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MONU (magazine)

November 27, 2023

MONU is an English-language, annual[2] magazine on urbanism that focuses on the city in a broad sense, including its politics, economy, geography, ecology, its social aspects, as well as its physical structure and architecture. Therefore, architecture is one of many fields covered by the magazine - fields which are all brought together under the catch-all term “urbanism”. MONU is edited in the city of Rotterdam, Netherlands.[3][4] Continuous publication began in June 2004. It refers to itself as an independent, non-conformist, niche publication that collects critical articles, images, concepts, and urban theories from architects, urbanists and theorists from around the world on a given topic.

MONU
TypeAnnual magazine
FormatMagazine
EditorBernd Upmeyer
FoundedJune 2004
HeadquartersRotterdam
Netherlands
Circulation3,000 copies per issue[1]
Websitemonu-magazine.com

MONU claims to examine topics that are important to the future of our cities and urban regions from a variety of perspectives[5] and to provide a platform for comparative analysis.[5] The different viewpoints, contexts and methods of analysis allow for an exploration of various topics in a rich fashion. The combination of the writings and projects created within different cultures and from different professional backgrounds generates new insights in the complex phenomena connected to cities.[5] The magazine functions as a platform for the exchange of ideas and thus constitutes a collective intelligence on urbanism.[6]

Mission statement edit

What MONU has been aiming at since the very beginning is exploring every kind of urban aspect, everything that appears around the city. The magazine was always intrigued to find out the hidden political, social and economic truths, formal realities and interdependencies in cities.[5]

Opinions edit

MONU is generally critical of the fact that often urban spaces only fulfill the wishes and dreams of a powerful minority, who neglect the needs of most other people. MONU criticizes the consequences of a financially powerful elite developing real estate projects in cities merely to accommodate their consumerist desires. (#12 in 2010[7])

The magazine also dismisses the lack of interest among architects and urban designers in dealing with the enormous potential of the existing urban material and topics such as urban and architectural restoration, preservation, renovation, redevelopment, renewal or adaptive reuse of old structures as socially irresponsible and economically and culturally unacceptable. (#14 in 2011[7])

MONU disapproves of the non-ideological - or better post-ideological - conditions of our society when it comes to cities and aims for a new sincerity that is needed in a world consisting of a multiplicity of choices and urban outcomes without a single consistent urban ideology. (#15 in 2011[7])

History edit

 
Cover of MONU’s first issue on the topic of Paid Urbanism, on 16 June 2004

MONU was founded by Bernd Upmeyer and Thomas Söhl in 2004 and was originally conceived as a way to keep in touch and to continue to intellectually challenge one another after graduating in architecture and urban design at the University of Kassel in 2002. Both founders went their separate ways, however: Upmeyer started working in the Netherlands and Söhl moved to the United States.[8]

The title of the magazine was created as an acronym: Magazine ON Urbanism.[9] Upmeyer once explained in an interview that at the start of the new millennium it felt much more appropriate, in a globalized world, to investigate topics such as architecture as a part of a wider field – in this case urbanism.[10] The topic of the first issue “Paid Urbanism” was originally a University project that Upmeyer and Söhl were planning to do together during the late 1990s, but in the end never did. It was based on the idea of paying people to appear in deserted public spaces to inject artificially life into dead urban areas.[11] Ever since, putting a different adjective or noun next to the word “Urbanism” has become a routine that continues to this day.[12]

Since 2007 - after issue #7 - Upmeyer directs MONU alone, as editor-in-chief, supported by his Rotterdam-based Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design (BOARD).[5] In 2008 Beatriz Ramo joined MONU as managing and contributing editor,[5] after having supported and collaborated with the magazine since its first issue.[13] What was at first an almost underground magazine made available in pdf format and as a stapled-together, black and white printed version, has evolved over the years into one of the main independent publications[14] and into one of the leading independent architecture magazines published today, bringing together challenging themes explored by interesting writers and theorists.[15] From 2004 until 2020 MONU was published twice a year and since 2021 it appears once a year.[16]

