Call for Abstracts + Projects /// PLANETARY PRACTICE: Architectures of a Shared Global Future, July 8-11, 2026, Brisbane, Australia
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PLANETARY PRACTICE: Architectures of a Shared Global Future
July 8-11, 2026 | Brisbane, Australia
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA) are pleased to announce the 2026 International Conference being hosted in Brisbane, Australia. The conference will take place July 8-11, 2026, and will explore four thematic tracks that foreground architectural design as a critical mode of inquiry into planetary-scale questions.
Planetary Practice is an international conference that invites architectural researchers, educators, and practitioners to explore how design might respond to the expansive and interconnected questions of our time.
Architecture and urbanism are increasingly called upon to engage with planetary challenges—those that exceed disciplinary boundaries and resist easy solutions. These challenges are cultural, material, environmental, technological, and political; they unfold unevenly across places and communities, and they demand new ways of thinking, imagining, and practicing.
Rather than retreating into crisis or urgency, Planetary Practice encourages approaches that are reflective, generative, and speculative. How might architectural design open up new pathways of inquiry? What forms of practice are needed to engage meaningfully with complex, large-scale conditions? What roles might pedagogy, research, design and built work play in shaping futures at multiple scales?
This conference seeks contributions that examine how architecture can operate as a planetary practice—through design, through research, through teaching, and through the cultivation of new forms of knowledge and collaboration. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional categories, that connect across disciplines and cultures, and that propose new imaginaries for practice in a time of planetary entanglement.
Join us in Magandjin–Meanjin as we gather to share, question, and reimagine the role of design in relation to the shared conditions of our world.
To submit and read more about the conference, please visit: https://www.acsa-arch.org/conference/2026-international-conference/
Call for Submissions
Planetary Practice, the 2026 AASA/ACSA International Conference, invites scholarly presentations that examine how architectural design can respond to the complex and evolving conditions of our planetary context. The conference seeks work that investigates large-scale challenges through innovative design approaches, research methodologies, digital tools, and alternative epistemologies. We welcome contributions that engage with emerging practices and pedagogies, and that explore architecture’s capacity to generate new forms of knowledge, spatial thinking, and planetary awareness.
Submission acceptance will be subject to a double-blind peer review process, based on an initial abstract review and later a second double-blind peer review of full-length papers. Inclusion in the publication will be subject to review acceptance, compliance with submission deadlines and formatting guidelines, and payment of the conference registration fee. Please kindly note that multiple submissions are subject to multiple registrations.
Conference Themes
At Planetary Practice, we will explore four thematic tracks that foreground architectural design as a critical mode of inquiry into planetary-scale questions. These themes offer distinct entry points while remaining connected through a shared interest in how architecture can respond to complex, interconnected challenges through emerging tools, methods, and ways of knowing.
Planetary Pedagogies
How can architectural education equip designers to work with the spatial, ethical, and epistemological complexities of planetary scale? This theme explores emerging pedagogies, speculative curricula, and transformative learning environments that position design as both a method and a mode of inquiry. We invite reflections on how education can foster critical thinking, collaborative practices, and diverse ways of knowing—preparing future practitioners to navigate uncertainty with creativity, care, and curiosity.
Tools for Planetary Design
Technology is reshaping the ways we conceive, represent, and construct architecture. This theme investigates how digital tools, computational methods, and material innovations can extend the agency of architectural design in addressing planetary conditions. We welcome contributions that examine not only how technologies are used, but how they shape design thinking, ethics, and aesthetics. Submissions might explore experimental workflows, interdisciplinary collaborations, or alternative frameworks for engaging with data, performance, and simulation in design.
Planetary Cultures
Design is a cultural act—deeply embedded in stories, symbols, and systems of meaning. This theme invites investigations into how architecture engages with multiple worldviews, alternative epistemologies, and contested histories to imagine futures beyond dominant paradigms. We are particularly interested in practices that foreground situated knowledge, collective memory, and speculative storytelling as tools for planetary thinking. How can cultural narratives reframe the spatial, social, and political dimensions of architectural design?
Situated Practices at Scale
Even as architecture grapples with global entanglements, it is always enacted in place. This theme explores how site-specific conditions—ecological, social, political, and material—can inform and enrich planetary design practice. We invite research that engages with the friction between locality and scale, asking how architecture can remain grounded while addressing systemic challenges. Submissions might include design strategies that respond to environmental shifts, critical mapping of place-based knowledge, or new approaches to site and context.
Submission will be accepted for both Abstracts and Project:
Call for Abstracts
Presentation | Publication
Selection of scholarly presentations will be based on double-blind peer review of abstracts (500 word limit) accompanied by optional images. Authors of accepted abstracts who present their work at the conference are then invited to submit a full paper for a second peer review for inclusion in a conference proceedings. It is expected that feedback from the abstract review and conference presentation will inform the final paper.
Call for Projects
Art, Architecture, Posters, Other…
Selection of posters will be based on a blind peer-review of an abstracts (250-word limit) accompanied by up to ten images. Authors of accepted posters who present their work at the conference are then invited to submit a final poster for publication. The final poster will be an A1, portrait file that will be included in the conference proceedings. It is expected that feedback from the initial review will inform the final poster.
To submit and read more about the conference, please visit: https://www.acsa-arch.org/conference/2026-international-conference/
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