March 20-22, 2025 | NEW ORLEANS, LA

113th Annual Meeting

REPAIR

Schedule

June 12, 2024

Abstract Deadline

August 2024

Author Notification

October 9, 2024

Full Submission Deadline

December 2024

Presenter Notification

March 20-22, 2025

ACSA113 Annual

Conference Overview

The ACSA Annual Meeting convenes educators, practitioners, and students from around the world to share research and explore the past and future of architecture, design, and allied disciplines. The 113th Annual Meeting will provide multiple opportunities for scholarly exchange in New Orleans March 20-22, 2025. 

Theme

REPAIR

Architectural education is in an age of repair. How we meaningfully address the past and present harms of the practice, culture, and pedagogy of architecture will be crucial to setting urgently needed new directions. In the 2022 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education, entitled “Pedagogies for a Broken World,” editors Jay Cephas, Igor Marjanović & Ana Miljački wrote, “Indeed, seeing the world for what it is enables recasting our characterization of it from ‘broken’ to ‘unfinished,’ from narratives of progress to tactics of care.” As opposed to the consumptive practice of throwing away and building anew, repair is grounded in an ethical appreciation for the value inherent in what exists. Repair, as an approach, requires an understanding of the root causes of breakage and careful consideration of anticipated conditions and future use, to enable us to move forward.

Repair also often goes unrecognized. For this Annual Meeting, we hope to put these discussions front and center. Situated in the city of New Orleans, 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, this conference asks us to reflect on repair in practice, repair in teaching, and the ethics of repair in engagement, especially in schools of architecture. How does our discipline shift to address a “broken world” shaped by social inequities, polarization, misinformation, ecological degradation, climate change, and conditions of acute devastation due to wars and natural disasters? We invite architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, policy-makers, social workers, health practitioners, community leaders, advocates, and educators across our allied disciplines to join in a critical examination of our collective capacity for repair through care, healing, rebuilding, rewilding, and other yet unexplored actions in the built environment.

Conference Organization

The ACSA Annual Meeting supports the needs of architecture faculty and enhances architectural education and research. ACSA aims to create an inclusive, transparent, and impactful program that elevates, addresses, and disseminates knowledge on pressing concerns in society through the agency of architecture and allied disciplines.

The ACSA113 Annual Meeting Committee, has combined representation of ACSA members, the ACSA board and ACSA staff. The ACSA113 conference leadership is intended to increase transparency and inclusivity while keeping in mind effectiveness and maintaining rigor. The committee’s primary deliverable is the peer-reviewed content, along with themed sessions.

Steering Committee

Responsible for the non-peer reviewed content of the conference, including a theme that guides identification of plenary talks and invited panel sessions. The committee will also curate workshops, local engagement and other conference activities.

  • Cathi Ho Schar, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Sara Jensen Carr, Northeastern University
  • Rubén García Rubio, Tulane University
Reviews Committee

Responsible for overseeing the peer-review process, which includes matching reviewer’s expertise with that of the submission, as well as designating sessions and moderators. Sessions will be composed of both papers and projects, when possible, allowing for scholarly and applied research to mutually demonstrate impact and inform one another.

  • Cathi Ho Schar, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • José L.S. Gámez, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Suzanne Lettieri, Cornell University
  • Hala Barakat, Washington State University
  • Erin Moore , University of Oregon
  • Ming Hu, University of Notre Dame
  • Katie Macdonald, University of Virginia
  • Altaf Engineer, University of Arizona
Annual Meeting Topics

The Annual Meeting Committee will maintain topics year to year in order to address the diversity of our members scholarly, creative and pedagogic interests. This consistent and we hope inclusive list of topics will also ensure an annual venue for all members to submit to an ACSA conference.

Building Science & Technology

Design

Digital Technology

Ecology

Health

History, Theory, Criticism

Pedagogy

Practice

Society + Community

Urbanism

Keynotes

Closing Keynote

2025 TAU SIGMA DELTA GOLD MEDAL

Kate Orff

Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is the Founder of SCAPE. She focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life, which she has explored through publications, activism, research, and projects.

Widely recognized as a leading voice in landscape architecture, urban design, and climate adaptation in a global context, she is known for advancing complex, creative, and collaborative work that advances broad environmental and social prerogatives.

Among her many accolades, Kate became the first landscape architect to receive the MacArthur Foundation’s prestigious “genius” grant in 2017. In 2019, she was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows, accepted a National Design Award in Landscape Architecture from the Cooper Hewitt, and was named a “Hero of the Harbor” by the Waterfront Alliance. In 2020, she was named Urbanist of the Year by The Architect’s Newspaper. In 2023, she was named to the TIME 100, the magazine’s annual list of the most influential people in the world.

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Conference Partners

Michelle Sturges
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org

Eric W. Ellis
Sr. Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org