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  • ACSF Updates
The Critical Conversations Project: Spiritual Approaches to the Built Environment
  • by: ACSF
  • Award Recipients
Alberto Campo Baeza Wins the 2023 ACSF Award For Outstanding Achievement
  • by: ACSF
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Community Engagement & the Design Studio: Communion by Doing
  • by: Julia W. Robinson
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Can We Use Empirical Means to Understand Sacred Architecture? A Neurophenomenological Approach
  • by: Julio Bermudez & Yoshio Nakamura
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Vitruvius’ Spiritual Perception of Matter
  • by: Stephane Gaulin-Brown
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Bridging the Connection
  • by: John A. Ferri
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Bringing Contemplative Design Tools for Flourishing to Practicing Designers and Design Students
  • by: Sarika Bajoria
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Missing Links in Designing Space for Mindfulness in Secular & Collective Settings: Time, Movements, Perceived Space, & Subject-Object Blurriness
  • by: Yoko Kawai
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Sacred Space in the Metaverse
  • by: William Green, Kim Grinfeder, Denis Hector
  • Symposia Papers & Works
External Destruction And Internal Chaos To Psychological And Spiritual Redemption
  • by: Elizabeth Danze
  • Symposia Papers & Works
False Communion: Misappropriation of the Sacred
  • by: Kyle Dugdale
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Meditations on the Spiritual Nature of Space
  • by: Dennis Alan Winters
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and Church
  • by: Reza Asssai
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Upasana Griha, Shantiniketan, India: A Spiritual Sanctuary
  • by: Amita Sinha
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Redundant religious heritage: from burdensome legacy to plentiful resource
  • by: Andrea Longhi
  • Symposia Papers & Works
After the Hand: The Growing Autonomy of Self-Expression in a Post-Craft World
  • by: Allen Pierce
  • Symposia Papers & Works
From Community Kitchen to Oxygen Langar… (Re)Discovering New Patterns of Communion in the Spiritual Legacy & Architecture of the Golden Temple
  • by: Pushpinder Walia
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Preaching as Communion: The Power of the Sermon in the Black Churches of New Orleans
  • by: Jill Bambury
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Leveraging Design and Architecture for Social Change Through Faith-Oriented Large-Scale Community Events
  • by: Joshua Zinder
  • Symposia Papers & Works
Does the Urban Street Provide a Space for Spiritual Meandering?
  • by: Alison B. Snyder