SOILED – No.2 Skinscrapers – Call for Submissions

SOILED (http://soiled.cartogram.org) is a venue for dialogue and exploration, operating at the interstices of architecture, urbanism, and the pedosphere.  It investigates the role that the built environment plays in social issues of earthly but marginalized proportions; it documents hidden systems and in-between spaces.  SOILED curates ideas, from the arable to the obscene, by seeking the active participation of multi-disciplinary contributors.

SOILED is calibrated filth.

The world’s population will reach seven billion in 2011. Skinscrapers probes the conditions of human density that will challenge current behaviors of living. While many studies of density approach changing demographics macroscopically, Skinscrapers takes an alternative approach. Skinscrapers seeks to reach human-ward, to investigate social issues of human-scaled proportions, and to cultivate meaningful moments along and within the epidermis. Akin to Groundscrapers before it, Skinscrapers theorizes that the physicality of the printed page can transcend the bookshelf—that print media can orient itself with earth’s myriad inhabitants, according to anatomical and architectural coordinates.

SOILED invites narratives, manifestoes, critical essays, infographics, diagrams, mappings, photographs, comics, speculations, and ephemera, among other salient media, to respond to the above instigation.  If you’d like to contribute, please review our submission guidelines (http://www.cartogram.org/soiled/SOILED_02_Skinscrapers_SubmissionGuidelines.pdf).

Proposals submitted by APRIL 15 will be reviewed for inclusion.
Submissions should be sent to:  submit.soiled@cartogram.org