urgency of climate change, this...

Location: Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine; Paris, France

The Project of History – Histories of Projects. Architects/Historians in Post-war, Conference organised by École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Lyon Università degli Studi di Firenze.

The project "The Project of History - The Histories of the Project" is conceived through the organization of two international conferences examining the relationship between history and architectural and urban design in the post-war period. The...

Location: Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon; Lyon, France

Gender and Architecture in the Islamic World: Restrictions, Reactions, and Actions, International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) Special Issue (Guest Editor: Dr. Gül Kale, Carleton University).

Real and imagined spaces are inherently gendered based on widely accepted heteronormative and patriarchal ways of living, thereby affecting how buildings and cities are accessed, used, and experienced. Moreover, spatial practices associated with such...

Housing – City – Heritage, Architectus volume 1(81)/2025 edited by Piotr Marciniak and Ewa Łużyniecka.

Meeting housing needs is one of society's most important challenges and a large part of current investment activity. Housing is a topic that has preoccupied architects from the very beginning of their creative activity. Nowadays, building activity is...

Crítica. Media. Memory: Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture

"The Earth is round. The Sun, a disk. Where is the Dialectic? On the Sea. Mother Atlantic. How did they dare to depart from here to an unknown world? I then cried out of  love for the sailors, my parents. I cried for having hated them. I cried...

Location: Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP); Porto, Portugal

Medias: Surface, Space and In-Between CFP, Conference organised by Yonsei University and Architecture MPS.

Medias, technologies and digital phenomena of every kind are ubiquitous today. They have, and are, changing how we work, learn, design, create, interact and relax. They are also affecting how we perceive the material world around us and have created an...

Location: Yonsei University; Seoul, South Korea

L/Nightscapes: Perspectives on Illumination and the City (Cologne, 29-31 Oct 24), 23rd NECS Graduate Workshop hosted by the Institute for Media Culture and Theater and the Department of Art History at University of Cologne.

«Naturalized in its ubiquity, its benefits countless, its bright, crisp, visual character the very image of optimism and reason, electric light has become inextricable from modern life and, at the same time, unremarkable» (Isenstadt, 2018).The...

Location: University of Cologne; Cologne, Germany

Sustainability in Practice: DIY Repair, Reuse and Innovation

This conference addresses ecological sustainability through an empirical perspective on sustainable do-it-yourself (DIY) practices, solutions and lifestyles shaped by culture, heritage and history. Sustainability perceived as an economic and political...

Location: Estonian National Museum; Tartu, Estonia

Metamorphosis - Ecstases of Matter and Image. Bodies of Splendor: Between Fluidity And Petrifaction., Conference organised by Conference organised by - IMAGINARY LAB 4: SENSATIONS – INEFFABLE ARCHAEOLOGIES - Copenhagen University.

Metamorphosis, since Heraclitus, has been perceived as a fleeting state in constant transformation of matter. Or, as Empedocles put it, as a cosmic cycle of eternal change, growth and decay of the elementals where love and strife confront each other....

Location: Copenhagen University; Copenhagen, Denmark

Postwar. Art and Architecture / Nach dem Krieg. Kunst und Architektur, 31st Conference of the German-Polish Working Group for Art History and Monument Preservation.

Every war was supposed to be the last one. None of them actually was. All of them brought not only suffering and destruction, but also changes unimaginable ahead. Efforts have been made to tame them through new narratives and interpretations, such as...

Location: Muzeum Architektury we Wrocławiu; Wrocławiu, Poland

Conference: Nature and Landscape in Schubert’s Time - An Interdisciplinary Approach

The relationship between nature and landscape on the one hand and the arts on the other changed during the early nineteenth century. Due to fundamental developments in the history of ideas, nature and landscape experienced manifold increases in...

Location: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften; Wien, Austria

Venetian backdrops in European Romanticism: places, images, sounds and narratives, C.R.I.E.R. International Conference.

The C.R.I.E.R., Interdepartmental Research Centre on Romantic Europe, which has an international vocation but is also rooted in the Veronese reality, proposes with this conference to delve into other always been the subject of widespread consideration....

Location: University of Verona; Verona, Italy

Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City (Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2024)

This international, interdisciplinary conference aims to uncover emergent frameworks and methods for the interpretation and analysis of literary, filmic, and cultural texts relating to the profound transformation of cities around the world across the 19th...

