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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 10 Number 2, Feb 2005 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o iASDR International Design Research Conference 2005
o Design Studies Award 2004
o Calls
o Announcements
o Web
o Book Reviews
o The Design Research Society: information
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to Design Research News
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EDITOR'S SPACE
Do note that the deadline for abstracts for the 2005
International Design Research Congress has been extended until
15 February...
David Durling
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INTERNATIONAL DESIGN RESEARCH CONGRESS
1-4 November 2005: International Design Congress - The
Conference of the International Association of Societies of
Design Research IASDR 2005. National Yunlin University of
Science and Technology, Taiwan 1-4 November
Please be informed that the deadline for the submission of
abstracts has BEEN EXTENDED to February 15, 2005. The 2005IDC
Committee has received a number of requests from those who are
facing their busiest time of the semes ter to postpone the
deadline. We hope that this extension will give all the congress
attendees enough time to prepare a good abstract for the
congress.
Theme
New Design Paradigms
Aims
The conference aims to provide all the participants an occasion
to share and exchange experiences and research findings, to
stimulate more ideas and insightful suggestions, and then to
promote the academic level of design study and design education.
Background
The development of digital technology and the information spread
has already had a tremendous impact on human life and thinking.
It also has had an influence on design and has let people
experience the importance and trend of combining digital
technology with design. Digital technology has come into the
main stream through both theory and practice of design. With the
coming of the Knowledge Economy Age, digital creative design is
an efficient instrument for the development of many industries.
A crucial issue in the design field is how to embed creativity
and culture into industries via digital technology and design in
order to improve the living environment. The tendency toward
change in the field of design might lead to a conversion of
design paradigm. Therefore, 'New Design Paradigms' is proposed
to be the theme of International Design Congress - IASDR 2005.
You can register and keep up to date at:
http://www.2005idc.yuntech.edu.tw/
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DESIGN STUDIES AWARD
We are pleased to announce the winner of the annual Design
Studies Award, 2004, for the best paper published in the
journal. The award is to be made to Marian Petre of the
Department of Computing, The Open University, UK, for her paper
How expert engineering teams use disciplines of innovation, Vol.
25, No. 5, pp 477-493.
Abstract
Innovation happens deliberately more often than it does by
inspiration. This paper describes disciplines applied by
effective multi-disciplinary engineering firms in nurturing
innovation in order to produce intellectual property in a
variety of domains, from telecommunications to medical
instruments. The report arises from a series of in situ
observations and interviews in 12 engineering consultancies in
the UK and US over 2 years. It describes strategies that expert
designers use to 'get out of the box' of familiar thinking, to
identify gaps in existing products, and to go beyond
'satisficing'. It describes the supportive engineering culture
in which these strategies are embedded. Finally, it identifies
the characteristics which distinguish the highest-performing
teams.
The Design Studies Award is made jointly by the journal
publishers, Elsevier Science, and the Design Research Society.
It comprises a certificate and a prize of UKP500. The criteria
for the Award, in order of priority, are: contribution to the
development of the field of design research, originality of
research or scholarship, breadth of relevance, and clarity and
style of presentation. Votes for the Award are cast by the
journal Editors and a group of Officers of the DRS.
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CALLS
13-15 SEPTEMBER 2005: EUROPIA.10: TENTH INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON DESIGN SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY, Damascus - Syria
Augmented Heritage: New era for Architectural Design, Civil
Engineering and Urban Planning
Knowing heritage and Learning from heritage by using ICT in
order to set up a new adapted built design era.
EuropIA.10 is focusing on the following statement: How ICT can
be used for the past to re-live and to conserve the
architecture, art and culture. For instance Virtual Reality has
been a powerful medium in this regard and can be much more when
coupled with knowledge engineering.
http://europia.org/EuropIA10
CALL FOR PAPERS AIEDAM SPECIAL ISSUE ON STYLE
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN, ANALYSIS AND
MANUFACTURING
AIEDAM Special Issue, August 2006, Vol. 20, No. 3
Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style Edited by:
Claudia M. Eckert & Ellen Yi-Luen Do
This special issue of AIEDAM will be devoted to papers concerned
with Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style.
Design of all disciplines involves the resolution of both form
and function. Many design artifacts exhibit visible qualities
and features that we call 'style'. While we can often recognize
a style easily, it can be difficult to define exactly what
elements of the design contribute to the style. Artifacts often
don't have only a single style, but display the style of an
area, a convention of practice, a manufacturer, a designer and
even a particular customer. We think of style as being
persistent over a series of objects and recognize it through the
similarity of these artifacts. Style is a relationship between
objects, but it influences how objects are understood and used:
i.e., relationships between objects and people.
Cultural and art historians, as well as design theoreticians,
have studied style from their different disciplinary
perspectives. However, we know little that is detailed and
concrete about how style is generated, deployed or appreciated.
This understanding is necessary for incorporating style into
intelligent computer applications. In this special issue we are
seeking to put together contributions that allow us to
understand what style is, how it works, how it can be supported
and how it can be regenerated.
Specifically, we are asking the following questions:
What constitutes a style? What are the mechanisms through which
style is generated, shared and appreciated? What does style in
different disciplines have in common? Are rules and constraints
part of the definition of style? Can the practices used to
analyze and generate style in one design domain be applicable in
a different field? Can we use systematic approaches and
methodologies to describe, understand and generate style? What
kinds of AI techniques are needed to represent and reason about
a style? Can styles be defined in functional terms as well as
structural terms? How is style recognized and how does the
notion of style influence the process and production of design
artifacts? What is the relationship between style and context?
Can a description of style be created automatically from one or
a set of artifacts? Where do the personal influences on style
and style perception come from? How important is style compared
to other attributes of a product as a success factor? What is
the function of style? Is style a meaningful concept beyond the
visual domains? What kind of computational tools have been built
to support engineering design, analysis and manufacturing
concerning style?
Further details about registration of interest, submission, etc,
can be found at the Special Issue information page:
http://code.arc.cmu.edu/~ellendo/aiedam/
BRITISH JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT - CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE ON ORGANIZATIONAL AND CORPORATE IDENTITY
The British Journal of Management (BJM) is pleased to announce a
special issue focused on recent advances and developments with
regard to scholarship in organizational and corporate identity.
