Remote Spatial Investigations: Constructing the Virtual Map of Belgrade

As architecture is considered a projective discipline, its underlying intents are always geared towards acting in and on the world. In other words, even if its discursive actions(evaluations, assessments, critiques, theorizations) are mostly reflexive, architecture aims to transform ‘reality’ both spatially and materially. In order to understand...

How to spatially mediate conflicts?

Various forms of violence and conflict continue to shape our habitats. What historically has been straightforward and even obvious two-way dependency, in recent years took more subtle and covert form due to sophisticated technological advancements in the fields of media, surveillance and armament. Recognising the detrimental effects of these new...

On Walking, Mapping and Drawing: The 'Moon Walk Mapping'

This article presents the mapping of the Moon Walk as part of an ongoing research project of the Borders & Territories research group in which a number of walks that have changed the course of the history of mankind are investigated and mapped

Conflict, Space and Architecture: Introduction

Footprint 19 focuses on the more recent roles of architecture in the contemporary spaces of conflict. Departing from a spatial understanding of geopolitical, climatological and economical conflicts, the various contributions highlight the large scale and phenomenal transitions in the physical world and in society by extrapolating, through...

Place-time discontinuities: Mapping in architectural discourse

Readings and reacting: From the research of border conditions to experimental methods in architectural and urban design

The Border as Threshold Space of Simultaneities

The contribution spatial analysis should nowadays attempt to make to an understanding of the effects of power on space is precisely located in incorporating this understanding of the border. Without such a model, one will only remain to speculate about the properties of the border. It will, in other words, remain discourse only, rather then...

Drawing Theory: An Introduction

Editorial: A magazine of neither: twenty-five years of Oase

The landscape as historical montage: A dialogue between Jan Kolen and Dirk Sijmons / Het landschap als historische montage: een gesprek tussen Jan Kolen en Dirk Sijmons

Editorial: Positions. Shared Territories in Historiography & Practice / Redactioneel: Posities. Gedeelde gebieden in historiografie & ontwerp-praktijk

Een crisis van onvoorziene mogelijkheden: E-mail interview met Kristin Feiress / A fortuitous crisis: e-mail interview with Kristin Feiress