International Online Conference

AFTER HEIDEGGER: From Technology to the Architecture of the World

26–29 August 2026

There are moments in intellectual history when philosophy ought to return to one of its questions—not to repeat it, but to ask it anew.

Martin Heidegger’s The Question Concerning Technology transformed twentieth-century thought by showing that technology is not merely a collection of instruments, but a way in which the world comes into view.

Today, however, our intellectual landscape has changed profoundly.

Machines no longer simply extend human capabilities.

They organise action. They preserve memory. They shape institutions. They increasingly participate in the architecture through which reality itself is experienced and interpreted.

The European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine warmly invites scholars, researchers, and professionals from around the world to participate in an international online conference dedicated to one of the most important philosophical conversations of our time.

Rather than revisiting Heidegger’s conclusions, AFTER HEIDEGGER asks what becomes visible once the machine is understood not as a technical object, but as an architecture—an organising principle connecting technology, human action, memory, civilisation, and intelligent systems.

Across four days, the conference develops a single philosophical trajectory, moving from the architecture of the machine towards the architecture of the world itself.

Conference Programme

DAY I

Rethinking the Machine

Architecture of the Machine

The opening day returns to Heidegger’s question concerning technology and asks whether the concept of technology alone remains sufficient for understanding the contemporary machine.

Discussion Questions

Beyond Gestell: what discloses the world today?

Where does the architecture of the machine begin?

DAY II

Rethinking the Human

Architecture of Action

The second day shifts attention from machines to human action, asking whether architecture has become a more fundamental philosophical category than technology itself for understanding human freedom and purposeful action.

Discussion Questions

Freedom and architecture: where does human action belong?

The architecture of action: engineering, understanding, or something else?

DAY III

Rethinking Memory

Architecture of Memory

The third day explores memory not as a repository of information, but as the condition that enables civilisations to preserve, recover, and reproduce the capacity to act across generations.

Discussion Questions

Where does a civilisation remember how to act?

The architecture of memory: archive, practice, or machine?

DAY IV

Rethinking the World

Architecture of the World

The final day examines the philosophical consequences of intelligent systems and asks how the architecture of the world itself is changing in an age of autonomous technologies.

Discussion Questions

Who now builds the architecture of the world?

Thinking after Heidegger: what remains to be thought?

This conference brings together philosophy, artificial intelligence, systems theory, cognitive science, organisational studies, architecture, archaeology, anthropology, and the history of science within a single intellectual framework.

The conference will be of particular interest to:

• philosophers and Heidegger scholars;
• historians and philosophers of science;
• researchers in artificial intelligence and cognitive science;
• systems theorists and cyberneticians;
• psychologists and scholars of action;
• anthropologists and archaeologists;
• architects and design theorists;
• organisational researchers;
• scholars of civilisation and complexity.

The conference is founded on a simple but far-reaching proposition.

Perhaps the defining concept of the twenty-first century is no longer technology, but architecture.

Not architecture understood as the design of buildings, but as the organising structure through which machines, actions, memories, institutions, and intelligent systems become capable of shaping human reality.

If Heidegger asked how technology discloses the world, AFTER HEIDEGGER asks a different question:

How is the architecture of the world itself now taking shape?

We warmly invite colleagues from across the world to join this conversation and to participate in a new stage of philosophical inquiry—one that begins with Heidegger, but looks decisively beyond him.

Conference Language: English
Format: International Online Conference
Dates: 26–29 August 2026
Organised by: European Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

To participate in the conference, please contact us: info@euasu.org