The Constructed Environment Research Network

10/15/2026

Beyond panels and presentations. 2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds supports live papers, workshops, asynchronous presentations, digital posters, Talking Circles, publication sessions, and collaborative working groups. The format supports real-time exchange and asynchronous participation across time zones.

🔗 Choose how to participate: https://tinyurl.com/32b75ueh

10/09/2026

Common Ground Research Networks is a network of networks. We’re pleased to share this event from a related Research Network with members of our community who may also be interested.

📢 Regular Registration deadline is approaching for the Nineteenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses. Take advantage of discounted rates and join us in Johannesburg for academic exchange and social networking.

🗓️ Regular Registration Period ends: 19 December 2027
🔗 Register now: https://tinyurl.com/2p6ut84d

10/07/2026

⏰ We’re finalizing an inspiring lineup of speakers, sessions, and events for the Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment. Stay tuned for updates!

🔗 Take the link to view the list of accepted proposals. https://tinyurl.com/nharkx4j

10/01/2026

What does it mean to imagine sustainable worlds now? 2027 Imagining Sustainable Worlds invites work across climate, ecology, sustainability, built environments, food systems, mobility, tourism, aging, health, wellbeing, and resilience. Annual themes include Climate, Ecology, and Environmental Change; Sustainable Design, Space, and the Built Environment; Food, Mobility, and Everyday Systems; and Resilience, Stewardship, and Collective Futures. Together, these themes create a broad space for exchange across the Research Networks gathered in this symposium strand.

🔗 Review themes: https://tinyurl.com/bdew96pw

09/23/2026

🎓Introducing one of our plenary speakers for the Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, ​Suzanne MacLeod.

Suzanne MacLeod (she/her) is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and Co-Director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG). In RCMG Suzanne undertakes collaborative research with a range of museums, galleries and heritage sites on projects that advance thinking and practice around museums’ social roles and responsibilities, drive inclusive organisational transformation and generate new insights and resources for the wider museums and heritage sector. Suzanne has authored and edited a number of books and articles on the spatial and social architecture of museums and the processes through which museums, galleries and heritage sites are shaped (see for example, Museum Architecture: A New Biography, The Future of Museum and Gallery Design, Museum Making: Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions and Reshaping Museum Space: Architecture, Design, Exhibitions). Driven by a firm belief that the expertise needed to enable museums to reach their potential as a force for good in society is within our grasp but is challenged continually by the embedded history of museums, their colonial and paternalistic origins, the conventions and ‘rules’ of professional practice and the increasing economisation of all societal systems, her most recent book explored how museum and heritage making can be harnessed towards the nurturing of our sense of humanity, democracy and everyday life (Museums and Design for Creative Lives, 2021). The book returned to an inspiring, rule-breaking lineage of progressive museum design and explored this physical history as a route to understanding more about the strategies through which particular spatial and social relationships were encouraged and prioritised and the methods through which these cultural organisations sought to create landscapes full of potential. Since 2021, Suzanne has been working with Dr Mark O’Neill on Addressing the Attendance and Benefit Gap to ask what would need to change about museums in order for them to fulfil their societal roles as sites of civic belonging and social cohesion.

Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/2xa8289z

09/21/2026

✍️ Seeking Innovative Perspectives ✍️ Submit your proposal to our book series and contribute to shaping the conversation on today’s most pressing topics.

🔗 Submit now: https://tinyurl.com/ykvncnau

09/16/2026

📣 Early Registration deadline is approaching for the Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment. Take advantage of discounted rates and join us in Belfast for academic exchange and social networking.

🗓️ Early Registration Period ends: 13 October 2026
🔗 Register now: https://tinyurl.com/mrxkzdsw

09/15/2026

Read this month's Featured Article. And remember, access to all journal content is included in Research Network Membership.

https://doi.org/10.18848/2325-1662/CGP/A256

09/09/2026

📍 Get ready to experience the Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment in one of the world’s most dynamic and inspiring cities. We can’t wait to welcome you to Belfast, Northern Ireland!

🔗 Submit now: https://tinyurl.com/ys2haed2

09/02/2026

🎓 Introducing one of our Plenary Speakers for the Seventeenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment, Richard Koeck.

Professor Richard Koeck is Director of the Centre for Architecture and the Visual Arts (CAVA), Director of the UKRI/AHRC Creative Cluster MusicFutures at the University of Liverpool and co-founder of Liverpool-based film/media company CineTecture Ltd.

With more than 20 years’ experience working on academic and real-world projects across the UK, Europe, the United States, Singapore and China, Richard has built his career by wilfully ignoring disciplinary boundaries wherever possible, on the reasonable assumption that innovation often starts where silos end. Working across architecture, film, music, XR and AI, he brings creative disciplines into collaboration with industry, civic and cultural partners to shape imaginative futures for society, place and the creative economy.

He is well-known for his research and creative practice that examine the relationship between space, media and culture, with particular attention to immersive environments, digital technologies and the future of architecture and cities. He is the author of several books, including Cine-Scapes: Cinematic Spaces in Architecture and Cities (Routledge, 2013) and The Art of Spatial Illusion: Immersive Encounters between People, Media, and Place (Routledge, 2025).

Learn More: https://tinyurl.com/2xa8289z