Archi-DOCT

archi|DOCT is a peer-reviewed e-journal aiming at fostering, enhancing and promoting doctoral resear

Architectural doctoral research produced by academic institutions is, with architectural practice, one of the main pillars of the generation of new architectural knowledge. However, this research record is dispersed and isolated in many centers, with limited communication among them, belonging to different research cultures, traditions and approaches without evident possibilities of generating a s

ynthesis representing contemporary architectural doctoral research. As a step towards the above objective, the European Network of Heads of Schools of Architecture-ENHSA, an EU funded Network in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme is initiating the Archidoct e-journal, linked to and complementary with the ENHSA Observatory (EODRA). Archidoct is a peer-reviewed e-journal aiming at fostering, enhancing and promoting doctoral research in architecture. The first point that underlines the originality of this endeavour is that the authors of the essays published are doctoral students in architecture. The second point that underlines this originality is that the journal is a mentoring, educational tool that aims at improving the writing skills of the authors as this will be advised by the peer reviewers towards academically coherent and rigorous writings. Within this framework, the Editorial Board has invited contributions from doctoral students who are active members of the ENHSA Observatory. While they are all based in the general field of architecture, their research directions include topics in architectural design, building technology, computation, history, theory, art, product design, conservation, landscape design, environmental design, urbanism, regional planning and town planning. Each issue will also include one essay by a member of the Scientific Committee or other eminent academic as a good practice example. The changes occurring nowadays in architectural education and professional practice have a significant impact on the way innovation and new architectural knowledge are generated. Schools of architecture are directed by the current dynamics to reform their doctoral education strategies, structures and processes in order to have a more efficient contribution to architectural research and innovation. The Higher Education of Europe has changed tremendously since the Bologna Declaration was signed. One of the results of the transformation is the renewal of doctoral studies. While the two-cycle education of under- and graduate levels has become quite universal, its final destination – the third cycle in doctorate is still emerging. Here both the traditions and innovations intertwine, different research cultures run parallel and three letters (PhD) standing for doctor philosophiae can mean several different things, especially in architecture. Even though the discussion about doctorates in architecture appears to be popular between academics, proved by the number of conferences on the subject, investigating the nature of the research in architecture and of doctorates in Architecture, the Doctorate as part of an educational process leading to a profile of contemporary researcher of architecture is marginally discussed. Similarly marginal is the exchange of ideas through the opening up of students on their progress, topic definition, methodological approach, validity, generalisability of findings, originality and contribution to knowledge. A publication that would foster and encourage doctoral students to share their research venture has been the aim of this peer-reviewed e-journal. The present issue includes the good practice example and five essays by doctoral students. We hope that this has been a learning experience for both students and reviewers that will, in turn, encourage more doctoral students to come forward, improving their academic writing skills, enrich their research record but above all communicate their research, theme, methodology and findings to other fellow PhD students, enhancing that way their own venture. We would like to thank the authors of the first good practice example for offering us their text to include in the issue, our reviewers for accomplishing the demanding and laborious reviewing process and last but not least all the doctoral students for their courage and perseverance to publish their work in this issue.

21/02/2023

Abstract Submission New Deadline Extended Abstract (750 words text, excluding bibliography) Abstract Submission Deadline Extension 23rd February 2023 Theme 1 Theory-based relevance of doctoral research in ArchitectureTheme 2 Social mission-based relevance of doctoral research in ArchitectureTheme 3 Technology-based relevance of doc...

08/02/2023

Deadline for abstracts extended: 23rd Feb 2023.
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03/02/2023

Abstract Submission New Deadline

03/02/2023

Deadline for abstracts extended: 23rd Feb 2023.
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Anglia Ruskin University

Abstract Submission New Deadline

17/01/2023

Submission of Abstracts 1, February 2023
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Relevance of Doctoral Research in Architecture
First Conference* organized by ArchiDOCT peer-review Journal
and Anglia Ruskin University Science Centre, FSE ARU, Cambridge, 3-5 July, 2023, *face-to-face and blended
ECRs, PhD students, research coordinators of your institution, and PhD supervisors. There is only three weeks left before the submission deadline of a 750-word extended abstract on the three themes stated below. Please encourage your staff and students to participate to this unique event on the Relevance of Doctoral Research in Architecture.
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Extended Abstract (750 words text, and bibliography not included in the word count)
Submission Deadline 1st February 2023
Theme 1 Theory-based relevance of doctoral research in Architecture
Theme 2 Social mission-based relevance of doctoral research in Architecture
Theme 3 Technology-based relevance of doctoral research in Architecture
Important dates

• Notification of acceptance 20th February
• Early Bird £240 (live from now to 15th March)
• Standard £270 (16th March – 3rd July)
• Online £174 (live now to 3rd July)
• Conference days 3, commencing 3 July 2023
The conference will be addressed by:

Prof. Peg Rawes – The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL, London, UK, Interdisciplinary architectural historian focusing on relational architectural ecologies.

Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke – ETH Zurich, CH
ETH Zurich, CH, Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich.

Prof. Philip Plowright – Lawrence Tech University, Michigan, USA
Professor of Architecture (Design, Theory and History) and Editor in Chief ENQ

Prof. Chris Jarrett – University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Professor of Architecture, Past-President, Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), co-Director, designLAB.

