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History of Art & Architecture’s Professor Swati Chattopadhyay announces the just-launched digital venue for conversation on buildings, spaces and landscapes, with creators and founding editors Chattopadhyay, Marta Gutman, Zeynep Kezer, and Matthew Lasner: PLATFORM.
PLATFORM is an open digital venue for exchanging new ideas about working with, researching, teaching, and writing about buildings, spaces, and landscapes. It features content that engages with contemporary culture and politics.
PLATFORM facilitates conversations about spaces: contemporary and historical. We publish short-form essays and digital content (audio, photos, video, and data visualization). We are keen to publish cutting-edge discussions about the here and now, and how we relate to the past, to history, and our legacies at the present moment.
PLATFORM is broad in perspective and interdisciplinary in orientation and invites contributors from the global north and south and from across professions and disciplines. We are not a closed or finite group. Unsolicited work is welcome and commenting is possible. You do not need to have gone to school with the editors, be an architect, an architectural historian, or an academic to join the conversation. We value the diversity of opinions about how we view, read, experience, and engage with the built and natural landscapes. PLATFORM crosses disciplinary divides and is explicitly international.