Grounds - call for abstracts

EXTENDED DEADLINE for the Call for Abstracts 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. 

The Scientific Editors and Organizing Committee have decided to postpone the deadline of the Call for Abstracts to May 26th 2021.

THE CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

2020 has shown us that we live in a fragile and isolated society. 

Now is the time to re-establish relationships towards a more convivial ground(s): we propose to participate in this movement through architecture, urban and territorial planning, and design.  

Ground(s) is a rich and polysemic notion that encloses both the tangible and intangible.  

Ground(s) is an essential and non-renewable component of our natural capital that does not only contribute to our basic human needs but is also a key component of our sense of belonging and heritage. The ground(s) constitutes the place where communities grow and leave their imprint. In this respect, they can also function as a medium to shape, establish and strengthen relationships.  

We would like to invite you to a conversation around ground(s) building on three measures: 

Mapping the ground(s) means the act of description: how can we produce knowledge that reveals the relationship between humankind and the environment? 
Designing the ground(s) involves an active response to contemporary challenges: how can we imagine new rules and forms in the long-run? 
Caring for the ground(s) encircles the act of prevention: a process of daily maintenance to generate a co-evolving relationship. Is it possible to strengthen (inter)dependency between the human and non-human world? 

We suggest increased cooperation to go beyond borders. Let us re-establish relationships between places across disciplines and sectors. Let us join together in a co-creation process, working from the ground up to reach a convivial society. 

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.

For more details on deadlines and editing rules see the website: https://eventi.unibo.it/grounds  

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

/KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

PAOLA VIGANÒ

École Polythécnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) and Università IUAV di Venezia (Italy)

ROBERTO SCOPIGNO 

Institute of Information Science and Technology "Alessandro Faedo" ISTI, Italian National Research Council (Italy) 

BEATRICE LAMPARIELLO

Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium) 

JOHN MARTIN

University of Plymouth (UK) 

/SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The Scientific Committee is composed by the members of the Academic Board of the Architecture and Design Cultures Phd Program, of the Department of Architecture of Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna.  

Information: https://phd.unibo.it/architettura/en/people  

/ORGANISING COMMITTEE 

XXXV Phd Cycle in Architecture and Design Cultures: Hanna Elisabet Åberg, Irene Cazzaro, Carlo Costantino, Federico Diodato, Javier Pérez Puchalt, Laura Rivaroli, Ludovica Rosato, Giulia Turci, and Yunyu Ouyang.