Dear all,

Please see below the final call for TRACEY's call for papers, 'drawing knowledge'.

Tracey is a fully peer reviewed electronic journal dedicated to drawing and visualisation. It is varied and diverse with a fast growing readership of academics, students and practitioners representing a wide range of drawing interests including fine art, architectural design, product design and visual communication - ideally any activity in which drawing and visualisation is essential.

You can see us at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/index.html

In this next invitation for submissions, we are focusing on the theme of Drawing Knowledge, particularly in relation to the following questions:

Is drawing utilised sufficiently as a fundamental tool for thinking across disciplines?

How aware are we of conventions?

How is drawing as an experimental approach and attitude distinct from drawing as an outcome and discipline?

How has the practice of drawing in education changed, and how do we ensure its continued relevance in an increasingly digital age?

What role can drawing play at each stage of the design process, and in enhancing design thinking?

What are some cross-disciplinary case study uses of drawing as a problem solving and creative ideas generation tool?

Is the teaching of drawing distinct from the teaching of art and design, and what current role does it play?


A submission may constitute drawings or other visual material, texts or research papers that have not been published before or have been published in a different context and also texts and images combined. There is no word or image limit. All submissions will be peer reviewed by two members of the peer review panel. Please visit the site to view our guidelines for submissions and a list of our peer reviewers.

Submissions should be on submitted electronically as compressed folders, saved with your name and theme as the folder identifier (eg. Smith_A_Drawing_Knowledge). The folder should include:

•	Introduction
•	Brief biographical paragraph
•	Concise summary of content for the editorial team as a MS Word document. 

Together with the following files, depending on your submission type:

•	The paper, text or images
•	Text submissions should be formatted in MS Word with separate pictures/images 72dpi, RGB jpeg files clearly named and saved. 
•	If your text includes images, please send these as separate jpegs and ensure that they are correctly captioned. Italics should be highlighted in colour. 
•	Image submissions should be sent as 300 dpi, RGB Tiff files. 


Please send all submissions to [log in to unmask] or c/o Dr. Deborah Harty, Co Editor TRACEY, Loughborough University School of the Arts, English and Drama, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire UK, LE11 3TU no later than Friday 30th September, 2011.

Emma Robertson
Guest Editor | TRACEY | Drawing Knowledge	    

Emma Robertson is an Associate Professor in the School of Design Studies, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales