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description: Sophia Journal is an academic, open access, peer-reviewed journal, published by the Centre for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (CEAU) - Research group Architecture, Art, and Image (AAI) at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal (FAUP), in collaboration with the association Cityscopio and their publishing imprint scopio Editions.
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items: OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS​​: Sophia Journal Vol. 11 Landscapes of Repair - The Invisible City: Manplan and Contemporary Forms of Repair
items: OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS​​: LANDSCAPES OF REPAIR: THE ROLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM IN DOCUMENTING THE LEGACY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND PUBLIC SPACES
items: 9th Sophia Journal International Conference | 22 November | University of Navarra - School of Architecture - E.T.S.A.
items: OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS | Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices
items: 8th SOPHIA JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
items: OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS​​: Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage
items: 7th SOPHIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
items: 7th Sophia Journal International Conference - 28 - 29 Sep. | FAUP
items: FAUP Announces the Release of Vol. 6 of Sophia Journal (Open access)
items: Sophia Journal Vol. 6 International Conference

OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS​​: Sophia Journal Vol. 11 Landscapes of Repair - The Invisible City: Manplan and Contemporary Forms of Repair
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description: Fourth thematic cycle "Landscapes of Repair" Guest Editors: Cristina Gastón (ETSAB-UPC), Hugh Campbell (UCD) Editors: Ana Miriam Rebelo (FAUP), Maria Neto (FAUP), Raquel Paulino (FAUP) Abstract deadline: 31 January 2026 Selected authors will be notified by the 28 of February 2026 Manuscript deadline (Conference): 1 setembro 2026 Conference (dtbc): 24/25 September 2026 Manuscript deadline (Journal): 1 November 2026 Publication date (tbc): by December 2026 Fourth thematic cycle, Landscapes of Repair Sophia Journal is currently accepting submissions for its fourth thematic cycle, Landscapes of Repair, encouraging a humanist approach to urban transformation that transcends purely economic considerations. By exploring the impactful realms of photography, film, and various visual practices, we aim to highlight their significant contributions to the discourse surrounding architectural and spatial production. Our goal is to draw urgent attention to the necessity of repairing our fractured planet. In doing so, we seek to address and connect the multitude of challenges that contemporary cities and territories across the world are facing. These visual mediums not only document but also critically engage with the diverse and complex issues of our time, offering unique perspectives on urban and environmental crises. Through this lens, we hope to foster deeper understanding and inspire reparative forms of coexistence. Framework of The Invisible City: Manplan and Contemporary Forms of Repair More than fifty years after The Architectural Review launched the Manplan series (1969–70), many of the questions it posed remain urgently relevant. Created during a time of profound disillusionment with the failures of post-war architectural modernity, Manplan aimed to expose the gap between design intentions and lived reality. It challenged architects, planners, and the public to confront the social and political consequences of spatial decision-making in this way. Its programme was daring, …
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date: 2025-12-05

OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS​​: LANDSCAPES OF REPAIR: THE ROLE OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND FILM IN DOCUMENTING THE LEGACY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE AND PUBLIC SPACES
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description: T Mapfre y H Arts - 1990 by Martí Llorens Fourth thematic cycle "Landscapes of Repair" Guest Editor Félix Solaguren Editors Cristina Gaston Guirão, Jaime Ferrer, LLuís Angel Domínguez, Maria Neto, Andrea Parga Editorial Collaborator Judit Taberna Torres Deadline finished for 1st manuscript: Deadline for presentation at the conference: International Conference (dtbc): Deadline for 3rd Manuscript (Journal): Publication date (tbc): by December 2025 Sophia Journal is currently accepting submissions for its fourth thematic cycle “Landscapes of Repair”, encouraging a humanist approach to urban transformation that transcends purely economic considerations. By exploring the impactful realms of photography, film, and various visual practices, we aim to highlight their significant contributions to the discourse surrounding architectural programs. Our goal is to draw urgent attention to the necessity of repairing our fractured planet. In doing so, we also seek to address and connect the multitude of challenges that contemporary cities and territories around the world are grappling with. These visual mediums not only document but also critically engage with the diverse and complex issues of our time, offering a unique perspective on urban and environmental crises. Through this lens, we hope to foster a deeper understanding and inspire actionable solutions to the pressing problems facing our global communities. Call for Submissions – The Role of Photography and Film in Documenting the Legacy of Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Public Spaces In this call for papers and visual essays of Sophia Journal Vol.10 No. 1 “Landscapes of Repair: ”, – we invite theoretical and field work using photographic and visual practices to explore and document both Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Public Space infrastructure. The call aims to understand and document architecture, building, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, focused on recent past and present positiv…
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date: 2024-10-18

