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42: atlas of belonging On Site review 's mandate, a review of work on site, in situ , is inherently about maps: everything happens somewhere, on some piece of land. After that point of material reality, how work is developed, received, occupied, tolerated or reviled, allowed to stand or not, is all to do with its affiliations, and these start with how a project is mapped. What is the base map ? Is it geographic, the diagram of relative land mass adjacencies, distorted by projection, measured by statistics? Or is it political, full of lines indicating land ownership, coloured in ideologically? Or is it topographic, the physical shape of land measured by experience, full of demarcating landmarks, upon which wars occur? Mapping , on the other hand, is not just an act of surveying, whether by hand-held transit or by satellite, but is increasingly used as a non-linear metaphor for networks and arrays of information that connect multi-dimensionally in conceptual space. Although eighteenth-century European explorers mapped their journeys as lines on a flat surface, their logs contained all the observations about those lines that the line itself is incapable of registering or communicating. Analyses of 'the voyage' through a variety of lenses –– visual, imperial, colonial, environmental, cultural, technological, ecological –– map motion and place very differently. Mapping is both analytical and the charting of a path (for clarity's sake) through a dense interconnected multi-dimensional world. For On Site review 42: atlas of belonging we would like to look at maps of omission and commission, inclusion and exclusion, maps as tools of both domination and liberation ( viz. , the irredentist war in Ukraine), the maps that are not drawn but rather are dreamed, known and used in some other way than charts. Send proposals for On Site review 42: atlas of belonging any time up to September 30, 2022. Final submissions will be due December 31, 2022. Include a brief text description outlining what you wish to say, proposed illustrations/maps/images and how your submission addresses the overall theme of the atlas. Please use our contact form on the website: https://onsitereview.ca/contact-us
43 :: temporary architecture What is the acceptable durée for architecture? Is it found in construction, or form, or program? Is the temporary a material issue, or is it about occupation? Can a rental suite be considered temporary architecture, no matter how long the physical space has existed? The use of space might be temporary, or the construction of the space itself, such as a Oxfam tent, might be designed to be short-lived. How can we extend the limits of a temporary architecture so that it becomes a fluid, nimble, responsive typology not just a reactive condition to disaster, or crisis; not just a condition of poverty or charity. Can a temporary architecture be intentionally demountable and moveable, rather than thrown up for quick occupation and then bulldozed, as happens at Calais and every other informal refugee camp. Well, of course it can, but is this actually happening? Sometimes a shoddy building stands on into its second century, beyond all reasonable expectations. How does this happen? Is its use, its symbolic function, part of its material persistence? Sometimes a solidly-built building runs out of programmatic functionality and is let go, a ruin before its time. So, what is the acceptable, or the probable, or the unfair durée for architecture?
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