Call for abstract // Ground(s). Mapping, designing and caring: Towards a convivial society

Call for abstract titled Ground(s). Mapping, designing and caring: Towards a convivial society edited by the PhD program in Architecture and Design Cultures – Department of Architecture – University of Bologna.

Authors must submit the abstract within 12th May 2021. 
The authors of the selected abstracts will be invited to present their contribution to the International Conference to be held on 10th December 2021 in Bologna.
Following the conference, the authors of the selected abstracts must proceed to send the full paper in a definitive form to be submitted no later than 17th September 2021.

The full papers selected through the double peer review will be published in the CPCL Series, a free and open-access online book series exploring cultural heritage, creative practices and the city. The book series is jointly edited by the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna and the Chair of History of Architecture and Urbanism at the Technical University, Delft.
CPCL Series is a project promoted by the European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes.
Information about Editors-in-chief and the International Scientific Committee can be found here.

 

Call for abstracts here. For more details on deadlines see the Calendar section on the website.

Dates: 10th December 2021             

Place: Bologna, Italy

Abstracts: 12th May 2021

Full paper: 17th September 2021

 

Contributions must be sent to the following email address:
grounds@unibo.it

Call for abstract (IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S) // University of Kent

(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S): A CONFERENCE ON DESIGN, CULTURE & TECHNOLOGY – PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

Themes: Digital Representation | Digital Design | Technology | Heritage | Architecture | Urban Design

Disciplines: Architecture, History, Media Studies, Cultural studies, Art history, Urban design,

Publishers: Intellect Books, UCL Press

A conference considering art works, designed objects, buildings and cities as entities that raise both tangible issues of design and use, as well intangible questions of contemporary interpretation and cultural meaning. It questions how technologies of display and representation also add nuances to our notion of the ‘human created object’ and how it is ‘experienced’ today as both historic and contemporary artefact.

Dates: 15-17 June 2022                

Place: Canterbury, UK

Abstracts: 30 June 2021 (early)

 

Organisers: University of Kent

For more information: https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/

III Ciclo de
 Apoyo al Doctorado // Programación seminarios durante el mes de mayo

Durante el mes de mayo la Subdirección de Investigación y Doctorado organiza una serie de seminarios especiales dentro del ciclo de doctorado, con el apoyo de la Escuela Internacional de Doctorado de la UPM. La relación completa de eventos es la siguiente:

 

06.05.2021, 5:30pm

Planetary Urbanization in Comparative Perspective

Christian Schmid (ETH Zurich, Future Cities Laboratory Singapore, FCL)

 

11.05.2021, 5:30pm

Del urbanismo verde a la justicia ambiental urbana

Isabelle Anguelovsky (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona) 

 

17.05.2021, 5:30pm

Presentación del libro: Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa, and the Middle East in the Cold War

Łukasz Stanek (University of Manchester)

 

19.05.2021, 5:00pm

La investigación del Co-Housing en la práctica: interrogantes, métodos y hallazgos

Lidewij Tummers-Mueller (TU Delft / Leibniz Universität Hannover), presentada por Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

 

Las sesiones tendrán una duración aproximada de 90 min. y se retransmitirán en la sala Zoom ‘etsamupm263’.

III Ciclo de
 Apoyo al Doctorado // Charla 6 Christian Schmid

El próximo jueves día 6 de mayo se abre el Ciclo de Seminarios dentro del Ciclo de Apoyo al Doctorado con la intervención del profesor Christian Schmid, con la presentación de un proyecto de investigación que ha reunido a equipos de cuatro continentes para construir un nuevo marco teórico y conceptual a través del cual comprender los procesos actuales de urbanización a escala planetaria.

 

Incluimos a continuación un resumen de la charla y una nota sobre el ponente.

TÍTULO: Planetary urbanisation in comparative perspective: Tokyo, Singapore, East Pearl River Delta, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City, and Los Angeles

PONENTE: Christian Schmid, ETH Zürich / Future Cities Laboratory Singapore (FCL)

DÍA: Jueves 6 de mayo, 17:30 hs. (duración aprox. 90 min.)

