about
Mission Statement:
The student architect exists in a precursory realm to that of architectural practice. Often exempt from the confines of the “realistic,” the limits of creation become those of one’s imagination. Boundless creation — testing, adapting, and subsequent learning, where failure is not a setback but instead an integral part of the creative process — the student architect builds in a sandbox.
Founded as a transdisciplinary initiative to provoke, enrich, and diversify critical discourse at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Sandbox provides a platform for the vertical mingling of contemporary architectural thought, spanning disciplines as well as the hierarchies within. It aims to dismantle the notion that the developing architectural voice is one unworthy of broadcast, creating a mutualistic ecosystem that empowers emerging voices to argue and articulate fresh perspectives alongside the more cultivated and refined voices of later-stage practitioners.
Written, designed, compiled, and edited by students of Georgia Tech with guidance from faculty advisors, Sandbox releases works digitally throughout semester-long thematic issue cycles with a limited print format release to end each. Content within issues includes but is not limited to written, audio, and visual media, practitioner interviews, and student work, produced both in-house and from open calls-for-submissions.
Sandbox exists as a theater of exchange, addressing critical contemporary issues of the built environment through a conversation between the complete and diverse scope of its inhabitants.
Audience:
Sandbox calls upon all thoughtful inhabitants of the built environment as both recipients and contributors in an open and equal discourse. Submissions from outside the Georgia Tech School of Architecture, and field of architecture as a whole, are welcomed and encouraged, further broadening the scope of discussions.
At the same time, Sandbox emphasizes the role of the student and emerging voice as both key contributors and consumers, and the role they can play in diversifying traditional architectural/design discourse.
Interfaces:
Welcome to sandboxatgt.com, the main hub for access to work produced by the publication. Here we house new releases in full, call for submissions, and archive all prior issues/works.
Our Instagram (@sandbox.gt) will act as the main link between the publication and student body. Here we will call for submissions, post updates, and snippets of work.
A physical compilation of selected works, in the form of a graphically curated fold, will punctuate each thematic cycle.
contact us:
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