Smart Buildings and Territories: designing trustworthy and sustainable futures 

June 5th 2026, in Paris

Call for contributions

This multidisciplinary call invites submissions for a conference to be held in Paris at the initiative of the Institute for the Development of the Housing Sector and Organizations (IDFO), associate member of French Building Federation Great Paris Ile-de-France. The event aims to bring together an international network of researchers at the forefront of innovation in the housing sector, while fostering dialogue with professionals.

The conference seeks to foster sustainable and trust-based innovation projects by building bridges between research and practice, and by focusing on innovation (e.g., Building Information Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, city-scale Digital Twins, human flow monitoring...), decision-making processes, and human impacts throughout the lifecycle of these applications. This lifecycle covers the building design, its usage, but also interconnection between buildings through larger areas. We thus define Smart Territories as a complex socio-technical built environment combining human, material and digital interactions.

Submission Guidelines

Contributions are invited in the form of extended abstracts, subject to double-blind peer review (maximum length: 30,000 characters). Selected works will be presented at the conference either as short oral presentations or as posters.

The extended abstracts presented and corrected will be published as proceedings in a recognized open-science international journal (to be defined). A selection of contributions will be translated, made accessible to a wider audience, illustrated, and published in a white paper intended for French professionals.

Topics of Interest

Submissions may explore, but are not limited to, the core themes of Smart Buildings and Smart Territories, including both innovation and ethical issues. We warmly encourage submissions that present applied research projects, empirical approaches, original or innovative use cases, and practical demonstrations. Broader and theoretical contributions are also welcome, particularly those exploring the future of possible and desirable digital and AI applications, as well as the risks of misuse and their societal implications, ranging from the right to housing to social interactions and the evolution of living environments.

Key dates: 

-        November 5     Publication of call for contributions

-        January 5         Submission deadline for extended abstracts

-        March 25          Announcement of selected contributions

-        June 5              Conference (Paris)

-        July 30             Submission deadline for final extended abstracts