Thematic Collection on Fablabs, Makerspaces and Design Spaces
AIEDAM Special Issue, Volume 34, Number 3, Spring 2020
Guest Editors: Chris McMahon, Ali Gürcan Özkil, Stanko Škec
This special issue of AI EDAM will be devoted to papers concerned with design workspaces, and by their role as drivers for creative and innovative behaviour and outputs. Design activities may be highly influenced by the environments in which they take place, and by the equipment provided in those environments, where the spaces may be both physical and virtual. The space can be influential because it provides the right ambiance, or it facilitates, experimentation, communication and shared working. It may be important in the ideas it stimulates or because it provides a location for reflection and contemplation. The topic has been of particular interest for many years in design education, but increasingly it is seen as important in industrial and research contexts. This special issue seeks original research studies of design workspaces in operation, and of the design of experimental spaces and facilities. Topics that will be welcomed include but are not limited to:
- Physical and virtual spaces
- The role of workspace in design
- Materials and arrangement of spaces
- Environments for work and play
- Characterisation and elements of creative spaces
- Makerspaces and hackerspaces
- Fixperts
- Hackathons, design challenges
- 24 hours of innovation
- Living labs
- Fablabs
- Studio design
- Computer-supported collaborative working
- Virtual and augmented reality
- Distributed virtuality
- Experimental approaches to the study of spaces
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three reviewers. The selection for publication would be made on the basis of these reviews.
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM papers, as well as about submission, can be found at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ai-edam/information/instructions-contributors
Note that all queries and information about submissions for special issues should be addressed to the Guest Editors, and not to the Editor in Chief. Please submit your paper through the ScholarOne system online at: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aie You need to create a user account first if you are a new user. During your submission process, pay attention to the following two steps:
- On Step 1 (Type, title & abstract): Select "Yes" for the "Special Issue" question.
- On Step 5 (Details & comments): Select "Fablabs, Makerspaces and Design Spaces - Vol.34/3" for "Special Issue Name".
Important dates:
Intend to submit (Title & Abstract): | As soon as possible |
Submission deadline for full papers: | 30 August 2019 |
Reviews due: | 1 October 2019 |
Notification & reviews due to authors: | 30 November 2019 |
Revised version submission deadline: | 30 January 2019 |
Second round of reviews due: | 15 April 2020 |
Final version due: | 15 May 2020 |
Issue Appears: | July 2020 |
Guest editors:
Professor Chris McMahon | Associate Professor Ali Gürcan Özkil | Assistant Professor Stanko Škec |
Department of Mechanical Engineering | Department of Mechanical Engineering | Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture |
Technical University of Denmark | Technical University of Denmark | University of Zagreb |
Email: <chmcm@mek.dtu.dk> | Email:<alio@mek.dtu.dk> | Email: <stanko.skec@fsb.hr> |