Colophon of a sort
Est. 2024
About
Kanal is an independent magazine about cities: who builds them, who maintains them and who gets to stay. Every issue takes one theme and follows it from the planning office to the stairwell.
- Founded
- 2024, Rotterdam
- Frequency
- Four issues a year
- Print run
- 4,000 copies
- Paper
- Munken Print White, 115 g
- Stocked in
- 62 shops in 9 countries
Pitch us
We commission reporting, essays, interviews and photo stories. Send a short pitch (under 300 words) and two clips to redactie@kanal.example. We pay on acceptance and reply to everyone, eventually.
Stockists & trade
Bookshops and libraries can order at trade price from five copies. Write to us with your shop name and city.
Contributors
10 people
01
Mira Okonkwo-Visser
Senior editorRotterdam
Writes about housing, repair and the politics of maintenance. Trained as a structural engineer before she switched to sentences.
02
Joost van der Kolk
Contributing writerUtrecht
Urban climatologist and walker. Carries a thermometer to every interview.
03
Ana Lúcia Ferraz
Contributing writerLisbon
Policy reporter covering building regulation across Europe. Reads planning law for fun, mostly.
04
Sem de Ridder
PhotographerRotterdam
Shoots cities on black-and-white film, slowly. His long project follows one tower block for ten years.
05
Hanna Brekke
Interviews editorOslo
Talks to people who live in buildings other people write about.
06
Tariq El Amrani
ColumnistRotterdam
Former concrete mixer driver, now a columnist. Still knows every plant in the port by smell.
07
Lieke Jansen
Editor-in-chiefRotterdam
Founded Kanal in 2024 after a decade at architecture magazines that kept getting thinner.
08
Yusuf Demir
Contributing writerAmsterdam
Transport planner turned essayist. Has opinions about bus stops.
09
Clara Hoang
Contributing writerAntwerp
Architect and critic writing about small spaces and the people who make them work.
10
Pieter Osei
Contributing writerRotterdam
Water engineer, delta historian and a reluctant sailor.