ARCHITECTURE EDUCATORS FOR JUSTICE
About
The Journal of Architecture Educators is an independent organization made up of Architecture Educators for Justice. This platform supports design educators working on pedagogies of justice, liberation, and critical spatial practice. Architecture Educators for Justice, and the Journal of Architecture Educators were formed in 2025.
This page is the uncensored sibling of a website produced for the ACSA Fellowship to Advance Equity in Architecture.
The page was initiated by Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia / WAI Architecture Think Tank, co-recipients of the fellowship, with the intent that it became a public resource to be updated with scholarship, resources, and platforms that center questions of equity, social and ecological justice.
This uncensored edition went online in the Spring of 2025 following the collective resignation of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education, and the independent formation of the Journal of Architecture Education.
The page was initiated by Nathalie Frankowski and Cruz Garcia / WAI Architecture Think Tank, co-recipients of the fellowship, with the intent that it became a public resource to be updated with scholarship, resources, and platforms that center questions of equity, social and ecological justice.
This uncensored edition went online in the Spring of 2025 following the collective resignation of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architectural Education, and the independent formation of the Journal of Architecture Education.
Palestine
Artwork by Amal Al-Nakhala
The Theme Editors of the JAE 79:2 Palestine issue and the former Editorial Board of the JAE announce the reopening of the Call for Papers below, originally conceived for the Fall 2025 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE). Following the ACSA’s decision to cancel the Palestine issue and fire the JAE Executive Editor McLain Clutter in an act of Anti-Palestinian censorship and in violation of academic freedom, the former JAE Editorial Board issued an Open Letter, urging the ACSA Board of Directors to reinstate Clutter and reverse their decision to cancel the Palestine issue. The Theme Editors also issued a response published here. The ACSA leadership’s breach of ethics and academic integrity, and their continued capitulation to external pressures to suppress knowledge production on Palestine led to the resignation of all 20 members of the JAE Editorial Board.
In a Town Hall in March, the former JAE board emphasized their commitment to publishing the Palestine issue and to continuing editorial work that centers spatialities of injustice and liberation. We are continuing the peer-review process of the content submitted to the Palestine issue, which will be our first published volume as a collective of editors “post-JAE”, and which builds on the support and solidarity efforts we have received from the many colleagues, organizations, and editorial platforms within and beyond architecture. While we work to publish the Palestine issue as a printed volume in 2026, we will also work with interested authors to direct their pieces to supportive peer-review journals for additional publication in the meantime. Our estimated timeline is as follows:
- April-May 2025: Reopen the 79:2 Palestine CfP, submissions undergo peer-review
- June 2025: Authors receive results of peer-review
- Summer 2025: Editors work with authors on revising solicited and accepted manuscripts
- Fall 2025: Finalize revisions and work with supportive journals to publish accepted manuscripts, while also securing a publisher for the printed 79:2 Palestine volume. Also in Fall 2025, the website of the 79:2 Palestine volume will be launched, with a complete table of contents, as well as additional related content.
- Spring 2026: Publication Design
- Fall 2026: Publish the printed 79:2 Palestine issue
To submit your manuscript for the forthcoming publication, please follow the instructions listed below. We ask authors who have already submitted to the JAE 79:2 Palestine issue to re-submit it following the same instructions below. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at jaesolidarity@gmail.com.
Sincerely,
The former 2025 JAE Editorial Board and the 79:2 Palestine Theme Editors
Submission Guidelines:
Submission Deadline: May 23, 2025
To submit a manuscript to the 79:2 Palestine issue, please follow the instructions that follow:
- To respond to the new 79:2 Palestine call for papers, we ask authors to follow the submission guidelines outlined in the JAE Author Guide. As a reminder, this new call for papers for the Palestine issue is not associated with JAE or the ACSA. For any questions, you contact us at jaesolidarity@gmail.com.
- Please prepare two versions of your manuscript: one complete (unblinded) version, and one blinded version for blind-peer review. To prepare the blinded file, please follow the instructions in section “2.4 Preparing your Manuscript for Double-Blind Peer Review” of this guide, found on page 7. File uploads are limited to 20MB per file.
- All text files should be submitted as a Word document (.doc or .docx) using a 12-point, serif font (i.e. Times New Roman). File names should follow the following format:
Unredacted files: [manuscript title]_[submission type]_unredacted.doc
Redacted files: [manuscript title]_[submission type]_redacted.doc
Manuscript Title: in case of a Title + Subtitle, use the Title only.