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12/09/2022

Archi-DOCT
upcoming issue 20 call for papers October 2023............................................................................
A E S T H E T I C S and P O L I T I C S ............................................................................
Guest editors
1. Thomas Symeonidis | Athens School of Fine Arts
2. Dimitris Gourdoukis | School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki............................................................................
The 20th issue of the ArchiDOCT e-journal welcomes papers that explore the theme of ‘aesthetics and politics’ in architecture and its connections with the built, material and conceptual environment as presuppositions of the architectural design process or as its implementation. The contemporary landscape of thought in aesthetics and politics has been enriched by significant contributions, notably the works of French philosopher Jacques Rancière. According to his work, politics has its aesthetics, its specific way of redistributing the sensible, of providing a new restructuring of the field of experience and ultimately of creating a new topography of possibilities. At the same time, we have seen the emergence of discourses with an ethical and stressed metaphysical tone such as the emphasis on the aesthetic category of the sublime and the questioning of the capacities for representation either in connection to imagination or in the irrepresentable of historical events.

Architecture is about forces, as are politics, which are not limited to ideology, committed art or even activism. In a meta-political sense, architecture has its own political function, its own way to create political content. By effectuating a re-modeling of social time and space, by establishing new relations or elaborating and interrogating the existing ones, architecture and design are already political – and they have always been.

Architecture is about forces, as is negativity: Theodor Adorno in his well-known aphoristic manner declared that “the beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions”. Massimo Cacciari emphasizes the importance of registering the leaps, the ruptures in history and how important is this form of negative thought for the production of innovation. Walter Benjamin as well worked on a historical project based on a dialectical aesthetic and political logic. From this standpoint it would be of importance to reflect today on the ways architecture (re)present reality along with the questioning of existing representational patters.

Architecture is about forces, as is affirmation: Felix Guattari in his late work also conjures the notion of aesthetics – albeit from a different perspective – by pointing towards a new aesthetic paradigm with clear ethico-political implications that will replace the scientific paradigm. Creation in that context becomes an affirmative action where the engagement with the new is still something disruptive though not as an alternative to tradition. Innovation in that case is not the negation of the existing but instead is always the result of a fundamentally affirmative process. Not the negation of the known, but the affirmation of the unknown.

By re-stating the relation between aesthetics and politics in a more creative manner we expect to incite an interest on the ways fiction, narrative and story-telling can be considered as structures open to re-designs, with their own architectural, spatial, material and sensual qualities.

Against this backdrop, we invite papers that will embark on, or present an exploration of the various manifestations of the aesthetical and/or the political dimension within architectural theory and/or praxis, as well as design practices and tools associated with them. Although we encourage insights and experimentations with contemporary conceptions of the aesthetic and the political, we welcome propositions that address the becoming of traditional aesthetic concepts that have had already seen a substantial transformation in the context of the first generations of critical theory, notably the Frankfurt School. Having said that, we are also interested in papers that will reflect on the domains of architecture and design from the point of view of inter-disciplinary tool-making and more creative understandings of policy-making to the extent of experimentations with the artistic domains.

Within these premises, the 20th issue of ArchiDOCT invites academics, early career researchers, and PhD students (writing as single authors, with their supervisor(s) or with fellow doctoral students or doctoral holders), to submit articles that deepen our understanding of aesthetics and politics in relation to architecture and design. Our objective is to provide clear depictions, trace valid paths and possible extensions of the aesthetic and political dimension at any level and manifestation of architecture and design.

Relevant subthemes include:

* Aesthetics and politics in relation to the creation process.
* Elaboration of design principles from existing aesthetic and political theories.
* Convergences and similarities between artworks and architecture.
* Appreciation of architectural design or constructions in terms of aesthetics and politics
* Architectural and design processes in relation to the spectator, the citizen, the inhabitant.
* Introduction of narratives in the architectural process as an aesthetic vector.

Important dates
Expression of interest (through a 500-word abstract and contact
with the guest editor): October 1st 2022
First paper submission: March 15th 2023
Review period: March 20th - May 15th 2023
Final submission: July 15th 2023
Publication date: October15th 2023

Submission policy
ArchiDOCT is published two times a year, in April and October. The official language of the journal is English. Submitted manuscripts for review should not exceed 4500 words, including abstracts, references and image captions. The referring system will be the APA Style (7th edition). Text should be saved in a Microsoft Word or RTF file, while the supporting visual material (images, diagrams, sketches, tables and so on) should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi. All visual material should be clearly indicated and numbered in the text, along with the respective image captions and credits.

All further info can be found at the following page: https://archidoct.scholasticahq.com/for-authors.

Final submissions will be delivered through the online submission system that will be activated on the journal’s page: https://archidoct.scholasticahq.com/
ArchiDOCT accepts manuscripts from PhD holders, students, postdoc students, either as co-authors or in collaboration with fellow researchers and/or with their supervisors.

Reviewing policy
The peer reviewers are all confirmed educators of architecture coming from different educational backgrounds, with different specialisations and expertise that share the common interest of their doctoral students: to encourage them to publish their work while improving their thinking processes towards academic research writings. Each submitted article is reviewed by two members of the journal’s Scientific Committee anonymously.
Copyright policy
The ArchiDOCT journal is offered in a downloadable form for academic and research purposes only. All material published in each issue is, unless otherwise stated, the property of the authors of the respective articles. The reproduction of an article in whole is only allowed with the written consent of the author. Any reproduction of the material in parts, in any manner, should properly credit the copyright holder. A single copy of the materials available in each issue may be made for personal, noncommercial use.

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