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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 10 Number 7, Jul 2005 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o DRS Symposium: Rising Stars
Improving quality in design research
o DRS AGM and Annual Dinner
o Design Studies
o Calls
o Announcements
o Web
o Books
o The Design Research Society: information
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to Design Research News
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Editorial
Research Assement Exercise
A reminder to UK researchers that the RAE assessment criteria
will be published on 15 July and this heralds the start of a
public consultation period of just a few weeks...
...It so happens that DRS is hosting a research quality event
that very day, which will cover assessment of research quality,
and the main panel chair is speaking. This might therefore be
an excellent opportunity to discuss the issues right at the
beginning of the consultation period. Details of the symposium
are below.
Join DRS
Wow, the publicity about being able to join the DRS through the
website and e-payment has certainly caused many of you to sign
up over the past month. It is an excellent deal, and will be
held at this low fee for at least a year for anyone signing up
now. To join:
http://www.designresearchsociety.org
Go to MEMBERS area, click JOIN DRS in the sidebar. Welcome!
David Durling
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LAST CALL for BOOKINGS
DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM 15 JULY 2005
Rising ****
Improving Quality in Design Research
15 July 2005 at 12.30pm
2 Carlton House Terrace, London
The Design Research Society will host a national symposium on
research quality in the 'Art and Design' sector.
For the programme or to book a place:
http://www.designresearchsociety.org
go to COMMUNICATIONS then EVENTS in the sidebar
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DRS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 15 JULY 2005
The Design Research Society announces that its Annual General
Meeting 2005 will be held on 15 July 2005. The meeting will
begin at 11.00 am, at the Royal College of Pathologists, 2
Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AF. For directions to the
meeting see http://rcpath.org
A formal notice of the meeting has been sent by email to current
DRS members. For further information please contact the Hon.
Secretary <[log in to unmask]>
PLEASE NOTE the change of time!!
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DESIGN STUDIES
ISSN : 0142-694X
Volume 26, Issue 4 (July 2005)
Contents:
Comparing freshman and senior engineering design processes: an
in-depth follow-up study
C.J. Atman, M.E. Cardella, J. Turns, R. Adams
pp 325-357
The bodily basis of product experience
T. van Rompay, P. Hekkert, W. Muller
pp 359-377
Valid knowledge for the professional design of large and complex
design processes
J.E. van Aken
pp 379-404
An empirical foundation for product flexibility
P.K. Palani Rajan, M. Van Wie, M.I. Campbell, K.L. Wood, K.N.
Otto
pp 405-438
Book reviews:
'What designers know' by B. Lawson
'Inspiring designers: a sourcebook' by P. Rodgers
reviewed by N. Cross
pp 439-442
Full text of Design Studies Contents are available via
ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com
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CALLS
21-23 September 2005: Call for Interaction & Preliminary Program
for our congress on Cognitive Design, issued by the
International School of New Media (ISNM) of University of
Luebeck to be held at Media Docks - European Campus for Digital
Media, Luebeck.
Shaping Interactive Knowledge for the 21st Century
Cognitive Design involves the shaping of knowledge portals and
grounds the possibility of other forms of experimental and
applied knowledge. Since the 19th century, design has developed
from being a discipline which initially shaped the object and
the relationship between user and object, to being one which
today comprehensively analyses and shapes the relationship
between material and immaterial world. Design is poised to
establish itself as one of the most important meta-disciplines.
According to the French semiotician Abraham A. Moles, "The role
of the designer involves not so much producing "new" objects
as demanding an absolutely stable environment". What cultural
preconditions will be required in the future for us to be able
to regard every act of communication in the global community as
an act of communication with the global community?
Whereas until the mid-20th century language had the main role in
the process of explaining and communicating, with the "Iconic
Turn" in the 1980s there was a shift in favour of pictorial
representation turning "spaces" of conversation into
presentations and textures of images. As of the 1990s, with the
Internet's global embrace of the information worlds, another
change took place from the passive to the (inter)active
perception of information, and thus to cooperative and
distributed formations of knowledge. This period also saw the
emergence of the "meta-design" movement, a first attempt to
create a generally valid basis of trust for all communication
processes by linking science, social systems and design. The
objective was, and is, to create understanding, reliability and
trust for the global work. Cognitive Design signifies a further
step within this development towards bringing together different
disciplines and forms of knowledge with a view to an "open"
science, whose goal is knowledge aiming at global action.
