by Rebecka Gordan
Source: The Second International Congress on Ambiance
With the new year under way, many events on architecture, planning and urbanism await. As traveling abroad takes a bit of planning, here is a list of some of the most interesting seminars, conferences and symposiums around the globe. Where will you go this year: Hong Kong, Honolulu, Belgrade, Cape Town?
January
Non-City, Next-City? From Urban Sprawl to Urban soul in Europe,
Jan. 11, Brussels, Belgium
Sixth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Jan. 20-22, Los Angeles, California, United States
February
Green Development: Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure
Feb. 2-3, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Urban Transformations: 11th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference
Feb. 5-8, Perth, Australia
Innovations in Affordable Housing
Feb. 7-10, Gurgaon, India
Cognitive Research on Human Perception of Built Environment for Health and Wellbeing
Feb. 9-10, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationalism and the City
Feb. 10-11, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Urban and Housing Development Conference 2012
Feb. 15-17, Cape Town, South Africa
Affordable Housing Conference
Feb. 23-24, Singapore
International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Urban Ecosystems
Feb. 24-26, Guwahati, Assam, India
March
100th ACSA Annual Meeting: Digital Aptitudes
March 1-3, Boston, Mass., United States
Urban Infrastructure (Hong Kong) 2012,
March 2, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design 2012
March 3-5, Penang, Malaysia
Intercity Networks and Urban Governance in Asia
March 8-9, Singapore
Fifth Integrating Cities Conference
March 8-9, Amsterdam, Netherlands
India vs. Bharat : Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide
March 9-10, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Second Global Conference: Urban Popcultures
March 9-11, Prague, Czech Republic
361 Degrees 2012
March 17, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
DiverCity: Towards the Intercultural City
March 26-27, Venice, Italy
Urban Congestion 2012
March 27-28, Sydney, Australia
Financing Low Cost Housing: Africa
March 28-31, Nairobi, Kenya
Reinventing Architecture and Interiors: The Past, the Present and the Future
March 29-30, London, United Kingdom
April
Designing Place - International Urban Design Conference
April 2-3, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Diversity in Place Film Festival: Urban Explorations
April 7-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archeology
April 9-13, Menorca, Balearic Island, Spain
Symposium of Urban Systems Research
April 10-13, Vienna, Germany
Design Tactics and the Informalized City
April 13-14, Ithaca, New York, United States
First International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design
April 19-21 Tirana, Albania
How is the Housing System Coping?
April 18-20, York, United Kingdom
ISVS-6 International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements
April 19-21, Famagusta, North Cyprus, Cyprus
Cities vs. Global Challenges
April 26-28, Belgrade, Serbia
Coastal Cities Summit II
April 30 to May 3, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
May
Still Architecture: Photography, Vision and Cultural Transmission
May 3-5, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Seventh International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, 7 to 9 May 2012, Ancona, Italy.
Resilient Cities 2012
May 12-15, Bonn, Germany
Re-Mixing the City: Towards Sustainability and Resilience?
May 14-16, Schwechat (Vienna's Airport City), Niederösterreich, Austria
International Conference on Urban Design Theory & Practice in Iran since the late 1950s
May 16-18, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
2012 International Conference on Green Buildings and Optimization Design
May 17-18, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
ICAR 2012 (RE)writing history
May 18-20, Bucharest, Romania
Ninth Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Research Student Conference
May 19-20, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
ARCHHIST '12
May 23-26, Istanbul, Turkey
Live Projects Pedagogy in Architecture
May 24-26 Oxford, United Kingdom
June
Consuming Istanbul: Space, Spectacle and the Politics of Popular Culture
June 11-22, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 ACSA International Conference: Change, Architecture, Education, Practices
June 20-23, Barcelona, Spain
Housing: Local Welfare and Local Markets in a Globalized World
June 24-27, Lillehammer, Norway
Return to the Street
June 27-28, London, United Kingdom
Sustainable Futures 2012
June 27-30, Kampala, Uganda
World in Denmark 2012: City PLANTastic
June 27-28, Copenhagen, Denmark
July
World Cities Summit 2012
July 1-4, Singapore
iaSU2012 JAPAN - Second International Conference on Archi-Cultural Translations Through the Silk Road
July 14-16, Nishinomiya, Japan
August
Eighth International Conference on Urban Climate
Aug. 6-10, Dublin, Ireland
11th Conference on Urban History: Everyday Life in the Socialist City
Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, Prague, Czech Republic
13th Architecture Biennale
Aug. 29 to Nov. 25, Venice Giardini and Arsenale, Italy
September
World Urban Forum 6: The Urban Future
Sept. 1-7, Naples, Italy
Fourth International Conference on Harmonization between Architecture and Nature
Sept. 5-7, Kos, Greece
Second International Congress on Ambiances: Ambiances in Action
Sept. 19-22, Montreal, Canada
October
Space Strategies 2012
Oct. 1-2, San Diego, California, United States
November
13th World Conference of ACUUS: Underground Space Development - Opportunities and Challenges Nov. 7-9, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East – Global Impacts and Local Challenges
Nov. 21-23, Istanbul, Turkey
Sustainability by Design: Breaking the Silos
Nov. 27-30, Auckland, New Zealand
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Source: The Second International Congress on Ambiance
With the new year under way, many events on architecture, planning and urbanism await. As traveling abroad takes a bit of planning, here is a list of some of the most interesting seminars, conferences and symposiums around the globe. Where will you go this year: Hong Kong, Honolulu, Belgrade, Cape Town?
