The University of Texas at Austin 

School of Architecture 

Symposium: November 7, 2025    10am-6pm

Abstracts Due: Monday, June 16, 2025.

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WEATHER

 

The thematic brief and call for presentations below encourages design practitioners, historians, and theorists in and beyond academia to engage in this year’s discussion. Initial submissions are due by Monday, June 16, 2025.

 

Interior Provocations: WEATHER encourages provocative, boundary-expanding proposals from design practitioners, historians, and theorists that challenge traditional definitions of atmosphere within the interior realm of living environments. Using WEATHER as a prompt, the aim is to reflect upon the interconnected nature of atmosphere throughout history as both a social and environmental condition, and in this way open questions about the potential of interiors as a space of design speculation and experimentation in the age of planetary change. 

Initial submissions are to include: 

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• abstracts based on original, unpublished research (no more than 300 words),

• one to three images;

• 2-page CV, with contact information. 
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If you are interested in participating in a teaching roundtable with a five-minute presentation, followed by a panel discussion, please prepare the materials listed above and indicate “pedagogy” at the time of the submission. 

Please combine all the submission materials into one multi-page PDF, named yourlastname_yourinstitution.pdf. Completed proposals are to be submitted by no later than June 16, 2025, using the SUBMISSION PORTAL. When submitting your proposal through the portal, please indicate whether the presentation is to be considered (1) history/theory, (2) practice/theory, or (3) pedagogy in the “File description” field. 

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Selected proposals will be developed into full papers to be presented in person at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Any questions can be directed to Interiorprovocations@gmail.com. Please do not make final submissions via email.

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Keynote Speaker: 

Philippe Rahm | Philippe Rahm Architects | Paris, France​​​​

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Symposium Organizers:

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UT Austin:

Ria Bravo

Tara Dudley

Nerea Feliz

Allison Gaskins

Clay Odom

Igor Siddiqui, Chair

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Pratt:

Anca Lasc

Deborah Schneiderman

Keena Suh

Karyn Zieve

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Image credit: Yu-Hsuan Hsieh (BSID '24).