About the Journal

About

ISSN 2059-9978 (Online)

Drawing On emerged from a research symposium, Plenitude and Emptiness, held in Edinburgh in October 2013. Founded by Konstantinos Avramidis, Chris French, Piotr Lesniak, Maria Mitsoula, and Dorian Wiszniewski, it began as an initiative of the PhD Architecture by Design community at the University of Edinburgh, who served as the journal's curators. It is now sustained by an editorial board from Universities and organisations across the UK and Europe, and an international review board made up of accomplished senior scholars with interests in various aspects of architecture (e.g. design, theory, pedagogy, politics, culture). Building on the ambitions of that original symposium, Drawing On now provides a platform for developing topics associated with or addressed through design-led research into architecture. 

Drawing On is a peer-reviewed, Open Access journal. All content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY NC-ND) unless otherwise stated. There are no fees to access or publish in the journal.

 

Aims & Scope

Drawing On aims to promote a closer, more direct engagement between the author, their research material and the reader, all of whom play a role in creating an interestingly rich plenitude in architectural thinking and imagining.

The premise guiding Drawing On today is that design-led research involves, and indeed relies upon, multiple modes and means to fully elaborate its thinking. To this end the journal adds to the conventional format of a peer-reviewed journal an additional space of presentation intended to show design-research material in their native formats. Each article has multiple entry points, consisting of a formatted paper, including images and notes, and supplementary space for the elaboration of a design-research project (including video, audio, animation, photography, paintings, drawings, documentation of models, designed texts, etc.). The reading of the work involves reading across these multiple modes, allowing for various formats to take the lead in communicating the means, outputs and methods of design-led research. All of these formats can viewed online through the Drawing On website.

 

Publication Frequency

Drawing On is a biennial publication, publishing one issue every two years.

 

Journal Policies

Please see the Journal Policy page for information on preservation, copyright, licensing, open access, permissions, and privacy.

 

Indexing

Drawing On is indexed in the following databases:

  • ROAD
  • SUDOC

We are currently seeking indexing with various other databases.