Archinect launches Open Call for submissions: Privacy

Privacy: just the word is probably enough to elicit a cringe. Boundaries transgressed, information accessed, space trespassed—whether digitally or spatially, our private selves are vulnerable in more ways than ever, while simultaneously, our ability to connect and communicate with everything other than ourselves has expanded fantastically. The potential, and the paranoia, is immense.

How then might architecture respond and adapt to imposing structures of privacy? Effective immediately, Archinect is accepting submissions under the editorial theme for June 2016: "Privacy".

》Editorial Submissions: Privacy Trespassed

Not too long ago, the notion of a glass home was scandalous. Within the last decade, commercialized cooperative models of living and working (i.e. “co-working” and “co-living” spaces) have removed many of the traditional arenas for privacy in homes and offices worldwide. In what other ways has our notion of privacy been rearranged by shifts in architecture? Send Archinect your reflections, analyses, reports or sci-fi of how architecture has transformed, or compromised, the notion of privacy.

》Project Submissions: The Ideal Private Space

As technology allows ever-increasing access into both our private and public lives—in the bedroom as in the city—what do we then crave in our “private” space? Which connections and access do we privilege, and which do we deny? How do we make that sublime (or harrowing) privacy physical? Archinect is seeking projects that imagine the ideal private space—whether built or speculative, for a present or future self.

The deadline for submitting is Sunday, June 19 at 11:59 pm (PST).

For more information, and to submit, fill out this form.

Still have questions? Ask Amelia.