Deadline Extended: CFP—(Un)precedented Times?: Reflecting on Global Disasters as places of destruction and spaces for opportunity, 21st Annual Conference of the IASESP, April 29-May 1, 2026. For more information go to: iasesp.org/conferences/

Current Issue: Gabriel Espinoza Rivera review of _The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade_ by Jared D. Margulies, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

Current Issue: Moumita Dey, review of _Caring for Life: A Postdevelopment Politics of Hygiene_ by Kelly Dombroski, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

Current Issue: Valerio Della Salla review of _No More Fossils_ by Dominic Boyer, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

Current Issue: Zachary Cudney review of _Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry_ by Joshua Dicaglio, Environment, Space, Place, Vol. 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

Current Issue: Kristjan Laasik, “Place Ballet as Place Making,” Environment, Space, Place, Vol 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

CFP: (Un)precedented Times?: Reflecting on Global Disasters as places of destruction and spaces for opportunity, 21st Annual Conference of the IASESP, April 29-May 1, 2026. For more information go to: iasesp.org/conferences/

Affective Atmospheres 18–19 Feb 2026, Glasgow Supported by Royal Institute of Philosophy In-person conference bringing together philosophy, anthropology, geography, art, architecture & psychology. Register forms.gle/Xv2ZXmbovtvK... More info placememory.net/affective-at... Art Jinjoon Lee ©2025

Current Issue: My Madsen and Malou Ryborg, “The Matter of Relations: A Critical Materialist Perspective on Place Attachment and Regeneration through a Danish Social Housing Estate,” Environment, Space, Place, Vol 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

Current Issue: Sean Lawrence, “A Rumeli City in Anatolia: Environmental nostalgia in the design of early republican Ankara,” Environment, Space, Place, Vol 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

Free article for Environment, Place, Space: "The Matter of Relations: A Critical Materialist Perspective on Place Attachment and Regeneration through a Danish Social Housing Estate" by My Madsen and Malou Ryborg (muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...)

Current Issue: Max Holleran, “Global Greenbelts: Population Thinking and Sprawl- Control in the US and the UK,” Environment, Space, Place, Vol 16, Iss. 2, Fall 2024 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55922

CFP: (Un)precedented Times?: Reflecting on Global Disasters as places of destruction and spaces for opportunity, 21st Annual Conference of the IASESP, April 29-May 1, 2026. For more information go to: iasesp.org/conferences/

"Space and Culture: the international journal of social spaces" is seeking applications for a new Editor-in-Chief and Co-Editors: www.spaceandculture.com/2025/07/24/c.... #urban #sociology

Arman Hamidzadeh Mahdiyan (Texas Tech) pursues a radical spatial ethics in the analysis of graffiti art in “Graffiti; Barbarism or Liberation?” #IASESP2025

Elizabeth Cronin (University of Florida) offers a window on the creative process involving art installation in liminal land/water spaces in “Emergent Practice: Tracing Fieldnotes as Site/Sight” at #IASESP2025

Olivia Raymundo (University of Florida) offers a view of sewing as method, patternmaking as praxis, and delamination as analysis in “Embodied: Fabric Assembly and Analytical Patternmaking” at #IASESP2025

Andrea Galinski (University of Florida) presents on the problem of flux, mutation, and architectural adaptation in “Terra Mutare: Observing, Understanding, and Representing Change in Foundational Design” at #IASESP2025

Nadine Plachta explores ”Traces of Climate Change in Tsum” and problems of western approaches to development in the Himalayans at #IASESP2025

Charlie Hailey reads watermarks left behind from hurricane storm surges as traces of nature’s larger forces at work in “Watermark and Wetproof” #IASESP2025

Troy Paddock (Southern Connecticut State University) plots excesses along scales of natural, mathematical, and historical time on the Mosul River in “Traces of Excess/Traces and Excess” #IASESP2025

Mary Paddock (Quinnipiac University) tours the German literary and geographical past to expose “Traces of Absence—Places of Shame: Mass Murder and Medieval Desire” #IASESP2025

Stephanie Hofer (Virginia Tech) unearths buried traumas from the Namibian liberation movement in “‘How Do I Live With My Desert’: Tracing Memory Landscapes in the Namibian Film ‘Taste of Rain’” #IASESP2025

Joe Balay (University of Mary Washington) and Toby Svoboda (Colgate University) consider the aesthetic potentialities of atmospheric solar radiation modification in “Scream: The Aesthetic Event of Geoengineering” #IASESP2025

