1 February 2026

Call for Papers. VAD 15. The memory

We often “remember” in order to try to recall past events. When we do so, we are forced to “refresh our memory”, to recover what we have “engraved in our memory”; and that is “if our memory does not fail us”, and with a greater chance of success if we “learned it by heart”. At the core of human beings is the awareness of being and having been, and therefore of remembering their life experiences and giving them meaning to guide us in the future (the ‘historical reason’ referred to by Ortega y Gasset). Hence, we can have a ‘record’ (medical, academic, police, digital, etc.) and we are able to produce biographical or historical accounts, depending on whether the focus is more on an individual or a group.

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7 November 2025

VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación shortlisted at the 17th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism

The journal VAD. veredes, arquitectura y divulgación has been selected as a finalist of the 17th Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BEAU) in the category Dissemination and Publications, thanks to issues VAD10. La materia, VAD11. Los archivos, and VAD12. Las fuentes.

At VAD we would like to express our gratitude to the jury for this recognition, which highlights the editorial work and the ongoing commitment to research, critique, and quality in architectural dissemination.

17 July 2025

Call for Papers. VAD 14. The Commons

“They are those little things
Left to us by a time of roses
In a corner
On a piece of paper
Or in a drawer”.

Joan Manuel Serrat ,“Aquellas pequeñas cosas”, 1971

According to the definitions found in various dictionaries, acervos are "collections of moral, cultural, or material assets that belong to a collective" (Espasa), or "(...) accumulated through tradition or inheritance" (RAE). Moliner and Larousse further define acervo as a “pile of small, shared things.” Its derivatives are telling: acerico, a pin cushion, or aceruelo, a kind of saddlebag for carrying small items. These were often collections of consumable goods—lentils and wheat, for example—among the most valued. Over time, the term has come to encompass a broader meaning: the assets, tangible or not, gathered by a community or institution, and generally made available to all its members—or sometimes, to the public.

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