International Symposium on Urban Design
Designing Urban Design Towards A Holistic Perspective
4-5 October, 2016
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
METU Faculty of Architecture will host an international urban design symposium exploring multi-layered doctrines and perspectives of urban design processes on a global scale.
War and peace, segregation and integration, individuality and collectivity, control and emergence; within the current period of human history, almost all fundamental conditions of civilisation take place in the same domain, the city.
Therefore, as the most prominent artefact of humankind, cities have never been considered that much central for the prosperity of future societies as before.
In that, possible forms of the built environment that are subject to high performance in terms of security, vitality, equity and comfort are significant issues to be dealt within the field of urban design.
As a multidisciplinary profession and research field supported by the peculiar cognition of science, art and politics on an extended domain of knowledge (i.e. sociology, ecology, history and morphology), urban design has a challenging mission to provide a comprehensive response to the contemporary agenda of our cities.
Since 1956, when Lluís Sert opened up the discussion for a common and robust disciplinary definition during the first Urban Design Conference at Harvard, the field has still been perceived as an emerging one through its multidimensional nature which is hard to unify in an integrated framework. Along its long course to be accepted as a full-fledged discipline with its own methodology, language and theory; urban design is still designing itself by research, education and practice.
In this sense, putting forth an updated general view on the current state of art in the field is considered necessary to set responsive and innovative directions for urban design. The required perspective is claimed to be coherently merged, retrospective and proscriptive (future oriented) approaches.
To this end, at the 20th anniversary of its MSc Urban Design Program, METU Faculty of Architecture organises an international symposium on urban design to be held on 4-5 October 2016 in Ankara, Turkey. The main aim of the symposium is to bring researchers, professionals and educators together, to attain a rich discussion on the past, present and future conditions of urban design.
The thematic presentations and debates within the symposium are to be conducted under the specific titles of ideology, sociology, bio-ecology, morphology, methodology, pedagogy and praxis. The papers to be submitted for the symposium are expected to cover one of these seven titles which represent the prominent areas to reflect on the principal issue.
The symposium, in this way, is believed to steer future debates with a series of brand new generative ideas and triggering questions, if not concluding answers for designing the domain of urban design.
Keynote Speakers
Prof. David G. Shane, Columbia University
Prof. Jon Lang, University of New South Wales
Prof. Ali Madanipour, Newcastle University
Prof. Stephen Marshall, University College London
Abstract Submissions
Proposal for each paper should be in the form of abstract containing maximum 250 words. Abstracts should be prepared in the following format: title of the paper, author(s) name, affiliation, address, e-mail address, telephone number, keywords (three to five words) and the text.
Abstracts should contain a summary of the highlights of the paper, a statement of the problem and the nature of approach, the aim, content, and key findings and arguments. References in the text have to be cited at the end of the abstract.
They should be emailed to udesign@metu.edu.tr before 25 April 2016.
Posters Submissions
The poster size is 60 cm by 120 cm in portrait orientation.
The files (“poster.ai”, “poster.pdf”) that are provided by the organization committee should be used as the template for the posters.
The font types and sizes that are provided in the templates should not be changed. Apart from those, authors are free to use any font type and size for the rest of the poster.
Accepted posters should be printed and brought to the symposium venue no later than October, 4, 2016.
A digital copy of the accepted posters should also be submitted to the organization committee on August 10, 2016 -the date of full-paper submission-.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: April 25, 2016
Notification of the Acceptance of Abstracts: June 1, 2016
Early-bird Registration: July 1-15, 2016
Standard Registration: July 15 - August 10, 2016
Full-paper Submission: August 10, 2016
Symposium: October 4-5, 2016 |
