Upcoming Event : Habitechno – Innovation in Housing and Human Settlement Technology, International Seminar, 11th November 2013

HABITechno seminar invites academic communities, from universities and other research institutions as well as from various disciplines, to present papers on innovations related to the response to challenges stated above in the development of housing and human settlement based on academic research and to share knowledge with others. This seminar is open to participants from various disciplines since innovation can be related to various aspects of housing and human settlement development; from planning to design aspects, in the management aspects, from engineering aspects to social aspects, from economic/financial views to institutional views.

Topics include, but not limited to:

Innovations for the provision of housing resources

Alternative approaches, methods, institutions, financial schemes, and others to provide housing resources – land, building materials, or financial capital.

Innovations for affordability

Building systems and housing affordability, low-cost housing technology, low-cost materials, appropriate financial schemes, affordable ownership schemes, delivery or provision schemes for housing and infrastructure affordability, and others.

Innovations for quality housing or quality improvements of human settlements

Dwelling quality and building systems, health and dwelling design, environmental design of dwelling, technologies of dwelling or infrastructure for socially acceptable housing, participations of stakeholders or development schemes for acceptable housing, communications in housing development for acceptable housing, planning concepts of settlement/housing environments and environmental quality, design concepts of housing and infrastructure for improving human settlements, socially acceptable mixed-strata housing development, and others.

Technologies for specific situations and specific dwellings

Disaster mitigation in housing and settlements, technology and dwelling design responses to disaster, infrastructure response to disaster, technology and local wisdom, housing for laborers, housing in transitional situations, and others.

This seminar will be held on 11th November 2013, Bandung, Indonesia.

Further information, please visits #Habitechno#