This special issue will be guest edited by Professor John Balmer
(Bradford University School of Management), Professor Alex
Haslam (The University of Exeter) and Dr. Joep Cornelissen
(Leeds University Business School).
Over the last two decades the concept of 'identity' has moved
centre stage in management, marketing and organizational
research. Identity studies integrate different levels of
analysis - organizational (the identity of the whole
organization), collective (the social identity of groups within
organizational contexts) and individual (employees' individual
identities within organizational contexts). The salience of the
identity concept is such that it has been seized upon by a range
of scholars from different management traditions (e.g.
marketing, corporate and organizational communication,
organizational psychology and strategic management), has opened
up various new avenues for theoretical development and research
(see, for example, the Academy of Management Review Special
Topic Forum in 2000), and is seen as significant by senior
managers and other key stakeholder groups.
The objective of this special issue is to publish within a
unified volume a collection of high quality papers spanning the
identity domain in management as a whole.. Consequently, papers
submitted for consideration should address traditional as well
as emergent themes relevant to the field which inform our
theoretical understanding and have implications for practice.
Papers can focus either on organizational or corporate identity
but preference will be given to papers that address both
'organizational identity' and 'corporate identity' from an
integrated perspective. In general, the guest editors' goal is
to encourage creative and imaginative contributions that are
theoretically and/or empirically novel and engaging, rather than
to delimit the special issue by privileging particular topics or
perspectives.
Submissions. preferably sent electronically, either in Word for
Windows format or PDF, should be addressed to
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Alternatively, submissions should be sent in quadruplicate,
along with a diskette copy of the manuscript (in Word for
Windows format or PDF) to:
Dr Joep Cornelissen Leeds University Business School Maurice
Keyworth Building, University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United
Kingdom
Prospective contributors with questions concerning the potential
suitability of topics, Guest Editors' expectations, or
additional requirements about this special issue are invited to
contact directly by email either John Balmer at
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or Alex Haslam at
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Submissions should be received not later than 19th September
2005.
14-16 SEPTEMBER 2005: DESIGNS ON ELEARNING. University of the
Arts, London
Call for papers - Designs on eLearning, the inaugural
international conference in the use of technology for teaching
and learning in Art, Design and Communication will be held at
the University of the Arts, London between 14 and 16 September
2005. The conference aims to cast light on established practice
in the field, on innovations in teaching and learning with
technology, on the challenges and successes presented by the
visual nature of our discipline, and on the benefits of online
and blended learning.
Conference Themes include 1. Balancing acts: traditional
practices and technologies in Art, Design and Communication 2.
Reflective practice in eLearning 3. The role of Virtual Learning
Environments in Art, Design and Communication 4. Designing for
change in institutions 5. Innovations in teaching and learning
in Art, Design and Communication
Details of the conference including full list of themes,
registration and online submission of papers can be found at
http://www.arts.ac.uk/itrdu/conference/
Full Research Papers - Designs on eLearning invites the
submission of abstracts for consideration for full research
papers by 31 March 2005.
The conference Review Committee will make a decision in April
based on the abstract whether to proceed to full papers. The
submission deadline for the full paper will be 15 July 2005. The
abstract should consist of a description of the proposed paper
including reference to the problem, methodology and conclusions
of the work described.
The abstract should not exceed 300 words in length.
Short Papers - Designs on eLearning invites the submission of
abstracts for consideration for short papers lasting 15 minutes
with a short discussion to follow. The abstract should consist
of a description of the proposed short paper including reference
to the problem, methodology and conclusions of the work
described.
The abstract should not exceed 300 words in length.
Posters - There will be a limited space available for the
display of information relating to work in progress, ongoing
projects and research findings relating to the use of computers
in teaching and learning in art, design and communication. The
Designs on eLearning Committee will consider abstracts of no
more than 300 words for proposed posters.
The conference proceedings will be published in Proceedings of
Designs on eLearning 2005
12-17 May 2005: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS.
INTERNATIONAL e-CONFERENCE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE 2005 (IeCCS
2005)
It is important to keep in mind that you can attend the
Conference from your office PC or from any internet-enabled
computer you may choose
All participants who have paid their respective conference
registration fees will receive a login name and password before
the start of the e- Conference, in order to enable them to
access the e-Conference programme (this part of the website will
be restricted only to fully registered participants). Please
note that each login name and password will allow access to the
restricted part of the IeCCS website from only ONE internet-
enabled computer at a time (in other words: it will not be
possible to concurrently use the same login and password access
from a second etc computer).
If a whole Department or Group of people wishes to have access
to the e- Conference programme (12-17 May 2005), please contact
the General Chair for access registration fees. Please note that
this is in addition to any individual registrations from that
Department or Group and concerns ONLY the access issue, i.e. it
does not include submission of abstracts/papers. In such cases a
special login and password will be provided.
The aim of IeCCS 2005 is to bring together leading scientists of
the international Computer Science community and to attract
original research papers of very high quality. The topics to be
covered include (but are not limited to): Numerical Analysis,
Scientific Computation, Computational Mathematics, Mathematical
Software, Programming Techniques and Languages, Parallel
Algorithms and its Applications, Symbolic and Algebraic
Manipulation, Analysis of Algorithms, Problem Complexity,
Mathematical Logic, Formal Languages, Data Structures, Data
Bases, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Expert
Systems, Simulation and Modeling, Computer Graphics, Software
Engineering, Image Processing, Computer Applications, Hardware,
Computer Systems Organization, Software, Data, Theory of
Computation, Mathematics of Computing, Information Systems,
Computing Methodologies, Computer Applications, Computing
Milieu.
http://www.iecce.net/
22-24 AUGUST 2005: SG05: 5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON SMART
GRAPHICS. Frauenwoerth Cloister, near Munich, Germany
Smart Graphics is grounded in a deep understanding of human
abilities, activities, and desires. This understanding arises
through the integration of fields such as art, design, and the
social, cognitive, and perceptual sciences. Insights are
realised in the form of novel methods for producing and
interacting with rich graphical displays often utilising
established techniques from computer graphics, artificial
intelligence, and computer science in general.
