calls for articles
As always, take the themes in whatever direction you want, and remember, this is a journal about architecture and urbanism, design and landscape, about spatiality and construction. Push each theme into these fields.
issue 28: sound Fall 2012
Sound hooks us up with our surroundings by offering us data – blasting sirens report emergencies, loudspeakers direct crowds in transport hubs and door chimes allow retailers to keep tabs on shoppers. But it can just as easily trigger divisions when protests against noises ranging from a nightclub’s techno beats to the drone of a wind farm eventually result in a forced closure or relocation. In both cases, the study of sound unfolds into a larger study of our relationship with architecture, urbanism and each other. An ever-changing mix of sounds casts a more up-to- date reflection of society than the slower pace of construction. We navigate cities by map, satellite and street views overlaid with real-time data; we can also listen to (or ignore) sounds with an expanded set of tools—noise cancelling headphones, infrasonic and ultrasonic sensors, acoustic fingerprinting technology – that may not only alter the sounds we hear, but also our perception of, and relationship to, the environment. Sound (past, present and future) has a relationship to buildings and cities as well as an impact (good, bad and ugly) on our experience of space.
ideas/proposals for articles, recordings and podcasts: due 1st July 2012 specs: www.onsitereview.ca/callforarticles
What does architecture sound like? What do we hear in our cities?
issue 29: geology Spring 2013
Until recently, the word geologic referred simply and directly to the science of geology – the study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth. But that seems to be changing. Something is happening to and with the ways that people take up the geologic. We seem to sense that the geologic is not only an area of scientific inquiry – it has also become a condition of daily life. How do we locate ourselves and our cities, our architecture, within jostling and unstable physical, social, political and economic situations that arise from, and act back upon, geologic materialities, forces and events?
ideas/proposals for articles only: due 1st January 2013 specs: www.onsitereview.ca/callforarticles
issue 30: ethics and
We are interested in exploring what questions arise when thinking about ethics in relation to design and the built environment. How do we know what good design is? Who are you designing or speaking for and who are the publics of architecture and urban design? What are your relationships to others in design processes and what are your responsibilities to them? What are the values of good practice? Are professional ethical codes good as they are or in need of reformulation? We are also interested in knowing how recent multi-disciplinary trends like relational aesthetics, assemblage theory and actor network theory might influence the way in which we conceive of ethical relations in understanding and transforming the built environment. More generally, we are interested in critical reflection on what it means to intervene significantly into the lives of others and their environment.
publ ics Fall 2013
ideas/proposals for articles only: due 1st July 2013 specs: www.onsitereview.ca/callforarticles
This call for articles is still in development. Please check www.onsitereview.ca/callforarticles for updates.
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