RChD: creación y pensamiento

Cover of RChD: creación y pensamiento, No. 20, June 2026: olive green cover with dark brown wavy stripes on both edges, a white boxed "RChD" logo, a large white "20" and a university crest.
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A design journal of the Department of Design at the Universidad de Chile, published twice a year, in June and November, since 2006 and under its current name since 2016. It publishes research, creative work and critical reflection on design, with attention to social commitment, public responsibility and culture. It is free to read, uses double-blind peer review and accepts articles in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
RChD: Creación y Pensamiento is a non-profit periodical journal published twice a year, edited by the Departamento de Diseño of the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Chile. It was created in 2006 under the name "Revista Chilena de Diseño - RChD" and in 2016 it was renamed RChD: Creación y Pensamiento. The journal promotes and contributes to research, creation, critical thinking and reflection, linking transdisciplinary knowledge around Design, whose territorial and spatial scope is multiscalar, focused on social commitment, public responsibility and culture. RChD: Creación y Pensamiento is published in open access regularly in the months of June and November each year. The journal has an international Scientific Committee that collaborates in defining its contents and in supporting their strategy and quality. It receives articles written in Spanish, English and Portuguese. It includes authors and reviewers with diverse specialities and backgrounds. Published articles undergo a double-blind peer review process. The Editorial Team oversees the editorial and ethical supervision of the publication. Each article has a DOI code, which allows its preservation and later retrieval.

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