Such interfaces present content that: (1) engages the user and
is esthetically satisfying; (2) participates in human cognition
as external or distributed representations; (3) is sensitive to
the real-time demands of the interaction in the context of the
available computational resources; and (4) adapts the form of
the output according to a wider set of constraints such as an
individual's perceptual, attentive, and motor abilities and the
nature of the presentation media and available interaction
devices.
The 5th International Symposium on Smart Graphics will bring
together researchers from computer graphics, vizualisation,
graphics design, cognitive psychology and artificial
intelligence, all working on different aspects of
computer-generated graphics. This year's meeting will be held in
the beautiful Frauenwoerth Cloister near Munich, Germany.
This year SG05 particularly encourages submission in the area of
visual analytics -- the art and science of analytical reasoning
facilitated by interactive visual interfaces. Visual analytic
interfaces are based on cognitive and perceptual principles to
support human information discourse using innovative interactive
techniques and visual representations. These are augmented by
the art of graphical design and interaction design and the use
of Artificial Intelligence in partnership with biological
intelligence. Testing these applications will require new
methodologies that move beyond usability to quantify the impact
of interactive visualization applications on perceptual,
distributed, and embodied cognition.
For a full description of the scope and details of previous
events see the website:
http://www.smartgraphics.org
29-30 JUNE 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS. THE FRAGMENTED FIGURE
CONFERENCE AND ASSOCIATED EXHIBITION Cardiff School of Art and
Design, Wales, UK
This project arises in response to the significant numbers of
artists who are now working with the human figure through the
medium of ceramics. Submissions for papers are invited from
artists and theorists engaging with the figure in ceramics or
other media. The closing date is 4 March 2005 and those
submitting abstracts will be informed of the outcome by 25 March
2005. Submissions can be of two kinds:
1. Academic Papers
Abstracts up to a maximum of four hundred words should be sent.
The time allocated for the conference presentations will be
twenty-five minutes. Time will be made available for questions
at the end of each group of papers. All papers will be published
in a special issue of Interpreting Ceramics
(www.interpretingceramics.com) and authors will be expected to
make available the text and any accompanying images by 1 August
2005.
2. Artists' Presentations
We welcome submissions from makers who wish to give
presentations about their work (up to twenty-five minutes in
length), and these must focus on a particular issue or set of
insights, which relates directly to the conference theme (see
www.fragmentedfigure.net ). This should be set out clearly in an
abstract of up to four hundred words, which should be sent with
slides or digital images (no more than twenty images).
Submissions are encouraged from artists in any media.
We intend to publish all the conference material in a special
issue of Interpreting Ceramics (www.interpretingceramics.com) so
that artists who give presentations at the conference will be
able to show their work on the Internet, accompanied by the
texts of their presentations. Texts and images must be made
available for preparation for publication by 1 August 2005.
Keynote Speakers are:
Doug Jeck, Artist and Associate Professor, University of
Washington, Seattle, USA, 'Cheating Time'.
Arie Hartog, curator at the Gerhard-Marcks-Museum, Bremen,
Germany, 'Marsyas: Remarks on the Relationship between
Fragmentation and Material in Modern Sculpture'.
Dr Eugene Joseph Dwyer, Professor of Art History, Kenyon
College, Gambier, Ohio, USA, 'Collecting and Casting the Bodies
of Pompeian Victims from 1769 to the Present'.
Dr Tessa Adams, Honorary Visiting Fellow in Psychodynamic
Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 'The
Threshold of the Real: Canalizing the Body as Object Art'.
http://www.fragmentedfigure.net
27 JUNE 2005: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FASHION MARKETING AND
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH, London College of Fashion. 2nd Call for
papers
Aspects of fashion and its related industries, have fascinated
observers, writers and academics for many centuries. Today it is
an area of study which draws together researchers from many
fields. In particular, there is a growing body of academics who
focus on the fashion industry not only in attempts to innovate
in business and design, but also to study it as a cultural
phenomena.
This symposium will provide a forum for researchers from
different fields to come together to explore current issues in
the fashion industry and its role in society. The day will be
include keynote speakers who will address issues relevant to
research in this field. We are pleased to announce that
Professor Margaret Bruce, Manchester Business School, has agreed
to be one of the keynote speakers.
Original papers are invited for this one day symposium for
researchers in the broad area of fashion management and
marketing. Papers may describe completed or proposed research
and contributions from new researchers and doctoral students are
particularly encouraged.
Abstracts should be sent as a word document by email to
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THE PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY PRIZE ESSAY COMPETITION
Practical Philosophy in conjunction with the Society for
Philosophy in Practice is pleased to announce the inaugural
Practical Philosophy Prize Essay Competition.
GBP 500 (five hundred pounds) will be awarded to the best
original, previously unpublished essay or piece of research in
the areas of practical philosophy and philosophy in practice.
Suitable topics include the discussion of philosopher's ideas
that have a bearing on how we should live, philosophical methods
that can be derived from them or the practice of philosophy in
areas such as philosophical counselling, Communities of Enquiry
and Socratic Dialogue.
Conditions of entry
All are eligible to enter, with the exception of members of the
committee of the SPP and and members of the Editorial Board of
Practical Philosophy.
All submissions will automatically also be considered as
submissions for publication in Practical Philosophy. Submissions
should not have previously been published or submitted elsewhere
for publication.
The judges decision is final; the prize may be split if two or
more entries are of sufficient standard, and may not be awarded
at all if no entries are of sufficient standard.
Young or previously unpublished authors, as well as those with a
longer publishing and research history, are encouraged to apply.
Those with a longer publishing history might want to present the
fruits of their research.
The closing date for entries is 1st March 2005.
Please send submissions to [log in to unmask] as a WORD
attachment.
Practical Philosophy
http://www.practical-philosophy.org.uk
Society for Philosophy in Practice
http://www.society-for-philosophy-in-practice.org
27-29 OCTOBER 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS. NEW VIEWS: REPOSITIONING
GRAPHIC DESIGN HISTORY
A two-day international symposium that takes a fresh look at
Graphic Design History and its relationship to design education
and professional practice
Venue:
School of Graphic Design London College of Communication,
University of the Arts London Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB
UK
The main aim of New Views is to offer a platform for proposing
new narratives of design practice, its history and to take into
account related areas of economics, philosophy, linguistics and
digital technology as well as visual and material culture. We
welcome submissions from a diverse range of backgrounds,
disciplines and design practices. This may also included papers
addressing relevant and related histories of typography,
illustration and photography/film.
