Manifest #3: Bigger than Big is available for pre-order!

“Spatial immensity beggars designation.” - John Stilgoe

What does it mean to grapple with the immensity of the continent itself? For our third issue, we aim to highlight propositions that have taken seriously the “bigger than big”—design and representational experiments aimed at narrating, framing, or enacting the American continent and the forms and ideas which it animates.

With contributions by Ana María León, Neeraj Bhatia, Other Fields, Enrique Ramirez, Jennifer Bonner, Shane Reiner-Roth, Kathleen L. John-Alder, John Dean Davis, Lydia Xynogala, Peter Waldman, Jill Desimini, Spencer Bailey, Mariana Siracusa, Richard Sommer, Ila Berman, Frederick R. Steiner, Sara Stevens, Felipe Correa, Charles Waldheim, Elizabeth Meyer, Nader Tehrani, Aaron Betsky, Kristi Cheramie, Antoine Predock, Evangelos Kotsioris, Rutger Huiberts, Aleksandr Bierig, David Nunes Solomon, Glenn Forley, Matthew Seibert, and David Gissen, and a special addendum with contributions by Swati Chattopadhyay, Elgin Cleckley, Stephen Mueller, Elisa Silva, Sharif Kahatt, Ana María Duran Calisto, Alonso Díaz Rickards, Christine Macy, Liang Wang, Elizabeth Timme, Marshall Brown, Heather Houser, Assaf Evron, Eli Cook, and Hsuan Hsu.