On Being the Journal of Record for Interior Design by Margaret ...

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Now and in future JID will continue to seek to attract and publish the most original ideas and findings
worldwide.
significant theme. While the Journal has sporadically published special issues, now there will be a special issue
in each volume and an annual installations listing dissertations, theses, and creative projects. Further, the
Journal will be alternating history-focused special issues with contemporary topics keeping us firmly rooted
in the past, present, and future. This rotation began with the double issue on sustainability (JID: 37.1-2)
followed by Time: People + Products + Processes (JID: 38.1). Currently, manuscripts are being reviewed for
an issue on design collaboration (slated for JID: 39.1), with the most recent call soliciting manuscripts on
crafting a global history of interior design (JID: 40.1) with an anticipated publication date in the first quarter
of 2015.
The Journal of Interior Design in alliance with Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture is breaking new
ground by uniting to co-sponsor D’ÉTRE 2: Crafting a Global History of Interior Design at the Post-IDEC
Conference Symposium March 9–10, 2014 in New Orleans. The intent is to publish symposium papers
(double-blind reviewed following standard protocol) that will appear in one of the two sponsoring
journals. Therefore we are soliciting topics that explore contributions of past and present individuals and
firms; significant interiors and furnishings; professional definitions and interpretations; conservation and
preservation; the development of educational and professional standards with the goal of contributing to the
momentum of international scholarship in the field.
By underscoring our commitment to inform practice, JID abstracts of published essays and articles are being
featured in each issue of the ASID ICON. During the past 3 years, abstracts (along with a link to a gratis issue
of JID) have been shared with the ASID readership on net zero housing strategies informed by the Architects
Small Housing Service Bureau to Building Information Modeling simulations to scholarly inquiry on the
homeless shelter family experience. JID Perspectives continue to challenge orthodoxy; for example, consider
the essay on ‘‘Valuing the Intuitive: Reintroducing Design into Interior Design Education’’ (JID: 36.3).
Now and in the future JID will continue to seek to attract and publish cutting-edge research and scholarship
worldwide. At a time when seems to be realizing the importance of design from heightening security to
infusing technology in learning environments to empathetic healthcare environs, the mandate to disseminate
scholarship vis àvistheJournal of Interior Design could not be stronger. And JID’s commitment to rigorous
research of all varieties-mixed methods, qualitative, and quantitative-remains undiminished as we continue
to strive for expanded global reach and relevance. I would like to conclude with an excerpt from the Journal
of the Royal College of General Practitioners, which also applies equally to the role of the Journal of Interior
Design in the field.
I suggest that the literature of a discipline is in fact the heart of a discipline. Just as the heart is proof
of life, so is the literature proof that the discipline lives. Without a literature, a discipline is dead.
As the heart pumps blood to every part of the body, so the literature drives ideas and knowledge
to every part of the profession. As the body lives and grows, so does a discipline: it thrives on new
stimuli, it responds and adapts to them, and so becomes more appropriate to the discipline. (Gray,
1989, p. 232)
I maintain the Journal of Interior Design is in fact the heart of the discipline. It is the journal of record. As
the field continues to grow and evolve, so too must the Journal not only keep pace with change, but without
hesitation must remain at the forefront of interior design.
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