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Issue 19

Trace
Reinterpreting our Traces Letters to the editor A Year on the Road with Venue Reading the Ephemera of Caithness River Ending Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance The Chengzhongcun: Urban Traces of the Village The Trace of Superusers: From Santiago Centro to Superkilen in Copenhagen Embracing Idiosyncratic Weirdness Tracing Intentions: The Photography of Frank Thiel Ruined and Neglected Elliston, Newfoundland American Postmodern Personal Monuments 24COA: A Visual Score True Love Leaves No Traces Anthropocene Through the Eyes of Gabriele Basilico, Robert Smithson, and Gordon Matta-Clark Tracing Wright Dizzy Nightworks Petrified Traces Residential Archaeology

Issue 19

Trace

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Graphic design by Plural
Cover by John Pobojewski

This issue explores physical remnants and selective memories, tangible and intangible reminders of a past that influence our present and future. At the same time, it discusses the traces that we continue to leave, both physical and digitally, and how those will affect us in the future. What are the consequences and opportunities that can emerge from the new traces we create? Who benefits from the generation of new traces? Which traces should we embrace and which ones should we dismiss or even fight against? Is ignoring all traces the only way to truly move forward and foster radical changes?

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Reinterpreting our Traces

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Letters to the editor

On our Boundary issue
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A Year on the Road with Venue

Iker Gil interviews Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, directors of Venue
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Reading the Ephemera of Caithness

Essay by Dimitra Ntzani and John Barber
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River Ending

Photographs by Sreedeep with an intro text by Kamalini Mukherjee
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Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance

Essay by Matthew Hung with photography by Greg Girard
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The Chengzhongcun: Urban Traces of the Village

Essay by John Joseph Burns
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The Trace of Superusers: From Santiago Centro to Superkilen in Copenhagen

Essay by Kristine Samson and José Abásolo
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Embracing Idiosyncratic Weirdness

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark interview Moby
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Tracing Intentions: The Photography of Frank Thiel

Essay by Krishna Bharathi with photography by Frank Thiel
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Ruined and Neglected

Essay by Ljubica Slavković
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Elliston, Newfoundland

Text and photographs by Lisa Hirmer
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American Postmodern

Essay by Jayne Kelley
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Personal Monuments

Text and Illustrations by John Pobojewski
24COA: A Visual Score

Project developed as part of the Pen & Bow workshop at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture led by Andrew Ruff. Visual score interpreted by ETHEL.
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True Love Leaves No Traces

Essay by Daniel Luis Martinez
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Anthropocene Through the Eyes of Gabriele Basilico, Robert Smithson, and Gordon Matta-Clark

Essay by Enric Llorach
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Tracing Wright

A conversation between Richard Wright, Zoë Ryan, and Iker Gil
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Dizzy

Project by Charlie O’Geen and Frank Fantauzzi. Text by Phreddy Wischusen
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Nightworks

Project by Dennis Maher
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Petrified Traces

Text and images by Michael Hirschbichler
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Residential Archaeology

Text and diagrams by Juan Carlos Tello

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