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CALL FOR PROPOSALS

(abstracts due October 15^th)

Tufts University

On April 28, 2023, Tufts University and the Human Architecture + Planning Institute, Inc (theHapi.org) will host the 2nd International Conference on Urban Experience + Design: Ux+Design/2023. 

Researchers, scholars, architects, planners, designers and students, are all invited to submit proposals for presentations. The conference, to take place at Tufts University, builds on the success of the 1st International Conference on Urban Experience and Design in 2019. https://sites.tufts.edu/urbanexperience/. 

Speakers will explore the implications of ‘embodied cognition’, cognitive architecture, biology, and evolution, as well as new research methods and techniques for using biometrics in urban planning, architecture, and landscape architecture. The first Ux+Design/2019 conference attracted speakers from across the globe and papers were published in the 2021 book: Urban Experience and Design: Contemporary Perspectives on Improving the Public Realm (https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Experience-and-Design-Contemporary-Perspectives-on-Improving-the/Hollander-Sussman/p/book/9780367435554).  

We welcome proposal submissions (abstracts between 200-350 words) that succinctly explain the specific problem you are exploring, the questions you are asking in your research, methods, data, results, and implications for urban experience and design theory and practice.  Include your name, email address, and present affiliation.  Abstracts are due October 15, 2022.  Notifications will be made on November 1, 2022 and 15-20 page papers will be due by March 15, 2023.   Email abstracts to: Prof. Justin Hollander , justin.hollander(at)tufts.edu.

Conference hosts: 

Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, http://as.tufts.edu/uep

Human Architecture + Planning Institute, http://theHAPI.org