Papers are sought for the symposium which focus on the following
areas:
National and cultural design histories Graphic Design History
and contemporary practice Graphic Design and philosophy Feminism
and Graphic Design History New historiographies of Graphic
Design Politics and Graphic Design History Economics and the
business of Graphic Design Graphic languages and alternative
histories Critical theory and Graphic Design History and
practice Digital and analogue: the return of the handmade
Education: developing curricula and Graphic Design History
Abstracts of no more than 500 words, together with full contact
details should be sent in MS Word or PDF format and copied to
both organisers:
Teal Triggs [log in to unmask]
Kerry William Purcell [log in to unmask]
Submission of Abstracts: 15 March 2005
23-24 MARCH 2005: COMPUTERS IN ART AND DESIGN EDUCATION (CADE)
POSTGRADUATE FORUM AND GENERAL MEETING 2005. Watershed, Bristol
Postgraduate research students who are involved with digital
media are invited to present their work the CADE Postgraduate
Forum. The forum aims to provide a safe environment within which
students can discuss their work and receive advice from fellow
students and academics.
In contrast to previous events this year's forum will take place
over two days and will also include presentations by invited
speakers addressing issues that affect research. This year we
will examine the topic of ethics within research, Confirmed
speakers so far include Alex Coulter, Arts Co-ordinator, Dorset
County Hospital and artist Elio Caccavale.
By way of supporting the event CADE will provide catering for
participants over the duration of the event as well as providing
a night's pre paid accommodation for up to ten students.
To submit a proposal please send abstracts of up to 500 words
for a presentation of around 20 minutes to [log in to unmask]
by Friday 25th February. You will be informed of the result of
this by Friday 4th March.
We would also like to invite postgraduate students considering a
career in research to attend. The presentation of work is not a
requirement for participation but if you have it in mind to
attend we would be grateful if you could inform us of that
intention by sending a mail to the same address. Attendance on
single days is also possible but once again please inform us of
your intentions.
17-20 NOVEMBER 2005: RINGLING SCHOOL OF ARTS AND DESIGN WILL
HOST THE SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY OF ETHICS
ACROSS THE CURRICULUM (SEAC). The theme will be "The Arts and
Social Responsibility." Artists and designers increasingly shape
not only the art of the gallery or museum, but also consumer
products, public and personal spaces, films and TV programs, and
corporate images. This long reach of the arts into everyday and
public life raises a variety of ethical issues pertaining to the
social responsibility of artists and those who teach them.
Government funding, artistic collaboration and appropriation,
sustainable design, freedom of expression, ethnic
representation, and commodification are just a sample of the
topics that arise as we attempt to assess the impact of artists
on society. How can we encourage aspiring artists and designers
to anticipate these issues and respond with a strong sense of
social responsibility? The conference will consist of
presentations by artists, ethicists, and representatives from a
number of other disciplines. Most conference sessions will be
held in Sarasota, Florida at the Holiday Inn: Lido Beach. Paper
proposals are now being accepted. Conference information and
the full call for papers can be downloaded from the SEAC website
http://www.rit.edu/ethics/seac
ELEARNING@GREENWICH/CONFERENCE/EXTENDING THE CLASSROOM WALLS.
Call for proposals
The University of Greenwich is organising its third one day
regional conference on eLearning at the Maritime Greenwich
Campus, London, on Wednesday, June 15th 2005. Building on
previous conferences, this event will focus on the ways that
teachers\trainers have employed eLearning within their own
sector in 'extending the classroom walls' ? the title of this
year's conference. It will provide an opportunity for
practitioners to outline examples of effective practice, share
the results of evaluation and indicate lessons learnt.
Potential contributions to the conference programme are now
being sought from practitioners. These should be in the form of
short case studies that clearly outline how eLearning has been
used to extend and enhance traditional forms of learning.
Guidelines for proposals, including a case study template, are
available from the conference web site at
http://www.gre.ac.uk/e-conference
Submitted case studies will also be considered for inclusion in
whole or part in a practitioners' guide to eLearning to be
published by David Fulton.
The deadline for receipt of proposals is Monday, 28th February
2005.
If you would like to discuss your proposal prior to submission,
please contact the conference organisers, Malcolm Ryan and Simon
Walker at [log in to unmask]
8-10 SEPTEMBER 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS. THE INFORMATION DESIGN
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2005, Sao Paulo, Brazil
We are pleased to announce the 2nd Information Design
International Conference 2005, which will take place in Sao
Paulo, in the Southeast of Brazil, on 8th - 10th September. The
purpose of the conference is to provide a forum for addressing
and discussing information design issues. This year the
conference will be a joint event with The 1st Brazilian
Conference of Information Design and the 2nd Information Design
Student Conference [CONGIC]. The events are organised by the
SBDI - The Brazilian Society of Information Design.
Conference themes
The following themes will be discussed at the Information Design
International Conference 2005:
- Education: aspects and issues regarding the role of
information design in education. Studies about information
design programmes in higher education, educational material,
methods and approaches for teaching and learning within an
information design perspective are sought.
- History and theory: historical and/or theoretical approaches
and contributions to information design. Researches on early
information design and designers, proposals of taxonomies,
frameworks and models are appreciated.
- Technology and society: aspects and issues of information
design concerning the use of technology by individuals and/or
its effects on society. Researches on topics such as
human-computer interaction, hypermedia design, broadcasting
design are welcome.
- Information systems and communication: the effectiveness of
information systems in communicating messages. Investigations on
instructional design, wayfinding information, sign systems,
graphic symbols, forms design are gladly received.
We will be delighted to have you joining in on the discussion of
these themes whether as a presenter or as a conference attendee!
Call for papers
You may submit your article for presentation (a) as poster or
(b) as paper on the Conference themes. We encourage authors to
submit ongoing research in poster format.
Papers proposals should be submitted electronically to the
Information Design International Conference 2005 at the e-mail
address [log in to unmask] Authors submitting proposals should
follow the guidelines for paper submission and should also fill
in the paper submission form. We look forward to receiving your
proposal!
