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Footprint 35: Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism: Cosmologies, Technologies, Worlds

2023-03-15

Dulmini Perera and Sam Koh are editing Footprint 35, dedicated to ‘Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism: Cosmologies, Technologies, Worlds’.

Cosmotechnical thinking presents a direct challenge to universalist ideas of technology perpetuated by Western modernity and is a framework apt to advance the projects of decolonial thought, drawing attention to how certain epistemological and ontological assumptions embedded in technology are exported, internalised, reproduced and thus legitimated through processes of modernisation and globalisation. The fields of architecture and urbanism have yet to adequately reflect upon the ways in which they are implicated in cultivating or suppressing alternative kinds of technological thought and practice. We invite contributions that aim to critically expand the purview of architectural and urban discourse to address the contemporary discussions of technology and plurality. This call is open for both full articles (6000–8000 words) and review articles or visual essays (2000–4000 words). Authors of research articles are asked to submit their contributions on Footprint’s online platform before 30 June 2023. Authors interested in contributing with review articles or visual essays should contact the editors before 30 June 2023 with an extended abstract of their proposal (500 words).

Full articles will go through a double-blind peer review process, while the review articles will be evaluated by the editors. Footprint 35 will be published in the autumn of 2024.

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2022): Issue # 31 | Autumn/ Winter 2022 |Open Architecture: Tradition, Possibilities and Shortcomings
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Footprint 31 examines a number of ways in which architecture can be understood as open. Ranging from structural to procedural,  and from performative to conceptual forms of openness, the articles collected in the issue elaborate on a diversity of open architectures of the past and present, in political, ideological, semiotic, technological, morphological, representational, and epistemological terms. Review articles provide further illustration by analysing three architectures by Nicolas Schöffer, Frank van Klingeren, and Lacaton and Vassal (with Jacques Hondelatte). The theoretical and methodological advantages and disadvantages of architectural openness identified by all contributors suggest alternative conceptualisations for the concept, and invite further reflection on the effectiveness and efficiency of its use towards the future.   

 

Issue editors: Jorge Mejía Hernández and Esin Komez Daglioglu

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