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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION, PAPERS, AND CONTRIBUTIONS

International PUARL Conference 2016 : "The Regenerative City"
Friday October 28 – Sunday, October 30, 2016
https://blogs.uoregon.edu/puarl2016/
University of San Francisco, California

Introduction
With the successful completion of the first three International PUARL
Conferences at the University of Oregon in Portland in 2009, 2011, and 2013
(in cooperation with ARUS), and the latest conference carried out in
cooperation with PURPLSOC, the ‘World Conference on Pattern Languages’ at the
Danube University of Krems in Austria in the summer of 2015, the PUARL
Conference Series has reached a new level of interdisciplinary involvement and
a new international format and organization. The annual conferences will
continue to alternate between Europe and the US covering the large and growing
body of work in the emerging discipline of Regenerative Processes in our Urban
Environments. We at the Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory are
therefore pleased to announce the next conference entitled ‘The Regenerative
City.’ It will focus on various aspects of Regeneration in the City, the
nature and quality of evidence based approaches to urban challenges, including
the pattern language approach, and planning and design issues that we are
facing in urban environments and buildings throughout the world today. This
conference will take place in San Francisco in the Fall of 2016, October 28-30
in cooperation with PURPLSOC, the Collaborative for Inclusive Urbanism (CIU),
and University of San Francisco (USF).

The PUARL Conference provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from a
variety of fields as well as for the broader public to come together to
present and discuss theories and applications in fields including:

- Architecture, Urbanism, and Regional Development
- Design, Media, Arts, Product Design
- Information Technology and Computer Software
- Pedagogy, Education, and Learning
- Social Activism, Social Innovation, and Grassroots Movements
- Everyday Applications and Special Interests

Evidence-based Approaches in Support of Life in the Regenerative City
For our primary theme in this conference, we are looking at the concept of
Regeneration in the City, a perspective that emphasizes the recurrent efforts
to maintain, rebuild, restructure, strengthen, and rejuvenate the city for its
continuing survival, resilience, and prosperity in the circle of ecological
life. The concept of regenerative process and design can be seen as a new
emphasis in the overall discourse on sustainability, one that departs from
mainstream directions in sustainability in a progressive way by emphasizing a
holistic and bottom-up approach akin to and influenced by evidence based
approaches in research and design including the pattern language process.
Regenerative processes include a large number of specific spatial processes,
social and economic processes, ecological and sustainable processes, all
working together in a panarchical fashion as one large system, helping
generate whole and lively urban places.

Regenerative Approaches in the Inclusive City
Our secondary theme centers around the concept of the inclusive city where
ideas of inclusion, equity, and justice are central, and patterns and pattern
languages are viewed as a potential vehicle for change. We ask how evidence
based approaches can enable the processes that encourage the built environment
to become inherently more inclusive and just. What are the methods,
ideologies, and vocabularies that can support the creation of such processes
and outcomes in ways that are complex, complete, inclusive, diverse,
resilient, and just?

Sub-Themes
Other related topics may deal with evidence based and pattern approaches in
the Regenerative City, Resilient City, the Productive City, the City of Social
Change (including the Refugee City) and other major challenges that we face in
the city of today. All Sub-Themes include the following:

1. The Generative City and Urban Regeneration
The regenerative city like an ‘organism’ can regenerate itself in its various
aspects and as a whole, similar to nature, based on its ecological structure
and process that maintain and transform the city, its neighborhoods, buildings
and population.

2. The Inclusive City and Inclusive Urbanism
Inclusive urbanism recognizes the deficiencies and current challenges that we
face in our cities, neighborhoods, streets, and parks and buildings with
regard to inclusion, equity, and justice, and tries to actively remedy this
situation.

3. The Resilient City
The Resilient City is a city that has ‘fortified’ itself and its ecological
system to survive major challenges and catastrophes from natural and man-made
disasters. It also has the strength and flexibility to transform itself in the
process of renewal and can adapt to new conditions.

4. The Productive City
The Productive City is based on its productive activities in its regenerative
ecological life. Making things, manufacturing and start up efforts are aspects
of the productive city.

5. The city of Social Change and the Refugee City
The City of Social Change and the Refugee City are cities that are being
transformed socially through transformations from inside or outside forces.
Current examples are refugee cities in Europe starting to be transformed by
refugee populations.

6. Special Session on Evidence-Based Process and Pattern Languages
Because of particular interest, one session is dedicated to evidence based
approaches to design including the original message of the pattern language as
‘research and practice in support of life in buildings, cities, and regions.’
This theme is open to papers exploring the quality, methods, and applications
of patterns and pattern languages in scholarly research. With it, we hope to
investigate, compare, and contrast the different approaches to pattern
research utilized by various disciplines and schools of thought. Patterns are
based on evidence of research and investigation.

In addition to papers concerning our primary and sub-themes, we welcome
proposals of different kinds and contributions at the conference:
- Talks and Presentations
- Posters
- Workshops
- Exhibition Fairs
- Panel Discussions

Submission
Abstracts and proposals are welcome that address major conference themes and
sub-themes are welcome. Proposals should be 250- 300 words. Please note in
your submission which theme(s) your proposal addresses. Send your proposal to
puarl AT uoregon.edu
 with the subject 2016 PUARL Conference. Proposals will be
peer reviewed by the Program and Academic International Committee. Acceptance
will be announced by July 10, 2016. Once accepted, full papers can be
submitted to PUARL by September 15, 2016 for inclusion in a conference record
in 2017. The conference fee is $380, not including conference publications.

Important Dates
Proposals Due: June 10, 2016
Acceptance Announcements: July 10, 2016
Full Papers Due: September 15, 2016
Conference Dates: October 28-30, 2016

Organizers
Hajo Neis, PUARL, University of Oregon
Seth Wachtel, University of San Francisco
Peter Baumgartner, Danube University Krems, Austria

Organizations
Portland Urban Architecture Research Laboratory (PUARL),
http://puarl.uoregon.edu/
Pursuit of Pattern Languages for Societal Change (PURPLSOC),
http://www.purplsoc.org/
University of San Francisco (USF), https://www.usfca.edu/
Collaborative for Inclusive Urbanism (CIU), http://www.inclusiveurbanism.org/
Advanced Research in Urban Systems (ARUS),
https://www.uni-due.de/urbane-systeme/advanced-research-in-urban-systems_en.shtml
Center for Environmental Structure, US and GB (CES),
     http://www.patternlanguage.com/
     http://www.livingneighborhoods.org/ht-0/bln-exp.htm

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University of Oregon Portland
School of Architecture and Allied Arts
mail:   
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