Dates and deadlines
Papers submissions will be accepted until May 2nd 2005. Authors
will be notified by July of the results of the referees'
decision. You will find below some important dates and deadlines
authors should be aware of.
May 2nd Paper submissions
July 4th Results of the referees' decision
July Notification to authors
July Final conference programme
Contact us
For further information about the Conference, please, contact us
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MANAGEMENT AND THE ARTS
The contamination between management and the arts has shown
interesting developments in the recent past. While ten years ago
it would have been difficult to find papers or books by
management scholars drawing on arts organisations and vice
versa, increasing interactions between different professional
communities can be found, where management experts deeply
interact with musicians, museologist, performers etc. A similar
process is clearly part of the wider extension of economic
discourse to arts organizations, where the need to economize
within the crisis of welfare is a possible reason for such an
increasing interest. From another perspective, it is linked to
the issue of how will value be created in the future?
Interestingly enough, however, most of the research in the new
area takes a much more sympathetic view towards the arts, both
politically and methodologically.
The track aims at providing discussions between different
theoretical streams and empirical approaches to two major broad
questions:
- First there is the critical approach implying that working on
these organisations could be seen as a way to question many of
the views of mainstream management which are taken-for-granted,
under a variety of approaches that are "happening" in the
research: from a critique of managerialization processes of arts
organisations based on managerial rhetoric, to the understanding
of internal inconsistency of management studies in themselves,
to the study of organisational aesthetics and creativity
processes that these organisation can highlight more than
others.
- Secondly there is a constructive approach whereby the arts are
taken as model for value creation. Many European states have
launched programmes for design geared at making their industries
creative. This can again be seen as attempts to find new
resources based on aesthetics and the interpretation of both
heritage and visions for the future produced by artists. What
have been the effects of these attempts? Have mew economic
resources emerged in consequence of such approaches? Can art and
artists help discover and create sustainable new resources for a
future European Economy?
Submissions to the track: Please follow the information on how
to format and submit your paper as published on the EURAM 2005
conference web site
http://www.euram2005.de
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
INTERACTIVE IDEAS WORKSHOP, endorsed by IIID is completed. We
have finalized the "Interactive Ideas" workshop. we owe to many
thanks to every list member who supports us. You can visit 8
projects at
http://www.interaction-idea.info
NEW DIGITAL ART PROJECT for creating, converting and sharing
original mobile audio....
Use Freeloader to create your own mobile audio art!
Freeloader is a DIY ringtone creation and distribution
environment. It is a commission by UK based FACT (Foundation for
Art and Creative Technology) and created by Kisky Netmedia. It
allows users to input MP3, MIDI and WAV files and turn them into
original ringtone content. The web application converts audio
into ringtones suitable for over 350 phones allowing for
playback of experimental work for a wide user group.
The project is set to develop its content in 2005 through pupils
projects, artist lead workshops, and through input from remote
users - anyone who wishes to experiment with their own mobile
content.
If you are a sound artist, musician, composer, or mobile tone
enthusiast, or just want a new original ringtone you may like to
have a go at making your own tones using Freeloader. All
submitted content should be original and copyright free and will
be shared with the Freeloader community growing this resource of
user-generated content.
Freeloader was developed as part of FACT's Stream and Shout
Project.
For more information visit:
http://freeloader.fact.co.uk
For more information on Kisky Netmedia, visit:
http://www.kisky.co.uk
10-12 MARCH 2005: FACE TO FACE 5. Haus der Wirtschaft,
Stuttgart, Germany
The fifth edition of Face to Face is an international design
event aimed at all visual communicators and professional
designers from all disciplines.
http://www.design-center.de
18-19 MARCH 2005: SEMI-PERMANENT. Sydney Convention &
Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, Sydney, Australia
Semi-Permanent delves into the creative side of design.
http://www.semipermanent.com/sydney/index.html
12-15 APRIL 2005: 5th CREATIVITY AND COGNITION CONFERENCE.
Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, UK
The main theme of the conference is the creative process and the
creation of artefacts: understanding creative practice, art
works employing digital media and creativity support tools.
http://www.creativityandcognition.com
THE 3rd ENGINEERING AND PRODUCT DESIGN EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE will be organised by the School of Design and Media
Arts at Napier University, Edinburgh.
Conference Aims
The conference aims to explore novel approaches in design
education within the wider context of product design and
development. The theme 'CROSSING DESIGN BOUNDARIES' reflects our
wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with, and
integral to, modern design pursuits. For example, the
conjunction of anthropology and design, the psychology of design
products, soft computing and wearable products, new media and
design and how they can be best exploited within a product
design arena. Discussions about product design education and the
cross-over into these established fields are warmly welcomed as
are links between other specialist design areas such as
interaction design, jewellery design, furniture design, and
exhibition design which have been under represented at E&PDE
conferences in the past.
http://www.napier.ac.uk/dama
HONG KONG BETTER BY DESIGN
Hong Kong, China. Publisher: Polytechnic University, Hong
Kong, China. ISBN 988-97036-3-7. [log in to unmask]
This books sets out to illuminate the central role performed by
design, and particularly by the School of Design at the Hong
Kong Polytechnic University, in the economic present and future
of Hong Kong and China.
UNTIL DECEMBER 2005: DESIGN YEAR IN FINLAND. Helsinki, Finland
Design Year in Finland 2005 aims to inform the public of the
importance and potential of design as a creative resource and a
booster of competitiveness.
http://www.finnishdesign.fi
25 FEBRUARY - 3 MARCH 2005: DEVELOPING NARRATIVE GAMES
WORKSHOP, HFF, Munich, Germany
In this intensive five-day workshop, the participants will work
both alone and in teams to develop a design treatment for a
narrative game. They will begin by studying the fundamental
principles of computer game design, and then go on to explore
the relationship between interactivity and narrative. There will
be a few lectures, but most of the activities will be fully
hands-on, involving brainstorming, discussion, and presentations
from the participants to the group. By the end of the workshop
each team will have addressed a number of critical design
issues, including genre, platform, target audience, user
interface, the player's role, temporal structure, narrative
structure, character and back story creation, perspective, tool
set, and media usage.
