Special Session Organiser: Prof. Antonino Saggio, La Sapienza University, Italy

One possible definition of Modernity relates it to the concept of Crisis. Thinking along these lines, “Modernity is the effort to answer to crisis and in so doing urges and promotes the necessity of new Aesthetics”

I am putting in words a way of thinking that has different master thinkers, but that motivated the theoretical effort that is behind “IT Revolution in Architecture”. For Crisis, I intend the historical process of transformation from the Industrial Paradigm to an Informational one; for Modernity I intend the positive effort to address the crisis in front of us putting at the center Information Technological, not because we like it but because IT is the propellant of our times. The results bring “Revolutionary” aspects in considering the historical magnitude of the shifts in front of us.

Now, this special session of the conference on Intelligent Environments called “Crisis Modernity and Information Technology” is looking specifically for contributions that address the just described crucial relationships.

In other words, the stress of the papers should be put (a) “In a situation of crisis” (pollution, poverty, emergence for disasters, risks of different nature and sorts, atmospheric or land situation etceteras) and (b) in addressing the crisis situation with an intelligent and creative use of Information Technology.

The case studies and projects can be at a very large territorial scale or at minimum scale of object design. The issue to establish in the paper is how Information Technology is crucial in addressing and solving the issue.

IT has not to be only a toy for the houses of the richest but a crucial tool in the growth of humanity. Right?

Instructions for Manuscripts

Authors are requested to submit a PDF file for their manuscript. The paper should not be more than 10 pages long and has to follow strictly The Institution og Engineerinf and Technology's guidelines which are available at http://www.iee.org/Events/ConfExh/layout.pdf

All manuscripts should be Emailed to the special session organizer at the following email: antonino.saggio@fastwebnet.it. All manuscripts should be received by the workshop deadline for paper submission which is the 4th April 2006.

For more information please contact:
Prof. Antonino Saggio - antonino.saggio@fastwebnet.it, Dipartimento di ARCHITETTURA, Facoltà di Architettura L. Quaroni, Università «La Sapienza», Roma – Italia