Eleventh International Conference on The Constructed Environment - University of Calgary
Location
Alberta,
Canada
Subject Fields
Environmental History / Studies,
Government and Public Service,
Urban Design and Planning,
Architecture and Architectural History
The International Conference on The Constructed Environment covers topics such as:
- Building Processes
- Landscape construction
- Building construction
- From design studio to construction site: design and project planning
- Spaces and sites of construction: urban, greenfield, rural, remote
- Construction activities, processes and flows
- Project management processes and practices
- Efficiencies: prefabrication and modularization
- Time cycles, process transparency, quality management and efficiencies
- Building and construction regulation
- The construction of access to wild spaces
- Design and Planning Processes
- Science in the service of technology
- Design disciplines and practices in transition: architecture, engineering, industrial design, landscape architecture
- Town and regional planning
- Information, design and modeling technologies
- Transportation modes and structures: reconfiguring flows
- Local government in the planning process
- Designing interior spaces
- Parks in urban spaces
- `Virtual` space and `real` space
- Information flows in the constructed environment
- Project planning
- Form and function in space: how aesthetics relates to function
- Involving stakeholders: participatory design
- Inclusive design: design for human needs, sensitive to human differences, affirming rights to access
- Aesthetic paradigms: classicism, modernism, postmodernism, constructivism and other `isms
- Consultation, negotiation and consensus building in the (re)design of the constructed environment
- Social Impacts
- Habitats: home, work, civic, business, natural
- Functions of construction: housing, commercial, public, community
- Cultural diversity and the built environment
- Spatial cultures: the ethnography of space
- Disabilities and corporeal differences in the built environment
- Gender and the built environment
- Addressing inequality and poverty in the built environment
- Heritage values and practices in design, architecture and construction
- Values, ethics and aesthetics in environmental decision making
- The global and the local: applying human and material resources
- Education and training for workers in the constructed environment
- Leadership and management in the constructed environment
- Research and evaluation methods in the constructed environment
- Values and ethics in the constructed and natural environments
- Human resources and workforces in the building and environment sectors
- Law and regulation in and for the constructed and natural environments
- Social impact analyses
- Needs assessment and analysis
- Environmental Impacts
- Helping structures change, grow or end their useable lives-adaptations, renovations and recycling
- Materials, construction and environmental sciences
- LEED and other environmental certifications
- Green construction, sustainable building practices
- Water needs and sources: refiguring demand and access
- Energy sources and destinations: reconfiguring grids
- Waste creation, transportation and recycling or disposal
- Natural movements: floods, droughts, earthquakes and other acts of nature
- Determining footprints: environmental impact analyses
The 2021 International Conference on The Constructed Environment will be held at the University of Calgary in Calgary, Canada on 12-14 May 2021.
Contact Information
Michele Hill - Conference Producer
Contact Email
support@constructedenvironment.com