The training is aiming in the first place at professionals
(developers, writers, producers, designers, programmers...)
coming from MEDIA member countries. Applicants coming from other
countries please contact the sagas office for details.
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~b7101dx/webserver/webdata/
6-8 JULY 2005: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DIGITAL ART AND
ONLINE GALLERY IV05 (D-ART)and 9th International Conference on
Information Visualisation, London
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV05/
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/IV05/DART.htm
26-29 JULY 2005: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS,
IMAGING AND VISION, Beijing, China
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/cgiv05/
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/cgiv05/DART.htm
21 FEBRUARY 2005: RESEARCHERS AND THE CULTURAL SECTOR. 10
Carlton House Terrace, London.
Exploring the relationship between researchers in HEIs and
museums, galleries and heritage organizations
The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) offers an annual
series of research strategy seminars on various themes
throughout the academic year. The seminars are designed to raise
and explore issues of strategic importance for the development
of research in the arts and humanities.
The first of this year's seminars will focus on the two-way
relationship between academic research and the museums,
galleries and heritage sectors. It will take place on 21
February 2005 at 10 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1.
How can researchers in HEIs establish, sustain and promote
relationships with museums, galleries and heritage
organisations? What can these relationships bring to academic
research in the arts and humanities? In what ways do our
museums, galleries and heritage organisations benefit from their
links with academic researchers, and to what extent is academic
research put into practice in the cultural sector? These, and
other issues, will be explored by our four keynote speakers and
through group discussion.
Speakers include:
Professor Dawn Ades, Director of AHRB Research Centre for the
Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Essex
Engaging academic research with the museums and galleries sector
Dr Carolyn Sargentson, Director of Research, Victoria and Albert
Museum Engaging museums and galleries with academic researchers
Dr Simon Thurley, Chief Executive, English Heritage How academic
research is put into practice in the heritage sector
Ms Sara Selwood, Principal Lecturer, University of Westminster
and Editor of The UK Cultural Sector: Profile and Policy Issues
(PSI, 2001)
The importance of cultural policy research and the relationship
of academics with public policy and funding bodies
We plan to start the day with registration at 9.45am, followed
by presentations from keynote speakers, and then a question and
answer session. A buffet lunch will be provided at 12.30pm,
with an opportunity in the afternoon for further group
discussion. The day will end with tea, at approximately 4.00pm.
For reasons of space, we may have to limit the numbers attending
the seminar, and we shall offer places on a 'first come, first
served' basis. Please fill in the attached form and fax it to
Claire Varley on 0117 987 6600 or email to [log in to unmask],
to let us know if you wish to attend this event. A charge of
UKP60 per head will be made, for which we will invoice you.
Replies by 11 February 2005 would be appreciated.
20-25 JUNE 2005: THE CULTURAL DIMENSION OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
VI. The Sixth Doctoral Seminar on the Cultural Embeddedness of
Marketing, Consumer and Organizational Research
Arranged by University of Southern Denmark - Odense Main Campus
OBJECTIVE OF THE SEMINAR
This doctoral seminar deals with the cultural dimension of
business research. The purpose of the seminar is to draw the
attention of researchers to cultural factors in business
research in order to broaden, deepen and update their
understanding of the phenomena they wish to examine in fields of
business.
The questions asked, the issues addressed and the methods used
in all research projects are embedded in a culture. A critical
self-awareness of this embeddedness not only raises the
scientific level of the research, but also enlightens the
researcher as it provides a new perspective not only in
cross-cultural but in all research.
For example, to renovate advertising, it is necessary to be
aware that contemporary consumers perceive themselves and
advertising in a different way than their parents did.
Postmodern consumers have a tacit understanding of semiotics.
They play different roles, sample different statuses, pursue
different ideals. Analyzing organizations requires an
understanding of the presentation of self, rituals and symbols,
and the cultural dimensions of communication. An appreciation of
cultural differences is mandatory to international marketing but
also to human resource management.
The purpose of this doctoral seminar is 1) to provide PhD
students and other researchers participating in the seminar with
insights about the cultural context of their research project -
a context of which they are not always aware, and have not
always been properly trained to take into consideration - and 2)
to help seminar participants in working on a cross cultural
project to improve their approach.
Some basic concepts and advanced methods of the cultural
approach to business research will be introduced by the faculty
who are working at the interface of cultural analysis and
business. Examples of how those concepts are fruitful to
contemporary business research will be given. Participants will
be helped by the faculty to perceive the cultural dimension of
their own research projects.
Furthermore, many a contemporary research project cannot fully
be captured by a single conventional discipline or method. A
cross-cultural and interdisciplinary theoretical and
methodological perspective is, therefore, at the core of this
seminar.
Among other approaches, emphasis is placed - depending on
faculty participation - on the relevance that theories
encountered in anthropology, cultural analysis,
ethnomethodology, ethnology, epistemology, hermeneutics, history
of ideas, literary criticism, phenomenology, psychology,
semiotics, social psychology, sociology, and systems theory have
for business research.
Keywords are: complexity, content analysis, creativity, culture,
exoticism, globalism, legitimacy, localization, meaning myths,
norms, relativism, rituals, roles, the sacred, status, symbols,
values, and Weltanschauung.
There will be an emphasis on each participant's own research
project, since the main purpose of this course is to enable the
researchers to reconsider their research project from
perspectives different from conventional business research in
order to generate more meaningful questions and alternative
hypotheses, as well as theoretical insights into their own
research, resulting in a more up-to-date, interdisciplinary,
reflexive research.
The seminar will achieve these objectives not only through the
exposure to the cultural context of business research as a
whole, but also through relying on the diversity of cultural
backgrounds and research traditions that the doctoral students
will bring with them. Therefore, the students will be requested
to present their research problems and research perspectives at
the beginning of the seminar.
Active participation during the seminar is a must. Readings
before and after the seminar will be required.
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MAY 2005: INSTITUTE OF DESIGN STRATEGY CONFERENCE
NextD is delighted to announce our support for and sponsorship
of the new Institute of Design Strategy Conference at the
Illinois Institute of Technology.
Early registration is now open. Space is limited.
http://www.id.iit.edu/events/strategyconference/
SARA: SCHOLARLY ARTICLES RESEARCH ALERTING - the table of
contents alerting service from Taylor & Francis.
