Sciences du Design

Cover of Sciences du Design, 22, Décembre 2025: a plain lavender-purple cover with only white text: the title, a large "22", the theme "Design(s) du Sud/Sud(s) du design ?" and three editors' names.
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An international journal of design research, founded in 2015 by Stéphane Vial and Alain Findeli and published twice a year by the Presses Universitaires de France, in partnership with the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the École de Design Nantes Atlantique. It covers all aspects of design and design research. It accepts work in French only, uses double-blind peer review, is free to read and charges authors nothing.
“How will we live tomorrow: that is what must determine all our research.” (Jacques Viénot, speech in Prague, 1929). Founded in 2015 by Stéphane Vial and Alain Findeli, Sciences du Design is an international, peer-reviewed, French-language journal of design research. Published in immediate, full open access by the Presses universitaires de France and distributed online on the Cairn portal, it is supported by some ten academic and industrial partners. Based in Montreal, the journal is published in Paris. General and pluralist, the journal Sciences du Design explores all aspects of design and of design research. International, it relies on a scientific committee representing more than thirty teaching and research institutions, one third in France, one third in Canada and one third in other countries (Switzerland, Belgium, Denmark, the United States, Australia, Italy, Germany, Spain). […]

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