Call for Abstracts: International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU25) – Future Living

Deadline: 23 February 2025 The 17th edition of the International Forum on Urbanism (IFoU25) will be held in Lisbon from 1-4 July 2025. Organized by the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, it will take place at the Portugal Pavilion designed by Álvaro Siza. IFoU25 is centered on the theme “Future Living.” This conference aims to explore and address the evolving needs of urban and rural environments through a comprehensive examination of key action areas. The conference will cover several critical actions within the theme of “Future Living.” It will delve into Dwelling by examining emergent solutions for affordable housing…

Call for Sessions and Roundtables: EAHN Biannual Conference Aarhus 2026

Docomomo Portugal is please to share that the Call for Sessions and Roundtables for the EAHN Biannual Conference Aarhus 2026 is open until Friday, 17 January 2025, 23H59 CET. “The call is open to research that delves into unexplored or under-explored periods, geographies, buildings, architects, and texts. Conversely, we also seek to reexamine established architectural themes from unconventional perspectives, highlighting voices and contributors that have historically been marginalized. By inviting these diverse perspectives, the meeting aims to enrich the discourse of architectural history and push the boundaries of the field. We seek thematic proposals in two basic formats: approximately 25…

Call for Abstracts: TRANS-CARBON HABITAT – European Conference on Regenerative and Adaptative Habitat

The call for abstracts for the first European Conference on Regenerative and Adaptive Habitat TRANS-CARBON HABITAT is now open until 22 September 2024. Nature is recognized as an essential partner in the fight against climate change. Reversing the degradation of natural ecosystems is a fundamental part of the European Green Deal, which aims to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The natural and built environment, as a symbiotic ecosystem, is a central theme for adapting to the climate challenge and reducing carbon emissions, as well as for implementing strategies to regenerate our atmosphere and hydrosphere, our soil, our cities, and our…

Call for Abstracts: 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium – Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia

Docomomo International is pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium is now open, with due date 13th January 2022. The title of the symposium is “Yo! Modernism: The View from Philadelphia”. “Yo! Modernism! In the Philadelphia region, “yo” is a colloquialism used to get someone’s attention quickly. It’s a phrase without pretense, and when combined with Modernism, it puts into focus the importance of place and community in our modern heritage, as well as the urgency of preservation efforts. The 2022 Docomomo US National Symposium will explore why Modernism still has the…

Call for Papers: Anales de Historia del Arte, vol. 32 – Art and the Archive

The call for papers for the 2022 volume of Anales de Historia del Arte is open for submissions until 1st February 2022. The theme of this volume 32 is “Arte y Archivo / Art and the Archive”. “Archives are essential places for research and knowledge creation for art historians and artists alike. In this issue we address the fertile relationship of archives with art and its historiography over the centuries. We welcome proposals that consider this question from a theoretical or methodological perspective, as well as from one based on case studies. Possible approaches might include, though are not necessarily limited…

Open call for submissions: BARQ – Barcelona Architecture Film Festival

Docomomo International is happy to announce the launching of the second edition of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. “The BARQ Festival is a film festival aimed at vindicating films on architecture as a specific genre and at deepening the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues regarding the spaces we inhabit. It is the only international competition film festival of architecture in Spain. With an audience success and critical acclaim since its beginnings, the festival will…

Call for Abstracts: ArchiDOCT, n. 18 – Temporalities

Docomomo International is pleased to share that the call for abstracts for the 18th issue of ArchiDOCT , focused on the topic Temporalities, is now open until 1st March 2022. “The 18th issue of ArchiDOCT welcomes papers that explore the theme of ‘temporality’ in architecture and the built environment from a theoretical or an applied standpoint. We are interested in the variety of approaches, insights, and opportunities for research that arise from considering time in its heterogeneous dimensions and manifestations (time as speed, rhythm, sequence, horizon, …). In recent decades, the conceptualization and analysis of time has moved beyond Newtonian, linear,…

Call for Abstracts: Art and public space / Arte e Spazio Pubblico

Organised by Direzione Generale Creatività Contemporanea of the Italian Ministry of Culture and Fondazione Scuola dei beni e delle attività culturali, the study days under the theme “Art and public space / Arte e Spazio Pubblico” will take place on 24th, 25th, and 31st January and 1st and 11th February 2022. Therefore a call for abstracts was now launched. “Speaking about art and public space means focusing the discussion on critical and interrogative reflections to reformulate concepts, terminologies and settings while at the same time opening towards new scenarios as regards the processes of defining, designing, and developing artistic practices…

Call for Papers: Dissonância – Brazilian Modernisms and Critical Theory

Docomomo International hereby shares the Call for Papers launched by the Dissonância: Critical Theory Journal on the occasion of the centenary of the “Semana de Arte Moderna de 22”  [Brazilian Week of Modern Art of 1922], under the theme: “Brazilian Modernisms and Critical Theory”. The special issue aims to contribute to the intertwining of relationships between artistic forms and the Brazilian historical and social processes under the conceptual scope of Critical Theory. “Since the beginning of the 20th century, different types of modernisms have been dwelt on by artists, critics, and scholars in Brazil as a task to be fulfilled…

Call for Papers: The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice

The call for abstracts for the 8th Forum Architekturwissenschaft happening 9-11th March 2022 in Berlin under the theme “The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice” is open until 15th October 2021. It is organized by Netzwerk Architekturwissenschaft e.V. in cooperation with Technische Universität Berlin and Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin. “Access to sources, knowledge, and information is going through fundamental changes as globalisation and digitalisation evolve. The same changes apply to the process of gaining new academic insights. As the amount of sources increases (as well as their diversity and general distribution), there are still fundamental differences in accessibility,…