Registration is now open for the 2025 ACSA/AIA Intersections Research Conference. Attendees will gain an increased awareness of research happening in both academia and design practice as they explore housing as a process, a product, and a place. This in-person conference will take place January 9-11, 2025, in Austin, Texas, and will speculate on, advocate for, operate within, and struggle with new housing paradigms.

Registration includes opportunities to explore Austin and the surrounding area through educational tours, engage with attendees at the opening & closing receptions, attend extraordinary keynotes, and more. Register before December 4, 2024, to access the best available rates.

‘Where Are My People? Queer in Architecture’ chronicles both societal and discipline-specific metrics to highlight the experiences of LGBTQIA+ designers, architects and educators. Central to the mission of this research series is the importance of giving voice and space to people from backgrounds who have been historically discriminated against. Part I encompasses numerous intersections with queer identity, recognizing the pluralistic and dynamic nature of gender and sexuality in architecture.

The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and with the support of USAID’s Bureau of Humanitarian Assistance is delighted to hold a joint student design charrette. The charrette will challenge students to design an exhibit that engages the public’s understanding of the need for humanitarian shelter to support the world’s most vulnerable people.

The charrette will challenge students to design an exhibit that engages the public’s understanding of the need for humanitarian shelter to support the world’s most vulnerable people. Ten teams of students, with two students per team, will be selected to participate in the charrette. The charrette will take place in-person during the ACSA113 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, March 20-22, 2025.

The focus area for this issue seeks to explore inventive topics from different aspects of the built environment. Innovation captures new ideas, methods, strategies, products, forms, designs, etc. Innovation is the action or process of innovating, introducing, or presenting novelties and modifying what is established by introducing new elements or forms. It is a change introduced to an existing product. Imaginative ideas include improvements that capture how components or processes are modified or configured in designs, systems, or domains, like building materials, data processing, digital fabrication, computation, history and theory of innovation. Innovation is critical to the success of any endeavor, such as an organization, enterprise, field or discipline, or industry. Invention is the primary driver of advancement in the built environment and other sectors, as it provides approaches, resources, and concepts generated and realized, leading to a better and more sustainable built environment. Invention guides all disciplines, and inventive ideas involve various players with diverse incentives.