Green Urbanism (GU) – 8th ...
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07 Oct 2024 / 09 Oct 2024 read more
Dean of School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, UK.
Claudio Gambardella
Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DADI) of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Luigi Vanvitelli” (SUN)..
Abdelaziz Elfadaly
Nessma Farouk
Conference Coordinator
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For centuries, it was believed that spiritual teachings and moral guidance influenced people's lives and behaviors. Ancestors of Every culture celebrated a deity or a place of worship and allowed them to shape their lives and civilization. They even left traces of this impact on us and future generations. However, have sacred buildings, like temples, mosques, churches, synagogues, or even caves solved the World's strives and wars of ideas or escalated the conflicts?
Studying utopian arts, architecture, and civilizations has established the belief that sacred architectural sites harmonized ancient warring parties. This idea was promoted by modern researchers, who believed that peace can be achieved through the study and celebration of sacred architecture.
With this in mind, and after the success of its 1st edition, IEREK is organizing the 2nd edition of the international conference on "Utopian and Sacred Architecture Studies (USAS)." The conference aims to discuss the history of Utopia, political and social sciences, art, and literature of various civilizations that happened over the past centuries. It also exhibits visual cultures, presented in gothic and monastic architecture, and displays works of historic architects.
Moreover, the conference will address the misconceptions and misunderstandings of ancient utopian cultures and their relation to modern religious ideas and futuristic Utopia. IEREK aims to provide scope for researchers interested in studying utopian cultures to reflect on history, religion and development, and architecture of ancient cities and to find links between the past, the present, and the future.
The conference's interest in studying ancient utopian and sacred architectures and cultures proves that modern man can develop his cities when inspired by his ancestors. It tries to explain whether studying the past will help solve the present's problems and inspire fresh ideas to develop the future.
Following the success of the previous edition of "Utopian and Sacred Architecture Studies," the 2nd edition of the conference will be an opportunity to benefit from and exchange knowledge with experts in this field.
So, how can participating in the USAS International Conference boost your career, future potential, and experience?
Selected papers of the conference will be published in a book series entitled Advances in Science, Technology, & Innovation (ASTI) by Springer. Other papers will be published in the ARChive journal by IEREK Press.
1-1 Spiritual and monastic architecture.
1-2 The influence of religions and utopian life on ancient cities planning
1-3 The inspirations of spiritual architecture in contemporary life
1-4 The evolution and preservation of sacred architecture between ancient and modern
2-1 Principles of utopian life
2-2 Vocabularies of utopian architecture and its effect on urban design
2-3 The reflection of utopian and sacred architecture on people’s religiosity
2-4 Applying utopia to the city planning on reality.
3-1 The planning of sustainable utopian cities
3-2 The development of slums around religious and historical areas
3-3 Conservation of utopian concepts: communities, spaces, buildings, art, and life
3-4 Human role in the social aspect of utopian and sacred architecture
4-1 The functions of utopian architecture in the built environment
4-2 Icons and meanings of utopia in interior design, furniture and murals
4-3 Utopian architectural and visual cultures
4-4 Gothic architecture and literature
4-5 Preservation, conservation, and the restoration of utopian art and architecture
5-1 Religious concept enquiry in utopian art and sacred architecture
5-2 The sacred foundations of architecture
5-3 The analysis of cultural and sacred utopian life and space in euro-mediterranean area
5-4 The context of post-Constantinian theology, liturgy, and sacred architecture and art
All accepted submissions to the conference, after a rigorous double-blinded peer-review process by the respective and a highly-extinguished Editorial Board, will be published in one of the following:
About ASTI
Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation (ASTI) is a series of peer-reviewed books based on important emerging research that redefines the current disciplinary boundaries in science, technology and innovation (STI) in order to develop integrated concepts for sustainable development. It not only discusses the progress made towards securing more resources, allocating smarter solutions, and rebalancing the relationship between nature and people, but also provides in-depth insights from comprehensive research that addresses the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) as set out by the UN for 2030.
The series draws on the best research papers from various IEREK and other international conferences to promote the creation and development of viable solutions for a sustainable future and a positive societal transformation with the help of integrated and innovative science-based approaches. Including interdisciplinary contributions, it presents innovative approaches and highlights how they can best support both economic and sustainable development, through better use of data, more effective institutions, and global, local and individual action, for the welfare of all societies. The series particularly features conceptual and empirical contributions from various interrelated fields of science, technology and innovation, with an emphasis on digital transformation, that focus on providing practical solutions to ensure food, water and energy security to achieve the SDGs. It also presents new case studies offering concrete examples of how to resolve sustainable urbanization and environmental issues in different regions of the world. Read More.
