onsite 24 :: Fall 2010

architecture + migration

cultural diffusion
geography
nomadism
tenure
emigration
immigration
relocation
permanence
desire
fear
material traditions
home
assimilation
ownership
community
alienation
construction methods
housing
dwelling
house types
tents
wagons
camps
suitcases
trunks
containers
tipis
cabins
sod huts
kit bags
tools
communications
portability
anchors
adaptation
climate
clothing
ritual
spatiality
ways of living

• deadline for proposals, in a short note: CLOSED
  
• deadline for finished articles: August 15 2010
• send by email to onsite

Texts should be 500-1000 words or less, sent as an .rtf text document. Images must be 300dpi CMYK .jpgs at least 2000px wide. Anything sent not in these formats will sink, sadly, to the bottom of the pile.
Copyright clearance must be obtained, by you, for any images not your own.

Take a look at our contributor's contract which will give you our general conditions, and also have a look at our editorial styles and policies.

On Site is not an academic journal, it is an independent magazine read by architects, artists, landscape architects, designers, geographers, students, historians and other interested people. It covers culture, infrastructure, landscape and design. We aim for sophisticated ideas in accessible language. We like construction issues and theory. We like engineering and art. We like drawings and photographs. We like enthusiasm and energy.

small houses (ongoing)

Submissions are welcomed for an online exhibit: small houses.

We are interested in extremely small houses that can sustain normal life.  
Thinking roughly of the footprint of a single garage, something most ordinary houses have, can you put a reasonable living unit on it?  

We are looking for a rethink of how we live, how we expend resources, how a house can sustain an adult life over decades, not just for holidays, or for a few hours each day.  This is a house for a future where the changing environment both in terms of climate and economics imposes a great levelling across the globe: where shanties are upgraded and monster houses are subdivided to accommodate several families.  

These are not to be solutions of punishment, or deprivation, but serious considerations of how we are to live in a more equitable world.   

For more information, please look at the exhibitions page: small houses

war memorials (ongoing)

Submissions are welcomed for an online exhibit: war memorials, beyond cenotaphs.  

This is a call for submissions for an exhibition that is a collective investigation of what it means, today, to represent the facts, acts and consequences of war.  
The online exhibition will provide ideas and images around the issues of war and how and for what reasons a war, or wars, are memorialised.

You define the war, the site and propose a war memorial.

This call for submissions is an open call: we are most interested in registering how people today feel that war might be effectively marked.  What comes after the cenotaph, or Maya Lin’s walls, or wartime memory websites, to honour the participants in war, to validate or invalidate war, to prevent war, to rally to war, to mark war?

For more information, please see the call for exhibitions page: war memorials.

Any questions, please contact us.