School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
Newcastle University, UK

Ethics & Aesthetics Of Architecture
Invited Keynote Speakers: Andrew Ballantyne, Newcastle University • Ian Buchanan, University of Wollongong • Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania • David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania
The subject of aesthetics is often taken as dealing with questions of mere beauty, where the word 'aesthetic' is colloquially interchangeable with beauty and liking. Even within the specialised architecture discourse, the aesthetic is largely discussed on the basis of an object's appearance. Yet, the aesthetic is not limited and should not be limited merely to the way things look. Any philosophically informed aesthetician will contest this limited view, saying something along the lines of 'the aesthetic is everything'. The aim of this conference is therefore in part to address this discursive limitation in architecture and related subjects by broadening the aesthetic discourse beyond questions relating to purely visual phenomena in order to include those derived from all facets of human experience.

Ethics & Aesthetics Of Landscape
Invited Keynote Speakers: Emily Brady, University of Edinburgh • Ian Ground, Sunderland University • Simon James, Durham University

Philosophical aesthetics has traditionally been more concerned with the judgement of artworks and the experience of art than with the natural beauty or the qualities of designed landscapes - or the sorts of experiences which such places might provide. Similarly, traditional ethics assigned intrinsic value and moral standing to humans alone and seemed incapable of addressing the harm which humans were capable of doing to the environment. Over the last forty years, both aesthetics and ethics have expanded their outlook in response to the widespread sense of environmental crisis. Environmental concerns have moved aesthetics away from an elite preoccupation with art, towards consideration of the quotidian, the everyday.

Ethics & Aesthetics Of Professional Practice Workshop
Invited Keynote Speakers: Tom Spector, Oklahoma State University
A practical workshop meant to investigate the ethics of working as an architect today, instructed by Dr. Tom Spector. The workshop is based on lectures that Onora O'Neill gave in 2002 and at the 'Architecture and its Ethical Dilemmas' conference in Cambridge in 2004.

Deadlines
Abstracts: 28 October 2011
Notification of Acceptance: 06 January 2012
Full Papers: 30 March 2012
Early Registration: 30 April 2012

Abstracts should be clearly marked with author(s) names, institutional affiliation(s), and strand and should be no more than 500 words. Authors of accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a full paper. Both the abstract and the full paper will be published in conference proceedings. Papers will be reviewed, but it is assumed that full papers are accepted once an abstract has been accepted. 
Please send submissions and inquiries to ispaconference@gmail.com