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Editors-in-Chief | Alphabetic Order
Dr Niloofar Amini, Lecturer in Environmental Design, University For Creative Arts
Dr Gareth Jones, Senior Lecturer in Design & Media: Research & Theory, University For Creative Arts
Dr Jorge Valdovinos, Lecturer in Design & Media: Research & Theory, University For Creative Arts
Dr Laura Yuile, Lecturer in Digital Media Arts

Associate Editors | Alphabetic Order
Dr Eman AlHabashneh, Professor of American Ethnic Literature and World Cinema, The American University of Madaba
Dr Francesca Brunetti, Lecturer in Design & Media, ISI Florence
Ruehl Muller, Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication Design, University For Creative Arts
Dr Mohammed Ali Sharieff, Principal Architect CHAND Associates, Coimbatore, TN, India
Raynal Somiah, Lecturer in English For Academic Purposes, University For Creative Arts
Dr Yvan Tina, Lecturer in Digital Media Arts
Zihong Yue, Lecturer in Environmental Design, University For Creative Arts

Contact Us | studionote@uca.ac.uk
ISSN: 2978-8080 (Print)
E-ISSN: 2978-8099 (Online)

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About Studio Note

Studio Note is an open-access, peer-reviewed, practice-led annual journal published by the University For Creative Arts. It is conceived by a community of researchers and practitioners whose roles as educators, makers, and thinkers are deeply intertwined.

The journal provides a space for creative and reflective research that values care, curiosity, and speculation over metrics of productivity and publication. As a form of collective scholarly care, Studio Note nurtures voices engaged in teaching, making, and thinking in dialogue. It invites contributors to reflect on who they become through research, and how practices—finished or unfinished, certain or uncertain—can resonate across disciplines and encounters.

ISSN: 2978-8080 (Print)
E-ISSN: 2978-8099 (Online)

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Studio Note Journal envisions research as a way of doing and becoming. We envisage each submission as a space that both documents encounter and reimagines boundaries—between theory and practice, self and community, the given and the yet-to-be-imagined. Our peer-review process is collaborative and dialogical, grounded in mentorship and openness. We understand exposition not as the display of knowledge but as a site of encounter and resonance, where vulnerability, miscommunication, and incompleteness hold generative potential.

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STUDIO NOTE JOURNAL Nº2

PRE-FIX: MISALIGNMENT AND CREATIVE PRACTICE OTHERWISE

Pre-Fix: Misalignment and Creative Practice Otherwise explores how creative practices can respond to conditions where established systems, methods, and scales no longer align with complex ecological, social, and/or technological realities. Rather than understanding misalignment as a failure to be corrected, this issue considers disruption, uncertainty, and displacement as productive conditions through which alternative forms of thinking, making, and learning can emerge.
Focusing on three interconnected conditions—crisis, scale, and pedagogy—the issue examines how creative practices navigate ecological and social challenges, tensions between local actions and wider planetary systems, and transformations in knowledge production. Within these shifting conditions, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence further challenge existing relationships between authorship, learning, and creative processes.
Through critical essays, artistic practices, design research, and pedagogical experiments, the issue explores how misalignment can generate new ways of sensing, creating, and imagining otherwise.

We invite contributions that explore:

• How can creative practices engage with ecological, social, or technological crises by working through conditions of uncertainty, disruption, and misalignment rather than seeking only to repair or correct them?

• How do questions of scale reveal tensions and new relationships between bodies, environments, technologies, and wider ecological, social, and infrastructural systems?

• How might creative education respond to the shifts and misalignments introduced by AI and emerging technologies?

Submission Details

Please submit the full submission by 28 October 2026 to: studionote@uca.ac.uk

All referencing styles are accepted at the initial submission stage; however, references must be used consistently throughout the submission. If accepted for publication, the final version must follow Harvard referencing style.

Please find the full Call for Papers attached below for your reference.