[ArcheOS] Call for papers ISUF 2015 - International Conference.

Dom 2 Feb 2014 21:09:56 CET

Call for papers

*ISUF 2015 - International Conference. City as organism: new visions for
urban life. 22-26 September 2015.  Faculty of Architecture, 'Sapienza'
University of Rome, Rome, Italy*

*Call for papers (deadline **15 January 2015)*

Conceptions of the city have changed significantly in recent years. The
character of major infrastructural, residential, commercial and
manufacturing developments suggests that current challenges may be a great
deal more than a blip in the course of history.  Some would argue that the
dialectic between the desire to restore the *organicity* of urban form and
the incoherent reality of the actual city is at the core of some of the
finest projects and plans that have been developed. Is this a line of
thought that is practicable in urban morphological research and
practice? Or should we accept the incoherence of cities as amalgams of
fragments?  A central theme of the Conference is the 'reading' of existing
cities in the light of a possible *new* *organicity*, comparing viewpoints
from different disciplines; from architecture to history and from geography
to urban planning.  Discussions will deal with a variety of scales, from
the territorial to the urban, and from the entire city and constellations
of cities to the scale of the individual building. The Twenty-Second
International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2015), hosted in Rome by the
Faculty of Architecture of 'Sapienza' University, will take place in Valle
Giulia, via Antonio Gramsci 53, 00197, Rome, Italy, from 22 to 26 September
 2015. The theme of the conference is  'City as organism: new visions for
urban life'. Scales and topics to be covered include:

*Territorial scale*

New and historical landscapes

Infrastructural networks

Territorial geography

*Urban organism scale*

Urban growth and fringe belts

Contemporary design for historical cities

Urban aesthetics  and new tendencies in urban design

Eco-cities

*Urban fabric scale*

Urban morphology and urban regeneration

Reading and designing urban fabric

Urban form and meaning

Urban knots

*Building scale*

New design methodologies

Architectural heritage preservation methods

Modern legacies

Modern constructions and Mediterranean identity

The organizers and the Council of ISUF invite participation by interested
academics and professionals. Proposals for papers should take the form of
abstracts of papers. They should be prepared in the following format: title
of paper, author(s) name, affiliation, full postal address, e-mail address,
telephone number, 3-5 key words, conference topic/scale and a 250-word
abstract, in a MS Word file (.doc) using the abstract
template<http://rome2015.isufitaly.com/public/abstract_template_2015.doc>
 available on the website (font: Times New Roman). Proposals should be
uploaded<http://rome2015.isufitaly.com/index.php?conference=conference&schedConf=rome2015&page=author&op=submit>
 on the conference site after
registration<http://rome2015.isufitaly.com/index.php?conference=conference&schedConf=rome2015&page=user&op=account>.
Abstracts of papers must be received before 15 January 2015. Notification
of whether abstracts have been accepted will be provided by 1 March 2015.
Those whose abstracts have been accepted will be required to pay a
registration fee by 15 May 2015 to have their papers included in the
conference programme. The registration fee of EURO 300 (students: EURO 200)
includes 12 months' membership of ISUF and 3 issues of the journal *Urban
Morphology*, conference cocktail, coffee breaks and gala dinner. Following
acceptance of abstracts, submission of papers (not exceeding 4000 words) is
required. They should be received by 30 May 2015. Authors should consult
the notes for the guidance of contributors to *Urban Morphology*, available
on the ISUF website (http://www.urbanform.org), or in recent copies of that
journal, before preparing their papers. Selected papers may be published
after the conference. The official conference language is English. There
will be a New Researchers' Forum, in which researchers new to the field are
invited to take part. New researchers should indicate when they submit
their abstracts whether they would like to be included in the New
Researchers' Forum. Post-conference excursions will take place in Rome,
Hadrian's Villa, (Tivoli) and to the historical town of Todi.

*The Conference Scientific Committee comprises:*

Giancarlo Cataldi (University of Florence, Italy), Michael Conzen
(University of Chicago, USA),  Kai Gu (University of Auckland, New
Zealand), Ivor Samuels (ISUF, UK), Jean-Francois Lejeune (University of
Miami, USA), Renato Masiani ("Sapienza" University of Rome, Italy), Vítor
Oliveira (University of Oporto, Portugal), Piero Ostilio Rossi ("Sapienza"
University of Rome, Italy), Jeremy Whitehand (University of Birmingham, UK).

*The Conference Organizing Committee comprises:*

Giuseppe Strappa, Chair ('Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy), Alessandro
Camiz ('Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy), Paolo Carlotti ('Sapienza'
University of Rome, Italy), Anna Irene del Monaco ('Sapienza' University of
Rome, Italy), Matteo Ieva (Politechnic of Bari, Italy), Marco Maretto
(University of Parma, Italy), Nicola Marzot (University of Ferrara, Italy,
and TU-Delft, The Netherlands), Dina Nencini ('Sapienza' University of
Rome, Italy), Fabrizio Toppetti ('Sapienza' University of Rome, Italy).

All ISUF regional groups will be invited to organize a session, a poster or
a seminar:

   - Portuguese Network of Urban Morphology  http://pnum.fe.up.pt/
   - ISUF Italy http://www.isufitaly.com
   - Nordic Network of Urban Morphology
   - Chinese Network of Urban Morphology  http://urbanform.cn/
   - Turkish Network of Urban Morphology

Each ongoing ISUF Task Force will be invited to present its work.
http://www.urbanform.org

The conference website, providing more detailed information, is

http://rome2015.isufitaly.com

Enquiries and suggestions concerning the conference should be forwarded to

info.rome2015@isufitaly.com<http://mce_host/public/conferences/1/info.rome2015@isufitaly.com>

-- 
Alessandro Camiz, architect Ph.D.
http://uniroma1.academia.edu/AlessandroCamiz
Assegnista di Ricerca
"Sapienza", Università di Roma
DIAP-Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto
LPA-Laboratorio di Lettura e Progetto dell'Architettura
Via Antonio Gramsci 53
00197 Rome Italy
off. +39 6 49919133
fax +39 6 49919240
mob. +39 3388713648
alessandro.camiz@uniroma1.it
<http://w3.uniroma1.it/camiz>
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