OPEN CALL: (DIS)PLACEMENT

 

(dis)placement

In a world shaped by forced mobility, housing shortages, gentrification and territorial instability, (dis)placement cannot be understood solely as a physical condition. It is also a critical position from which to question how space is lived, represented and narrated. It brings into focus the social, political and economic forces that generate both attachment and exclusion, visibility and invisibility, continuity and rupture across contemporary landscapes.

Following the editorial trajectory of previous volumes, Volume 3 of scopio Magazine AAI invites contributions that engage photography, film and other visual practices as forms of artistic research, documentation and critical inquiry. We welcome works that approach (dis)placement across different scales and perspectives - from domestic interiors to territorial transformations, from individual experiences to collective processes - addressing themes such as migration, housing, borders, memory, eviction, resilience and spatial justice.

Submissions may take the form of:

• Visual essays grounded in conceptually and artistically rigorous photographic or filmic practices;
  
  
• Theoretical or critical texts reflecting on (dis)placement within architecture, urban studies, art, design and related fields;
  
  
• Hybrid works that combine visual and textual research, navigating the space between documentation and fiction, analogue and digital practices, representation and interpretation.
  
  

Rather than focusing on documentation alone, scopio Magazine AAI seeks contributions that expand our understanding of the spatial, social and symbolic dimensions of (dis)placement, offering thoughtful, critical and imaginative readings of how contemporary spaces are inhabited, contested and transformed.

This Open Call is open to researchers, artists, architects, designers and students whose work engages critically with the complexities of inhabiting and representing space today