Writing and Pseudo-Scripts
Architectural contexts and script-image phenomena

18 and 19 September, 2026

NEW - Online Seminar

Abstract (seminar) until 14 of August 2026 (new date).
Full paper (publishing) until the end of September 2026.
Publication of the Issues: December 2026.

Submissions should be made through the EGI journal publishing platform.
Please indicate the thematic call you are submitting to in the “Comments for the Editor” field.
For any questions or submission problems please contact: info@wisethorough.com

Associated Calls

Writing, place-making and architecture
for Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography (EGI), an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Co-editor: Philippa M. Steele, PhD, Research Professor, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, Senior Research Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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Pseudo-Scripts? Rethinking an Underexplored Script-Image Phenomenon

for Epigraphy, Graffiti, Iconography (EGI), an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Co-editor: Anna Elisabeth Krebs-Bendszus, Institute for Art History, University of Bonn, Germany

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Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 2026

Lisbon and online, July 2, 3 and 4   
Recordings NOW AVAILABLE: All info here

Associated calls

Full papers until the end of July 2026.
Publication of the Issues: November 2026.

Inscribed Frames

Inscribed Frames Hybridizations of the Moving Image
for GSA - Graffiti and Street Art journal (Vol.4) and Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 2026
Co-editor: Mattia Ronconi, Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture ID+; Faculty of Fine Art, University of Porto
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Graffiti Expressionism

Graffiti Expressionism: Updating the Classical Art Canons
for GSA - Graffiti and Street Art journal (Vol.4) and Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 13th edition
Co-editor: Kai Hendrik Schlusche, Author and Independent Researcher in Graffiti and Street Art
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Graffiti, Street Art, and (Il)Legality: The role of (il)legality in graffiti and street art
for GSA - Graffiti and Street Art journal (Vol.4) and Urban Creativity, conference and activities, 2026
Special Issue Editor: Stefano Bloch, University of Arizona
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Space as Experiment – Experimenting with Space

Webinar (with Austrian Academy of Sciences) 17 and 18 June 2026
Report and Videos available: All info here

Associated Call

Space as a Medium

Space as a Medium for Organizing Collective Realities & Transforming Social Environments
for UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity journal (Vol.8 N1) 
Co-editor: Philipp Schnell, Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Submission of full papers until July 30, 2026.
Publication of UXUC Special Issue: November 2026.
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Open Call


Space-Body-Movement

Space–Body–Movement: Contemporary territories, practices and displacements
for CAP - Public Art Journal (Vol.8 N1)
Co-editors: Evandro Fiorin (UFSC, Brazil) and Lilian Amaral (USP, Brazil)

Submission of full papers until August 30, 2026.
Publication of CAP in continuum: November 2026.
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Open Call

Reclaiming Radical Imagination
Utopia and Speculation in Architectural Practice, Theory, and Pedagogy


Thematic call for VAS - Visionary Architecture Studies Journal, an Open-Access, Peer-Reviewed Journal.
Co-editor: Jana Čulek, PhD, Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb

Abstract until 15 of September 2026.
Full paper until the end of November 2026.
Publication of the Issue: February 2027.
Webinar March 2027 (to be announced).

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2026 Closed calls 

Situated Drawing

Situated Drawing: Practice, Place, and Conditions
for Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal (Vol.7, N1) and Nature Drawing Nature, 2nd Seminar
Co-editors: Sara Schneckloth and Kiera O'Toole

Seminar: April 2–3
Full paper until May 30, 2026.
Publication: September 2026.
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Cartographies of Practice

Cartographies of Practice: Drawing, Mapping, and Situated Knowledge
for Black Book Drawing and Sketching journal (Vol.7, N2) and Nature Drawing Nature, (online) 2nd Seminar
Co-editors: Sara Schneckloth (University of South Carolina, USA) and Kiera O'Toole (Loughborough University, UK).

Seminar: April 2 and 3
Full paper until the end of May 2026.
Publication of the Issue: September 2026.

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