Architectural Competitions
Second Call for Papers
International Conference

Center for Management Studies of the Building Process,
Copenhagen Business School
Copenhagen, Denmark
May 5-7, 2010

Submission Deadline 5 January 2010

For registration and submission of abstract, please visit the home page:
www.clibyg.org/en/for_researchers_and_students/
conference_2010_constructions_matter/

Conference
The Conference on Architectural Competitions is a conference within the
conference called Constructions Matter: Managing Complexities, Decisions
and Actions in the Building Process. The general conference is organized
by the Center for Management Studies of the Building Process, Copenhagen
Business School. The Architectural Competitions Conference is organized
by the University of Fribourg, in co-operation with the conveners of the
general conference in Copenhagen. The Architectural Competitions
Conference will have its own themes, special keynote lecture or
lectures, workshops for paper presentations, a plenary session and a
get-together devoted to the establishment of a research network.
The Architectural Competition Conference addresses a broad audience of
all those with an interest in competitions both as a field of research
and as a professional practice. Senior researchers and Ph.D students in
architecture, urban design, history, geography and management as well as
students, teachers, practitioners of architecture, planning, competition
management, representatives of national and international associations
of architects and of entities responsible for the oversight of public
competitions are welcome to participate in the conference.

Themes
Architectural competitions have recently emerged as a significant field
of empirical research. For this conference, we invite papers on the
following themes:

· Two-stage (especially prequalification) versus one-stage
competitions: relating procedures and outcomes

· "The perfect brief": How much and what kind of scope does it provide?
How does it achieve that?

· Concepts and theoretical approaches in interdisciplinary 'competitions
research'

· Tracing the political in planning competitions

· Expertise and judgment: Performing quality in design competitions

· Historical trajectories: places, cultures and ruptures in legislation
(e.g. impacts of WTO regulations/EU regulation from 1994)

· Knowledge creation and design competitions: from individual answers,
experiences and specific solutions to general, collective and
theoretical reflections.

Organization
The conference will consist of a series of paper presentation workshops
as well as the plenary session and a networking session devoted to the
establishment of a scholarly research and planning for future
conferences.

Abstracts submitted will be peer reviewed by an interdisciplinary
committee made up of architects, historians, and geographers. Each of
the papers accepted will be assigned a co-referent (respondent). The
conference presentation will consist of a concise summary of the
submitted paper which will have previously been made available to
conference participants via downloading, a comment by the co-referent
(respondent) and of questions from the audience. A total of 30-40
minutes will be devoted to each paper, response and discussion
(depending on the number of presentations).
A publication to include a selection of the presented papers in the form
of either a special issue of a journal or of a book is being organized.
Selection will be made on the basis of peer review by a scientific
committee.

Submission Requirements

An abstract of 10,000 characters by the date listed below
Papers submitted for workshops should be about 30,000 characters in
length.

Networking

In the schedule there will be time for informal meetings and a formal
networking session. The conference will help build a research network
that will extend across Europe and the Americas and beyond. It will
encourage scientific research on competitions, including joint
comparative studies.

Deadlines:
Second Call deadline: 5.1.2010
Acceptance of papers: End of February 2010
Final Paper: 23.4.2010

Organizing convener :
Professor, Joris Van Wezemael,
joris.vanwezemaelunifr.ch
Assisted by:
PhD Student, Sofia Paisiou,
sofia.paisiouunifr.ch
PhD Student, Jan Silberberger,
silberbergerarch.ethz.ch
Department of Geosciences
University of Fribourg
4, chemin du Musée
CH-1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
Tel. ++41 26 300 92 55
Fax ++41 26 300 97 46
http://www.unifr.ch/geoscience/geographie