The ASTI series is fully indexed in Scopus and any chapter/ paper published as part of this series will be seen on the Scopus database. Some titles have been successfully indexed or submitted for indexation in Web of Science (ISI).
ESSD is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal that aims to systematically develop the research-driven curiosity and evidence-based discourse of aspiring scholars that seek to contribute to the academic community. As the world is currently living in an age of information where sources are widely available on the Internet, we at ESSD seek to efficiently utilize the available information to help create robust and evidence-based knowledge. In the process, we offer researchers, in general, and young and aspiring ones in particular a quicker way to get their work published and gain exposure through online open access. We pride ourselves on getting submitted work to be published quickly, through the use of our worldwide pool of subject specialist peer reviewers. Find out more about ESSD International Journal here.
ARChive is an open-access journal that publishes conference proceedings on a wide range of topics relating to social sciences. Consequently, it accepts original research papers on a wide spectrum of subjects. ARChive is a journal published on behalf of researchers that perpetually make an effort to contribute to their fields and provide them with high visibility of research submitted. The series publishes, both, theoretical and experimental high-quality papers of current and perpetual interest. It serves to cultivate, propagate, and essentially archive academic research that has been authored and submitted for academic conferences.
Find out more about ARChive International Journal here.
Resourceedings is an open access journal that publishes conference proceedings. Conference proceedings compromise of different disciplines, ranging from Engineering including built environments, architecture, and sustainability. Disciplines also include Technology and Energy. Resourceedings is a journal that publishes research articles that shed light on different crucial issues in order to provide them with solutions and suggestions. The journal publishes articles submitted by researchers of interest in different fields.
Find out more about Resourceedings International Journal here.
“BAHETH” in Architecture, Engineering, and Technology, is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes original academic research in the fields of Architecture, Engineering, and Technology. The journal welcomes research in the Arabic Language with an English Abstract. Papers submitted to this journal in Arabic must be presented in the English Language in the conference.
Find out more about BAHETH International Journal here.
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Registration
To help the organizers plan for inter-disciplinary dialogue, participants are requested to choose from the conference themes/topics upon registration.
They must also refer to, and abide by, the following instructions in registering and submitting their abstracts/ papers:
Types of Participation
Organized from the comfort of your own home, the conference offers a virtual attendance option for your convenience. That said, participants will have a chance to present their abstract/research, online, and have their work considered for publication in the proceedings.
Virtual presenters are required to submit an abstract and full paper following the "Author's instructions" below and before the deadline (see Important Dates) and confirm the participation for inclusion in the program upon payment of the registration fee (see Conference Fees).
Authors who cannot, for any reason, attend/ present their own work are welcome to nominate and share the contacts of a substitute to present on their behalf.
The conference offers in-person attendance (see conference Venue), during which participants will have a chance to present their work live as well as network with other attending participants. They will also have their work considered for publication following their selection and payment (see Conference Fees). Attending Participants should refer to the Visa Application tab for guidance.
Your contribution/ submission can be considered for publication with IEREK Press or in the Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation Book Series by Springer (indexed in Scopus) even if you are not attending the conference. In this case, the accepted work will not be included in the final conference program and the fee will cover the cost of editorial handling and peer-review evaluation of your paper (See Author's instructions, Publishing opportunities & Conference Fees)
Non-presenting participants may also wish to attend the conference as Audience Members or Co-authors contributing to an already submitted abstract/ paper. To confirm your attendance, please register and proceed to payment (see Conference Fees).
Important Note:
IEREK has an unyielding policy regarding plagiarism. We believe that copying/taking the ideas and work of other Authors without permission and credit is fraudulent. The Reviewing committee and IEREK employees have the authority to reject a paper during its reviewing process, on the basis of the paper being subjected to either minor or major plagiarism.
Authors must refer to, and abide by, the following instructions in submitting their abstracts/ papers:
Step 1: Abstract Submission Process
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All Chapters will be screened for similarity using iThenticate; a Turnitin Plagiarism detection software, used for academic publishers. Springer Similarity guidelines are as follows:
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Once Preliminary approval for presentation at the conference and/or consideration for publication is granted, authors will be expected to complete payment in reference to the Conference Fees before the peer review process can begin.
Note:
In preliminary evaluation, the research paper will be inspected against its readability, originality, structure, and relevance to the conference theme/ topics. If the paper gets acceptance by one reviewer, a preliminary acceptance notification will be sent to the author in addition to a proforma invoice requesting payment. As soon as payment is confirmed and done successfully, corresponding official documents can be issued from our end such as:
Only after payment is confirmed,
- and the full paper submission deadline reached, a submitted full-length paper is assigned to an Editor from the Editorial Board, in alignment with IEREK’s and the respective publisher’s revision SOP (double-blind process).
