2026 AASA/ACSA International Conference

Planetary Practice is an international conference that invites architectural researchers, educators, and practitioners to explore how design might respond to the expansive and interconnected questions of our time.

Architecture and urbanism are increasingly called upon to engage with planetary challenges—those that exceed disciplinary boundaries and resist easy solutions. These challenges are cultural, material, environmental, technological, and political; they unfold unevenly across places and communities, and they demand new ways of thinking, imagining, and practicing.

Rather than retreating into crisis or urgency, Planetary Practice encourages approaches that are reflective, generative, and speculative. How might architectural design open up new pathways of inquiry? What forms of practice are needed to engage meaningfully with complex, large-scale conditions? What roles might pedagogy, research, design and built work play in shaping futures at multiple scales?

This conference seeks contributions that examine how architecture can operate as a planetary practice—through design, through research, through teaching,  and through the cultivation of new forms of knowledge and collaboration. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional categories, that connect across disciplines and cultures, and that propose new imaginaries for practice in a time of planetary entanglement.

Join us in Magandjin–Meanjin as we gather to share, question, and reimagine the role of design in relation to the shared conditions of our world.