HUB | Open Call #7: Post Organic Infrastructures and Alien Ecologies
HUB, the Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, is a peer-reviewed open access journal with two issues per year. The call for issue #7 is open, inviting contributions that examine infrastructures as more-than-human ecologies, perceptual systems, and speculative laboratories.
Theme
The HUB's new issue explores post-organic ecologies: the emerging entanglements of biological, technological, and planetary systems. Machine learning infrastructures, microbial-material hybrids, and planetary feedback loops now operate as distributed agencies that challenge inherited ideas of nature, technology, and the human.
Artistic research offers a crucial way to think and feel through this shift. Artists, designers, scientists, and theorists are increasingly working across disciplinary boundaries, using practice-based and interdisciplinary methods to engage infrastructures not only as objects of critique but as speculative laboratories. Through making, prototyping, staging, modelling, and experimental systems, new forms of vitality, perception, structure, and politics can be sensed, tested, and articulated.
This issue explicitly invites submissions from artistic practitioners and practice-based researchers across art, design, media, and digital practices, including interdisciplinary art–science work and philosophically engaged artistic practice. Practice-based contributions are central to the scope of this issue, with making recognised as a primary mode of knowledge production.
Article types
HUB accepts the following types of articles:
- Full paper submissions
- Short paper submissions
- Project-based articles (exhibitions and/or reviews)
Attention to artwork as infrastructure or infrastructure as artwork.
HUB encourages proposals using visual, graphic, sound or any other media, including original artwork that embodies artistic research in its multiple forms.
Submission
The submission deadline is 30 April 2026.
More information is available on the website of the HUB.