lunch 9 : call for submissions

AYAC supports lunch - the UVa School of Architecture's design journal - see details of submitting your work below!

The editors of lunch are excited to welcome the submission of abstracts and articles for our upcoming journal, lunch9: In Excess. We encourage you to read the call (below) and consider how your research and projects could contribute to the conversation.

lunch9: In Excess

Excess is everywhere — it is plenty; profit; waste. Growth cannot occur without excess, yet there is a threshold beyond which growth becomes malignant. Nothing succeeds like excess, yet necessity — scarcity — is the mother of invention. We encounter this duality constantly; how we react defines us collectively as a society and individually as creators and agents of change. 

How do we measure, or decide, what is — in quantity or quality — excessive? Are traditional constraints — the actualities of material, labor, technology, and permanence — still at work? Is excess valuable; is it beautiful; is it productive? When and how does excess lead to innovation, or stifle it?

What is design in excess?

We seek ideas, papers, and projects — design and product proposals; visual narratives, critical mappings, and diagrams; experiments, interviews, critiques, etc. —  addressing excess from all perspectives.

Abstracts are due November 15. Full projects and final articles are due January 17. 

Abstracts should be ~350 words, detailing your proposal and the projected length of your piece along with a CV and work sample. The written component of full projects should be no more than 4000 words. Please see our website for full submission guidelines, and visit lunchdesignjournal.submittable.com/submit to submit.

Please don't hesitate to contact info@uvalunch.com, or us individually, with questions or to discuss your ideas. Many thanks to all who submit — we can't wait to hear from you!

The lunch9 team,
Sarah Brummett (seb7az) Sarah Beth McKay (sem9pp) Tammy Teng (ltt5cw) Clayton Williams (cew5vp)