General

The submission system will go live on Friday 1 May.

In line with FABRICATE precedent, all submissions must present innovation and or advancement on any aspect of the design and fabrication of built projects, involving either completed built projects, substantially prototyped projects, or stages in between. We particularly encourage submissions that speak to advances in fabrication and production methods, craft, ethics, circularity, democratisation of tools, material intelligence, reuse and localisation. We especially encourage experimental submissions from authors, institutions, industries and locations that have not submitted before.

All projects should be submitted using our online submission page on EasyChair.

No submissions will be accepted by email or post.

Submitted papers must not have been previously published, accepted for publication, or be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

All authors will need to agree to the Terms & Conditions document on EasyChair which covers intellectual property and copyright issues.

All submissions should be BLIND with no mentions of authors’ names, institutions, collaborators, etc on any part of the submission, including document name.

Authors must disclose if AI tools have been used in the production of any part of the submission text or images. Undeclared use of AI may result in the paper being rejected.

Following stage one submission, all submissions will undergo a double-blind peer review process from a pool of over 50 international peer reviewers. Coordinated by the Conference Chairs and Founding Chairs, submissions will be evaluated based on originality, rigor, relevance to the conference vision and contribution to design research and practice on how built constructs are made.

Based on peer review evaluation, 32 projects will be selected for stage two full paper submission.

Submission stage 1 — Abstracts

• You are asked to submit a single .PDF file with an abstract of 600-800 words with 10-15 embedded images that declare and clearly demonstrate the specific research innovation as built, and in the development of being built. High quality images of design and fabrication processes should predominate the selection, with 3-4 images of the work as complete.
• Use images that are available in high resolution should your work be selected for inclusion in the publication. Renderings will not be accepted. 
• Any image references and copyrights have to be cleared by the author prior to submission.
• Abstracts should be structured as follows:

1. 1. 1. Project Description and Aims
      2. Research Question/Challenge
      3. Research Methods
      4. Research Outcomes and Relevance 

• Abstracts should be named as follows: “F27_”projectname”_”date”. Embedded images should be named fig_001, fig_002, fig_003”, etc

Submission stage 2 — Full papers (only for 32 selected)

If your project is one of the 32 selected for acceptance, you are asked to submit a full paper as a single .zip file containing the following THREE items:

— the text in .doc format

— a folder with 10-15 images in high resolution

— a separate text file with image captions and credits

Text

The text should be 2,000-2,500 words long and be submitted in .doc

It should be in UK English and written in third person.

Please do not use footnotes or endnotes. You are welcome to include references at the end of the text, using the Harvard referencing style.

Images

You are asked to resubmit 10-15 high resolution or raw image files as well as a separate text file with image captions and credits. These can be more up to date images to replace those submitted at stage one.

The images should be named after the project title, followed by a number (i.e “my_project_title-1.tiff”,“my_project_title-2.tiff etc.)

The image captions and credits should also follow the same numbering.

All image references and copyrights should be cleared by the author prior to submission.