Category: Proceedings

Ioannis Bardakos, Malvina Apostolou

https://doi.org/10.60152/h1lxhb9a

Abstract: This paper proposes membranes as dynamic interfaces for x-disciplinary entanglements across inter multi-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary practices. Membranes, arising transitional spaces, could reconceptualize the notions of in-between, the liminality, the uncanny and the non-places. Unlike static spaces, membranes can be dynamic structures with measurable properties defined by elasticity, tearability, porosity, and selective permeability. These characteristics enable membranes to mediate flows of knowledge, methods, as well as concepts between disciplines, and to operate through mathematical formulations that include functions, permeability coefficients and topological transformations. Multi-layered systems could enable simultaneous disciplinary distinction and hybrid emergence. Extending this framework, we introduce multi-individuation, that is processes where disciplines maintain identity while generating novel forms through membranic interaction. This form(s) of interaction(s) and transformation(s) could bear cognition, emerging from recursive encounters between fields, producing methodologies and vocabularies irreducible to their constituent parts. Through techno-artistic practice and computational humanities applications, we aim to demonstrate how membranic thinking could provide tools for experimentation and knowledge production. By illustrating how mechanisms of x-disciplinary exchange operate within intersecting scales and concepts of science, technology and arts, this framework could offer an approach to disciplinary hybridization and fusion beyond traditional models.

Keywords: membranes; multi-individuation; cognitive process; space; disciplinary hybridity

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Bardakos, I. and Apostolou, M. (2025) ‘On Membranes Within Disciplinary Entanglements: A Cognitive Framework‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 221–227. 

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Jessica Priemus

https://doi.org/10.60152/m5n1t1cx

Abstract: This essay examines weaving as a practice that foregrounds imperfection and irregularity, positioning these qualities as both material traces and critical tools. By focusing on mistakes, glitches and uneven rhythms in woven cloth, it proposes that such moments of error act as resistance to industrial ideals of perfection, efficiency and mass uniformity. Drawing on architectural theory, including tectonics, Gothic traditions and Bauhaus thought, the paper situates weaving within broader systemic structures, where the grid of cloth becomes a pliable field for experimenting with order, failure and care. Through the lens of the personal and the embodied, weaving is framed as a counter-production process that elevates irregularity, reclaims the presence of the maker and offers speculative possibilities for rethinking how value, knowledge and labour are woven into material and social systems.

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Priemus, J. (2025) ‘Weaving Error: Imperfection as Resistance in Material Practice‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 212–220. 

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Simona Žemaitytė

https://doi.org/10.60152/u4uqfa2h

Abstract: As an artist-researcher, at this conference, I share a screen work focusing on the supervolcano in Southern Italy known as the Phlegraean Fields (Campi Flegrei). The studies of this volcano have been at the center of my postdoctoral art-based research at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. A volcanic caldera of Phlegrean Fields, characterized by an ongoing bradyseismic crisis, experiences slow ground uplift and subsidence accompanied by seismic activity. It is also one of the most densely populated areas near the city of Naples, hosting over half a million people. The caldera features several notable craters, including Lake Averno- believed by the Romans to be the entrance to the Underworld (Hades), active vulcano Solfatara, naturalistic oasis of Astroni, and many others. The Phlegrean Fields caldera is rich not only in natural wonders – thermal waters, craters, natural oasis, but also legends and historical heritage. Here lies a sunken city of Baia, the Amphitheater of Flavio, and the market columns falsely called Tempio di Serapide, which are natural “meters” of bradyseism. In a multidisciplinary framework of researching via art making, science, history, architecture, and geology merge. The video explores the landscape as a body and the body as a landscape through choreography and movement of the camera. Through dialogue with residents of Pozzuoli and Naples, as well as volcanology scientists, this work aims to deepen the understanding of what it means to live intimately with the challenges posed by bradyseism.

Keywords: Campi Flegrei, volcanoes, bradysism, art, dance

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Žemaitytė, S. (2025) ‘Dancing Landscapes of the Phlegran Fields‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 203–211. 

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Nora Lefa

https://doi.org/10.60152/6n47dmf2

Abstract: We are composed of the sum of our surroundings, of the physical and the immaterial world, of the people around us, of those who are not with us anymore, of those who were here times ago, and of those whose tears we only see in the news footage. The cities in which we lived, the conversations we had, the music we heard remain present and are parts of us. And of the imaginary personages from literary works and lyric operas who live within us in the cities. They follow us, they build us, and they hold us as if they were a rich cloud, full of unique shadows. It is the memory of our deepest experiences, our microcosm. How much does memory shape us, the memory of the place, of the past, of our ancestors? Do the trees hear and remember the voices, the thoughts, the sentiments of all those who have encountered; do we perceive this multiple reality? The current paper claims that since shadows of things past shape us psychologically, mentally, and ultimately physically, and despite not made of matter, they can be considered as being of a very palpable nature.

