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Scroope 34: Contact

Where things meet, tensions surface, edges fray, and new forms of relation take hold. Contact is never neutral—it can be frictional, transformative, violent, fleeting, or refused. Rather than treating contact as mere proximity, this issue of Scroope examines how encounters unfold across spatial, material, temporal, and digital dimensions, shaping the built and lived environment in ways that exceed the immediate moment of meeting. Rather than enforcing a single definition of contact, we developed themes that emphasize how contact operates relationally—as a force that mediates power, materiality, history, and technology. By bringing together voices from different disciplines and perspectives, this issue seeks to expand how we think about contact as an ongoing negotiation of space, memory, materiality, and refusal.
 

Editors in Chief: Kelsey Yi Wing Yuen, Lingchen Kong, Arantxa Figueroa, Ümmiye Şeyda Mutlu

Editors: Chenxi Aurora Wang, Chuheng Tan, Fathimath Ema Ziya, Joelle Deeb, Nicholas Forrest Frayne, Riyazul Samad Binmohammad, Tallulah Bannerman, Teia Kilian, Uzayr Agha, Yen Shan Thin 

Language consultant: Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd

Designer: Arantxa Figueroa

Design consultants: Daniela Meneses, Rafael Shimabukuro

Cover : Lingchen Kong

Foreword: Professor Flora Samuel

Authors: Alice Hayes , Ciara Bolton, Diana Smiljković , Emily Priest, Gemrisha Anantham, Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen, Kate Carter, Shengzhe Qu, Saamia Makharia, Sarah Vowden, Valeriia Chemerisova , Zikry Nasrullah

Guest Writer: Albert Brenchat Aguilar  ,Jessie Fyfe, Tim Waterman 

Commentators: Charlotte Al Khalili, Hélène Frichot, Jane Rendell, John Boughton, Noura Wahby, Paul Watt