About the Journal

RChD: Creación y Pensamiento is a biannual non-profit journal published by the Department of Design of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Chile. It was created in 2006 under the name Revista Chilena de Diseño - RChD. 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 scopes are multi-scale and focused on social commitment, public responsibility, and culture.

RChD: Creación y Pensamiento regularly publishes with open access in June and November. The journal has an international Scientific Committee that collaborates in the definition of strategic support and the quality of its contents. It receives articles written in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. It incorporates authors and reviewers with diverse specialties and backgrounds. Published articles undergo a double-blind peer review process. The Editorial Team ensures the Editorial and ethical supervision of the publication. Each article has a DOI code, which allows its preservation and subsequent search.

RChD: Creación y Pensamiento organizes the contents of each issue into editorials, articles, and other Content. The Editorial presents and opens the central topics and issues of each publication. The Articles section includes works that arise from a thematic call for papers edited by national or international guests, announced periodically and specifically through a public call for papers. Other Content includes occasional articles from the permanent call for papers, essays, reviews, and interviews.

RChD: Creación y Pensamiento publishes on themes and areas of interest such as the history of design and form, practices and knowledge with transdisciplinary approaches, critical thinking of future worlds in the global sphere and the Latin American approach, which have included reflections on the affective, materialities, crafts, literacy, products in times of crisis, legal Design, Design and anthropology, Design and feminisms, among others.

ISSN en línea 0719-837X

ISSN impreso 0719-8426