Design (Plus) Research
International confererence

Politecnico di Milano, May 18-20, 2000

Organized by the PhD Programme in Industrial Design at Politecnico di 
Milano, Italy

"Supported by the European Commission, Research DG, Human Potential 
Programme, High Level Scientific Conferences"



Towards a culture of research in industrial design

The Ph.D. programme in Industrial Design at Politecnico di Milano 
welcomes the participants to the international symposium on the 
nature, models and cultures of research as taking shape within the 
boundaries of the disciplines of  industrial design, ranging from 
product design to visual design up to communication design, even 
extending to the new areas of design of interfaces and services.

The variety of orientations and experiences that are emerging at 
present from the international debate about the topic are a challenge 
for a symposium aspiring to offer to such an emergence not a series 
of status reports but a common ground - not necessarily a unit of 
ideas, rather a shared focus - for a culture of industrial design 
research.

The  nature and purpose of industrial design research; industrial 
design research  compared with other fields of research; methods and 
resources involved; new knowledge and skills generated; the critical 
reflection on the dimensions of historical, theoretical and 
empirical/experimental research in industrial design; industrial 
design research as the condition for disciplinary knowledge; the 
uncodified practices of industrial design research as well as the 
models of structured research are just some of the issues which will 
be debated during the three days conference works.

Resulting from an enlarged, active participation to the international 
call-for-papers launched for the conference, contributes to be 
presented at the conference are representatives of a large number of 
cultural and geographical contexts.

REVIEW COMMITTEE
Tomas Maldonado, Politecnico di Milano
Ezio Manzini, Politecnico di Milano
Victor Margolin, University of Illinois at Chicago


The conference is supported by the European Commission, Research DG, 
Human Potential Programme, High Level Scientific Conferences.


PAPER SUBMISSION
The call for papers was closed last December 31st, and papers were 
selected by the review committee formed by Tomas Maldonado 
(Politecnico di Milano), Ezio Manzini (Politecnico di Milano) and 
Victor Margolin (University of Illinois at Chicago) in January.


DEADLINES:
Final papers are due by March 31st, 2000.

LIST OF CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
The panels of confirmed speakers articulate about 80 scholars. The 
list of speakers will be soon available on the conference website.


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UPDATED DETAILS ABOUT THE CONFERENCE ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE:

http://www.polimi.it/dpr


REGISTRATION
Registration is open up to March 31st, 2000.
The electronic form for registration is available at the conference website.

Conference registration:     200 USA dollars
Students:		          70 USA dollars


Conference fee includes lunches and  coffee breaks for the three days 
duration of the conference and a copy of the proceedings.


ACCOMMODATION
Participants are responsible for their own reservations for 
accommodation. The conference secretariat does not provide any hotel 
or travel bookings. However, the organizing staff negotiated special 
rates for conference participants:  details are reported on the 
conference website, menu item "accommodation".


PROGRAMME
Due to the large numbers of proposals and accepted submission, the 
conference has been extended to three days, from Thursday, May 18 to 
Saturday, May 20, 2000. The conference agenda will be soon on the 
conference web site.

Conference begins: 9.00 hours on Thursday, 18 May 2000
Conference ends: 18.00 hours on Saturday,  20 May 2000


Visit the conference web site for further information and details 
about participation:
http://www.polimi.it/dpr

Silvia Pizzocaro
Conference Organizing Committee Chair

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Prof. Silvia Pizzocaro
Politecnico di Milano
Dipartimento Di.Tec
via Durando 38/A
20158 Milano
tel.02 2399.5984
fax 02 2399.7270
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