30/08/2026
🚨 FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstract submissions close today!
Calling all architects, educators, researchers, and emerging scholars—this is your last chance to bring your ideas to the international stage at our upcoming International Research Conference.
Present research that advances architectural knowledge, enriches academic discourse, and helps shape the future of the built environment. Connect with fellow professionals and scholars, expand your academic network, and gain the opportunity to have your work considered for publication.
Submit your abstract today—before the deadline closes—and let your research help design the future!
UAP × UPOU | ARCHITECTS, YOUR RESEARCH DESERVES A LARGER STAGE. 🌏🏛️🌱
The United Architects of the Philippines is proud and deeply honored to collaborate with the University of the Philippines Open University (UPOU) for the 4th International Forum on Sustainability Science (IFSS 2026); bringing together two institutions in a shared commitment to advance research, innovation, professional development, and knowledge that can help shape a more sustainable future.
And there is even more time to be part of it.
📣 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 31 AUGUST 2026!
We warmly invite architects, architecture educators, students, researchers, environmental planners, urban designers, landscape architects, engineers, and other built-environment professionals to bring your research, ideas, innovations, and professional experiences to an international and interdisciplinary audience.
Under the theme:
“Sumlag! Inclusive Sustainability Transitions through Co-creating Resilient Communities, Livelihoods, and Sustainable Destinations”
IFSS 2026 provides a powerful platform for architecture and the built environment to engage with some of the most important questions of our time; from climate and community resilience, sustainable and regenerative development, environmental stewardship, cultural heritage and resilient destinations, to innovation, governance, and interdisciplinary collaboration.
🌟 FROM CONFERENCE PRESENTATION TO SCHOLARLY PUBLICATION
Beyond presenting your work at IFSS 2026, selected papers will have the opportunity to be **considered for publication through two respected scholarly platforms:
📘 Journal of Management and Development Studies (JMDS)
University of the Philippines Open University | ISSN: 2350-8434
📘 UAP Journal
United Architects of the Philippines | ISSN 2094-5140
Publication remains subject to the respective journals’ thematic relevance, editorial policies, manuscript requirements, peer-review processes, and publication standards.
📍 WHERE: Pampanga State Agricultural University, Magalang, Pampanga
📅 WHEN: 5–7 October 2026
🌐 MODALITY: Onsite with selected opportunities for online participation
For UAP, this collaboration with UPOU represents something greater than participation in an international forum. It is an opportunity to strengthen the culture of research within the architectural profession, elevate the scholarly contributions of Filipino architects, and connect architectural knowledge with the wider academic and professional community.
Architecture does not merely respond to the future; we have the capacity to "research it, envision it, and help shape it."
To our fellow architects: bring your work forward. Share your research. Join the conversation. Let the voice of architecture be heard in shaping inclusive, resilient, and sustainable futures.
🔗 Learn more and submit your abstract through the official IFSS 2026 website:
https://ifss.upou.edu.ph/
**Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 AUGUST 2026**
