Designing Cultural Futures: Emerging Technologies, Architecture, and Urban Experience

Scope

This symposium invites contributions that translate the idea of designing cultural futures into cross-disciplinary research and practices. It welcomes works that explore how design, architecture, and emerging technologies can collectively shape future urban experiences through cultural engagement, participation, and creative practice. Rather than treating these areas as separate domains, the symposium encourages contributions that engage with their intersections in diverse ways, such as empirical research, case studies, critical reflections etc.

Key areas of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Architecture, urban design, and the built environment in shaping cultural participation, placemaking, and urban experience
• Museums, cultural heritage, and public art as evolving spaces for cultural engagement
• Immersive technologies and AI for designing cultural encounters and civic engagement
• Experience-centred design approaches to create meaningful cultural encounters
• Creative practice and interdisciplinary design approaches that explore new forms of cultural expression, storytelling, and community engagement.
• Design strategies to foster sustainable, inclusive, and culturally vibrant urban futures.

Submissions may take the form of papers, posters, or presentations of completed or work-in-progress research, and should reflect on how they contribute to understanding or reimagining cultural encounters within the broader framing of cultural futures.