Celebrating Issue Number 25 of Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts

2025-07-31

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SILVER

 

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:   Celebrating Issue Number 25 of Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts

Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is pleased to call for abstracts for its 25th issue, “Silver,” celebrating what we are thinking of as a significant anniversary. Since its inception in 1991, the journal has been a platform for architectural discourse, fostering critical engagement and scholarly exchange. The anniversary offers an opportunity to reflect on the journal’s evolution, its impact on architectural thought, and the diverse contributions that have shaped its trajectory.

In its formative years, Interstices was edited by Ross Jenner and Nigel Ryan, emerging from a broader theoretical movement within the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture during the 1980s. The inaugural issue developed out of the “Under Construction” seminar series, which facilitated the exchange of ideas among participants. Key contributors included Mike Austin, Peter Bartlett, Chris Barton, Mike Linzey, Chris Orsman, Sarah Treadwell, Paul Walker, and Mark Wigley. These individuals, some as staff and others as postgraduate students and sessional teachers, played pivotal roles in shaping the journal’s early direction.

The journal took a significant turn in 2005 when Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul revitalised it, establishing an annual publication schedule. This revitalisation was achieved through a collaborative effort between the University of Auckland’s School of Architecture and Planning and the Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design. This partnership broadened the journal’s scope, incorporating a wider range of perspectives and disciplines.

As the journal celebrates its 25th anniversary, it stands as a testament to the collaborative efforts of its contributors and the evolving landscape of architectural thought. The diverse range of authors who have contributed to Interstices over the years reflects the journal’s dedication to exploring the interstices—the spaces between ideas and their realisation—in architecture and related arts.

We invite 300 words abstracts for three types of contributions to the “Silver” issue:

  • Long-format peer-reviewed papers of up to 6000 words (including notes) that engage with and build upon themes and ideas explored in any of the previous issues of Interstices or individual papers therein;
  • Short-format peer-reviewed papers of up to 3000 words (including notes) from previous contributors to Interstices, reflecting upon or extending aspects of their own earlier work in the journal;
  • Project-based papers, again peer-reviewed, of up to 3000 words (including notes). This section recognises one of the original aims for the journal, which was to publish intelligent and critical reviews of recent and current buildings and projects, including unbuilt projects.

The long-and short-format papers both offer opportunities for contributors to revisit or reinterpret past ideas, or to use them as a springboard for related research, fostering a dialogue between the journal’s history and its present.

All back issues are available here.

  1. The Spaces Between (1991)
  2. Stone (1992)
  3. Particulars (1995)
  4. Digital Accessories (1996)
  5. Faciality (2000)
  6. Animal/Impulse (2005)
  7. Gen-ius-/Gen-ealogy (2006)
  8. Disagreement (2007)
  9. Expat: Places/Spaces/Baggage (2008)
  10. Adam’s House in the Pacific (2009)
  11. The Traction of Drawing (2010)
  12. Unsettled Containers: Aspects of Interiority (2011)
  13. Technics, Materiality and the Architecture of History (2012)
  14. Immaterial Materialities (2013)
  15. Atmospheres and Affect (2014)
  16. The Urban Thing (2015)
  17. Return to Origins (2016)
  18. Pattern/Surface: A Pursuit of Material Narratives (2017)

Special Issue: From Beaux-Arts to BIM (2018)

  1. Presence (2019)
  2. Political Matters (2020)

Special Issue: The Arts of Spinoza and Pacific Spinoza (2021)

  1. Fixing (2022)
  2. Urban Historical (2023)
  3. Architectures of Love (2024)
  4. On Water: The Aqueous in Architecture (forthcoming 2025)

For full publishing options and formatting details, please refer to the Guidelines for Submissions at: https://interstices.ac.nz/index.php/Interstices/information_for_contributors.

With your abstract, please include a bio-note of 80-100 words.

Abstracts should be sent to Susan Hedges susan.hedges@aut.ac.nz.

Questions can be sent to Andrew Douglas andrew.douglas@auckland.ac.nz or Julia Gatley julia.gatley@auckland.ac.nz.

 

Estimated Timeline for Refereed Papers:

  • Release of CFA: 31 July 2025
  • Submission of abstracts for peer-reviewed papers: 15 September 2025
  • Abstract acceptance notification: 15 October 2025
  • Submission of full papers for double-blind peer review: 15 March 2026
  • Review of full papers by: 15 May 2026
  • Revised papers to be returned by: 15 July 2026
  • Issue publication: September 2026

 

Estimated Timeline for Postgraduate Creative Design Projects (PCDPs):

  • Call for EPIs for PCDPs: 15 February 2026
  • Submission of PCDPs: 15 May 2026
  • PCDPs acceptance notification: 15 July 2026
  • Issue publication: September 2026

 

Issue Editors:

Andrew Douglas – Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland

Julia Gatley – Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland

Susan Hedges – Te Wānanga Aronui o Tāmaki Makaurau Rau, Auckland University of Technology