Manifesto

Programme texts of the editorial board: where the journal is heading, what it considers important, what it stands against. The “Manifesto” section is an open conversation between the editorial board and the reader. We do not believe a journal earns its readers by promises of objectivity; it earns them by stating its position honestly and revising that position publicly when the world changes. Each manifesto piece is a long-form column — a programmatic statement, an argument, sometimes a correction. We discuss why we write about the city as a teaching ground, why we treat the human body as a navigation instrument, why we prefer slow forms over rapid news. We also publish corrections of our own analytical errors, retraction notes, and reader correspondence that has changed our minds. Content type: 2–3 manifestos per year, plus shorter editor’s columns at the opening of each issue. Editorial posture: this is a concept project — speculative editorial fiction — and we say so on every page.

In this issue: “We Are Building the Future of Resilience” — a programme statement from the Institute for Special Engineering.