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  • The Churches and the City | DEADLINE EXTENDED

    2023-08-10

    #CallForAbstract

    The Churches and the City| in_bo vol. 16, no. 8

    Promoters DA - Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Bologna

    Edited by Luigi Bartolomei, Federica Fuligni, Gianluca Buoncore 

    Sixty years after the Second Vatican Council Vatican, the call is devoted to scrutinizing the future of the relationship between churches and cities, considering the radical changes in social structure, the acceleration of secularized society towards a post-secularized one, and the definitive distinction between civil and religious communities, and between religion and Christianity: what form, role and model for new churches (and especially parish centers) in the cities of today and tomorrow? The idea of the parish complex needs not only a revision of its spatial conformation but also of its legal and management model, to allow for a different organization and an effective and substantial new distribution of responsibilities. This initiative proposes a critical review of the figure and role of parish complexes to an update on the spatial articulation, management and planning models for parish complexes suited to the conditions of contemporary cities.

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  • Call for applications for the editorial board of in_bo

    2022-03-25

    in_bo is looking for two new members to join its editorial board!

    Applicants are invited to send a short CV (max. 3 pages) and a cover letter in either Italian or English. Please send your application to in_bo@unibo.it no later than May 1st, 2022. Selected candidates will be interviewed by the editorial board and selected members will be appointed by June 15th, 2022 for a three-year term.

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  • Towards New Summers | DEADLINE EXTENDED

    2022-02-10

    The purpose of this call for abstracts is to collect and discuss the current research on the history of holiday camps in Europe between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular consideration of the contemporary reuse and restoration strategies of this architectural heritage.

    Authors are invited to submit an abstract in Italian or English: accepted abstracts will be discussed at an international conference in Ravenna, September 15th–16th, 2022. A selection of the best proposals will be published in 2023, in a special issue of in_bo, the scientific, open-access, and Scopus-indexed journal published by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna.

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  • Cities and Territories of Democracy

    2021-08-10

    Cities and Territories of Democracy | in_bo vol. 13, no. 17

    Edited by Ilaria Agostini, Luigi Bartolomei and Elena Franco

    The call aims at drawing attention to the relationship between politics and territory, analyzing the link between the shape of power and the shape of cities as well as the capacity that urban planning has to regulate such a connection. Does the town planning precede, accompany or follow the political decision? Does a democratic order imply a democratic city? How might economic forces fit today into the relationship between urban planning and democracy?

    Authors are invited to send an abstract in English or Italian (3000–4000 characters including spaces) via email to in_bo@unibo.it by 15th October 2021.

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  • Call for Papers – Sacred Pedagogy

    2021-06-14
    The Sacred in Architectural and Design Education in_bo vol. 13, no. 7 (2022). Special issue   | with the collaboration of Fondazione Frate Sole | edited by Luigi Bartolomei (University of Bologna) | with the scientific advice of Alberto Perez Gomez (McGill University, Montreal), Julio Bermudez (Catholic University of America), Francesca Sbardella (Università di Bologna), Paolo Tomatis (Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale), Giuliano Zanchi (Fondazione Adriano Bernareggi) | Authors are invited to send an abstract in Italian or English (3000– 4000 characters including spaces) via email to in_bo@unibo.it by 13th October 2021. The abstracts must be drafted following the guidelines of the journal, which can be found on the website in_bo.unibo.it.

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  • Call for Papers – Dominion of the Sacred [new deadline]

    2020-07-22

    Image, Cartography, Knowledge of the City after the Council of Trent (In_bo vol. 12, no. 16)

    edited by:
    Mario Bevilacqua (Università degli Studi di Firenze) and Marco Folin (Università degli Studi di Genova)

    Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Italian political geography was polarized by a number of cities of different sizes and traditions: Rome and Florence, Milan and Naples, Genoa and Venice, Turin and Modena, either ancient republics or new dynastic capitals, satellites of the great European monarchies or small Signorias. The conjunction — less frequently the conflict — between the mandates of the Council of Trent and the interests of the ruling élites of those cities set the foundation for novel forms of social, cultural and spiritual control, fostering new urban structures and policies, deeply conditioned by the presence and government of the sacred. Prominent issues at the time were the widespread presence of male religious orders and cloistered female orders, the renewed role played by the residing diocesan curias, the parishes with their activities of social recording and control, the stabilization of the confraternities, the construction of places of worship, and the emergence of devotional practices.

    Authors are invited to submit an abstract in Italian or English (3000–4000 characters, spaces included) to the email address in_bo@unibo.it, no later than October 1st, 2020 October 30th, 2020.

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  • Call for Papers: Narrating the City (in_bo Vol. 11, N. 15)

    2019-07-15

    Update: deadline extended to October 6th!

    The 20th century emphasized the role of the urban narratives. Addressed as the key tool for observing, analysing and interpreting urban phenomena by European philosophers and thinkers in the Seventies, the narratives are nowadays getting momentum in relation with the transformations of the contemporary city. The debate is currently focusing on the relations between narratives and project. These relations are experiencing in European cities moments of argument and critical analysis, testifying a displacement between urban planning and coding tools that instruct them, and therefore the narratives to which they refer. What is the relationship between narratives, metamorphoses and urban practices?

    in_bo Vol. 11, no. 15 will focus on the relation between narratives and city, investigating the potential of the former as an instrument that operates supporting urban practices. With this call, in_bo seeks interdisciplinary contributions to be published either in the form of texts or in the form of images. Besides theoretical contributions, the present Call for Papers is also looking for case studies that exemplify the above mentioned theoretical models. All the selected contributions will be subjected to double blind peer review. All the authors must send their documents before September 20th October 6th, 2019. The full text of the call is online on the journal website, at the link https://in_bo.unibo.it/.

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  • Call for Papers: Glauco Gresleri (1930-2016). Words, Projects, Connections (in_bo Vol. 10, N. 15)

    2018-06-18

    Editors: Luigi Bartolomei, Sofia Nannini, Marianna Gaetani

    This issue of “in_bo” has the aim to collect contributions on Glauco Gresleri, architect, author and editor, in order to understand this polyhedric figure and place his work within a national and international debate.

    Deadline abstract submission: July 31 August 10, 2018;
    deadline paper submission: December 31, 2018;
    issue publication: by the end of June 2019.

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