ΠCase Files, Vol. 01

Over the past ten years, the journal Organs Everywhere(opens in new tab) (Œ) has promoted conversations that approach architectural design from the edges of the discipline—testing its boundaries, technologies, methods and (e)valuation systems, and keeping them unstable. It has valued transdisciplinary, speculative, and irreverent explorations over strict publishing formats and academic purity, promoting a profanatory and open-ended ethos.

Each issue of Organs Everywhere has strung together disparate organs and limbs, activating precarious couplings and associations, and testing new metabolisms and assemblages. Œ Case Files continues this commitment to the making and unmaking of monsters, both by anthologising past contributions into fresh configurations and designs, and by combining them with entirely new articles and voices. Here, philosophers, designers, experimental architects, artists, science fiction writers, activists, and poets shift, expand, and re-imagine notions of space, time, inhabitation, technology, knowledge, use, value, and experience. A patchwork of essays, stories, design experiments, buildings, art installations, drawings, prose poems, photographs and speculative projects collide in the book, infecting simple disciplinary orthodoxies with doubt and potentials, uncertainty and hope—indecisive photons and softness; metatactility and haunted houses; neurodiversity and protocells; prosthetics, grease and darkness; post-human scenographies, software and GPS anklets; anthropocenic devices, paprika, and synthetic biology.