This movement aims to "celebrate(s) and promote(s) the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world.
"[4] The magazine, started in 2011, is based in Chicago, Illinois and published by the design practice Could Be Architecture.
In 2013, the magazine pursued a Kickstarter campaign in order to fund production.
There the team cited its mission as: "SOILED aims to push the potential of the printed page and reconnect with the materials and landscape from which its content originates.
To date, the magazine has published seven issues — Groundscrapers, Skinscrapers, Platescrapers, Windowscrapers, Cloudscrapers, Deathscrapers, and Animatescrapers.