Design and Culture reflects the state of scholarship in the field of design and nurtures new or overlooked lines of inquiry that redefine our understanding of design. The editors invite design scholars and practitioners to think critically about social justice, exclusion, and privilege, and imagine the journal as a forum that can foster rich and provocative conversations across power-differentiated communities, geographic distance, and disciplinary divides.
We strongly encourage the submission of rigorously researched papers that show how design is deeply engaged with socio-political and cultural issues, and we encourage submissions about the scope of design, broadly defined, in regions marked by conditions of austerity, poverty, or under embargo, papers of maintenance and repair, and works on the invisible labor of design in domains of social reproduction. We also welcome scholarship from affiliated fields that - although perhaps not identifying directly with design discourse - investigate material culture, practices, and the science/status of the artificial through lenses of indigenous epistemologies, intersectional analyses of power and science and technology studies, among others.
As design increasingly extends its immaterial, conceptual, and strategic forms, we envisage Design and Culture as a platform where scholars and practitioners from a range of fields can question the ramparts of design practice, research, and discourse. Besides scholarly papers and reviews, we also encourage the submission of interviews, round table conversations, and statements of pedagogy and practice.
Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.
Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.
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