ICAUD 2021

The 4th ICAUD is structured into two parallel tracks.

a) the Old-Normal track, which will be conducted conventionally through abstract submission, its acceptance/not-acceptance, full article submission, final review and acceptance and conference presentation in one of the arranged parallel sessions.

b) the New-Normal track, which will be conducted differently through Extended Abstract submission, its review and acceptance, presentation in one of the conference's "Research workshops” under the driving of a Discussant, co-building of the common frame for a scientific article (articulated into some paragraphs according to the numbers of authors involved in the hotspot), final co-article submission (one month and half after the conference), its review and acceptance.

You are invited to submit an abstract and / or poster proposal to one of the conference sections listed below:

1 Global challenges and local answers

Scenarios and transformation of cities in post-pandemic age
Environmental psychology and users’ behaviour in post-pandemic time
Permanent adaptations in the urban societies
Contamination with the local designing languages
Architectural post-developments in Albania

2 Technological advancement and established lifestyle

1 year of accelerated innovations in designing
Smart cities challenges and digital world
Digital technologies within the contextual experiences
Innovative technologies in support of the current challenges of next design

3 Classical design and fancy trends

Present discourses on Design Theory
Trajectories in design Distant-Education and remote working
Updating the concept of sustainable design post 2020
Learning from urban resilience and adaptive self-designing
Permanencies and temporariness in design styles and languages post 2020

Both the Old and the New Tracks' articles & co-articles might benefit from publication on Springer Nature book series (The Urban Book Series) if selected from the Publisher.

The articles & co-articles that will be not selected will be anyways published in a Book edited from the Epoka University with ISBN number.

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