Special issue # 04 is part of the Post-it City project.

In order to offer a local interpretation of the subject of temporality Block published a call for entries with the question “What is your temporary city?” From among various materials and responses that landed on our desk, Block developed its editorial/curatorial approach.

The issue can be read in a variety of ways. Different layers are folded into the space of the magazine and accompany the experience of reading and wandering within it. Each four pages of text fold four other pages within them, adding up to one poster (Post(er)-it). The 27 posters open up to a temporary space that changes its three-dimensionality and is reconstructed through the very act of folding and opening.

The Block lexicon in the issue appears as the Post-it project. By turning to artists, architects and writers with the question “What is your temporary city?” we sought to illuminate the impressions of the temporary gesture in a personal light. This layer threads itself into the issue, yielding readings and exciting discovery.

In this issue we propose to dwell within the temporary, to give it space to unravel the patchwork from which it is made. This is a dwelling time that is at once a time of being-in-place and of being-in-thought. Temporality, as the articles and posters in this issue show, generates active and non-linear events in the leeway between place and thought. The temporary city is deciphered through four categories of space and duration of action: Between Two Cities, Memory Domain, Traces of Terror, and Bodies Cities.