Design and Culture explores the dynamic, contingent relationships between design and its many cultural contexts.
Encompassing the numerous professional, quasi-professional, and amateur fields of design, the journal identifies and explores the cultures of design and the designs of culture, including processes, practices, texts, contexts, and reception. The journal further investigates the tensions often encountered between critical, analytical, or intellectual activity and traditional studio-based endeavors.
The journal aims to broaden the discourse of design by examining its relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture, cultural and political economy. It also finds congruence between traditional, studio-based divisions within design practice, such as graphic, product, industrial, or environmental design. In so doing, the journal's editorial board proposes to strengthen, clarify, and promote the study of design cultures, including history, criticism, and design practice in the contemporary academy.
Encompassing the numerous professional, quasi-professional, and amateur fields of design, the journal identifies and explores the cultures of design and the designs of culture, including processes, practices, texts, contexts, and reception. The journal further investigates the tensions often encountered between critical, analytical, or intellectual activity and traditional studio-based endeavors.
The journal aims to broaden the discourse of design by examining its relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture, cultural and political economy. It also finds congruence between traditional, studio-based divisions within design practice, such as graphic, product, industrial, or environmental design. In so doing, the journal's editorial board proposes to strengthen, clarify, and promote the study of design cultures, including history, criticism, and design practice in the contemporary academy.
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Design and Culture is published three issues a year in March, July and November. The first issue will appear March, 2009. Subscriptions will begin in 2009; for further subscription information visit www.bergpublishers.com.
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