The Daniels Faculty is pleased to announce a new student-edited publication, titled Scaffold* Journal: A Process-Oriented Publication for Design & Spatial Inquiry. Created by student-run publishing collective SHIFT*, the journal will highlight various processes of research and inquiry across disciplines within the Faculty. An official call for submissions will be released in the new year, with the anticipated release of the first edition in April 2024.

“Scaffold* seeks work that investigates and interrogates the processes and practices that contribute to successful research,” the student group writes. “Publishing on fields of visual inquiry within disciplines relating to the built environment, Scaffold* intends to demystify the research process and present researchers with the opportunity to curiously and critically reflect upon their own creative and design processes. Our first volume will contain two editions, the first featuring entirely in-process work from our contributors and the second featuring this same work in its completed iteration, with a focus on critical considerations of the creative process from our contributors.”

The submission period will begin in January, with the journal open to all levels of scholarship within the Faculty. From undergraduate students and research assistants to emerging scholars, practitioners and doctoral candidates, all community members are invited to contribute insights into their processes of design inquiry and research.

In its transition from its original medium of the risograph zine, the SHIFT* Collective would like to also acknowledge the support it has received from the Daniels Faculty community through the production and launch of three thematic magazines over the past two years. The collective is grateful for the Faculty’s readership and is excited to continue working with emerging designers, scholars and artists in the next developmental phase.