Call for Papers /// Issue 01 — ENCOUNTERING ECHOES: ECHOING ENCO – Studio Note: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Art and Design

Issue 01 — ENCOUNTERING ECHOES: ECHOING ENCOUNTER

Studio Note: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Art and Design

Submission deadline: 10 January 2026

About Studio Note

Studio Note is an open-access, peer-reviewed, and practice-led annual journal published by th  Institute of Creativity and Innovation (ICI). Conceived by a community of researchers and

practitioners whose identities as educators, makers, and thinkers are deeply intertwined, Studio Note is a space for creative and meaningful research—research that values care, curiosity, and speculation over productivity and publication counts.

This journal is an act of collective self-care; a space to nurture our voices as researchers and practitioners who teach, make, and think in conversation. It invites us to reflect on who we are when we research; and how our practices—finished, unfinished, uncertain, and evolving—are able to echo across disciplines and encounters.

Editorial Vision

Studio Note 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.

Issue Theme: Encountering Echoes — Echoing Encounter

Following Rolf Hughes’ notion of exposition (2015) as the act of creating a field of encounter, this inaugural issue reframes exposition as a space of echoing—a resonance between the seen and unseen, the said and unsaid.

To encounter is to come up against what resists assimilation—an idea, a material, a history, a theory, or another being. To echo is to let that encounter reverberate and transform. Between encountering and echoing lies an ethics of care, speculation, and reciprocity—a willingness to stay with what is incomplete, uncertain, or even misread.

In line with the Arts of the contact zone (Pratt 1991), encounters are never neutral; they unfold in zones of tension, translation, and transformation. Similarly, Studio Note treats encounter and echo as creative and critical forces that shape our practices, pedagogies, and therefore our identities. We invite contributions that explore encountering and echoing as speculative and performative acts of research.

We ask:

• How do encounters—between disciplines, materials, histories, theories, or bodies— generate speculative forms of knowing?

• How can exposition become a performative and ethical act, staging the unfinished and the misunderstood as productive?

• What happens when research and pedagogy are treated as fields of meeting, echoing, and care rather than control or mastery?

• How can misreading, miscommunication, and incompleteness become sites of creative potential rather than failure?

Submission Categories

Studio Note welcomes interdisciplinary and experimental contributions that reflect the speculative nature of research. Each category invites a different mode of exposition:

1. Notecards — Fragments and Traces

o Up to 2 images or drawings with 300 words.

o Small visual or textual reflections that capture moments of encounter or unfinished thought.

o A space for beginnings, missteps, and echoes-in-progress.

2. Field Notes — Practices in Motion

o Up to 1000 words with 6–12 integrated images.

o Reflective accounts of creative processes, experiments, or pedagogical encounters.

o Emphasising how research emerges through making, collaboration, and speculation.

3. A Note On… — Essays and Expositions

o Up to 1750 words and 2–5 images.

o Short critical or theoretical essays that explore encounter, echo, and exposition as speculative acts.

o Open to practice-based, written, or hybrid submissions.

4. Exchange Notes — Conversations and Reviews

o 500–1000 words, up to 2 images.

o Reviews or dialogues on books, exhibitions, performances, or projects resonating with the issue theme.

o Encouraging exchange across disciplines and modes of practice.

Submission Details

Please submit a 100-word proposal, title, and 3–5 keywords by 10 January 2026 to: studionote@uca.ac.uk

• Notification of acceptance: February 2026

• Full submissions due: April 2026

• Publication: June 2026 (online) and September 2026 (print)

All references should follow Harvard style. The word count for each section includes references and the bibliography.

Editorial Board

Gareth Jones, Jorge Valdovinos, Raynal Somiah, Laura Yuile, Ben Thompson, Daniel Harding, Ruehl Muller, Zihong Yue, Niloofar Amini.

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