5th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research
ARCHITECTURE AND RESILIENCE
August 28-30, 2013 in Tampere, Finland
Tampere University of Technology, School of Architecture is pleased to invite you to the 5th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research: ARCHITECTURE AND RESILIENCE. The Symposium is the annual gathering for research in architecture, urban design and planning, organized by the Finnish schools of architecture since 2009. It provides international keynote lectures, high quality research papers and a relaxed arena of encounter and discussion for researchers and practitioners. The conference is organized in conjunction with Tampere architecture week, a high-profile event arranged annually around contemporary architectural issues. The symposium languages are Finnish and English.
We welcome researchers and practitioners in architecture, urban design and planning, geography, social sciences, ecology and other fields related to spatial studies to present their work in following themes and beyond (note that final conference tracks may differ from the list of themes):
Cities in transition: new approaches in urban planning and design
Design and changing lifestyles: adapting architecture, emergent public space, flexible dwellings
Urbanism as a human-nature system: ecology and sustainability at all scales from building materials to hybrid urban form
Architecture and the architect’s role in continuous change
New methodologies in architectural research and urban studies
Crises and evolution: a historical and actor view
Permanence in change
Authors are invited to submit their abstracts by 1 April 2013 via email to architecture@tut.fi. Please title the (word)document “Abstract_authorsurname”, use MSword or other editable format. Abstracts should be less than 200 words, and include the title, a brief description of the proposed work, methods and discussion, and keywords to identify the area of research. Abstracts should be accompanied by the name, affiliation and contact information for each author. The abstract should also indicate whether the author(s) intend to submit a short paper (3000 words) for the conference publication process by 20thMay or only to present their work orally in the conference. The conference languages are English and Finnish.
The organizers will publish all the abstracts in the Book of Abstracts (available in the conference).
The full papers will be published in e-format. Deadline for the final publishable paper version is August 8, 2013.
After the conference, a selection of the best papers may be published as a book or special edition of a journal. Authors of selected papers will be informed later, and details of the process will be discussed during the event.
Organizers:
School of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland,
Department of Architecture, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, Finland,
Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics/YTK, Aalto University School of Engineering, Espoo, Finland,
Department of Architecture, Oulu University, Oulu, Finland,
Finnish Association of Architects SAFA.
Contact: architecture@tut.fi