Edited by Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster

DMJournal is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to the exploration of practices, histories and material cultures of drawing in architecture and related fields, published by Drawing Matter. The first issue, The Geological Imagination, asks how we might think about this peculiar work of the geologic imagination, this dream of turning into stone, which seems so entangled with intimations of artifice, catastrophe, burial and excavation.

Taken together, we hope that the various deposits in this first issue of Drawing Matter Journal will, in their assorted conjunctions as well as their unconformities, provide rich materials for thinking about the geological imagination in art and architecture and the way it has – not least through questions of scale and time – exerted its own kind of pressure upon conventions of representation in ways that have, and that will continue to, transform them. - Mark Dorrian and Kurt Forster