Call for Papers – From Invention to Experiment: What Does It Mean to Experiment?

Through April 30, 2026.

The journal Transversale, History: Architecture, Landscape, Urban is issuing a call for papers for its 10th issue on the theme “From Invention to Experience: What Does It Mean to Experiment?”
This issue is coordinated by Marie Gaimard (ATE, ENSA Normandie), Gilles-Antoine Langlois, and Léonore Losserand (EVCAU, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine).

This call for papers invites reflections on experimentation in the spatial arts (architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture). Here are some suggested areas for consideration:

– Invention and Experimentation: A Critical History;
– Historiography of Experimental Sites;
– Experimentation and the Avant-Garde: Successes and Failures;
– Experimentation and Constructive Traditions.

Articles must be submitted by April 30, 2026.
More information on thecall for papers and the editorial guidelines.

Since issue No. 9, the interdisciplinary journal has been published by ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine/EVCAU andENSA Normandie.

Image:Detail of the cover of Peter Cook, *Experimental Architecture*, London: Studio Vista, 1970