CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
1998 CELA Conference
RE: SEARCH
The Generation of Knowledge in Landscape Architecture
Sponsor: The University of Texas at Arlington, Graduate Program in Landscape Architecture
Co-Sponsors: ISOMUL (The International Studygroup for the Multiple Use of Land)
The Texas Chapter, ASLA
Conference Hotel: Arlington (Texas) Marriott
Phone: 817-261-8200
Fax: 817-548-2885
(Please note the change in hotels, from the Downtown Radisson
in Ft. Worth, to the Arlington Marriott)
It is time to revisit research as an issue in landscape architecture, this time as a theme for CELA. The 1998 CELA Conference encourages traditional, iconoclastic and irreverent views of research as criteria for conference participation. Conference planners will select not only examples of research and research strategies, it will seek examples of meta-research, or research about research in landscape architecture.
Through our colleagues in ISOMUL, the 1998 CELA Conference will bring together scholars from many countries, in each of which the status of landscape architecture research is different. Thus, we can expect a range of paper and presentation topics.
As of the deadline for abstracts over 130 submissions have been received, both for the CELA Conference and the extended ISOMUL conference. Final determination of presentations will be made according to the Submission and Review Schedule.
Conference planners at UT-Arlington and at ISOMUL (based at the Agricultural University of the Netherlands) have envisioned among themselves dozens of topics which they consider timely to the theme RE: SEARCH. First, the conference sub theme--The Generation of Knowledge in Landscape Architecture--is meant to be comprehensive, including the development, the execution, the diffusion, the dissemination, and the application of knowledge in landscape architecture. Following are but some of the other possible topics which conference planners expect to see presented or discussed at the 1998 Conference. Please note that because of the involvement of international colleagues, the terms "planning" and "design" in this list are considered somewhat synonymous with landscape architecture.
* Applied research in planning and design
* Basic research in planning and design
* Humankind and nature: mutually exclusive or one-in-the same?
* From research to practice: how does it happen?
* From practice to the university: how does it happen?
* Original research in landscape architecture: does it exist?
* Does landscape architecture have its own body of knowledge?
* The role of descriptive or critical research
* Paradigm shifts in planning and design research
* Landscape theories: data or opinion?
* Research credentials for landscape architecture faculty
* The teaching of research methods
* Research models
* Undergraduate research
* Causes and stimulants to planning: resource scarcity verses coercion
* Market-related planning and design
* Conflict between governments and people: their impact upon research
* Top-down modeling/bottom-up modeling/mixed models in landscape
architecture research
* Multiple land-use: still useful in planning and design?
* Private sector stimulants to planning and design
* Landscape architecture research: behavioral science approaches
* Landscape architecture research: natural science approaches
* Quantitative or qualitative methods?
* The synapse professions: who connects the research functions?
* Acceptance and resistance to research
* International and cultural differences (similarities) in research models and
applications
* Sponsored research: opportunity or albatross?
* The design thesis versus the research thesis
* "Hard" science or "soft" science in planning and design research?
* Applying research standards to design disciplines
* The practitioner, the school, the agency: who does research?
Again, the list is a by-product of discussions leading-up to the 1998 Conference proposal. Conference planners have been pleased that most of the abstracts received reflect many of these topics. The creative linkage you demonstrate between your own interests and the 1998 Conference theme is what is most important to CELA and to ISOMUL.
Submission and Review Schedule:
Deadlines for submitting abstracts: Friday, January 23, 1998
Notice of acceptance or rejection of
abstracts: Monday, March 23, 1998
Deadline to resubmit final version
of abstracts: Friday, May 16, 1998
Deadline for submitting papers: To be determined
Proposals: The submission of an abstract is considered a proposal for papers. Whether or not a proposal is selected for presentation either with other related papers, for exclusive presentation, for a Plenary Session before the entire conference, or as a paper for publication, will be determined after final reviews of the completed papers. Therefore, as the proper first step, abstracts are welcomed from all proposers including: students (undergraduate and graduate;) faculty; private practitioners; public practitioners; and, related professionals.
