Dimensions. Journal of Architectural Knowledge: Vol. 4, No. 8/2024: Changing Spatial Practices: Alliances, Activism, and Networks (Paperback or Softback)

»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 attention to the architectural design and epistemologies of aesthetic practice and research.

Issue 08/2024 discusses how multidimensional and diverse forms of thinking, designing, and building disrupt and challenge existing paradigms in the field of architecture in times of multiple struggles – characterised by inequality, conflicts, and exploitation of space. How do these changes impact architecture as a profession, practice, and discipline? How do spatial practitioners contribute to a more just spatial production including various voices and encouraging resource-saving urban practices? Referring to Audre Lorde we ask: »Are we doing the work?« This issue features contributions reflecting on collaborative practices, research, and diverse forms of architectural knowledge in activism, the building of networks, and alliances.

Kadambari Baxi is a professor of practice at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York. Her exhibitions on architecture and media serve as public pedagogy on vital socio-political issues, combining interactive media, moving images and architectural visualizations and integrating collaborations with scientists, artists, human-rights organizations and public-health experts. They explore climate justice, reproductive healthcare, labor exploitation on construction sites, as well as transboundary pollution, and were exhibited in New York, Seoul, Oslo and Nanjing, among others.

Isabel Glogar (PhD) is a researcher and architect working in the fields of housing and urban studies with a focus on collaboration, urban transformations and (climate) just cities. She has taught at the Professorship of Urban Design at Technische Universität München and Technische Universität Wien. She works with her office “Ofhaus – Office for Housing and Urban Studies” in the field of architecture, housing and urban research.

Gabu Heindl is an architect and urban planner and head of the Department ARCHITECTURE CITIES ECONOMIES at Universität Kassel. Her practice and research is situated in the fields of housing and public space with a focus on affordability, social justice and climate justice. She has taught at the AA in London, Sheffield University, Technische Hochschule Nürnberg at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, among others.

Bernadette Krejs (Dr.in techn.) ist Architektin und Forscherin an der Technischen Universität Wien in den Bereichen Wohnbau und Entwerfen. Ihre Arbeiten bewegen sich in einem transdisziplinären Forschungsfeld zwischen Architektur, Wohnbau und Visueller Kultur.

Tatjana Schneider is a researcher and educator focused on critical spatial practices for the common good and resistances to exploitative productions of space. She has taught at the Universities of Sheffield, Strathclyde, and Braunschweig, and co-founded Glasgow Letters on Architecture and Space. Her work centers on architecture's role in climate breakdown, including the project Architecture is Climate.