Submission Type: The submission types are Essay, Design, Narrative, and Image, as outlined in section “2.1 Manuscript Types” of this guide, found on page 2. - Your image files should follow the following format:
[manuscript title]_[figure #].jpg
other formats accepted are PNG and PDF - Upload your submission files via this link. You may upload multiple files, a folder, or a zip file. The file upload is limited to 20MB per file.
- Fill out the form linked here to complete your submission.
Call for Papers:
79:2 Palestine
April 28, 2025
In the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, this issue of the Journal of Architectural Education calls for urgent reflections on this historical moment’s implications for design, research, and education in architecture. This volume will build on existing knowledge, research and publications to continue to learn from and with practices of resistance to the Zionist, militarist, carceral, and capitalist regime of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid. Refusing systemic military annihilation, containment, fragmentation, erasure, and designed uninhabitability in the ongoing Nakba, Palestinians have practiced anti-colonial life- and land- protection, from marches of return to siege and prison breaks, from rebuilding homes and institutions to constructing cooperative farms and infrastructures of mutual care, from archival retrievals and documentation to anti-colonial educational platforms. Solidarity movements worldwide have joined in practicing and imagining decolonized futures through mass protest, student encampments, and the disruption of global trade and business-as-usual.
We invite contributions that document the architectural and spatial tools that participate in or are complicit in imperial formations of settler-colonial apartheid and genocide. Contributions could evidence how bombing, demolition, destruction, ruination, and scorched earth constitute military strategies planned and implemented for decades to fragment, debilitate and destroy Palestinian built, social, economic, cultural, and natural environments. “Israel’s genocide on Palestinians in Gaza,” writes UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, “is an escalatory stage of a longstanding settler colonial process of erasure.” Contributors might map, represent, theorize, and historicize genocide, ecocide, spaciocide, terracide, and urbicide as practices of colonial erasure and unpack the way they appear and operate. They may consider destruction as a form of design and planned operations entangled in a multiplicity of imaginaries, actors, materials, media, spaces, laws, capital, and power relations.
The Palestinian philosopher Abdaljawad Omar argues that Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and resistance to it—“no matter how horrific, bloody, and tragic”—cannot be reduced to a “pathology of violence.” Palestinians are not hapless victims nor motivated merely by “vengeance.” Omar advocates, instead, that a “pathology of hope” in a decolonial struggle “might ultimately create the space for new possibilities.” Those new possibilities have emerged not only in Palestine, where the prospects of liberation seem closer despite immense suffering and death, but also around the globe. Millions have taken up the cause of Palestine, tapping into what Anishinaabe theorist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson calls “constellations of coresistance,” bringing into relationship seemingly disparate struggles by using “mechanisms for communications, strategic movement, accountability to each other, and shared decision-making practices” that refuse to center colonial narratives and institutions. These constellations, however, are not new. Palestinian solidarity could be described as an infrastructure of resistance that maps onto global movements from below. A decline of imposed Western hegemony corresponds with the rise of new formations of struggle and power that draw from radical possible histories, presents, and futures. Through this call for papers, we invite authors to engage with such formations of anti-colonial struggle within and beyond Palestinian geographies, reflecting on how Palestine has inspired pathologies of hope, constellations of coresistance, and infrastructures of resistance, the world over.
We enthusiastically invite contributions in the categories of Essay, Design, Narrative, and Image, and welcome work that challenges conventions of politics and forms. Submissions could emerge from or comparatively engage with Palestine as an appositional and diasporic geography (i.e. geographies of Palestine contra geographies of Palestinians), the metaphysics of funerary ritual and the creation-destruction of Palestinian cemeteries, domicide and the multiplicities of homelessness, the worlds woven by resistance literature, and sumud (“steadfast perseverance”) as a material and spatial practice.
Though not human-built borders, the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea form the boundaries of aquatic imaginaries of sovereignty: the latter’s shores are equal parts a respite for Gaza’s citizens and the banks of now-heavily polluted waters weaponized by Israel in counterinsurgency efforts against Palestinian military resistance and the health of its soil. The water bodies are at the heart of a heavily policed articulation of freedom from settler domination whose global reiterations hail a decolonial internationalism that makes reference to a history of shared struggles and futurities of freedom.
In addition to weaponized environments of soil, water, and air, sites of consideration include the tunnel as a route of militants’ fight and prisoners’ flight, the blockade as carceral infrastructure, the safe haven of the hospital, the intergenerational sanctity and stewardship of the olive grove, the absenting of sacred space and cultural memory, the resistive archive, the breaching of the border fence and the rupture of settler containment, the expansion and contraction of worlds through media and procedures of the international courts and UN bodies. One might also consider the troubled intimacies between the life-affirming creativity in, and maintenances of refugee space, preclusions of citizenship, and the unwavering dream and materialities of return.
