We're thrilled to announce the call for content for the second issue of the 35th Atlantis Magazine! This academic year, we're celebrating the theme of “Togetherness in Diversity”. Whether you’re a student, researcher, or practitioner in Urbanism, Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Building Technology, Management of the Built Environment, or any related fields, we welcome your unique insights and encourage interdisciplinary contributions!

🔍 Issue #35.2: Futuring - Reclaiming Identity

In the first issue we explored the multifaceted dimensions of identity and the ways in which privilege and discrimination intersect. Now in the second edition, we have prepared something special for you! Together with Rumoer Magazine from BouT, the student association from building technology, and ARGUS, the student association from architecture, we seek to explore how to move forward from here. We want to work on ‘Futuring: Reclaiming Identities’. We invite you to explore, imagine and envision possible ways towards a more equitable future. This can be both visual and written content.

𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀:

Here’s how you can contribute:

𝗩𝗶𝘀𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁:

𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀: Artwork, photography, participatory formats, games, digital media, visual storytelling, sketches, renders, collages, models, etc.

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵: 250-300 words

Full format (if accepted): max. 600 words

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁: JPEG, PNG, PDF

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Min. 300 DPI

𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲: Min. 800 x 600 pixels

𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲: English

𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁:

𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀: Articles, essays, research papers, opinion pieces, case studies, interviews, etc.

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵: 250-300 words

𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵 (if accepted): max. 1400 words, including at least 3 images

𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼n Images:: Min. 300 DPI

𝗦𝗶𝘇𝗲: Min. 800 x 600 pixels

𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁 Text: Google Docs or PDF

Format Images: JPEG, PNG, PDF

𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲: English

𝗧𝗼 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁: 

Please send your abstract, where you explain what your topic is about and how it relates to futuring along with at least 3 preliminary sketches/visuals to atlantismagazinetudelft@gmail.com. Use the subject line: “#35.2 Atlantis Magazine [Written/Visual] Submission - [Issue Name]”. Please include a short positioning of yourself instead of a typical author biography. You can find an example below.

𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀:

𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 25.12.2024

𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 First draft: 10.01.2025

2nd Draft submission: 31.01.2025

𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻: 21.02.2025

𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: to be determined, Bouwkunde Faculty, TU Delft

For any queries contact us per email atlantismagazinetudelft@gmail.com.

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Personal reflection on your position within privileges: 

We ask all contributors to include a brief statement that situates their perspective, similar to the example below. Please don’t feel pressured to share any details you are uncomfortable with. If you prefer, you can simply mention general aspects such as your country of origin, age, gender, etc.

Example of positioning from Ogette, T. (2022). And now you: Living critically with racism [Und jetzt du: Rassismuskritisch leben.] Berlin, Germany: Verlag Antje Kunstmann.
(yours can be shorter and integrated into your reflections):

'I am Tupoka. I am forty years old at the time of writing this book. I was born in Leipzig in 1980. That was the time of the GDR. My father is a black Tanzanian, my mother a white German. Both academics. My mother was a single mother from the age of four. We emigrated to West Berlin together when I was eight.

At that time my mother was in a relationship with a woman. We had a lot of money worries in the early years, but I have never had to worry about housing or food in my life. I am light-skinned, so I have a light brown complexion. I've always been a chubby kid and now consider myself overweight or fat. I enjoy sport but am not particularly athletic. I am heterosexual and cisgender. I am an academic, married with two biological children born in 1998 and 2010. I was a single parent for a long time. Since 2016, I've been married to the most wonderful man I could ever imagine.

I am telling you all this to give you a rough idea of the social position from which I look at this world and the issues in it. I write this to make it clear that my perspective is not objective or neutral. It is shaped by my experiences, my social positions. I write this to make it clear that my perspective is not objective or neutral. It is shaped by my experiences, my social positions. But it is also shaped by omissions and things I have not experienced. I have experienced racism, sexism and body shaming all my life. This is accompanied by both an emotional knowledge and a concrete experiential knowledge of these forms of discrimination. Also of their interconnectedness.

At the same time, I have social privileges and belong to the dominant groups when it comes to, for example, heteronormativity, classism or colourism*. This means that I have no experience of what it feels like to be discriminated against individually or structurally in these areas. I have to learn to recognise At the same time, I have social privileges and belong to the dominant groups when it comes to, for example, heteronormativity, classism or colourism*. This means that I have no experience of what it feels like to be discriminated against individually or structurally in these areas. I have to learn to recognise my privileges because they are a normalised and largely unquestioned part of who I am.'