Journal of Architectural Education Fall Editorial Board Meeting ACSA Washington, DC September 19-20, 2014 Table of Contents General Information . 1 Meeting Schedule . 2 Meeting Agenda . 3 Reports Executive Editor . .. 4 Associate Editor, Design . 5 Associate Editor, Reviews . 6 Associate Editor, Reviews . 7 Additional Material Spring 2014 Board Meeting Minutes 68:2 table of contents Author Guide (Draft) Editorial Production Manager description HenkelHiedl proposal JAE Award essays General Information Welcome to the Journal of Architectural Education 2014 Fall Editorial Board Meeting. All of our meetings will occur at the ACSA Headquarters: (1735 New York Avenue, NW · Washington, DC 20006 | Phone: 202.785.2324) Internet access will be available during meetings. If you are unable to attend the meeting, a skype connection can be provided. Please email Marc Neveu ([email protected]) if you wish to participate via skype. While in Washington, Marc Neveu may be reached by phone at: 617-899-6965. Monti Residence: (1116 C Street SE in the Eastern Market/Capitol Hill neighborhood) 1 Meeting Schedule Friday, 19 September 6:30 pm Cocktail Hour at Monti’s 1116 C Street SE (Eastern Market is closest Metro) Phone: 202-277-5719 Saturday, 20 September 9:00 – 12:30 Design Committee Meeting ACSA Headquarters Kulper, La, Sprecher, Theodore, Jackson, Fujita, Wendl 9:00 – 12:30 Reviews Committee Meeting ACSA Headquarters Rupnik, Mumford, Avermaete, Neveu, Singley, Sabatino 1:30 – 5:00 Editorial Board Meeting ACSA Headquarters Editorial Board, Monti, Vonier, Criss 7:30 Dinner at Darlington House 1610 20th St. NW (Dupont Circle is closest Metro) Sunday, 21 September 9:00 – 12:00 Editorial Board Meeting ACSA Headquarters Editorial Board, Monti, Vonier, Criss 2 General Board Meeting Agenda Saturday, 20 September Action Call to Order Neveu 1:30 Approval of Agenda Neveu 1:35 Approve Agenda Approval of Fall 2013 Minutes Neveu 1:40 Approve Minutes Executive Editor Report Neveu 1:45 Associate Editor, Design Report Kulper 2:00 Associate Editor, Reviews Report Sabatino 2:15 Senior Managing Editor Report Vonier 2:30 Break Best Article (SoD, DaS), discussion Neveu 3:00 Best Article, vote Adjournment 5:00 Sunday, 21 September Action Call to Order Neveu 9:00 Web Proposals, discussion Vonier 9:05 Select Firm Author Guide, discussion Neveu 9:30 Approve Guide Theme selection, discussion Neveu 10:00 Editorial Board Member selection process Neveu 10:30 Approve Process Additional Business all 11:00 Adjournment 5:00 3 Executive Editor Report Since the previous Editorial Board meeting in Spring 2014, I have focused on the production of the forthcoming issue, 68:2 edited with David Rifkind and Itohan Osayimwese. Work for the upcoming issue, 69:1 Crisis, with Theme Editor Timothy Hyde is ongoing. 68:2 – Building Modern Africa (October 2014) David Rifkind of Florida International University and Itohan Osayimwese of Brown University are the Theme Editors for issue 68:2. The issue is being printed and the table of contents is enclosed for your review. 69:1 – Crisis (March 2015) Timothy Hyde from MIT is the theme editor for the next issue. We have already received a robust selection of essays for the issue. Decisions will be made after the fall Board Meeting. Timothy has organized two Opinion essays as well as a series of book reviews. 69:1 – s,m,l,xl (October 2015) This issue will coincide with the 25th anniversary of the publication of s,m,l,xl. A poster to advertise 69:1 is in production and will be sent out to ACSA member schools in January 2015. 69:2 (March 2016) This issue will be a non-themed issue. Associate Editor, Design I have nominated Amy Kulper to continue as Associate Editor, Design for 2014-15. Associate Editor, Reviews I have nominated Ivan Rupnik as Associate Editor, Reviews for 2014-15. Online, ad-hoc committee John Stuart, Georgeen Theodore and I met over the summer to discuss ways to improve the JAE website. Suggestions were forwarded to the ACSA with the intention that the suggestions be folded into a larger proposal to rework the ACSA website. Author Guide, ad-hoc committee Franca Trubiano and I have continued to edit a new Author Guide. (attached) 4 Associate Editor, Design: Report There was a robust response to the CFP for issue 69:1, Crisis, with twenty Scholarship of Design (SoD) submissions, and three Micro-Narrative submissions. Overall, the submissions are of a higher quality than those in previous issues, suggesting that a well- crafted call for a given theme with well-respected theme editors garners better yields, and hopefully, higher quality issues. In conversation with Timothy Hyde, the Theme Editor, the design framework Crossings: Interdisciplinary Research was selected, and invitations were issued to Hilary Sample, of Columbia University GSAPP, and Jenny Sabin, of Cornell University AAP to act as Guest Curators for the issue. Additionally, we will be exploring the possibility of a JAE website teaser for the issue, featuring the work of Ed Mitchell. As a result of a discussion among the members of the Design Committee at the last meeting, it was decided to change the name of the ‘Pre-Fabrications’ column to ‘Micro- Narratives.’ In general, the members of the committee felt that the title was misleading and promised a different content from what we were actually seeking. In conversation with Marc, we decided to inflect the call for Micro-Narratives towards the selected theme, and post a slightly altered version on the website with each issue. This approach is still not yielding significant returns, so we need to revisit the question of how to get the best content in the ‘Micro-Narratives’ column. Strategies under consideration might include: o Allowing the theme editors to solicit one Micro-Narrative each issue, anticipating an average of three per issue. o Allowing the Design Committee to solicit this content (typically three very short essays at 1,500 words maximum) in conversation with the theme editor. o Draft a list of possible ‘Micro-Narratives’ contributors at the end of each bi- annual meeting, and send emails to encourage those identified to contribute. Given that the Design Frameworks, the Guest Curators, and the Micro-Narratives are all now successfully up and running (these features appeared in issues 67:2, 68:1, and 68:2), the Design Committee has now turned its attention to the next most pressing issue, how to effectively curate a web-presence for design content. The final portion of the Design Committee meeting will consider this issue, and we will attempt to bring some ideas and action items to the larger board. In the meantime, we will be seeking feedback and suggestions for possible improvement on the Guest Curator and Micro-Narrative features, and will solicit newly emerging design frameworks from the board members. 5 Associate Editor, Reviews: Report Journal of Architectural Education – Reviews (Print & Online) Fall Activity Report – 2014 (Issues 69:1, 69:2 + Online) Dear Marc and JAE Editorial Board Members – It has been a busy summer for print and online reviews. For the JAE issue 69:1 (guest edited by Timothy Hyde), I commissioned a total of 21 reviews. The reviews cover a wide range of formats and content. Before stepping down as Reviews Editor I commissioned approximately 22 reviews for the upcoming JAE issue 69:2. Over the summer we posted 5 online reviews of mainly exhibitions. (Thanks are due to Pascale Vonier for her assistance). It has been a true pleasure to serve as Reviews Editor for the JAE. I am very confidant that our colleague Ivan Rupnik will do an excellent job as the new Reviews Editor! Cordially, Michelangelo Sabatino, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the PhD Program in Architecture Illinois Institute of Technology, College of Architecture 6 Managing Editor: Report JAE Online Since last fall, online reviews have received over 5,000 views. In June, JAE established its own social media presence on Facebook and Twitter. NEA Grant In 2011, JAE received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to “support the digital Journal of Architectural Education. In order to fulfill the grant, and to meet our December 2014 deadline, I have spoken to a variety of firms to design wireframes and prototypes for development and deployment in 2015. The outlined goal of the project is to “provide a digital infrastructure for the production and dissemination of architectural scholarship and design experimentation via interactive functionality that will reach new audiences with scholarly publications in design.” The new web platform would house articles, video, images galleries, blogs, archives of back issues, and be a space for sharing commentary on architectural scholarship and design experimentation, either with in-article annotation or other innovative collaboration concepts. The goal is to have great ideas and solid prototypes to bring to developers. Below are the design firms that have expressed interest in working with us within our budget: Project Projects (projectprojects.com) $9,000.00 + reimbursables Project Projects designed the new look of the JAE, starting with 68:1. They are keen to help us translate the new design online. Their web clients include Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, http://www.pcah.us/. ProjectBuro HenkelHiedl (henkelhiedl.com) $7,800+ reimbursables They are very interested in partnering with us and their work on uncubed magazine gives them an edge in terms of understanding how to translate journals to online platforms. Both Project Projects and HenkelHiedl do development as well, but I spoke with another firm in Berlin that focuses entirely on development and they have a rather sophisticated body of work. Systemantics (systemantics.net) cost not yet known They previously worked with Project Projects to develop the Pew site (http://www.pcah.us).