Call for Papers /// REDEFINING DESIGN & PLANNING - Professional Education in the Age of AI, 18-20 Nov 2026, Tokyo, Online
- Feb 16
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REDEFINING DESIGN & PLANNING - Professional Education in the Age of AI
Dept. of Architecture & Planning at Chuo University, Tokyo
VIRTUAL CONFERENCE
Conference: 18-20 Nov, 2026
Abstracts: 10 June, 2026
Place: Virtual
OVERVIEW:
This strand is interested in how AI continues to transform both how we live and how we teach and learn. It is specifically interested in these questions in the context of the built environment but many of its concerns stretch across disciplines.
How the built environment is studied, designed, and governed is facing the challenge of defining a “new foundational literacy.” Concerns include the erosion of creativity and imagination among students who may end up relying too heavily on AI-generated output, as well as the emergence of a new digital divide driven by unequal access to advanced tools.
At the same time, AI might be democratizing access to open data and analytical resources, expanding opportunities for diverse actors—including non-experts—to participate in built environment design and planning.
At a time when the built environment design and planning disciplines are undergoing exceptional changes due to the emergence of new technologies and media, this call is interested in the both the new developments this future will bring, and the evolution of the established modes of teaching and learning in our fields.
Publishers: Routledge Taylor & Francis
Other conference partners include:
Glasgow School of Art, the UC Copenhagen, the University of Bangkok, UCL Press and AMPS.
To submit an abstract:
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