Call for Submissions
To foster discussion on Integration and Innovation, the BTES 2019 Conference Committee seeks papers and projects on a broad range of topics that address the external forces advancing our work, as well as the internal inventiveness driving our research and our pedagogies. How can our spaces, organizational structures, and pedagogical platforms create new interdisciplinary approaches to problem framing and solving? How might experiencing physical construction cultivate new collaborative understandings and stimulate new forms of design knowledge? And how might new visualization and analysis technologies provide a platform for emergent forms of communication to better facilitate this integration? Papers and projects that address the interaction, collision, and synthesis of diverse knowledge stocks are particularly welcome, but we look forward to a broad mix of approaches that will encourage interaction and inspiration, argument and debate.
Paper and project submissions are intended to explore projects, pedagogies, methodologies, research, and best practices in building technology education. Papers and projects across all thematic categories will be reviewed by subject matter experts to provide content-specific peer review. All submitted papers and projects should refer to and build on relevant scholarly literature within their respective fields including practice, research, education, and design.
Paper Submission Process
Authors are asked to submit a 500 word abstract, supporting images, and keywords. Based upon keywords, papers will be tracked into one of nine peer-review session topics. Papers will be reviewed in a two-stage process. Abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed by subject matter experts. Reviewers will be asked to evaluate abstracts and papers based on relevance to the conference and track theme as well as the paper’s innovativeness, conceptual grounding, rigor of methodology, quality of evidence presented, importance of findings, and clarity of communication. Selected proposals will be developed through a round of full paper peer review with final papers submitted 2 months prior to the conference.
Session Topics will be curated by keywords into the following peer-review streams:
- Materials + Construction Techniques
- Structures
- Energy + Systems
- Landscape Technologies
- Computational Design + Analysis
- Design/Build
- Professional Practice
- Pedagogy
- Open
Integration + Innovation Exhibit, Design Building Gallery
June 16 – July 14, 2018
Exhibit Poster Submission Process: Project posters may describe complete research, design, or pedagogical work, or may provide insight into works in progress. A curated Integration + Innovation exhibit of accepted posters will be hung in the Design Building Gallery. Authors will be required to submit a 500-word abstract and a 24″ x 36″ portrait-format poster. Project posters will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Evaluation will based on both content and visual communication. Selection for the exhibit will be based on innovation, clarity, and relevance to the conference theme.
Submission Schedule
- July 2018 Call for Papers and Posters Announced
- September 2018: Paper Abstract Submission Portal Open
October 1, 2018: Paper Abstract Submission Deadline- October 10, 2018: Paper Abstract Submission Deadline Extended!
- Early November 2018: Exhibit Poster Submission Portal Open
- November 2018: Preliminary notification to Paper authors
- December 1, 2018: Exhibit Poster Submission Deadline (new deadline)
- December 2018: Preliminary notification to Exhibit Poster authors (new date)
- February 18, 2019: Full Papers and Posters Due (NEW DATE)
- March 22, 2019: Notification of Paper and Poster acceptance
- April 19, 2019: Final Revised Papers and Posters Due
- May 3, 2019: Deadline for Accepted Authors to Register (new date)
- June 2019: Poster Exhibit hung in Design Building Gallery
- June 20-21: Paper and Poster Sessions
2019 BTES Conference Call for Submissions
See detailed formatting requirements on Submission portal instructions page