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Ardeth #07 : EUROPE. Architecture, Infrastructure, TerritoryAccédez à l'appel :  Ardeth #07 ARDETH invites practitioners, philosophers, sociologists, scholars of various fields and design practices to share their ideas on architecture’s multifarious and contradictory contributions to the European project. Concerning the concepts of city and countryside, technology and low tech, legislation and politics, energy efficiency, and diversity, Ardeth is seeking contributions which address the following questions: 1. What kind of spatial and territorial strategies push ahead the European project? Considering the prevalence of borders, fences, and firewalls throughout Europe, how must the relation between periphery and center, city and countryside, and the local and regional be revised? 2. How (if at all) can architectural projects regain their position as a driving force for the design of future European concepts? After its fall from grace in the 1970s, do we need to return to a utopian mode of thinking? Here, historical retrospectives and/or social and spatial analyses about realized and imagined utopias in Europe are welcome. 3. Can the architecture project be an amalgamating power relative to the centripetal forces of society? What are the spatial, territorial and material strategies which could secure architecture’s role as the most integral cultural technique which shapes our lives? 4. Is there anything like a specific profile of the European architect? Ardeth appreciates contributions with references to socioeconomic surveys or historical recognitions and professional profiling and its evolution around Europe. 5. How can technologies that most professionals conform to (such as BIM, parametric design strategies, AI systems application to design and spatial survey, etc.) further the notion of an ongoing reconceptualization and restructuring of Europe? 