A group of architecture students affiliated with the
University of Waterloo School of Architecture are launching a new publication,
Mole Magazine. With a jury including Mason White of
Lateral Office, Daniel D'Oca of
Interboro Partners, Brigitte Shim of
Shim - Sutcliffe, and John Hong and Jinhee Park of
SsD. The inaugural theme is "
Cute Little Things"; As our world expands, its components are becoming infinitely small: smartphones, microchips, mp3’s, teacup chihuahuas and so forth. We have become obsessed, and increasingly adept, at compacting complex systems and ideas into cute little packages. The downsizing movement has become immensely profitable; even the infamous American consumerism has been won over by this ubiquitous trend, putting pressure on product designers to cater to a marketplace where “smaller is better”; nanotechnology, ‘fun-sized’ snacks, Smart cars, and microbreweries have established a viable and pervasive market. New forms of infrastructure, technology and architecture are emerging in response to this vastly expanding framework. Architectural representation has begun to stray from the standard methods of communication, encapsulating entire projects into intellectually bite-sized diagrams.
Deadline is September 30th, 2012
Submissions should be article, project, drawing, or photography based
Send submissions to editor@molemagazine.com
For more specifics, refer to the submissions page at molemagazine.com,
or send an email to info@molemagazine.com"
