描述
The Site Magazine is an independent journal that addresses diverse issues pertaining to our built environment. Through a range of writing types, design projects, and visual formats, each issue advocates for a critical consideration of the layered relations of our built environment posed from varied perspectives, including the cultural, political, formal, social, and ecological.
Founded in 2015, The Site Magazine is a collaborative, dynamic project driven by a shared commitment and passion for fostering debate as a way of progressing community and practice.
We are particularly interested in offering an interdisciplinary platform to explore the agency of designers and aligned professionals in bringing change, advocacy, and engagement beyond the limits of art and design. We encourage debates that engage the politics, cultural relevance, and social implications of the work that we do, and that confront issues of equality and representation.
We publish thematic issues twice a year. Each issue has both a print and digital form, allowing for a range expressive formats and a nuanced dialogue across both outlets. Along with The Site Magazine, we host public events—including roundtable discussions, exhibitions, and talks—to expand the discussions of each issue to a broader audience. Issues are grouped within series that are defined by a broader perspective.
Series 1, containing volumes 35–40, explores a range of scales and frameworks for understanding our built environment through the themes of Borders, Vernaculars, Future Legacies, Feminisms, Foundations/Disruptions, and Devices. This series continues the enumeration of On Site Review, making The Site Magazine the latest iteration of Canada’s longest running, independent journal for architecture and urbanism.
This issue situates itself within the space of the edit, inthe gaps between what takes place, what is recorded, what we come to understand through the sedimented records of our reality. It invites a move towards new and different frames of thinking and doing.
How might we uncover the complex, hidden iterations beneath the final inking? Can we reveal truths and tools to overcome the pervasive burdens of a monolithic, heteronormative, Eurocentric coding, or will we need to script new ones?
What needs to be written out in order to return what was and could have been, to move towards a communal future where we embrace our unbounded, unabridged, and unscripted selves?
This issue explores the conditions of possibility that await us when we encounter, resist, and reimagine the edit.
