FORUM A+P

23/01/2026

Forum A+ P.vol 29

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“Planning in the Polycrisies era”

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03/12/2025

FORUM N.31 //Call for PAPERS // Now Online
You can find all necessary information in the following link:
Link in Bio : https://forumap.org/submissions/

The Forum AP #31: Liminal Void: Designing the In-Between investigates the spatial and perceptual potentials of voids within the built environment, emphasizing their role as active elements in the composition of architectural and experiential narratives. The study frames the liminal void not as a passive absence, but as a generative condition that exists between form and function, material and immaterial, intention and interpretation.
This research bridges architectural theory, spatial design, and artistic installation practices to explore how threshold spaces and momentary pauses—can be intentionally crafted to evoke reflection, tension, and spatial continuity. Drawing from phenomenology, minimalism, and critical spatial practice, the work examines how the manipulation of scale, proportion, light, and texture can give physical and emotional weight to negative space.

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10/10/2025

Forum A+ P.vol 28
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Design for the new world (s)

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15/01/2025

FORUM N.30 //Call for PAPERS // Now Online
You can find all necessary information in the following link:
Link in Bio : https://forumap.org/submissions/

The Forum AP #30 is centered around the fluid realm of creative professions, the paradoxical dance between the pursuit of the new and the cyclic nature of creation unfolds. We embark on a journey to explore the delicate interplay of creativity and the relentless quest for novelty while confronting a vital question: Does the contemporary world provide a space for genuine progress and the creation of new ideas, or is creative work confined to the ephemeral pursuit of temporary trends?

As architects, we navigate the unpredictable currents of inspiration, responding to the whispers of history, culture, and environment. The act of creation is an unpredictable journey, a dance with chaos that yields the most profound innovations. Embrace the uncertainty, for it is within the unknown that the seeds of novelty are sown.
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29/03/2024

📢 Exciting News Alert! 🚀

Issue number 27 of FORUM A+P, titled "Venturing into the Age of AI: Insights and Perspectives," curated by Dr. Valerio Perna and Dr. Ledian Bregasi, is finally out!

This issue delves deep into the fascinating intersection of architecture and the evolving cultural ethos in the age of artificial intelligence (AI). The call for scholarly submissions provocatively interrogated the inherent connection between architecture and the pervasive influence of intelligence extending into its spheres. 🏙️💡

Architecture, as a tangible expression of societal mores, is intricately linked to the ongoing reassessment of these mores amidst the dynamic currents of societal dilemmas, preferences, and apprehensions. 🔄💭

Read the issue here: https://press.universitetipolis.edu.al/book/forum-ap-vol-27/?grid_referrer=2146

Get ready to immerse yourself in thought-provoking insights and perspectives that navigate the intricate landscapes of AI and architecture. 🌐✨ Grab your copy now and let's embark on this exciting journey together! +P

Universiteti Polis

15/01/2024

📢 Calling all visionaries and design enthusiasts! 🌐✨

Our journal, FORUM A+P - Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Urban Environment, edited by Universiteti Polis, is gearing up for its Issue 28, and we want YOUR insights to shape the conversation!

This edition's theme is "Design for the New Worlds," inspired by the vibrant discussions and groundbreaking ideas exchanged during Tirana Design Week 2023. Hosted in September last year in the heart of Tirana, this event organized by POLIS University brought together brilliant minds to explore the future of architecture and urban environments.

We invite you to contribute your unique perspectives, innovative concepts, and creative solutions to this exciting discourse! Whether you're an architect, urban planner, designer, or simply passionate about the future of our world, your voice matters.

The clock is ticking, but there's still time to send in your contributions! Don't miss the chance to be featured in a journal that's at the forefront of interdisciplinary dialogue.

More info (guidelines, format, etc.( can be found at the following address: https://press.universitetipolis.edu.al/forum-ap/

FORUM N.28 //Call for PAPERS // Online
You can find all necessary information in the following link:
From the call: https://press.universitetipolis.edu.al/forum-ap/ #1699551791330-06ef640e-fd6e

FORUM A+P is calling for contributions from academics, researchers, and PhD students who have explored these issues in their doctoral theses as solo authors.
We invite essays that focus on any field related to the emergent transformative possibilities, technologies, projects, and research that not only push the boundaries of design and production but also redefine the discipline focusing on ethics, morality, values, and alternative practices and different solutions for the future.
The goal is to be disruptive, developing new speculative design for a positive change considering a diverse array of research approaches, in order to impact and influence the discipline of architecture and its broader societal context.
Speculative design imagines future scenarios and questions their implications with a clear objective: to identify the best direction and define actions to take it starting today.
Researchers and scholars are encouraged to submit essays that shed light on innovative perspectives and approaches that alternative technologies bring to architectural design. This involves exploring their potential to revolutionize the future scenarios while being attentive to the ethical considerations that may arise. By fostering a critical dialogue, this issue aims to deepen the understanding of the implications and challenges presented by speculative design in architecture, ultimately promoting a more inclusive and socially conscious architectural practice.