- Each paper is evaluated by a minimum of two reviewers, after which a final decision by the responsible Editor is made. There is no maximum to the number of times a paper can be reviewed, depending on the quality of the submission.
- Once a decision is made by the Editors, IEREK Editors will communicate one of the following three final decisions:
- If modifications are in order, authors will be sent the relevant instructions and a deadline will be set. Missed deadlines may result in complete exclusion/ rejection from the final publication.
- A back and forth process: modifications will be sent back to the responsible Editor/ Series Editor and another round of evaluation conducted where needed. Authors should regularly check their emails (Junk/ Spam folders).
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Author Participation (Consideration in the ASTI Book by Springer) | ||||
Regular Payment | 200 € | 250 € | 250 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Late Payment | 300 € | 350 € | 350 € | 17 Sep 2022 |
Author Participation (Consideration in the IEREK Press Journal) | ||||
Regular Payment | 100 € | 150 € | 150 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Late Payment | 200 € | 250 € | 250 € | 17 Sep 2022 |
Co-author/ Audience | ||||
Regular Payment | 50 € | 50 € | 50 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Presentation Only | ||
Physical | 200 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Online | 100 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Publish Only | ||
Author (ASTI) | 250 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Author (IEREK Press) | 150 € | 31 Aug 2022 |
Additional Conference Kit (Excluding Delivery) *Contact us for a quotation on shipping fees. | 100 € |
If applicable: Paper Extension fees for publishing ASTI (Springer) upon selection | 200 € |
Loyalty Membership Discounts
The more you attend, the more you're rewarded!
IEREK offers its loyal participants with the following discounts depending on his/her attendance:
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Abstract Submissions Deadline | 30 Jun 2022 |
Last Notification for Abstract Acceptance | 17 Jul 2022 |
Full Paper Submission Deadline | 31 Aug 2022 |
Last Notification for Full-Paper Acceptance | 10 Sep 2022 |
Early Payment Deadline | 15 Aug 2022 |
Regular Payment Deadline | 31 Aug 2022 |
Late Payment Deadline | 17 Sep 2022 |
Letter of Visa (for delegates who need visa entry) | 31 Aug 2022 |
Letter of Final Acceptance | 31 Aug 2022 |
Conference Program | 17 Sep 2022 |
Conference Launch | 17 Oct 2022 |
Mona Helmy is an architect, urbanist, and educator. She received a Doctoral degree in Architecture and City Planning from Stuttgart University, Germany. She holds a master’s degree in Urban Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Between 2010 and 2018, Dr. Helmy was the founding chair of the architecture department at Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, KSA. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Stuttgart. Throughout the course of her academic career, she was a visiting professor in the University of Colorado, Denver, USA Dr. Helmy publishes widely in international and national conferences. She is a member of several scientific committees in international conferences, symposia, and refereed journals. As a consultant and advisor in urban design, city branding, and contemporary Arab Gulf urbanism, she has participated in a number of significant planning, urban, and architecture projects in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East. She also contributed to several design studies.
Dr Bougdah is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and Cities at the University of Westminster, London, UK. Both his research teaching interests are focused on the technological, ecological and human aspects of architectural design. His approach to “Technology” is to use it as a design generator/enabler rather than an “add-on” technical resolution to a design proposal. His research interests cover topics such as sustainable design, innovative low tech/low energy/low impact buildings, spatial experience of users and issues of culture, urbanisation and globalisation. Alongside his academic role, he runs a design/consultancy practice. He is a member of a number of learned societies/professional bodies including the Royal Society for the Arts (RSA), the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture (ACADIA), World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies, (WSSET) the Institute of Acoustics (IOA) and the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Mona Helmy is an architect, urbanist, and educator. She received a Doctoral degree in Architecture and City Planning from Stuttgart University, Germany. She holds a master’s degree in Urban Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Between 2010 and 2018, Dr. Helmy was the founding chair of the architecture department at Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, KSA. She also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Stuttgart. Throughout the course of her academic career, she was a visiting professor in the University of Colorado, Denver, USA Dr. Helmy publishes widely in international and national conferences. She is a member of several scientific committees in international conferences, symposia, and refereed journals. As a consultant and advisor in urban design, city branding, and contemporary Arab Gulf urbanism, she has participated in a number of significant planning, urban, and architecture projects in Germany, Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East. She also contributed to several design studies.
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Reason and proof of rejection must be submitted. If the reason for rejection is due to an error on our part, the participant will be refunded their full fee with a deduction of a 20% administration fee.
