Former USC School of Architecture Dean Milton S. F. Curry has announced the creation of a new architecture journal. Titled CriticalProductive, the peer-reviewed print and digital academic journal will be released three times per year by MIT Press and will be “invested in the intellectual project of culture, arts, and architecture.”

Curry is joined in the magazine’s production by program and editorial assistant Grace Cillo. Other names associated with the journal’s editorial include Cornell associate professor Lilly H. Chi, Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, and UCLA city-LAB director Dana Cuff.

“It is a place where cultural theorists, designers, architects, urbanists, artists, humanists, and activists reflect on contemporary culture and experiment with provocative ideas on how to disrupt normative paradigms, activate and catalyze new potentials, and utilize technology, data, and moving image to convey information,” the team says. “We publish innovative research, scholarship, and creative work that is at the forefront of thought on architecture, urbanism, and cultural theory — utilizing essays, creative design work, contemporary visual art, and photography.”

Each issue of the journal will be divided into sections, including editorial, advertising, and curatorial content. An ‘Editor / Editorial Collective’ section will allow to explore topical themes in each issue, while a ‘Global Briefing’ section will offer a range of thinkers, designers, and activists to articulate complex, interdisciplinary ideas through text and imagery.

A ‘Criticism + Conversation’ section will contain peer-reviewed critiques of books, exhibitions, spatial arts architecture, media and film, installations, landscapes, and sculptures, as well as non-peer-reviewed interviews, conversations, and transcripts of symposia. A ‘Black Cities / Americas’ section will publish peer-reviewed work on the legacies, histories, and contemporary conditions of cities populated by a majority of the Black diaspora, while a ‘Photography’ section will feature curated sets of images interpreting a topic theme.

A call for projects on the first issue of a magazine is expected soon, according to the team.