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| The
Architecture, Culture, and Spirituality Forum (ACSF) |
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forum for scholarship, education, practice, and advocacy regarding the
cultural and spiritual significance in the Built Environment |
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| Collected
Abstracts of the Thirteenth ACSF Symposium (May 31-June
4, 2023) |
| Edited
by Michael J. Crosbie, Roberto Chiotti, and Trent Smith (Symposium Chairs) |
| Note:
all submissions to the symposium underwent blind-peer review by at least 3
readers. Archived 05/09/2023 |
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| Symposium
Theme: New Patterns of Communion |
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| Paper
Session 1: Sanctuaries and Refuges (moderator: Caitlin
Watson) |
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| Michael J. Crosbie |
From
Heavenly Garden to COVID Haven: The Rural Cemetery as Bucolic Refuge |
| Samuel
Holleran |
Letters, Lines, and Lasers: Photo-Engraved Monuments,
Memory, and Image Moderation |
| Annette Homann |
Sanctuaries in Core and Conjunction |
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| Project
Session 1: Teaching and Building (moderator: Jill
Bambury) |
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| Isabel Potworowski |
Sacred
Space | Sacred Place: Pedagogical Reflections |
| Clive Knights |
Community and the Potential of the Restorative Fragment |
| Sanda Iliescu |
The Intertwining of the Sacred and the Secular |
| Jeff Dardozzi |
Mapping Theodicy: Building Through COVID |
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Session 2: Shared Space, Sacred and Profane (moderator:
Trent Smith) |
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| Nesrine Mansour |
Surreal
Transcendence: Exploration of The Sacred and Profane through Artificial
Intelligence |
| Anna Mette
Exner |
Connected |
| Anthony N.
Monica |
Transforming a University Covid Clinic into a Flexible
Space for Cross-Disciplinary Communion & Spiritual Renewal |
| Lucca Townsend |
Parkitecture: Sculpting spaces for shared experience
within urban landscapes |
| Maria
Bottiglieri |
The “Right to Adequate food” as a Driver of
Inter-cultural and inter-Religious Use of Public Space: The Experience of
Turin Open-City Before and After the Pandemic |
| Mark Pierson |
"Tea and Be": Pop-Up Built Environments for
Curated Tea Rituals that Encourage Human Connection and Flourishing |
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Session 2: Communion: The Civic Dimension (moderator:
Natalie Ellis) |
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| Miriam Gusevich |
Communion, Community, and the Commons: Reflections on the Public Domain |
| Alison B.
Snyder |
Does the Urban Street Provide a Space for Spiritual
Meandering? |
| Joshua Zinder |
Leveraging Design and Architecture for Social Change
Through Faith-Oriented Large-Scale Community Events |
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Session 3: Communion Through Community (moderator: Sanda
Illescu) |
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| Jill Bambury |
Preaching as Communion: The Power of the Sermon in the
Black Churches of New Orleans |
| Pushpinder
Walia |
From Community Kitchen to Oxygen Langar… (Re)Discovering
New Patterns of Communion in the Spiritual Legacy & Architecture of the
Golden Temple |
| Allen Pierce |
After the Hand: The Growing Autonomy of Self-Expression
in a Post-Craft World |
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Session 4: Sacred Heritage, Sacred Legacy (moderator:
Julio Bermudez) |
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| Andrea Longhi |
Redundant religious heritage: from burdensome legacy to
plentiful resource |
| Amita Sinha |
Upasana Griha, Shantiniketan, India: A Spiritual
Sanctuary |
| Reza Assasi |
Mithraic Influence on Early Christian Symbolism and
Church Architecture |
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Session 5: Spiritual Space and Beyond (moderator: Nader Ardalan) |
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| Dennis Alan Winters |
Meditations on the Spiritual Nature of Space |
| Kyle Dugdale |
False Communion: Misappropriation of the Sacred |
| Elizabeth
Danze |
External Destruction And Internal Chaos To Psychological
And Spiritual Redemption |
| William Green, Kim Grinfeder, and Denis Hector |
Sacred Space in the
Metaverse |
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Session 6: Balance, Contemplation, and Mindfulness (moderator:
Nesrine Mansour) |
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| Yoko Kawai |
Missing Links in Designing Space for Mindfulness in
Secular & Collective Settings: Time, Movements, Perceived Space, &
Subject-Object Blurriness |
| Sarika Bajoria |
Bringing Contemplative Design Tools for Flourishing to
Practicing Designers and Design Students |
| John A. Ferri |
Bridging the Connection |
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Session 7: Ancient and Contemporary Appraisals (moderator:
Tom Barrie) |
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| Stephane Gaulin-Brown |
Vitruvius’
Spiritual Perception of Matter |
| Julio Bermudez
and Yoshio Nakamura |
Can We Use Empirical Means to
Understand Sacred Architecture? A Neurophenomenological Approach |
| Julia W.
Robinson |
Community Engagement & the Design Studio: Communion by Doing |
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| Three Keynote Lectures |
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| Sharon Prince |
Hidden In Plain Sight: Architecture
and the Scourage of Modern-Day Slavery |
| Suchi Reddy |
Form Follows Feeling |
Alberto Campo Baeza
(2023 ACSF Outstanding Achievement Awardee) |
On Surrender and
Universality |
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