Artifact - a new journal from RoutledgeArtifact is a new international, peer-reviewed academic journal treating the impact of computerization on design.
VISION
The computer has had a profound impact on the look, feel, and function of our everyday world. As a tool, the computer has become indispensable for the design professional, profoundly changing the design process. As a design material, the computer is extremely versatile, enabling intelligent objects and processes. As a medium, the computer transforms our understanding and stores our experiences. The combined impact of these forces is changing the relations between humans and our technology in unprecedented ways.
Artifact does not draw an artificial line of demarcation between the virtual and the physical. It strives to illuminate the problems and possibilities in their interaction. The journal does not frame digital design as a design discipline such as industrial design or graphic communication. The unique role of the computer as tool, material, and medium, makes digital design an integrated element of almost any design project today, with designers in all fields and disciplines using digital design in some way.
Artifact assumes an open position. The journal strives to promote transdisciplinary design research. It will not create or maintain disciplinary boundaries. Rather, Artifact will encourage cross-fertilization, interconnections, and crossbreeding among different scientific disciplines, the design industry, and the arts.
PUBLICATIONThe journal appears in both a print version and a digital version. The journal is published using a ‘Web first’ concept. Each issue is first published on the web. The year’s issues are gathered together into a full paper volume published at the end of the year. In some cases, web technology will mean that the web version supports special interactive features and links that can only appear in the print volume as illustrations and references.
SUBMISSION
We welcome contributions which seek to understand and reflect the different aspects and impacts of virtuality within the field of design from theoretical or applied perspectives. Artifact brings contributions in the form of academic articles, book reviews, design case post mortems, and design company profiles.
To point to possible directions, we have selected themes for the first four issues of Artifact:
- Volume 1, issue 1: What is an artifact?
- Volume 1, issue 2: Soft artifacts. Tracing ‘soft movements’ in several creative domains, notably architecture and digital film.
- Volume 1, issue 3: The third place? The ontological status of objects and events in computer games.
- Volume 1, issue 4: Digital design processes. What impact has digital technology had on the design process?
The themes are not meant to be exhaustive. We hope they will trigger ideas and encourage submissions from a range of disciplines.
Deadline for the first issue of Artifact is 18 November. Articles will be published 1 March 2006. However, contributions addressing the theme of the first issue may be published on-line at a later date and appear in the print volume.
Please send submissions and queries by e-mail to Ida Engholm at
or to Charlie Breindahl at
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Articles should be sent as attachments in Microsoft Word .doc format or as PDF files. Please send articles with a cover letter containing full author information. Articles should be prepared for double-blind review using anonymous format and full references in APA style. In addition, we welcome suggestions for design case post mortems, book reviews and designer profiles.
EDITORS
Charlie Breindahl External Lecturer University of Copenhagen + IT University of Copenhagen Denmark
Ida Engholm Associate Professor Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark
Judith Gregory Faculty of Design Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA
Erik Stolterman Director, Human-Computer Interaction Design Professor of Informatics Indiana University School of Informatics USA
ADVISORY BOARD
Thomas Binder Director Center for Design Research Royal Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture Copenhagen Denmark
Jeanette Blomberg Director of Experience Modelling Sapient Professor of Human Work Science University of Karlskrona/Ronneby Sweden
David Durling Professor of Design Director of the Advanced Research Institute Middlesex University UK
Lars Dybdahl Associate Professor The Department of Art History University of Copenhagen Denmark
Pelle Ehn Professor School of Arts and Communication Malm=F6 University Sweden
Ken Friedman Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design Norwegian School of Management and Denmark’s Design School Norway and Denmark
Susan M. Hagan Postdoctoral Fellow Carnegie Mellon University USA
Marius Hartmann, Ph.D. Designer Danish Broadcasting Corporation Denmark
Steve Jones Professor and Head Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago USA
Klaus Krippendorff Gregory Bateson Term Professor University of Pennsylvania USA
Lev Manovich Professor of Visual Arts University of California, San Diego + Director, Lab for Cultural Analysis California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology USA
Bonnie Nardi Associate Professor School of Information and Computer Science University of California, Irvine USA
Jannie Nielsen Professor Department of Informatics Copenhagen Business School Denmark
Christiane Paul New Media Curator Whitney Museum of American Art New York USA
Martin Pingel Technological Coordinator Denmark’s Design School Denmark
Sharon Poggenpohl Professor Institute of Design Illinois Institute of Technology USA
Johan Redstr=F6m Research Director, studio Design G=F6teborg Interactive Institute Gothenburg Sweden
Michael Schmidt Createch Director k10k and Cuban Council Denmark/USA
Lisbeth Thorlacius Associate Professor Department of Communication, Journalism, and Computer Science Roskilde University Denmark
Wendy Siuyi Wong Department of Design Faculty of Fine Arts York University Canada
Kristoffer =C5berg Senior Interaction Designer Sony Ericsson Sweden