Circulation edit

In 2011, MONU reported an average circulation of 3,000 copies per issue,[17] two thirds of which were sold in Europe and one third in North America, Australia and New Zealand. MONU has been described as the biggest independent publication focused explicitly on urbanism.[18] MONU’s first print-run was very small, around 300 copies. From 2011 until 2015 MONU was also available digitally.[19]

Innovation edit

MONU’s blend of radical passion and expert design has made the magazine itself the focus of several international exhibitions, including in Los Angeles, Madrid and Tokyo.[20] In summer 2007 MONU was part of an open workspace at the documenta 12 - one of the world's most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. MONU was invited as part of the documenta's magazines project.[5] MONU is considered to have brought back a new critical edge to the architectural and urban discourse at the beginning of the new millennium[21] and has inspired many others to found similar magazines, particularly between 2005 and 2009.[22] Many of those new magazines were featured together with MONU in the so-called Archizines Exhibition in London in November 2011.[23]

Features edit

With every new issue, MONU uses the method of “call for submissions” or call for papers (CFP) for collecting contributions.[24] This device of “call for submissions” has been based on the realization that the view of one person is limited. MONU wanted to open the magazine to different and changing perspectives and to focus on diversity, as the core value of the magazine. In that sense, the magazine aims to be open-sourced to its core, collecting and deploying a wide variety of articles, images, concepts, and urban critiques from designers and thinkers from all over the world, recognizing that the traditional journal no longer connects to today's informed audience.[25] MONU’s method of the “call for submissions” and its focus on diverse backgrounds and viewpoints from international contributors has found many followers in newer architectural publications that were established after 2005.[26] MONU claims to have introduced the device of “open calls” as a tool to finding contributors to architectural and urban magazines – especially in Europe.[27] Every issue features texts, topic-focused interviews, research, critical analysis, photography, conceptual artwork, and infographics on a defined topic.[28]

Contributors edit

Past contributors to MONU include:[7]

Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), Reinier de Graaf (2004, MONU #1 - Paid Urbanism)
Thomas Sieverts (2005, MONU #2 – Middle Class Urbanism)
Joost Meuwissen (2005, MONU #3 – Political Urbanism)
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (2006, MONU #4 – Denied Urbanism)
Loïc Wacquant, Eyal Weizman (2006, MONU #5 – Brutal Urbanism)
Supersudaca (2007, MONU #6 – Beautiful Urbanism)
Floris Alkemade (2007, MONU #7 – 2nd Rate Urbanism)
Joep van Lieshout, Teddy Cruz (2008, MONU #8 – Border Urbanism)
Owen Hatherley, Shumon Basar (2008, MONU #9 – Exotic Urbanism)
NL Architects, Kees Christiaanse (2009, MONU #10 – Holy Urbanism)
Gerd Hauser, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (2009, MONU #11 – Clean Urbanism)
Bjarke Ingels, MVRDV (2010, MONU #12 – Real Urbanism)
Hans Frei (2010, MONU #13 – Most Valuable Urbanism)
Rem Koolhaas, Adolfo Natalini, Beatriz Ramo (2011, MONU #14 – Editing Urbanism)
Wouter Vanstiphout, Thomas Ruff (2011, MONU #15 – Post-Ideological Urbanism)
Edward W. Soja, Mike Crang, Stephen Graham (2012, MONU #16 – Non-Urbanism)
Joel Garreau, Saskia Sassen, Kunlé Adeyemi (2012, MONU #17 – Next Urbanism)
Rainer Langhans, Atelier 5, Richard Sennett (2013, MONU #18 – Communal Urbanism)
Antoine Grumbach, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (2013, MONU #19 – Greater Urbanism
Bernardo Secchi, Edward Burtynsky, Bart Lootsma (2014, MONU #20 – Geographical Urbanism)
Winy Maas, Candida Höfer, Petra Blaisse (2014, MONU #21 – Interior Urbanism)
Jean-Louis Missika, Bernd Upmeyer, Ulf Hannerz (2015, MONU #22 – Transnational Urbanism)
Jeremy Till, Damon Rich, Marina Abramović (2015, MONU #23 – Participatory Urbanism)
Andrés Jaque, Casco, Herman Hertzberger (2016, MONU #24 – Domestic Urbanism)
Kai Vöckler, Arnis Balcus, Bart Lootsma (2016, MONU #25 – Independent Urbanism)
Lars Lerup, Bureau of Architecture, Research, and Design, Roger Keil, Floris Alkemade, Keller Easterling, Michael Wolf, Mark Power (2017, MONU #26 – Decentralised Urbanism)
Stephan Petermann, Levi Bryant, Nicholas de Monchaux, Marco Casagrande (2017, MONU #27 – Small Urbanism)
STAR strategies + architecture, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, Beatriz Ramo, Stefan Paeleman (2018, MONU #28 – Client-shaped Urbanism)
Cassim Shepard, Pierre Huyghe, Cruz Garcia, Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Carolyn Drake, Inge Goudsmit (2018, MONU #29 – Narrative Urbanism)
Deane Simpson, Peter Granser, Frits van Dongen, Chris Phillipson, Junya Ishigami, Matthias Hollwich (2019, MONU #30 – Late Life Urbanism)
Karla Rothstein, Miguel Candela, Christopher Coutts, Julie Rugg, Katrina Spade, Cameron Jamie (2019, MONU #31 – After Life Urbanism)
Jörn Walter, Richard Florida, Anne Mie Depuydt, David Schalliol, Will Hartley, DK Osseo-Asare (2020, MONU #32 – Affordable Urbanism)
Beatriz Colomina, Jessica Bridger, Peter Dench, Richard Sennett, Alexander Jachnow, Nadia Shira Cohen (2020, MONU #33 – Pandemic Urbanism)
Mabel O. Wilson, Jeffrey Hou, Ben Parry, Rafal Milach, Ulrich Lebeuf, Hans Pruijt, Bing Guan (2021, MONU #34 – Protest Urbanism)
Mark Wigley, Anya Sirota, Riccardo Dalisi, Isabelle Pateer, MONU’s Academic Research Studio (MARS), Peter Behrens School of Arts, Arno Brandlhuber, Olaf Grawert (2022, MONU #35 – Unfinished Urbanism)
Mark Gottdiener, Sharon Zukin, Richard Plunz, Tatjana Schneider, Bharat Sikka, Izaskun Chinchilla (2023, MONU #36 – New Social Urbanism)

References edit

  1. ^ MONU: "Circulation". Retrieved on 4 June 2012.
  2. ^ https://aboland.nl/en/bladen/kennis-en-wetenschap/kunst/monu/ "Annual magazine"]. Retrieved on 24 October 2023.
  3. ^ MONU: "Locations". Retrieved on 8 November 2011.
  4. ^ "Maps". City of Rotterdam. Retrieved 8 November 2011.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g MONU: "About". Retrieved on 9 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Collective intelligence". Retrieved 9 November 2011.
  7. ^ a b c d MONU: "Issues". Retrieved on 5 December 2011.
  8. ^ "MONU was founded". Retrieved on 11 April 2013.
  9. ^ "Title as acronym" Retrieved on 11 April 2013.
  10. ^ "Architecture as a part of a wider field". Retrieved on 5 December 2011.
  11. ^ "Paid Urbanism". Retrieved on 5 December 2011.
  12. ^ "Noun next to the word “Urbanism”". Retrieved on 5 December 2011.
  13. ^ "Since its first issue" Retrieved on 5 November 2012.
  14. ^ "Underground magazine" Retrieved on 9 November 2011.
  15. ^ "Independent architecture magazine" Retrieved on 25 August 2011.
  16. ^ "Annual magazine". Retrieved on 25 October 2023.
  17. ^ MONU: "Circulation" Retrieved on 9 November 2011.
  18. ^ "Independent publication" Retrieved on 7 December 2011.
  19. ^ "Digital edition of MONU". Retrieved on 25 March 2022.
  20. ^ "Radical passion" Retrieved on 7 December 2011.
  21. ^ "Critical edge". Retrieved on 5 December 2011.
  22. ^ "Inspired many others". Retrieved on 1 August 2012.
  23. ^ "Archizines Exhibition" Retrieved on 22 December 2011.
  24. ^ MONU: "Call for submissions" Retrieved on 7 December 2011.
  25. ^ "Open-sourced" Retrieved on 2 January 2012.
  26. ^ "Newer architectural publications" Retrieved on 22 December 2011.
  27. ^ "Introduced the device of “open calls”" Retrieved on 1 August 2012.
  28. ^ "Every issue features" Retrieved on 5 December 2011.

