Watad Magazine #5 Transient

The modern world remains highly suspicious of wanderers—yet, paradoxically, upholds the systems and policies that make it inevitable. Transient began with a question of the meaning intrinsic in our spatial existence. What is the nature of human settlement, or what structures do we erect that become deterministic at very basic levels of interaction. Through an examination of temporary dwellings and restrictive barriers a picture forms of the intense interconnectedness of movement and the built environment—as well as the prejudice that specific norms of habitation/movement engender.

CONTENT:
Hyped | Black Locusts and Morocco’s Security | Periodic Occupancy | A Monumental Presence | Obscured Dwelling | Contemporary Nomads: Temporary City | A Conversation With Rem Koolhaas | Lighter Than Architecture | Numen/For Use: STRING PROTOTYPE+TAPE | Memory Cloud | Shatila: An Artifact Of Exile | Bekaa Camp: Displacement And Redemption | Rooted Impressions | Occupy Gezi | Roma Architecture: A Continuous Surprise | Tin Can Resonance | Red Road | Indo-Bangladeshi Border Fence

CONTRIBUTORS:
Ahmad Malki | Aziza Osman | Chris Leslie | Computer Blue | David Fedele | Fady Haddad | Faysal Tabbarah | Ghalia Abbas | Hannah Finchan | Haya Design Studio | Herkes Icin Mimarlik | Ieva Saudargaite | Marija Radosavljevic | Michael Dosier | Milica Mesterovic | Minimaforms | Moza Al Matrooshi | Nahrain Al Mousawi | Numen/For Use | Rahel Aima | Rand Abdul Jabbar | Ryan Szanyi | Shib Shankar Chatterjee | Stephen Spyropoulos | Theodore Spyropoulos | Tijana Dusej | Tyson Hosmer