MIC 2020: The 4th Memaryat International Conference: Designing For the Desert Effat University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, February 26-27, 2020 |
Conference website | https://www.effatuniversity.edu.sa/English/conferences/Memaryat/Pages/default.aspx |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mic20200 |
Abstract registration deadline | September 23, 2019 |
Submission deadline | November 30, 2019 |
Designing for the Deserts explores the ways in which politicians, planners, engineers, interior designers and architects develop, exploit, transform, urbanize, and respond to the underground and over ground territories of the worlds’ major deserts both hot and cold. These climatically challenging regions have often served to search, extract, and transport the deserts’ various natural resources, such as oil and gas, as well as to design and build new cities, buildings, infrastructures, residential complexes, farming systems, solar power plants, climate and science research centers, chemical weapons testing complexes, nuclear weapon research centers and testing sites, and other settlements. How these designs are managed and implemented in relation to the posed current and futuristic challenges? What are their impacts on adjacent populations and environments? To what extent these deserts’ transformations influence the politico-economic assets of the communities and governments in question? How desert built-up relates to climatic changes and extreme dry-Climatic effects? The aim of this conference is to address these questions and critically analyze the design processes and mechanisms of built environments and infrastructures planned or implemented in one of the worlds’ major deserts located in either Antarctica, Africa, Arctic, Asia, Australia, Middle East, or the Americas. The Conference Scientific Committee now accepting abstracts for its Fourth Annual Memareyat International Conference. Abstracts should define the subject and summarize the argument to be presented in the proposed paper. The content of that paper should be the product of well-documented original research that is primarily analytical and interpretive, rather than descriptive in nature. Papers cannot have been previously published or presented in public except to a small, local audience. All abstracts will be held in confidence during the review and selection process, and only the Scientific Committee and conference chair will have access to them. The Scientific Committee have the prerogative to recommend changes to the abstract in order to ensure it addresses the session theme, and to suggest editorial revisions to a paper in order to make it satisfy session guidelines.
Submission Guidelines
Of special interest are papers that disclose how particular protagonists, protocols, projects, or built environments obeyed or disobeyed national or transnational directives and laws and exposed the multifaceted effects and legacies of such programs at an international level. Papers that propose original methods and approaches for scrutinizing these designs, including their roots and ramifications in historical, politico-economic, and environmental terms, are highly encouraged.
Conference Topics
- Integrated Design for Challenging Climatic Conditions
- The Futuristic Desert City
- Urban Morphology and Planning Strategies
- Adaptive Design Solutions
- Landscape Architecture in Desert Context
- Materials Suitability and Natural Resources.
- Structural Systems and Adaptive Techniques
Committees
Conference Chair:
Dr. Mervat El- Shafie, Dean of College of Architecture & Design, Effat College of Architecture & Design., Jeddah, KSA
Tel: +966122137910- melshafie@effatuniversity.edu.sa
Chair of Organizing Committee
Dr. Aida Nayer, Associate Professor, Effat Collage of Architecture and Design, Jeddah, KSA
Tel: +966122137919 , 920003331- anayer@effatuniversity.edu.sa
Scientific Committee
Dr. Tarek Ragab, Professor of Urban Design, Effat College of Architecture and Design, Jeddah, KSA
Tel: +966565632091- tragab@effatuniversity.edu.sa
Publication
MIC 2020 proceedings will be published in form of ISBN numbered book. Selected papers shall be published in Scopus indexted Journals.
Venue
The conference will be held in Effat University, Jeddah, KSA
Contact
For inquiries and contacts:
Conference Web page:
https://www.effatuniversity.edu.sa/English/Events/Memaryat/Pages/default.aspx