Submissions due: June 16, 2025, 11:59pm (CDT)
Call for Speakers | RUDC Symposium 2024
Symposium Date: October 28-29, 2025
Location: Dallas, Texas (in-person)
URBAN MORPHOSIS: Reimagining Cities through Adaptation
Cities are reinventing themselves in real time. Post-pandemic work patterns, generative AI economies, accelerating climate disaster impact events, and a nationwide affordability crisis are disrupting and, at the same time, opening new pathways to a more resilient urban future. The 2025 RUDC Symposium asks: What design, policy, and financial innovations can turn today's volatility and challenges in cities into a durable and sustainable urban form for the future?
Hosted by the AIA Regional and Urban Design Knowledge Community (RUDC), the symposium features fast-paced talks and dialogue with architects, urban designers, planners, technologists, community advocates, investors, and others. Speakers will deliver 10 to 12-minute presentations that address one of the four focused themes outlined below, each framed by open questions that reflect the pressing challenges of 2025.
- Theme 1: Downtowns After Disruption - Converting Vacancy to Vitality
- Theme 2: Social Infrastructure Reimagined - Designing for Health and Community
- Theme 3: Mobility Futures - Aligning Land Use, Transit, and Climate Goals
- Theme 4: Pinpoint Urbanism - Micro Interventions for Targeted Renewal
Theme 5: Open Topics - New Thoughts towards Reimagining Cities
SUBMIT YOUR IDEA:
And we want YOU! Our Call for Speakers is open through June 16, 2025, 11:59 pm (Central Daylight Time). All proposals are welcome. We encourage all disciplines, backgrounds, geographies, and experiences to submit. Those responding to this Call for Speakers must be available for an in-person presentation in Dallas on October 28-29, 2025. Sessions may be recorded.
We invite proposals that seek to respond to the urban impacts within one or more of the themes above. The proposals shall each be limited to a one-page summary, up to 600 words, noting which theme you have selected to address, along with a short bio, with additional exhibits as needed. The schedule and format will comprise short and provocative sessions, encouraging inspirational dialogue. The symposium will include presentations and panels based on selected topics and speakers.
Email questions to info@rudc-symposium.com.
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Luz Toro Intl. Assoc. AIA. CPNAA
Director, Climate Action Resilience Programs
The American Institute of Architects
Washington, DC
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