IEDAs is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal (ISSN 3104-994X) committed to showcasing both emerging and established practices that operate across, between, and beyond disciplinary boundaries. Aligned with the ethos of its institutional home at Beaconhouse National University, particularly the Mariam Dawood School of Art and Design, under the auspices of the UNESCO Chair on Inclusion Through Art, the journal positions itself at the intersection of artistic, design, and research-based methodologies, foregrounding inquiries that engage with material, social, and conceptual transformation.

IEDAs responds to the growing need for scholarly and practice-based platforms that acknowledge the shifting contours of art and design in the 21st century. It invites contributors to reflect critically and speculatively on how transdisciplinary practices can reframe our understanding of knowledge, collaboration, and lived experience.

Working across media, disciplines, and geographies, IEDAs supports a diverse range of submissions – textual, visual, performative – highlighting practice-as-research as a valid and urgent mode of knowledge-making. It aims to become a site where pedagogy, aesthetics, and criticality converge; where designers, artists, and researchers share work that is both situated and speculative.

IEDAs is an initiative of the Inclusion Through Art program at BNU, and benefits from the guidance of an international editorial board and an active advisory council. It is made possible through the support of the South Asia Foundation and Madame France Marquet, whose continued commitment to regional collaboration and cultural dialogue underpins this project. The journal also draws upon the pedagogical and artistic legacies of the UMISAA (UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute for South Asian Arts) program.

With this first volume, IEDAs inaugurates a space for rigorous, expansive, and situated inquiry, welcoming contributions that reimagine the possibilities of transdisciplinary artistic and design research.

For more information, to contribute, or to support future volumes of IEDAs, please contact ieda.journal@bnu.edu.pk