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Aesthetics plays a key role in design practice and aesthetic sensibility is
often described as one of the core competences of the design professional.
Paradoxically, however, the concept has received relatively little
attention in design methodology and design literature, and in the design
debate, its role has often been treated as questionable.
The purpose of this special issue of the research journal Artifact is to
shed light on the current status of the concept of aesthetics in the design
field and to discuss its historical and current role in both research and
practice. Artifact invites designers, design researchers and philosophers
to explore aspects of the relationship between design and aesthetics.
Possible themes include but are not limited to
Aesthetics in or as design method
The role of aesthetics in design literature and design research,
including for
example its conceptualization in design history and design method studies
Design and aesthetic experience
Aesthetics and sensory perception
Aesthetics and pleasure
Aesthetics and emotions
The aesthetics of art versus the aesthetics of design
Everyday aesthetics
Aesthetics as taste
Submission
This issue is open for submissions. See Artifacts information for authers
here (and please note the special Artifact essay format):
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/artifact/about/submissions
Editors
Carsten Friberg, Aalborg University, Denmark
Mads Nygaard Folkmann, University of Southern Denmark
Troels Degn Johansson, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of
Design, Denmark
About Artifact
Artifact is published by the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Indiana
University in the USA and Swinburne University of Technology in Australia
in collaboration.
The contributions to Artifact are vetted according to common peer review
criteria. Thus, the research articles are reviewed by at least two peers
from different countries.
Artifact premiered in 2007 as a print medium published by Routledge, but
relaunched in December 2011 as an Open Access journal.
http://artifactjournal.org
Thank you,
Charlie
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Charlie Breindahl
Co-editor, Artifact, http://www.artifactjournal.org/
Research Assistant, University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen
"Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must
aim at is to make things better than they are."
- Niels Bohr quoted in *The World of the Atom* (1966), p. 741
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