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CriticalProductive Journal is welcoming submissions for ISSUE 06: TECHNOLOGY + URBAN IDENTITY

Fall 2027Issue 06

TECHNOLOGY + URBAN IDENTITY

Deadline11/02/26

CriticalProductive Journal 06 will explore works, analyses, observations and speculations on the historical dimensions of how technology has influenced urban development; how current neoliberal framings of “smart city” and “digital urbanism” are influencing current and future urban development in terms of planning, policy and infrastructure; and the lived experience of urban dwelling within these contexts. We also invite work on the social dimensions of technology and the ways scientific determinism affects racialized and gendered subjects as an intersectional horizon from which human actions are merged with algorithmic and biological information.

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View the full call for projects here. 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.