Edinburgh Architecture Research (EAR) is a non-profit, peer-reviewed, open-access, academic journal exploring the built environment and its overlap with numerous fields of arts, humanities and social sciences from but not limited to an architectural standpoint. We invite submissions in the form of articles, essays, field reports (WIP) or book reviews. EAR also encourages the presentation of research in alternative forms such as film, audio and photo essays.

Upcoming issue [EAR38]

Announcements

Abstract submission for EAR38 | Navigating boundaries: Architectures beyond human is now closed.

01-May-2023

We would like to thank all of you who submitted their work to be considered for EAR38 — the response to our call has been wonderful!

We can't wait to read through all proposals and we will get back to our potential contributors very soon.

You may expect to see some groundbreaking studies, surprise topics and cases in our upcoming issue - stay tuned!

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Current Issue

Vol 37 (2022): Moving Onwards: Methodological explorations
Methodological explorations of the build environment

EAR 37th issue Moving Onwards: Methodological explorations collects intellectual responses from different academics to the challenges of moving onward in a world reshaped by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this issue, our authors present a variety of innovative methodologies: oral history interviews, photo interviews, autoethnography, performance fictioning, artisanal forms of construction, creative use of digital tools, speculative design methods, inferential statistics, examining evaluation in co-design and archival work of different types.  In today’s world where global pandemics and climate change are a pressing reality, the reuse and combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to respond to current research and design challenges is only appropriate. The papers presented in this issue show that, through the exploration and combination of methods, we can make sense of an imperfect and sometimes catastrophic reality. We hope the discussion and reflections presented in this issue inspire researchers of the built environment and beyond at all levels creatively to adjust their methodologies in response to an increasingly challenging global setting.

Past Issues:

We are in the middle of migrating our information from our former web page. However, you can browse our previous issues by visiting https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ear-journal/previous-issues/

Published: 14-Dec-2022

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