Study Architecture 
ProPEL Schedule-at-a-Glance
Below is the Schedule-at-a-Glance. To see the full schedule along with session descriptions and research abstracts, click the daily schedule. The conference schedule is subject to change. Please check back for the most up-to-date information.
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4:00pm-5:30pm EDT /
1:00pm-2:30pm PDT
Pre-Conference
Workshop
11:00am-12:00pm EDT /
8:00am-9:00am PDT
Plenary
Opening Keynote
Expanding the View of the Profession
– COFFEE BREAK –
Session I
Session II
Session III
Session IV
Session V
12:30pm-1:30pm EDT /
9:30am-10:30am PDT
Special Focus Sessions
Grounding: Seeding Long-Term Change in a Time of Reaction
On Constructing a Digital Archive
Teaching Suburbia Now
Pulling Back the Curtain: TAD – Matter and Methods
Questions for Architectural Research in Hybrid Reality
– COFFEE BREAK –
2:00pm-3:30pm EDT /
11:00am-12:30pm PDT
Research Sessions
Environmental Logics
Emergent Production Modes
Theory
New Modalities
Addressing the Common Good
90-minute
Lounge & Tour
Networking & Exhibitor Lounge
Tour
St. Louis Architecture and Urbanism
5:00pm-6:30pm EDT /
2:00pm-3:30pm PDT
Research Sessions
Craft and Material in Design
Technology-Enabled Spatial Productions
Inclusion
Urban Pedagogies
Engaged Practices and Projects
Session I
Session II
Session III
Session IV
Session V
11:00am-12:00pm EDT /
8:00am-9:00am PDT
Special Focus Sessions
Encountering Architecture: The Future of Fieldwork in Architecture Education
Speculative Practice in Pedagogy
Federal and State Advocacy: Bringing it to the Studio
Careers in Architectural Education: Distinguished Professors Posit the Future
Advancing Scholarship on Equity and Justice in Built Environment
– COFFEE BREAK –
12:30pm-2:00pm EDT /
9:30am-11:00am PDT
Research Sessions
Beyond Normative in Design
Teaching Ecological Matters
Culture & Heritage
Mediations
Justice, Memory, and Design
90-minute
Lounge & Tour
Networking & Exhibitor Lounge
TOUR
Cultural Preservation as Community Development: Workshop with 4theVille
3:30pm-5:00pm EDT /
12:30pm-2:00pm PDT
Research Sessions
Scales of Urbanity
Tracing Resources
Criticism
Inclusive Pedagogies
Building Bridges, Building Community
– COFFEE BREAK –
5:30pm-7:00pm EDT /
2:30pm-4:00pm PDT
Plenary
2021 Architectural Education Awards
Awards Toast & Topaz Keynote: Kathryn H. Anthony
Session I
Session II
Session III
Session IV
Session V
11:00am-12:00pm EDT /
8:00am-9:00am PDT
Special Focus Sessions
The Divided City // Pedagogical Explorations of Spatial Injustice in and with St. Louis
Remembering for the Future: Using Storytelling in Design to Engage Complicated Histories
Implementing 2020 Conditions & Procedures: NAAB
Course Development Prize: Architecture, Climate Change, and Society
– COFFEE BREAK –
12:30pm-2:00pm EDT /
9:30am-11:00am PDT
Research Sessions
Activist Architectures
History
Pedagogical Innovations
Expanding Urban Agencies
Material Practice
90-minute
Lounge & Workshop
Networking & Exhibitor Lounge
Workshop
Grounding Mass Timber: Experiments, Environments, Ethics
3:30pm-5:00pm EDT /
12:30pm-2:00pm PDT
Research Sessions
Design Process and Methods
Embedded Pedagogies
Engaged Urban Practices
Emerging Healthy Environments Methodologies
Agency in Practice
– COFFEE BREAK –
5:30pm-7:00pm EDT /
2:30pm-4:00pm PDT
Plenary
Tau Sigma Delta, Gold Medal Keynote
Closing Keynote: Johnpaul Jones
3:00pm-4:30pm EDT /
12:00pm-1:30pm PDT
Post-Conference
Webinar
FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021
3:00pm-6:00pm EDT /
12:00pm-3:00pm PDT
Post-Conference
Workshop
Alternative Frameworks for Architectural Practice: The Cooperative Network
Conference Partners
Allison Smith
Programs Manager
202-785-2324
asmith@acsa-arch.org
Eric W. Ellis
Director of Operations and Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
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