Conference
Topics
SPECIAL TRACK: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ARCHITECTURE
In collaboration with the Erasmus+ project “AI:nteriorˮ
-> AI-assisted creativity and design processes
-> Prompt-based design and generative workflows
-> AI, authorship, and architectural imagination
-> AI in architectural education
-> AI-assisted representation, visualisation, and simulation
-> Human-machine collaboration in design
-> Ethics, agency, and responsibility in AI-supported design
-> AI in professional architectural practice
I. CREATIVITY, COGNITION, AND THE ARCHITECT’S MIND
-> Creativity and architectural imagination
-> The architectʼs mind and modes of spatial thinking
-> Intuition, iteration, and decision-making
-> Concept development and transformation
-> The role of uncertainty, failure, and experimentation
-> Memory, atmosphere, and embodied imagination
-> Individual authorship and collective thinking
II. DESIGN MEDIA, TOOLS, AND REPRESENTATION
-> Hand drawing in the twenty-first century
-> Sketching as thinking
-> Physical model-making and working with materials
-> Digital modelling, BIM, parametric tools, and AI-assisted design
-> Diagrams, mappings, visualisations, and simulations
-> Presentation of design ideas and narrative strategies
-> Hybrid analogue-digital workflows
-> Drawings, models, images, and prototypes in design processes
III. RESEARCH AND DESIGN
-> Design through research
-> Research through design
-> Research in design
-> Practice-based and practice-led research
-> Methodologies for documenting and evaluating design research
-> Inspirations, precedents, and historical references
-> Evidence, speculation, and interpretation in architectural design
IV. CONTEXT, ECOLOGY, AND SITE-RESPONSIVE PROCESSES
-> Context analysis and interpretation
-> Site reading and mapping methods
-> Ecology and the site
-> Climate-responsive and resource-conscious design processes
-> Cultural, historical, and urban context as design material
-> Biophilic, regenerative, and adaptive design approaches
-> Environmental data, observation, and lived experience in design
V. PEDAGOGY AND DESIGN METHODOLOGIES
-> Design studio methodologies
-> Pedagogical models for teaching design
-> Experimentation, critique, and feedback cultures
-> Experiential learning theory and architectural education
-> Interdisciplinary learning and collaborative studio formats
-> Process-based assessment in architectural education
-> Teaching research through design
VI. COLLABORATIVE, PARTICIPATORY, AND COMMUNITY-BASED DESIGN
-> Communication with stakeholders and communities
-> Participatory and collective design approaches
-> Co-design and community engagement
-> Negotiation, mediation, and conflict in design processes
-> Inclusive and socially responsive design methods
-> Communities as knowledge holders
-> Public consultation, shared authorship, and decision-making
VI. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE AND REAL-WORLD DESIGN PROCESSES
-> Professional models in architectural offices
-> Design workflow and team structures
-> Competitions as design processes
-> Relations with clients, consultants, and institutions
-> Regulations, codes, and administrative constraints
-> From concept to construction documentation
-> Design authorship in professional practice
-> The gap between academic design and professional practice
-> Time, budget, risk, and responsibility in design processes