Call for Papers/Workshops: The 6th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research/2014 The Annual NAF Symposium


 

The 6th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research 2014

&

The Annual NAAR Symposium

 

Theme:

Designing and Planning the Built Environment

for Human Well-Being

 

October 23rd to 25th, 2014

Oulu School of Architecture

University of Oulu

Finland

 

Call for Papers

Call for Workshop Proposals

 

Call for Papers and Workshop proposals also at the conference web page www.arkkitehtuuritutkimuksenpaivat.fi. More detailed information of the conference will be available at the conference web page in March 24th.

The 6th Annual Symposium of Architectural Research 2014 will be organized on October 23rd to 25th in Oulu, Finland, together with the Nordic Association of Architectural Research Conference (NAAR). The Symposium is the annual gathering for research in architecture, urban design and planning and has been organized by the Finnish schools of architecture (Aalto University, Tampere University of Technology, University of Oulu) together with the Finnish Association of Architects SAFA since 2009.*

If you are unable to see the table of Submission types and important dates, please look at the conference web page at www.arkkitehtuuritutkimuksenpaivat.fi. For further information, please contact atut.oulu@gmail.com

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Theme – Designing and Planning the Built Environment for Human Well-being

The theme of the symposium will be Designing and Planning the Built Environment for Human Well-being. The aim is to discuss how to bridge knowledge gaps between the planning, design, production, use and transformation of the Northern built environment in the context of human well-being. Also, the theoretical and philosophical openings are very welcome to the symposium.

The Symposium offers international keynote lectures, high quality research papers and a relaxed arena for discussion for researchers and practitioners of the Nordic countries and broader international audience. The symposium languages are English, Finnish and Swedish. We welcome researchers and practitioners in architecture, urban design and planning, geography, cultural anthropology, the social sciences, ecology, and other fields related to architectural studies to present their work.  The subjects concern but are not limited to the themes related to the built environment and human well-being as presented in the following table.

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Preliminary program

Thursday 23.10.2014

 

12.00             Registration for the Workshops

13.15             Parallel workshops for researchers (topics will be chosen among the proposals)

20.30             Get-together party at Apaja

 

Friday 24.10.2014

 

9.15-11.00   Closing of the workshop sessions

 

11.30             Registration for the Seminar

12.15             Welcoming words

12.30             Keynote lecture, Professor Kristina Nilsson,

Luleå University of Technology, Unit of Architecture

(confirmed)

13.30             Tracks 1-4

15.30             Coffee

16.00             Tracks 1-4

18.00             Keynote lecture, Professor Doina Petrescu,

The University of Sheffield, School of Architecture

(to be confirmed)

19.00             Reception at City Hall, City of Oulu

(to be confirmed)

20.00             Evening continues at Architects’ Guild House

 

Saturday 25.10.2014

 

9.30               Tracks 1-4

11.30             Keynote lecture, Professor Paul Dourish

The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at UC Irvine

(to be confirmed)

12.30             Lunch

13.30             Tracks 1-4

15.00             Keynote lecture, Professor Mette Ramsgard Thomsen

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture,

The Centre for Information Technology and Architecture [CITA]

(to be confirmed)

16.00             Coffee

16.30             Tracks 1-4

18.00             Panel discussion

18.30             Closing words and drinks

 

Organizers reserve the right for changes in the program.

 

Scientific board and the peer-reviewing process

The papers to be submitted to the peer-review process will be written in English. The papers will be peer-reviewed and selected by a scientific board, which ensures the general academic quality of the conference. The scientific board consists of active post-doctoral level researchers, and its members will be selected among Nordic and international researchers. The peer-reviewing process will be double-blind. It will also be possible to publish high-quality non-reviewed articles (see Publishing).

 

Publishing

The organizers will publish all the abstracts in the Book of Abstracts (available at the conference).

The full papers (peer-reviewed and non-reviewed; the status mentioned in the publication) will be published in electronic format via an architectural research periodical using the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies’ Open Journal Systems (OJS) -publishing platform and/or The Nordic Journal of Architectural Research (decided case by case basis by the editor-in-chief of NJAR). The aim of the publication is to fulfill the criteria of the Finnish Publication Forum Project (http://www.tsv.fi/julkaisufoorumi/english.html?lang=en) to receive recognition at Level 1 (basic). Accepted workshop proposals (organizers) will be published together with the full papers in the electronic form using OJS –publishing platform.

 

Registration fees

Architects and other academics, researchers, post-doctoral students with or without contribution

–                      Early bird registration before September 15th 2014,                    150 eur

–                      Registration after September  15th 2014,                                         250 eur

–                      One day registration (required for workshop participants),    100 eur

 

Students of architecture and other fields

–                      Early bird registration before September 15th 2014,                    50 eur

–                      Registration after September  15th 2014,                                          75 eur

 

Organizers

Oulu School of Architecture, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland (responsible), http://www.oulu.fi/architecture/

School of Architecture, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland http://www.tut.fi/en/about-tut/departments/school-of-architecture/

Department of Architecture, Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, Finland, http://arts.aalto.fi/en/

Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics/YTK, Aalto University School of Engineering, Espoo, Finland, http://maa.aalto.fi/en/

Nordic Association of Architectural Research (NAAR), http://arkitekturforskning.net/na/pages/view/Association

Finnish Association of Architects SAFA, www.safa.fi

 

The responsible organizing team will consist of members of the faculty and researchers of the Oulu School of Architecture, University of Oulu. For further inquiries, please contact us atatut.oulu@gmail.com

*) Each year, a different School of Architecture in Finland has hosted the Symposium, either as a national event or a Nordic/international research event (Aalto University, 22–23 Oct 2009; Tampere TUT, 23–24 Apr 2010, together with Nordic Association of Architectural Research Conference (NAF); Oulu University 11–12 Nov 2011; Aalto 26–27 Oct 2012, together with the 4th International Conference on Architectural Competitions; Tampere TUT 28–30 Aug 2013).