Special Issue: By What Means: the ACADIA Special Issue of the International Journal of Architectural Computing
Paper Submission: March 15th 2021
Decision Notification: April 19th 2021
Revised Manuscripts: May 17th 2021
BY WHAT MEANS
Sasha Costanza-Chock’s phrase “By Any Media Necessary” refers to the growing community of practitioners and researchers that are leveraging advanced media, methods and modalities of design toward issues of social justice, inclusivity, and environmental responsibility. A plurality of health, ecology, and society pandemics are placing a renewed focus on designers to direct and re-prioritize their work, research, and scholarship outward, beyond disciplinary boundaries. These acute circumstances call for a collective re-imagining of alternative futures that recognize interdependent socio-technical variables in design, research, practice, and pedagogy.
This issue of IJAC seeks submissions which examine the ways projects, practices, techniques, technologies, and mediated forms of social mechanics are being reconsidered as paths toward design efficacy through the production of a shared constructed (physical or otherwise) environment. By what means should we be reconsidering, redeveloping, and reinventing design practices, design media, and design pedagogy to address the social, ecological, and ethical challenges of today and those we will face tomorrow?
For more information, including the Scope of the Special Issue and how to submit a manuscript, visit ACADIA Call for Papers.