Desired Landscapes – A Magazine Reading into Cities, is a pocket-sized collection of person-to-place bonds, urban observations and poetic snapshots, seen through the eyes of people who write the stories of today’s cities.
Every issue could be seen as a city guide which reflects upon the representations of the urban experience. A collection of postcards depicting distant theres unvisited or perhaps unforgettable; of projections of possible homes, streets yet to be discovered and urban clichés to be demystified.
In this issue, the image is removed. This is the issue of being present.
We walk in cities with no postcards, only to collect postcards from home. We close our eyes to move our bodies through dense tourism and rising floods. We drive through the past, holding on to occult rituals to stay rooted. We taste the city on the go, misled by its disguised façades and concealed staircases. We bring home wild plants, only to forget them, and choose to live beside volcanoes despite the risk. We switch off the lights to walk under the stars, and to hear the echoes of suppressed rivers. In this issue, we sense all kinds of flows.
This is the issue of cities as energies.
Issue 08 will take you to TIRANA – ATHENS – MUSCAT – LISBON – BENIDORM – MADRID – NEW YORK CITY – NAPLES – ISTANBUL – VALLETTA – PARIS – OAXACA – YEREVAN, with a city guide on VENICE.
Cities of texture
by Konstantinos Pittas
City Without a Postcard
by Mariana Kostandini
Point Supreme
Interviewed by Natassa Pappa, Athens
Discordant Currents
by Katerina Zachou, Venice
Nostalgia Reimagined
by Corina Lozovan, Muscat
Wild and Ever-Rewilding
by Ruby Conway, Lisbon
A Story of a Staircase
by Laura DeL Pino, Benidorm
People’s Trust
by Michael Vahrenwald, New York City
The Volcanic Reign
by Katia Naouri, Naples
Occult Topographies
by Ermina Apostolaki, Istanbul
Interconnections
by Nectarios Stamatopoulos, Valetta
Cities of Lights
by Nitin Bathla, Paris
Echoes of Ilissos River
Leonidas Oikonomou interviewed by Natassa Pappa, Athens
Gridlines and Food Stalls
by Mark Bessoudo, Oaxaca
Emigrant Formations
by Miguel Núñez, Yerevan
Dimensions: L 16 x 10.5 cm | 208 pages | printed in Greece
