in_bo is an open-access online journal, founded in 2008 and based in Bologna, Italy. It publishes yearly issues on architectural design, architectural history and urban studies, with a specific attention to the teaching of architecture and the intersections between architecture, culture, and society. Double blind peer-reviewed research papers can be in Italian or English. Since 2016, in_bo is rated as a "classe A" journal by ANVUR (Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes). In 2019 in_bo was accepted in Elsevier's Scopus. in_bo is owned by the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna. The journal is managed in partnership with the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna, Centro Studi Cherubino Ghirardacci (Bologna) and Fondazione Flaminia (Ravenna).

Through an open call, in_bo invites authors to submit full papers on topics that characterize the journal’s lines of research. The open call is open year-round. Papers are first evaluated by the editorial board and then reviewed according to a double-blind peer review process. in_bo focuses on the past and present forms of architecture and the city. The editorial board is interested in receiving proposals on the following research topics: didactics of architecture, design theory, the relationship between the sacred and the built space, and the history and transformations of architecture, the city and the landscape, without chronological or geographical limits.

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Ricerca e territorio: aperta la call for abstract sulla rigenerazione a base culturale

2026-06-29

Fino al 31 agosto 2026 è possibile candidare un abstract per il seminario del 29 ottobre a Parma e per il numero monografico dedicato della rivista scientifica in_bo. Una call rivolta a ricercatori e practitioners che lavorano sull'incontro tra mondo della ricerca, istituzioni e territori.

 

Il testo della call è disponibile qui.

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Vol. 17 No. 21 (2026): Public Heritage in Transformation
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Edited by Francesca Cremasco (Independent researcher, Italy), Silvano Arcamone (State Property Agency, Director of Sicily region, Italy)

Public Heritage in Transformation inaugurates a three-volume series dedicated to the transformation of public heritage in the contemporary city. Through theoretical contributions, research and design projects, this first volume lays the foundations for a critical atlas that interprets disused public heritage not as remnant of the past, but as a reservoir of possibilities for the future. Industrial sites, military facilities, housing, cultural assets and landscapes of reuse outline an interdisciplinary geography in which design, conservation, urban policies, economics and practices of regeneration interact to redefine the relationship between heritage, public space and the city. Rather than a collection of case studies, the volume proposes an interpretative framework based on the availability of space as a category  for understanding contemporary transformations of public heritage, while introducing the themes that will be further explored in the following two volumes.

Published: 2026-08-05

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