About the Journal
Serial title
Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature
Aims and Scope
The Writingplace journal for Architecture and Literature is a peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, published by nai010 publishers and TUDelft OPEN Publishing. The journal was launched in 2018, after the international Writingplace conference on literary methods in architectural research and design in 2013 and the book Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature in 2016. The journal acts as a vehicle for the exchange of knowledge on the relationship between architecture and literature and to address and promote alternative ways of looking at and designing architecture, urban places and landscapes through literary methods. By acknowledging the possibilities of literature as a field of academic research, able to explore architectural imaginations, Writingplace hopes to establish a common ground to investigate the productive connections further between architecture and literature, or a place to engage in writing.
The journal presents thematic issues, which, while always centred around the productive relationship between architecture and literature, ranging from pedagogy, spatial analysis and critical theory to artistic practices, individual buildings, landscape and urban design. Next to academic articles, the journal is open to accounts of experiments in education and works of design or spatial analysis in which literary tools have been explored.
All material submitted to the Writingplace journal is subject to a peer-review process. We welcome contributions from all over the world and invite authors, architects, educators, (PhD) students and those who deal with spatial design, analysis and/or literature to submit abstracts and proposals for contribution.
Open Access Policy
Writingplace is an open access journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone is free to share (to copy, distribute, and transmit the work), to remix (to adapt the work) under the following conditions:
- The original authors must be given credit
- For any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are
- Any of these conditions can be waived if the copyright holders give permission
- Nothing in this license impairs or restricts the author's moral rights
Copyright Policy
- Authors retain their copyrights
- If you are using published images, text or other materials, please be aware of copyright regulations. The TU Delft Copyright helpdesk can provide further information and answer your copyright questions.
- In case of (alleged or proven) copyright breaches or scientific misconduct (e.g. fabricating data), Writing Place will follow the developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
Review Process
Contributions to Writingplace are double-anonymously peer-reviewed.
Author Processing Charges (APC)
Publishing in Writingplace i is entirely free, so neither Submission Charges nor Article Processing Charges are required from the authors. The resources needed to run the journal are covered by the institutions where the (associate) editors are employed, mainly in the form of time invested.does not have article processing charges (APCs).
Research Data
TU Delft OPEN Publishing strongly supports that the data underlying the journals are archived in a recognised research data repository in line with the TU Delft Research Data Framework Policy and will support data citation. Please visit this page for more information on policies.
Research Software
TU Delft OPEN Publishing strongly encourages the adoption of the TU Delft Research Software Policy. This policy facilitates best practices on management and sharing of research software and facilitates proper recognition of the contribution of TU Delft researchers to software.
Publication Ethics
Editors, authors, and publisher adopt the guidelines developed by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and the fair data principles. The journal adheres to the COPE Core Practices and the principles of transparency described in the Declaration on transparent editorial policies for academic journals.
Code of Conduct
Check TU Delft OPEN Publishing code of conduct and integrity policy.
Similarity Check
A similarity check is part of the TU Delft OPEN Publishing standard publication procedure. Authors submitting their article to Writing Place should expect their work to go through a similarity analysis at any workflow stage. All articles submitted are checked with iThenticate software. The editor and publisher carefully analyse the reports. In case of suspected plagiarism, the authors will have two weeks to explain.
The journal also checks for AI-generated content. Articles will only be accepted if using AI-generated tools is part of the work.
Use of AI
The use of AI technologies in writing is gaining popularity. When used responsibly and appropriately in the context of human-driven research, it can facilitate innovation. However, authors remain responsible and accountable for the quality and content of their manuscripts, and these responsibilities remain uniquely human. With this in mind, the publisher asks that the authors not list AI as a co-author and disclose any use of AI tools (e.g., generative language-based, such as ChatGPT and others, for generating images, etc.) in the writing of their manuscripts. If applicable, acknowledge how you use AI tools for your article at the bottom of the References section and in the Acknowledgements section. Additionally, please specify the use of AI tools in the cover letter submitted before the peer review process. This policy is subject to review based on new developments.
Complaints and Appeals
Complaints
Complaints such as misconduct, authorship dispute or suspected conflict of interest should be brought to the attention of the publisher (publishing-lib@tudelft.nl) or the editorial board.
Author appeal
If an author wishes to appeal an editorial decision, the author may contact the journal's Editors-in-Chief. Their appeal decisions are final. This means that discussing or negotiating the final decision will be without effect and can be ignored.
Conflict of Interest
All COIs will be handled as follows by the journal in the first instance, then the publisher:
- Disclosure: Anyone (editors, reviewers, authors and any other relevant parties) involved in the publishing process should disclose any potential conflicts of interest they may have
- Evaluation: After disclosing the potential COI, it needs to be examined to determine its importance and possible impact on the publication process.
- Management: An identified COI requires appropriate steps. Those steps may include stepping back from specific duties or decisions, removal from the publication process, or taking other actions to reduce the conflict.
- Transparency: Any identified conflicts of interest should be transparently disclosed to relevant parties, including readers, authors, and reviewers.
- COI can be mentioned after the section Acknowledgment of the publication.
Publication Notices and Changes
Any changes to the published content will be accompanied by a post-publication notice that will be permanently linked to the original content.
Publication notices include errors introduced by the journal (erratum), an author error (corrigendum), adding a (small) document to a published work to provide additional information (addendum), and retraction.
The Editors-in-Chief and the publisher handle publication notices through the following steps:
- Review the proposed changes to the published content to determine if they are necessary and appropriate.
- Preparing a post-publication notice that accurately reflects the changes made to the content.
- Linking the post-publication notice to the original content clearly and prominently.
- Distributing the updated content and the post-publication notice to relevant parties, including subscribers, indexers, and other databases.
- Monitoring the impact of the changes on the academic record and making any necessary further updates or corrections.
Authorship
All co-authors must agree to submit the work to the journal. For authors’ disputes, see the “Complaints and Appeals” section.
How to add extra authors before publication:
- All co-authors must agree to add new (co)authors to the publication
- Agreement must be collected and sent to the editor with an explanation
Metadata
Writingplace grants you the right to publish the metadata of the series, its issues and articles under the terms of the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).
Publication frequency
Writingplace is published twice a year. Each issue contains on average 12 contributions.
Archiving
Writing Place utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the Journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
Authors are allowed to deposit a Submitted version, an Accepted version (Author Accepted Manuscript), and a Published version (Version of record) of their work in an institutional or any other repository of their choice.
TU Delft OPEN Publishing is committed to the permanent availability and preservation of scholarly research. We work in partnership with organizations and maintain our own digital archive.
Indexing
Writingplace is indexed by Google Scholar.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in our published content are those of the author(s) and do not reflect the views of TU Delft OPEN Publishing and NAI010.
The responsibility for the content provided is exclusively of the author(s) concerned. TU Delft OPEN Publishing, NAI0101 Writing Place, the editors and reviewers are not responsible for errors in the contents or any consequences arising from the use of the information.
The opinions expressed in the publications of Writing Place do not necessarily represent the views of TU Delft OPEN Publishing, NAI010 and the editors.
We follow an Open Access publishing principle, in which the author(s) are the sole owners of the copyright of the content published. The author(s) of the concerned article are responsible for any omissions or copyright violations. Our responsibility is to remove the concerned article from the journal once the query is raised.
ISSN
print 2589-7683
online 2589-7691
Acknowledgements
This journal has been made possible by financial support from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), in the form of a KIEM grant to set up the infrastructure and to publish the first two editions of the journal. We are thankful for the support of TUDelft Open and Frank van der Hoeven of 100% Research at TU Delft in particular for creating the online environment in which this project is accessible. Further, our gratitude goes to Marcel Witvoet of nai010 publishers for supporting and contributing to the initiative, to D’Laine Camp for the English copy editing, to Sanne Dijkstra for the graphic design, and to Mike Schäfer for the practical and organisational assistance to the entire project. The Department of Architecture of TU Delft and the Faculty of Architecture of RWTH Aachen University have supported the initiative both regarding their critical reflections and regarding the time granted to their staff to work on this endeavour as authors, editors or reviewers. Issue #4 was published with the support of the FWO network Texts~Buildings, issues #5 and #6 have been published with the support of EU COST Action Writing Urban Places. We express our sincere thanks to the academic committee for their critical reflections and to all of the authors and reviewers who contributed to this journal. Finally, we thank you, as readers, for taking an interest in this journal and the topic of architecture and literature. Without your interest and support, our exploration would have never attained this stage.
