Design and Culture

期刊简介：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.

【译文】设计与文化反映了设计领域的学术状况，并培育了新的或被忽视的探究线索，重新定义了我们对设计的理解。编辑们邀请设计学者和从业者批判性地思考社会正义、排斥和特权，并将该杂志想象成一个论坛，可以在权力差异的社区、地理距离和学科鸿沟之间促进丰富和挑衅性的对话。我们强烈鼓励提交经过严格研究的论文，展示设计如何深入参与社会政治和文化问题，我们鼓励提交关于设计范围的论文，广泛定义，在以紧缩、贫困或禁运为标志的地区，维护和修复的论文，以及社会再生产领域中设计的隐形劳动的论文。我们也欢迎来自附属领域的学术研究——尽管可能不直接与设计话语认同——通过本土认识论、权力交叉分析和科学技术研究等来研究物质文化、实践和人工的科学/地位。随着设计日益扩展其非物质、概念和战略形式，我们将设计与文化设想为一个平台，来自各个领域的学者和从业者可以在这里质疑设计实践、研究和话语的壁垒。除了学术论文和评论之外，我们还鼓励提交访谈、圆桌对话以及教学法和实践的陈述。