calls for articles
As always, take the theme in whatever direction you want, and remember, this is a magazine about architecture and urbanism, design and landscape, about spatiality and construction. Push each theme into these fields.
Joshua Craze quoted the anthropologist Mary Douglas* in his article in issue 24:‘dirt is matter out of place’. Issue 26, Fall 2011, will be about dirt. and weeds.
issue 26: dirt Fall 2011 ideas only: due 1st July 2011 specs: www.onsitereview.ca/callforarticles
This is a huge topic.
outsider art buildings that don’t fit in architectural pornography transgression** construction sites rammed earth, adobe and any kind of mud construction***
vigorous hybrids (often considered weeds) pollution and taboo (thank you Mary Douglas)
* Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger, An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo , 1966 ** Peter Stallybrass and Allon White. The Politics and Poetics of Transgression , 1986 *** Taymore Baalba on the mud buildings of Mali, On Site 17: water , 2007
issue 27: rural urbanism Spring 2012 ideas/proposals for articles only: due 1st January 2012 specs: www.onsitereview.ca/callforarticles
The world is more urban than it is rural, migration to cities offers more employment, more opportunity and more social mobility than the small towns and villages in rural hinterlands. However, such towns and villages still hold much of the character and identity associated with national cultures. It is a paradox, but the past, often pre-urban, still contains much potent imagery. As well, usually connected with resource extraction, new towns are being designed. Some rely on traditional centred models, others on network systems, still others on new sustainable distribution of energy and resources. Do the characteristics of core-periphery relations still hold in the digital age?
What is going on in our hinterlands? What could go on in our hinterlands?
There is a call for submissions for an associated project: Rural Urbanism, the exhibition. see www.onsitereview.ca/rural-urbanism/
rural urbanism: the exhibition Spring 2012 deadline: 1 January 2012 www.onsitereview.ca/rural-urbanism
Is rural urbanism conceived of, enacted and understood in a profoundly different way from metropolitan urbanism? or is it just a smaller version.
Considering that architecture and urbanism are discussed almost always in visual terms, and that rural settlements have often been characterised through literature, we wish to outline the terms of reference, the vocabulary and the syntax of a rural urbanism. The form the terms of reference takes will be visual: photographic and drawn – a visual, non-fiction essay. These photo- essays will provide the working manifesto and template for an exhibition examples of rural urbanism that will parallel On Site 27: rural urbanism , Spring 2012. We will not be looking at Calgary or Regina, but rather towns the size of Prince Albert, Fort MacMurray,Timmins, Dauphin, Ladysmith, Nelson, Sydney,Whitehorse. Each small town has a history – the first map, the master plan and the reality. The built reality is what will be noted, and then mapped on the original ambitions for each settlement. If one looks at a small town through a metropolitan lens, it is inevitably found to be crude, or under-developed, or misleadingly nostalgic. The metropolitan gaze tries to recognise its own reality in small towns which developed with a completely different set of ambitions. We want to develop a rural lens, through which we can view rural settlements. Call for submissions to Rural Urbanism, the exhibition: 5-10 black and white photographs that describe the particular urban condition of a small town with which you are familiar. How small is small? Under 50,000. How rural is rural? Not attached as a suburb or bedroom community to a city. 500 words of text, either as extended captions to the images, or as a separate statement in which you define what might be particular to rural urbanism.
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