Editor-at-large, Urban Omnibus Urban Omnibus (UO), The Architectural League's online publication dedicated to observing, understanding, and shaping the city, seeks to expand our reach with the addition of two editors-at-large to our small editorial team. The editors-at-large research, commission, and develop features. We seek original and fresh perspectives, rigorously researched or reported and accessibly and engagingly written, on topics at the intersection of the production of NYC's built environment and everyday social life that are not receiving sustained attention elsewhere. The editors-at-large will be urbanists with a strong commitment to written and visual narrative. They will be attentive to and curious about important issues and projects in the city that connect to broader trends in the design and politics of the built environment, and eager to seek out talented individuals to tell those stories. Though we are flexible in our approach, we imagine that the addition of two distinct profiles will form an ideal enhancement to the UO team: 1. Focused on New York City communities and looking beyond well-trod paths, one editor will keep an eye on plans, projects, and places illuminating long term issues and contemporary concerns in the city's built environment. They will research and assign stories as well as conduct interviews for publication. This editor may come from the worlds of journalism or documentary practice. 2. With attention to a range of ongoing research projects and publications, another editor will focus on the historical and contemporary analysis of New York's built environment: an expanded field of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and infrastructure. They will identify compelling work, research projects, collaborations, and editorial commissions, as well as writers, designers and other contributors to execute them. This editor might come from a background in design research or academia, with a strong commitment to public scholarsh…
@urbanomnibus.bsky.social is seeking two part-time editors at large to commission and develop features on NYC’s urban environment — the “expanded field” of architecture + planning!
(They’re great partners; I edited this collection with them a few years ago! urbanomnibus.net/series/digit...)
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