Constructal Law Conference

Upcoming Conferences

🗓️  5-7 November 2025 Miami, FL, USA 🇺🇸

Constructal Law Conference


Previous Conferences

🗓️  2024 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴

Constructal Law Conference - Design in Nature and Evolution


🗓️  2023 Turin, Italy 🇮🇹

Constructal Law Conference - Freedom, Design and Evolution


🗓️  2019 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 🇧🇷

Constructal Law & Second Law Conference 2019


🗓️  2018 Villanova, PA, USA 🇺🇸

Constructal Law and Thermodynamics Conference


🗓️  2017 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴

Constructal Law & Second Law Conference


🗓️  2015 Parma, Italy 🇮🇹

Constructal Law Conference


🗓️  2013 Nanjing, China 🇨🇳

Constructal Law Conference


🗓️  2011 Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 🇧🇷

Constructal Law Conference


🗓️  2010 Pisa, Italy 🇮🇹

Constructal Theory Symposium, Design in Nature


🗓️  2009 Paris, France 🇫🇷

Constructal Theory and Multi-Scale Geometries


🗓️  2008 Florence, Italy 🇮🇹

Shape and Thermodynamics


🗓️  2008 Evora, Portugal 🇵🇹

Constructal Human Dynamics, Security and Sustainability


🗓️  2007 Durham, NC, USA 🇺🇸

Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics


🗓️  2006 Durham, NC, USA 🇺🇸

Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics


Topics

  • The physics of life

  • Design in nature

  • Evolutionary design with freedom

  • Evolution: geophysical, biological, social, technological, communications, science, literature, city, government, climate

  • Thermodynamics, energy, power, and economy

  • Thermoeconomics, bioeconomy, and circular economy

  • Information, complexity, change, time arrow

  • Human beings as part of nature

  • Hierarchy, power laws, inequality, innovation

  • Living and non-living from the same point of view

  • Natural and social sciences together

  • Art and science together

  • Predicting evolution


Coordinator

Umit Gunes, Yildiz Technical University, Türkiye

Advisory Committee

Adrian Bejan, Duke University, USA

Alexandru Morega, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania

Antonio Ferreira Miguel, University of Evora, Portugal

Adriano Milazzo, University of Florence, Italy

Antonio Heitor Reis, University of Evora, Portugal

Dorel Banabic Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Erdal Cetkin, Izmir Institute of Technology, Türkiye

Giulia Grisolia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Jocelyn Bonjour, INSA Lyon, France

Jose Lage, Southern Methodist University, USA

Luiz Rocha, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Miguel Panao, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Nicolae Zamfir, Romanian Academy, Romania

Stephen Perin, Inetum Applications Services, France

Sylvie Lorente, Villanova University, USA

Terry Bristol, Portland State University, USA

Tunde Bello-Ochende, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Umberto Lucia Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Viorel Badescu, National University of Science andTechnology Politehnica Bucharest, Romania

Zhang Houlei Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China

Photo Albums

CLC2024 I Bucharest, Romania

CLC2023 I Turin, Italy

CLC2019 I Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil

CLC2018 I Villanova, PA, USA

YouTube Channel

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Thermodynamics

Design in Nature

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Conference Publications

Constructal Law Conference 2023

Constructal Law Conference 2017

Constructal Law Conference 2009

Constructal Law Conference 2008

Constructal Law Conference 2006