Student magazine calls for contributions

The new issue of “trans magazine”, which is run by an independent student editorial team in the Department of Architecture, has been published with gta Verlag. This time the thematic issue is dedicated to the term “lore”, which refers to the cumulative and collective understanding about a topic. “Today, it is particularly common in gaming and serial storytelling to refer to the comprehensive background story of a fictive universe”, the editorial staff writes. The issue attempts to understand the many ways in which lore affects our present moment. «The texts deal with narrated realities, logistics of knowledge, ghosts and angels, and how the subconscious influences the built environment.»

Right after publication the editorial team is already working on the next issue, which is dedicated to the term “dirty”. “Dirty is the impertinent result of a failing system and an acute threat to any order”, it says in the Call for contributions. “Breaches in that order are answered by an intense and sudden full-body-shivering followed by the deep urge to change the location of either the dirt, or yourself in relation to it, to activate all logistical measures needed to get things back to where they belong.”

Modernity got obsessed with hygiene and ravaged towards a hallucination of purity, the editors write. “Architects were, and more than a few still are among the most enthusiastic worshippers.” The patterns we developed to stay clean however look a lot more like dysfunctional coping mechanisms, they write. “Clean is when you can throw your shit far enough to get it out of your sight. Mess and order, destruction and construction are kept apart through disciplinary policing of the boundary between the two.”