Ism

10/09/2024

We had a lovely time up in Orkney last week setting up and opening the Orkney section of A Fragile Correspondence next to Mother of the Sea by the and Earthbound Orkney by .rebearth . Thank you to all who came to see the exhibition during its first days. It is open until 12th of September at the so there is still time to go see it if you are currently in Orkney.

The Ravenscraig section of the exhibition is also currently open at the North Lanarkshire Heritage Centre, running until the 28th of October.

A special thank you to for their sponsorship.

27/08/2024

A Fragile Correspondence in Orkney | Surf and Turf, Orkney International Science Festival

We’re excited to share that the Orkney section of A Fragile Correspondence, a collateral event of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice co-curated by , .magazine and , will be coming to Orkney during the Orkney International Science Festival. We will be showcasing work by , Donna Heddle and -ism Magazine as part of the collective exhibition Surf and Turf, where visitors will also be able to see Mother of the Sea by the as well as Earthbound Orkney by .rebearth . Visitors to the exhibition will see Orkney’s liminal landscape explored through earth, sea and language as these three exhibitions come together in one space.

The exhibition will run from 5th of September until 11th of September, 11am - 5:00pm at Ship of Fools Gallery, 21 Bridge Street, Kirkwall.

The A Fragile Correspondence team would like to thank for their sponsorship as well as for their funding support which has made it possible for this exhibition to be taken back to Orkney. Finally, we would like to extend a thank you to the Orkney International Science Festival for organising a platform for this exhibition to take place.

13/05/2024

✨️198th RSA Annual Exhibition 2024✨️
We were very honoured to have been invited to exhibit the collaboration and process behind A Fragile Correspondence at this year's 's annual exhibition. Convened by , this year's theme 'Critical Action' contextualises our work as architects against some of society's greatest challenges and opportunities. The exhibition features brilliant, tastefully curated work and we encourage everyone to visit it!

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As curators of an exhibition exploring land, language, architecture and the environments, it is important for us to draw attention to the unjust ways in which the relationship with land and power politics are playing out in the world at present. Our collectives express solidarity to all people suffering under oppression and occupation, and we would like to once again draw attention to the situation in Palestine. We proudly support Architecture Scotland Alliance for Palestine (ASAP) and encourage everyone to engage in critical discourse on the above topics.

01/03/2024

Architecture Scotland Alliance for Palestine
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Read our full statement and join us at bit.ly/asap_asap

We are a grassroots alliance of organisations, networks, collectives and individuals united in solidarity with the people of Palestine. We study, work and volunteer across architecture in Scotland. Architecture, and the control of land, are political and always have been. We recognise that in education, training and practice architecture continues to be regularly co-opted and deployed as a tool of settler-colonialism, cultural erasure, capital extraction and political ecocide.

We hope that through this alliance we will encourage people in architecture to speak-up and take a stand. This alliance welcomes all, and we encourage you to join us.

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19/11/2023

We were delighted to present for on Friday as part of their The Edges of Architecture lecture series.

Co-curators Alyesha Choudhury .lyesha and .brink of /other, Alissar Riachi of -ism magazine and Andy Summers of the Architecture Fringe were joined by both staff and students for an exciting session🍁🎉

The event forms part of our Autumn Public Programme for A Fragile Correspondence.

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06/11/2023

We were thrilled to receive an invitation from .strath to present A Fragile Correspondence as part of their Thursday Lecture Series. 🍂 With -ism having emerged within the confines of the University of Strathclyde, we were uplifted by the presence of many familiar faces, as well as some of the contributors to our magazine issues.

The project was presented by co-curators Alissar Riachi, Mia Pinder-Hussein, Neil McGuire and Alyesha Choudhury. The discussion ended by highlighting responsibility in architecture, appraising the relationship between decolonisation and decarbonisation, as well as emphasizing importance of collective action and young voices in the profession.

Thank you .strath for having us!

