SPACE FOR FREE
The zine is published bimonthly and provides a forum for the study of spaces that are accessible to anyone, for any use, for free. Each issue is devoted to the documentation of one space through drawing, photography, contextual analysis, and a micro-essay. SPACE FOR FREE doesn’t differentiate between anonymous and authored architecture; spaces documented in the zine can be any scale, and might be temporary, ad-hoc, self-built, or formal, “designed” places. The zine presents architecture as populist and inclusive, and spaces are published in an investigatory spirit, to be looked at and studied further, with the ultimate hope that SPACES FOR FREE, for everyone and everything, will proliferate worldwide. Spaces are selected for publication through an open call, and zines are available at bookstores in Canada, the US, and New Zealand.
For issues 1 through 6, the spaces published were all chosen from Toronto, Canada, where the poster zine originated. Issues 7 through 12 publish spaces submitted through an open call, revealing free spaces found all over the world!
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Issues 13 through 24 will publish spaces submitted through this open call; we hope to continue showcasing free spaces worldwide!
The poster-zine is a double-sided 11×17” risograph print. The SPACE FOR FREE team with Stahl-R and Vide Press manages preparation, printing, and distribution. A small print run of 50 copies is produced for each issue, and authors will receive 3 copies. The poster-zine is available at Printed Matter (New York, NY), The Graham Foundation Bookstore (Chicago, IL), TYPE Books (Toronto, ON), the Canadian Centre for Architecture Bookstore (Montreal, QC), and Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH).
SPACE FOR FREE has presented course lectures at Cornell’s College of Architecture, Art, and Planning (Ithaca, NY) and the Ohio State University’s Knowlton School (Columbus, OH). In May 2025, SPACE FOR FREE participated in the Center for Co-Architecture Kyoto Archizines Fair (Kyoto, JP). The entire collection is catalogued in the Rare Book Collection at the Frances Loeb Library at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design (Cambridge, MA). In September 2025, it exhibited at the Frances Loeb Library’s Archives Party 21 & 22: GSD Student Publications. As part of the research and event, Critique without a fight, the zine was showcased at the Università Iuav di Venezia in November 2025, in the Architectural Editorial Cartographies in the World 2015-2025 exhibition (Venezia, IT).
We look forward to your submissions!
Stephanie, Eira, and Roxana
TEAM
Stephanie Davidson founded SPACE FOR FREE in 2023 with a group of Toronto students. Davidson works with Georg Rafailidis as DAVIDSON RAFAILIDIS.
Eira Roberts is a coeditor of SPACE FOR FREE. She holds a bachelor’s degree in interior design and is a master’s degree candidate in architecture at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
Roxana Cordon-Ibanez works at the Royal Ontario Museum and the Gardiner Museum. She holds a Bachelor’s of Interior Design from Toronto Metropolitan University.
Quentin Mitchell is the owner and operator of Vide Press, an independent risograph printing studio in Toronto, Canada, founded in 2016. Vide Press is the printer for SPACE FOR FREE.
Tobias Röttger and Susanne Stahl are graphic designers and cofounders of Stahl R (Berlin). Stahl R, together with Kathrin Baumgartner, are the graphic designers of the SPACE FOR FREE poster-zine.
