CALIPER JOURNAL: PERMISSION 10

Caliper is an independent architecture journal based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. First published in 2017, it was born out of a desire to have a messier and more meaningful discussion about architecture and its place in the world.

There have been 10 issues published to date: Agency, Identity, Power, Sample, Collapse, Love, Shift and Time, Faith, Permission.

Issue 10: Permission

For this issue of Caliper, we grant you Permission. To redirect your focus towards creating and pondering what is dear to you. We ask that instead of glancing over alarming news headlines, it is time to retire to your own unique panic room. 

This is Permission to remove the filter of adult responsibility and look at the world how you did as a child. When even the mud in the ground could be made into a cake. When humans could be drawn with five arms and no hands. When a swing felt like you were flying in the sky. When you could focus. When you could base your world purely on imagination rather than bleakness breaking through the media machine.


Here, Permission is to escape.

Creation is an act of defiance.

To create what you always wanted but thought was too absurd or irrational. To find comfort in the uncomfortable.
To comment on the state of the world with a satiric grin. To express your frustration through creation.

CALIPER 10 offers: 
Permission not to accept defeat.
Permission to rebut the real.
Permission to revolt against what you are told you can’t do.
Permission to be someone else.
Permission to wear imagination on your sleeve.
Permission to reclaim the territory of your mind.
Permission to step into one of the only places they can’t touch you.

Caliper 10 invites nostalgia for a time when it was acceptable to not have an opinion.
This issue we invite you to reclaim your imagination.

To view the world as you once did.