Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge: Vol. 5, No. 10/2025: Contact Zones: Architectural Encounters in the Post-Anthropocene

»Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge« is an academic journal in, on and from the discipline of architecture, addressing the creation, constitution and transmission of architectural knowledge. It explores methods genuine to the discipline and architectural modes of interdisciplinary methodological adaptions. Processes, procedures and results of knowledge creation and practice are esteemed coequally, with particular attentiveness to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.
Issue 10/2025, edited by Lidia Gasperoni, Beata Hemer, Jennifer Raum, and Guro Sollid, seeks to foreground the multifarious, transformative, and productive zones of contact through which new forms of cohesion and understanding for more-than-human environments can arise. The issue features a multitude of encounters between practice and theory, as well as premises for engaging with contact zones within the fields of architecture and landscape architecture, raising questions and providing inspiration for spatial practitioners and educators who insist on a critical and open engagement with the urgent planetary conditions.

Katharina Voigt studied architecture in Hamburg, Munich, and Stockholm. She worked for Stölken Schmidt Architekten BDA in Hamburg and Heim Kuntscher Architekten und Stadtplaner BDA in Munich. She researches and teaches at the Chair of Architectural Design and Conception, at the Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on transdisciplinary investigations of architecture, highlighting the lived experience as significant for the anticipation of architectural design, and investigating the integration of sensuality and bodily knowledge in architectural research. Her doctorate on dance practices as a medium and tool of architectural experience, research, and design is associated with the doctoral program Epistemologies of Aesthetic Practices at the Collegium Helveticum. She is a founder and member of the advisory board for »Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge«.

Lidia Gasperoni (Dr.) ist Professorin, Co-Direktorin für Design und Mitglied des Just Environments-Cluster an der Bartlett School of Architecture des University College London.

Beata Hemer is a trained architect and enrolled as a PhD researcher at the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture in Copenhagen. Her professional background is grounded in self-organized work and activism, spanning from critical mapping groups to self-built housing and having been channeled into teaching and pedagogy. Her research concerns everyday maintenance practices in a Danish non-profit housing context, looking into the political as well as material implications of these practices.

Jennifer Raum is an university assistant at the Institute of Architecture and Landscape at Technische Universität Graz and a PhD candidate at the Chair of History and Theory of Modern Architectureat Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. Her research interests include climate change, architectural pedagogy and postcolonial perspectives.

Guro Sollid is an associate professor and head of the master's programme Architecture & Landscape at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. She investigates architectural mediations and new territories between topographical and topological mapping, recognizing architectural drawing as an essential tool for creative reflection.