Biannual monographic issues

The main publication format of TRIBELON is the monographic issue, normally published twice a year. Each issue is dedicated to a specific theme and is conceived as a coherent volume, with its own title, introduction, cover image and issue-level metadata.

Each monographic issue is structured into three sections: the Editorial, Scientific Essays and Editorial Features.

Editorial

The Editorial, written by the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, introduces the theme addressed by the Call for Papers, presents the individual contributions and explores issues of broader sociocultural relevance to the journal’s academic community. As an expression of the journal’s editorial leadership, the Editorial is not subject to peer review.

Scientific Essays

As the central core of the journal’s scientific identity, the Scientific Essays section includes a core group of approximately nine contributions selected by the Editorial Board from submissions received from national and international researchers, based on their relevance to the theme of the issue. Essays may be written in any of the journal’s several languages, in order to favour the expressive freedom of researchers. All articles undergo double-blind peer review and are indexed in accordance with the journal’s editorial and scientific standards.

Editorial Features

The Editorial Features section includes contributions reviewed by the Editorial Committee and the journal’s editorial leadership. These features offer further perspectives and opportunities for reflection, enriching the discussion and accompanying the narrative dimension of the themes addressed in the fields of drawing and representation.

• Drawing from the past collects and promotes drawings from archival collections, with particular attention to the drawing archives connected to the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence.
• Drawing from the present presents activities, events, publications, workshops and seminars related to the Department of Architecture of the University of Florence, contributing to a catalogue of scientific production in the field of Drawing.
• Graphical Codes is dedicated to scripts for generative modelling and to the relationships between the forms of descriptive geometry and the specific features of architectural modelling.
• The Interview publishes conversations with distinguished scholars and leading professors whose work has made a significant contribution to the history and development of the sciences of drawing and representation. Each interview is published in written form in the Journal’s issues and is complemented by a video recording made available through the Journal’s web portal. Interviews are normally invited by the Editorial Board, which may also consider proposals submitted through the platform.

Special issues series

The TRIBELON Special Issue Series constitutes an autonomous editorial series developed in collaboration with the journal, extending its research horizons and contributing to the international debate on drawing and representation. Through monographic issues, the series brings together scientific contributions by researchers and scholars engaged in ongoing discussions across the diverse fields of representation.

Distinct from the journal's regular six-monthly publication cycle, the Special Issue Series follows an independent and non-regular schedule and is characterized by a specific graphic identity. Each issue maintains the same standards of academic rigour, editorial accuracy, and indexing adopted by TRIBELON's regular monographic issues. Its editorial structure, however, differs from that of the journal's standard editions, as it does not include the Editorial Features that characterise them.

As a parallel and complementary editorial platform, the Special Issue Series expands the scope of TRIBELON's scientific and cultural engagement, creating opportunities for further dialogue, thematic exploration, and international collaboration.

TRIBELON may publish special issues when a proposal is approved by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board.

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