January
Non-City, Next-City? From Urban Sprawl to Urban soul in Europe,
Jan. 11, Brussels, Belgium
Sixth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Jan. 20-22, Los Angeles, California, United States
February
Green Development: Sustainable Buildings and Infrastructure
Feb. 2-3, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Urban Transformations: 11th Australasian Urban History Planning History Conference
Feb. 5-8, Perth, Australia
Innovations in Affordable Housing
Feb. 7-10, Gurgaon, India
Cognitive Research on Human Perception of Built Environment for Health and Wellbeing
Feb. 9-10, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Nationalism and the City
Feb. 10-11, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Urban and Housing Development Conference 2012
Feb. 15-17, Cape Town, South Africa
Affordable Housing Conference
Feb. 23-24, Singapore
International Conference on Environmentally Sustainable Urban Ecosystems
Feb. 24-26, Guwahati, Assam, India
March
100th ACSA Annual Meeting: Digital Aptitudes
March 1-3, Boston, Mass., United States
Urban Infrastructure (Hong Kong) 2012,
March 2, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong
International Conference on Sustainable Architecture and Urban Design 2012
March 3-5, Penang, Malaysia
Intercity Networks and Urban Governance in Asia
March 8-9, Singapore
Fifth Integrating Cities Conference
March 8-9, Amsterdam, Netherlands
India vs. Bharat : Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide
March 9-10, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Second Global Conference: Urban Popcultures
March 9-11, Prague, Czech Republic
361 Degrees 2012
March 17, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
DiverCity: Towards the Intercultural City
March 26-27, Venice, Italy
Urban Congestion 2012
March 27-28, Sydney, Australia
Financing Low Cost Housing: Africa
March 28-31, Nairobi, Kenya
Reinventing Architecture and Interiors: The Past, the Present and the Future
March 29-30, London, United Kingdom
April
Designing Place - International Urban Design Conference
April 2-3, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Diversity in Place Film Festival: Urban Explorations
April 7-8, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
First International Conference on Best Practices in World Heritage: Archeology
April 9-13, Menorca, Balearic Island, Spain
Symposium of Urban Systems Research
April 10-13, Vienna, Germany
Design Tactics and the Informalized City
April 13-14, Ithaca, New York, United States
First International Conference on Architecture and Urban Design
April 19-21 Tirana, Albania
How is the Housing System Coping?
April 18-20, York, United Kingdom
ISVS-6 International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements
April 19-21, Famagusta, North Cyprus, Cyprus
Cities vs. Global Challenges
April 26-28, Belgrade, Serbia
Coastal Cities Summit II
April 30 to May 3, St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
May
Still Architecture: Photography, Vision and Cultural Transmission
May 3-5, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Seventh International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, 7 to 9 May 2012, Ancona, Italy.
Resilient Cities 2012
May 12-15, Bonn, Germany
Re-Mixing the City: Towards Sustainability and Resilience?
May 14-16, Schwechat (Vienna's Airport City), Niederösterreich, Austria
International Conference on Urban Design Theory & Practice in Iran since the late 1950s
May 16-18, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran
2012 International Conference on Green Buildings and Optimization Design
May 17-18, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
ICAR 2012 (RE)writing history
May 18-20, Bucharest, Romania
Ninth Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) Research Student Conference
May 19-20, Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom
ARCHHIST '12
May 23-26, Istanbul, Turkey
Live Projects Pedagogy in Architecture
May 24-26 Oxford, United Kingdom
June
Consuming Istanbul: Space, Spectacle and the Politics of Popular Culture
June 11-22, Istanbul, Turkey
2012 ACSA International Conference: Change, Architecture, Education, Practices
June 20-23, Barcelona, Spain
Housing: Local Welfare and Local Markets in a Globalized World
June 24-27, Lillehammer, Norway
Return to the Street
June 27-28, London, United Kingdom
Sustainable Futures 2012
June 27-30, Kampala, Uganda
World in Denmark 2012: City PLANTastic
June 27-28, Copenhagen, Denmark
July
World Cities Summit 2012
July 1-4, Singapore
iaSU2012 JAPAN - Second International Conference on Archi-Cultural Translations Through the Silk Road
July 14-16, Nishinomiya, Japan
August
Eighth International Conference on Urban Climate
Aug. 6-10, Dublin, Ireland
11th Conference on Urban History: Everyday Life in the Socialist City
Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, Prague, Czech Republic
13th Architecture Biennale
Aug. 29 to Nov. 25, Venice Giardini and Arsenale, Italy
September
World Urban Forum 6: The Urban Future
Sept. 1-7, Naples, Italy
Fourth International Conference on Harmonization between Architecture and Nature
Sept. 5-7, Kos, Greece
Second International Congress on Ambiances: Ambiances in Action
Sept. 19-22, Montreal, Canada
October
Space Strategies 2012
Oct. 1-2, San Diego, California, United States
November
13th World Conference of ACUUS: Underground Space Development - Opportunities and Challenges Nov. 7-9, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East – Global Impacts and Local Challenges
Nov. 21-23, Istanbul, Turkey
Sustainability by Design: Breaking the Silos
Nov. 27-30, Auckland, New Zealand
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