2016 ACSA International Conference
2016 ACSA International Conference attempts to reflect on the highly lucid and fruitful production of architectural thinking from the professional and academic communities of the world. The media continues to portray a singularly globalized world, underscored by our own experiences with the immediacy of digital dissemination. However, at the scale of cities, regions, and even countries, local identity holds sway. Influenced by the superimposition of global exchange networks, yet undermined by the charismatic allure of local narratives, these disjunctions start to suggest new professional and pedagogical configurations. Our focus is to probe the shifting nature of north-south connections and discourses, and to expose the new modes of engagement between professional practice and architectural academia. In the past decade, many small practices in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, along with new experimental digital/synthetic biology collectives in the US and Europe, have all been gradually turning us towards to a more customized, localized, and disglobal future.
Date: 2016
Project Team: Vera Parlac, Dana Cupkova, Macarena Cortes, Umberto Bonomo, Alfredo Andia
Sponsors: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Autodesk
Publications: Cross Americas: Probing Disglobal Networks
