This event marks the launch of The Journal of Architecture special issue “Peripheries–Peripherocene,” co-edited by Cameron McEwan (Northumbria University) and Andreas Lechner (TU Graz). It brings together architects, writers, and researchers whose work reads the periphery as a site of critical and creative possibility. An afternoon symposium (14:00-17:00) is followed by an exhibition opening and journal launch (18:00-21:00). Much of the world’s urban growth happens less in urban centres and ever more at urban peripheries: in suburbs, operational landscapes, wastelands, and the spaces between city and region. This symposium and exhibition explore the periphery as the defining spatial condition of the Anthropocene, and the place where we can make a difference. The urban periphery is central to urban development processes and the spatial and ecological crises of the present times, yet it is where the pressures of climate, ecology, infrastructure space, and everyday life seem least examined. We need new ways of seeing, representing, and thinking. We need new aesthetic and conceptual languages for the periphery in the time of the Anthropocene. This symposium, exhibition, and journal issue investigate peripheries from Berlin’s Tiergarten as an “inner periphery,” the operational landscape of peripheral Graz, a transect in Berlin’s Panke river, Newcastle’s robust regional landscape, Cumbernauld and its environs, the smooth space of transit between Penn Station and JFK airport in New York, the Las Vegas desert, the land around Stromness in Orkney, and Kyiv’s outskirts. Symposium Saturday 21 November 2026, 14:00–17:00 Speakers: Sandra Bartoli and Silvan Linden, Büro für Konstruktivismus, Berlin Lorens Holm, Geddes Institute Andreas Lechner, TU Graz Nicky Thomson and Rowan Mackinnon-Pryde, Studio Niro Shaun Young, Studio Reiver Chaired by Cameron McEwan, Northumbria University Exhibition opening and journal launch Saturday 21 November 2026, 18:00–21:00 Exhibition continues 22 November – 1 December, 09:00–16:00 Exhibition curators Cameron McEwan and Shaun Young Journal issue Peripheries–Peripherocene, edited by Cameron McEwan and Andreas Lechner, The Journal of Architecture, vol. 31, no. 2 (2026), published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis on behalf of RIBA. Contributors Sandra Bartoli, Stanley Cho, Cida de Aragon, Petra Eckhard, Daniel Gethmann, Lorens Holm, Elisa Iturbe, Andreas Lechner, Steffen Lehmann, Silvan Linden, Cameron McEwan, Studio Niro (Nicky Thomson and Rowan Mackinnon-Pryde), Alican Taylan, Joseph Wilson, Joe Wojewoda, and Shaun Young. More information Email: c.mcewan@northumbria.ac.uk Instagram: @peripherocene @_cameronmcewan

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