External links edit

  • Official website

November 27, 2023
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MONU is an English language annual 2 magazine on urbanism that focuses on the city in a broad sense including its politics economy geography ecology its social aspects as well as its physical structure and architecture Therefore architecture is one of many fields covered by the magazine fields which are all brought together under the catch all term urbanism MONU is edited in the city of Rotterdam Netherlands 3 4 Continuous publication began in June 2004 It refers to itself as an independent non conformist niche publication that collects critical articles images concepts and urban theories from architects urbanists and theorists from around the world on a given topic MONUTypeAnnual magazineFormatMagazineEditorBernd UpmeyerFoundedJune 2004HeadquartersRotterdam NetherlandsCirculation3 000 copies per issue 1 Websitemonu magazine comMONU claims to examine topics that are important to the future of our cities and urban regions from a variety of perspectives 5 and to provide a platform for comparative analysis 5 The different viewpoints contexts and methods of analysis allow for an exploration of various topics in a rich fashion The combination of the writings and projects created within different cultures and from different professional backgrounds generates new insights in the complex phenomena connected to cities 5 The magazine functions as a platform for the exchange of ideas and thus constitutes a collective intelligence on urbanism 6 Contents 1 Mission statement 2 Opinions 3 History 4 Circulation 5 Innovation 6 Features 7 Contributors 8 References 9 External linksMission statement editWhat MONU has been aiming at since the very beginning is exploring every kind of urban aspect everything that appears around the city The magazine was always intrigued to find out the hidden political social and economic truths formal realities and interdependencies in cities 5 Opinions editMONU is generally critical of the fact that often urban spaces only fulfill the wishes and dreams of a powerful minority who neglect the needs of most other people MONU criticizes the consequences of a financially powerful elite developing real estate projects in cities merely to accommodate their consumerist desires 12 in 2010 7 The magazine also dismisses the lack of interest among architects and urban designers in dealing with the enormous potential of the existing urban material and topics such as urban and architectural restoration preservation renovation redevelopment renewal or adaptive reuse of old structures as socially irresponsible and economically and culturally unacceptable 14 in 2011 7 MONU disapproves of the non ideological or better post ideological conditions of our society when it comes to cities and aims for a new sincerity that is needed in a world consisting of a multiplicity of choices and urban outcomes without a single consistent urban ideology 15 in 2011 7 History edit nbsp Cover of MONU s first issue on the topic of Paid Urbanism on 16 June 2004MONU was founded by Bernd Upmeyer and Thomas Sohl in 2004 and was originally conceived as a way to keep in touch and to continue to intellectually challenge one another after graduating in architecture and urban design at the University of Kassel in 2002 Both founders went their separate ways however Upmeyer started working in the Netherlands and Sohl moved to the United States 8 The title of the magazine was created as an acronym Magazine ON Urbanism 9 Upmeyer once explained in an interview that at the start of the new millennium it felt much more appropriate in a globalized world to investigate topics such as architecture as a part of a wider field in this case urbanism 10 The topic of the first issue Paid Urbanism was originally a University project that Upmeyer and Sohl were planning to do together during the late 1990s but in the end never did It was based on the idea of paying people to appear in deserted public spaces to inject