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© 2024 Interior Design Educators Council
The JID has a call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of Interior Design. The theme is Leading by Design: Evolving Practices to Face the Challenges of our Times
Leading by Design: Evolving Practices to Face the Challenges of our Times
Climate. Health. Inequity. Can designers lead the way in solving what are known as the wicked problems facing our global community? Design thinking promotes empathy and interdisciplinary collaboration. Yet, within design practice, designers are commonly regarded as experts who provide design services for clients rather than with clients. Within conventional modes of practice, designers are rarely positioned to question the “systemic forces that reproduce inequality and marginalization” (Hadjiyanni, 2020, p. 5) or to identify solutions reflecting the “interconnectedness and inter‐dependency of social, economic, political and natural systems” (Irwin, 2015, p. 230). For this Special Issue, we ask: what models of leadership and organizational structures can best support design solutions for the complex social and environmental challenges of our time?
March 1, 2024
Registration of Interest Deadline
January 1, 2025
Full Submissions Deadline
October 2025
Final Submissions to Publisher
March 2026
Publication
Guest Editors
Laura B. Cole, Ph.D., Colorado State University
Erin M. Hamilton, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
We welcome contributions in areas such as:
- Novel leadership models in design education and practice that lead to sustainable and just outcomes;
- Systems thinking and design thinking in interior design education and practice;
- Design justice perspectives that question and provide alternative visions for the power structures within which design professionals operate;
- Philosophies on the teaching and practice of sustainable interior design;
- Preparing future design leaders through innovative design pedagogy in the realm of studios, professional practice, experimental coursework, and beyond; and
- Community‐based, co‐design practices.
This Special Issue gives a home to boundary‐pushing ideas for cultivating engaged and proactive designers by evolving leadership and organizational paradigms across education and practice. We encourage perspectives that shift notions of design leadership toward community‐based, interdisciplinary, and distributed leadership models and welcome all forms of scholarship including visual essays, research manuscripts, and humanities papers.
Submissions should expand and question our conventional understandings of the topic and its complex relationships to interior space. All work must demonstrate exceptional rigor in the search for new knowledge and ideas. Papers must be original work of the author or authors and are not being considered for publication in other journals. Submissions may be checked for originality using plagiarism-detection software.
References
Hadjiyanni, T. (2020). Decolonizing interior design education. Journal of Interior Design, 45(2), 3‐9. https://doi.org/10.1111/joid.12170
Irwin, T. (2015). Transition design: A proposal for a new area of design practice, study, and research. Design and Culture, 7(2), 229‐246. doi: 10.1080/17547075.2015.1051829
Submission Deadlines
July 2023
Call for papers
March 1, 2024
Registration of Interest – Authors are asked to register their intent to submit a paper by sending a 150-word abstract to Laura B. Cole at Laura.Cole@colostate.edu
Please put your surname and “JID Special Issue” in the subject line. Registration of interest is not refereed, nor is it a requirement to submit. However, the acknowledgement of registration facilitates development of a proposal to full research paper by providing confirmation of fit with the special issue. Recognition of fit does not guarantee publication.
January 1, 2025
Full submissions are due. See author guidelines found on JID’s website at Sage Publications (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IDX).
January 1, 2025
Full submissions are due. See author guidelines found on JID’s website at Sage Publications (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IDX).
March 2026
Publication of JID Special Issue
For questions regarding the call for papers, submission deadlines, or anything related to the content of the Special Issue, contact Laura B. Cole at Laura.Cole@colostate.edu
Please put your surname and “JID Special Issue” in the subject line.
Guidelines for JID Submissions
Authors should follow the guidelines found on JID’s website at Sage Publications. Please note the unique guidelines for Articles versus Visual Essays. Perspectives and Letters are by invitation only. https://journals.sagepub.com/home/IDX
Technical questions regarding the submission of documents through the Scholar One website should be addressed to Kathleen Sullivan, Editorial Assistant (assistant.jid@gmail.com).
The Journal of Interior Design is a scholarly, refereed publication dedicated to a pluralistic exploration of the interior environment. Scholarly inquiry representing the entire spectrum of interior design theory, research, education, and practice is invited. Submissions are encouraged from educators, designers, artists, anthropologists, architects, historians, psychologists, sociologists, or others interested in interior design.
JID Award Recipients
JID Best Article
2022
PJ Carlino Ph.D.
JID 46.1 Tied to the Desk: The Somatic Experience of Office Work, 1870–1920 (pages 27-43)
2021
Giyoung Park Ph.D., Upali Nanda Ph.D., Lisa Adams, Jonathan Essary M.Arch., Melissa Hoelting B. Arch, HKS, USA
JID 45.1 Creating and Testing a Sensory Well-Being Hub for Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities (pages 13-32)
2020
Stephanie Liddicoat
JID 44.2 Spirituality in Therapeutic Spaces: Perceptions of Spatiality, Trace, and Past Rituals Manifesting Present Occupation (pages 26-42)
2019
Amy Huber
JID 43.4 Exploring Hiring Practitioner Preferences for and Assessment Practice of Prospective Candidates (pages 21-44)
2018
Xiaobo Quan, Anjali Joseph, & Upali Nanda
JID 42.1 Developing Evidence-based Tools for Design and Evaluating Hospital Inpatient Rooms (pages 19-38)
2017
Dianne Smith & Linda Lilly
JID 41.2 Understanding Student Perceptions of Stress in Creativity-Based Higher Education Programs: A Case Study in Interior Architecture (pages 39-55)
JID Outstanding Reviewer of the Year
2022
PJ Carlino Ph.D.
JID 46.1 Tied to the Desk: The Somatic Experience of Office Work, 1870–1920 (pages 27-43)
2021
Giyoung Park Ph.D., Upali Nanda Ph.D., Lisa Adams, Jonathan Essary M.Arch., Melissa Hoelting B. Arch, HKS, USA
JID 45.1 Creating and Testing a Sensory Well-Being Hub for Adolescents with Developmental Disabilities (pages 13-32)
2020
Stephanie Liddicoat
JID 44.2 Spirituality in Therapeutic Spaces: Perceptions of Spatiality, Trace, and Past Rituals Manifesting Present Occupation (pages 26-42)
2019
Amy Huber
JID 43.4 Exploring Hiring Practitioner Preferences for and Assessment Practice of Prospective Candidates (pages 21-44)
2018
Xiaobo Quan, Anjali Joseph, & Upali Nanda
JID 42.1 Developing Evidence-based Tools for Design and Evaluating Hospital Inpatient Rooms (pages 19-38)
2017
Dianne Smith & Linda Lilly
JID 41.2 Understanding Student Perceptions of Stress in Creativity-Based Higher Education Programs: A Case Study in Interior Architecture (pages 39-55)
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