Issues
No. 3 – Platescrapers
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Platescrapers probes edible encounters at the intersection of inhabited spaces and the processes of cultivating, peddling, and devouring. It posits that foodstuffs can become extensions of physical places. Platescrapers is at once a narrative and a rallying cry, commingling food culture with established power structures and political agendas. Along this trajectory, Platescrapers navigates itinerant fare, comestible politics, and gastro-ritual to purvey stories about social issues and exaggerated realities; each story illustrates food as a monument to galvanize the public. Akin to the issues of SOILED before it, Platescrapers believes that the printed page can transcend the bookshelf—that print media can orient itself with the dinner table, according to architectural and caloric coordinates.
Contributors to this issue include Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, Joseph Altshuler, Annie Lambla, Thomas Hillier, Greg Corso, Kyle Andrew Sturgeon, Eylül Kethüda Wintermeyer, Francesco Vedovato, and Katherine Darnstadt.
No. 2 – Skinscrapers
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Skinscrapers probes how our bodies interact with the spaces around them and how the spaces we inhabit can become extensions of our bodies. By focusing on the surface of the skin as a natural mediator, Skinscrapers navigates a continuum of scale, starting inside the gut, proceeding to the contours of the body, and culminating in the anthropomorphic city. At every waypoint along this trajectory, Skinscrapers reaches human-ward, investigates social issues of human-scaled proportions, and cultivates meaningful moments along and within the epidermis. Akin to Groundscrapers before it, Skinscrapers believes that the printed page can transcend the bookshelf—that print media can orient itself with the human body, according to anatomical and architectural coordinates.
Contributors to this issue include Revital Cohen, Sarah Ross, Matthew Harlan, Maegan Magathan, Stephanie DeGooyer, Gabriel Gerlinger, Jimenez Lai, Kate Hadley Williams, James Toftness, and Ania Jaworska.
No. 1 – Groundscrapers
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Groundscrapers probes systems, populations, and infrastructures that occupy massive amounts of space in our existing cities, yet go unrecognized by typical urban dwellers. Rather than reaching vertically towards the sky, Groundscrapers seeks to reach horizontally across disciplines to cultivate meaningful moments along and within the pedosphere. Through conscious positioning of content, visual matter, sediment, and ephemera, Groundscrapers theorizes that the physicality of the printed page can transcend the bookshelf—that print media can orient itself with the surface of the earth, according to its geographical and architectural coordinates.
Contributors to this issue include the Department of Unusual Certainties, Stewart Hicks + Allison Newmeyer, Rael San Fratello Architects, John Szot Studio, Dan Weissman, and Katherine Darnstadt.
