Design & culture

Design and Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum. Members receive the journal as part of their membership package. To join the Forum or to renew your membership, please select the Membership button.

This is the age of design.  Even as recognition of its social, economic and cultural force grows, however, the design field's largely unseen 'edges' are increasingly becoming its driving forces.

Design and Culture examines these developments, looking for rigorous and innovative critical frameworks to explore 'design' as a cultural phenomenon today. As a forum for critique, the journal features a substantial reviews section in each issue. Moreover, in-depth essays analyze contemporary design, as well as its discourse and representations. Covering a field that is increasingly interdisciplinary, Design and Culture probes design's relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture and political economy.

Peer-reviewed, full-color and handsomely designed throughout, Design and Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum.

Comments:

A truly interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed academic design journal that outrivals the excellent national and regional design periodicals! Marjatta Hauska, Librarian and Head of Humanities Section, Stockholm University Library, Sweden

Design and Culture promises to open up disciplinary boundaries and explore the links between creative practices. Such a venture is important to sustain the critical edge of design, lest it lapse into mere marketing. It should be read with great expectations. Kevin Murray, craft writer, Australia

This journal is both welcome and timely - it will facilitate the emerging collaborations between theorists in design and the sociology of consumption. Jack Ingram, Birmingham City University, UK

For so long design has been neglected as an area worthy of serious academic study and cutting edge analysis. At last a journal to fill the void by finally addressing the enormous impact and relevance of design in contemporary culture. Alison Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Call for papers MEI 31: ‘Objects and communication’

Call for papers

MEI 31: ‘Objects and communication’

Edited by Bernard Darras , the MEI review number 31 will be entitled: ‘Objects and Communication’. This issue intends to be an important step in the study of  material culture and its role in communication.

While research on objects is still rare both in semiotics and information and communication science, the central question addressed in this issue primarily concerns the methods of communication of objects and their role in the  relationships with people and machinery. This question assumes that the products of material culture are not passive devices but mediators of beliefs, emotions, representations, habits, agencies and obviously commands, actions  and uses. 

In this context, design as a process for the conception of the products of  material culture is seen as a powerful set of tools for adapting and transforming the world of objects, and is therefore a major player in shaping social and  cultural relationships.
Although this issue will emphasize the semiotic approaches, all research papers  aiming at better understanding the function of communication of the resulting  objects and design are welcome.

Organisation of the publication
1-    The title and abstract (500 words) of your paper in French or English  must be sent by e-mail to [e-mail]
2-    The closing date to receive titles and abstracts is 31st September 2009.
3-    The results of the reading panel will be published on 15th October.
4-    The final papers in French or English must reach the review no later than  15th November in order to be sent to the reading panel.
5-    Feedback from the reading panel will be made available before 30th  November.
6-    The review will be published in French and English in December 2009.

MEI ‘Mediation and Information’

The MEI ‘Mediation and Information’ review which was established in 1993, is an international journal of communication with a reading panel which publishes two  editions of about 200 pages annually.
-    MEI is a scientific review supported by Centre National du Livre (CNL)
-    It is a qualifying review recognized by:
o    the Conseil National des Universités (CNU de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication) (The National Universities Council, Information  science  and Communication)
o    the Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur  AERES. (Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education, AERES).

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