Conference Themes & Topics

Conference Themes & Topics

Conference Themes & Topics

We welcome your high-quality, research-based and practice-oriented contributions that align with the scope of the ASA and the conference theme, “Resilient Futures.”

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Architectural Science and Civil Engineering for a Changing Climate:

  • Architecture, design, and environmental performance
  • Resilient and sustainable infrastructure systems
  • Structural resilience, disaster mitigation, and adaptive building codes
  • Building and energy simulation, prediction, and evaluation for extreme weather
  • Geotechnical and hydraulic engineering for climate adaptation
  • Life cycle analysis, circular economy, and regenerative design principles across projects of all scales
  • Indoor environmental quality and occupant well-being in a warming world

The Intelligence-Augmented Design and Construction Frontier:

  • Generative AI for sustainable design exploration, optimisation, and structural integrity
  • AI-driven building performance simulation and smart infrastructure control systems
  • Machine learning in urban analytics, transport planning, and outdoor environmental modelling
  • Digital fabrication, robotics, and mass customisation in architecture and civil engineering
  • BIM/CIM, digital twins, and AI for construction management and asset lifecycle
  • The ethics, philosophy, and societal impact of AI in architectural and engineering practice
  • Extended Reality for the simulation of the Design, Construction and Operation Environments

Integrated Urban Systems and Social Equity:

  • Resilient cities, Smart City, infrastructure networks, and adaptation planning
  • Socially just transitions and community-led design and development
  • Outdoor environmental quality, public space, and urban health
  • Practice, policy, and industry engagement for sustainable development
  • Architectural and civil engineering theory in the context of global challenges
  • Circular Economy in the Built Environment
  • Intelligent Built and resilient Environment

Materials, Innovation, and Cross-Disciplinary Education:

  • Low-carbon and advanced construction materials (e.g., smart composites, bio-based materials)
  • Innovations in construction technologies and methods
  • Integrating resilience, AI, and SDGs into architectural and engineering andragogy
  • Novel methods in design education and transdisciplinary research
  • Community co-design and participatory action research
  • Exploring the new landscape of higher education in Architectural Science
  • Theory, philosophy and methodology in Architectural Science
  • Interconnectivity between research and industry

All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process, and selected papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Detailed formatting guidelines and submission templates will be available on the conference website.