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08/01/2024

24/01/2023

FORUM N.26 //Call for PAPERS // Now Online
You can find all necessary information in the following link:
Link in Bio : https://forumap.org/submissions/
Scientific research’ has gained a special, all-pervasive status in architecture, both in academia and practice. From digital modeling to tenure dossiers, from building performance to invocations of AI, from grant writing to politicians’ electoral statements, ‘scientific research’ holds a special value, that of self-legitimation. While a particular ‘scientific’ research may be judged in terms of its scientificity, the value of the ‘scientific’ as such is rarely questioned. The ‘privilege’ of the ‘scientific’ (in) research lies in its presumed objectivity, universality, and hence, in its claim to truth. Paradoxically, it is in such claim that lies research’s commodification and politicization. Could there be, one wonders, a ‘non-scientific’ research that would offer a different (claim to) truth from the ‘scientific’ one? There might well be, but, albeit, at the expense of no funding… The very drive toward scientific objectivity seems to trigger an explosion and dispersion of different kinds of research, or “language games” – to borrow a term from Lyotard, which seem to undermine the very possibility of a scientificity that would govern and unify all the different research dialects. In How to Write a Thesis Umberto Eco made quite an operative and a rather postmodernistically relaxed argument when he argued that for research to be scientific it must:
·      deal “with a specific object, defined so that others can identify it.”
·      say “things that have not yet been said about this object, or it revises things that have already been said from a different perspective.”
·      be “useful to others.”
·      and provide “the elements required to verify ot disprove the hypotheses it presents, and therefore it provides the foundation for future research”
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24/12/2022

FORUM A+P -Interdisplinary Journal of Architeture and Built Environment Of POLIS University.
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-Board of Editors
-Board Meeting
23 December
-Sotir Dhamo, Besnik Aliaj, Ledian Bregasi,Skender Luarasi, Valerio Perna, Kristiana Meço, Ermal Hoxha, Keti Hoxha, Franklind Jesku
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FORUM A+P marks a new milestone as the Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment of POLIS University and will built up on it’s experience for more
than a decade into a new dimension of internationalization.

01/10/2022

FORUM A+P -Interdisplinary Journal of Architeture and Built Environment Of POLIS University.
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-Board of Editors
-Board Meeting
-Sotir Dhamo, Besnik Aliaj, Ledian Bregasi,Skender Luarasi, Valerio Perna, Elona Karafili, Kristiana Meço
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FORUM A+P marks a new milestone as the Interdisciplinary Journal of Architecture and Built Environment of POLIS University and will built up on it’s experience for more
than a decade into a new dimension of internationalization.

24/09/2022

Forum A+P vol.23 is now on printed version.

13/07/2022

FORUM N.25// Call for PAPERS // Now Online
You can find all necessary information in the following link:
Link in Bio : https://forumap.org/submissions/

Nr. 25 Going high! The pros and cons of city verticalization.
Guest Editors: Fabrizio Aimar, Ermal Hoxha, Keti Hoxha
Main topic: The high-rise is recognized worldwide as a symbol of ‘progress’ and ‘technological’ power, an ‘urban monument’ capable of turning the spotlight on itself, bearing praise and criticism [1].
No doubt, by its sheer size and shape, the skyscraper is first of all and inevitably a sign, minimally a sign of itself, even (or especially) when its referentiality is putatively kept at a minimum.
Yet, no sooner has the skyscraper announced its absolute, vertical self-referentiality than it starts to work laterally and horizontally, to conjure, structure, and mobilize a field of other signs, objects, contexts, neighbourhoods, buildings, styles, cultures, technics, knowledge, ideologies, and desires.
Consequently, the call for papers aims to inquire and speculate about the skyscraper as a global condition yet framed from the context of an unbridled verticalization of the city of Tirana in the last two decades, and how such phenomenon is currently affecting and will bear on the transformation of the city.
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