Topics
- Ubiquitous proximity - die Lehre der Nahe (On Proximity)
- Dislocation - die Lehre des Ortes (On the Location)
- Trust - die Lehre des Vertrauens (On Trust)
- Collective Intelligence - the Lehre des Verstehens (On
Understanding)
- Translation - die Lehre des Anderen (On the Other)
- Shaping Senses - die Lehre der Musik (On Music)
- Here/There - die Lehre der Geschwindigkeit (On Speed)
http://cognitive-design.org
5-9 Septemebr 2005: This year's International Design and
Engagability Conference (Idec 2005)takes place at HCI 2005:The
Bigger Picture, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Idec 2005 welcomes delegates and participants with an interest
in engaging experiences, products and services. This one-day
international conference celebrates engagement and the themes
include, but are not limited to:
- Aesthetics, utility and ethics
- Engaging excluded user groups
- Mobile products and services
- Design methods and research
- Design for the senses
- Collaborative design
- Narrative and flow
- Emotion and value
- Wellbeing
Register online at http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2005/reg.asp or
Call +44 (0) 121 331 7868
Submissions should be emailed to [log in to unmask] by 25
July 2005.
13-15 September 2005: As you may know, since 10000 BC, the
Middle East has hosted most of the known civilisations. Every
civilisation has left its architectural and urban marks. Many
researchers have been their working on the fabulous existing
vestiges and ruins. Unfortunately, most of those studies are
dispersed and access to information is very hard.
A virtual Library looks to be a fruitful tool to gather and
manage peaces of studies and works from everywhere.
For this reason and in conjunction with EuropIA.10 Conference
(Augmented Heritage, http://europia.org/EuropIA10 , to be held
on 13-15 September 2005, in Damascus Syria) we are wondering to
organize a Round Table on Heritage Virtual Library Management.
This Round table must be held on September 14th in the
afternoon. It should lead to an international collaborative
project. Following the number of contributions we are planning
to publish a book or a special issue of an international
journal.
If you are interested in participating to this round
table please send me ([log in to unmask]) an Abstract (1 or 2
pages) before July 15th.
24-25 November 2005: Second Call for Papers Interior Insights
Design, Ethnography and the Home Royal College of Art, London
The intimate objects and transactions of the home, its visual,
material and sensory cultures, have come under increasing
scrutiny from academics, practitioners and market researchers in
recent years. While empirical, academic and practice-based
researchers, designers and artists share a long-standing
interest in the meanings, rituals and makings of the interior,
communication and collaboration across different disciplines and
research traditions remains minimal.
Interior Insights, a two-day symposium, exploits the home as
common ground for a radically interdisciplinary discussion. How,
for example, do the techniques of video ethnographers from
marketing research, filming the minutiae of everyday lives from
the squeezing of toothpaste to the selection of a DVD movie,
intersect with those of interaction designers? How do ideas
about the home interior as a sensual phenomenon, as opposed to a
purely visual one, change the concept of design for domestic
retail? Have a new generation of designers become pseudo-applied
anthropologists? What are the ethical issues of exposing
interior worlds and can research be used for social, as well as
commercial, benefits?
Integral to our enquiries about these topics will be a
consideration of how we learn about the home, through empirical
studies, historical research, design interventions, and artistic
interpretation. Featuring a range of speakers from social
anthropology, contemporary design, marketing, sociology, art
practice, photography and film, interaction design and domestic
retail the event aims to provoke an intellectual debate. The
symposium will serve the dual purpose of enriching our
understandings of the home as a domain for research and design,
and facilitating a more general discussion of the potential
synergies between different disciplinary perspectives and
methodologies.
