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Footprint is an academic journal dedicated to publishing architecture and urban research. The journal promotes the creation and development – or revision - of conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry. It is engaged in creating a body of critical and reflexive texts with a breadth and depth of thought which would enrich the architecture discipline and produce new knowledge, conceptual methodologies and original understandings.

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Footprint 36 published

2025-06-20

Footprint 36 is out now. Edited by Stavros Kousoulas and Andrej Radman, this issue is dedicated to "Who’s Stupid Now: Architecture, Intelligence and Transdisciplinarity".

The issue includes research articles by Tim Gough, Lena Galanopoulou, Sinan Cem Kızıl and Bengisu Derebasi, Mar Muñoz Aparici and Maurice Harteveld, Eda Yeyman and Ayse Sentürer, and Justus Schäfer. It also contains review articles by Giovanni La Varra, Alberto Cervesato and Tommaso Antiga, and Jean Rojanavilaivudh, Mees van Rhijn, Miguel Borst, Koen de Nie and Qiyu Chen.

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Vol. 19 No. 1 (2025): Issue # 36 | Who’s Stupid Now: Architecture, Intelligence and Transdisciplinarity
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Footprint 36 explores architectural technicities that overcome poorly defined problems and reinvigorate (post)critical thinking, requiring a transdisciplinary mode of operation that breaks with the anti-intellectualist tradition of specialisation, professionalisation, and knowledge fragmentation. Rather than focusing on the essentialist question of what architectural intelligence is, Footprint 36 is dedicated to the pragmatics of how it occurs, who institutes it, and through which technicities it is archived and disseminated. This issue’s contributions examine the architectural prerequisites and ramifications of saving intelligence from the stupidity inherent in fragmented circuits of knowing and experiencing, while extrapolating on which technicities facilitate the formulation of architectural problems that address the pressing needs of our time. They do so by understanding transdisciplinarity as the coming together of diverse and heterogeneous disciplines based on their joint effort to take care of an architectural problem.

 

Issue editors: Stavros Kousoulas and Andrej Radman

Published: 2025-06-20

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