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31/10/2023

We were delighted to take part in Found in Translation: Architecture, Land, Landscape, Language with some of our Venice friends 🍂 ✨

The event was hosted by Scotland+Venice and curated by A Fragile Correspondence and Dualchas. It expanded on the themes of architecture, land, landscape and language, which are common to both A Fragile Correspondence and Dualchas's presentation in the Arsenale.

The event was joined by the Austrian Pavilion, Orizzontale, the Lithuanian Pavilion and author Cal Flyn. Through creating space for dialogue between a range of different projects, Found in Translation asked how a closer reading of land and landscape can help architecture adapt to the changing world of the climate emergency, through helping the profession evolve and recalibrate in this context.

Thank you to everyone who joined the Scotland+Venice venue and for our wee wander to the Lithuanian Pavilion.

The event was supported by Creative Scotland and Architecture & Design Scotland.

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08/10/2023

We were delighted to have presented A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice on Friday at the Architecture at the Edge Festival in Galway, Ireland! 🍂

Responding to the theme of , co-curators Aoife Bláithnaid Nolan of .magazine, Mia Pinder Hussein of , and Andy Summers of presented ideas on how we might deepen our correspondence with these landscapes, to renegotiate our perceptions of language, land and place.

We thank Frank Monahan and for the wonderful invite.

07/10/2023

We're delighted to share the autumn programme for A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice. ✨ 🍂
Join us with .strath and fellow curators including Austria, Lithuania, Ireland and Australia for events across Italy, Ireland and Scotland.
A Fragile Correspondence, co-curated by .magazine and for Exhibition open at until November 26th 2023 at .

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05/10/2023

We're delighted to share the autumn programme for A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice. ✨ 🍂
Join us with .strath and fellow curators including Austria, Lithuania, Ireland and Australia for events across Italy, Ireland and Scotland.
A Fragile Correspondence, co-curated by .magazine and for

Exhibition open at until November 26th 2023 at .

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03/10/2023

It’s been four months since the opening of A Fragile Correspondence - one of the collateral events which our team co-curated alongside and . Today we’re sharing some photos of the wonderful space at

Exhibition open at until November 26th 2023 at .

📷 Daniele Sambo

14/06/2023

We're very excited to present our first lecture on A Fragile Correspondence taking place for the closing event of the 2023 Architecture Fringe Festival, alongside our co-curators /other and The Architecture Fringe.

Taking place at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. Tickets available below!

The closing event of the Architecture Fringe 2023 Summer Programme will be a presentation of - Scotland + Venice curated by the Architecture Fringe, Ism, and /other as a collateral event for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.

The Summer Lecture will be presented by curators from the Architecture Fringe, ism magazine and /other and will be chaired by Amanda Catto, Head of Visual Arts at Creative Scotland.

⏰ Fri 16 June 2023 6pm to 9pm

📍 Fruitmarket, 45 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF

Book tickets for the event here: https://ow.ly/OjlH50ONOSs

27/04/2023

We are less than 1 month away from the opening of A Fragile Correspondence, meaning all hands on deck in
We are looking forward to sharing more on this project and our wonderful collaborators over the coming weeks!

08/03/2023

✨ ISSUE 03 IS HERE ✨
Our 3rd issue, Identity, launched during the pandemic as a digital magazine. We now have this printed and available for order in our online shop.
Thank you to everyone who has already placed a pre-order.
Thank you to all of our contributors, our talented cover artist and to our amazing sponsors and for funding the printing of this issue.
Happy reading everyone 🤍

24/02/2023

22/08/2022

On Friday, September 16th at 19:30 we will be launching Issue 04 at New Glasgow Society East [ ] with an exhibition of contributors’ work and a talk from our wonderful cover artist Jess Holdengarde [ ]

This launch is supported by Glasgow Doors Open Day [ ] and tickets will be released on Eventbrite in the coming weeks.

Hope to see you there!

19/08/2022

OUR TEAM
In the lead up to our launch of ISSUE 04: LAND we want to take the time to reintroduce our team and why we believe in -ism

You can find out more about us and what we do on our website.
Stay tuned for ISSUE 04 launch announcement!

