Website: int|AR
Deadline for submissions: 15 August 2017
Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Reuse, the Int|AR Journal explores this inherently sustainable practice through multi-faceted investigations and paradigmatic examples. Encompassing issues of preservation, conservation, alteration and interventions, each peer-reviewed issue offers broad but distinct viewpoints on a single topic.
We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance. These actions prompt responses, daily and globally, from Tweets to boycotts, but also kindness and unintended heroism. George Bernard Shaw said, “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not to react.”
In the built environment, both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act?
Can an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper?
Can an intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision? negation?
Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary? absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate? appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s original intent?
Can an intervention be an act of defiance, one of division, one of resistance?
If Intervention as Act implies a breaking away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
Proposals 250 words by August 15, 2017 to be emailed to intarjournal@risd.edu.
Deadline for submissions: 15 August 2017
We live in a time characterized by violence, racism, inequality, supremacy, ignorance. These actions prompt responses, daily and globally, from Tweets to boycotts, but also kindness and unintended heroism. George Bernard Shaw said, “The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not to react.”
In the built environment, both microscopic and urbanistic, design interventions react to constraints of nature, clients, budgets, structural limits. What of Intervention as Act?
Can an intervention to an existing structure think? yell? scream? whisper?
Can an intervention to an existing structure prompt performance? engagement? revision? negation?
Can an intervention to an existing structure create sanctuary? absolve? moralize? redeem? ideate? appropriate? heal? And what of the building’s original intent?
Can an intervention be an act of defiance, one of division, one of resistance?
If Intervention as Act implies a breaking away, a shift from the status quo, an adaptation to a new context, can that adaptation bring occupants to ACT?
Proposals 250 words by August 15, 2017 to be emailed to intarjournal@risd.edu.
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