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Building Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region: Histories and Projects

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btcsymposium@nottingham.edu.cn

Hong Kong/Ningbo – June 24-25th, 2022

The School of Architecture and The Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Sustainable Built Environment Research Group & Department of Architecture and Built Environment of the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, with the support of the Royal Institute for British Architecture, are organizing the Building Technology and Culture in the Asia-Pacific Region: Histories and Projects international symposium.

The event aims at discussing the impact of the social and cultural dimensions on building technology in contemporary architectural practice and the history of architecture. It interrogates the history of building technology and its relation to the history of technology and cultural history (Theme 1); It looks at the current architectural practice questioning how dominant social forces and conventions define and direct technological and material choices in design (Theme 2).

We invite contributions discussing the relationship between technology and culture and focusing on the Asia-Pacific region since the 1970s. We encourage to look not only at high-tech, industrialised solutions (steel, reinforced concrete, glass, etc.), but also at how low-tech materials and techniques (bamboo, mud, compressed earth, etc.) participate in the contemporary discourse about architecture, technology, and society. For proposals fitting into Theme 1, we invite papers that either investigate specific case studies based on original sources or attempt to historicise and discuss lesser-known cases and trends and how they can contribute to a critique of mainstream, Euro-centric historiographic narratives. For Theme 2, we expect proposals that investigate recently built projects, especially if analysed from the perspective of their designers.

Abstract/ Full-paper submission

To submit your proposal, please send a 500-word abstract to btcsymposium@nottingham.edu.cn by 31st March 2022 along with a short CV of all the authors (no more than three), specifying if the paper fits into the Theme 1 (Histories) or 2 (Projects). Notification of acceptance will be sent by email to the authors and a final draft of the paper, 4,000 words maximum in length (references included), will be sent to the panel chair no later than 17th June 2022 for comments.

Due to the ever-mutating condition related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulties in travelling, the Symposium will be held in full online mode. A registration fee of CNY 500 (approx. € 70) for speakers will be requested unless further funding will become available to waive it. A detailed symposium program, including session chairs and selected contributions, will be announced in Spring.

After the Symposium, selected contributions will be published in a peer-reviewed miscellaneous book edited by the organisers of the Symposium. Authors will be contacted with further details in early July 2022.

Key Dates

Submission deadline (abstract): 31st March 2022

Notification of acceptance: 15th April 2022

Submission of full paper: 17th June 2022

Symposium: 24-25th June 2022

Symposium organisers

Giaime Botti, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Eugenio Mangi, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Hiroyuki Shinohara, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Scientific Committee

Tiziano Cattaneo, Tongji University, China, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

Ali Cheshmehzangi, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Wu Deng, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Jorge Galindo Díaz, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Aya Al Kadi Jazaierly, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom

Yat-Ming Loo, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Daniele Pisani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Peng Tang, Southeast University, China

Jingxiang Zhu, Chinese University of Hong Kong

The full symposium abstract can be downloaded from the link below:

https://buildingtechnologyandculture.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/building-technology-and-culture_cfp-2.pdf