Public Art Dialogue (PAD)

Public Art Dialogue , founded in 2011, is the first peer-reviewed journal focused on public art. It serves as a forum for original research engaging with public art practices from across the globe, both historical and contemporary. It views its role as enhancing and developing understanding and knowledge of an aspect of art production that is increasingly recognized as central to the ways in which countries, cities, communities and groups shape identities and values as well as ideas about agency and senses of belonging, or exclusion. The boundaries of the term “public art” are malleable, and this is reflected in the topics of scholarship published in the journal. Welcoming of submissions on outdoor sculpture or murals as well as memorials that are architectural in form, the journal also considers public art to be inclusive of, for example, landscape design projects and web-based works, temporal works involving performances or social interventions, as well as the display of works intended for the public sphere but exhibited in gallery spaces. Pertaining to art that is often commissioned, “public art” nonetheless includes unauthorized interventions such as graffiti and other unofficial reworkings of environments or guerilla projects. Relatedly, the journal recognizes that, while public art most often refers to art in urban settings, projects in rural and remote environments also fall within its ambit. The journal thus accommodates investigations of art initiatives that are found in city squares and streets as well as those in heritage sites or, for instance, the grounds and reception areas of corporations or institutions of any type (public or private) - whether these be schools, universities, transport hubs, meeting halls and shopping centers, amongst others.

Public Art Dialogue (PAD) is :-

• International, Peer-Reviewed, Open Access, Refereed, landscape design projects and web-based works, temporal works involving performances or social interventions, cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, landscape design projects, web-based works, temporal works involving performances , Online or Print , Semiannual Journal

• UGC Approved, ISSN Approved: P-ISSN P-ISSN: 2150-2552, E-ISSN: 2150-2560, Established: 2011,
• Provides Crossref DOI

• Not indexed in Scopus, WoS, DOAJ, PubMed, UGC CARE