Special Issue: RChD: Creacin y Pensamiento (Jun 2020)

Website: RChD

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2020

On behalf of the editorial board of the "Revista Chilena de Diseo, RChD: Creacin y Pensamiento" (Review of Chilean Design, RChD: Creation and Thought), you are invited to submit proposals of scientific papers for the Special Issue "Packaging Design in Times of Crisis. Systemic Approach and Ethical Implications of the Project, Amid Environmental Impact and Social Change" (Vol.5 N.9).

Important dates

Deadline for the proposal submission (full manuscript): June 30, 2020

Acceptance: August 2020

Publication: November 2020

Abstract

Packaging is a complex artefact with a multifaceted nature. In the current system of production and consumption, it represents a vital tool for the product: an indispensable protection shell to ensure the conservation and safety of its content; an essential interface to guarantee, instrumentally and communicationally, contact and interaction with its users. In certain contexts and situations for example, in emergency conditions packages can play a key role, ensuring access to clean water, food or medicine, helping prevent the spread of diseases and, ultimately, saving lives. However, the serious crises that affect the planet at a global level are once again highlighting problems related to socioeconomic inequalities and the consequences of climate change, placing particular emphasis on the responsibilities of packaging and, more specifically, of plastics regarding resource consumption, waste production, and environmental pollution. Containers represent the visible footprint of the impact of human activity and are therefore perceived as the tangible expression of the excess and injustice of current models, a symbol of the ephemeral and the unnecessary. In this scenario, the controversies around packaging require reflection, from a critical perspective and a systemic approach, on the roles and responsibilities of this designed artefact and its impacts on society and the environment. The invitation is for researchers, teachers, and professionals to contribute to this reflection with academic articles focused on the ethical implications of the project of a package and, at the same time, on the role that Design, both as discipline and practice, may plays in project direction, mediation, and synthesis in the packaging sector.

The full text of the Call for Papers, as well as the editorial norms and the instructions to send the proposals, are published, both in English and in Spanish on the journal website

Please, feel free to share this Call for Papers among your contacts, especially those who may be interested in sending a proposal or participating as reviewers in the peer-review process of this Special Issue.