Hi. Here’s a conference call from the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary. Please pass it on.

In the summer of 2021 floods ravaged Germany as a heat wave gripped North West Canada and the United States. In the middle of the visible effects of climate change, people died in overheated buildings or in houses washed away by rains overwhelming rural and urban infrastructures. As world leaders prepare for Cop 26, the conference ‘Cultures, Communities and Design’ seeks to explore environmental design and construction as they relate to our buildings, cities and their surrounding areas.

CULTURES, COMMUNITIES AND DESIGN

A CONFERENCE CONNECTING PLANNING, LANDSCAPES, ARCHITECTURE AND PEOPLE

The University of Calgary
June 28-30, 2022
Abstracts: 01 December, 2021 (Round 1)

https://architecturemps.com/calgary/



THEMES:

Design + Planning; Infrastructure + Building; Teaching + Learning; Society + Communities; Sustainability + Development

PUBLISHERS: 

Cambridge Scholars Publishing and UCL Press.

ORGANISERS:

University of Calgary. School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Support from AMPS

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PROVOCATION:

‘The Countryside’ – a polemically generic term Rem Koolhaas has recently used to reposition debates about our cities to those of rural areas. While posited as ‘new’, it is, in reality, a well established mode of thinking. Through notions such as the peri-urban for example, geographers, sociologists, architects, urban designers and regional economists have all debated the urban-rural relationship for several decades. 

ISSUES:

According to this logic, the environmental, social, cultural, planning and design issues relevant in our cities find parallels outside the city fringe. Calgary, the host city of this conference, is a perfect example. It has heavy industry, a thriving business economy and a growing tourist sector. However, pockets of the city contend with poverty, pollution and gentrification. As a city, Calgary also ‘pressures’ its surrounding lands including the Rockies and the Banff nature reserve.

HISTORY:

As it celebrates its 50th Year anniversary in 2021-22, the Faculty of Environmental Design / School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the University of Calgary sees this conference as engaging in the interdisciplinary ethos of its origins. It seeks to debate contemporary questions of the environment, architecture, the city and society. It argues that each of these disciplines are interrelated fields of thought and practice, and that the lessons learnt in one place and time, are useful in another.

https://architecturemps.com/calgary/



NB.

Dayananda Sagar Institutions, Bangalore, India, is also organizing a conference on related questions with support from Amps, Cambridge Scholars Publishing and UCL Press. Details below:

SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE(S) - HUMANE CITIES

Virtual / Bangalore, India.  March 23-25, 2022
Dayananda Sagar University Institutions
Abstracts: 30 October 2021

https://architecturemps.com/bangalore/

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