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The ConCave Ph.D. student group would like to welcome you to the 2020 International Ph.D. Symposium: Divergence in Architectural Research, and to the School of Architecture of Georgia Institute of Technology.
From the initial call for papers, we received 104 abstracts from 56 schools in 19 countries. The initial peer review of abstracts was conducted by 40 members of our scientific committee, who hold academic or research positions, and are experts in their field. From this initial review, 62 abstracts were accepted to advance to the second stage. The review of papers was conducted by 45 members of our scientific committee, again distributed according to areas of research expertise. From this final review, 47 papers were accepted, from 33 schools in 14 countries. Our initial goal to spark a convergence of voices has borne fruit, and we are really thrilled to announce that 42% of our participants hail from schools outside the United States. These papers reveal the spectrum of concentrations now active in architectural research, including history and theory, urbanism and environmental studies, culture and behavior, design process and machine learning, simulation, modeling and computation, and envelope design and building performance.
It has always been our expressed desire for all participants to be present on campus, to encourage the potential for informal collaboration and discussion. However, recent events in China have required as much support and generosity from us, as we have received from others. We therefore have three presenters, unable to travel to the United States from China, who will present their research, either by proxy or on video feed. The comments on their research will be relayed back, if not in real time, in the course of the conference. We hope by this to enable some semblance of contact and participation, under such exceptional and unfortunate circumstances.
As a Research I Institute, Georgia Tech offers researchers a divergent academic environment in which to discuss and advance emergent studies in architecture. The goal of the PhD Symposium is to provide a supportive atmosphere for PhD students at different stages in their research to present and receive feedback on their ongoing work. The symposium provides doctoral students a diverse academic ground from which to share their research with established scholars and other graduate students interested in similar research areas. The symposium also aims to enable PhD students to interact and network with other participants and potential collaborators, in order to stimulate an exchange of ideas, suggestions and experiences. Architecture, as a discipline, embodies various fields of knowledge. Architectural research derives from within its own discipline and diverges into an interdisciplinary domain. Divergence in architectural research implies that there is agency to expand the disciplinary boundary of architecture and produce new fields of knowledge emerging from within the architectural domain. It offers making new connections between different epistemological frameworks and transforms our knowledge of architecture into unanticipated forms. Divergent approaches to interdisciplinary research in architecture prepares scholars and researchers for shared contributions across a rich array of intellectual fields.
"Post"Colonial Narratives Design Methodologies and Historiography of Computation Building Skin and Its Performance Urbanism, Data Structures Architecture and Social Justice New Materials and Construction Techniques Materialization of Space Historiography of Representation and Design Technology, Media and Epistemelogies
March 5, Thursday at 6 pm KATHY VELIKOV, University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
FROM PROTOTYPES TO TERRITORIES: MULTI DOMAIN DESIGN RESEARCH March 6, Friday at 1:45 pm
STEPHEN PHILLIPS, California Polytechnic State University
A DIVERGENT MIND: ARCHITECTURE’S INTERDISCIPLINARITY
March 5, Thursday, 12.30-1.30 pm / Caddell Building WORKSHOP II: PUBLISHING RESEARCH PRACTICE By Stephen Phillips
March 6, Friday, 9.15-10.15 am / Caddell Building WORKSHOP IV: CONTESTED HISTORIES OF ECOLOGICAL DESIGN By Lydia Kallipoliti
March 6, Friday, 12.30-1.30 pm / Caddell Building WORKSHOP IV: RESEARCH AS PRACTICE: HYBRID EPISTEMOLOGIES By Kathy Velikov
March 5, Thursday, 12.30-1.30 pm / Caddell Building Urban Systems Design By Perry Yang
Retrofitting Suburbia Case Studies by Ellen Dunham-Jones
March 5, Thursday, 12.30-1.30 pm / Caddell Building Assembling the Architect: The History and Theory of Professional Practice by George Johnston Grace and Gravity: Architectures of Figure by Lars Spuybroek
March 5, Thursday Crow’s Nest, Architecture West Building
March 6, Friday at 6pm Caddell Building
