All papers approved for the colloquium are invited to submit full articles for the thematic dossier “Criticism, media, memory | Architectural transatlantic dialogues” of the academic journal Cadernos PROARQ, which will be published in the second half of 2024. We would just like to point out that acceptance to the colloquium does not guarantee publication in the journal, which will have a new round of peer review, considering the full article. Informations about the dossier are detailed below:
CADERNOS PROARQ 43
Thematic Edition: "Crítica, Mídias e Memória. Uma cultura transatlântica"
Special Editors: Priscilla Peixoto, Guilherme Bueno, Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Rute Figueiredo, Mário Magalhães e Joana Mello de Carvalho e Silva.
Submission period: August 26 – November 04, 2024
This dossier is open to articles and essays that analyse the architectural criticism operation – its objects, practices and actors – constituted through the Atlantic Ocean transit. It seeks to approach the different mediation mechanisms (translations, periodicals, publications and international meetings) that enabled the structuring of networks of relationships, contacts and exchanges between social actors originating from different criticism cultures of this ocean's shores, especially those who cross it.
Thus, the papers applying for this dossier should be within the scope of architectural criticism history and address objects that emphasise the transit through territories. They should also demonstrate the intention of investigating architectural criticism as a practice of identification, tensioning and mediation of diversified architectural cultures. Therefore, the texts should have an emphasis on how criticism cultures, when in contact with each other, are modified due to losses, selections and rediscoveries, creating something that is not a mere junction, nor a mosaic, but rather a new and creative synthesis. Also, the articles should signalise to a way to deal with future's uncertainties, since writing about Atlantic cultures is often writing about expatriated, exiled bodies, which often find in transculturation a (or the sole) way of existing (resisting).
CADERNOS PROARQ opens its submission flow to researchers in the area of architecture and urbanism, and correlated areas, at the same time as it seeks to bring close together the set of papers deriving from the 2nd Colloquium on Criticism, Media and Memory | Architectural Transatlantic Dialogues, which will be submitted to a double-blind review.
Scope of contributions: We invite original, unpublished proposals that study criticism operations, their different actors and their historically intertwined routes that cross and occur by means of the Atlantic Ocean. Examples: objects in transit; spaces of definition, legitimation and mediation of different cultures of criticism; the proposed agendas and dialogues; and the historiography and the memory of criticism.
Discussion axes* (indicative):
The transatlantic experience and criticism operation:
This axis invites to discussions on the historicity of architectural criticism in the transatlantic sphere.
Suggested topics: Critics and their trajectories; objects in transit; agendas of criticism construed in transit; spaces of definition and legitimation between different cultures of criticism.
The memory of criticism in the transatlantic transit:
This axis stimulates the debate on criticism of architecture and its transatlantic nature as heritage assets.
Suggested topics: Attributed and disputed values; cartographies of involved actors; recognition processes.
*Note on the discussion axes: These axes are not the roundtables proposed by the event. They are only indicative paths of the colloquium's interest. The roundtables will be defined once the proposals have been received by the coordination of the event.
Submission Details: Abstracts should be up to 500 words, include 3 to 5 keywords, and clearly indicate the chosen Program Track. We accept submissions in Portuguese, Spanish or English. Abstracts should be submitted via submission link. Each proposal will undergo a blind-peer review by at least two members of our Scientific Board.
Calendar:
Abstracts submission until: 22 April 2024 ( new deadline)
Notification of abstract acceptance: 22 May 2024 (updated)
Registration deadline: 17 July 2024
Colloquium: 29-31 October 2024
Publication: Selected papers will be encouraged for further development into articles for publication in the thematic dossier of the scientific journal Cadernos PROARQ.
Technical and Logistical Information: Presentations should be limited to 20 minutes, followed by a Q&A session. For face-to-face format, standard presentation equipment (projector, screen and sound system) will be available. For further logistical queries, please contact criticamemoria@gmail.com.