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The ATI conferences are organized by the Department of Architecture, Yasar University in Izmir, Turkey. The ATI2026 Conference ( https://ati.yasar.edu.tr/ ) addresses the use of innovative technologies in architectural design and education, through the following main themes: Production, Design and practice, Building science and technology, Community, space and culture, and Education. Important dates are as follows: 1st Round Abstract Submission Deadline - July 15, 2025 1st Round Abstract Acceptance Notification - September 1, 2025 2nd Round Abstract Submission Deadline - November 1, 2025 2nd Round Abstract Acceptance Notification - December 5, 2025 Full Paper Submission - March 1, 2026 Full Paper Acceptance Notification - May 15, 2026 ATI2026 Conference - October 7-9, 2026 The authors of selected papers will be invited to prepare an improved manuscript, to be submitted to the following Open Access Journals: VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability...

As Jean-Paul Sartre wrote, ‘to be dead is to be a prey for the living’ (1956, 593). The vulnerability of the dead, described by the French philosopher, applies to their memories as well as their bodies. Death is, indeed, not merely absence but requires us to face the materiality of the corpse. This one-day international conference intends to show that studying the nineteenth-century relationship to death, as an omnipresent – destructive, but familiar – reality, can inform our own contemporary attitudes and reveal how nineteenth-century representations still shape our own death culture.   The nineteenth-century Western world witnessed a shifting interest in the materiality of death and in the relationship between the living and the dead. The creation of cemeteries introduced a new ‘necrogeography’ (Laqueur 2015) and funeral trappings in turn reflected the social status of the departed. Death was further embodied in material objects, some of which were worn for th...