Dear Madam, dear Sir,
It is our great pleasure to invite you to the Sixth International Conference of Architecture and Urban Design ICAUD 2025, in Tirana, Albania on November 13-15, 2025.
The 6ICAUD 2025 is organized by the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Engineering, Epoka University. We look forward to endure our academic practice and provide an excellent forum for scientists, researchers, and practitioners, not only from Europe, but from all over the world. Thereby, new ideas, latest developments, and potential directions in the fields of Architecture and Urban Design shall be presented and discussed under any of its specialized themes as shown below. The main focus of the conference will be on exploring Un-Equal Spaces in terms of social, economic and cultural aspects.
1. UNEQUAL SPACES
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Historical Legacies of Spatial Segregation
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Invisible Borders: Economic and Social Divides
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Gentrification as Displacement and Homogenization
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Surveillance and Policing of Marginalized Spaces
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Climate Vulnerability as Inequality
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Social Justice in Urban Environment
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The Design of Inequality
2. EQUAL SPACES
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Participatory Design and Co-Creation
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Reparative and Acupunctural Urbanism
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Digital Tools towards Equality
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Open-source architecture and bottom-up city-making
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Bioclimatic Design for Marginalized Climates
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Feminist Movements and Architecture
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De-colonized Aesthetics
3. THEORIES AND PRACTICES
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Present Discourses on Design Theory
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AI integration and Challenges in Design
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Trajectories in Design Education
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Updating the concept of sustainable design and SDGs
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Learning from urban resilience and self-designing
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Permanencies and temporariness in design styles
4. AI&ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES
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AI for Equitable Urban Futures
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Digital Twins and Participatory Simulation
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Robotics and Affordable Construction
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Computational-based Design Strategies
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Augmented Reality for Cultural Preservation
5. HISTORICAL AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
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Materiality Across Time
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Sacred Spaces and Urban Morphology
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Urban Models: Continuity and Disruption
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Temporality and Resilience
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Resistance and Hybridity
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Utopias and Uniformity
On behalf of the organizing Committee, we warmly invite you to join us in Tirana, Albania - a very interesting laboratory for architects and urban designers & planners, and an enjoyable place to visit.
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.
Assoc. Prof. Edmond Manahasa
Dr. Valerio Perna
Chairs of the conference