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Publication Open Access A Landscape, a Ledge, and a Shadow(2024-12-31) Khan, GhaniaThis paper is concerned with a creative practice that explores the experience of sacred space in architectural drawings. The drawings [re]present a spatial intervention where the sacred is experienced in the most ordinary of architectural gestures located amidst a juniper forest in Balochistan, Pakistan. The drawing practice that is central to this exploration, consists of a phenomenological enquiry, grounded in Ibn Arabi’s philosophy of the world as God’s shadow. This paper is a ‘disenclosure’ of our constant attempts to render every physical detail into a linear result of spaces as products to be seen. The unfolding research practice offers a discussion on ways of seeing the baatin, in physical forms — the zaahir. The drawings that emerge from this study critique conventional methods of architectural representation and call for a depth to become a part of how we visualise space in architectural practice and pedagogy.Publication Open Access A State in a State(2024-10) Aslanishvili, Tekla; Gambino, Evelina; Rowold Cavusoglu, EllaA State in a State is a 2022 video work by Tekla Alsanishvili, made in collaboration with Dr Evelina Gambino. The work straddles the boundary between documentary and film, in its exploration of railroads, in particular the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway. It investigates the role that such infrastructure plays in the wake of the legacies of the Soviet Union, whereby infrastructure is entangled with the re-emergence, and maintenance of, political borders. In this interview, Ella Rowold Cavusoglu talks to Tekla Aslanishvili and Evelina Gambino. It explores the work’s themes of systems of infrastructure, their entwinement with politics, and the forms of sabotage and connectivity that emerge out of them.Publication Open Access 'Absolute Beginners': The Achievement Society and the Disenclosure of the Architectural Profession(2024-12-31) Tan, Joshua‘Absolute Beginners’ applies Byung-Chul Han’s theory of the ‘achievement society’ to contemporary architectural practice, where the valorisation of productivity has fostered a culture of auto-exploitation and burnout. Drawing parallels between Han’s critique and architecture’s overemphasis on work, competitions, and unpaid labour, the article highlights the profession’s complicity in perpetuating systemic inequities. Combining Han’s call for a contemplative life with Manfredo Tafuri’s critique of the discipline, it argues for collective resistance through labour organization and a re-engagement with history. The disenclosure of architecture requires the architect to acquire both self-awareness and the capacity for action.Publication Open Access After_Stand These Runes(2024-10) Landmark, OsvaldThe passport identifies the holder through various material details and serves as a non-verbal rite of passage. The inside cover of the Danish passport features a depiction of Christ from the Jelling Stone – a monument raised by King Harald Bluetooth in 925 CE symbolizing Denmark’s transition to Christianity. But once you look past the initial political message, the embedded motifs and runes carry ambiguity, mysticism and multiple layers of meaning where even the gesture of language itself become more significant than the message.Publication Open Access An Interview With Sohelia Sokhanvari(2024-10) Sokhanvari, Sohelia; Vasickova, MarketaMarketa Vasickova interviews multimedia artist and human rights activist Soheila Sokhanvari, discussing themes of resistance, citizenship, and the intersection of science and art. The conversation also delves into Soheila’s recent exhibition, "We Could Be Heroes", at the Heong Gallery in Cambridge, and her artwork "Passports", which directly addresses the hierarchies of nationality and belonging.Publication Open Access An Orchestrated Governance Approach: Tracing the International Maritime Organization’s Development and Adoption of the Polar Code(2024-12) Pham, Khang MinhThe increase in Arctic maritime traffic induced by climate change has prompted the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to develop and adopt the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters (Polar Code). While previous research on the governance of the IMO in the Arctic has addressed topics such as plastic waste management, the normative influence of international bureaucracies, and the implementation of the Polar Code from state and industrial perspectives, no study has specifically applied the concept of orchestration to Arctic maritime shipping and the development and adoption of the Polar Code. This paper seeks to fill this gap by using orchestration as an analytical framework to examine how the IMO orchestrated the development and adoption of the Polar Code, especially in response to climate-induced challenges. The analysis draws on documents from the IMO and Arctic Council (AC), along with previous research on Arctic shipping. Qualitative discourse analysis and process tracing are used to explore the data. Findings suggest that the IMO’s orchestration was facilitated by its recognised leadership in maritime governance, but was constrained by capability deficits in Arctic-specific issues. The organization navigated divergent stakeholder interests and sovereignty concerns by engaging the AC and Arctic states as key intermediaries. Orchestration enabled the creation of a comprehensive regulatory framework balancing safety, environmental protection, and commercial interests. However, the article also reveals limitations in addressing critical issues such as the use of heavy fuel oil. These findings contribute to the array of empirical evidence on transnational environmental governance and the evolving regulatory landscape in polar regions.Publication Open Access Analysing Singapore’s Recent Carbon Credits Initiative(2024-05) Cheong, Ben ChesterPublication Open Access Apostrophe Ess: Meditations on Writing and Editing during a Genocide(2024-12-31) Saloojee, OzayrThis text is a mediation on architectural writing and editing during genocide, structured as a parallel essay — one in the main text, and another in the footnotes — it is an attempted combination of manifesto, elegy, declaration, and invitation. Grounded in the idea that writing is a form of critical, spatial practice, the text reflects on Achille Mbembe’s notion of disenclosure as a pry-bar to wedge open a tender and direct engagement with architecture’s complicity in the ongoing erasure of Palestinian lifeworlds.Publication Open Access Between Ship and Sea and Shore: Spatial Practices from the Black Pacific(2024-12-31) Collins, Caroline Imani; Yang, K. WayneThis article describes Black spatial practices of Black mariners involved with merchant and colonial activities in the Pacific during the Age of Sail and shortly thereafter. Building from a Black geographies framework we map a critical geography, which we summarize as the Black ship, the Black sea, and the Black shore. This analysis highlights how many of these mariners deployed spatial knowledges to turn spaces of seeming enclosure into vehicles of agency and opportunity. We then close with a provocation, considering whether a critical architecture can make transparent the sometimes colluding, sometimes colliding, often contradictory authorities over Black life.Publication Open Access Cambridge Journal of Climate Research - General Journal Information(Cambridge Climate Society, 2025-01) Cambridge Journal of Climate Research; Pradhan, KadenPublication Open Access Cambridge Journal of Climate Research - Instructions for Authors(Cambridge Climate Society, 2025-01) Cambridge Journal of Climate ResearchPublication Open Access Cambridge Journal of Climate Research - Journal Policies(Cambridge Climate Society, 2025-01) Cambridge Journal of Climate ResearchJournal Volume Journal Issue Journal Issue Journal Issue Journal Issue Journal Issue Journal Issue Journal Issue