AULA ZOOM: etsamupm263

 

In the last decades, urbanisation has become a planetary phenomenon. Urban areas expand and interweave, and novel forms of urbanisation emerge. In this process, new urban configurations are constantly evolving. Therefore, an adequate understanding of planetary urbanisation must derive its empirical and theoretical inspirations from the multitude of urban experiences across the various divides that shape our contemporary world. Urbanisation has to be considered an open process, determined as much by existing structures as well as by constant innovation and inventiveness. 

However, in evaluating existing instruments for the analysis of urbanisation, we are confronted with many difficulties and shortcomings. New concepts and terms are urgently required that would help us, both analytically and cartographically, to decipher the differentiated and rapidly mutating landscapes of urbanisation that are today being produced across the planet. This talk presents results of a comparative study of urbanisation processes in eight large metropolitan territories across the world: Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong / Shenzhen / Dongguan, Kolkata, Istanbul, Lagos, Paris, Mexico City, and Los Angeles. According to the broad sample of cities brought together in this research, a specific methodological design is applied mainly based on qualitative methods and a specifically developed method of mapping. The main goal of this project is to develop new conceptual categories for better understanding the patterns and pathways of planetary urbanisation.

Christian Schmid is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited numerous publications on theories of the urban and of space, on Henri Lefebvre, on territorial urban development, and on the comparative analysis of urbanisation. Together with architects Roger Diener, Jacques Herzog, Marcel Meili and Pierre de Meuron he co-authored the book “Switzerland: an urban portrait”, a pioneering analysis of extended urbanisation. He currently works together with Neil Brenner on the theorisation and investigation of emergent formations of planetary urbanisation, and he leads a project on the comparison of urbanisation processes in eight large metropolitan territories, which is based at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory Singapore. 

argument #04 available on youtube

ETSAMadrid’s
Architectural Design Department
Lecture Series
for 2020/21:

#OurHouseIsOnFire

is coming to an end

Thanks to all our great guest speakers:

Lydia Kalipoliti
Andres Jaque
Amanda Masha
Cristina Gamboa (LaCol)
David Gissen
Cristina Diaz Moreno
Efren Garcia Grinda (AmidCero9)
Kiel Moe
Roger Tudo (H-Arquitectes)
Dirk Hebel
Carlos Arroyo

All 5 sessions are now available in YouTube for your enjoyment.

You will hear from us soon, for the Series’ close-up session and also for the announcement of future events, including the publication of:

Argument #4:
Our House Is On Fire

Coming soon!!!

Nieves Mestre
Diego García-Setién
Javier García-Germán
Luis Basabe

 

Convocatoria // REGISTROS Revista de Investigación Histórica

Convocatoria abierta para el próximo número de la revista “Registros” volumen 17 (2), julio-diciembre de 2021, titulado “Viviendas para trabajadores: arquitectura, política y cultura en América Latina, 1880-1980”.

Las propuestas deben inscribirse en alguno de los siguientes ejes temáticos:

  • Innovación tecnológica y prefabricación
  • Ensayos comunitarios, experiencias de autoconstrucción y ayuda mutua
  • Experiencias desde el Estado
  • Grandes conjuntos de carácter urbano
  • Casos de suburbio y ciudad jardín, de unidades vecinales y megaformas
  • Viviendas en el medio rural

Plazo de recepción hasta el 15 de agosto de 2021 a través de la página de la revista.
Más información en el siguiente enlace: https://revistasfaud.mdp.edu.ar/registros/announcement/view/14

III Ciclo de
 Apoyo al Doctorado // La comunicación del trabajo académico

El próximo miércoles día 28 de abril se celebrará la quinta sesión del Ciclo de Apoyo al Doctorado, dedicada a informar sobre oportunidades de becas doctorales y postdoctorales.

La información completa de la sesión, que se celebrará vía Zoom, es la siguiente: 

TÍTULO: La comunicación del trabajo académico

PONENTE: Jorge Sáinz Avia (Departamento de Composición)
DÍA: Miércoles 28 de abril, 17:30 hs. (duración aprox. 90 min.)
AULA ZOOM: etsamupm263