Call for Submissions
The 2027 Teachers Conference focuses on reframing the role of analog teaching in a digital society. With this call, the joint conference of the North American and European associations for architectural education solicits scholarly research presentations for the conference and proceedings. The conference addresses practitioners, academics, and citizens in general with an interest in exploring the present and future societal role of architectural education and invites participants to submit papers or posters.
The conference invites practitioners, academics, and designers to submit papers or posters in the following tracks:
Towards Advanced Learning Outcomes in Integrated Design Pedagogies in Architecture
This track explores how integrated analog–digital pedagogies can move beyond alignment toward achieving advanced and measurable learning outcomes. It invites contributions that demonstrate effective methods and strategies for translating pedagogical concepts into coherent and impactful curricula. How can hybrid approaches accelerate learning, deepen spatial understanding, and strengthen creative and technical competencies? We welcome reflections on curriculum innovation, assessment models, and practice-based teaching that enhance student performance across diverse architectural education contexts.
Spatial, Sensory, and Material Understanding in Digitally Driven
This track invites critical reflection on how digitally driven design environments reshape spatial, sensory, and material understanding in architectural education. While BIM, parametric design, and AI are firmly embedded in professional practice, their growing dominance in academic design studios raises important questions for learning. What risks emerge when analog tools and hands-on processes are reduced or replaced? The session encourages discussion on how study processes can actively foster critical thinking and how the distinct roles of analog and digital approaches can be meaningfully balanced within design pedagogy.
Boundaries and Limitations of Analog and Digital Tools in Architecture Education
This track examines the evolving boundaries between analog and digital tools in architectural education within a digitally saturated society. AI and data-driven methods enable powerful capacities for analysis, simulation, and design exploration, yet their reliance on existing datasets may also carry limitations related to bias, and contextual reduction, not to mention concerns about environmental impacts from use of the technologies. Alternatively, analog approaches offer direct, embodied engagement with material and space, though they may limit speed, scalability, and computational complexity. The session invites reflection on how the strengths and constraints of both approaches shape learning experiences, experimentation, design thinking, and future prospects in architectural education.
Emerging Technologies in Architectural Education
This track focuses on the role of emerging technologies in shaping architectural education, including artificial intelligence, robotics, digital fabrication, parametric systems, and immersive environments, alongside new developments in analog tools and material technologies. It invites discussion on how these technologies are entering and transforming teaching environments, studio practices, and design methodologies. Particular attention is given to how technological innovation influences the ways architectural knowledge is produced, tested, and communicated in educational settings, and how it is redefining the relationship between design thinking, making, and experimentation in architecture schools.
Submissions Requirements
Submission Deadline: October 14, 2026
Call for Papers
Selection of scholarly presentations will be based on double-blind peer review of extended abstracts (1,500 word limit) accompanied by optional images. Authors of accepted abstracts who present their work at the conference are then invited to submit a full paper for a second peer review for inclusion in a conference proceedings. It is expected that feedback from the abstract review and conference presentation will inform the final paper.
- Abstracts must not exceed 1,500-words and include no more than five optional images.
- Abstracts must be prepared for anonymous review (remove author/contributor names and affiliation identification).
- Authors may present no more than two papers or posters at the conference. No individual may be listed as co-author on more than two submissions.
- Submissions must report on recently completed work and cannot have been previously published or presented in public, except to a regional audience.
- Submissions must be written in English
Call for Posters
Selection of posters will be based on a blind peer-review of an abstracts (250-word limit) accompanied by up to ten images. Authors of accepted posters who present their work at the conference are then invited to submit a final poster for publication. The final poster will be an A1, portrait file that will be included in the conference proceedings. It is expected that feedback from the initial review will inform the final poster.
- Poster authors should prepare a 250-word abstract along with up to ten images.
- Selection of posters will be based on a single-stage double-blind peer review process. Accepted authors will upload finalized PDFs prior to the conference.
- Posters must be prepared for anonymous review (remove author/contributor names and affiliation identification).
- Authors may present no more than two papers or posters at the conference. No individual may be listed as co-author on more than two submissions.
- Submissions must report on recently completed work and cannot have been previously published or presented in public, except to a regional audience.
- Submissions must be written in English
How to Submit
Educators, Practitioners, Researchers and Students are all encouraged to submit. The deadline for submitting to the Teachers Conference is October 14, 2026. If you are already an ÌÇÐÄvlog member, please log into the website to submit your abstract. If you are not an ÌÇÐÄvlog member or do not have an ÌÇÐÄvlog login, please create one online HERE. You may also request access by contacting ÌÇÐÄvlog directly at info@acsa-arch.org.
PAPER & POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Following the blind peer-review process, the conference scientific committee make final acceptance decisions. All authors will be notified of the status of their submission and will receive comments from their reviewers. Final acceptance of abstracts translates to presentation at the conference. Sessions will be composed of accepted authors, allowing for both scholarly and applied research to mutually demonstrate impact. Each session will have a moderator, who will coordinate with authors regarding session guidelines as well as the general expectations for the session in advance. Accepted authors will have approximately 10-minutes to present in a session at the conference. Conference organizers reserve the right to withhold a paper from the program if the author fails to comply with guidelines, including deadlines and requests for submission of materials.
Accepted abstracts will be invited to expand on their research and submit a full paper or poster, post-conference, to be included in the conference proceedings. Full Papers are to be 2,500-4,000 words with optional 1-5 images. Full Posters may be up to 1,000 words with 5-10 images. Authors accepted to present at the conference will be required to complete a copyright transfer form and agree to present the research at the conference before it is published. It is ÌÇÐÄvlog policy that accepted authors must pay full conference registration in order to be included in the conference presentation and proceedings. Once the conference proceedings is published, each submission will be included in the ÌÇÐÄvlog Proceedings Index.
Questions
Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Senior Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org