AIA/ACSA Intersections: New Housing Paradigms Call for Sessions
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and AIA are pleased to continue the conference partnership dedicated to the intersection of education, research and practice. The 2025 Conference theme is New Housing Paradigms and aims to inspire, connect, and challenge. The conference organizers invite faculty, researchers, and practitioners to propose special sessions to enhance the conference program.
Conference dates: January 9–11, 2025
Alternate formats are welcome that emphasize conversation, debate, and community engagement, and which can stimulate new approaches. The committee welcomes submissions in all architecture education, research, and practice areas in the following two categories: special focus sessions (presentations and panels) and experimental sessions (tours, workshops, etc). Submission deadline: September 4, 2024
Conference tracks
The committee invites contributions, papers, projects, case studies, and critical observations that speculate on, advocate for, operate within, and struggle with new housing paradigms. Innovative approaches are welcome at all scales, from single unit to master plan as we recognize even the smallest unit of private space to inherently be an urban problem. Contributions should relate to one of the tracks listed below or address potential overlaps between no more than two.
Housing for Equitable Communities
Contributions that engage with political or economic processes and outcomes that positively impact affordability, communities, and equity; or intervene at a larger scale of urban design or urbanism.
Housing as Radical Solution
Solutions that radically rethink housing, its constituent parts (material, space, typology), or its effects in order to generate alternative visions or critiques of the ways we live.
Housing as Pedagogy
Contributions that interrogate the way we teach future generations of architects, educate constituents, and disseminate information to leverage talent and skill towards the goal of better housing.
Housing for Ecology
Contributions that recognize the inherent roles of housing in preserving, strengthening, and creating ecosystems, and/or reducing greenhouse gases.
Housing for Well-being + Health
Contributions that focus on health inequities, cater to specific vulnerabilities and needs; and capabilities of housing to positively impact its environment or human interactions therein.
Questions? Email research@aia.org
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