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Lunch 14 - Frontier - Call for Submissions!

2018-11-07T22:09:39-05:00

LUNCH 14: Frontier

The promised land lies just over the horizon; that’s what we told ourselves. This great unknown, the frontier, has taken many forms throughout history: the silk road, the wild west, the space race, the human genome project. Anywhere unknown was hostile, yet full of promise. That romantic notion of the frontier persists, but the undiscovered open land, waiting to be claimed – it’s already discovered, already occupied. The frontier of the past doesn’t care – its skies are wide and its memory narrow. The frontier of John Wayne, Lewis and Clark, Philip Johnson, the narrative of the heroic individual, is impotent in the context of the contemporary world. Without accepting a multiplicity of perspectives and methods to ease us back from the edge of impending crisis, we are the Donner Party.

The old frontier, that line drawn in the sand, has exploded into a plethora of new and multiplying fronts. They are not only geographical but technological and epistemological. Now as...

LUNCH 13: MISCHIEF - Call for Submissions

2017-10-31T15:44:39-04:00

LUNCH 13: MISCHIEF | Abstracts due December 20, 2017; full submissions due January 11, 2018. See website for submission details: http://lunch-journal.com/submi...

The State of Things Is Very Serious.

The water is rising, the ice is melting, the forests are on fire, and the land is sinking. The storm is coming! The oceans are ACID! The fish are DYING! Trash is circling and circling in the widening gyre. Every day is a new catastrophe, we’re rushing toward a precipice, we’re out of time, we’re out of luck, we screwed the pooch, dropped the ball, botched the delivery, broke the system, went hurtling down the road of good intentions — we’re sorry, officer —

In design, we’ve been trained to respond with Solutions. So we’ve scaled up, we’ve made maps, we’ve run the numbers, we’ve analyzed the data, and aha! we found the answer: a 40-story apartment building made out of responsive mushroom bricks that cleans the air, collects stormwater, and hooks into a regional transit sy...

Lunch 12: Call for Abstracts - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DEC. 19!

2016-12-04T12:04:42-05:00

Abstracts due Dec. 19, 2016; full submissions due Feb. 20, 2017.

Submit your abstracts of no more than 350 words here: https://lunchdesignjournal.submittable.com/submit/70294/lunch-12-tactics

The city is at a critical moment—emerging spatial, ecological, and social crises have called into question the validity of established urban logics. As designers, we are uniquely equipped to act when the constructed frameworks of society inhibit progress. In the face of such systemic problems, designers can most effectively provoke concrete change by rejecting the rigid and conventional in favor of the tactical. Subversive and experimental in their nature, and informed by a pragmatic specificity, tactical operations transform our modes of perception and engagement. Through their transparency, these operations achieve a responsive and equitable built environment in which the inhabitant is not simply a user, but an empowered actor. Lunch seeks critical research, speculative design, and incisive bui...

lunch 12 Call for Submissions

2016-10-28T15:23:59-04:00

Abstracts due Dec. 2, 2016; full submissions due Feb. 2, 2017.

Submit here: https://lunchdesignjournal.submittable.com/submit/70294/lunch-12-tactics

lunch 10 Call for Submissions

2014-10-29T09:24:56-04:00

When we cross frontiers, what do we meet? Modes of visual, verbal and data communication have brought forth feelings of both awareness and disunity. Across scales, aliens emerge from this discord.

The issue is not only of the alien or nonalien but of negotiated territory where the value of invasive species, hazardous materials and estranged forms comes into question. The enculturation of mobility, tourism, and surveillance is shifting self-perceptions and uprooting grounded relationships. What was once permanent can no longer be taken for granted.

As expanses shrink and technology enables, what aliens do we encounter and what are the rules of engagement? How do aliens operate within design? How are they agents of evocation, protocol, and myth? How are architects alien? What boundaries do we trespass?

ALIEN asks you to consider limits, permeations, the unfamiliar and the strange. Send us your declarations, pleas and confessions. We’re looking for tested stories, ponderings, theories, m...

lunch9: In Excess (Call for Submissions)

2013-10-16T11:59:43-04:00

October 9, 2013:

lunch invites you to submit your positions to be published in our ninth volume,
lunch9: In Excess

Excess is everywhere — it is plenty; profit; waste. Growth cannot occur without excess, yet there is a threshold beyond which growth becomes malignant. Nothing succeeds like excess, yet necessity — scarcity — is the mother of invention. We encounter this duality constantly; how we react defines us collectively as a society and individually as creators and agents of change.

How do we measure, or decide, what is — in quantity or quality — excessive? Are traditional constraints — the actualities of material, labor, technology, and permanence — still at work? Is excess valuable; is it beautiful; is it productive? When and how does excess lead to innovation, or stifle it?

What is design in excess?

We seek ideas, papers, and projects — design and product proposals; visual narratives, critical mappings, and diagrams; experiments, interviews, critiques, etc. — ad...

lunch8: Futures For Sites Unknown

2013-10-16T11:57:03-04:00

lunch8: Futures For Sites Unknown [Available for sale NOW on Amazon]

The seventh volume of Lunch took a large step in engaging the design field outside the walls of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. It included a series of conversations with practitioners who visited the school, including Eduardo Arroyo, Levi Bryant, Teresa Gali, Rafael Moneo, and Camilo Restrepo. The effort to foster an evolving dialogue with the profession at large has been expanded in Lunch 8: Futures for Sites Unknown by breaking from tradition: no longer does Lunch only include articles submitted from the UVA community. A call for submissions was made, and the answer came from across the world.

Lunch 8: Futures for Sites Unknown tackles the uncharted waters and unsteady ground facing designers. Boundaries are being redrawn due to rising sea levels. The large modern infrastructural projects of the mid-twentieth century are now our antiquity and new technologies respond to craft, ...