Documents to be issued by IEREK to acquire a visa are as follows:
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We encourage all authors and attendees to ensure their having acquired all documents (those applicable) mentioned.
If the reason for rejection is not related to any of the aforementioned and is an error on the participant’s part, the following will apply:
*Authors: may choose to let their co-author present his/her research on his/her behalf free of charge. If the author does not have a co-author, a member of the scientific committee shall present on the author’s behalf.
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Delegates in any event who cancel their registration due to special circumstances will receive refunds according to the following:
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- A submitted manuscript is rejected by the editorial board after going through peer review.
The first version of the International Conference on Utopian & Sacred Architecture Studies (USAS) was held from 11 -13 June 2019 in association with Universita degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli. The conference included many discussions that covered extremely important topics and presented theories and practices stimulated over the last five centuries in a wide range of scientific areas such as historiography, political science as well as literary and art studies. It was a very successful conference.
The Conference was held in one of the most spiritual cities –the city of Aversa –, one that contains a real-life model of sacred architecture and spiritual buildings.
The conference was held under the patronage of Prof. Claudio Gambardella (Chairman - Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Univ. degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Prof. Ferdinando Trapani - National Coordinator of the agreement "IEREK" - Inter - University Network- Department of Architecture, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Prof. Rosanna Cioffi - Pro- Rector to Culture - Universita degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Prof. Luigi Maffei Director of Dadi - Department of Architecture and Industrial Design.
Similarly, reputable figures took part such as Prof. Galal Abada, IEREK’s representative, Prof. Paolo Giordano Ph.D. Coordinator of the DADI - Department of Architecture and Industrial Design in the Universita degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Luca Molinari editorial director of Platform Magazine - Department of Architecture and Industrial Design.
The conference received 73 paper submissions that were discussed over 12 sessions.
First day: Opening Ceremony and Keynote Speeches:
The opening ceremony started with greetings and short-introductions by:
Prof. Mona Helmi - Chair of the Architecture Department, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah, KSA
Prof. Niccolo Casidu - Director of DAD - Department of Architecture and Design, Universita degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
Prof. Salvatore Frigerio - Head of Collegium Scriptorium Fontis Avellanae
Prof. Alfred Jacoby - Faculty of Architecture, Facility Management & Geo-information at Anhalt University
Imam Muhiddin Gabriele Bottiglioni - Council member of the COREIS religious guides
The opening ceremony witnessed highly important speeches addressing the controversy surrounding Utopia and its successors from its origin to the present and explored the impact on and by utopian, religious, and cultural ideals.
After the lunch break, the Authors began presenting their researches while the session chairperson and moderators listened, discussed, and evaluated.
Second Day: Continuation of the Parallel Sessions & Start of the Workshop
Over the second day, remaining researchers continued presenting their work, networking and debating topics and trends in the field. Sessions throughout the conference were moderated by reputable names from the University such as professors:
Paolo Girodano
Alessandra Cirafici
Adriana Galderisi
Luca Molinari
Ornella Zerlenga
Mara Capone
Antonella Violano
Carla Langella
Sergio Sibilio
Antonio Rosato
Patrizia Ranzo
Gioconda Cafiero
Olimpia Niglio
Luigi Guerriero
Elena Manzo
Chiara Ingrosso
Gianfranco De Matteis
Marina D’Aprile
Corrado di Domenico
Susana Alves
Anna Gianneti
Fabio Mangone
Fabiana Forte
Francesca Muzzillo
After concluding the final sessions of the second day, a closing ceremony was held to discuss final remarks presented by the session moderators and speakers which stimulated group discussions and open debates. Key to identifying the next steps and recommendations that would assist in a buildup on the existing research and outcomes of the conference, the closing session proved helpful and fruitful.
To conclude the day and provide our researchers and academics with an opportunity to socialize and establish new connections and collaborations, participants were invited to attend a Gala Dinner.
Third Day: Workshop & Site Visit
The day started early with a tour visit to Reggia di Caserta, the royal palace and the park. After a lunch break, another tour visit to Belvedere of San Leucio and Museo della Seta Del Real Belvedere took place. Finally, group photos of all conference participants were taken as shown and the conference days concluded.
For IEREK's Previous Publications, Please Click here
- Utopian and Sacred Architecture Studies (USAS) – 1st Edition held in Aversa Italy in June 2019.
Dean of School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering, University of East London, UK.
Claudio Gambardella
Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DADI) of the Università degli Studi di Napoli “Luigi Vanvitelli” (SUN)..
Abdelaziz Elfadaly
Nessma Farouk
Conference Coordinator
[email protected]
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