About the Journal
UOUsj is an international scientific journal published by UNIVERSITY of Universities. It was born in 2021 as an international collaboration of schools of architecture, sharing their intercultural interests.
Every issue concentrates on a specific theme suggested by one of the universities involved in this research project. Themes encourage a focus on pedagogy in architecture and are announced through a call made at least six months in advance of publication.
The journal is biannual (June and December), double-blind peer reviewed, digital, open access, and indexed. It publishes original articles in English, accompanied by abstracts in the authors' mother tongues.
Current Issue

Guest Editors:
Marco Bovati / Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Anna Moro / Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Daniele Villa / Politecnico di Milano, Italy
This UOU issue, a sort of derived, expanded and deepened elaboration of EURAU Milano 2024, reaffirmed the importance of 'togetherness’, the co-presence of bodies in space as both a social value and a tool for rethinking spatial practices in an age of crises and transition.
Collectively, the articles highlight how the relationship between space and the body is not a peripheral concern but a fundamental condition for understanding, designing, and transforming contemporary environments (Pasqui, 2018). They show how spatial practices and theories, when attentive to embodied experience, can engage with a wide range of contemporary challenges - from political to ecological, from the situated to the digital - revealing new, urgently needed trajectories for design research and practice.