Tape Journal is a semi-regularly published journal dedicated to studying the systems that make up the city of Los Angeles, aiming to publish around three issues per year. Each issue will spotlight a different facet of the city, with the hopes of facilitating dialogue and cataloguing ideas that explore the potential futures of Los Angeles.
Tape Journal is announcing a call for submissions for its inaugural edition, Double-Sided Tape. In its current form, the Los Angeles Freeway exists as a scaled-up example of double-sided tape–cars, buses, and trains navigate through the city atop the freeway; storage companies and the homeless take shelter underneath. We ask those with an interest in architecture, urban planning, design, or other spatial mediums to submit musings, paper architecture, images, or short writings that relate to the Los Angeles Freeway through at least one of the three categories broadly defined below:
top-side: transportation/vehicular corridor; infrastructural tie-in/connection to larger urban context, etc.
under-side: spatial infill; underside poché as constructed by infrastructural form; its uses current and future: storage/informal housing/programmatic insertions, etc.
adjacencies: landscape; larger urban context flanking the freeway; contextual history, etc.
Tape Journal is interested in promoting the collective discourse of the city rather than the voice of the individual, and as such will publish works anonymously. Contributors will be noted in list form in the issue, but individual works will not be attributed to an author.
Submission Guidelines
Tape Journal exists solely as a physically published document, sized at 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” (140 × 216 mm), using CMYK inkjet printing. Be conscious of these parameters when preparing your files, and email us if you have formatting questions.