ENCOUNTERING ECHOES: ECHOING ENCOUNTER

Following Rolf Hughes’ notion of exposition (2015) as the act of creating a field of encounter, this inaugural issue reframes exposition as a space of echoing—a resonance between the seen and unseen, the said and unsaid. To encounter is to come up against what resists assimilation—an idea, a material, a history, a theory, or another being. To echo is to let that encounter reverberate and transform. Between encountering and echoing lies an ethics of care, speculation, and reciprocity—a willingness to stay with what is incomplete, uncertain, or even misread.

In line with the Arts of the contact zone (Pratt 1991), encounters are never neutral; they unfold in zones of tension, translation, and transformation. Similarly, Studio Note treats encounter and echo as creative and critical forces that shape our practices, pedagogies, and therefore our identities.

We invite contributions that explore encountering and echoing as speculative and performative acts of research.

Studio Note Journal Nº 1

Editors-in-Chief | Alphabetic Order:

Niloofar Amini
Gareth Jones
Jorge Valdovinos
Laura Yuile

Associate Editors | Alphabetic Order:

Eman AlHabashneh
Francesca Brunetti
Ruehl Muller
Mohammed Ali Sharieff
Raynal Somiah
Yvan Tina
Zihong Yue

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Published by:
University for the Creative Arts | ICI

Publication location:
Farnham, Surrey, UK
Xiamen, Fujian Province, China

Online publication date:
Summer 2026

ISSN: 2978-8080 (Print)
E-ISSN: 2978-8099 (Online)

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