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CriticalProductive Journal is welcoming submissions for ISSUE 05: MEDIASCAPES + URBAN IDENTITY

Spring 2027Issue 05

MEDIASCAPES + URBAN IDENTITY

Deadline06/10/26

CriticalProductive Journal Issue 05 will explore speculative film, video and moving image media that represents aspects of the urban and the city. Mediascapes + Urban Identity conjoins notions of imaginary landscapes and mediascapes as a phenomena catalyzed by the explosion of digital tools of production and dissemination (ubiquity of phone cameras, social media channels, streaming services, etc.). We invite the submission of creative and critical works asserting a variety of readings of the city and the urban, and from any genre; we are particularly interested in non-didactic works that are innovative within and beyond their respective mediums, exploring questions like: How does the construct of the city that exists in film differ from the corporeal reality of urban life? What visual techniques are particularly generative for producing representations of urban identity, and what political or critical opportunities does speculative film open up for understanding the city as such? For the first time, we are pleased to invite the submission of short films and videos on the issue's theme to be featured on our website, to augment the Journal's print publication.

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Any questions can be directed via email to Elena Bellaart, Editorial Coordinator at ebellaart@criticalproductive.org

Guidelines

CriticalProductive is a double-blind peer-reviewed magazine/journal, welcoming text submissions (manuscripts of 2,000–6,000 words) as well as visual media (project portfolios: art, design, architecture, urbanism, landscape).

Essential ingredients for approved work include:

  1. an insightful, creative written or visual work; and/or an innovative and original work that would be engaging to the audience of the Journal
  2. a well-researched scholarly work that exhibits a command of the selected subject matter and a contemporary timely approach to the issues of central focus
  3. work that is written and or communicated in a jargon-free language
  4. visual works that are provocative and experimental, that exploit the unique designed platform of the Journal to make their point of view resonate with the Journal audience.

Editorial content is reviewed by the Editor in Chief, and then forwarded to the Editorial Coordinator for peer review. Submissions deemed suitable are then subjected to blind peer review by 2-4 external reviewers, drawn from the journal’s Editorial Collective, or other specialists in fields or areas not represented by the Editorial Collective. Following peer review, content is either rejected, accepted without revision, or accepted conditional on satisfactory revisions. Full submission guidelines are available here.