Theme Editors:
Nora Akawi, Nick Estes, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi
79:2 Palestine
April 28, 2025
In the face of the ongoing Israeli genocidal campaign against Palestinians in Gaza, this issue of the Journal of Architectural Education calls for urgent reflections on this historical moment’s implications for design, research, and education in architecture. This volume will build on existing knowledge, research and publications to continue to learn from and with practices of resistance to the Zionist, militarist, carceral, and capitalist regime of Israeli settler colonialism and apartheid. Refusing systemic military annihilation, containment, fragmentation, erasure, and designed uninhabitability in the ongoing Nakba, Palestinians have practiced anti-colonial life- and land- protection, from marches of return to siege and prison breaks, from rebuilding homes and institutions to constructing cooperative farms and infrastructures of mutual care, from archival retrievals and documentation to anti-colonial educational platforms. Solidarity movements worldwide have joined in practicing and imagining decolonized futures through mass protest, student encampments, and the disruption of global trade and business-as-usual.
We invite contributions that document the architectural and spatial tools that participate in or are complicit in imperial formations of settler-colonial apartheid and genocide. Contributions could evidence how bombing, demolition, destruction, ruination, and scorched earth constitute military strategies planned and implemented for decades to fragment, debilitate and destroy Palestinian built, social, economic, cultural, and natural environments. “Israel’s genocide on Palestinians in Gaza,” writes UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, “is an escalatory stage of a longstanding settler colonial process of erasure.” Contributors might map, represent, theorize, and historicize genocide, ecocide, spaciocide, terracide, and urbicide as practices of colonial erasure and unpack the way they appear and operate. They may consider destruction as a form of design and planned operations entangled in a multiplicity of imaginaries, actors, materials, media, spaces, laws, capital, and power relations.
The Palestinian philosopher Abdaljawad Omar argues that Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza and resistance to it—“no matter how horrific, bloody, and tragic”—cannot be reduced to a “pathology of violence.” Palestinians are not hapless victims nor motivated merely by “vengeance.” Omar advocates, instead, that a “pathology of hope” in a decolonial struggle “might ultimately create the space for new possibilities.” Those new possibilities have emerged not only in Palestine, where the prospects of liberation seem closer despite immense suffering and death, but also around the globe. Millions have taken up the cause of Palestine, tapping into what Anishinaabe theorist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson calls “constellations of coresistance,” bringing into relationship seemingly disparate struggles by using “mechanisms for communications, strategic movement, accountability to each other, and shared decision-making practices” that refuse to center colonial narratives and institutions. These constellations, however, are not new. Palestinian solidarity could be described as an infrastructure of resistance that maps onto global movements from below. A decline of imposed Western hegemony corresponds with the rise of new formations of struggle and power that draw from radical possible histories, presents, and futures. Through this call for papers, we invite authors to engage with such formations of anti-colonial struggle within and beyond Palestinian geographies, reflecting on how Palestine has inspired pathologies of hope, constellations of coresistance, and infrastructures of resistance, the world over.
We enthusiastically invite contributions in the categories of Essay, Design, Narrative, and Image, and welcome work that challenges conventions of politics and forms. Submissions could emerge from or comparatively engage with Palestine as an appositional and diasporic geography (i.e. geographies of Palestine contra geographies of Palestinians), the metaphysics of funerary ritual and the creation-destruction of Palestinian cemeteries, domicide and the multiplicities of homelessness, the worlds woven by resistance literature, and sumud (“steadfast perseverance”) as a material and spatial practice.
Though not human-built borders, the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea form the boundaries of aquatic imaginaries of sovereignty: the latter’s shores are equal parts a respite for Gaza’s citizens and the banks of now-heavily polluted waters weaponized by Israel in counterinsurgency efforts against Palestinian military resistance and the health of its soil. The water bodies are at the heart of a heavily policed articulation of freedom from settler domination whose global reiterations hail a decolonial internationalism that makes reference to a history of shared struggles and futurities of freedom.
In addition to weaponized environments of soil, water, and air, sites of consideration include the tunnel as a route of militants’ fight and prisoners’ flight, the blockade as carceral infrastructure, the safe haven of the hospital, the intergenerational sanctity and stewardship of the olive grove, the absenting of sacred space and cultural memory, the resistive archive, the breaching of the border fence and the rupture of settler containment, the expansion and contraction of worlds through media and procedures of the international courts and UN bodies. One might also consider the troubled intimacies between the life-affirming creativity in, and maintenances of refugee space, preclusions of citizenship, and the unwavering dream and materialities of return.
Theme Editors:
Nora Akawi, Nick Estes, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi