2025-03-10

In the era of the anthropocene the industrial vision of destruction and renewal has contracted a challenged credibility. Is this industrial vision dead? We ask this question in two issues of Design|Arts|Culture (DAC) to be published ultimo 2026 and primo 2027. We invite contributions scoping:

(1) the archaeology of the ‘industrial quality product’ [keyword: affordances & the global south];

(2) the ‘industrial lens’ as an archaeological tool [keyword: investigative aesthetics & gender];

The contributions from art, architecture, archaeology and anthropology (4A)—in making industrial society modern (Ingold 2013)—articulate the ways the industrial venture has been designed & displayed in public discourse. 4A would here define design in the expanded field (1914-1991).

On the other hand, the industrial venture itself may yet have an untapped potential in the ideas of destruction and renewal that grew, developed and expounded throughout the Romantic era, as laid out & archived in W. Benjamin’s Arcades project (1927-1940): in a period from ~1820-1870.

We call for contributions with a practical and reflective concern scoping the materiality of the product, the concept of the industrial edition and the updates on human living (posthumanism & the anthropocene): are items, manufacture and use looped together in various public parcours?

Or, have they long since fallen apart into fragments of resource extraction, manufacture, logistics, computation and end-usership? Some would find support Benjamin Bratten’s layered theory of the stack. Others would find critically object to layers with e.g. Karen Barad’s new materialism.

Issue Editor:
Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Oslo, Norway

2024-03-11

This is an  open  call  for  papers  for  the  fifth  volume  of Arts |  Culture | Design (ISSN:  2732-6926), which is focused on the topic “Polarities, limits and thresholds” (for more details, please refer to the full text of the announcement).  Vol. 5 is edited by the ESAD College of Arts and Design, Matosinhos, Portugal.

The guest editors invite contributions related to the topic, from a multiplicity of disciplinary and theoretical viewpoints. Articles should range between 4,000 and 8,000 words. We will also include review essays of academic books and/or curated exhibitions (1500-2000 words); and visual essays (1000-3000 words, plus 10-15 images).

Deadline for submissions May 31st, 2024

About the Journal 

The  International  Journal Design | Arts | Culture is  a  digital  open  access  and  peer-reviewed  multi disciplinary journal, published by Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation lab  of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture of the University of West Attica Greece in cooperation  with the:  National University  of Arts Bucharest Romania, ESAD Matosinhos Portugal, University of Nicosia Cyprus. The journal is hosted in the open  access e Publishing platform of the National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT).

All articles, portfolios and reviews will be double blind peer reviewed. The official language is English. All  the published works are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. This  permits anyone to copy, redistribute, remix, transmit and adapt the work provided the original work and  source is appropriately cited. This journal does not charge submission or publication fees. 

For more information, please contact the guests editors

Marta Varzim martavarzim@esad.pt

João Lemos joaolemos@esad.pt

2023-03-08

This is an open call for papers for the Special Issue “Narratives of Crisis: Representing Capitalist Realism” of the Journal Design | Arts | Culture (ISSN: 2732-6926). The International Journal Design | Arts | Culture is a digital open access and peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journal, published by Design, Interior Architecture and Audiovisual Documentation lab of the Faculty of Applied Arts and Culture of the University of West Attica Greece in cooperation with the: the National University of Arts Bucharest Romania, University of Nicosia Cyprus, ESAD Porto Portugal, Academy of Fine Arts Gdansk Poland. The journal is hosted in the open-access e-Publishing platform of the National Documentation Centre of Greece (EKT). The Special Issue will be published in collaboration with the Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University Greece, and edited by Dr. Penelope Petsini.