We live in a world immersed in images and their representations. We carry devices that show us the world in real time and locate us through our movements and desires with every application we navigate. In a world saturated with data, yet simultaneously filled with increasingly complex concrete realities, critical cartography reveals new visions and versions of the world we inhabit. It constructs an alternative atlas of ongoing and projective dynamics, challenging us to consider what spaces we are designing in the face of complex challenges across different spatial scales—climate change, violence, migration, extraction, and financial flows. Critical cartography is concerned with crossing, analyzing, and synthesizing data to make information more accessible and intelligible; manifesting complex systems where the human element is not the only priority, thus allowing us to think about nature on a different scale; and mediating participatory processes to visualize and measure social conflicts and inequalities within their spatial context.
Maps are not innocent, neutral, or objective. As critical tools, they present—and represent—the planet through different lenses, providing a framework to intervene in and construct new worlds. As we participate in the construction and production of the spaces we inhabit, architects, urbanists, landscape architects, and designers find that critical cartography reveals different narratives and descriptions to us.
This raises the following questions:
What role has mapping and cartography played in the construction of social space?
How do critical cartographies influence us as producers of the spaces we inhabit?
How can we leverage critical cartography as a design tool to understand, interpret, and project space?
The Faculty of Architecture at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) invites you to the colloquium "Cartography: A Critical Tool for Design," where these questions will be addressed through the presentation of various approaches to emerging cartographies. The event will showcase work from diverse actors involved in mapping and cartography through their research, practical methodologies, and field experiences in mapping processes, iconographic design, and atlas development.
Discussions will range from big data analysis to participatory cartography; from methods based on geographic information systems to entirely analog explorations; and from everyday urban narratives to speculations on new utopias.
The presentations are aimed at professionals, faculty, and students involved in the design and production of the urban and social spaces we inhabit, with the goal of exploring cartography and the mapping process as a critical tool for design.

Challenge Europe with your sustainable, circular, and clean architecture project, idea or practice: apply to become part of this year's LINA Architecture Programme.

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR CONCEPTUAL URBAN-ARCHITECTURAL SOLUTION FOR A CITY QUARTER J14 – RASADNIK SKOPJE, MUNICIPALITY OF KISELA VODA
"City quarters are the largest element or part of the city, viewed as a two-dimensional element, in which the observer enters as in something new, because he knows that that urban element has a special character." – Kevin A Lynch

Seoul 100 years later, drawing the Land Architecture

[Overview of Expo 2025 Osaka Korea Pavilion]
Site : Connecting Lives, A14, Osaka Yumeshima Expo Site (3,591.82 sqm)
Gross Floor Area : 3,500sqm
Estimated Construction Cost : KRW 17,587,000,000 (include VAT)
Estimated Design Cost : KRW 1,238,000,000 (include VAT)

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Archstorming’s new competition takes us to Mozambique, a country marked by a great number of long-lasting challenges. Although there has been a substantive increase in the household income, over two-thirds of the population still live below the poverty line.
This Sub-Saharan Africa country is ranked 139th out of 159 countries on the UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index. Women are exposed to threats of diseases, discrimination and violence.
Around 94% of girls in Mozambique enroll in primary school, but despite this high number, only 11% of girls continue to study in secondary schools. As girls grow older, they are met by an increasing domestic workload and more responsibilities. Many girls have no choice but to stay at home to do chores or work to help their families. Teen pregnancies prove to be a major reason for girls dropping out of school early. 30 to 40 percent of girls are pregnant before they turn 18 years old. Taking care of a child, working and performing household chores can be overbearing and leave these girls no time for school.

International Design Competiton of Cavallerizza Reale di Torino published on the platform Concorrimi.

INTRODUCTION
Contemporary architecture has started to receive more accusations of emotional coldness, and restrictive aesthetics, distanced from humans and life (Pallasmaa, 2015).
An essential solution to improve the quality of life is to reconnect architecture with emotions and feelings. Architecture is the main element of our environment. Architecture has an impact on emotions followed by behaviour. As the architectural space changes, humans act, think, and feel differently. It is important to architect human emotions of positivity, to create an environment that reduces negative emotions.

Start-up operating in the proptech sector seeks co-founder.
We are looking for, although not mandatory, those who have architecture, engineering, and proptech skills and feel up to being our Specifiers.
No capital is required to be invested in the start-up; what we ask is that you devote your time and energy for the project to be successful and your commitment to creating value, wealth, and prosperity; in this way, funding will not be slow in coming.

Volume Zero Architecture Competitions invites each one of you to participate in our 18th edition of architecture competitions, THE EXTREME HABITAT 2022 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION. The competition invites both students and individuals across various professional streams who believe in the mission of creating a self-sustainable off-the-grid dwelling amongst nature. We encourage you to come up with a ground breaking proposal and create your mark in the field of architecture.

This year there will also be 100 years since the great French writer Marcel Proust died. He is the author of the famous book In Search of Lost Time.

National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT) announces an national open call for a permanent exhibition project. The winning proposal will be realized at NRCT in late 2022.

By the way of the Art and Architecture biennales in Tallinn, Estonia, we will launch The First Zoom Biennale, which will take place exactly during the time when the Tallinn Architecture Biennale will take place, but the theme of our virtual architecture biennale will actually be the theme of the Tallinn's Art Biennale, which explores the issue of Art and Animistic Cosmologies.

Nature’s Architects is a free, family-friendly trail to discover twenty micro-homes and structures. Each one is created by leading architects and inspired by nature and biomimicry. They bring to life the fascinating relationship between the built and natural environments by exploring the way plants and creatures build their homes and create forms.

The IV edition of the biennial Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize for architecture nominations and registrations can now be made until the 15th of September via www.simonprize.org. Inscription and participation are entirely free of charge and the winning teams receive a cash prize of 10.000 €. The vocation of this recognition is to distinguish those architectural projects (including interiors, public spaces and landscaping) whose excellence enhances the capacity of the spaces to ensure the comfort of its inhabitants. Architectures that turn into higher quality spaces for people in their day-to-day lives: to work, to learn, to wait, to play... Architectures to live in.

On August 2nd, we will talk with designer Lilian Santos, an expert in interior finishes and founder of @revestindoacasa, to discuss the most common mistakes professionals make when specifying finishes.

The launch of the monograph Sabbagh Arquitectos will take place on Thursday, July 4, at 6:00 PM at the AOA offices.

Join us for Best Practice, a virtual fireside chat series dedicated to practice operations at architecture firms and beyond. From pain points to potential, hear how leaders in the architecture and engineering industry are innovating through new business models and managerial techniques.