9th Sophia Journal International Conference | 22 November | University of Navarra - School of Architecture - E.T.S.A.
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description: Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices Honor Committee: Carlos Naya (ETSAUN) Pedro Leão Neto (CEAU-FAUP) Scientific Committee: Pedro Leão Neto (CEAU-FAUP) Igea Troiani (LSBU) Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile) Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN) Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP) Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM) Organizing Committee Coordinator: Antonio J. Cidoncha Pérez (ETSAUN) Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP) Host Institution University of Navarra - School of Architecture - E.T.S.A. On the 22nd of November 2024, at the Universidad de Navarra, E.T.S.A., another edition of our Sophia Journal International conference will take place, continuing the successful annual cycle of international forums dedicated to the critical exploration of the intersections between image and architecture. Focusing on contemporary photographic and visual practices that explore how architecture, in its broadest sense, can contribute to healing a planet in crisis, the 9th Sophia Journal International Conference - Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices on public housing, centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is conditional and conditioned by housing typology. Combining architecture, public housing, habitat, and urban planning, we are presenting works that explore an interpretative narrative about housing and those who live in it, pilot projects with communities of practice capable of generating strategic visions about the possible future of city and territory, housing and the lives it (trans)forms, in this ontological relationship between the Man and house. The event comprises a program that combines live and video-conferencing sessions, which will be broadcast online and allow a large audience to participate. The program features a rich and diverse set of activities, including: Round-tables dedicated to specific topics, where discussions revolve around theoretical work, records of experiences in social housing p…
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date: 2024-03-11

OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS | Landscapes of Care. Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices
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description: The Campo di Marte, La Giudecca, Venice, 2018. IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari, 1983). Courtesy: Jorge Marum Editors: Maria Neto (UBI-FAUP), Paz Nuñez Martí (UAH-ETSAM) Guest Editors: Igea Troiani (LSBU), Joan Mac Donald (U. Chile), Jorge Tárrago Mingo (ETSAUN) Open Call Video Presentation Sophia Journal is no longer accepting submissions for its third thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care” focused on “Public housing across multiple geographies: crossing theories and practices” 1st Manuscript deadline: 31 of March 2024 2st Manuscript deadline: 1 of September 2024 Deadline for Conference Presentation: October 2024 International Conference (dtbc): November 2024 3rd Manuscript deadline (Journal): 5 of October 2024 Publication date (tbc): by December 2024 Sophia Journal's third thematic, “Landscapes of Care”, addresses research, projects, experiences, and contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture, understood in a broad sense, can help to heal the relationships between man and habitat, as well as the socio-environmental crisis that the planet is experiencing. The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts and architecture, transposed here as the action of the social state in the housing sector, which generates a relationship of care between the state and society, framed by economic, social, and cultural rights. In this call, we are interested in investigations and visual narratives that help us understand and document practices outside the dominant narratives, which promote the right to housing but also the right to the city, calling on the city and the territory as living and inclusive organisms, recognizing the importance of public resources and social responses, participatory processes, and co- responsibility, for global sustainability. This issue, focusing on public housing, allows contributions to be centered on a dynamic reading of the city that is…
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2023-09-29

8th SOPHIA JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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description: LANDSCAPES OF CARE: PHOTOGRAPHY, FILM, MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE HERITAGE Organised by: Hugh Campbell, Igea Troiani, João Leal, Mark Durden, Olívia Marques da Silva, Pedro Leão Neto, Rikke Munck Petersen, Teresa Ferreira Álvaro Siza’s ‘Piscina das Marés’, by Mark Durden and João Leal. Leça da Palmeira, Portugal, 2021. Courtesy of the artists The 8th Sophia Journal International Conference will present a live and videoconference program organised by CEAU / FAUP and the event will be broadcasted live online, encompassing a rich and diverse program around: (i) roundtables for each panel concerning a focused topic coming from Sophia´s comprehensive call; (ii) presentation of articles and visual essays submitted; (iii) Photography exhibition: The Idea of Álvaro Siza. This International Conference integrates the thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care”, addressing contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture understood in a wide sense can help to heal a broken planet. The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts, architecture and heritage preservation. It is used here in order to understand and document modern architecture, building, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, as well as heritage resources for global sustainability. Modern architecture is a ‘heritage at risk’ as it belongs to a recent past that has not yet been sufficiently recognised by the authorities, scholars and general public. Our aim is to explore the ways in which photography and film can be used as meaningful instruments of research into the socioeconomic, political, historical, technical and ecological dimensions of modern architecture, city and territory. Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage invited theoretical and field work where architectural photography and filmmaking are descriptive, analytical and interpretive, communi…
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2023-01-29