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11 November 2005: 1st EUROPEAN WORKSHOP on DESIGN AND
SEMANTICS OF FORM AND MOVEMENT (DeSForM) Newcastle upon Tyne
SCOPE AND FOCUS
Forms, either concrete or abstract, always carry meanings. It
is the responsibility of designers to make good use of these
meanings, for example, to make products beautiful, to stress the
importance of certain values, or to improve a product's ease of
use and to promote or negotiate enriched experiences between
people (communities) and people, people and objects and in time
between objects (systems of objects) and objects. Design uses
its own languages for this purpose, just as poets, painters,
journalists, sculptures, film makes and so on do. The topic of
this conference is how to explore, study and exploit the
combined usage of form, colour and behaviour as a design
language. The conference will include presentations, debate and
workshop that look for new ways of exploring behaviour, not
separately, but in relation to traditional forms.
The vision of ambient intelligence as put forward by Weiser and
adopted by ISTAG and many companies and universities, forms the
basis of considerable R&D efforts. The central theme is that
powerful computation, communication and storage facilities are
available, but are invisible. In Marzano's "La Casa Prossima
Futura" the black boxes have disappeared and the living room
contains objects and furniture, again. Then if the traditional
terminals disappear, what are the mediators between people and
this hidden intelligence? How do people control, and get
feedback from, these resources in a way that is meaningful and
even attractive at a human level.
The conference builds on the assumption that objects will play
an important role as mediators. To take full advantage of the
richness of human-object interaction and to use the potential of
affective (emotional) interactions, there is a need for a new
approach. Although many traditional products, even products
which do have mechanically moving parts, follow a trend to
converge with computing, this convergence comes in the form of
electronic displays and buttons being added to traditional
forms. As an alternative it is worthwhile to explore adding
behavioral expression to the existing movement possibilities.
There is a need for new types of processes and tools to support
the creation of the envisaged new product types. Product
behaviour will be enriched with physical movements. Several
possibilities exist: either the product is moving anyhow, or the
movements are added just for the sake of communication. In both
cases, the designer has considerable freedom to shape the
movements and the interactions.
Conversely, developments in computing are not only a source of
new challenges, they also offer new options for addressing
long-standing problems in product semantics. For example
exploiting the insights gained in programming language
semantics. New computerised tools may support the systematic
exploration of semantics. Also, the developments in information
storage and retrieval such as the Internet and the world-wide
web offer new opportunities for collecting and unlocking design
knowledge relevant to product semantics. This workshop seeks to
bring together researchers in the field of design and semantics
of forms and movement to exchange results, show demonstrations
and discuss the way ahead.
ACTIVITIES
- Demonstrations
- Keynote lecture
- Long paper presentations
- Short paper presentations
VENUE
The workshop will be in Newcastle with the support of the
Regional Development Agency, One NorthEast, Codeworks, as a part
of an ambitious Regional Design Strategy with Northumbria
University, also located in Newcastle. The workshop will be held
in the amazing Baltic Centre on the banks of the Tyne. The
Baltic Centre is the latest evidence of the area's growing
cultural strength. Sitting in the shadow of the historic Tyne
Bridge and the Millennium Eye Bridge, the towering Baltic is an
international contemporary arts gallery and is the biggest such
venue outside of London.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission Deadline: 5 September 2005
CALL FOR DEMONSTRATOR PROPOSALS
Submission Deadline: 5 September 2005
The workshop will take one full day. There will be room for 10
long and 10 short papers. It is planned to have the workshop
proceedings published as a volume of Springer Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science under the auspices of IFIP (Feijs,
Kyffin, Young Eds.) Long papers are max 20 pages, short papers
are max 5 pages. Please check your calendar for this important
conference.
ACADEMIC SPONSORS
The academic sponsors of the event include the International
Federation of Information Processing, Working Group 16.3 (IFIP
WG16.3) and the Design Research Society (DRS). DRS have offered
to pay the travel costs and split the fees with the conference
organisers for up to three postgrads from outside Newcastle who
can demonstrate (by sending the DRS Council a paper -
preferably published) that they are doing research relevant to
the theme of the event. They must be proposed by a DRS member
from their home institution.
