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  • 1.  ANNOUNCING ACS 8 SYMPOSIUM

    Posted 09-10-2015 05:22 PM

    Dear colleagues,

    I'd like to share this announcement from Julio Bermudez of the Forum for Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality:

    It is with great excitement that the Forum of Architecture, Culture and Spirituality announces its next annual Symposium. ACS 8 will take place in the historically significant, beautiful and enchanting town of New Harmony, Indiana. This place, through its remarkable history, offers the perfect opportunity to consider the relationships between Utopia, Architecture and Spirituality, the very topic of the ACS 8 Symposium. More specifically, ACS 8 asks us to look at utopia as an idea and ideal, real and imagined, in all of its ramifications for architecture and the built environment, culture, politics, and, especially, spirituality. ACS 8 asks us to reflect on utopias past, to explore utopia in the present reality, and to speculate on how designers can take up utopian ideas and action in the future.

     

    ACS 8 will take place June 23-26, 2016. New Harmony, Indiana, is about 2.5 hours drive from Saint Louis (Missouri) and 2 hours from Louisville (Kentucky). ACS 8 is being organized by four co-chairs. In alphabetical order by last name, they are: Ben Jacks, Nancy Mangum McCaslin, Ben Nicholson, and Michelangelo Sabatino.

     

    ACS 8 co-chairs kindly invite all individuals interested in participating in this event to submit 500-1000 extended abstracts. All work will be blind-peer reviewed by at least three separate scholars/practitioners. The submission deadline is Monday 18 January 2016. Please, visit the symposium website to learn about all the necessary details. Here is the link:

     

    http://www.acsforum.org/symposium2016/

     

    If after reading the ACS 8 website you still have questions, please contact the symposium co-chairs via email at <acs8utopia@gmail.com>. We hope you consider joining us for what promises to be an unique meeting.

     

    Cheers!

     

    Julio Bermudez

    ACS Executive Committee member

     



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