SCUPAD

Call for papers for 42^nd Annual SCUPAD Congress 2010 (May 6-9):
Bringing Production Back to the City

Abstract submission: 01.02.2010
Notification – Acceptance: 22.02.2010
Full-paper submission: 26.04.2010

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SCUPAD Congress 2010 will focus on the impacts of production on economic, social, environmental, land use and urban design issues. The Congress will open with a keynote address framing the issues followed by case study presentations, papers and workshop discussions to explore these issues in detail. The conference will be structured in three sub-themes, which fall under the remit of the general topic of the event:

• Workshop A: Urban Manufactoring (Moderator: Andreas Dillinger, mecca-consulting engineers, a.dillinger@mecca-consulting.at)
• Workshop B: Green Industries (Moderator: Stephen Goldsmith, Center for the Living City, stgoldsmith@gmail.com)
• Workshop C: Urban Farming (Moderator: Han Joosten, Bouwfonds Property Development, han.kapaus@hccnet.nl)

Academics, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit an abstract addressing one particular workshop of the event. The papers for the 42nd SCUPAD Congress will be selected with regard to three criteria, namely:

• their contribution to the aims and topic of the conference,
• their capacity to address the questions raised, and
• their originality of research, results and conclusions.

Submission guidelines:
Please submit your abstract of their proposed paper via email to hirschler@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
by Monday, February 1st 2010.

Be aware, that the abstracts submitted after this date will not be considered.

The abstract should be no more then 500 words long, and include the following:

• Indication of the workshop to which the paper is submitted.
• Paper’s Title
• Writer’s name, affiliation and contact details (preferable email)
• Outline the problem or the strategy discussed, and its relevance to the workshop theme.
• If relevant references (no more then three should be included).

The successful contributors will be informed by Monday, February 22nd 2010 and will be asked to provide a full version of their paper (around 5.000 words) by Monday, April 26th 2010.

The papers accepted for presentation will be published on compact disk and on the SCUPAD website following the Congress. Upon acceptance of submitted proposals, authors will receive instructions on the format suggested for the papers and the presentations.

Registration
One presenter per paper will get free congress participation (accommodation and travel costs at one's own expense). Information on registration costs (including a registration form) will be published herein early 2010.

Contact
Petra Hirschler, Vienna University of Technology
hirschler@email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
phone +43-1-58801-26036