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FormAkademisk – research journal of design and design education – is a peer-reviewed scientific forum for the documentation of design and design education research from a perspective of innovation and sustainability. The journal define design as a generic term in line with Herbert Simon, who says that ‘Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones’ (Simon, 1969, p. 55). The term design is here seen as a collective concept incorporating the best within the field of art and the best within the field of craftsmanship. The scientific journal FormAkademisk has its origins in the National Assosiation of Art and Design in Education (in Norwegian Kunst og Design i Skolen, KDS). KDS publishes the professional journal FORM; the only journal for teachers of design, art & crafts in early childhood education, primary school, upper secondary education and art & crafts teacher education in Norway. KDS had for a long time seen the need for the establishment of an academic scientific journal in addition to their professional journal FORM and had therefore since 2002 been working towards materializing an academic journal. In the preparations for the establishment of an academic journal for the field of design, art & crafts in 2007, it was therefore natural to give the new scientific publication the name FORMakademisk. In 1995, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) opened up for artists, designers and art & crafts teacher educators to follow AHO’s Ph.D. program, for then to graduate as doctors within their fields of competence. Those who started FORMakademisk were doctoral students and a professor at AHO, who also became the first editorial team. Research in design and design education was broadly defined to include research within the fields of architecture, art, and art & crafts education. We publish articles whitin fields such as industrial design, visual communication, interaction design, architecture, landscape architecture, urbanism and design education at all levels from kindergarden to the doctoral level. The journal is aimed at those involved in design research as defined by the higher education system in the Nordic countries and internationally. Our purpose is to present cutting-edge scientific insight in a form that is accessible to all who might benefit from this information. We also aim to bring new life to this field of research by providing overviews of high-quality literature and free access to the journal’s own articles. We aim to become the most important academic forum for design research and artistic development in the Nordic countries. The articles are published in Norwegian, other Scandinavian languages, or English. Contributions are expected to be of high academic quality and will be submitted to a rigorous, systematic peer-review process. The Editor-in-Chief carries full editorial responsibility according to the Norwegian Rights and Duties of the Editor. However, he/she takes the initiative to consult with the editorial team and editorial board. It is, therefore, the members of the editorial team and editorial board that provide a collective endorsement of the professional quality of the information published in the journal.