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  • Call for Postgraduate Design Research Project

    2024-08-07

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      Artist Unknown, illustration for Poems of the Sea, 1850 – “The Brother,” by Lydia Sigourney [Source: Wikimedia Commons, employee of HS Parsons & Co]

    Continuing our commitment to publish the work of emerging design researchers, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invites postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.

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  • CFA Issue 24: On Water: The Aqueous in Architecture

    2024-06-22

    CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

    Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts – Issue 24

    On Water: The Aqueous in Architecture

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    John Singer Sargent, “Moonlight On Waves” (circa 1876) [Graphite on off-white paper. Source: Wikimedia Commons, image gifted by Mrs Francis Ormond, 1950]

     

    For us humans, the flow and flush of waters sustain our own bodies, but also connect them to other bodies, to other worlds beyond our human selves. Indeed, bodies of water undo the idea that bodies are necessarily or only human.
    Astrida Neimanis (2016)[1] 

    Tell me what infinity attracts you, and I will know the meaning of your world. Is it the infinity of the sea, or the sky, or the depths of the earth, or the one found in the pyre.

    Gaston Bachelard (2011)[2]

     

    Water makes its presence felt, and increasingly so. It emerges from our mouths in vaporous clouds, bulges as the moon encircles the earth, and inundates cities. Water’s actions and its flowing intelligence are the focus of Issue 24 of Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts.

    We call for work that extends contemporary, historical, and cross-cultural understandings of the aqueous in architecture. Our scope is broad in scale from the atmospheric and the planetary, to the scale of the body, blood, cells, to infinitesimal waves shimmering in subatomic worlds. We are interested in water’s aleatory effects on architecture and its potential to prompt ideas at the edge of its substantialist comprehension. Proposals are sought for writing on water’s metaphorical force, its schlieren image-like dynamics, its creative co-agency—as material entity and legal person—its ‘view,’ in other words on how architecture might be formed, thought about, created, or occupied by the elemental force of water.

    We invite abstracts describing paper and creative practice proposals that will focus on the critical and immediate of water: as a resource; as an element capable of determining global futures; as a figure for grasping global economics (at the level of ‘liquidly’ and capital flows, themselves integral to architectural production); as a trope for modern societal formations (via Zygmunt Bauman’s notion of ‘liquid modernity’); with the ocean’s vast infrastructural and organizational remaking (as recognized by Nancy Couling and Carola Hein in The Urbanisation of the Sea); as an element indicative of human evolutionary factors (via say, Mark and Dianna McMenamin’s, Hypersea: Life on Land); and as a focus for drawing on posthuman and gender-critical inquiry (for example, Astrida Neimanis’, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology).

    Water is rich and multifaceted, but relates particularly to the geographic, geologic, and cultural specificity of Aotearoa New Zealand. This is particularly so given recent understandings of Zealandia as a largely submerged ancient ‘supercontinent’, for which the landmass of Aotearoa is but a modest series of ridges emerging from the sea. In this issue we further emphasise both the broadly global implications of the aqueous in architecture and spatial production, and also place-specific dimensions with the arising and maintaining of cultural and creative life in the South Pacific (as, for example, suggested by Damon Salesa in An Indigenous Ocean (2013)).

    [1] Astrida Neimanis, Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology (London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2016), 2.

    [2] Gaston Bachelard, Air and Dreams, trans. Edith Farrell (Dallas, TX: Dallas Institute of Publishing, 2011).

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  • Interstices 23 - Call for PG Research Submissions

    2023-09-25

    Call for Design Research Projects

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    NASA (JPL/JHUAPL), (2020). Six Views of the Eros Asteroid – “Eros' Bland Butterscotch Colors” [Source: Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA02475_Eros%27_Bland_Butterscotch_Colors.jpg]

    Continuing our commitment to publish the work of emerging design researchers, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invites postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.

    Projects should be complete at the time of submission and include an explanatory synopsis of 1,500 – 2,000 words.

