Introduction

by Pedro Leão Neto

This 3rd number of Sophia1 from the series Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries, with the theme “Image, Body and Territory”, has as invited Editor Iñaki Bergera, who is an invaluable author and collaborator of the editorial project scopio Editions since its first years of existence … Read more

Editorial | Bodies and territory:
visual footprints of our inhabited built world

by Iñaki Bergera

In recent times, the complexity —and rich potentialities— of our contemporary world is being fruitfully described and depicted by photographers and visual artists. The interest of urban landscape at large, understood as the natural scenario of our contemporaneity, expands its borders and boundaries … Read more

A Vernacular of Generic Growth

by Kalen Mcnamara

I once heard Houston, Texas described as “the America of America.” I believe it is neither the city’s racial diversity nor its socioeconomic segregation that make it quintessentially American, but the way the city embodies a generic ideal of growth. Thanks to the presence of energy and healthcare industries, Houston … Read more

Spatial Tuning: Performance, the piano and the spatial politics of waste management

by Campbell Drake

Investigating how site specific performance can activate engagement with the spatial politics of urban processes, this paper explores the relations between the body, territory and the environmental impact of consumer culture. Centred on a performance titled Spatial Tuning that took place on the … Read more

Disintegration Culture: knowing and depicting the northerN shore of Viana do Castelo

by André Castanho

The work that follows is part of a research project for the integrated master’s thesis of architecture of the School of Architecture of the University of Minho, in the area of City and Territory, executed between February 2011 and February 2012.
However, the research exercise did not end with the thesis context. Its main goal was to … Read more