CriticalProductive

10/09/2025

CriticalProductive Issue 04 is open for submissions. View the full call for projects and submission instructions at the link in bio.

02/05/2025

Join us at the Princeton University School of Architecture for a talk with Milton S. F. Curry, Editor, and Professor Marshall Brown, Editorial Collective Member.
https://soa.princeton.edu/content/launch-event-%2B-discussion-%7C-criticalproductive-journal

01/31/2025

NOW OPEN: Call for Projects for CriticalProductive Journal Issue No.03/04: Non-Space / Resistance. View the full call (PDF linked) for info on the issue theme and how to submit work. https://drive.google.com/file/d/184a6mgxOS0sdNE27zHqO1xL1bELsTWbL/view?usp=sharing
The MIT Press

01/31/2025

Issue No.01 of CriticalProductive Journal is out now! View it on The MIT Press website, where it is freely available to the public now through March 15th. https://direct.mit.edu/cpro

This first issue seeks to explore how two domains of thought—sovereignty and populism—co-exist theoretically and pragmatically in today’s interconnected global landscape, as democracies are in peril and autocratic movements are on the rise.

10/06/2023

Editor Milton S. F. Curry in a recent Q&A with The Architect's Newspaper:

"Architecture and urban design must be part of the conversation about how to build, sustain and maintain social order through equitable and diverse means. Technology will not solve social, cultural, political problems without a proper humanistic lens."

AN asked leading architectural educators about their role, including Milton Curry of Cornell College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP).

10/06/2023

We are extending our ISSUE 2 Submission Deadline!

Submit to CriticalProductive Journal by November 21st 2023 for peer review.

Visit our Journal's MIT Press page to learn more about the theme CURRENTS AND FLOWS and to see our Submission Guidelines: http://direct.mit.edu/cpro

08/03/2023

Exciting news! Founding Editor Milton S. F. Curry is joining Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) as Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement and Professor of Architecture.

Previously, he was Dean at the University of Southern California School of Architecture, 2017–22.

Former USC School of Architecture Dean (2017–22) Milton S.F. Curry will be joining Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (AAP) as its new Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Engagement and Professor of Architecture.  Curry's new...

07/13/2023

Open Call for Projects
ISSUE 2: CURRENTS AND FLOWS
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Submission Deadline on October 10th, 2023
Details + Guidelines at http://direct.mit.edu/cpro
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CURRENTS AND FLOWS takes up the issue of human migratory flows, planetary + climate precarity, and the resulting natural and cultural conditions.

CriticalProductive is interested in work exploring the aesthetic, spatial and physical dislocations that result from the organization of people and capital, in, around and between urban centers and cities.

The Journal welcomes creative work, critical analysis and studies, from urbanists, humanists, designers, architects, artists, philosophers, anthropologists and more, on this important topic.
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03/09/2023

Meet SARAH MINEKO ICHIOKA, Editorial Collective Member—

Ichioka is an urbanist, strategist, curator and writer. She leads Desire Lines, a strategic consultancy for environmental, cultural, and social-impact initiatives and organizations. Her latest book, Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency, co-authored with Michael Pawlyn, proposes a bold set of regenerative design principles for addressing our compound environmental and social crises.

In previous roles, Ichioka has explored the intersections of cities, society and ecology within leading international institutions of culture, policy and research—including as Director of The Architecture Foundation (UK) and as Co-Director of the London Festival of Architecture (both from 2008 to 2014).

Ichioka’s critical writing has been published by the Serpentine Gallery (Koenig), the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (Actar), Barbican (Prestel), Mies van der Rohe Award (Actar), and the Urban Age (Phaidon). Her commentary and reportage have been featured in CNN.com, Monocle, BBC London, Folha de S.Paulo, and Design/Anthology, amongst others.

(Photo Credit: Photography by Abdul Hafiz, courtesy of DesignSingapore Council)

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03/07/2023

Reminder! Call for Projects - ISSUE 1: Sovereignty / Populism—

We are seeking essays, creative design work, and visual art addressing past, present, and/or future approaches to questions of sovereignty, populism, and design—broadly speaking.
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CriticalProductive is a journal/magazine of culture, arts, and architecture that publishes innovative and multidisciplinary research, scholarship, and creative work.
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The Submission Deadline for this issue is April 14, 2023!
Read more at our MIT Press page: https://direct.mit.edu/cpro

03/04/2023

CriticalProductive x MIT Press Launch Announcement!

"...We are excited to partner with the MIT Press on CriticalProductive, part of a constellation of actions aimed at diversifying academic scholarship and dissemination of creative work; and broadening the audiences of the work of our contributors." - Editor Milton S. F. Curry
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Read the announcement here: https://mitpress.mit.edu/mit-press-to-launch-culture-arts-and-architecture-journal/

Also, check out CriticalProductive Journal's home on the MIT Press website—with Journal Info, Call for Projects and Submission Guidelines: https://direct.mit.edu/cpro

CriticalProductive is a unique publication at the forefront of discourse and visual representation about the present and future conditions of cities and urban spaces.

03/03/2023

Meet AMANDA WILLIAMS, Editorial Collective Member—

Amanda Williams is a visual artist on the south side of Chicago, who trained as an architect at Cornell University. Her work seeks to inspire new ways of looking at the familiar and in the process, raise questions about the state of urban space and ownership in the United States. Williams' creative practice employs color as an operative means for drawing attention to the complex ways race informs how we assign value to the spaces we occupy.

Williams has exhibited widely, including at the MoMA in NY; Venice Architecture Biennale; MCA Chicago; and a public commission with Andres L. Hernandez, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis. Her work is in several permanent collections, including at the Art Institute of Chicago and the MoMA.

She has been recognized as a MacArthur Fellow, a USA Ford Fellow, a Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture grantee, a 3Arts Next Level awardee and is the inaugural Artist-In-Residence at Smith College. She sits on the boards of the Graham Foundation, The Black Reconstruction Collective and the Pulitzer Arts Foundation.

A highly sought after lecturer, including a 2018 TedTalk, Williams has served as a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, Washington University and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

(Photo Credit: Tony Smith, Photographer; Storefront for Art and Architecture)

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