Submissions close midnight 17th October AEST
Paradise Journal is a student-run, open-access publication for critical and experimental work on architecture in Australia. It is a product of dissatisfaction with the practice and discourse of architecture, being at once insular and uninterested in our spaces of violence, dispossession, exclusion - the carbon form of our world. It is both completely serious and totally naive. Paradise is seeking contributions for its second issue, “DIY.”
Callout
Do It Yourself. Do it how we tell you to. Follow the rules, the regulations, the warranty waivers, the planned obsolescence. Don’t worry about the non-replaceable parts. Buy something new, something more convenient. Or look at all the options you have to Do It Yourself. See how cheap they are. All under one green-and-red warehouse roof, 376 locations for your convenience. For a nation built on Hard Work, DIY is embedded in our troubled history.
At a time when we are most disconnected from the building of our city and the objects of daily life, DIY is acting otherwise. It is the disaffection and resourcefulness that calls us to reclaim our skills and our agency. Repairing, salvaging, re-making. Campaigning, caring, advocating. It makes visible the ecologies of material and labour, the temporal processes and energetic lifespans of our shared environment.
DIY is more than doing it yourself. It is acting with others, acting collectively. It is rejecting our history of lonesome and aggressive individualism, and embracing mutual interdependence. It is the constant negotiation of new relations. It draws attention to the generations of more-than-human species ahead of us set to inherit our legacy. DIY is urgent.
Paradise Journal is a labour of love and malcontent. DIY is for all those acting with the radical spirit of care. Those who challenge business-as-usual attitudes, not content to rely on the ruling structures for support. In times of crisis, there is reorganisation. DIY is making a way through the chaos.
Details
All forms and formats of research or critique related to Australian architecture and culture are welcome, from methodologies in the academic tradition to emerging and experimental practices amongst the discursive, dialogical, artistic, audiovisual, cartographic, historical and projective multitudes. This callout is open to groups and individuals, architects, students and practitioners working within, outside and across the field of spatial disciplines.
Proposed contributions will be evaluated by the editorial board on the basis of a 300 word abstract. The abstract should contain an indication of the content, length and format of the contribution, and include any relevant images or visuals. Abstracts should be sent as a PDF to hello [at] paradise-journal.com.au, along with a short bio that includes the author’s name, professional/academic affiliation, email address, and contact number. Submissions close midnight Sunday October 17th, with a timeline to publishing next year in June. All contributions to Paradise will be monetarily compensated.
Paradise would like to acknowledge Country, upon which all dominant contemporary notions of living and the architectures that they structure have been imposed as part of forcible and ongoing colonisation. We pay our respects to the Elders past and present, and recognise that all Australian land is stolen land and sovereignty was never ceded.
