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About This Journal
Everyday Life
Everyday Life is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring the relationships between public culture, design, art, urban space, media, and everyday experience. Published biannually as a free open-access journal, it brings together academic research, visual culture, artistic practice, exhibition criticism, and experimental forms of inquiry that engage with the ordinary conditions of contemporary life.
The journal begins from a simple but increasingly urgent observation: everyday life is never neutral. Streets, interfaces, buildings, infrastructures, advertisements, domestic spaces, public images, objects, platforms, and forms of routine behaviour are all shaped by wider social, political, economic, and cultural forces. At the same time, everyday environments also remain sites of creativity, negotiation, conflict, memory, imagination, and public expression.
In recent years, public life has undergone profound transformations. Cities are increasingly mediated by digital systems, commercial images, logistical infrastructures, surveillance technologies, branding strategies, and forms of algorithmic governance. Public space has become simultaneously more connected and more fragmented; more visible and more controlled. Design now extends far beyond objects and aesthetics into the organisation of attention, behaviour, mobility, communication, and social relations themselves. Yet despite these changes, everyday life often remains overlooked precisely because it appears ordinary.
Everyday Life seeks to examine these conditions critically and creatively. The journal is interested not only in how contemporary environments are designed and governed, but also in how they are experienced, interpreted, appropriated, resisted, documented, and reimagined through artistic, spatial, and cultural practices.
Positioned across art and design studies, urban studies, architecture, visual culture, media theory, cultural geography, anthropology, sociology, and curatorial practice, the journal encourages dialogue between scholars, designers, artists, architects, filmmakers, curators, writers, and independent researchers. We are particularly interested in interdisciplinary work that crosses conventional boundaries between theory and practice, research and criticism, academic inquiry and cultural production.
Operating as a free open-access publication, all content in this journal is freely accessible online without subscription fees or article processing charges (APCs).
Aims and Scope
The journal welcomes original contributions addressing themes including, but not limited to:
Design and everyday life
Urban space and public culture
Spatial politics and governance
Critical design studies
Speculative design
Everyday studies and its methodology
Art, curation, and exhibition-making
Architecture and the social production of space
Infrastructure and material culture
Media environments and visual communication
Public space, participation, and appropriation
Digital urbanism and platform urbanism
Memory, representation, and visual archives
Mobility, circulation, and spatial experience
Design, labour, and neoliberalism
Curatorial practice and exhibition studies
Design anthropology and ethnography
Everyday aesthetics and visual culture
Experimental and speculative design practices
Informal urbanism and grassroots spatial practices
Environmental design and ecological everyday life
Socially engaged art and public interventions
The journal encourages interdisciplinary dialogue between scholars, designers, architects, artists, curators, filmmakers, and independent researchers.
Types of Contributions
Research Articles
Peer-reviewed scholarly articles offering a clear academic contribution to the current issue theme through theoretical, historical, methodological, empirical, interdisciplinary, or practice-informed research.
Practice Review Articles
Critical reflections by artists, designers, architects, curators, filmmakers, photographers, cultural workers, and practice-based researchers on exhibitions, projects, visual research, spatial interventions, or creative practice.
Conversations and Interviews
Dialogues with artists, designers, architects, curators, researchers, and cultural practitioners.
Field Notes
Short observational or reflective texts engaging with everyday environments, public culture, spatial practices, material conditions, or situated experiences.
Open Access Statement
Everyday Life is committed to free and open knowledge exchange.
The journal operates under a Diamond Open Access model:
No submission fees
No article processing charges (APCs)
Free access for all readers
Authors retain copyright of their work unless otherwise stated.
