Upcoming Themes

Each of Terrain.org's issues is based on a predominant theme that relates to the built and natural environments. Contributions are oriented toward that theme, though the connection does not have to be obvious. We encourage interested authors and artists to consider submitting new material specifically for the themes, and material that has already been developed that fits into the themes.  For more information on submitting, view our Submission Guidelines or visit the Submission Manager.

Our next three issue themes are:

• Issue No. 23 : Symbiosis
• Issue No. 24 : Borders & Bridges
• Issue No. 25 : Virtually There
   

Issue No. 23 : Symbiosis
Spring/Summer 2009

Mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, and parasitism are all kinds of symbiosis—the living together of two dissimilar organisms. In a world where humanity and the natural environment seem more distant than ever, positive symbiosis and a common future seem like fleeting hopes. Or do they? What types of manmade and natural integrations speak to a sustainable future? What are the relationships that bind or unbind us to place, and each other? What causes the yin and yang, the back and forth that helps us keep our balance and gives us the hope—the faith—to move forward? This issue of Terrain.org—through columns, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, the interview, the ARTerrain gallery, the UnSprawl case study, and more—journeys through the science, history, and philosophy of internal and external relationships to discover our coexistence: our necessary symbiosis.

Submissions due by December 1, 2008. Online January 10, 2009.

Issue No. 24 : Borders & Bridges
Fall/Winter 2009

Many of the most difficult borders to cross in our lives are artificial, and nearly all bridges are. But what about the natural borders and bridges—those internal and external? How do ecosystems differ along the border, and what bridges them to the more natural state? What do border politics mean for people, cultures, and flora and fauna? What if borders changed, bridges were built and unbuilt, in random ways—daily or with the seasons or maybe in the blink of an eye? What if there were no borders or unpassable bridges at all? This issue of Terrain.org—through columns, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, the interview, the ARTerrain gallery, the UnSprawl case study, and more—walks the line between environments built and natural, places seen and unseen, spirits here and there among our borders and bridges.

Submissions due by August 1, 2009. Online September 10, 2009.
Note that Terrain.org returns to a spring/fall publication schedule with this issue.

Issue No. 25 : Virtually There
Spring/Summer 2010

As society and communications become more and more digitized, our ecosystems and landscapes change, too. Or at least our perceptions of them do. What does virtual reality mean for the real places around us, those natural and human-made, and those within? How do science and technology help and hinder efforts to enhance our environments? What, in fact, does environment mean now that technology enables us to experience our world in so many different ways? Through columns, poetry, essays, fiction, articles, reviews, an interview, the ARTerrain gallery, the UnSprawl case study, and more, this issue of Terrain.org traces the boundaries of our circuit-driven world in the pursuit of real places, lasting culture, and essential art—or maybe we can only be virtually there.

Submissions due by February 1, 2010. Online March 10, 2010.

 
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