Roll the barbeque and illegal fireworks into the middle of the street. It’s time for a block party! This spring’s Harvard Urban Review theme emulates a potluck: Bring what you have from the pantry, and interpret the theme’s constituent terms “block,” “party,” and “block party” however you’d like.
Some questions we’ll be discussing from plastic lawn chairs: What does the block reveal about our relationships to each other, chance encounters in the city, and the asphalt materiality of public space? How do the cultural meanings of the block shift across cities and communities? Is the block a public unit or a collage of private spaces, contested or communal, forever changing or preserved in nostalgic amber, emblematic of the entire city or of a unique cosmos? Or can we define block more broadly, as a typology, scale, signature, or unit of measurement? We welcome all submissions along these and other interpretations and definitional deployments. Welcome to the party: What’s cooking?
Submission Requirements
We encourage submissions that represent a diversity of viewpoints and media, including essays, works of fiction and poetry, interviews, photography, visual art, and design projects—send us your napkin sketches, road trip rambles, and mirror selfies.
If you would like to discuss a particular submission, pitch, question, or complaint, please get in touch at [email protected]
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Title
Call for Submissions: Block Party, Harvard Urban Review 2023
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Type
Call for Submissions
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Organizers
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Submission Deadline
February 10, 2023 06:00 PM
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Price
Free