The organizers welcome papers that investigate peripheral conditions, drawing attention to the strangely familiar and the memorably unfamiliar; the events, encounters, forms, ideas, and narratives of the periphery.

This year’s conference seeks papers that offer realized examples of architecture as built criticism.

This issue of Materia Arquitectura seeks contributions that explore these new conditions in the context of environmental degradation. It calls for research and design projects, both speculative and realized, that reformulate our relationship to the design of public spaces, environmental management systems, and our active role as citizens and professional custodians of the landscapes we inhabit.