Keywords: matter, information, reality, art, Villa Pamphilij, exhibition

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Lefa, N. (2025) ‘Tangible Shadows‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 196–202. 

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Elif Ayiter

https://doi.org/10.60152/d19bwahk

Abstract: This essay will take the reader through my personal musings that have been gathered through a 2 year long journey of working with generative image, video and audio creation systems, referred to popularly as Artificial Intelligence. I will try to make a case that this term is a misnomer, that the intelligence that brings about the results is the same old organic one with which humanity has manifested creativity throughout the ages – albeit, an organic intelligence that is now enhanced by a new and remarkably powerful tool. So powerful indeed that it can easily be confused with something that is intelligent / creative in its own right. But, is it really? After focusing on how these novel generative systems affect creative output, I will conclude by taking a broader look at how “AI” is increasingly affecting the world around us. I will do so, not as an “AI enthusiast” but as someone who looks upon the entire phenomenon with great apprehension and worry, despite the fact that I am deeply immersed in the creative process that this remarkable technology has brought about.

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Ayiter, E. (2025) ‘The Wondrous Travels of Felix Ringtail‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 189–195. 

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Aygen Erol Çakır, Mehmet Ali Gasseloğlu

https://doi.org/10.60152/4ceq9dre

Abstract: This paper examines how architectural knowledge is produced beyond built form by tracing its circulation across drawings, texts, exhibitions, archives, and moving-image practices. While interdisciplinarity is often framed as seamless collaboration, this study argues that the intermedial movement of ideas operates more precisely as translation, a process marked by rupture, displacement, and reinvention. Existing scholarship highlights the generative role of representation, yet a gap remains in mapping where and how translational operations reorganize architectural meaning, particularly in the unbuilt domain where work is frequently dismissed as preparatory or secondary. The objective is twofold. The term “translation” is employed here in both a conceptual and a methodological sense: conceptually, it denotes the shifting of meaning across disciplines; methodologically, it describes the analytical movement through which architectural ideas are traced across media. First, to theorize interdisciplinarity as a translational practice that alters both what is carried across and the frameworks that receive it; second, to propose a cartography, termed Geographies of Translation, that locates this practice in three terrains. Core Terrains track intra-disciplinary experiments where architecture re-articulates itself across. Threshold Terrains mark the discipline’s edge, where external perspectives reshape representational logics. Distant Terrains designate practices outside architecture that nevertheless produce architectural knowledge through estrangement. Methodologically, the study combines close reading of artifacts, media-archaeological attention to representation, and critical synthesis of architectural theory and cultural studies. The analysis yields three results. First unbuilt, and representational practices are shown to constitute sites of conceptual presence, not subordinate steps to construction. Second, this mediating process is recast as a constitutive rather than supplementary operation, dislocating and re embodying architectural ideas across media and disciplines. Third, interdisciplinarity emerges not as synthesis but as an unstable terrain generate critical value. By situating architecture within a constellation of translational terrains, the paper contributes a methodological and conceptual framework that redefines the role of the unbuilt, expands the scope of architectural historiography, and foregrounds translation as a condition of architectural knowledge.

Keywords: unbuilt; translation; interdisciplinarity; archive; art-architecture

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Erol Çakır, A. and Gasseloğlu, M. (2025) ‘Translational Terrains: The Interdisciplinarity of Spatial Narratives‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 175–187. 

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Jovana Tošić

https://doi.org/10.60152/1f19646l

Abstract: The new trend in architectural design and urbanism shapes so-called postreality aesthetics in architecture, or metamodernism, as a new architectural language that primarily utilizes digital technology. The paper analyzes the emergence of a new architectural language from the perspective of architectural criticism, examining the architectural narrative of the metaverse and the architectural trends it promotes. What is the connection between architectural criticism, the history of architecture, architectural archives, and the future of architectural design in a metaverse-shaped world? Since existing cultural and historical references shape their elements, Metaverse architectural trends have evolved mainly without severing their connection to architectural history. The focus of the theoretical framework in this paper will be on the interconnection of the notions of metaverse, multispace, metamodernism, postreality, modernity, and architectural language. The analysis of the examples encompasses metaverse architectural concepts created by 3D artists and extended-reality architectural studios, as they seek a new architectural language, establish a framework for metaverse architecture, and develop a suitable aesthetic. Additionally, the paper examines the emergence of a new architectural paradigm influenced by the metaverse and AI, and its impact on urban development and sustainability.

Keywords: metaverse; metamodernism; multispace; architectural language; architectural criticism; postreality

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Tošić, J. (2025) ‘Metaverse in Architectural Design: Metamodernism as a New Architectural Language‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 165–174. 

