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• Call for abstracts: Drawing Time

  2021-05-05

  This Spool issue discusses the importance of time in design processes, and its reciprocal relation to representation. Although the discipline of landscape architecture is given as a starting point, Spool urges to widen up the field towards urbanism, architecture, product design, information design, art, and the theoretical reflection on the topic.

  Abstract paper/visual essay submissions: 4 August 2021

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• Spool CpA 5: Interdisciplinary Data-integrated Approaches

  2021-03-01

  CpA issue 5 aims to Data-integrated Approaches by inviting experts from a range of disciplines concerned with environmental degradation that utilize data-acquisition, data-sharing and integration, and data-driven modelling to identify modalities for a broader interdisciplinary, multi-domain and multi-scalar approach. Deadline for submissions is 10/05/2021.

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• Call for abstracts: Deep Adaptation – The Spatial Dimension

  2020-08-10

  We start a new "thread" on the urgent need to adapt to a future, which we thought we had maybe another decade to prepare for: Deep Adaptation.

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• Call for abstracts: Off-Earth Infrastructure

  2020-05-18

  Spool [CpA] #4 issue investigates challenges of designing, engineering, constructing, and operating off-Earth infrastructure.

  Deadline for submitting abstracts is September 15th 2020.

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• Call for papers: Actuated and Performative Architecture: Emerging Forms of Human-Machine Integration

  2020-03-11

  Spool [CpA] #3 issue aims to pose and answer questions on the nature of this intimate human-machine bond, encouraging the discussion on its potentials also in terms of individual and social resilience.

  Deadline for submitting papers is July 15th 2020.

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• Call for abstracts: Circular Water Stories

  2019-09-08

  We like to invite you to submit a one-page outline/extended abstract for papers to be published in the upcoming issue SPOOL LANDSCAPE METROPOLIS # 7:

  Circular Water Stories

  What can we learn from traditional water systems in terms of the interaction and engagement between people, water, and the (urban)landscape when building resilient and valuable water landscapes for the future?

  We are interested in contributions that investigate traditional water systems as a source of inspiration for today’s challenges:

  1. How can we combine decentral and central water management systems to gain awareness of the circularity of water?
  2. How can today's water design stimulate the integration of flora, fauna, and people?
  3. How can designers spatially express all kinds of functions water can have?

  SPOOL is a peer-reviewed open-access journal in architecture and the built environment indexed in Google Scholar, DOAJ and in Scopus. For the time being, we do not charge a fee to be published.

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• Call for abstracts: Port Cities - Historical Urban Narratives and Contemporary Design Approaches

  2019-09-06

  We like to invite you to submit a one-page outline/extended abstract for papers to be published in the upcoming issue SPOOL URBAN NARRATIVES # 1:

  Port Cities - Historical Urban Narratives and Contemporary Design Approaches

  The issue investigates port-city narratives and their relevance to the architecture of port cities in two eras: the development of the 19^th- and early 20^th-centuries, and current transformations:

  1. How may narratives inform designers and how may narratives be used in contemporary design approaches?
  2. What is the role of the architect in the contemporary narrative formation of port cities, particularly in the changing context of port-city relations?
  3. Lastly, how can narratives be a tool for the preservation of the built environment that is built under transnational exchanges?

  SPOOL is a peer-reviewed open-access journal in architecture and the built environment indexed in Google Scholar, DOAJ and in Scopus. For the time being, we do not charge a fee to be published.

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• Spool included in Scopus

  2019-08-30

  SPOOL - open access journal for design in architecture and the built environment - is accepted by Scopus. The issue of Cyber-physical Architecture is the first one to be indexed.

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• Call for abstracts: The Garden in the Landscape Metropolis

  2019-02-10

  The focus of this issue of SPOOL is on the garden as a landscape theatre for the metropolis. In this context, we are looking for two types of contributions:

  1. papers that take specific cases - e.g. an existing garden that has adopted a new role when their context changed under the influence of metropolitan conditions, or a reflection on a design that successfully operates within a metropolitan context - as an entry for an argument on the role of the garden in the metropolitan condition
  2. projects an experimental design (proposal), or an artistic expression. The contribution should support critical investigations and promote scholarly discourse on the arts and design culture in the field of the built environment. We are looking for practices and ideas drawn from the fine and other arts and environmental disciplines that have demonstrable relevance for contemporary theory and practice in the spatial design disciplines.

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• Launch new SPOOL issue: Park Politics | 30 January 2019

  2018-12-10

  The Institute of Landscape Architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences BOKU/Vienna is pleased to invite you to the launch of the new issue of the journal SPOOL: Park Politics.

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• Launch SPOOL Volume 5 Issue 1: Criticising Practice – Practicing criticism

  2018-01-03

  Launch
  SPOOL: Criticising Practice – Practising criticism
  18 January 2018 // 15:00h // Berlage Room
  TU Delft // Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
  Julianalaan 134 // 2628 BL Delft // The Netherlands

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• Call for papers: Building-as-Apparatus or Cyber-physical Apparatization in/of Architecture

  2017-10-03

  Building-as-Apparatus or Cyber-physical Apparatization in/of Architecture will be published in Cyber-physical Architecture #2, 2019, which is a new 'thread' in SPOOL [SPOOL CpA] and will address the following topic:

  Transitioning from mechanical and analogue electronics towards digital electronics, all facets of human society have undergone sweeping transformations not only in material production and economy but also in ideologies and worldviews. Along the way, the accelerating digitalisation has produced layers of complex apparatuses and vast arrays of interdependencies. Architecture is no exception in the tidal wave of changes.

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