What happens when different traditions of architectural research meet on the page?

 

The FoAR × JoA Writing Camp 2026 brings together researchers working across different methods, disciplinary conventions and cultures of knowledge production. Co-hosted by Frontiers of Architectural Research and The Journal of Architecture, and co-organised by Southeast University and the Manchester School of Architecture at the University of Manchester, the Writing Camp will take place from 8 to 18 September 2026 in Nanjing and Yixing, China.

 

Participants will work across the multiple languages through which architectural knowledge is produced and communicated. These include qualitative and quantitative inquiry, design-led and analytical research, visual and textual forms of argument, and different understandings of what makes an academic paper rigorous, legible and publishable.

 

Writing is understood as part of the research process itself: a means of clarifying arguments, testing forms of evidence, positioning work in relation to existing debates, and considering how architectural knowledge might travel between different audiences and contexts.

 

The Writing Camp is aligned with The Journal of Architecture’s  This IS Architecture initiative and its broader commitment to expanding what counts as architectural knowledge, who participates in its production, and the forms through which it can enter academic debate.

 

UK-based mentors

Christoph Lueder - Kingston University
Debapriya Chakrabarti - Manchester Metropolitan University
Deljana Iossifova - University of Manchester
Doreen Bernath - Architectural Association
Leandro Minuchin - University of Manchester

 

UK-based participants

Abel Mavura - University of Cambridge
Alfonso Valdés Maldonado - University of Edinburgh
César Vicencio Vega - University of Manchester
Hazel Zihao Mei - University of Edinburgh
Jorge Ortiz Moreno - University of Manchester
Klaus Platzgummer - Architectural Association
Kshitija Mruthyunjaya - University of Manchester
Lucy Benjamin - University of Edinburgh
Marco Veneri - Kingston University
Mark Shtanov - University of Manchester
Milja Tuomivaara - University of Edinburgh
Olasumbo Olaniyi - Plymouth University
Rati Sandeep Choudhari - University of Manchester
Sadaf Tabatabaei  - University of Newcastle
Xin Li - University of Manchester
Ziqiu Ren - University of Manchester