makeshift

Makeshift is an experimental fanzine about architecture and its alternatives. Where current architectural journalism continues to celebrate the built, the photogenic, the 'well-detailed'- with successful professionals writing wry critiques on a minority of 'nice Buildings', Makeshift is an attempt to go where architecture is not yet; to bring together a wealth of IDEAS that are currently disconnected by professional categorisations, geography, or un-fame.

Makeshift is for all those people who are still interested in the design of the world between 5 O'clock in the evening and 9am the following day. It is open to all, It is available to all, but it is not without purpose. Observing global change and understanding that a rethink is badly due, at the root of Makeshift is the question: What might architecture do?

Makeshift is a fanzine with 3 differences:

1. Where most magazines are distributed by retail, Makeshift is auto-distributed: A physical, consumable, abusable object, published by its readers with the help of their A4 printer.*
2. Where most magazines are written by those who have already achieved some form of success and reputation in the field, Makeshift is user-generated. Its content is the work of anyone who has something to say / do / think, and may have less vested loyalty to the status-quo.
3. Where most magazines are published regularly, Makeshift is self-pacing; unpredictable. New articles, projects, discussions, images, ideas are added as they come, and the printer simply samples the 'current' content. It may not change for a month, or it may change so fast that no two 'copies' are the same.