*Inmaterial Vol.6 N.°11 – 2021*
Call for Papers
Design Research: Practices and Forms  
Deadline: Apr 30, 2021

Debates surrounding and inquiring into the nature of Artistic and Design 
Research have been in progress since the early 90’s (Frayling, 1994; 
Cross, 2001; Pakes, 2004; Nollert, Rogoff, de Baere, Dziewior, Esche, 
Niemann, Roelstraete, 2006; Busch and Lesage, 2007) and still 
constitutive a live interesting area of concern. It is particularly 
important to frame these debates under the changes and transformations 
the university and academic institutions are facing. THese are giving 
place to new protocols and regulations globally (Borgdorff, 2012; 
Gonzalez, 2017; Seppä, Kaila, Slager, 2017; Vaughan Ed. 2017).  

Today the appearance and consolidation of MA and PhD programs in Arts 
and Design, giving place to practice-based research projects, have 
emerged as a new institutional space in which experimentation, 
reflection, critical practices and analysis are taking place 
simultaneously.  

"We are designers by nature" proposes the Nort-American philosopher Alva 
Noë in his book Strange Tools, Art and Human Nature. Noë proposes that 
art, research through artistic means, is situated and interwoven in and 
with our biological, organic roots. That is why we are always in a 
process of creative feedback, in an organizational encounter and 
dialogue, in constant world-making. World-making (Vergunst and Ingold, 
2008; Angosto, 2013; Escobar, 2018; Bennett, 2020) involves this 
generative interweaving between practices and forms, methodologies and 
phenomena, doings and knowledges. However, research on design and art 
continues to constitute a contested academic field. The institutional 
paradigm of linear, arborescent, cataloguing research seems to constrain 
the ways of appearing in areas where practice shapes fragmented 
territories, in dialogue, in solidarity, collectively constituted.  

This new issue of Inmaterial. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad, wants to open up 
the territory to those contemporary forms and practices that are 
happening and developing within the frames of academic institutions, 
giving space and voice to the wider methodological, formal, and 
technical aspects involving design and art research.  

We welcome papers involving different outlooks coming from different 
disciplinary boundaries exposing their individual or collective 
researches, and critical engagement with a particular perspective within 
the frames of contemporary design research.   

Topics include, but are not limited to:   
- Art and design research methodologies   
- Practice-based research possibilities and limits    
- Experiments and concerns in art-design-science-society    
- New pedagogical and institutional arrangements for art and design 
research   
- Entanglements in practice and theory   
- How is design research situated in cross-disciplinary collaboration, 
navigating cultures, diversity or ethics?   
- What are the dynamics between design research, governments, academia 
and industry?   
- Experimental research and dialogues with materiality    
- Situated and embodied research practices between art and design 

Submission deadline: 30/04/2021
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