lo Squaderno no. 74 | After Dark

lo Squaderno no. 74 – July 2026 | After Dark

a cura di / dossier coordonné par / edited by //
Guest artist / artiste présenté / artista ospite //  Anna Palmer

Contents / Sommaire / Contenuti

  1. Editorial
  2. Giuseppe Tomasella, Recovering dark literacy. Embodied ways of knowing with darkness
  3. Giulio Gonella, Out through the dark night. Darkness and opacity at the borders of Europe
  4. Jeff Rose, Atefeh Dorostkar, The heat of darkness. Unsheltered homelessness and the politics of nighttime cooling
  5. Miriam Tedeschi, Physical and digital spaces of expanding darkness. Sociospatial (counter)practices
  6. Lauren Chang, Darkredroom
  7. Loretta Sio Man Chang, MACAU_nights
  8. Nick Dunn, Alternatives after dark
  9. Robert Shaw, Against awe. Towards everynight darkness
  10. Eleonora Nicoletti, Rethinking darkness
  11. Irina Shirobokova, Darkness negotiations in the Arctic. Writing and an(other) politics of darkness and light
  12. Suki Finn, The paradox of illuminating darkness
  13. Paul Kaletsch, There’s no after dark

lo Squaderno no. 73 | Urban squares

lo Squaderno no. 73 – March 2026 | Urban Squares

a cura di / dossier coordonné par / edited by // Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Cristina Mattiucci & Andrea Pavoni
Guest artist / artiste présenté / artista ospite //  Luca Pozzi

Contents / Sommaire / Contenuti

  1. Editorial
  2. Daniele Nicolosi, Il rapporto dissmulato. Strumenti per la coesistenza nello spazio pubblico
  3. Niccolò Cuppini, Planetary Square. Conflict, Circulation, and the Fate of the Square in the Planetary Metropolis
  4. Andrea Pavoni, Speculating Kinaxixi
  5. Mattias Kärrholm, The reusability of public squares. Four contradictory demands in the wake of sustainable urban development
  6. Anna Giulia Della Puppa, Where the Square Still Is. Care, Security, and Infrastructure in Exarchia, Athens
  7. Gülce Özdemir,  Through the Lens of Urban Squares. Everyday Life and the Visibility  of Social Transformations
  8. Johan Wirdelöv, The yellow benches. Urban squares as theater stages
  9. Rosa Salzberg, The Piazza Exercise

lo Squaderno no. 72 | New Beginnings

lo Squaderno no. 72 – November 2025 | New Beginnings

a cura di / dossier coordonné par / edited by // Daniele Nicolosi and Andrea Mubi Brighenti
Guest artist / artiste présenté / artista ospite // Sergio Breviario

Contents / Sommaire / Contenuti

  1. Editorial
  2. Lorenzo Urbano, Ri/cominciare a vivere. Nascere e rinascere “dopo” la tossicodipendenza / Re/starting life over again. On being born and reborn ‘after’ drug addiction
  3. Massimo Passamani, Cominciamenti / Commencements
  4. David Seamon, Understanding Place as Lived Emplacement. The Example of American Novelist Daniel Mason’s North Woods
  5. Alberto Lolli, Convertitevi o morirete / Convert or you will perish
  6. Tommaso Di Dio, L’inizio è una foresta
  7. Eliana Saracino, Shock In My Town. L’urgenza di un nuovo sguardo / Shock In My Town. The urgency of a new outlook
  8. Daniele Nicolosi, Sull’ispirazione. Canone mai normato
  9. Paul Blokker, Is (Post-)Human Creativity Dead?
  10. ivan, In.fine. Un termine con un grossolano inizio
  11. Andrea Mubi, A Toast for Constituent Magic

lo Squaderno no. 71 | Junk

lo Squaderno no. 71 – July 2025 | Junk

a cura di / dossier coordonné par / edited by // Amedeo Policante and Andrea Pavoni
Guest artist / artiste présenté / artista ospite // Pedro Victor Brandão

Contents / Sommaire / Contenuti

  1. Editorial
  2. Alexandre Monnin, Negative Commons. Between Ruin, Attachment, and Redirection
  3. Joshua Mullenite, The Polluted Commons. A Political Ecology of Urban Waterways as Junkyards
  4. Aaron Padgett, Rebecca Scott, Space Junk Meets the Ocean. De-evolution, Dissolution, and Imperial Ruination
  5. Lorenzo Stefano Iannizzotto, From Spatial Junk to Feral Junk Spaces. Exploring Visions of Terrain Vague
  6. Tuba Doğu, Melis Baloğlu, Taking root in cracks. Junk ecologies of the urban
  7. Matteo Savoldelli, Destini sospesi. Tra rifiuto aporofobico e lutto collettivo
  8. Luca Daminelli, Traces of ongoing migrations
  9. Priya Kunjan, Public housing is (not) junk!
  10. Laura Lotti, Junk value
  11. Stefano Brilli, Trash, Poop, and Brainrot. Exploring Digital Culture Through Its Rejects
  12. s/Lab, No Life, No Death, No End, No Nothing – Just Feed

lo Squaderno no. 70 | Alliances and Urban Precarity

lo Squaderno no. 70 – March 2025 | Alliances and Urban Precarity

a cura di / dossier coordonné par / edited by // Marina Volpe and Cristina Mattiucci
Guest artist / artiste présenté / artista ospite // Nicolò Ceci

Contents / Sommaire / Contenuti

  1. Editorial
  2. Michele Lancione, AbdouMaliq Simone, Tacit Alliances, Not Knowing Toghetherness
  3. Flavia Pertuso, Damien Deville, Existing and Weaving a Social Future through Local Micro-gestures
  4. Haifa Saleh, Jeroen Stevens, Common Grounds for Social & Environmental Justice in the Jordan Valley
  5. Caio Penko Teixeira, Intersecting Housing Justice and Agrifood Sovereignty: The Urban Politics of Food-housing Nexus in Brazil
  6. Gustavo Nagib, Katia Atsumi Nakayama, Interconnected Activisms in a City under Socio-spatial Fragmentation
  7. Antonio Raciti, Kenneth M. Reardon, Merging Community Planning and Organizing: The Erosion of Urban Rights and New Alliances in New Orleans’s Lower 9th Ward
  8. Antonia De Michele, Multifaceted Alliances to Simbolically Reclaim Urban Space. The Case of Torpignattara in Rome
  9. Gabriella Palermo, Andrea Simone, Who Cares? Self-organised Health Spaces and Alliances of Care in Palermo and Rome
  10. Cristina Mattiucci, Alessandro Sgobbo, The Trouble of Building Alliances as a Policy Recommendation
  11. Valeria Raimondi, Cohabitation as Collective Resistance: City Plaza and the Politics of Migrant Squatting in Athens
  12. Marina Volpe, Facing Precarity: Alliances, Resistance, and the Politics of Urban Exclusion