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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The contribution must present results from academic research, must be original and unpublished, and must not be under consideration for publication by another journal;
  • Authors must observe a one-year interval before making a new submission to the journal;
  • At least one of the authors must hold a doctoral degree (PhD);
  • All authorship information must be removed from the manuscript to ensure a Blind Peer Review, and entered exclusively in the Author Profile and in the List of Co-authors during submission, according to the instructions available in Guidelines for Author Metadata and Blind Peer Review. The following information is mandatory: name, email, institutional affiliation, and ORCID;
  • Submitted works must use the provided template, following the requirements described in the Author Guidelines. Failure to comply with the guidelines will preclude the evaluation process.
  • It is the exclusive responsibility of the authors to obtain permission to use materials protected by Copyright Law (Law No. 9.610/98);
  • Authors take full responsibility for all ethical approvals required to conduct the research and affirm that they possess the necessary approvals for publication.
  • Authors declare that they follow the recommendations provided by the CNPq's Policy on Integrity in Scientific Activity regarding the writing of articles.
  • Authors declare that they follow the recommendations provided by the Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Writing of Scientific Documents, updated annually;
  • The authors commit to fulfilling the editorial team's requests regarding the text and images whenever asked, ensuring compliance with the specified deadlines.

Author Guidelines

To submit an article:

  1. Access the journal's template on Google Docs;
  2. Upon clicking, an automatic copy of the template will be created in the root folder of the Google Drive account logged into your browser;
  3. The article text must be inserted into this copy, maintaining the pre-established styles and formatting. Instructions for formatting and the use of styles are provided within the template and must be followed throughout the text. Please check the additional formatting guidelines at the end of these items;
  4. Ensure that authorship information is removed throughout the entire text;
  5. After completing the text, verify once again that any and all authorship information is absent from the file, and download it as a PDF (File > Download > PDF Document (.pdf)). The maximum file size accepted by the platform is 4MB;
  6. During submission, under the "Start" tab, you will find the "Comments for the Editor" section. In this section, insert the link to the Google Docs article in the available field, with editing permissions properly granted in the sharing options (Share > General access > Anyone with the link > Editor > Copy link);
  7. Under the "Upload Submission" tab, submit the PDF file.

To submit the final version of the article:

  1. The corrections recommended by peers must be made in the Google Docs manuscript, along with the inclusion of any authorship information suppressed throughout the text, if applicable. After the submission of the corrected manuscript, the author's information in the left column of the article's cover page (name, affiliation, email, ORCID) will be included by the editorial team during the preparation of the file for publication.

Articles must have a total of 30,000 to 40,000 characters with spaces. The title and subtitle must have a maximum of 5 lines, according to the template. The abstract must contain between 500 and 1,000 characters with spaces per language, and the keywords must include a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 terms per language, as per the template.

Images must be submitted along with the article's PDF file, with a minimum size of 1400 x 700 pixels and a maximum of 1772 x 2026 pixels, minimum 96 and maximum 200 ppi, in JPG or PNG formats.

The journal uses ABNT standards for bibliographic references.

URLs and DOIs must be provided whenever possible, as they contribute to tracking article citations.

Full Thematic Articles

This section receives articles related to the issue's thematic call for papers, available under the Announcements tab. The content of the works is the sole responsibility of the authors.

Design, cultura e visualidade

Pesquisas que refletem sobre diferentes manifestações e meios da visualidade e tecnologias da imagem, bem como as relações do design com a história e a cultura material; aproxima as artes visuais de tecnologias digitais e investiga processos de imagem em movimento, produção gráfica, visualização de dados, inteligência artificial e design de interfaces. Aborda, ainda, investigações sobre a forma escrita, as relações entre escrita e imagem e o papel da escrita nos meios comunicacionais contemporâneos.

Design, política e subjetivação

Pesquisas que buscam investigar as relações do campo com o pensamento projetual e os processos de produção de conhecimentos, subjetivação e transformação social nas sociedades contemporâneas. Promove diálogos transversais com distintas áreas como educação, estudos culturais, sociologia e psicologia. Fomenta pesquisas embasadas em teorias críticas, metodologias participativas, abordagens experimentais, pesquisas-intervenção e historiografias exploratórias. Busca examinar os modos pelos quais o design manifesta, via discursos e práticas, inter-relações entre táticas de resistência política e mediações socioculturais.

Design, gestão e inovação

Pesquisas com ênfase em inovação e serviços, investigações sobre modos de gestão do conhecimento e processos decisórios. Pesquisas desta linha dialogam também com novos arranjos organizacionais para processos de produção e prestação de serviços e suas relações com novos materiais, em diálogo com campos correlatos como design socioambiental e tecnologias digitais. 

Design, territorialidades e antropoceno

 Pesquisas que investigam o fazer design no Antropoceno, o habitar e as territorialidades, junto a áreas como antropologia, filosofia, arquitetura, urbanismo e arte. Questionando o excepcionalismo humano característico do pensamento moderno, lança mão de abordagens situadas, sejam elas especulativas, críticas, colaborativas, cartográficas ou projetuais, buscando modos de imaginar, narrar, fabular, ficcionar e disputar caminhos para o porvir. Examinando o que caracteriza a época do “Homem” - o Antropoceno - repensa o design em uma dimensão cosmopolítica, atentando, junto às lutas sociais, para a matriz colonial de poder.

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