The 1st Seminar on Writing and Pseudo-Scripts: Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena brings together two distinct research tracks from the Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography (EGI) journal to explore the frontiers of graphic expression in human culture. By bridging the study of "Pseudo-Scripts" and "Writing, Place-Making, and Architecture" this seminar investigates how graphic signs mutate between legible communication, pure visual phenomena, and structural spatial anchors.
Webinar link, program and all info on the link:
https://journals.wisethorough.com/index.php/EGI/WPS
Writing, place-making and architecture
for Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography (EGI), an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Co-editor: Philippa M. Steele, PhD, Research Professor, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Pseudo-Scripts? Rethinking an Underexplored Script-Image Phenomenon
for Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography (EGI), an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Co-editor: Anna Elisabeth Krebs-Bendszus, Institute for Art History, University of Bonn, Germany
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Reclaiming Radical Imagination
Utopia and Speculation in Architectural Practice, Theory, and Pedagogy
Thematic call for VAS - Visionary Architecture Studies Journal, an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Co-editor: Jana Čulek, PhD, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb
Abstract until 15 of September 2026.
Full paper until the end of November 2026.
Publication of the Issue: February 2027.
Webinar March 2027 (to be announced).
Drawing as Thinking as Process as Sensing as Resonance
Thematic call for BBDS - Black Book Drawing and Sketching, an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Guest editors:
Ilga Leimanis - University of the Arts London (UK)
Michelle Salamon - University of the Arts London (UK)
Bart Geerts - LUCA School of Arts - KU Leuven (Belgium)
Nikolaus Gansterer - University of Applied Arts Vienna (Austria)
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Vol.2 Nº.1
Co-editor Amale Andraos
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
18 new articles at vas-journal.org
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Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 2026
Lisbon and online, July 2, 3 and 4
Recordings NOW AVAILABLE: All info here
Associated calls
Publication of the Issues: November 2026.
Inscribed Frames Hybridizations of the Moving Image
for GSA - Graffiti and Street Art journal (Vol.4) and Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 2026
Co-editor: Mattia Ronconi, Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture ID+; Faculty of Fine Art, University of Porto
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Graffiti Expressionism: Updating the Classical Art Canons
for GSA - Graffiti and Street Art journal (Vol.4) and Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 13th edition
Co-editor: Kai Hendrik Schlusche, Author and Independent Researcher in Graffiti and Street Art
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Graffiti, Street Art, and (Il)Legality: The role of (il)legality in graffiti and street art
for GSA - Graffiti and Street Art journal (Vol.4) and Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 2026
Special Issue Editor: Stefano Bloch, University of Arizona
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Space as Experiment – Experimenting with Space
Webinar (with Austrian Academy of Sciences) 17 and 18 June 2026
Report and Videos available: All info here
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Space as a Medium for Organizing Collective Realities & Transforming Social Environments
for UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity journal (Vol.8 N1)
Co-editor: Philipp Schnell, Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Submission of full papers until July 30, 2026.
Publication of UXUC Special Issue: November 2026.
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Space–Body–Movement: Contemporary territories, practices and displacements
for CAP - Public Art Journal (Vol.8 N1)
Co-editors: Evandro Fiorin (UFSC, Brazil) and Lilian Amaral (USP, Brazil)
Publication of CAP in continuum: November 2026.
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Situated Drawing: Practice, Place, and Conditions
for Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal (Vol.7, N1) and Nature Drawing Nature, 2nd Seminar
Co-editors: Sara Schneckloth and Kiera O'Toole
Seminar: April 2–3
Full paper until May 30, 2026.
Publication: September 2026.
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Cartographies of Practice: Drawing, Mapping, and Situated Knowledge
for Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal (Vol.7, N2) and Nature Drawing Nature, (online) 2nd Seminar
Co-editors: Sara Schneckloth (University of South Carolina, USA) and Kiera O'Toole (Loughborough University, UK).
Seminar: April 2 and 3
Full paper until the end of May 2026.
Publication of the Issue: September 2026.
We are actively inviting proposals from potential Guest Editors. Please contact us via info@wisethorough.com if interested in proposing an issue.
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In 2025, we organized three conferences and seminars. Nearly 200 articles were published across our journals: Check the reports here.