Submission Categories and Guidelines:
Standard Papers (Twenty minutes, including discussion). These papers will be presented during the regularly scheduled two hour Paper Sessions, shared with up to five other individuals or teams, each having twenty minutes. Abstracts for these papers can be no more than 400 words, not including the reference list. Text should be single spaced, with double spaces between references.
Featured Papers (Fifty-five minutes, including discussion). These papers will be presented during two hour Paper Sessions, shared with one other individual or team, each having fifty-five minutes. Abstracts for featured papers can be no more than 1000 words, not including the reference list. Text should be single spaced, with double spaces between references.
Student Papers (Twenty minutes, including discussion). These papers will be presented during the regularly scheduled two hour Paper Sessions, shared with up to five other individuals or teams, each having twenty minutes. Abstracts for student papers can be no more than 400 words, not including the reference list. Text should be single spaced, with double spaces between references. NOTE: Because student abstracts are apt to cover research being completed in 1998, they can be submitted as late as Friday, May 15, 1998. Student proposals or research which is on-going during Fall of 1998, can be submitted no later than Friday, September 25, 1998. But, no more than six abstracts can be selected from those submitted by this date. Unfortunately, abstracts submitted for either the May 15 or September 25 dates cannot be included in the Abstracts Publication, to be distributed at the CELA registration. In order to be included in this document, student abstracts must meet the regular deadline for abstracts, of Friday, January 23, 1998.
Because student involvement is important at CELA Conferences, conference planners will consider any reasonable request aimed at broadening the submission rate of student abstracts, or otherwise adding to conference participation by worthy student scholars.
Panel Discussions or Workshops (One hour or two hour formats, including discussion) These presentations will be made during the regularly scheduled two hour Paper Sessions. Designed to encourage collaboration between two or more colleagues, this presentation category is limited and therefore highly competitive. Abstracts for this category can be no more than 600 words, not including the reference list. Text should be single spaced, with double spaces between references.
Poster Presentations (To be displayed in a public forum at the CELA Conference.) These presentations are designed to encourage individual expression--in graphic form--of works related to the conference theme. Presenters selected to display work should be available to interpret or explain the work during refreshment breaks or other informal times during the conference. Abstracts for posters can be no longer than 400 words, nor more than two pages depending upon drawings, photos or continuity needed to explain the work.
Videos (Not to exceed thirty minutes in length, including discussion.) Video presentations include videotapes, CDs, canned-and-taped slide presentations, film and other related audio-visual media. All videos accepted for presentation must be accompanied by someone involved in its presentation. Abstracts can be no more than 400 words nor more than two pages, depending upon the graphics needed to explain the work.
Format for Abstracts Text for all abstracts will be single spaced, with double spaces between references. Margins should be 1.5 inches at the top and left margins, and 1 inch on the bottom and right margins. CELA uses the Chicago Manual of Style as its standard.
Name(s) and address(s) of the author(s) should not appear on the abstract. However, this and other information must appear on a copy of the attached Cover Page for Abstracts, required with all submissions.
The title of the work should appear above the body of the abstract, at the top against the left margin, using a 14 point font, Times New Roman preferred. The body of the abstract should be single spaced using a 12 point font, Times New Roman preferred.
Two (2) "hard" copies of the abstract should be submitted, along with two completed copies of the Cover Page for Abstracts, all post-marked on or before the due date. No E-mail or diskette copies of abstracts will be accepted for this original submission. Electronic data will be required, however, of abstracts and papers selected for presentation at the 1998 CELA Conference. Specifications for these data will be forthcoming.
Equipment Two carousel slide projectors will be provided for each break-out session at the conference. Two VCRs and monitors, and two Dukane computer projection panels, will be available on a reservation basis for use at the conference. All other equipment, such as laptop computers, necessary to support presentations--including VIDEO presentations--must be provided by presenters.
You may direct all inquiries regarding presentations at the conference to:
Prof. Richard C. Rome, Review Chair
Program in Landscape Architecture
University of Texas
PO Box 19108
Arlington, Texas 76019-0108
phone: 817-272-2801
fax: 817-272-5098
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