S,B Open Call #1
Story, Building issue 1 will consider the theme of TO ACCESS in, of and to architecture and the built environment in Ireland.
Submission details are at this link.
Work submitted for consideration in response to this theme might relate to, but should not be limited to:
Access to the built environment in terms of ability, and disability.
Social, economic, cultural, or other forms of access or exclusion in the built environment; social and spatial justice.
Access to forms and models of housing provision.
Notions of “behind the scenes” or “accessing all areas”.
Access to education in architecture or access to the profession.
How architecture is mediated and communicated to audiences (and thus rendered “accessible”) in various formats.
Architecture as mediated and made accessible or not, via social and other forms of new media.
Participation indesign and development practices or processes including the planning system.
Access (literally or conceptually) within and through buildings, including design, strategy, and detail.
Access to influence, power and resources that impact on architecture and the built environment.
Submissions are welcome from all. You do not have to be a writer in or of architecture to submit a proposal. This applies to any submission made whether in response to an open call or in general.
Founded in 2021 by Emmett Scanlon, Story, Building is an independent platform to advance the critical discussion of architecture.
The platform has three outputs – a podcast, What Buildings Do; an Index (under construction) and a printed journal, also Story, Building.
The platform has five guiding strategies, specifically to –
Create new conditions and trigger new situations for active, informed, and enthusiastic engagement with architecture.
Discuss critically and independently, the practice, processes, and products of contemporary architecture in Ireland.
Explore, map and reveal aspects of the nature and culture of that architecture.
Expand access to the discussion of architecture and the built environment, offering a place for new, diverse voices to contribute to draw a new map of lives lived in the company of buildings
Work with others to develop and support an infrastructure of new voices, writers and actors in the communication of architecture.