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Prof Steven Kyffin Philips Design Eindhoven (co-chair)
Prof LoeFeijs, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (co-chair)
Dr. Bob Young, Northumbria University Newcastle (co-chair)
Prof Matthias Rauterberg, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven
Prof Bill Gaver, Royal College Art London
Dr. Anne Guenand, Universit' de Technologie de Compiegne
Dr. Sara Ilstedt Hjelm InteractivebInstitute and CID, KTH,
Stockholm
Prof Bernhard Burdek , Academy of Art and Design Offenbach
am Main
Prof. Susan Gold, Sierra Nevada College
Prof Colin Beardon, University of Waikato, New Zealand
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dr. Bob Young, Northumbria University Newcastle
Mr Dave Stevens, Codeworks
WORKSHOP THEMES AND TOPICS
1. Methods and Tools: Active forms Theatre and choreography
Sketching in space and time Aesthetics and notation of motion
Editing and scripting of movements
2. Theoretical developments: Meaning and perception Conditions
of applicability Ambient versus interactive movement Structuring
mechanisms and linguistics Gestalt theory and compositionality
of meaning
3. Practice-based research and case studies: Using movement as a
mediator Appropriation of the everyday Effects of context on
meanings New typologies and ecologies of objects Dependencies
between form and movement
Keynote Plenary Session Theme: The Future of Designing with
Motion
MORE INFORMATION
http://www.semantics.id.tue.nl
At this site the latest information will be made available To be
added soon: instructions for authors
Please send the manuscripts to:
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6-7 April 2006: 3rd International Conference hosted by
The Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art & Design (cltad)
Enhancing Curricula: contributing to the future, meeting the
challenges of the 21st century in the disciplines of art, design
and communication. Hotel Sana Park, Lisbon, Portugal
CALL FOR PAPERS
The major aim of the 3rd cltad international conference is to
address the factors and contexts which are likely to bring about
significant change in Art and Design Education this century by
bringing together theorists, teachers, and practitioners.
The conference is intended to encourage discussion, question
practices, stimulate debate and consider the challenges for the
future.
We are particularly keen to hear from
- teachers who have made changes to their curricula as a result
of contemporary challenges
- theorists who have views about the future of art and design
education
- those who might wish to challenge current orthodoxies in
learning and teaching
- employers who have impacted on the art, design and media
curricula
- those who are keen to improve their professional commitment to
student learning
THEMES
Submissions are invited that address one or more of the
following 6 themes. (To help you locate your proposal within the
appropriate theme(s) we have provided prompts which should be
seen as neither prescriptive nor comprehensive).
1 Re-defining curricula: the future of the disciplines
Art and Design at University Has modularity challenged the
concept of traditional art, design and media curricula? Has new
media challenged and changed our thoughts about the disciplines?
Have the disciplines had their day or are there enduring
characteristics that cannot and should not be lost? Should art,
design and media professionals seek collaborations and
intersections with other professional areas? Are students being
prepared for particular professions or a diversity of
occupations and should these focuses shift essential curricula?
Would creative practice be better served outside the university?
Practice and Theory
Is theorising within art, design and media education a thing of
the past? What are the theories and practices that underpin
current pedagogical activities? How, if at all, is theory
changing practice? Can practice contribute to the development of
theory? Is it essential that art, design and media
professionals of the future are aware of theoretical
perspectives?
2 Futures - thinking globally and multi-culturally
Government policies and funding
The UK Government has expanded student numbers in universities
without comparable change in funding. How are we coping with
greater numbers and consequent diversity? How have other
countries met this challenge? To what extent are we led to
change by funded 'initiatives'? To what extent do focused funded
programmes change the way we see art, design and media practice?
How do we want the future to look?
3 The ethical curriculum
How can we design ethically and environmentally responsible
curricula? How do we equip our students to design and develop
for sustainability and inclusivity? How are we equipping our
students for active citizenship and enabling them to find
constructive solutions to social, cultural, economic and ethical
problems? How should we prepare our students for leadership
responsibilities?
4 Pedagogy for employability
Employability
Increasingly employers want and are being invited to influence
the design of the curriculum. Is this appropriate? What can we
learn from employers? What can we teach them? What graduate
attributes are valued by employers and the community? How can we
ensure our students are able to contribute to a range of
professions and even invent their own? Is the employability
agenda overemphasised in the curriculum?
