Vesper is a six-monthly, multidisciplinary and bilingual (Italian and English) journal which deals with the relationships between forms and processes of thought and of design. Gazing into the dusk, when light slowly merges with darkness and the illuminating object is no longer visible, Vesper aims to interpret the act of designing through tracing and revealing the movement of transformation. Pythagoras identified in the planet Venus both the evening star (Hesperos) and the morning star (Phosphoros), assigning the two names to the same star observed in different temporal conditions. Vesper thus states a perspective rather than an object, privileging the condition that defines its status. Rather than the sharp light of dawn, heralding a brand-new day and promising a brighter future, it is the twilight that allows you to have a glimpse at the potential of what is already there.

Following the tradition of Italian paper journals, Vesper revives it by hosting a wide spectrum of narratives, welcoming different writings and styles, privileging the visual intelligence of design, of graphic expression, of images and contaminations between different languages.
The journal is conceived as a series of thematic issues that build a discourse on the contemporary. Each issue is divided into sections that offer a range of diverse perspectives on the theme analysed: editorial, quote, project, tale, lecture, essay, extra, translation, archive, journey, ring, tutorial, dictionary. Throughout the different sections, reverberations between ideas and reality change, connections emerge between tangible facts and their potentials, transformative prospects, collective perception. The principal aim of these sections is not to provide instant news, but to offer an in-depth investigation of different instances of design and to provide tools and materials that have a long-lasting effect.

 

No. 1 Supervenice
No. 2 Materia-autore | Author-Matter
No. 3 Nella selva | Wildness
No. 4 Esili ed esodi | Exiles and Exoduses

No. 5 Moby Dick: avventure e scoperte | Adventures and Discoveries

No. 6 Magic

No. 7 Cielo | Sky

editor

Sara Marini, Università Iuav di Venezia

 

editorial board

Fabrizio Barozzi, Cornell University
Felice Cimatti, Università della Calabria
Dario Gentili, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Sebastián Irarrázaval, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Sandro Marpillero, Columbia University 
Angela Mengoni, Università Iuav di Venezia
Gundula Rakowitz, Università Iuav di Venezia
Luka Skansi, Politecnico di Milano

 

advisory board

Giuliana Bruno, Harvard University

Emanuele Coccia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Michele Cometa, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Giovanni Corbellini, Politecnico di Torino

Kaat Debo, MoMu Antwerp

Nicola Emery, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana

Serenella Iovino, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Andreas Kreul, Universität Bremen

Mario Lupano, Università Iuav di Venezia

Gianfranco Marrone, Università degli Studi di Palermo

Inés Moisset, Universidad de Buenos Aires - Conicet

Fiamma Montezemolo, University of California, Davis

Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, University of Westminster

Andrea Pinotti, Università degli Studi di Milano

Alessandro Rocca, Politecnico di Milano

Annalisa Sacchi, Università Iuav di Venezia

Federico Soriano, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Federica Villa, Università degli Studi di Pavia

Mechtild Widrich, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

editorial staff

Giorgia Aquilar, Laura Arrighi, Francesco Bergamo, Giulia Bersani, Giovanni Carli, Egidio Cutillo, Giacomo De Caro, Stefano Eger, Alessia Franzese, Elisa Monaci, Arianna Mondin, Andrea Pastorello, Alberto Petracchin, Francesca Zanotto, Davide Zaupa, Luca Zilio.

 

translations

Just!Venice

 

graphic layout

Bruno

 

typefaces
Union, Radim Peško, 2006
JJannon, François Rappo, 2019

 

publisher

Quodlibet >>

 

publication funding
Dipartimento di eccellenza 2018 - Finanziamento Miur

 

six-monthly journal

ISSN 2704-7598

 

 

Published contributions are submitted to a Blind-Peer Review process according with Anvur Legislation of journals rating in “not bibliometric” scientific fields.

 

  code of conduct >>

 

The journal issues are published in open access, on the Archive page, within eighteen months of the release of the printed edition.

 

Vesper has been acknowledged the status of ‘scientific journal’ by the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR) in the academic fields of Civil Engineering and Architecture, as well as History, Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology (areas 08 and 11 in the Italian academic areas, with the exception of their bibliometric subfields) with effect from the No. 1.

 

Vesper is indexed in EBSCO and Torrossa.

 

Vesper has been selected for the ADI Design Index 2021 by the Ossevatorio permanente del Design. The selected products compete to the assignment of the 27. ADI Compasso d'Oro award in their respective thematic categories.

 

contacts 

+39 041 257 1542

pard.iride@iuav.it

 

infrastruttura.iride@iuav.it