Media Architecture Biennale 2018
Call for Doctoral Consortium Workshop
The Doctoral Consortium at MAB 2018 is a full-day workshop. The colloquium session is primarily intended to highlight and confer around the work of research students, fellows and doctoral candidates working at the intersections of public space, digital media, socio-cultural analysis and theory, techno-artistic practices and critique. We welcome theoretical, analytical, and practice-based research.
Researchers undertaking scholarly work at the PhD level are invited to take part in the Doctoral Consortium via the presentation of papers, work-in-progress and multimedia presentations (approximately 30 minutes in length).
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
- Participatory Architecture & City Planning
- Social & Cultural Aspects of Media Architecture
- Smart Cities, Smart Buildings
- Public Space, Place-making and Interactions
- Media Facades, Interactive Spaces, Responsive Architecture
- Public Displays and Urban Interfaces
In the format of:
- Case Studies
- Interaction Techniques & Interfaces
- Critical & Historical Perspectives on Media Architecture
- Design Tools, Processes & Methods
Submissions
Paper submissions should follow the same format as short papers of TWO pages in length (2-page proposal (ACM Extended Abstracts format <http://st.sigchi.org/sigchi-paper-template/SIGCHIExtendedAbstractsFormat.docx>) describing:
* Topic of PhD
* Background or context to PhD research
* Literature, methods and findings from PhD research
* A Biography
Please submit via email:
Doctoral Consortium papers will be included in the non-refereed part of the MAB 2018 conference proceedings.
Key Dates
Submission deadline: 14th June 2018, 9th August 2018
Notification of acceptance: 14th July 2018, 9th September 2018
Doctoral Consortium: 12th November 2018
Doctoral Consortium Chairs:
Alessandro Aurigi (Plymouth University, UK)