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.
Vesper is a project by Pard – Publishing Actions and
Research Development / Ir.Ide – Infrastruttura di Ricerca Integral Design
Environment, Department of Architecture and Arts – Department of Excellence
of the Università Iuav di Venezia.
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 Double-blind Peer Review process
according with Anvur Legislation of journals rating in “not bibliometric”
scientific fields.
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
address
Centro Editoria Publishing
Actions and Research Development Pard
Infrastruttura di Ricerca Integral
Design Environment Ir.Ide
Dipartimento di Culture del
progetto, Università Iuav di Venezia
Ca' Tron, Santa Croce 1957,
30135 Venezia