Issue #15 'Networks of Solidarity'

In the wake of the asymmetrical effects of a global pandemic and planetary-scale protests against the capitalist, heteropatriarchal, and white-supremacist legacies of the plantation economy, colonialism, and imperialism, the next issue of informa explores worldmaking by means of ‘Networks of Solidarity’. Focusing on the role that transfeminist, Indigenous, and Black anti-colonial and anti-capitalist discourses play in the construction of practices of mutual aid, and collective resitance, this themed issue will address the architectural possibilities, and challenges of projects addressing social and ecological justice beyond mainstream institutions. Motivated by the central role of Puerto Rico as the world’s oldest colony, and the Caribbean as the laboratory that gave birth to both, the blueprint of the plantation, and to many anti-colonial imaginaries, ‘Networks of Solidarity’ wishes both, to document historical and contemporary efforts of collective empowerment, and speculate on the possibility of collective acts of worldmaking.

‘Networks of Solidarity’ invites paper submissions, narratives, short essays, visual essays, critical prose exploring the role of authors, designers, thinkers, activists, and collectives operating at the intersection of abolitionist, anticolonial, anti-capitalist, and feminist spatial, ecological, and social imaginaries.

Submission Deadline: June 19, 2022

Submission Details: https://www.informa-upr.com/about

informa is the peer-reviewed journal of the University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture. Initially conceived as an academic magazine from 2001– 2015, it has now been reformatted as a peer-reviewed journal.
informa publishes commissioned features and peer-reviewed articles about architecture, urbanism, and spatial theory. Our ISSN is 2637–7950.