About this journal

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.

Editors-in-Chief
Barbara Adams,  Parsons School of Design, USA 
Jilly Traganou, Parsons School of Design, USA

Managing Editor
Caroline Dionne, Parsons School of Design, USA

Copyeditor
Laura Wing, USA

Founding Editor
Elizabeth Guffey, State University of New York at Purchase, USA

Associate Editors   
Leslie Atzmon,  Eastern Michigan University, USA
Manuhuia Barcham, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada
Chiara Del Gaudio, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Pinar Kaygan,  Art Academy of Latvia, Latvia
Bess Williamson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Armaghan Ziaee, University of North Texas, USA

Reviews Principal Editor
Maggie Taft, Independent Scholar, USA

Reviews Editors
Lina Hakim, Kingston School of Art, UK
Joshua Korenblat, SUNY, New Paltz, USA
Sabrina Rahman, University of Exeter, UK
Aaris Sherin, St John's University, USA

Social Media Editor
Gavin Luezzi, Independent Scholar, UK

Editorial Advisory Board
Yoko Akama, RMIT, Australia
Samer Akkach, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Erling Björgvinsson, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
David Brody, Parsons School of Design, USA
Alison J. Clarke, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Annette Condello, Curtin University, Australia 
Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, USA; U. del Valle, Cali and U. de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
Kjetil Fallan, University of Oslo, Norway
Lorraine Gamman, University of the Arts London, UK
Michael Golec, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Carma Gorman, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Elizabeth Guffey, State University of New York at Purchase, USA
Victoria Hattam, The New School for Social Research, USA
Juliana Yat Shun Kei, University of Liverpool, UK
Richie Moalosi, University of Botswana, Botswana
Shannon Mattern, The New School, USA
Padmini Ray Murray, Independent Scholar, Design Beku,  India
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga, MIT, USA
Ramia Mazé, Aalto University, Finland
Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego, USA
AbdouMaliq Simone, The University of Sheffield, UK
David Sperling, University of São Paulo, Brazil
 Barbara Szaniecki, ESDI/UERJ, Brazil
Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Sarah Teasley, RMIT, Australia 
Cameron Tonkinwise, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Cristina Voto, University of Turin, Italy

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Emerging Scholars Workshop 2024: Call for Papers