Themes
The theme of the Symposium will be Plan, develop, design: Making smart cities and architecture.
We call for theoretical, conceptual, empirical, practical, critical, historical, pedagogical, or artistic contributions. These may relate to, but are not restricted to, the following questions.
Strategies and activities
How can design, planning and development fields contribute to the multidisciplinary devising and implementing of smart city strategies?
Experience
How will these developments change the experience of the built environment?
Participation
How will these changes affect issues of participation, democracy, agency and access in the design, planning and development of the built environment?
Augmentation
How will the built environment be augmented and hybridized with digital technologies and services?
Applications of technology
How will novel technologies, such as smart lighting control and smart building management systems, influence design and experience of built environment?
Design for industry
How will the building industry’s new products and services affect to building design and architecture?
Services
How will the novel conceptualisation of goods and environments as services change planning and design?
Smart living
Sustainability
How should designers address the major environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, and how do these issues connect with the smart cities and smart architecture movement?
ICT infrastructure in cities
The conference organizers will group presentations into sessions according to the submissions.
In addition, there are special sessions on:
Business models in the built environment
Emerging urban form
Smart lighting
Smart building design and construction
