Call for Contributions: “Enhancing Umbau” at RWTH Aachen University | Gdańsk University of Technology

The colloquium focuses on Umbau — the adaptation, transformation, and continued use of existing buildings, neighbourhoods, and urban environments — as an essential strategy for creating resource-efficient, climate-neutral, socially just, and aesthetically rich built environments. Bringing together perspectives from architecture, urban planning, heritage conservation, design computation, artistic research, social geography, and related disciplines, the event aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on working with existing structures.

Researchers are encouraged to address one or more of the colloquium’s core themes: Temporality, Valuation, Friction, and Convergence. Contributions may take empirical, theoretical, design-based, or artistic-research approaches, especially those that cross disciplinary boundaries or connect fields such as material sciences, sociology, environmental studies, real-estate economics, and building law.

The programme will feature 15-minute presentations followed by discussion sessions. Selected contributions may also be considered for publication in a planned peer-reviewed thematic collection.

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