You are cordially invited to the Conference On Smart Villages 2025 & Call for Abstracts. The conference aims to delve into the integral role of indigenous knowledge in shaping the concept and functionality of smart villages, highlighting its significance in fostering sustainable rural development and promote understanding of the importance of indigenous knowledge in achieving equitable and sustainable rural-urban development, encouraging collaboration among stakeholders. Policymakers, researchers/scholars, government institutions, civil society organizations, artists, cultural workers, community development practitioners, and other stakeholders are invited to submit abstracts that explore the theme of Indigenous Knowledge-Led Smart Villages.
Theme: Indigenous Knowledge-Led Smart Village Regeneration.
Sub-themes of the conference:
Abstracts that address, but are not limited to, the following sub-themes are welcomed:
- Indigenous Knowledge-Led Smart Villages
- Smart Villages vs. Smart Cities
- Arts, Culture, Heritage, and Smart Villages
- Indigenous Architectural Models/Vernacular Architecture-Built Environment
- Indigenous Technology, and Smart Villages
- Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
- Indigenous Planning, Spatial Planning, Decoloniality, and Smart Villages
- Indigenous Knowledge Policy, Cultural/Creative Industries and Local Economic Development
- Indigenous Knowledge, Culture, and Sustainable Tourism Practices
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Smart Villages
- Cultural Policy and Smart Village Implications
- Smart Villages Before Smart Cities and Sustainable Development Goals
- Indigenous Technology-Based Construction (i.e., 3D Construction Printing of Indigenous Architecture using Indigenous construction materials)
- Indigenous Technology-Based Rammed Earth House Construction
- Cooperative Agritourism and Indigenous Agriculture
- Climate-smart agriculture
- Mixed-Mode of Tertiary-Industrial Agriculture
Submission deadline: 22 November 2024
Notification of acceptance: 6 December 2024
Submit to: smartvillage.cons@nwu.ac.za
For more information, kindly contact Otsile Maditsi.