    Project documentation and the synopsis should:

    • Be original and previously unpublished.
    • In the case of visual material, include up to ten indicative views of the proposal.
    • In the case of moving image, animated sequences, or audio works, not exceed four minutes in duration.
    • Include a scholarly and critically situating synopsis for the project coauthored by both the project’s creator and the supervisor(s) involved (if applicable). The synopsis should bear the name of the researcher as the primary author and the supervisor (if included) as the secondary author.
    • Exhibit, if feasible, a relationship with the journal issue theme – “Architectures of Love” – although this is not mandatory. Note: the call for Issue 23 can be seen at https://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/announcement/view/15

    Visit our website to view the Guidelines for Submissions for details about the reviewing process, copyright requirements and formatting: https://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/Style_Guide

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  • CFP Issue 23: Architectures of Love

    2023-04-05

    CALL FOR PAPERS

    Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts – Issue 23

    Architectures of Love

     

    Picture-1.jpg“Radha and Krishna playing Holi”. Painting presented to Shriji Arvind Singh, Mewar of Udaipur, during Holika Dahan 'Rang' - March 2012. City Palace in Udaipur, India. [Source: Wikimedia Commons, photograph, David Clay, 2018]

    […] sexuality and love do not live in the bedroom of Oedipus, they dream instead of wide-open spaces, and cause strange flows to circulate that do not let themselves be stocked within an established order.
    Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari[1]

    Lover, beloved and the space between them […] There is something essential to eros here.
    Anne Carson[2]

     

    Building on the remediating orientation set by the “Fixing” issue of Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts, Issue 23 invites papers that inquire into the coupling of love and architecture. We ask how love is, or may have been, an underlying motivator of built and speculative spaces, and how the materiality of both may sustain object-attachments for ongoing expressions of amorous affect?

    Estimated Timeline:

    • 5 April 2023 - Issue of Call For Papers (CFP)
    • 24 July 2023 – submission of full papers (email to andrew.douglas@auckland.ac.nz)
    • 31 August 2023 – notification of accepted papers
    • 15 September 2023 – one day authors’ workshop (in-person & online)
    • 20 October 2023 – completion of paper editing
    • 5 November 2023 – final proofing approval
    • Publication release 20 December 2023

    [1] Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism & Schizophrenia, Vol. 1, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, Helen R. Lane (Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), 116.

    [2] Anne Carson, Eros, the Bittersweet (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015), 77.

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  • INTERSTICES: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts Issue 22

    2023-02-10

    Call for Creative Design Research Projects

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    Beattie & Co. (modified), (1909). Postcard – “Grafton Bridge during construction with scaffolding beneath the single main arch” [Source: Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grafton_bridge_during_construction_(before_1909)_01.jpg]

    Continuing our commitment to publishing the work of emerging design researchers, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invite postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.

     

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  • Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts: Scopus

    2022-03-21

    Interstices Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is delighted to announce the inclusion of the journal in Scopus.

    Scopus is the world’s largest abstract, citation, and full-text database of peer-reviewed literature. By 2018 it covered 21,000 peer-reviewed titles from 5000 publishers in science, arts, commerce and humanities. Scopus coverage begins from 1960 and citation data from 1970. Pre-press articles are also included, as are a number of non-peer reviewed titles from subject areas that are not usually peer-reviewed. Scopus includes conference papers and books (mainly from 2005 onwards), book series and book chapters and includes more than 38,000 titles.

     

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  • INTERSTICES Call for Creative Design Research Projects

    2021-10-15
    INTERSTICES: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts - 21

     

     

    CFP.png Christian Christie, (1906). Straightening of the choir wall in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway. [Source: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nidarosdomen_chior_wall_repairs.png]

     

     

      Call for Creative Design Research Projects

    Continuing our commitment to publishing works of emerging design research, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invite postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.

     

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  • The deadline for Interstice 21: Fixing is now extended to Monday, 12th April.

    2021-03-29

    The deadline for Interstice 21: Fixing is now extended to Monday, 12th April.

     

    See call for papers

    https://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/announcement/view/8

     

     

    Fixing

    Maintenance and care might be imagined to be conservative practices, aiming at stasis or keeping something going in the same track. Yet this underestimates the dynamic nature of fixing. To repair or sustain something is to become intimately entangled in processes of decay, ageing, entropy; but also, with growth, complexity and otherness, with fallow states, and with regeneration. To develop a fixation with something is to be turned implacably away from oneself. Rather than fixing in place, this issue of Interstices asks how we fix things together across and through places.

