[Commlist] CFP: Designing for Play as Cultural Participation in Childhood. Seeking New Grounds

Call for papers, special issue of "Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary 
Journal of Cultural Participation" (Sciendo/De Gruyter: 
https://www.sciendo.com/journal/TJCP)

Title: Designing for Play as Cultural Participation in Childhood. 
Seeking New Grounds.

This special issue of "Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of 
Cultural Participatio"n invites contributions that explore children's 
play as cultural participation and production empirically and 
theoretically, especially in how we can design for cultural 
participation and production. The recognition of the importance of play 
in childhood is deeply rooted in the Nordic research on child culture. 
For years the Nordic studies of children have been defending children's 
right to unguided play, driven by the participants as a fundamental 
condition for participatory cultural practice in childhood. At the same 
time, the conditions for children's play have changed fundamentally, and 
as a result of this, the conditions for children having the 
possibilities to explore their capacity as cultural producers have also 
changed. We have seen a decline in children’s traditional and 
self-governed participatory play culture. The unguarded play has become 
scarce, replaced by monitored places and transparent architecture in 
day-care, kindergarten, schools, and homes. This creates new challenges 
for contemporary play research and practices if we still want to promote 
play as cultural participation and production.

The question is how we can design for play, driven by the participants. 
Design for play in that sense demands high awareness of how we think and 
define play in theory as well as in everyday practice, addressing the 
possibilities for participation as productive play culture.
Topics may include:
● Designing for
o Play in children's everyday life
o Play and technology
o Play and materialities
o Play and creativity
o Playful in institutional settings
o Play and music
o Play as aesthetic practices
o Play as a democratic practice
o Play and digital media
o Play and humour

Articles should be between 6000-7000 words, incl. references, endnotes, 
captions and headings. All articles will undergo blind peer-review for 
final selection in the special edition. No APCs are required.

Timeline:
June 15, 2021: Submission of abstracts (500 words, title incl., 5 
keywords and author bio)
July 1, 2021: Editors´ decision on selection of abstracts for the 
special issue
November 1, 2021: Submission of full papers (7000 words, references and 
notes included)
November 2021-March 2022: Review phase
April 2022: Final submission of revised papers
June 2022: Publication of special issues

Any questions related to this special edition can be sent to the guest 
editors:
Helle Marie Skovbjerg, Professor. Design School Kolding. Denmark. 
(skovbjerg /at/ dskd.dk) Tilde Bekker, Professor. Eindhoven Technical 
University. Nederland. (M.M.Bekker /at/ tue.nl) Anne-Lene Sand. Post.doc. 
Design School Kolding. Denmark. (als /at/ dskd.dk) Liv Torunn Grindheimn. 
Professor. HVL, Norway. (Liv.Torunn.Grindheim /at/ hvl.no)

About the journal: https://www.sciendo.com/journal/TJCP


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