Benefits of registering to SARA:
*Free service *Pre-publication contents alerts in text or html
format *Links through to the online article *Convenient and easy
to use *Alerts available by title and by keyword *Over 950
titles available including the following:
Journal of Engineering Design
All you need to do is register, and you will be sent contents
pages of the journal(s) of your choice from that point onwards,
in advance of the printed edition.
To register for this complimentary service, please visit:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/sara
DESIGN ISSUES 21:1 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Cover -Paula Scher/Pentagram
T.W. Allan Whitfield
Aesthetics as Pre-linguistic Knowledge: A Psychological
Perspective
Shahriar Sarmast
An Interview with Morteza Momayez
Sherry Blankenship
Outside the Center: Defining Who We Are
Carl Mitcham
Thinking Re-Vernacular Building (Photos by Marylee Mitcham)
Barbara Jaffee
Before the New Bauhaus: From Industrial Drawing to Art and
Design Education in Chicago
Thomas Leslie
The Pan Am Terminal at Idlewild/Kennedy and the Transition from
the Jet Age to the Space Age
Rizal Sebastian
The Interface between Design and Management
Book Reviews
Joanna Merwood
Twentieth Century Architecture by Dennis Doordan
Linnda R. Corporel
Technology and the Good Life, Eric S. Higgs, Andrew Light and
David Strong, eds.
Bruce N. Wright
Reyner Banham: Historian of the Immediate Future by Nigel
Whiteley
31 MARCH - 1 APRIL 2005: THE CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION
is pleased to announce that the second event to be held as part
of the EPSRC Network on Product Life Spans will take place.
The second in a series of Network on Product Life Spans events
will take place over two days with an afternoon research
workshop, evening social event, and full day policy seminar.
Participants are welcome to attend either part (i.e. afternoon
workshop or one day seminar) or both.
RESEARCH WORKSHOP - Thursday 31st March
This workshop will develop a research agenda on product life
spans covering a wide spectrum of perspectives: consumer,
design, industry, environmental and marketing. A paper based on
ideas for research raised in group discussion at the first
Network seminar will be circulated in advance. The aim is to
enable workshop participants to explore project priorities with
a view to developing funding proposals over the next 3 years. It
is hoped that either at the workshop, during the evening social
event or thereafter, participants will identify and exploit
opportunities for collaboration.
THROWING AWAY POLICIES SEMINAR - Friday 1st April
The throwaway culture that prevails in modern industrial nations
hasobjective of this workshop is to share experiences, discuss
successful models of teaching activities, and explore issues of
common concern, including the design of Interaction Design
curricula. The workshop intends to stimulate participants to
consider (and discuss) a range of organizational and pedagogical
issues that affect learning practices in the area of Interaction
Design.
We hope to achieve this by making available a range of exemplars
(provided by the participants themselves). We would therefore
ask each participant to write a brief description of your
interaction design course/center/institution utilising the
categories described in the guidelines available on line at:
http://www.idc.ul.ie/convivio/
To support this description we would also ask you to take a few
photographs of relevant artefacts and objects, of the different
learning situations, of some results of your class activities,
and of your institution/center. These descriptions/exemplars
will guide the discussions and explorations during the workshop
and provide some concrete material to which we can refer in our
discussions.
Please email your documents to [log in to unmask] and
[log in to unmask] by the 15th Feb.
Submission guidelines available on line at:
http://www.idc.ul.ie/convivio/
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_______objective of this workshop is to share experiences, discuss
successful models of teaching activities, and explore issues of
common concern, including the design of Interaction Design
curricula. The workshop intends to stimulate participants to
consider (and discuss) a range of organizational and pedagogical
issues that affect learning practices in the area of Interaction
Design.
We hope to achieve this by making available a range of exemplars
(provided by the participants themselves). We would therefore
ask each participant to write a brief description of your
interaction design course/center/institution utilising the
categories described in the guidelines available on line at:
http://www.idc.ul.ie/convivio/
To support this description we would also ask you to take a few
photographs of relevant artefacts and objects, of the different
learning situations, of some results of your class activities,
and of your institution/center. These descriptions/exemplars
will guide the discussions and explorations during the workshop
and provide some concrete material to which we can refer in our
discussions.
Please email your documents to [log in to unmask] and
[log in to unmask] by the 15th Feb.
Submission guidelines available on line at:
http://www.idc.ul.ie/convivio/
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WEB
THIS IS A RESEARCH DATABASE containing individual records for
over 20 000 photographic exhibits drawn from forty exhibition
catalogues published between 1839 - 1865.
http://www.peib.org.uk/
PRODUCT-LIFE-SPANS-NETWORK
Discussion list for the Network on Product Life Spans
This list is used by the EPSRC funded Network on Product Life
Spans to post information related to the Network. It also
intends to promote discussion and the transfer of knowledge
between those interested in this field.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/PRODUCT-LIFE-SPANS-NETWORK
SIGNS: http://www.artsigns.ac.uk) has been updated and many
signs changed/added.
We have also launched two new British Sign Language/English
online glossaries for "science" and "engineering and the built
environment" are now available. You can see the glossaries here:
http://www.sciencesigns.ac.uk
http://www.engineeringsigns.ac.uk
The glossaries are a collection of the signs used by Deaf
professionals in the field and have been chosen by leading Deaf
linguists. Collectively, these resources amount to the largest
bank of specialist terminology in British Sign Language
available.
RE-VISIT CLASSIC MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF DOORS OF PERCEPTION.
http://www.doorsofperception.com/Conference+Archive/
THE ARTIFACT NEWSLETTER - JANUARY 2005 is now available online
at:
http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/january05.htm
INTERDISCIPLINES: RETHINKING INTERDISCIPLINARITY is a lively,
intelligent web site that brings scholars and thinkers together
across disciplines for on-line conferences and dialogue.
http://www.interdisciplines.org/interdisciplinarity
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BOOK REVIEWS
Darso, Lotte. 2004. Artful Creation. Learning-Tales of
Arts-in-Business. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.