OPEN CALL IS NOW CLOSED | THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS​​: Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage
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description: Sophia Journal Vol. 8 | Abstract deadline (Conference): 1 December 2022 | Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage. Editors: Hugh Campbell, Mark Durden, Teresa Ferreira, João Leal, Rikke Munck Petersen and Igea Troiani 1. Álvaro Siza’s ‘Piscina das Marés’, by Mark Durden and João Leal. Leça da Palmeira, Portugal, 2021. Courtesy of the artists Abstract deadline: 1 of December 2022 Selected authors will be notified by the 11 of January 2023 1st Manuscript deadline: 11 of March 2023 2st Manuscript deadline: 1 of September 2023 Deadline for Conference Presentation: 10 of September 2023 International Conference (dtbc): 15 and 16 of September 2023 3rd Manuscript deadline (Journal): 5 of October 2023 Publication date (tbc): by December 2023 Sophia Journal is currently accepting submissions for its third thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care”, addressing contemporary photographic and visual practices that focus on how architecture understood in a wide sense can help to heal a broken planet. The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts, architecture and heritage preservation. It is used here in order to understand and document modern architecture, building, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, as well as heritage resources for global sustainability. Modern architecture is a ‘heritage at risk’ as it belongs to a recent past that has not yet been sufficiently recognised by the authorities, scholars and general public. Our aim is to explore the ways in which photography and film can be used as meaningful instruments of research into the socioeconomic, political, historical, technical and ecological dimensions of modern architecture, city and territory. In this call for papers and visual essays for this 8th issue of Sophia Journal- Landscapes of care: photography, film, modern architecture and landscape heritage– we invite theoretical and field…
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2022-10-28

7th SOPHIA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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description: LANDSCAPES OF CARE: THE EMERGENCE OF LANDSCAPES OF CARE IN UNSTABLE TERRITORIES 1. Armin Linke, Lake Assal, extraction of salt, Djibouti, Africa, 2012. Courtesy Armin Linke and Vistamare / Vistamarestudio, Pescara / Milano. The current 7th Sophia International Conference, organised by CEAU / FAUP, is the direct result of the Call for Papers of the upcoming 7th issue of Sophia Journal and the first volume within a new cycle of the Sophia Journal dedicated to Landscapes of Care. After a selection of the best papers and visual essays submitted to our Call, the results will be presented during an Online Conference, on the 29th of September, organised in two panels, discussing landscapes of extraction, wastelands, desert landscapes as heritage, geological boundaries and political borders, arctic expeditions, among other stimulating issues central to discuss what we have proposed in our Call. The Online Conference also counts with three presentations by invited keynote speakers: Armin Linke, Marco Ferrari + Elisa Pasqual (Studio Folder), and Elsa Brès. Each presentation is followed by a generous time for discussion between all the participants to fulfil what has been one of the major objectives of these Conferences. To celebrate the rich and diverse program of the current issue of this year's Sophia International Conference, the organisation committee proposes a live screening of films during the afternoon of the 28th of September, followed by a round-table with Margarida Mendes (TBC), Jorge Leandro Rosa, and Pedro Bandeira. The films are Subir e Sumir (2021), by Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela; Forest Mind (2021), by Ursula Biemann; Sweat (2020), by Elsa Brès; and Salarium (2017), by Sasha Litvinsteva in collaboration with Daniel Mann. This parallel event is an in-person event, open to all which should propel a large number of topics to be further discussed and developed on the next day, during the online conference. The general objective of these Conferences is to…
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2022-09-07

