Discern

Aims & Scope

DISCERN is a scientific and cross-disciplinary open-access journal with blind peer review, which publishes articles in the broad and multi-faceted area of design for social change and social innovation. Through original conceptual, theoretical, and empirical research articles, it promotes and shares interdisciplinary and diverse knowledge related to the research and practice of design for social change, sustainable innovation, and entrepreneurship in an open, global and multidisciplinary perspective. The authors and readers of this journal are educators, academics, researchers, practititoners, postgraduate students, and scholars from the fields of social design, innovation, entrepreneurship, and social sciences, as well as practitioners in the broad area of social design at national and/or international levels, interested in the global debate on the current environmental, social, economic and cultural societal challenges.

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