Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of Interests asks how researchers define an ethics of interest and disinterest across diverse structures of research funding
Issue
Instruments of Service
Instruments of Service questions the status of the instrument and of service. What does it mean to serve? What is left to instrumentalize, to monetize and to influence?
Performance
Performance asks how criteria are established and enforced in architectural research practice.
The Search Engine
The Search Engine asks what unnamed search engines have existed and where have they been hiding. Where might they be found, and what should they be?
Test Subjects
Test Subjects focuses on the contended nature of application in architectural research.
Cracker Jack
This bonus issue collects documentation of strange and significant laboratories in the history of research.
LABORATORY SERIES. No.02. Nikola Tesla’s Colorado Springs Laboratory. Publicity photograph of Tesla reading next to the ‘Magnifying Transmitter.’ The Colorado Springs lab was built in 1899 at Pikes Peak after Tesla concluded it was possible to transmit electrical power without wires at high altitudes. The lab was reinforced with large metal grounding plates and a roof that rolled back to prevent it from catching fire. Photo: Dickenson V. Alley of Century Magazine in 1899 / Wikipedia.
