Call for Papers: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN TEACHING & CHANGE
- s-architecture
- Jun 17
- 2 min read
CONTEMPORARY TEACHING in a Time of CHANGE
A Focus on Design
Place: Madrid, Spain (+ virtual)
Conference dates: 22-24, June, 2026
Abstracts due: 15 July, 2025 (Early)
This is an unprecedented period of change in the teaching of architecture, urban planning, landscape design and related fields. Following a global pandemic that ushered in technological change to all aspects of teaching and learning, we are now witnessing the emergence of AI and its impact on issues like authorship and creativity.
More specifically, there are challenges to the ‘everyday’ aspects of how we teach design: the ‘crit’ is being questioned as a mode of assessment; the studio as the best teaching environment for design is being rethought; the lecture based approach of design history is being critiqued; and how we relate to industry and our professional bodies is an open question.
In this context, the future of teaching in the design and built environment fields seems to be a landscape of constant change. This conference seeks to explore this scenario from across disciplinary perspectives. However, it is also interested in whether we should be conserving those aspects of our teaching that have worked well and have stood the test of time: the studio perhaps being the prime example.
The event is interdisciplinary but will be organised in disciplinary strands with cross over sessions planned to explore the intersections of concerns shared by educators and practitioners in design, the arts, humanities and social sciences.
The early abstract call is now open:
Co-organised by AMPS and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Publications by Routledge.
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