artificially life into dead urban areas 11 Ever since putting a different adjective or noun next to the word Urbanism has become a routine that continues to this day 12 Since 2007 after issue 7 Upmeyer directs MONU alone as editor in chief supported by his Rotterdam based Bureau of Architecture Research and Design BOARD 5 In 2008 Beatriz Ramo joined MONU as managing and contributing editor 5 after having supported and collaborated with the magazine since its first issue 13 What was at first an almost underground magazine made available in pdf format and as a stapled together black and white printed version has evolved over the years into one of the main independent publications 14 and into one of the leading independent architecture magazines published today bringing together challenging themes explored by interesting writers and theorists 15 From 2004 until 2020 MONU was published twice a year and since 2021 it appears once a year 16 Circulation editIn 2011 MONU reported an average circulation of 3 000 copies per issue 17 two thirds of which were sold in Europe and one third in North America Australia and New Zealand MONU has been described as the biggest independent publication focused explicitly on urbanism 18 MONU s first print run was very small around 300 copies From 2011 until 2015 MONU was also available digitally 19 Innovation editMONU s blend of radical passion and expert design has made the magazine itself the focus of several international exhibitions including in Los Angeles Madrid and Tokyo 20 In summer 2007 MONU was part of an open workspace at the documenta 12 one of the world s most important exhibitions of modern and contemporary art MONU was invited as part of the documenta s magazines project 5 MONU is considered to have brought back a new critical edge to the architectural and urban discourse at the beginning of the new millennium 21 and has inspired many others to found similar magazines particularly between 2005 and 2009 22 Many of those new magazines were featured together with MONU in the so called Archizines Exhibition in London in November 2011 23 Features editWith every new issue MONU uses the method of call for submissions or call for papers CFP for collecting contributions 24 This device of call for submissions has been based on the realization that the view of one person is limited MONU wanted to open the magazine to different and changing perspectives and to focus on diversity as the core value of the magazine In that sense the magazine aims to be open sourced to its core collecting and deploying a wide variety of articles images concepts and urban critiques from designers and thinkers from all over the world recognizing that the traditional journal no longer connects to today s informed audience 25 MONU s method of the call for submissions and its focus on diverse backgrounds and viewpoints from international contributors has found many followers in newer architectural publications that were established after 2005 26 MONU claims to have introduced the device of open calls as a tool to finding contributors to architectural and urban magazines especially in Europe 27 Every issue features texts topic focused interviews research critical analysis photography conceptual artwork and infographics on a defined topic 28 Contributors editPast contributors to MONU include 7 Center for Urban Pedagogy CUP Reinier de Graaf 2004 MONU 1 Paid Urbanism Thomas Sieverts 2005 MONU 2 Middle Class Urbanism Joost Meuwissen 2005 MONU 3 Political Urbanism Yoshiharu Tsukamoto 2006 MONU 4 Denied Urbanism Loic Wacquant Eyal Weizman 2006 MONU 5 Brutal Urbanism Supersudaca 2007 MONU 6 Beautiful Urbanism Floris Alkemade 2007 MONU 7 2nd Rate Urbanism Joep van Lieshout Teddy Cruz 2008 MONU 8 Border Urbanism Owen Hatherley Shumon Basar 2008 MONU 9 Exotic Urbanism NL Architects Kees Christiaanse 2009 MONU 10 Holy Urbanism Gerd Hauser Office for Metropolitan Architecture 2009 MONU 11 Clean Urbanism Bjarke Ingels MVRDV 2010 MONU 12 Real Urbanism Hans Frei 2010 MONU 13 Most Valuable