About the journal

diid is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific design journal
edited by Bologna University Press since 2021.
The journal was founded in 2002.

Focus and Scope

Starting from the knowledge about industrial design and the different design sectors, diid describes advanced design cultures that enable us to investigate design through the metamorphosis of capitalism, by means of anticipation, balance between different forces, complex systems, stakeholders and key actors, organizations and their mutual relations.

In recent decades, industrial design, as a discipline and practice, has lived a deep change shifting its attention from the morphological, functional, and technological aspects of products (material and immaterial) to issues related to the relationship with users, the environment, society, innovation processes and ecosystems, forms of interaction. Change is thus the key topic to be analysed and narrated, by understanding the different meanings and impacts on innovation domains.

According to this interpretation, diid keeps studying and recording what happens around design cultures and their correlation with sustainability issues, technologies, society and human behaviours. It aims to open the debate on productive thinking and how designers elaborate media, catalyze knowledge, synthesize and prototype material and immaterial artefacts, propose culture, transform and invent reality.

diid welcomes articles that cover topics including:

design cultures, theories, methods and practices;
advanced design and anticipation;
product design, communication design, fashion design, service design, design strategies and management;
interaction design, experience design, behavioural design;
sustainable design;
design education;
manufacturing, digital manufacturing, cultural and creative industries.

Journal Structure

The Journal is structured in three different sections:

“Open Debate”, edited by Guest Editors of the issue, who interpreted with an original, unique, and intriguing vision thematic focus, involving national and international authors as privileged witnesses. We hope to deepen the debate by hosting the front end of the contemporary discussions about design cultures. It contains Research and Experimentation Articles, Conversation pieces and Interviews, Visual Essays, plus reviews coherent with the main thematic focus (see Open call).
“Designrama” welcomes contributions from the Open Call for submissions throughout the year, in form of Research and Experimentation Articles and Conversation pieces and Interviews (see Open call).
“Forum and Reviews” contains for each issue the “Over the Mainstream” and “Cultural and Creative Industries” forums, plus exhibition, website, book, conference, and media reviews (see Open call).

A new format will supplement the Journal in 2023: the Special Issue related to the proceedings of the 8th International Forum of Design as a Process, held in 2022 in Bologna.

diid is a complex act that grows and evolves within our community.

Publication Frequency

The journal publishes three issues per year.

Journal History

diid was create in 2002 with the objective of filling a gap concerning scientific journals in Italy related to the study of industrial design and design. Over the last two decades diid has investigated design disciplines and practices, recording their development thanks to the great contribution of Italian and international scientific communities.

Browse here the past issues before No. 73, 2021 (not uploaded on the OJS system).

The one inaugurated in 2021, with issue no. 73, is a new phase. The plan for a new European Bauhaus for the diffusion of design cultures, the post-pandemic rebirth, the pursuit of sustainable objectives in the 2030 Agenda, digital aesthetics and humanities, the man-machine-nature relationship, the transit towards renewable energies and the relations among nine billion inhabitants on Earth in 2050, provide, among others, a vision of the following years, that could be incredibly intense and full of thought and action, therefore full of design.

diid is an open access, peer-reviewed scientific design journal
diid is published three times a year

ISSN (online): 2785-2245
ISSN: 1594-8528

For more information, email to editorialstaff@diid.it

Editor-in-chief

Flaviano Celaschi
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
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Deputy Editor-in-chief and Managing Editor

Elena Formia
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
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Editorial Staff

Associate Editors

Viktor Malakuczi
Sapienza Università di Roma

Lorela Mehmeti
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna

Elena Vai
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna

Art Director

Davide Giorgetta
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna

Editing Assistant

Olga Barmine
Università degli Studi della Repubblica di San Marino

Guest Editors 2023

Andrea Cattabriga (No. 80)
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna
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Vladan Joler (No. 80)
University of Novi Sad
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Clara Giardina (No. 79)
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna
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Tatjana Karpenja (No. 79)
RISE — Research Institutes of Sweden
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Guest Editors 2022

Eleonora Lupo (No. 78)
Politecnico di Milano
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Roberto Iñiguez Flores (No. 77)
Tecnológico de Monterey
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Erik Ciravegna (No. 77)
Pontificia Università Catolica de Chile
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Laura Succini (No. 77)
Alma Mater Studiorum — Universaità di Bologna
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Valentina Gianfrate (No. 77)
Alma Mater Studiorum — Universaità di Bologna
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Paolo Cardini (No. 76)
Rhode Island School of Design
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Guest Editors 2021

Stefani Maffei (No. 75)
Politecnico di Milano
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Roberto Montanari (No. 74)
Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa di Napoli
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Michele Zannoni (No. 74)
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna
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Elena Vai (No. 73)
Alma Mater Studiorum — Università di Bologna
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Founding Editor

Tonino Paris
Registration at Tribunale di Roma 86/2002 (6th of March 2002)

Publisher

Bologna University Press, Bologna