Base Diseño e Innovación is a bilingual academic journal established in 2014 by the School of Design at the Universidad del Desarrollo. Its mission is to highlight the transformative role of design in driving innovation processes that enhance quality of life while creating social, economic, and cultural value. The journal fosters interdisciplinary academic dialogue and connects key stakeholders from academia, industry, government, and civil organizations, along with professionals and scholars across all design fields. It aims to spotlight emerging areas of design development and promote global collaboration among researchers. By providing open, immediate, and free access to its content, the journal contributes to the democratization of knowledge and the exchange of ideas worldwide.

Announcements

BDI Call for papers: Undergraduate Design Research

2026-08-04

Base Diseño e Innovación invites students, recent graduates, and academics from design schools to publish the results of research conducted in undergraduate educational settings in its new permanent section, Undergraduate Design Research. 

This initiative seeks to make visible research that contributes to the development of disciplinary knowledge in design by promoting the academic dissemination of experiences, methodologies, and findings that often remain outside the channels of scholarly publication. 

The section will be led by an international editorial team comprising Úrsula Bravo (Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile), Giovanna Danies (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia), Carolina Obregón (Parsons School of Design, USA), and Adele Orcajada (Elisava, Spain). 

Learn more about the thematic areas, submission requirements, and editorial process. 

Current Issue

Vol. 11 No. 13 (2026): ​​​Design and Artificial Intelligence: Ethical, Plural, and Situated Perspectives

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming creative, educational, and research practices in the design field. However, these transformations unfold within unequal global frameworks in which certain perspectives, languages, and cultural traditions have gained greater visibility and influence than others. This special issue seeks to broaden the debate by incorporating critical, situated, and plural perspectives that help understand and reimagine the relationship between design and AI beyond dominant approaches.

Guest editors:
Ross Brisco, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Marco Vinicio Ferruzca, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico
Valeria López Torres, North Carolina State University, United States
Andrés Téllez, North Carolina State University, United States

Published: 2026-07-31

Special issue

Designing from Some-Where:

Generative AI and Foreclosed Futures in Design

Caroline Vogel, Sven Quadflieg
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Shaping Human-Driven Validation in AI-Integrated Design Education

Jinoh Park, Soo Jeong Jo
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UX design meets GenAI:

Emerging practices from job postings in Singapore

Filipe Honorato, Ricardo Sosa, Violeta Clemente
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Undergraduate research

Explorando géneros periodísticos para la indagación reflexiva de la historia del diseño

María de los Ángeles Moreno
PDF (Spanish)

Diseño sistémico como agente epistémico:

Aportes a la investigación científica aplicada

Javiera Rodríguez Birke, Katherine Mollenhauer, Cala Del Río, Kay Bergamini
PDF (Spanish)

Open section

Diseño de aislación termoacústica con bioplásticos cítricos en estación intermodal

Manuel Lara Yáñez, Cristóbal Moreno Muñoz
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