The writer Gonçalo M. Tavares and the artist-architect collective ‘Os Espacialistas’ [The Spacialists] devote themselves to the pursuit of utopian architectures. They put forward the concept of ‘human machines’, which do not work by necessity or routine but rather by the imagination of the body. This notion, which is distinctly present in the work of both, will be presented in the next two issues of Electra. With this work and this form of publication, we are inaugurating a new section in the magazine – ‘Serial’ – with which we return to the old editorial tradition of securing the readers’ loyalty with the thread of a story told over successive instalments.