Call for Papers /// Re:New Towns – A Symposium, 16-17 April 2026, Newcastle University, UK
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Re:New TownsÂ
A Symposium
Newcastle University, UKÂ
Thursday 16 - Friday 17 April 2025
This symposium aims to spark discussions about how building from the ground-up - planning for the future through local contexts - can creatively inform inevitable top-down processes, offering sustainable, enduring, and progressive solutions to housing and economic challenges.
We seek contributions that address international and UK exemplars - historical or contemporary - probing successes and failures, mindful of present-day challenges including (but not limited to):Â
Engineering, design, politics, and governance
Equity, social justice, resilience, and civic life
Economy and ecology, growth and degrowth
Housing: quality, affordability, homeliness, and efficiency
Participation and co-design: the role of communities in imagining, designing, and inhabiting
Relationality and the ethics of decision-making in planning and design
Labour, employment, craft and (re)skilling
Heritage, local vernaculars and indigeneity: the role of history, memory, place-making, and locality
Imagination: the place of design thinking in the development of macro-scale and infrastructural projects
Inclusivity: accessibility, openness, safety, security
Energy and materiality, risk and regulation
We want to investigate not just the construction of new towns, but also the renewal of existing towns and cities.
To foster discussion, dialogue and collaboration, we welcome a variety of possible symposium contributions which can seed meaningful interactions between participants. We invite proposals for the following formats:Â
Academic paper
Thematic symposium
WorkshopÂ
Creative Practice submission
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