Submissions
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do not adhere to these guidelines.- The contribution must present results from academic research, must be original and unpublished, and must not be under consideration for publication by another journal;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.
Full Articles
This section receives articles on an ongoing basis on themes related to the PPDESDI's research lines:
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Design, culture, and visuality
This research line encompasses studies that reflect on different manifestations and media of visuality and image technologies, as well as the relationships between design, history, and material culture. It bridges the visual arts and digital technologies, investigating moving image processes, graphic production, data visualization, artificial intelligence, and interface design. It also addresses investigations into the written form, the relationships between writing and image, and the role of writing in contemporary communication media; -
Design, politics, and subjectivation
Based on an understanding of the political implications of design, this research line seeks to investigate the field's relationships with projectual thinking and the processes of knowledge production, subjectivation, and social transformation in contemporary societies. It promotes transversal dialogues with distinct fields such as education, cultural studies, sociology, and psychology. It fosters research grounded in critical theories, participatory methodologies, experimental approaches, intervention research, and exploratory historiographies. It seeks to examine the ways in which design manifests, through discourses and practices, the interrelationships between political resistance tactics and sociocultural mediations; -
Design, management, and innovation
In this line, research is conducted with an emphasis on innovation and services, including investigations into knowledge management practices and decision-making processes. Studies in this line also engage with new organizational arrangements for production processes and service provision, as well as their relationships with new materials, in dialogue with related fields such as socio-environmental design and digital technologies; -
Design, territorialities, and the Anthropocene
This research line develops studies that investigate design practice in the Anthropocene, dwelling, and territorialities, in conjunction with fields such as anthropology, philosophy, architecture, urbanism, and art. Questioning the human exceptionalism characteristic of modern thought, it employs situated approaches—whether speculative, critical, collaborative, cartographic, or projectual—seeking ways to imagine, narrate, fabulate, fictionalize, and contest pathways for the future. By examining what characterizes the epoch of "Man"—the Anthropocene—it rethinks design within a cosmopolitical dimension, paying attention, alongside social struggles, to the colonial matrix of power.
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As of 2025, the copyright for articles published in the Arcos Design journal belongs to their respective authors, who grant the journal the Right of First Publication of their work under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 License. Works published prior to 2025 remain under the copyright of the journal.
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