Background

This conference explores innovative design approaches that respond to emerging global challenges such as rapid urbanization, climate change, technological advancements, and cultural transformations. It highlights the vital role of architecture, interior design, industrial design, and cinematic arts in crafting visionary solutions that shape a sustainable, resilient future for generations to come. Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to address these challenges and create a more harmonious, adaptable built environment.

This conference seeks to address the impact of emerging technologies on creating novel approaches for the design and configuration of urban landscapes, buildings, interior spaces, and a wide range of products. The conference aims to provide a forum for debating the nexus between emerging technologies and the everlasting needs of human-sensitized environments and products that generate collaboration, equity, and healthy citizen engagement. The 2nd ARCH and DESN International Conference invites contributions from academics and practitioners through presentations, seminars, research papers, workshops, and roundtables. It will bring together decision-makers, architects, interior designers, product designers, urban planners, urban designers, entrepreneurs, educators, agencies, and top keynote speakers to stimulate discussion covering the challenges and opportunities of using the different emerging technologies and how this shall impact the educational and professional domains of architecture, building science and technology, environmental design, mobility, infrastructure, urban design & landscape, housing & real estate developments, urban planning, governance, socio-cultural & economic development, community engagement, tourism, and heritage conservation.

Join us at the 4^th International Conference of Architecture and Design to explore the potential of emerging technologies for architecture and design. Let’s explore how to survive and thrive in this brave new digital world.

The Conference tracks include the following:

Track 1: Architecture

• Smart cities and resilient urban planning.
• Green architecture and carbon-neutral buildings.
• Integrating AI and technology in architectural design.
• Future-oriented housing solutions for urbanization challenges.

Track 2: Interior Design

• Innovations in sustainable materials and eco-friendly designs.
• Designing for adaptive and multifunctional spaces.
• Future trends in workspace and residential interiors.
• Technology integration in interior design for smart living.

Track 3: Industrial Design

• Designing products for a circular economy.
• Digital fabrication and advanced manufacturing techniques.
• Human-centered design for emerging technologies.
• Product design addressing environmental and social challenges.

Track 4: Cinematic Arts

• Visualizing the future through speculative and science fiction films.
• Innovations in digital production and virtual environments.
• Exploring environmental and social themes in storytelling.
• Interactive and immersive media for audience engagement.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically using the online conference system Easy Chair. If you have used this system before, you may use the same login details. If this is your first time using Easy Chair, you must create an Easy Chair Account at https://easychair.org/account/signup.cgi. Upon completion of registration, you will receive an email notification from Easy Chair, after which you must log in and submit your paper in PDF format.

Please follow the Springer format for structuring paper submissions.

Abstract: maximum of 500 words + keywords

Full Paper: maximum of 10 pages.

All papers will be reviewed through a blind review process.

• Accepted papers will be published in Springer Nature.

Committees

Conference Chair

• Prof. Asmaa Ibrahim

Scientific Committee

• Prof. Mohamed Fekry (Chair)
• Dr. Tame El Serafi (Co-Chair)
• Dr. Sajid Khalifa (Co-Chair)
• Dr. Ahmed Refaat (Co-Chair)
• Prof. Mostafa Yousry
• Prof. Nermine A. Abdelhalim
• Dr. Amgad Farghal

Organizing Committee

• Dr. Ibrahim Salih (Coordinator)
• Dr. Ahmed AbdelRazik(Coordinator)
• Ms. Mirhan Abu El Fadl
• Dr. Mohamed Ghazalah
• Dr. Hadeel Hesham
• Dr. Dina Mostafa
• Dr. Salman Asghar

Venue

The conference will be held at Effat Library & Cultural Museum, Effat University, Jeddah, KSA

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to mfekry@effatuniversity.edu.sa