29/11/2021

ISSUE 04: LAND

In light of the climate crisis and COP26, we are calling out for submissions in response to our 4th theme: LAND

The blurb deadline is January 3rd 2022

For more information on submission guidelines please visit the link in our bio or simply contact us on any of our socials

05/06/2021

Over the last few weeks, we have been sharing the critical and thought-provoking contributions we received for issue 03: identity. Our interpretations throughout the editing process have underlined a number of common themes that these pieces have highlighted. Lastly, today, we would like to share the contributions that interpret and problematise Place.

'Is smoking just a bad habit or part of the Bulgarian national identity?' by Viktoria Georgieva

'An Eerie Whisper through the Metal Sheets' by Giulia Panedigrano

'Unseen Identities: Uncovering Rome’s forgotten borgate' by Irene Palmiotto

'Of Pieces and Places' by Daiana Ristanova

Issue 03 is still available to download online from our website.

03/06/2021

Learning from others has been a key part of our process for issue 03: identity, which activated us to pursue new means of engaging with the very organisations and people that have inspired us. We therefore decided to expose the opinions and perspectives of a variety of voices that emerged to celebrate diversity, culture and the environment, through a new section within the publication: the micro interviews.

In this post we feature interviews with MatriArch, Muslim Women in Architecture, Marc Cairns and FAME Collective.

Issue 03 is still available to download online from the link in our bio.

02/06/2021

Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the critical and thought-provoking contributions we received for issue 03: identity. Our interpretations throughout the editing process have underlined a number of common themes that these pieces have highlighted. Today, we would like to share the contributions that interpret and problematise Perception and Memory.

'Emergent Identities' by Dalia Milián Bernal and Ville-Pekka Säkkinen

'The Oneiric Home' by Franek Tyczynski

'Exploring the Unconscious Potentials of the House and its Increasing Importance During the Pandemic' by Constantina Antoniadou

Issue 03 is still available to download online from the link in our bio.

01/06/2021

Learning from others has been a key part of our process for issue 03: identity, which activated us to pursue new means of engaging with the very organisations and people that have inspired us. We therefore decided to expose the opinions and perspectives of a variety of voices that emerged to celebrate diversity, culture and the environment, through a new section within the publication: the micro interviews.

In this post we feature interviews with Andy Summers, Chris Leslie, Ray Lucas, Civic Soup and Andy Campbell.

Issue 03 is still available to download online from the link in our bio.

01/06/2021

Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the critical and thought-provoking contributions we received for issue 03: identity. Our interpretations throughout the editing process have underlined a number of common themes that these pieces have highlighted. Today, we would like to share the contributions that interpret and problematise Power and Marginalisation.

'Accessibility Spaces: Architecture’s relationship with Disability' by Jake Woods

'Who are we designing for?' by Ciara Donaldson

'Finding Comfort in the Margins' by Jaqlin Tan Lyon

'Patchwork Metropolis: Explicit Class Division in the Urban Condition' by Lee McIlroy

'A Feel for the Game' by John Fowler

Issue 03 is still available to download online from the link in our bio.

26/05/2021

Learning from others has been a key part of our process for issue 03: identity, which activated us to pursue new means of engaging with the very organisations and people that have inspired us. We therefore decided to expose the opinions and perspectives of a variety of voices that emerged to celebrate diversity, culture and the environment, through a new section within the publication: the micro interviews.

In this post we feature interviews with Becky Little, Kathryn Larsen and Scott McAulay.

Issue 03 is still available to download online from the link in our bio.

24/05/2021

Over the next few weeks, we will be sharing the critical and thought-provoking contributions we received for issue 03: identity. Our interpretations throughout the editing process have underlined a number of common themes that these pieces have highlighted. Today, we would like to share the contributions that interpret and problematise the Covid-19 pandemic.

'Fracture' by Callum Sibbald

'The Whole World In One’s Bed' by Jonna Idsäter, Lucia Olavarri Casado, Sara Sako, Silja Glomb

'Identity: Parks and Cities' by David MacRitchie

'What’s in a Place? Creating Drama and Meaning in Theatrical Spaces' by Antonia Georgieva

Issue 03 is still available to download online from our website.