7th Sophia Journal International Conference - 28 - 29 Sep. | FAUP
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description: Sophia Journal Vol. 7 | Landscapes of Care: the emergence of landscapes of care in unstable territories | Editors: Susana Ventura and Andreia Alves de Oliveira | Guest Editor: Armin Linke. 1. Armin Linke, Lake Assal, extraction of salt, Djibouti, Africa, 2012. Courtesy Armin Linke and Vistamare / Vistamarestudio, Pescara / Milano. International Conference: 28 - 29 September 2022 Manuscript deadline (Journal): 5 September 2022 Publication date (tbc): by December 2022 Sophia Journal is currently accepting submissions for its third thematic cycle “Landscapes of Care”, addressing contemporary photography and visual practices that focus on how architecture understood in a wide sense can help to heal a broken planet. The concept of “Landscapes of Care” has increasingly been adopted by diverse areas of study, from health geography to the arts and architecture. It allows us to understand architecture, city and territory as living and inclusive organisms, constituted by multifaceted landscapes with complex social and organisational spatialities which embody the difference and the other, the strange, the unfamiliar, the indigenous, the human and the non-human. Our aim is to explore the ways in which the image can be used as a meaningful instrument of research about the multifaceted complex socioeconomic, political, historical, technical and ecological dimensions of architecture, city and territory that testify, question or emerge from those relationships of care. For the 7th issue of Sophia Journal and first issue in the cycle, we are focusing on the emergence of landscapes of care in unstable territories. These territories may be, but are not exclusive to: the desert, the icy lands, the rainy forests; territories within uncertain boundaries, e.g. between land and water; territories inhabited by native communities; territories that dramatically alter their configuration due to extreme weather conditions and scarce resources, or which natural resources are violently exploited …
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2021-09-27

FAUP Announces the Release of Vol. 6 of Sophia Journal (Open access)
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description: Vol. 6 of Sophia Journal Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations published articles addressing the following global issues: How do we all become aware of the gradual, but inescapable changes in the environment? How does photography raise public awareness of the pressing environmental changes implicit in our anthropocentric epoch? How can photography contribute to these complex debates? These issues were addressed from several perspectives: from confronting our memories and understandings of a place to reactivating ‘what is no longer there’ or proposing ‘what could be there’. This volume brings together photographers and researchers who make significant contributions to these discussions, including the material processes of creating, managing and interpreting sets of documents. We are publishing work where photography is explored as a significant research tool for critical and innovative views on architecture and urban transformation in their expanded fields and contextualized by larger systems: cultural, political, artistic, technical, and historical dimensions. In this context, the works which are presented in Sophia question how the different dimensions of architecture and urban transformation may be meaningfully understood or reframed through the different lenses and perspectives of visual processes. Editorial Team Wilfried Wang (UTSoA) Guest Editor Jorge Marum (CIAUD-UBI) Leonor Matos Silva (Dinâmia’CET, ISCTE-IUL) Carolina Leite (CEAU / FAUP) Carlos Machado e Moura (CEAU / FAUP) Maria Neto (CEAU / FAUP - UBI) Editor-in-chief Pedro Leão Neto
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2021-06-04

Sophia Journal Vol. 6 International Conference
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description: International Conference - 6th number of Sophia Journal - Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations took place on the 21 and 22 of May - FAUP | 2021. Online access to Conference MORNING SESSION – 21 MAY - OPENING SESSION | PANEL #1 AFTERNOON SESSION – 21 MAY - PANEL #2 | PANEL #3 MORNING SESSION | 22 MAY - PANEL #4 EXHIBITION at FAUP Abstract The International Conference for SOPHIA #6 took place at the Faculty of Architecture of University of Porto (FAUP), continuing the annual cycle of international forums on a specific theme. Sophia Journal´s International Conference consisted of a live and video conference programme organized by CEAU / FAUP in partnership with other institutions and the event will be held online and access to the Conference Room will only be possible to the organising team. Encompassing a rich and diverse programme around: (i) roundtables for each panel concerning a focused topic coming from Sophia´s comprehensive call; (ii) presentation of articles submitted; (iii) the opening of Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations exhibition using the VSC Mobile Projector. The contents of the exhibition will also be online soon and the exhibition experience is registered purely for research purposes, being analysed in the context of the ongoing Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations articles and research. The global objective of these international forums is to promote the reflection and debate on the universes of architecture, art and image, addressing various issues transversal to the worlds of photography and architecture, exploring how the image can be a means to cross borders and shift boundaries between different disciplinary areas. Programme The programme of Visual Spaces of Change: photographic documentation of environmental transformations comprises a set of roundtables on which it will be possible to address and deb…
creator: Sophia Journal
date: 2021-06-04