Topics
The conference programme will incorporate the following topics:
- Sustainable design of buildings and cities
- Low carbon community and building design
- Studio teaching
- Design and aesthetics for 21st century buildings
- Teaching issues, tools, methods, courses and programmes
- Creating social and economic value in 21st century buildings
- New materials and strategies for design
- Water use in buildings
- Renewable energy and building design
Submitted papers will be arranged within the following forum sessions:
- Buildings and the Environment
- Studio Culture: Sustaining Studio Education in a Climate of Change
- Buildings and People
- Refurbishment and Evidence Based Education
- Research into Teaching Courses
- Buildings and Cities
- Schools and Professional Views
- Materials and Renewable Energy
- Virtual Building and Generative Design
- Design Research
The focus within the conference programme will be guided by the results of the pre-conference poll where you are invited to list your priorities for the subjects that should dominate discussion and input to the resulting route map.