July 8-11, 2026 | Brisbane, Australia

Protected: 2026 AASA/ACSA International Conference

Planetary Practice

Schedule

October 1, 2025

Submission Deadline

January 2026

Submission Notification

July 8-11, 2026

International Conference

Planetary Practice

Architectures of a Shared Global Future

Planetary Practice, the 2026 AASA/ACSA International Conference, invites scholarly presentations that examine how architectural design can respond to the complex and evolving conditions of our planetary context. The conference seeks work that investigates large-scale challenges through innovative design approaches, research methodologies, digital tools, and alternative epistemologies. We welcome contributions that engage with emerging practices and pedagogies, and that explore architecture’s capacity to generate new forms of knowledge, spatial thinking, and planetary awareness.

Submission acceptance will be subject to a double-blind peer review process, based on an initial abstract review and later a second double-blind peer review of full-length papers. Inclusion in the publication will be subject to review acceptance, compliance with submission deadlines and formatting guidelines, and payment of the conference registration fee. Please kindly note that multiple submissions are subject to multiple registrations.

Conference Themes

At Planetary Practice, we will explore four thematic tracks that foreground architectural design as a critical mode of inquiry into planetary-scale questions. These themes offer distinct entry points while remaining connected through a shared interest in how architecture can respond to complex, interconnected challenges through emerging tools, methods, and ways of knowing.

Planetary Pedagogies

How can architectural education equip designers to work with the spatial, ethical, and epistemological complexities of planetary scale? This theme explores emerging pedagogies, speculative curricula, and transformative learning environments that position design as both a method and a mode of inquiry. We invite reflections on how education can foster critical thinking, collaborative practices, and diverse ways of knowing—preparing future practitioners to navigate uncertainty with creativity, care, and curiosity.

Tools for Planetary Design

Technology is reshaping the ways we conceive, represent, and construct architecture. This theme investigates how digital tools, computational methods, and material innovations can extend the agency of architectural design in addressing planetary conditions. We welcome contributions that examine not only how technologies are used, but how they shape design thinking, ethics, and aesthetics. Submissions might explore experimental workflows, interdisciplinary collaborations, or alternative frameworks for engaging with data, performance, and simulation in design.

Planetary Cultures

Design is a cultural act—deeply embedded in stories, symbols, and systems of meaning. This theme invites investigations into how architecture engages with multiple worldviews, alternative epistemologies, and contested histories to imagine futures beyond dominant paradigms. We are particularly interested in practices that foreground situated knowledge, collective memory, and speculative storytelling as tools for planetary thinking. How can cultural narratives reframe the spatial, social, and political dimensions of architectural design?

Situated Practices at Scale

Even as architecture grapples with global entanglements, it is always enacted in place. This theme explores how site-specific conditions—ecological, social, political, and material—can inform and enrich planetary design practice. We invite research that engages with the friction between locality and scale, asking how architecture can remain grounded while addressing systemic challenges. Submissions might include design strategies that respond to environmental shifts, critical mapping of place-based knowledge, or new approaches to site and context.

Call for Abstracts

Presentation | Publication

Selection of scholarly presentations will be based on double-blind peer review of abstracts (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 500-words and include no more than 5 optional images.
Abstracts must be prepared for anonymous review (remove author/contributor names and affiliation identification).
Authors may present no more than one paper or poster 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 will be accepted in English.

Call for Projects

Art, Architecture, Posters, Other…

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 10 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 one paper or poster 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 will be accepted in English.

Submissions, Presentation & Publication

Abstracts & Projects

Submission Process

Follow the steps below to complete your submission. The ACSA online interface will guide you through the remaining steps.

Log in using your ACSA username and password. Click here if you forgot your password.
Click the Enter Now button.
Select 2026 International Conference from the dropdown menu and click the “Create New Submission” button.
Click “Add Myself as Author” and then add other authors, if applicable. To do this you will search for the authors First and Last Names and then select the author and click “Add Author and Continue”. To Add an author that is not already in the system, Click “Add New Author” and fill out the required fields and then click “Add Author”.
The next page is the Submission page, fill in the text boxes for title, abstract and citations. These are simple copy/paste text boxes. Click “Continue”.
On the submission detail page, Select primary and secondary themes including: Planetary Pedagogies, Tools for Planetary Design, Planetary Cultures, and Situated Practices at Scale, see above.
Select your presentation and final submission type: Abstract/Paper or Project.
Check-off the Blinded Submission question, “Confirm that your submission is prepared in a way that does not expose any identifying information. Identifying information most commonly refers to authors’ names and institutions, as well as any photos of the authors.” and click save & continue.
To add graphics, attach them by clicking Browse and then click upload. Graphics need to be JPEG & JPG file types.
On the Proofread page you have the opportunity to review your work before finalizing your submission.
Click Submit. You have completed your submission and should receive a confirmation email for verification.
Following the double-blind review process, the committee makes final acceptance decisions. All authors will be notified of the status of their submission and will receive comments from their reviewers. Accepted submissions will be invited to expand on their research and submit a full paper or project for a second peer-review.

How to Submit

Educators, Practitioners, Researchers, Artist, Designers and Students are all encouraged to submit. The deadline for submitting to the International Conference is June 25, 2025. If you are already an ACSA member, please log into the website to submit your abstract. If you are not an ACSA member or do not have an ACSA login, please create one online HERE. You may also request access by contacting ACSA directly at info@acsa-arch.org.

Presentation

Following the blind peer-review process, the conference steering committee make final acceptance decisions. The conference will be held in-person in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 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 reserves the right to withhold a presentation from the program if the author fails to comply with guidelines, including deadlines and requests for submission of materials.

Authors accepted must pay full conference registration in order to present in-person at the conference and be eligible for publication.

Publication

Accepted authors, that present at the conference, will be invited to develop their research into a full paper or poster for publication. Authors will be required to complete a copyright transfer form and agree, prior to publishing.

Full Papers are to be 2500-4000 words with optional 1-5 images.
Projects may be up to 1000 words with 5-10 images.
Final full submissions, will be due one-month after the conference.
These full submissions will go through a second double-blind peer-review prior to publication in the conference proceedings.