[Themaintainers] Call for papers: DISEÑA Journal "Repairing Design: Damage, Care, and Fragility"

[Blanca]

Dear list,

I am writing to you to share a call for papers to participate in the #23
DISEÑA Journal dedicated to "*Repairing Design: Damage, Care, and Fragility*".
Papers can be written in English or Spanish.

Here down, some details about the call.
Please, feel free to spread the word and share this email with others.

Thank you very much!
Blanca

LINK TO THE CALL:
http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/announcement/view/191

*GUEST EDITORS*

Blanca Callen | Universitat de Vic (UVIC-UCC) | blanca.callen at uvic.cat

Melisa Duque Hurtado | Monash University | melisa.duque at monash.edu



*Submission deadline*: March 6, 2023

*Expected publication date*: August 2023



Repairing all kinds of objects, infrastructures, devices, and services
involves coming face to face with tensions, failures, wear, breakage, and
the passing of time that runs through all matter. Repairing also implies
confronting the harmful consequences of past design decisions, the 'after'
time, from a position that was historically invisible but has recently been
recognized as both creative and innovative.

The practice of repair, while presenting clear differences depending on
whether it is exercised from global Souths or Norths, disputes the material
and functional limits of design and circumvents its temporal interruptions
to expand the life of its products towards unforeseen futures. Repair thus
challenges the unity and ontological fixation of things and relocates them
in a continuous state of prototyping that allows us to better understand
them in order to re-design them, through the opening, reconnection,
alteration, and   of the heterogeneous elements that constitute them.

Precisely because of the place that repair occupies in relation to the
effects derived from design (repair-led designing) and the useful knowledge
that is activated from that place, we consider it relevant and necessary
that design can also reflect on and revise its own practices and products
from and for repair (design-led repairing). That is, with this call for
papers we propose to consider repairing as a heuristic from which to
interrogate the semiotic-material production of the world, a privileged
position or point of view that promises 'better visions' about how
contemporary material cultures are created, broken, and adjusted to be
able, then, to interrogate ourselves about the possibilities of
*designing-repairing* and/or *repairing-designing*: To collectively explore
how the practice of repair permeates design and its disciplinary
boundaries, challenging, expanding, or recreating its hegemonic methods,
agencies, temporalities, spaces, concepts, pedagogies, or objects. Or how
repair, even from diverse disciplinary fields, can become an epistemic and
political ally of design through complicit and generative links that better
prepare us to avoid or respond to present and future eco-social damages.

*Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):*

- *Encounters*: ruptures, infrastructures, contingencies, tensions,
everyday life, margins, contradictions, distances, absences, values,
ontologies.

- *Concepts*: theoretical, methodological, practical, speculative,
critical, ethical, and political dialogues; resistance, care, aesthetics,
epistemologies.

- *Methods*: openings, diagnoses, prototypes, tools, procedures,
techniques, changes, improvisations, collaborations, interventions,
pedagogies, results, evaluations.

- *Temporalities*: life cycles, longevity, durability, obsolescence,
origins, futures, imagined temporalities, continuities, sustainability.

- *Agents*: practitioners, relationships, places, organizations,
autonomies, actions, gestures, movements.

- *Things*: materialities, markets, services, resources, more-than-human.

***

Submit your manuscript through this platform by March 6, 2023.

Contributions written in English or Spanish will be accepted. Please read
the instructions for authors
<http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/about/submissions>.



*SUBMISSION GUIDELINES (KEY POINTS)*

Please read the instructions for authors
<http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/about/submissions>.

Submissions must include:

— An *English or Spanish language *contribution of *3,500- 4,000 words*,
with references in *APA Style *(7th ed.).

N.B. the text should be *anonymized *for blind peer-review. Please, upload
Word documents (not PDF).

— An *abstract *(140 words max.).

— Five *keywords*

— A *personal profile* of each author (150 words max.).

After peer-review, corrections will need to take place in May 2023. The
issue will be published in August 2023.
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