Urbanism Rem Koolhaas Adolfo Natalini Beatriz Ramo 2011 MONU 14 Editing Urbanism Wouter Vanstiphout Thomas Ruff 2011 MONU 15 Post Ideological Urbanism Edward W Soja Mike Crang Stephen Graham 2012 MONU 16 Non Urbanism Joel Garreau Saskia Sassen Kunle Adeyemi 2012 MONU 17 Next Urbanism Rainer Langhans Atelier 5 Richard Sennett 2013 MONU 18 Communal Urbanism Antoine Grumbach Rogers Stirk Harbour Partners Office for Metropolitan Architecture 2013 MONU 19 Greater Urbanism Bernardo Secchi Edward Burtynsky Bart Lootsma 2014 MONU 20 Geographical Urbanism Winy Maas Candida Hofer Petra Blaisse 2014 MONU 21 Interior Urbanism Jean Louis Missika Bernd Upmeyer Ulf Hannerz 2015 MONU 22 Transnational Urbanism Jeremy Till Damon Rich Marina Abramovic 2015 MONU 23 Participatory Urbanism Andres Jaque Casco Herman Hertzberger 2016 MONU 24 Domestic Urbanism Kai Vockler Arnis Balcus Bart Lootsma 2016 MONU 25 Independent Urbanism Lars Lerup Bureau of Architecture Research and Design Roger Keil Floris Alkemade Keller Easterling Michael Wolf Mark Power 2017 MONU 26 Decentralised Urbanism Stephan Petermann Levi Bryant Nicholas de Monchaux Marco Casagrande 2017 MONU 27 Small Urbanism STAR strategies architecture Alejandro Zaera Polo Beatriz Ramo Stefan Paeleman 2018 MONU 28 Client shaped Urbanism Cassim Shepard Pierre Huyghe Cruz Garcia Kathrin Golda Pongratz Carolyn Drake Inge Goudsmit 2018 MONU 29 Narrative Urbanism Deane Simpson Peter Granser Frits van Dongen Chris Phillipson Junya Ishigami Matthias Hollwich 2019 MONU 30 Late Life Urbanism Karla Rothstein Miguel Candela Christopher Coutts Julie Rugg Katrina Spade Cameron Jamie 2019 MONU 31 After Life Urbanism Jorn Walter Richard Florida Anne Mie Depuydt David Schalliol Will Hartley DK Osseo Asare 2020 MONU 32 Affordable Urbanism Beatriz Colomina Jessica Bridger Peter Dench Richard Sennett Alexander Jachnow Nadia Shira Cohen 2020 MONU 33 Pandemic Urbanism Mabel O Wilson Jeffrey Hou Ben Parry Rafal Milach Ulrich Lebeuf Hans Pruijt Bing Guan 2021 MONU 34 Protest Urbanism Mark Wigley Anya Sirota Riccardo Dalisi Isabelle Pateer MONU s Academic Research Studio MARS Peter Behrens School of Arts Arno Brandlhuber Olaf Grawert 2022 MONU 35 Unfinished Urbanism Mark Gottdiener Sharon Zukin Richard Plunz Tatjana Schneider Bharat Sikka Izaskun Chinchilla 2023 MONU 36 New Social Urbanism References edit MONU Circulation Retrieved on 4 June 2012 https aboland nl en bladen kennis en wetenschap kunst monu Annual magazine Retrieved on 24 October 2023 MONU Locations Retrieved on 8 November 2011 Maps City of Rotterdam Retrieved 8 November 2011 a b c d e f g MONU About Retrieved on 9 November 2011 Collective intelligence Retrieved 9 November 2011 a b c d MONU Issues Retrieved on 5 December 2011 MONU was founded Retrieved on 11 April 2013 Title as acronym Retrieved on 11 April 2013 Architecture as a part of a wider field Retrieved on 5 December 2011 Paid Urbanism Retrieved on 5 December 2011 Noun next to the word Urbanism Retrieved on 5 December 2011 Since its first issue Retrieved on 5 November 2012 Underground magazine Retrieved on 9 November 2011 Independent architecture magazine Retrieved on 25 August 2011 Annual magazine Retrieved on 25 October 2023 MONU Circulation Retrieved on 9 November 2011 Independent publication Retrieved on 7 December 2011 Digital edition of MONU Retrieved on 25 March 2022 Radical passion Retrieved on 7 December 2011 Critical edge Retrieved on 5 December 2011 Inspired many others Retrieved on 1 August 2012 Archizines Exhibition Retrieved on 22 December 2011 MONU Call for submissions Retrieved on 7 December 2011 Open sourced Retrieved on 2 January 2012 Newer architectural publications Retrieved on 22 December 2011 Introduced the device of open calls Retrieved on 1 August 2012 Every issue features Retrieved on 5 December 2011 External links editOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title MONU magazine amp oldid 1182649169, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, 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