MASKS is an independent quarterly journal of dissimulation in art, architecture and design, founded Clemens Finkelstein is an art/architectural historian and theorist, writer, editor, curator, and graduate student in the History and Philosophy of Design at Harvard University, from Berlin, Germany and Anthony Morey is an architectural theorist, educator, writer, designer, curator, and graduate student in the History and Philosophy of Design at Harvard University, from Miami, Florida.

The first issue of MASKS was NIX, which was a showcase the broad disciplinary spectrum of research and work by individuals within the art-architecture-design complex. Contributions have been largely sourced from students within the Harvard University Graduate School of Design—intentionally polarizing—to kick off a discussion and incite institutional exchange across the globe, diversifying academic exploration with practitioners’ voices from all walks of life.

In the forthcoming issue FAUX Families exploits our insatiable longing for be-longing. It infiltrates our conscious and unconscious disciplinary behavior. Conceived at a time that has been dubbed the age after-belonging, the second issue of MASKS theJournal will take a closer look at the structures of connectivity and the patterns of disconnection at work.

Faux Families is looking for a critical engagement with these points of discussion as they unfold within the discourses of art, architecture and design.  Contributions are open to all “related” fields and formats—not bound by seemingly apparent disciplinary limitations.

Faux Families craves diagnostic self-portraits, insights from a self-imposed nonage, tearing down the creative ego and the mise-en-scène of familial bondage that may foster a sense of belonging yet hinder a projection of creative epiphany.

Faux Families is especially interested in new object research, development of prototypes for new communal concepts, representational work, and unique interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary alliances.

Deadline for abstracts (max. 500 words) is August 21, 2016  / See Submission Guidelines

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