xCoAx 2026 calls for papers, artworks, performances and research works-in-progress by scholars, artists, performers and students working on any of its multi-disciplinary facets.
You are invited to submit theoretical, practical or experimental research work in the form of papers, artworks, or performances, on a range of topics that includes but is not limited to the following:
Computation • Communication • Aesthetics • X • Algorithms • Systems • Models • Artificial Aesthetics • Artificial Intelligence & Creativity • Artistic explorations of digital game technologies • Audiovisuals • Multimodality • Design • Interaction • Generative Art & Design • History • Mechatronics • Physical Computing • Music • Sound Art • Performance • Philosophy of Art & of Computation • Computational Photography and Image Technologies • Technology • Ethics • Epistemology
The MIT Department of Architecture is welcoming applications for its second Summer Teaching Workshop, hosted by the History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture and Art Group.
This intimate four-day intensive Workshop will give early- and mid-career instructors teaching architectural history at the undergraduate level the opportunity to collaboratively discuss and develop materials and methods for survey and introductory courses. The goal is to create space and time for intimate dialogue about pedagogy, and to allow early- and mid-career teacher-scholars to learn from one another and reimagine the syllabus and other course materials
The theme of this year’s Workshop is Global Environmental History. We understand by the concept of “global environmental history” something quite broad that resides in the triangulated space of nature, humans, and society.
The Workshop will provide a stipend to reimburse travel and accommodations in Cambridge MA during the duration of the Workshop (varies based on distance travelled). Additionally, participants will receive a $500 honorarium and two MIT-funded group dinners.
Eligibility
To be eligible to apply for this Workshop, you must:
Be a PhD-holding early- or mid-career scholar in a teaching position (pre-tenure or non-tenure-track)
Have taught or are currently teaching an undergraduate course, preferably at the introductory or survey level
Have developed or are developing a course in architectural history, broadly defined, that is aligned with the Workshop theme.
Research in the architectural humanities rarely moves in a straight line. It develops through fragments of observation, incomplete archives, tentative sketches, unexpected encounters, and reflections that may never make their way into a finished thesis or publication. This symposium, En Chantiers: Field Notes in Progress, foregrounds the provisional and the unfinished as productive spaces of inquiry. By placing emphasis on field notes; broadly understood as the marks, traces, and records of ongoing research, this symposium invites doctoral students to reflect on how knowledge is gathered, tested, and re-shaped in practice. Participants are encouraged to share snapshots and assemblages of their current work: questions that remain unresolved, methods under construction, and the contingent moments that shape the research journey. We are particularly interested in contributions that examine how incompleteness, instability, or ambiguity can be mobilised as critical tools within architectural humanities research.
The call for abstract is now open and closes by 15 March 2026.
Continuing our commitment to publish the work of emerging design researchers, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invites postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.
Conference run by the African Architectural & Urban History Network (AFRAUHN) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Conference Rationale
The African Architectural and Urban History Network (AFRAUHN), in collaboration with the Department of Architecture at the University of Nairobi, invites proposals for papers about emerging discourses and themes in African architectural and urban practices for a major international conference being held at the University of Nairobi from 8th September – 10th September 2026.
It will be the second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference, the first having taken place at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning in South Africa in July 2024. Recognizing that discourses about African architecture and urban planning are more complex than the bifurcated ‘traditional’/‘colonial’ or ‘African’/‘Western’ models which still tend to dominate the research, writing, environmental design and spatial design practices in the continent, this conference instead welcomes contributions that critically examine the status quo(s) of these models and disciplines – be that in terms of academic, practice, national institutions or regulatory bodies, or as are imagined by policy-makers in forms of urban development which are then disseminated to the public.
This second AFRAUHN bi-annual conference is organized to coincide with the inaugural Pan-African Biennale of Architecture, curated by Omar Degan and team, and which is also being held in September 2026 in Nairobi, Kenya.
L’Association d’histoire de l’architecture (AHA) organise une journée consacrée aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses, le vendredi 9 octobre 2026 à l’ENSA Paris-Val de Seine.
Dans un esprit aussi convivial que scientifique, nous souhaitons donner la parole aux doctorants et aux doctorantes afin d’évoquer un moment décisif auquel ils ou elles ont été confronté·es lors de l’élaboration de leur recherche.
Pour se différencier du format traditionnel des journées d’étude et colloques, cet événement prendra la forme d’un Doctathlon au cours duquel les participants et les participantes pourront aborder les questionnements inhérents aux projets de recherche en histoire de l’architecture. A l’instar des précédentes sessions*, notre intention est d’engager une discussion autour d’enjeux méthodologiques touchant aussi bien à l’élaboration du plan, à la structuration d’un chapitre ou à la définition d’un titre, qu’à la conception d’annexes originales ou inédites, à la périodisation du sujet ou à l’organisation d’une bibliographie.
Dans ce cadre, nous souhaitons vous inviter à proposer une intervention dont la durée ne devra pas dépasser 15 minutes. Les propositions devront nous parvenir avant le 31 mai 2026 à l’adresse suivante : doctorat.aha@gmail.com
Elles devront définir clairement le moment du déclic et les enjeux méthodologiques qui lui sont associés. Elles seront accompagnées d’une courte biographie de l’auteur·e et une présentation de références bibliographiques (Longueur totale max. : 3 000 signes).
Comité : Gabriel Bernard Guelle, Camille Conte, Franka Fahl, Emeline Houssard et Solène Feix
N’hésitez pas à nous contacter à l’adresse indiquée en cas de questions.
Avec une session “Taking Care: Architectural Dimensions of Maintenance” organisée par Rocio pour celles et ceux qui pourraient être intéressées par les questions de maintenance
We are delighted to announce the 2nd CA²RE conference for Artistic and Architectural Research, at the Faculty of Architecture and Design, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway.
“« Créer, ce n’est pas déformer ou inventer des personnes et des choses. C’est nouer entre des personnes et des choses qui existent des rapports nouveaux. » Cette citation de Robert Bresson illustre l’approche du numéro 88 de FACES, consacré au thème de faire avec l’existant comme champ de réflexion et d’exploration de la pratique architecturale contemporaine.”
12 July 2026: Abstract and CV submission
03 August 2026: Notification of abstract acceptance
12 October 2026: Full paper submission
09 November 2026: Notification of paper acceptance
