Call for Papers /// Professional Education in the Age of AI, 18-20 Nov 2026 VIRTUAL, Chuo University, Tokyo
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Professional Education in the Age of AI – Sustainability | Nov 2026
18-20 Nov 2026
VIRTUAL, Chuo University, Tokyo
Abstracts: 10 June, 2026
Strand Call: Professional Education in the Age of AI – Redefining Interdisciplinarity, Ethics & Creativity
This strand is interested in how AI continues to transform both how we live, and how we teach and learn. It is particularly interested in these questions in the context of the built environment and related fields, but also welcomes other disciplinary perspectives including sustainability, urban health, STEM, the humanities and the social sciences.
As with other disciplines, how the built environment is studied, designed, and governed is facing the challenge of defining a “new foundational literacy.” As an area of interdisciplinary research, concerns include the emergence of a new digital divide driven by unequal access to advanced tools, a reduction of interdisciplinary partnerships in research and practice, and the erosion of creativity and imagination among beginners, who increasingly rely on AI-generated output. At the same time, the benefits of AI in these areas could be multiple. It may well democratize access to open data and analytical resources, expanding opportunities for diverse actors—including non-experts—to participate. It could facilitate the sharing of knowledge across fields like design, planning, sustainability, public health, conservation and the social history.
In this context, this strand will revisit the teaching materials and exercises in education. It will re-examine the very purpose of the university—not merely as a site of knowledge transmission, but as a place where students learn to formulate critical questions, envision new forms of society, and translate them into tangible spaces, practices and policies.
Expected Outcomes include sharing and co-creating a forward-looking and inclusive vision of the future across both educational settings and civil society, leading to concrete proposals for curricula design, collaborative research, and the practical implementation of new teaching methodologies and theories.
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