Issue II: Call for Papers and Projects
Topic: Design + Livable Communities

The Interdisciplinary Design and Research e-Publication (IDRP) issues this call for papers and projects for its second volume, to be released January, 2008.

The theme of IDRP Volume II is Design + Livable Communities. In keeping with our commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry, we welcome the broadest possible range of interpretations for what “Design” and “Livable Communities” can mean.

We invite submissions from the following disciplinary domains: the natural sciences, the social sciences, health care/public health, the arts, the design disciplines, from the academic and business worlds, and from public and private sectors.

All submissions will be considered for peer review, provided that the submission interweaves design and livable communities in a well-defined way.

Topics can include, but are certainly not limited to, the following:

• Cultural factors influencing livable environments
• Livability and the Arts
• Public heath/policy and built environments
• Community livability versus globalization
• Sprawl, New Urbanism, and downtown centers
• Lessons on community livability from history and vernacular traditions
• Collaboration and livability
• Sustainability and a less automobile-dependent future
• Livability in the age of the Internet

Papers are limited to a maximum of 5,000 words, double spaced, 12 pt Garamond font preferred. Deadline: May 31, 2007, by email transmission in WORD (see below).

Projects can be designs of a built (or un-built) form of any scale, so long as an accompanying narrative explains how the project addresses design and livable community. Initial submission shall be a one page document providing an image of the project with a narrative explanation of sufficient length to fit on the same page. Deadline: May 31, 2007, by email (see below).

All submissions must include contributor(s) name, affiliation, and contact information on a separate page in WORD. Submission shall be by email only to David Wang, davewang@wsu.edu.Please contact same with any questions.

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