The European Association for Architectural Education is now accepting abstracts for its Annual Conference in Madrid, Spain, August 31 – September 1-4, 2022. Please submit an abstract through the official form no later than 11:59 p.m. CET on July 7, 2022.
EAAE encourages submissions from architectural, landscape, and urban historians; museum curators; preservationists; independent scholars; architects; scholars in related fields; and members of EAAE chapters, Affiliate Groups and partner organizations. The Conference Topics are listed below. If your research topic is not a good fit for one of the thematic sessions, you can submit your abstract anyhow and it can be part of an Open Session. Submission Guidelines:
1. Abstracts must be under 300 words.
2. The title cannot exceed 65 characters, including spaces and punctuation.
3. Authors can send several abstracts if they want. Please include a brief CV for every author.
Abstracts should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The organization has the prerogative to recommend changes to the abstract to ensure it addresses the topics. During the conference, a book of abstracts will be published digitally, and, after the conference, authors will be asked to send full papers for proceedings publication. Publication will take place during the end of 2022 or beggining of 2023.
TOPICS
By bringing a strong critical background to its proposal, the EU shuns the revival of the Bauhaus as a mere brand and transforms it into a productive engine to address the problems of the 21st century. As topics, we propose three aspects that the New Bauhaus must face: what should be the role of design practices with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); what should the new professional teams be like and what should be their relationship with the design schools, and what critical avenues can be opened today to promote continuous improvement.
These are current challenges that any professionals and schools of architecture are confronting. In this time of uncertainty and instability, it is more necessary than ever to defend design as a problem-solving enterprise. Likewise, it is necessary to make room for non-conventional practices and the new avenues opened by social networks and online and digital learning. Although the following topics are proposed, they are not restrictive. We invite participants to combine, expand them or open new lines of debate:
1. THE NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS AND THE SDGs
· Designs that make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.
· Designs that ensure inclusive and quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.
· How to achieve gender equality through design.
· The relationship between space, power, culture and collective identities.
2. THE NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY DESIGN
· Collaborative possibilities between different professionals.
· Transfers between professional practice and teaching.
· Involvement of users in design processes.
· Second digital turn and new methods of design.
3. THE NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS AND CRITICAL POSITIONS
· Old Bauhaus: lessons for the 21st century.
· Needs in contemporary architectural thought and practice.
· New frontiers for the New Bauhaus.
· New imaginaries and the need to educate in discernment.