About

Opus Incertum è la rivista di storia dell’architettura del Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università di Firenze. Fondata nel 2005, Opus Incertum intende costituire uno strumento di promozione e di diffusione della ricerca nel campo della storia dell’architettura e della città, intese nell’accezione più ampia del termine per quanto riguarda sia gli ambiti cronologici e geografici, sia quelli tematici. La rivista accoglie infatti contributi di studiosi italiani e stranieri specialisti nella disciplina, con l’obiettivo di stimolare, favorire lo sviluppo e rendere noti i risultati di ricerche originali, senza escludere nessun taglio metodologico che si basi su un rigoroso approccio scientifico. Lo scopo è quello di offrire prospettive inedite e nuovi approfondimenti conoscitivi su temi generali o su argomenti specifici riguardanti l’ambito disciplinare della rivista.

 

Editor-in-Chief

Emanuela Ferretti, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy

ISSN 2035-9217 (print) ISSN 2239-5660 (online)

Opus Incertum is indexed in:

CALL FOR PAPERS: Exhibitions: art, design, technique (1951-1992). The multi-scale of the exhibition design

Opus incertum, 10 (2024)

edited by Orietta Lanzarini and Davide Turrini

The annual journal Opus Incertum dedicates the 2024 issue to the temporary display (exhibitions, periodic events and fairs in a period between 1951 and 1992) as a multi-scale project – i.e. implying approaches at different scales, from the smallest detail to the definition of the exhibition space – as well as a multidisciplinary one, understood as pertaining both to the traditional fields of art, architecture and design, as well as to the most innovative multimedia and performative communication techniques, in a fruitful hybridization of approaches and statutes.

The following indications constitute an outline, although not exclusive or binding, of the possible topics, which may concern any context, national or international: art and architectural exhibitions; design and fashion exhibitions; exhibitions and industry: exhibiting corporate culture; the domestic living space in the context of exhibitions; exhibitions of science and technology; exhibitions for children: playful settings and didactic-educational strategies; the interpretation of “historical” themes in the exhibition space; designing exhibition displays as workshops for technical and material experimentation; multimedia research in the exhibition space; itinerant exhibitions and continuities/discontinuities in periodic exhibition events; the relationships between curatorial processes and exhibition practices; the reception of specific exhibitions and the impact of debate they generated on the design culture of the second half of the twentieth century up to the threshold of the third millennium; the debate on the themes of the exhibition project in art and architectural journals and in technical magazines.

30 May 2023: deadline for submission of abstract (max 2000 characters) and a short CV (max 1000 characters)

15 June 2023: notification of acceptance

15 October 2023: essay submission

Proposals should be sent to: orietta.lanzarini@uniud.it and trrdvd@unife.it

Visit our Call for Papers webpage or Download the pdf version (PDF ITA) (PDF ENG)