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Call for Contributions:
K[]NESH SPACE will be publishing its first online edition in summer 2018. We invite submissions from academics, artists, activists and cultural practitioners from any field who are interested in exploring themes of space.
For the first publication of K[]NESH SPACE we want to think with the concept of scale to understand: How do we grasp the spatial? and how do we intervene in and act upon it?
SCALE
Across disciplines, the question of scale triggers a number of problems and opportunities.
While often used as a noun, a synonym for size, level, register or scope, the verb ‘to scale’ can be used as a strategy when trying to understand or intervene in the production and the material conditions of space. Switching scale is used to reduce or increase complexity, change registers or understand proportions in art and architecture, in politics, economics and mathematics, in social theory and media studies.
PROVOCATIONS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
1. What changes when we change scale?
2. On what scale should we begin to investigate and intervene in the production of space in
the contemporary city? (dust, brick, household, building, street, neighbourhood, city,
territory?)
3. Does scale assume some kind of spatial hierarchy? What could be an alternative? What
could a ‘flat’ ontology bring to our interventions?
4. What could we learn from questioning the relationship between temporality and scale in
studying space?
5. What are the implications of the problem of scale for (social) change? How do grassroots
and social movements scale up?
6. How do scholars and cultural practitioners from different disciplines use scaling as part of
their methodology – procedures, instruments, forms of representation – in theory and
practice, and can these serve as forms of spatial intervention?
FORMAT
We are open to new ideas and new forms of online contributions. Some suggestions for the publication include articles, photo-essays, photography pieces, videos, installation or live art, event documents, exhibition documents, presentation of an opinion piece or poetry.
Abstracts: up to 500 words - or maximum 1 minute video or 5 images.
Please submit abstracts by 6th April to: [log in to unmask]
TARGET AUDIENCE
The publication is intended to appeal to academic and non-academic audiences.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 6th April 2018
Notification of acceptance: 20th April 2018
Final submission: 20th June 2018
Publication: July 2018
ABOUT
K[]NESH /kɒn(ə)ʃ/ :act, activism in Persian
K[]NESH SPACE is a migrating platform for critical and creative spatial practices; a transdisciplinary agora in which artists, activists, architects, cultural practitioners, scholars, policy makers and scientists come together and challenge more traditional understandings of space.
We invite thinkers and doers to engage in dialogue and practice on a bi-annual topic through live events (site-specific and online) as well as an online publication on each topic at www.konesh.space (please note that the website is under construction).
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