BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 13.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Issue 40 of \;Footprint \;explores the theoretical and practical implications of situating architecture within its conditions of production. &lsquo\;Architecture&rsquo\; has traditionally been distinguis hed from &lsquo\;building&rsquo\;. Likewise\, architectural theory has gen erally been more concerned with the product of architecture (the built for m) than with the labour\, culture\, materials and organisation needed to r ealise it. Increasingly confronted with the reality of the climate crisis\ , however\, it is no longer possible to disavow architecture&rsquo\;s enta nglement with extraction\, climate breakdown\, and biodiversity loss: arch itecture \;is \;climate\, as MOULD collective recently argued. Onl y through engaging with and transforming the conditions of the practice of architecture can a more ecological way of thinking and practising archite cture take shape. Understanding architecture in relation to how it is prod uced shifts how we think of the architect as a subject\, of architecture a s a material practice\, and of architecture theory as a field.Architects a re used to seeing themselves as the ones who set conditions\, as the desig ners of spatial constraints within which certain activities will develop. Issue 40 of \;Footprint \;will explore what happens when we start to consider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social\, cultu ral\, economic and material constraints. We welcome contributions that ana lyse specific situated practices of architects and their work\, as well as theoretical explorations. We are especially interested in texts and visua l essays exploring:accounts of architecture work\, both in its everyday an d situated aspects and in relation to collective organising and structural changeresponses to gendered and racialised power dynamics at the architec tural office\, the academy and the building sitethe queering\, misuse or s ubversion of specific tools\, technologies and softwares used for architec tural designthe development of specific materials\, both widely used and s till experimental\, and their impact on architectural practice and designr elations between specific policies and economic conditions and the product ion of architecturethe current ecological turn in relation to architecture production\, and its democratising and aesthetic potentialshistories of e xtraction and exploitation in relation to architecture productionthe theor etical implications of a focus on the conditions of architecture.Proposals for full articles (6000&ndash\;8000 words) and shorter contributions and visual essays (2000 words) will be evaluated by the editors in the form of abstracts (max. 600 words\, with a sample image for visual essays). The e ditors welcome contributions that draw on personal experience\, that use t ransdisciplinary methods\, and that are authored by or in alliance with wo rkers in the architecture\, engineering and construction industry. Abstrac ts must be submitted by December 15\, 2025.For submissions and all other inquiries and correspondence\, please contact Alina Paias and Catherine Ko ekoek at \;editors.footprint@gmail.com.Footprint \;40 will be publ ished in the spring of 2027.Visit the Footprint website for more informati on. \; DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251216 DTSTAMP:20251016T191407Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251215 LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Call for Papers - Footprint 40: Conditions of Architecture UID:RFCALITEM638962388479855354 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Issue 40 of \;Footp rint \;explores the theoretical and practical implications of sit uating architecture within its conditions of production. &lsquo\;Architect ure&rsquo\; has traditionally been distinguished from &lsquo\;building&rsq uo\;. Likewise\, architectural theory has generally been more concerned wi th the product of architecture (the built form) than with the labour\, cul ture\, materials and organisation needed to realise it. Increasingly confr onted with the reality of the climate crisis\, however\, it is no longer p ossible to disavow architecture&rsquo\;s entanglement with extraction\, cl imate breakdown\, and biodiversity loss: architecture \;is \;< /em>climate\, as MOULD collective recently argued. Only through engaging w ith and transforming the conditions of the practice of architecture can a more ecological way of thinking and practising architecture take shape. Un derstanding architecture in relation to how it is produced shifts how we t hink of the architect as a subject\, of architecture as a material practic e\, and of architecture theory as a field.

Architects are used to se eing themselves as the ones who set conditions\, as the designers of spati al constraints within which certain activities will develop. Issue 40 of&n bsp\;Footprint \;will explore what happens when we start to c onsider that architects are in turn also conditioned by social\, cultural\ , economic and material constraints. We welcome contributions that analyse specific situated practices of architects and their work\, as well as the oretical explorations. We are especially interested in texts and visual es says exploring:

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