Organizer Information:

MIT Department of Architecture. Thresholds is the annual peer-reviewed journal produced by the MIT Department of Architecture, held in over 150 university art and architecture libraries around the world. Content features leading scholars and practitioners from the fields of architecture, art, and culture.

Title & Description:

Applications are open for Thresholds 55: Property (Edited by Maia Adele Simon and Hana Nikčević).

This issue invites scholarly writing, criticism, and artistic interventions that interrogate the interactions between art, architecture, and the concept of "property." Submissions should explore how ideas of property inspire and emerge through particular social and economic relations, institutions and technologies, aesthetics and environments, and ideas of the body and gender throughout history and across geographies.

Category:

Academic & Creative (Architecture, Art History, Cultural Criticism, and Artistic Interventions).

Eligibility:

  • Who: Open to scholars, practitioners, writers, and artists globally.
  • Scholarly Word Count: Written submissions must be approximately 3,000 words in length and formatted in accordance with the current Chicago Manual of Style.
  • Language: All scholarly texts MUST be written in English.
  • Peer Review Constraint: All scholarly submissions are subject to a strict double-blind peer review.
  • Creative Proposals: Unlike scholarly texts, other creative proposals are not limited in size, medium, or format.

Program Benefits & Awards:

  • Publication: Selected works will be published in Thresholds 55, which is distributed to over 150 university libraries worldwide.

Application Fee & Program Costs:

  • Application Fee: Free to submit.

Application Requirements:

  • Submission Method: Submissions must be sent directly via email.
  • File Formatting: * Text submissions MUST be sent exclusively as .doc files.
    • Where applicable, images MUST be submitted at 72 dpi as uncompressed .tif files.
  • Required Documents: All submissions must include:
    1. A cover letter (Strict maximum of 200 words).
    2. A biography (Strict maximum of 50 words).
    3. Contact information for each author.

How to Apply?

Email your formatted submission files, cover letter, and bio directly to thresh@mit.edu.

Key Dates:

  • Submission Deadline: May 1, 2026.

Location:

Global / Remote (Published out of MIT in Cambridge, MA, USA).

Contact Information:

Submissions & Inquiries Email: thresh@mit.edu