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Semir Poturak

https://doi.org/10.60152/j7pdhwsl

Abstract: Advancement of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies has a strong impact on evolving role of creativity in architectural design. Advancement and rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence technologies brought new challenges to the philosophical debates on creativity, further expanding the ambiguity resulting in lack of adequate education and professional improvement. This review paper argues that the integration of generative AI technology in architectural design fundamentally transforms the nature of exercised creativity to shift the focus from idea generation to problem framing and critical curation. In this paper new essential skills such as semantic articulation (prompt crafting’) and iterative visual refinement are identified based on the synthesis of foundational theories on creativity and the operational reality of modern AI generators. Findings of this paper suggest that AI externalizes ideation process demanding enhanced capacity for strategic unpredictability, conceptualization and aesthetical evaluations. Advancing integration of AI within conceptual architectural design demands further development of creative intelligence that will facilitate requirements and limitations of collaborative human-AI ecosystem.

Keywords: artificial intelligence, creativity, architectural design, design, education

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Poturak, S. (2025) ‘The Role of Creativity in Integrating Artificial Intelligence within Conceptual Architectural Design‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 157–164. 

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Vesna Stojaković, Isidora Đurić, Marko Jovanović, Igor Kekeljević, Tijana Palkovljević Bugarski, Aleksandra Čelovski

https://doi.org/10.60152/7z6zzl2u

Abstract: The application of artificial intelligence (AI) tools for image generation has become widely popular in recent years. AI-based visualization tools have become increasingly accessible, affordable, and capable, allowing image generation without complex 3D modeling. The rapid development of generative AI enables the production of visual content from simple input data such as text and images, significantly reducing the time and effort required while offering a broad range of interpretive possibilities. Although these tools are useful for artistic and creative explorations, in architectural visualization there is a major challenge of controlling space, shapes, and elements in the resulting image. A series of generated visualizations are tested, illustrating the strengths, limitations, and interpretive flexibility of AI tools in architectural visualization. This paper explores the potential of AI tools for visualization and architectural representation. The aim of this paper is to analyze how to control the process of AI image generation in order to create meaningful results that support architectural visualization and the virtual reconstruction of under-documented or lost heritage spaces. The workflow is tested in the field of cultural heritage by producing historically valid visuals of 18th-century castle interiors in Vojvodina, Serbia. For many of these structures, especially their interiors, very limited documentation exists regarding their original appearance. While some have been completely demolished, others have undergone significant alterations due to functional changes over time. Virtual reconstructions of richly decorated historical interiors, based solely on textual descriptions or scarce photographic records, pose a significant challenge to experts including architects, conservators, and art historians. Traditional 3D modeling for visualizing lost or altered spaces is highly time-consuming and requires advanced technical skills.

Keywords: artificial intelligence (AI), architecture, visualization, cultural heritage

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Stojaković, V., Đurić, I., Jovanović, M., Kekeljević, I., Palkovljević Bugarski, T. and Čelovski, A. (2025) ‘Artificial Intelligence Tools in the Visualization and Architectural Reinterpretation‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 148–156. 

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Timo Carl, Renate Weissenböck, Carsten Rohde

https://doi.org/10.60152/0dojw0e9

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping architectural design by opening new avenues for visual ideation while introducing conceptual and technical challenges that surpass traditional computational methods. Tools like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and StyleGAN facilitate rapid image generation, enabling intuitive exploration of form and atmosphere. Yet, scholars highlight that AI-generated imagery often tends toward superficial aesthetics, hyperrealism, and lack of spatial reasoning, raising concerns about its architectural substance. Therefore, it is indicated to employ a hybrid approach that enhances design ideation while maintaining architectural intentionality – offering a model for “architectural intelligence”. Based on these observations, we developed a pedagogical framework that addresses the aforementioned limitations while preserving the open-ended and exploratory nature of design. This was tested in an interdisciplinary design seminar, emphasizing iterative feedback loops and reflection in action, fostering conceptual thinking, critical assessment, and design agency. Aiming to develop a balance between control and creative discovery in the use of generative AI, the seminar brief intentionally omitted a predefined program and site. Instead, students explored human-AI co-design strategies across three architectural interconnected scales: urban (Constellation), building (Body), and material and texture (Surface). AI tools – including text-to-image and fine-tuning techniques – were interlaced with analog and digital media such as sketching, collaging, and 3D modelling.

Keywords: artificial intelligence in architecture; architectural design education; generative design tools; ai assisted ideation; pedagogical frameworks, hybrid design methodologies

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Carl, T., Weissenböck, R. and Rohde, C. (2025) ‘Into the Open: Towards an Educational Framework for AI-Assisted Design in Architecture‘, in R. Bogdanović (ed.) On Architecture — Crosscutting and Fusion of Disciplines, Proceedings. Belgrade, Serbia: STRAND, pp. 139–147. 

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