10 October 2024
Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture, Põhja
pst 7, Tallinn, Estonia
CALL FOR ABSTRACTSThe Faculty of Architecture at the Estonian Academy
of Arts together with the scientific committee of the EKA Arh conference 2024 invites you to submit an abstract on the topic
of building systems. Submitted abstracts should relate to high quality research describing original and unpublished results
of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of spatial planning and design. Best
papers will be published in the EKA Faculty of Architecture Proceedings and authors will be invited to present at the conference
on the 10th of October in Tallinn.
Scope of the conferenceWith the green turn and accelerating
digitalisation and automation we are creating more and more complex systems that govern our lives and influence our environment
in unprecedented ways. Building these complex systems – ecological, digital, social – do we leave enough room for subjectivity,
or are we still stuck in modernist thinking, trying to engineer the world? Systemic solutions have created systemic problems
in the past. The system built housing of the postwar era is deteriorating and substantially contributing to the climate crisis.
At the same time we have a housing shortage in many growing cities. While fixing the mistakes of the past, we need to be sure
not to make even bigger ones today, when digital platforms make innovations rapidly scalable. How can these complex systems
be directed in a meaningful way? Do we need fully automated design and construction systems designed by good architects? Or
should we leave the industrial and capitalist model behind and build social systems of participatory design and construction?
Or can these approaches work hand in hand after all, to build systems that accommodate subjectivity and meaning? With “Building
Systems” we want to look at the past, present and future of systemic thinking in all scales of the built environment and envision
paths forward towards building systems of meaning.
EKA Arh conference is a biannual international
peer-reviewed conference held as a satellite of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale. The previous iterations have been Space
and Digital Reality in 2019 and Innovation and Digital Reality in 2022. The keynotes and papers are published in EKA Faculty
of Architecture Proceedings. All the presenters will get a TAB2024 pass.
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