November 18

From yskira.com to ymag.it

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One year ago we launched the first issue of The Skira Yearbook of World Architecture. It was a unique editorial and cultural initiative which, I think, suffered for the unlucky economical and historical moment it was released.
In the same days we timidly started the YSkira blog, to support the Yearbook publication and, at the same time, to create an online tool giving us new opportunities for research, international networking, and critical confrontation with the most active and experimental blogs.

In the following months – and under the pressure of the devastating effects of the economical slump – the paper project was progressively brought to a halt, while the blog gained more and more energy and connections. It was probably the future smartly pushing the past away, but maybe it’s too early to tell.

Anyway, our blog has recently become one-year-old and and it’s been growing together with us. We want it to be an open, transversal, strongly critical and receptive medium, able to short-circuit architecture, design, interior, photography, arts and contemporary critique. Along with its first birthday comes the first little graphical and conceptual restyling, along with a new autonomy.

Today yskira.com becomes ymag.it, a platform with a wider scope and a more radical and critical grasp on architecture and design.

We think these disciplines are going through a difficult period, for what concerns both contents and means, and that most of the research and experimental results we come cross are still waiting for a proper reading. Our society is expressing wishes and formulating questions that these creative fields are hardly able to answer. Maybe we’re living the dawn of a new era we can hardly even perceive. Probably a medium like the blog – with its essential freedom of content and cooperative spirit – is one of the realest and most interesting answers to our times.

Y Magazine is born to be curious, critical, and relentless, and we’d like you to help us make it even more radical and perceptive of the most compelling issues around built environments and living tools. In the future, in order to respect both Yearbook’s original selective attitude and the cosmopolitan and collaborative spirit of the blog medium, we would like to involve our readers more directly – through surveys and polls, for example – and have you share your opinions and projects even more. Let’s find out together what the most challenging projects and ideas in our future are.

In occasion of ymag.it’s launch, I’d like to thank all the people who have cooperated with us (like Ilaria Mazzoleni and Ethel Barona Pohl), contributing with their valuable content and personal research in making yskira.com a sharper tool, plus all the readers and bloggers who have been using our website daily or linked it in their homepages or bookmarks. Thanks are also due to Angelica Di Virgilio and Simona Galateo, and in particular I thank Nicola Bozzi and Milena Sacchi for managing, supervising and coordinating this project since the beginning, with passion and dedication.

Luca Molinari

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