IDEA JOURNAL
The IDEA JOURNAL was launched in 1999 and has been published since 2001. It is circulated internationally and into over 200 libraries. The IDEA JOURNAL is an international refereed journal dedicated to the publication of interior design/interior architecture research and as such provides a critical resource to the discipline and associated design and theoretical fields. In 2009 the quality of the IDEA JOURNAL was recognized through its A rating in Australia’s Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) listings.
The IDEA JOURNAL is a critical vehicle for the recognition and promotion of design as a research activity relevant to its field where the definition of research includes research about design, research for design as well as through design. To this end the IDEA JOURNAL invites a range of contributions and representations of design research.
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Editorial Board includes an Executive Editor who is assisted by a Review Editor, an Editorial Advisory Committee and an Electronic Publications Editor.
Dr Jill Franz (QUT) was chair of the inaugural editorial board for IDEA Journal 1999; co-chair with Dr Dianne Smith (QUT) in 2001 (who chaired the board in 2002). From 2003-2007 Jill Franz was Executive Editor of the IDEA JOURNAL, with Dianne Smith as the Review Editor.
Editorial Board 2008 – 2010
Executive Editor: Professor Gini Lee (QUT)
Editorial Advisory Committee: Assoc. Prof Suzie Attiwill (RMIT), Dr Rachel Carley (UNITEC), Professor Jill Franz (QUT), Dr Tom Loveday (UNSW), Assoc. Prof Dianne Smith (Curtin).
Electronic Publications Editor: Matthew Cooke
The Editorial Advisory Committee was formed in 2008 to provide critical advice regarding research agendas for the Journal and oversee the double blind refereeing process and the final selection of papers and contributions.
THE IDEA JOURNAL ACCEPTS:
DESIGN RESEARCH PAPERS
that demonstrate development and engagement with interior design/interior architecture history, theory, education and practice through critique and synthesis. The focus is on the documentation and critical review of both speculative research and practice-based research. Visual essays that demonstrate critical, pictorial responses to design conditions are also welcome.
REFEREED STUDIOS
that represent the nature and outcomes of refereed design studios which have either been previously peer reviewed in situ and/or critically discussed through text and imagery for the IDEA Journal.
PROJECT REVIEWS
that critically evaluate design-based works which seek to expand the nature of spatial and theoretical practice in interior design/interior architecture and associated disciplines.
PROPOSALS FOR BOOK REVIEWS
to encourage debate into the emerging literature dedicated to the expression and expansion of the theory and practice of interior design/interior architecture
PROVOCATION FOR THE IDEA JOURNAL 2010: INTERIOR ECOLOGIES: EXPOSING THE EVOLUTIONARY INTERIOR
The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 provocation Interior Ecologies: exposing the evolutionary interior seeks to elicit emergent interior debates on contemporary spatial, material and performative practices
Can a critical ecological approach to practice and discourse in interiors enable expanded locales for research and experiment across disciplinary and theoretical boundaries? Normative concepts concerned with the designed habitat, or discursive debates around the interfaces of interior and exterior conditions, may fall short in provoking interior thinking to engage through ecologies of practice that contribute to advancing environments, technologies and cultures.
Interior Ecologies requests expressions of interest regarding theoretical research, design practice and educational accounts that promote the concept of evolutionary interiors. Examinations of historical, contemporary and relational perspectives for constructed situations and/or events are welcome.
The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 will expose the engagement of interior practice in ecological, political, cultural and economic systems. We invite scholarly accounts of writing and projects that move across disciplinary perspectives and temporal systems into an open-ended enquiry into ecologies for and of the interior.
REGISTRATION OF INTEREST:
Authors are invited to register their interest in submitting a paper on the form following and forward by email to the Executive Editor, Gini Lee by June 7 2010
Email: gini.lee@qut.edu.au