Vesper. Journal
of Architecture, Arts & Theory
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
editor
Sara Marini,
Università Iuav di Venezia
editorial board
Fabrizio Barozzi, Cornell University
Dario
Gentili, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Sebastián
Irarrázaval, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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, Francesco Bergamo, Giulia Bersani, Noemi Biasetton, Giovanni Carli,
Egidio Cutillo, Giacomo De Caro, Stefano Eger, Alessia Franzese, Elisa Monaci,
Arianna Mondin, Andrea Pastorello, Alberto Petracchin, Davide Zaupa, Luca Zilio
translations
Intermediate
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.
contacts
+39 041 257 1542