CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE
Design and the Emerging E-commerce Environment
http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk/events/e-commerce/
A one and a half day conference organised by the
Department of Architecture, The University of Edinburgh
and
EUROPIA Productions, Paris, France
14 and 15 November 2000
Venue: University of Edinburgh
The term "e-commerce" is gaining currency with the
burgeoning of the Internet as a medium for
commercial transactions. Anyone with a credit card and a
networked PC can browse on-line
catalogues of books, computer games, clothing or airline
schedules, place orders and bookings
electronically and receive the goods and services by post
a few days later. This extension of
mail ordering provides a simple grasp of the potential of
e-commerce, and suggests its
extrapolation into other areas of commerce and design
practice.
There are some obvious links between e-commerce and
design. Such systems have to be
designed. There are artefacts to be designed to interface
with and house the electronic
environments, the hardware, the ubiquitous electronic
devices. But there are also design
implications of e-commerce for products, structures,
architecture, the city and planning. What
becomes of the concept of the product, commercial centre,
the home, the school and the
suburb in the light of e-commerce?
Design and e-commerce also come together as we think of
how design is to operate as a
practice within the emerging e-commerce environment. How
do designers participate in
business-to-business e-commerce, with other designers,
consultants and suppliers? How do
they market and deliver their services on-line? What tools
and services do designers need?
Designers design electronic environments. They also
populate them with their own activities.
The field is new, and the conference will canvas a broad
range of topics.
e-commerce
business to business e-commerce
the gift economy
ethics and e-commerce
network tools for designers
e-commerce and utopia
empowering consumers
e-commerce practice
critical theory and e-commerce
politics of e-commerce
re-configuring the local and the global
the electronic agora
virtual market places
mobile computers in the market place
on-line design services
on-line product information
Programme Committee
* Richard Coyne (Architecture: University of Edinburgh)
organiser
* John Lee (Informatics: University of Edinburgh)
organiser
* Paul Richens (Architecture: University of Cambridge)
* Alan Bridges (Architecture: University of
Strathclyde)
* Khaldoun Zreik (Informatics: University of Caen)
* Avon Huxor (Art and Design: Middlesex)
* Linda Candy (LUTCHI, Loughborough)
Contacts
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+44 (0) 131 650 2304
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+44 (0) 131 650 4420
Timetable
30 September
Submission of extended abstracts (approx. 2,500
words)
18 August
Notification of acceptance
8 October
Submission of final paper (electronic camera-ready
form)
14 & 15 Nov
Conference
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Richard Coyne (Room 2.60) Department of Architecture,
University of Edinburgh
Head of Department, Professor of Architectural Computing
20 Chambers Street EH1 1JZ Scotland
Tel: +44 131 650 2304; Fax: +44 131 650 8019; Mobile:
07971 856065
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Department Home Page: http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk/
Personal Home Page: http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk/~richard/
MSc in Design and Digital Media:
http://www.caad.ed.ac.uk/postgradstudy/MSc/
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