Location: City University of Hong Kong; Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China

Urban Mediations: International Conference on the Narratives, Ecologies, and Poetics of the City (Hong Kong, 5-6 December 2024)

This international, interdisciplinary conference aims to uncover emergent frameworks and methods for the interpretation and analysis of literary, filmic, and cultural texts relating to the profound transformation of cities around the world across the 19th...

Location: The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Sha Tin, Hong Kong S.A.R., China

The Actuality of the 20s: Form, Production and Transknowledge in Soviet Modernity, International Conference organised by Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien. Prof. Dr. Sebastian Egenhofer, Dr. Natalia Ganahl..

The materialist turn that came into force in Russia after the revolutions of 1917 encompassed knowledge and social politics, which simultaneously mutated into constructivist biopolitics and social control. As a turn in art, it was reflected in the...

Location: Universität Wien; Wien, Austria

Currents - Regenerating pasts for the not yet, Open Call for experimental essays Metode Vol. 3 in collaboration with Lofoten International Art Festival 2024 .

How have artists, curators, philosophers, and art theorists used local heritage for current critiques? How can this tendency be historized and theorized? Which projects are forgotten forerunners in the arts-based turn to local heritage? How do...

Architectural history and the challenges of interdisciplinarity / La storia dell’architettura e le sfide dell’interdisciplinarità / L’histoire de l’architecture et les défis de l’interdisciplinarité, Opus incertum, 11 (2025), edited by Nadja Aksamija, Antonio Brucculeri, and Denis Ribouillault.

The annual journal Opus Incertum dedicates the 2025 issue to architectural history and the challenges of interdisciplinarity. It is nearly impossible to define the discipline of architectural history in simple terms today. The field has become pluralistic...

The Architecture of Need: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Service in the Twentieth Century, Conference in context of "Arquitectura Aqui – Community, Proximity, Action: Collective-use Facilities in Portugal and Spain 1939-1985".

Human need is one of the foundations of architecture. Its expression becomes particularly intense when conveyed by the community or in the name of the community, as a collective, shared necessity. Yet we often lose sight of this essential aspect of built...

Location: ArchaArquitecturaAQUI; Lisbon & Évora, Portugal

Imagining the Ordinary City: Arts, Placemaking and Everyday Urban Lives

Though the city has long been associated with speed and spectacle, including its fast-flowing transport systems and towering buildings, it has also always harboured more mundane activity and sights such as the rehearsed small talk of (consequential)...

Location: University of Cape Town; Cape Town, South Africa

COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND TERRITORIAL RESILIENCE, The 12th ASCAAD International Conference.

The ASCAAD 2024 theme focuses on COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AND TERRITORIAL RESILIENCE. From a territorial perspective, resilience typically describes the capacity of a specific territory or region to prepare, respond, and positively adapt as it faces...

Location: University Mohammed VI Polytechnic; Ben Guerir/Marrakesh, Morocco

African architecture: Ongoing and Emerging Discourses on African Architectural Practices

Joint Bartlett and Wits University conference run by Campus Innovation Laboratory (CIL) and The South African Chair in Spatial Analysis & City Planning, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. In collaboration with The Bartlett School of...

Location: University of the Witwatersrand; Johannesburg, South Africa

Modernism and Modernity at the Edge, AMSN6: Australasian Modernist Studies Network 2024 Conference.

The present can feel like an endless series of crises on the brink: the limits of democratic processes, prosperity, and social cohesion are being tested by political polarisation, disinformation, hyperconnected media, neoliberal financialisation, and...

Location: University of Tasmania; lutruwita, Australia

Heritage and Democracy / Kulturelles Erbe und Demokratie, Arbeitskreis Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V. Annual Conference.

Democracy is a fragile creature. As a political system it is characterized by the participation of citizens in the decision-making processes of the government, either directly or through elected representatives. Democracy can take various forms, but the...

Location: Arbeitskreis für Theorie und Lehre der Denkmalpflege e.V.; Coventry, United Kingdom

Legacies of Bhopal: 40 Years on, Thematic Issue of Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare (Edited by Renu Pariyadath and Reena Shadaan).

Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare invites original manuscripts, reviews, case reports, and pedagogical activities focused on the legacy of the Bhopal Gas Disaster, known as ‘the world’s worst industrial disaster’....