Call for Papers: 'Public Space: the Real and the Ideal'

The International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture (ISPA) is thrilled to announce its 5^th Biennial conference, set to take place from the 2^nd to the 5^th of August 2020 at Monte Verità, Switzerland. This edition, organized in collaboration between the EPFL (Lausanne) and ETH (Zürich), is dedicated to the topic Public Space: the Real and the Ideal.

We invite philosophers, architectural theorists, architects, urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and all those interested to submit an extended abstract of 300-500 words by the 16^th of February, 2020. The full Call for Papers can be found attached.

Proposals and any further questions should be sent to [email protected].

We look forward to receiving your contribution!

• Kenneth Frampton (Columbia University)
• Chantal Mouffe (University of Westminster)
• Sarah Whiting (Harvard University; WW Architecture)
• Sven-Olov Wallenstein (Södertörn University) 
• Margaret Crawford (UC Berkeley)