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Conferences 21st Annual Conference The International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place Liverpool John Moores University April 29-May1, 2026. (Un)precedented Times?:  Reflecting on…

CFP: (Un)precedented Times?: Reflecting on Global Disasters as places of destruction and spaces for opportunity, 21st Annual Conference of the IASESP, April 29-May 1, 2026. For more information go to: iasesp.org/conferences/

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Arman Hamidzadeh Mahdiyan (Texas Tech) pursues a radical spatial ethics in the analysis of graffiti art in “Graffiti; Barbarism or Liberation?” #IASESP2025

Elizabeth Cronin (University of Florida) offers a window on the creative process involving art installation in liminal land/water spaces in “Emergent Practice: Tracing Fieldnotes as Site/Sight” at #IASESP2025

Olivia Raymundo (University of Florida) offers a view of sewing as method, patternmaking as praxis, and delamination as analysis in “Embodied: Fabric Assembly and Analytical Patternmaking” at #IASESP2025

Andrea Galinski (University of Florida) presents on the problem of flux, mutation, and architectural adaptation in “Terra Mutare: Observing, Understanding, and Representing Change in Foundational Design” at #IASESP2025

Nadine Plachta explores ”Traces of Climate Change in Tsum” and problems of western approaches to development in the Himalayans at #IASESP2025

Charlie Hailey reads watermarks left behind from hurricane storm surges as traces of nature’s larger forces at work in “Watermark and Wetproof” #IASESP2025

Troy Paddock (Southern Connecticut State University) plots excesses along scales of natural, mathematical, and historical time on the Mosul River in “Traces of Excess/Traces and Excess” #IASESP2025

Mary Paddock (Quinnipiac University) tours the German literary and geographical past to expose “Traces of Absence—Places of Shame: Mass Murder and Medieval Desire” #IASESP2025

Stephanie Hofer (Virginia Tech) unearths buried traumas from the Namibian liberation movement in “‘How Do I Live With My Desert’: Tracing Memory Landscapes in the Namibian Film ‘Taste of Rain’” #IASESP2025

Joe Balay (University of Mary Washington) and Toby Svoboda (Colgate University) consider the aesthetic potentialities of atmospheric solar radiation modification in “Scream: The Aesthetic Event of Geoengineering”
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Jason Hayob-Matzke and Jodie Hayob-Matzke (University of Mary Washington) range through the ethical implications of restoring extinct species in their presentation “Links to the Past or Solutions for the Future?” #IASESP2025

Peter Nekola (The MacLean Map Library) delves into the ephemeral nature of the Las Vegas River within the city’s built environment in “What is a River, Really? Tracing the Desert Washes of Las Vegas” #IASESP2025

Jeffrey Webb (Huntington University) explores the interplay of the global, regional, and local in “Paddlefish Solar and its Opponents: Tracing the Contours of Green Energy Politics in the Agro-Industrial Landscape of Rural Indiana” #IASESP2025

Maeva O’Brien (Yale University) explores scales of geography, natural history, and future states in “Radioactive Traces and the Limits of the US State Time at Yucca Mountain, Nevada” #IASESP2025

Amanda Rutherford (University of Florida) describes the work of incorporating the spatial and temporal in Miami’s redevelopment in “Inhabiting Imprints and Echoes: An Approach to spatio-temporal simultaneity at Brickell Point in Miami, Florida” #IASESP2025

Avery Dunavant (University of Florida) tours the archive for past architectural traces in “Documenting Nostalgia: A Postcard and 10 Billion Points From The Bold New City of The South” #IASESP2025

Haley Smith (Atelier Mey) relate their team’s process for attaining nature-fitted design in “From Forest to Form” #IASESP2025

Silke Helmerdig (Pforzheim University) visits Hiroshima’s photographic archive in “Exposing Concealed Traces of Representation” #IASESP2025

CFP: From the Home to the City: Designing Spatial Experiences; 14-15 May 2026, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain + Online

Kelvin Dickinson (Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture) highlights Paul Rudolph’s design concepts in Florida’s Modernist and Brutalist landmarks in “Paul Rudolph and Florida” #IASESP2025

Michael Dieffenthaller (University of Florida) delves into plants at small and large scales in “Learning from Plants: An Architectural Methodology to Foster Symbiotic Relationships between Plants, People, and Buildings” #IASESP2025

Ray Wincko (withArchitecture) probes the design possibilities of tracing paper in “Disposable Thought: Tracing Parchment’s Reverent Role in Design’s Outpouring” #IASESP2025

L. Brooke Rudow (University of Central Florida) presents the concept of environmental hermeneutics in “Losing Place’s Trace: Digital Technology and Aesthetic Harm” #IASESP2025

Holly Vita Gowland (University of Birmingham) explores the dimensionality of affordances in the soundscapes of virtual space #IASESP2025

Yanfeng Chen (University of Florida) shares his dream-simulation experiments with AI in his presentation “AI and Dream Space” #IASESP2025

Sarah Gamble (University of Florida) examines the experience of place through pathways and walking practices #IASESP2025

Sarah Spayd, Michael Dieffenthaller, Eric Rykard, and Karla Saldaña Ochoa, (University of Florida) highlight Ribault River design features that incorporate the river’s changing hydrology #IASESP2025

Bradley Walters and Mark McGlothlin (University of Florida) describe a collaborative design project in the indigenous community of Tyonek, Alaska #IASESP2025