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| Footprint is a peer-reviewed architecture and theory academic journal

Footprint 34, ‘Narrating Shared Futures’, is dedicated to a transdisciplinary encounter between literature and cultural heritage. Namely, in this issue, we seek to understand how literature can help us unpack complex meanings of places of heritage, and use this knowledge to imagine, design, and produce tolerant and inclusive architectures. We focus our discussion around the three notions that appear in the title of the issue – ‘narrating’, ‘shared’ and ‘futures’ – investigating how both heritage architecture and literature can offer valuable lessons for imagining better and more inclusive future worlds. Each of the articles featured in this volume contributes to the proposed framing with powerful and global case studies. Put together, they present new ways in which the past, present, and future are constantly being made in-the-now through both literary and design techniques.

Footprint is a peer-reviewed journal presenting academic research in the field of architecture theory. The journal encourages the study of architecture and the urban environment as a means of comprehending culture and society, and as a tool for relating them to shifting ideological doctrines and philosophical ideas. The journal promotes the creation and development – or revision – of conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry. The journal is engaged in creating a body of critical and reflexive texts with a breadth and depth of thought which would enrich the architecture discipline and produce new knowledge, conceptual methodologies and original understandings. Footprint is grateful to our peer reviewers, who generously offered their time and expertise. In this issue, the following papers were peer-reviewed: ‘Urban Lifewor(l)ds: Footsteps, Futures, and Narrative Repair’, ‘The Destruction of Architecture: German Cities in Literature during and after World War II’, ‘Library of Stone: Cemeteries, Storytelling, and the Preservation of Urban Infrastructures of Death and Mourning’, ‘Living Walls: Octavia E. Butler and Xenoarchitecture as an Interspecies Mediator’, and ‘Garden Travelogues: Narrating the Past and Re-sharing the Future of the Nicosian Garden’.