16th Constructal Law Conference (CLC2026)

Design in Nature: The Evolution of Designs

16th Constructal Law Conference (CLC2026)

🗓️ 12-15 October 2026, PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres), Paris, France

Themes & Tracks

This year’s theme—Design in Nature: The evolution of designs—invites contributions that connect physics, life, culture, philosophy, architecture, urbanism, and the built environment. Tracks include:

The Physics of Life: Flow architectures in living systems, from cells to ecosystems.
Design in Nature: Universal forms in rivers, trees, lungs, turbulence, architectures, and artworks.
Evolutionary Design with Freedom: How systems evolve when free to morph—organisms, environments, cities, technologies, art.
Evolution Across Scales: Geophysical, celestial, biological, social, technological, cultural, and literary flows.
Thermodynamics, Energy, Power, and Economy: Efficiency, entropy, movement, access, and societal structures.
Thermoeconomics, Bioeconomy & Circular Economy: Flow-based models for sustainable futures.
Information, Complexity & the Arrow of Time: Irreversibility, creativity, and cultural memory.
Humans as Part of Nature: Anthropological and artistic perspectives on our place in natural flows.
Hierarchy, Power Laws, Diversity, Inequality & Innovation: Patterns of distribution and creativity across systems.
Living & Non-Living Through the Same Lens: Unified perspectives on animate and inanimate design.
Architecture as Flow Design: Buildings and spatial systems as flow architectures; adaptive structures, ventilation and circulation, tree-shaped structural design.
Urbanism & Tree-Shaped Structures: River basins, transport systems, and cities as natural flow networks; branching and timing logic of streets and infrastructures.
Natural & Social Sciences Together: Transdisciplinary models of evolution and change.
Art & Science Together: Architecture, music, visual arts, literature, and performance as flow systems with staying power.
Predicting Evolution: Forecasting natural, social, technological, and cultural futures.

Why Paris-Malaquais?

Because today’s ecological urgencies and the rise of artificial intelligence demand design freedom grounded in physics and open inquiry. Paris-Malaquais nurtures exactly that: research-driven, dogma-free experimentation—a culture where architects, engineers, scientists, and artists rethink how forms flow and persist.

Join us in Paris to explore how designs in nature—and in culture—evolve to make movement easier, access broader, and life more possible. The world of tomorrow cannot thrive without architects and designers who understand flows—and help make the world a home.

Journal Issues for the 16th Constructal Law Conference (CLC2026)

From selected papers presented at the Constructal Law Conference 2026, authors will be recommended to submit new and original work for consideration to be published in the journals: