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Dear colleagues: I am looking forward to Wonderground but I am wondering how we have come to the point in our design research community where we have to complete a full paper in order to be considered for a conference. In my professional association, the College Art Association, which is at least seventy years old, papers are accepted on the basis of abstracts. The conference is also divided into sessions and session leaders get to choose the abstracts. The assumption is that professionals are very likely to develop a good paper from an abstract and need not have their final paper reviewed and possibly rejected. I wonder whether or not the call for completed papers in order to be considered for a conference is a dis-incentive to some people who don't want to spend the time on a full paper without the certainty that they will be able to present it. I'd like to call for a session on the selection process, which would be held at the Wonderground conference. I'd like to make my argument there for a different way of organizing such events. Victor Margolin University of Illinois, Chicago -- Victor Margolin Professor of Design History Department of Art History University of Illinois at Chicago 935 W. Harrison St. Chicago, IL 60607-7039 Tel. 1-312-413-2463 Fax 1-312-413-2460 www.uic.edu/~victor