CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS REMINDER Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek are editing Footprint 40, dedicated to the topic of “Conditions of Architecture”. Deadline 15 December!

The Call for Contributions for Footprint 40, “Conditions of Architecture”, edited by Alina Paias and Catherine Koekoek, is out! The deadline is 15 December 2025.

Miguel Borst, Qiyu Chen, Koen de Nie, Mees van Rhijn and Jean Rojanavilaivudh focus on mythopoesis, or the formation of a myth, as a tool in order to explore how the grotesque could be used to challenge what has become stuck. https://t.co/iqF6iqJ6fl

Giovanni La Varra, Alberto Cervesato and Tommaso Antiga argue for argue for a ‘forest intelligence’, opposed to the human-animal intelligence that has characterised the repertoire of architectural-urban solutions from modernity onwards. https://t.co/PeoacQpqUZ

Justus Schäfer addresses the relationality of automation and the political-libidinal literacy of citizens, opening material conditions to participatory, creative appropriation and repair (collectively referred to as ‘alter automation’). https://t.co/AICcbtZN2W

Eda Yeyman and Ayse Sentürer propose to explore architecture’s singular conditions through the concept of trans-scalability, akin to transitioning from micro-subatomic to macro scales. https://t.co/55RcX0fMu5

Mar Muñoz Aparici and Maurice Harteveld explore the challenge of designing public spaces in hyperdiverse cities and argue that including knowledge often considered ‘stupid’ is key towards inclusive design approaches.

Sinan Cem Kızıl and Bengisu Derebaşı discuss the already architecturally situated concept of error and distinguish it from stupidity in terms of ‘technicities’ that fail. https://t.co/QjLqNcyO59

Drawing from the imag(in)ing of passing time as a cuckoo’s repetitive passing through a threshold, Lena Galanopoulou emphasises the active role of repetition in modulating spatio-temporalities and fostering variations. https://t.co/GdFU89rCc5

How stupidity comes to be seen as a positive possibility for thought? Tim Gough argues for a stupidity which can be perceived as a depth within the forms which architecture creates as an aftereffect. https://t.co/StxuolUNdx

In their editorial to Footprint 36, Stavros Kousoulas and Andrej Radman examine what it means to have intelligence.

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".

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS REMINDER Esin Kömez Dağlıoğlu and Esra Kahveci are editing Footprint 39, dedicated to the topic of ‘The Exhibition Effect and Beyond’. Deadline August 1!

Yuk Hui, Dulmini Perera and Sam Koh, ‘Placing Technology: An Interview with Yuk Hui’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 109-116, https://t.co/PwmMXJkeUs.

Robert Alexander Gorny, ‘Mapping How Worlds Come to Be’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 103-108,

Alan Diaz Alva, ‘Building with Jelly, or, Concrete as the Concretion of the Abstract’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 95-102, https://t.co/RJURze2myr.

Simon Sadler, ‘Aboriginal cosmotechnics: Alison Page and Paul Memmott, Design: Building on Country’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 89-94,

Masamichi Tamura, ‘Not-Not as Another Spatial Logic of Constitutive Negation: Revisiting Hiroshi Hara as an Early Cosmotechnical Turn in Japan’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 79-88, https://t.co/zDssCsXfqK.

Joel P.W. Letkemann, ‘Cosmotechnologies of Community and Collaboration in Vandana Singh’s Speculative Architecture’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 67-78, https://t.co/cExwOeqGuu.

Simon Weir and Sara Rich, ‘Shipwreck Architecture: A Speculative Hauntography’, Footprint Delft Architecture Theory Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (2024): 51-66, https://t.co/ADzaRtQHsX.