Jason Hayob-Matzke and Jodie Hayob-Matzke (University of Mary Washington) range through the ethical implications of restoring extinct species in their presentation “Links to the Past or Solutions for the Future?” #IASESP2025

Peter Nekola (The MacLean Map Library) delves into the ephemeral nature of the Las Vegas River within the city’s built environment in “What is a River, Really? Tracing the Desert Washes of Las Vegas” #IASESP2025

Jeffrey Webb (Huntington University) explores the interplay of the global, regional, and local in “Paddlefish Solar and its Opponents: Tracing the Contours of Green Energy Politics in the Agro-Industrial Landscape of Rural Indiana” #IASESP2025

Maeva O’Brien (Yale University) explores scales of geography, natural history, and future states in “Radioactive Traces and the Limits of the US State Time at Yucca Mountain, Nevada” #IASESP2025

Amanda Rutherford (University of Florida) describes the work of incorporating the spatial and temporal in Miami’s redevelopment in “Inhabiting Imprints and Echoes: An Approach to spatio-temporal simultaneity at Brickell Point in Miami, Florida” #IASESP2025

Avery Dunavant (University of Florida) tours the archive for past architectural traces in “Documenting Nostalgia: A Postcard and 10 Billion Points From The Bold New City of The South” #IASESP2025

Haley Smith (Atelier Mey) relate their team’s process for attaining nature-fitted design in “From Forest to Form” #IASESP2025

Silke Helmerdig (Pforzheim University) visits Hiroshima’s photographic archive in “Exposing Concealed Traces of Representation” #IASESP2025

CFP: From the Home to the City: Designing Spatial Experiences; 14-15 May 2026, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain + Online

Kelvin Dickinson (Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture) highlights Paul Rudolph’s design concepts in Florida’s Modernist and Brutalist landmarks in “Paul Rudolph and Florida” #IASESP2025

Michael Dieffenthaller (University of Florida) delves into plants at small and large scales in “Learning from Plants: An Architectural Methodology to Foster Symbiotic Relationships between Plants, People, and Buildings” #IASESP2025

Ray Wincko (withArchitecture) probes the design possibilities of tracing paper in “Disposable Thought: Tracing Parchment’s Reverent Role in Design’s Outpouring” #IASESP2025

L. Brooke Rudow (University of Central Florida) presents the concept of environmental hermeneutics in “Losing Place’s Trace: Digital Technology and Aesthetic Harm” #IASESP2025

Holly Vita Gowland (University of Birmingham) explores the dimensionality of affordances in the soundscapes of virtual space #IASESP2025

Yanfeng Chen (University of Florida) shares his dream-simulation experiments with AI in his presentation “AI and Dream Space” #IASESP2025

Sarah Gamble (University of Florida) examines the experience of place through pathways and walking practices #IASESP2025

Sarah Spayd, Michael Dieffenthaller, Eric Rykard, and Karla Saldaña Ochoa, (University of Florida) highlight Ribault River design features that incorporate the river’s changing hydrology #IASESP2025

Bradley Walters and Mark McGlothlin (University of Florida) describe a collaborative design project in the indigenous community of Tyonek, Alaska #IASESP2025

IASESP President Kip Redick (Christopher Newport University) welcomes early arrivals at the Jessie Ball duPont Center in Jacksonville for #IASESP2025

Nancy Clark (University of Florida) welcomes early arrivals at the Jessie Ball duPont Center in Jacksonville for #IASESP2025

Charlie Hailey (University of Florida) welcomes early arrivals at the Jessie Ball duPont Center in Jacksonville for #IASESP2025

Early arrivals at the Jessie Ball duPont Center in Jacksonville for #IASESP2025

The 20th IASESP annual conference wrapped up this week! Thanks to our wonderful hosts UFJaxLab, AIAJacksonville, UFJacksonville, and UFCHU! Thanks to our organizers Charlie Hailey and Elizabeth Cronin for creating a truly amazing conference experience!

IASESP ‘25 Conference Preview: John Maze (University of Florida), “Freshman Frolics and the Ideals of Home: Utilizing the Poetic Image in the Consideration of Future Self” iasesp.org

IASESP ‘25 Conference Preview: Ellery Susa (BLUR Workshop), “Trace, Place and Memory: The Phenomenology of a Lost Loved One’s Home” iasesp.org

IASESP ‘25 Conference Preview: AJ Jung (University of Florida), “Ethnoarcheological Exploration of Living Spaces of Internationally Mobile Individuals” iasesp.org