Each annual issue is structured around a major thematic focus and organized into sections that invite readers to navigate across Architecture, Art and Image from multiple perspectives and disciplinary viewpoints.

Introduction and Editorial 
Introduction to the issue by Editor-in-chief. 
Editorials by the editors. 

Open call section

In this section we publish seclected submissions to the annual thematic open call. 

 

Editor's section

In these sections we publish contributions produced by envited authors.

Current strads are:

Visual Spaces of Change – José Carneiro e Pedro Leão Neto

The call for this section focuses on projects and theories that research and critically explore different visual communication strategies based on the development of contemporary photography projects, focusing on how architecture and the different dynamics of urban change allow us to foresee possible futures, utopian or dystopian.

We believe that contemporary photography enhances the exploration of future views on architecture, the city and the territory, also enabling the identification of transforming paths of the spaces represented. We are, therefore, interested in studies and projects where the image is significantly present — with particular focus on photography — as an instrument of research and communication capable of crossing borders and shifting limits between different disciplinary areas. Work capable of dealing with transversal problems that affect different territories, contributing to a spatial transformation and social integration and, therefore, more positive. It is intended to welcome projects that deepen more and less speculative theoretical-practical dynamics that have as their main focus the identification of problems inscribed in the complexity of contemporary life and what comes from it

Landscapes of Care – Maria Neto

In a world marked by forced displacement and environmental collapse, Landscapes of Care examines how architecture, photography, and visual practices can respond to vulnerability through acts of empathy and repair. Care here is not sentimental but political — a form of resistance that confronts architectures of exclusion and reimagines spaces of refuge, coexistence, and belonging. By revealing the fragile geographies of migration and survival, this section seeks to explore how design and image-making can nurture new landscapes of solidarity and collective responsibility.

Utopia – Joana Caetano

Urbanism and Technology – David Viana

The section on Urbanism & Technology focuses on territories, cities, and communities facing a complex web of challenges, including environmental crises, climate change, social equity issues, spatial cohesion, and resource management. Addressing questions like these requires a paradigm shift, where the built environment and digital innovation converge to forge a more plural and balanced future. This section aims to critically explore the dynamic interplay between urbanism and technology, moving beyond the conventional 'smart city' narrative to examine how technological solutions can be accurately inclusive, innovative, and intelligent – bridging digital tools and data analytics to inform a more sustainable urban planning. The correlation between urbanism, technology, and society targets the role emerging technologies can play in fostering resilient and equitable communities. This section aims to discuss how we can harness technological advancements to design deeply human-centred spaces that engage people with one another and with their everyday places.

Mapping informal placemaking – Ana Miriam

This section invites visual research on informal placemaking as a form of appropriation of urban environments that shapes public space through citizen engagement. It seeks to identify and address vestigial, resistant and emergent practices that informally inscribe meaning in public space, producing distinctive urban aesthetics and shaping places’ identities: from improvised constructions to public space unsolicited gardening, to spontaneous inscriptions on city walls. 

By documenting, interpreting and reflecting on such practices and their resulting aesthetics, the works featured in this section explore their significance in contemporary cities, while employing or addressing photography as a device for memory, observation, and imagination that can play a highly relevant political role in the transformation of cities.

Pedagogies of seeing – Cristina Ferreira

To see is to remember, to imagine, to inhabit the threshold between the visible and the invisible. Photography is not merely a technical instrument but a form of consciousness — a way of being present to architectural space that precedes language and rational thought. This section interrogates the pedagogical dimensions of photographic vision: how we learn to see beyond what is immediately given, how images shape our inner landscapes, and how the act of making photographs becomes a method of thinking architecture itself. Through practices that privilege sensation over information, embodied experience over mediated knowledge, we examine how photography educates perception and transforms our relationship with space. Here, every image is both a trace of what was seen and an opening toward new ways of seeing — revealing that architecture exists not only in built form but in the silent dialogue between eye, memory, and world.

Art in Context: Art, Architecture, and Landscape - Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro 

The editorial section delves into the evolving dialogue between art, architecture, and the landscapes that frame them, considering how these disciplines intersect, shaping the ways we see, move through, and imagine the surroundings. From contemporary artistic practices influenced by the built or natural environment to the shifting contexts formed by place, culture, and history, the section reflects on how art both emerges from — and may contribute to — the world, exploring the resonances between different practices that embed ways of looking, reacting e registering the experience of context.

Shared Sights: film, media, photography and the (re)configuration of the city – José Pinheiro

Cinema, media and photography emerge as progeny of the perpetually transforming city: they  simultaneously mirror  and shape its movements, contemplate its tensions, and unsettle its certainties. This editorial section sets out to explore the continuities and ruptures that animate these intellectual and artistic trajectories, attending to the ways in which they contour the contemporary urban condition. Ranging from historical excavations to critical interrogations of the inextricable bond between the image and the making of the modern urban fabric, we invite discerning and audacious contributions, capable of deepening the ongoing inquiry into the entanglements of image,media and the public space.

Desire paths - Virginia del Diego

This section aims to examine, from a diverse critical perspective, projects whose interests intertwine with architecture through formal, visual and/or methodological approaches. By proposing new ways of engaging with the field of architecture, these works open up paths that have not previously been explored.

 

Flash / Reviews and Curatorial Projects - Gabriel Hernández 

This section explores diverse approaches to analysing architecture, design, photography, and art, extending beyond their traditional formats—particularly through curatorial projects and exhibitions. By recognising curation and exhibition-making as vital elements within these fields, Flash / Reviews emphasises alternative narratives, new processes, and other formats in which to reimagine the built environment.

Drawing and photography international contest -  Inês Nascimento

DPIc is more than a contest. It is a space of encounter, and a call to (re)imagine. A stage where photography and drawing break free from mere representation and become acts of vision, resistance, action and transformation. Each image is a statement, a challenge, a fragment of a reality yet to come. We open the door to Academia, creating an experimental and radical ground where we can glimpse what new generations are thinking, questioning, imagining, and creating. DPIc exists to disturb what we take for granted, to question how we see, and to suggest new ways of inhabiting the present and the future. It is a classroom without walls, where every image carries the potential to teach us something about how we currently live, and how we might live otherwise. DPIc calls you to disobey and transgress, to dream and to idealize, to critique and disrupt. As David Bowie once said, “tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming”. So, can you hear it? And more importantly, what will you do about it?