Lotte Darso's Artful Creation is a significant contribution to
the literature of innovation and creativity. Based on a careful
and revealing series of interviews, Darso explores four
dimensions of arts in business: arts as decoration, arts as
entertainment, arts as instrumental activity, and arts as
strategic framework.
This work deepens some of the issues that Darso (2001) explored
in the doctoral thesis that became her first book. As research
manager of The Creative Alliance at Learning Lab Denmark, Darso
has moved from a study of the innovation process to the rich but
often ambiguous exploration of how businesses create by
integrating arts in management.
Through 53 interviews, Darso examined the ways that arts in
business serve to open a dialogue that engenders creative social
interaction and individual learning. A wide range of artists and
managers narrate tales that enable us to reflect on learning
opportunities that we can recast in a new theoretical framework.
Darso approaches creativity and innovation as a range of applied
processes, drawing on multiple models and approaches for deep
understanding and applicable learning. She draws on such authors
as Chris Argyris, Donald Schon, Peter Senge, Margaret Wheatley
and Claus Otto Scharmer in a new and exciting way.
Artful Creation will interest the readers of Design Research
News for a second reason. It is a valuable contribution to the
methodological literature of design research.
First, Artful Creation enables us to explore familiar cases from
a new angle. Some of the businesses we meet in this book also
appear in the design research literature. These include Volvo,
Bang & Olufsen, Unilever, Nycomed, Novo Nordisk and Xerox PARC.
The opportunity to examine the same companies from another angle
offers designers and researchers in innovation and design
management a useful comparison for what they already know.
Second, Darso offers useful models for exploratory research,
learning, and theory development. Design research often requires
us to engage in exploratory research while working in
ill-defined and ambiguous territory. In many cases, the fact
that projects involve multiple academic disciplines, each with
their own research tradition, while engaging multiple domains of
knowledge and practice makes such projects particularly
challenging. Meeting these challenges successfully requires a
level of methodological sophistication and reflectivity that
some researchers in our new field have not yet developed. Darso
shows how to use careful development, rich dialogue, and
sensitive inquiry with gentle yet rigorous thinking to solve
puzzling problems.
Because these problems are particularly difficult for
researchers who use practice-based research methods for art and
design research, Artful Creation can be a helpful and
illuminating research methods text.
Third, Artful Creation introduces us to some of the concepts of
the artful society that many of us try to bring to the practical
side of our work in the practical business of design. Darso's
four approaches to arts in business compare well with the useful
distinctions between design as styling, design as process, and
design as innovation.
The book encourages application, introducing approaches such as
Scharmer's (2004) presencing theory and Darso's (2004: 161-172)
own practical recommendations for using arts-in-business as a
strategic and transformative approach to innovation and
organizational learning.
-- Reviewed by Ken Friedman
References
Darso, Lotte. 2001. Innovation in the Making. Copenhagen:
Samfundslitteratur.
Darso, Lotte. 2004. Artful Creation. Learning-Tales of
Arts-in-Business. Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.
Scharmer, Claus Otto. 2004. Theory U: Leading Profound
Innovation and Change by Presencing Emerging Futures. Available
from URL: www.ottoscharmer.com Date accessed: 2005 February 1.
Web resources
Learning Lab Denmark
http://www.lld.dk/
Claus Otto Scharmer
http://www.ottoscharmer.com
Presence
http://www.presence.net/
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DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Design Research Society is the multi-disciplinary
international learned society for the design research community.
DRS was founded in 1967, and since then has established a
record of significant achievements in contributing to design
knowledge.
DRS has facilitated an international design research network in
40 countries comprising members who maintain contact through the
publications and activities of the Society. Members are drawn
from diverse backgrounds, not only from the traditional areas of
design, ranging from fine art to engineering, but also from
subjects like psychology and computer science.
Our interests include:
o recognising design as a creative act common to many
disciplines
o understanding research and its relationship with education
and practice
o advancing the theory and practice of design
We realise these by:
o encouraging the development of scholarship and knowledge in
design
o contributing to the development of doctoral education and
research training
o sharing knowledge across the boundaries of design disciplines
o facilitating networks to exchange and communicate ideas,
experience and research findings among members
o disseminating research findings
o promoting awareness of design research
o organising and sponsoring conferences, and publishing
proceedings
o encouraging communications between members internationally
o responding to consultative documents
o collaborating with other bodies
o lobbying on behalf of members' research interests
o recognising excellence in design research through awards
o sponsoring email discussion groups and a monthly emailed
newsletter
Membership of DRS provides:
o regular communications about research activities worldwide
o reduced subscription to Design Studies, the international
journal for design research in engineering, architecture,
products and systems. Design Studies is published by
Elsevier in cooperation with DRS
o reduced fees to DRS sponsored events
o representation of the design research community and members'
interests
o a means of identifying and contacting other members
o an opportunity to contribute to the international design
research community
For further details and an application form, contact the
membership secretary:
Professor Robert Jerrard, School of Design Research, Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England,
Corporation Street, Birmingham, UK B4 7DX
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SERVICES OF THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
o Design Research News is the digital newsletter of the
Design Research Society. It communicates news about
research throughout the world. It is mailed automatically
at the beginning of each month and is free. You may
subscribe and unsubscribe at the following site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html
o PHD-DESIGN is a discussion list open for unmoderated
discussion on all matters related to the PhD in design.
Topics include philosophies and theories of design, research
methods, curriculum development, and relations between
theory and practice. You may subscribe and unsubscribe at
the following site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/phd-design.html
o DRS is a discussion list open for unmoderated discussion
on all matters related to design research. You may
subscribe and unsubscribe at the following site:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/drs.html
o Design Studies is the International Journal for Design
Research in Engineering, Architecture, Products and Systems,
which is published in co-operation with the Design Research
Society.
DRS members can subscribe to the journal at special rates.
http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/inca/30409/
o The DRS QCR - quarterly council report is sent via
email to full members of the Design Research Society. It
includes a selection of edited reports from international
Council members and Council Officers received from time to
time.
o Full information about the Design Research Society may
be found at:
http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Information to the editor, Professor David Durling, Middlesex
University UK. <[log in to unmask]>
Book information and suggestions for reviews should be sent to
the book review editor Professor Ken Friedman, Norwegian School
of Management, Oslo, and Denmark's Design School.
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