    Donna Haraway contrasts poiēsis as “the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before”—with sympoiēsis, a co-creation, a “making things together”. Designing space is necessarily sympoiētic, emerging from a complex collusion of the human and other-than-human. Accordingly, we are interested in shifting our view from individualised moments of creativity to bring into frame how space might be co-authored, negotiated through performances of maintenance and care. What are the spatial possibilities of this continuing dialogue between architecture and other domains? What is the agency of things beyond us? How might divergent scales—the scale of a virus say—jolt us to consider space differently?

    We welcome contributions from architecture and art practice, philosophy, theory, ethnography, and geography, that speculate on questions of Fixing.  The intention is to capture a wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches and voices that chart the unanticipated directions and productive suturing of domains considering fixing, maintenance and care. Contributors are invited to submit papers, theoretical and critical reflections, and documentation of experimental creative works.

    Topics include but are not limited to:

    • Spaces, sites, and practices of maintenance, care, and kaitiakitanga
    • Indigenous models of co-creation such as papakāinga and talanoa
    • Non-human agency: objects / animals / plants / AI / insects / viruses
    • Decay, ageing, entropy
    • Historical narratives of care
    • Architectures of repair and maintenance
    • Critiques of the Anthropocene/Chthulucene
    • Creative practices configured by co-presence and co-authorship, such as drawing.

    We invite you to submit a full paper inclusive of an abstract for the forthcoming Fixings issue of Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts.

    Monday 12th April March 2021:

    Abstracts of 300-500 words are to be submitted to Sue Hedges susan.hedges@aut.ac.nz . Abstracts will be assessed by an academic panel comprising the issue editors and the Interstices executive editors.

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  • Interstices Journal of Architecture & Related Arts: Issue 21 Fixing

    2021-02-17
    IMGP5227.jpegCarl Douglas (2019), Cattle Grate #2 being erased. From Kuku Drafts, in association with Te Waituhi-ā-Nuku and Monique Jansen.  

     

    Fixing

    Maintenance and care might be imagined to be conservative practices, aiming at stasis or keeping something going in the same track. Yet this underestimates the dynamic nature of fixing. To repair or sustain something is to become intimately entangled in processes of decay, ageing, entropy; but also, with growth, complexity and otherness, with fallow states, and with regeneration. To develop a fixation with something is to be turned implacably away from oneself. Rather than fixing in place, this issue of Interstices asks how we fix things together across and through places.

    Donna Haraway contrasts poiēsis as “the activity in which a person brings something into being that did not exist before” — with sympoiēsis, a co-creation, a “making things together”. Designing space is necessarily sympoiētic, emerging from a complex collusion of the human and other-than-human. Accordingly, we are interested in shifting our view from individualised moments of creativity to bring into frame how space might be co-authored, negotiated through performances of maintenance and care. What are the spatial possibilities of this continuing dialogue between architecture and other domains? What is the agency of things beyond us? How might divergent scales—the scale of a virus say—jolt us to consider space differently?

    We welcome contributions from architecture and art practice, philosophy, theory, ethnography, and geography, that speculate on questions of Fixing.  The intention is to capture a wide spectrum of disciplinary approaches and voices that chart the unanticipated directions and productive suturing of domains considering fixing, maintenance and care. Contributors are invited to submit papers, theoretical and critical reflections, and documentation of experimental creative works.

    Read more about Interstices Journal of Architecture & Related Arts: Issue 21 Fixing

  • INTERSTICES: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts Call for Creative Design Research Projects

    2019-09-30

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    Jeremy Bentham (modified), (1796). Fleuron from: Management of the poor: or, a plan, containing the principle and construction of an establishment, in which persons of any description are to be kept under inspection. And In Particular Penitentiary-Houses; Prisons, Houses Of Industry, Work-Houses, Poor-Houses, Manufactories, Mad-Houses, Hospitals, And Schools. With a plan of management. In a series of letters. By Jeremy Bentham, Of Lincoln's-Inn, Esq. Illustrated with copper-plates. [Source: Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Management_of_the_poor-_or_Fleuron_N004370-6.png]

     

    Continuing our commitment to publish the work of emerging designer researchers, Interstices: Journal of Architecture & Related Arts invite postgraduate or recently graduated researchers in architecture and related art and design fields to submit projects for the journal’s peer-reviewed, creative design research section.

     

     

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