VORKURS: interstice engages in conversation with the invisible, the barely there, the imperceptible. It is an outlet for investigating the intervening space that carries the potential for reflection, reevaluation, and transformation.

Following a decade of discourse within VORKURS, irresistible change challenges the boundaries between historical foundations and evolving architectural methodologies. We are now embarking upon a trajectory toward this indeterminate place in time, practice, and pedagogy where questions are more common than answers. It feels only natural to seek for a string, however thin it may be, from which to belay our consciousness between the stitches of time. Derived from the Latin ‘interstitium,’ the space between systems and spaces, interstice investigates the uncharted and textured gaps, the in-betweens, that exist as silent agents of transition and development.

“The multiple withnesses of this world complicate (and literally im-plicate) the “in” of the basic relation of within that is the very basis of the in-between. If the “in” takes us ever more deeply into this world–a world with us as much as we are with it–the “with” ramifies out into the world of things, animals, and other persons: a world that is at once instrumental and perceptual, actional and historical, social and linguistic.” 1

VORKURS: interstice, marked by the X, presents writing and thought in various forms of dialogue—a result of the intertwining of voices from the ten women who have served as Executive Editor of all past volumes, and the voices of our Contributors. The interstitial play is not intended to prompt agreement or disagreement, but to initiate a clear discourse and critical analysis of the liminal edges within generally accepted ideas of practice, making, and design.

X, the tenth, is the point of crossing upon two rays, destined to meet one another at a momentary intersection. X, defines the image of two axes passing, in perpetual movement, toward the indeterminate. X, is the space between the known, the yet to know, and the threshold of dissonance.

We hope that you join our discussion in the following pages and share in our avidity for the interstice.

- Lyndsey Weisman

Executive Editor

1 Casey, Edward S. “Edges and the In-Between.” PhaenEx 3, no. 2 (2008): 5. https://doi. org/10.22329/p.v3i2.643

WHAT'S INSIDE:

TITLE

AUTHOR

INQUIRIES OF THE INTERSTITIAL

CHARLIE HAILEY, ROBERT MCCARTER, NICHOLE MIEDEMANN, AND LYNDSEY WEISMAN

DESIGNING BACKWARDS

MOLLY BENNETT AND MARK I. WILSON

FLUID VIRGILS

TANJA ENGELBERTS AND MARLA STEPHENS

A FLOWER IN SAN SERVOLO

MARIO CUCINELLA ARCHITECTS

QUESTIONING THE SEPARATIX

MARC NEVEU AND ELIZABETH CRONIN

POWERLINES

ROBERT MACLEOD AND BREANNA MCGRATH

INTERLUDES, BETWEEN A DOOR AND A STAIR

NANCY SANDERS AND AMANDA HERRING