5 Accountability
Quality Assurance
In some countries, quality assurance practices and processes
have shaped the way in which universities monitor student
learning and performance. To what extent have these processes
shaped the nature of creative practice in art, design and media?
How can we ensure that students are involved in pedagogically
sound and courageous learning activities? How do we evaluate our
own practices as art, design and media educational
professionals?
6 E- futures
Technology
What impact has technology had on the creative practices in art,
design and media? How might this develop in the future? At what
and whose cost? How should the pedagogy of art, design and media
support these developments?
http://www.cltad.ac.uk
5-8 October 2005: II Euroregional Conference Danubius Design
The 2nd DANUBIUS DESIGN conference entitled INNOVATION AND
TRADITION is being held in Belgrade. Participants of the
conference include respected designers, architects,
professionals, institutions, organizations, associations and
student designers from the countries of the Danube River Basin.
Conference themes are as follows:
- I Professional Design Practice
- II Design Promotion
- III Education
Authors are invited to submit papers written on one of the
aforementioned themes. The structure of the papers should be as
presented on websites http://www.bbn.co.yu or
http://www.danubiusdesign.net
Deadline for submission is July 15th, 2005.
Please send your papers to:
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Call for position papers - Workshop: APPROACHES TO
MOVEMENT-BASED INTERACTION Critical Computing 2005 - Between
Sense and Sensibility The Fourth Aarhus Conference, Aarhus,
Denmark
http://research.it.uts.edu.au/idwop/aarhus/workshop.html
7-8 July 2006: FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 6 February 2006)
RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/index.html
The fourth international biennial conference on the foundations
of practice-based research in art and design will be convened at
the University of Hertfordshire, UK.
The theme of RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006 is the role of the
context in the interpretation of artefacts and visual semantics
in art and design research.
In recent years there has been much international debate about
the role of the artefact in art and design research. The debate
has considered, for example, what contribution the artefact
makes to the research process and to the communication of the
outcomes. However, artefacts are not interpreted in isolation.
The question of what contribution the artefact makes has to be
considered in the light of how the artefact is interpreted. This
interpretation takes place in a context; for example in the
studio, in a gallery, in the market place, online, in the
context of "research" or in the context of "design", etc.
Research into Practice 2006 focuses on these contexts and
explores the instrumentality of the context on the reception of
artefacts as constituting or contributing to research.
Topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted
to:
- Is the researcher responsible for establishing a context for
the "correct" interpretation of the artefact, i.e. is that also
part of doing research?
- Can the research content be activated/deactivated by changing
the context of reception?
- Are certain types of context more research-friendly than
others?
- Is it the context that makes research into research, [cf. the
Institutional Theory of Art]
- What is signified by research being undertaken in the context
of a university or by being done by those labelled as
researchers, or being funded by a Research Council?
- Does research demand new types of context, and what would they
need to be like?
- What is the impact of traditional academic attempts at the
recontextualization of research from other disciplines outside
art and design?
- Is decontextualization or disinterest, either possible or
desirable?
FURTHER INFORMATION
The conference website is now available and will be updated as
arrangements are confirmed. Notification of updates will be sent
directly to subscribers on the RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE mailing
list.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/index.html
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Phil Roberts, Loughborough University UK, reminds us of attempts
to collect and publish the various papers of Bruce Archer:
I suspect that Bruce's death will draw some attention to his
papers, and access to them (or, more accurately, the difficulty
of finding them). His ideas continue to have fundamental
significance for design research, and I'd have thought would be
widely welcomed by a great many scholars and students around the
world were they aware of them. There is a fairly recent
publication prepared by Ken Baynes and me: 'Designerly Activity
and Higher Degrees: seminar papers from a staff development
short course'. This was published by Loughborough University in
conjunction with The Design and Technology Association (DATA),
ISBN 1 898788 73 1 (2004). This is a collection of seven
seminar papers, presented by Bruce to the Department of Design &
Technology at Loughborough, giving the underpinning of Bruce's
approach to, and advice on, academic design-related research,
its organisation, presentation, and examination.
Ken and I are currently working on a much larger collection of
Bruce's papers that span most of his time in the Department of
Design Research at the RCA. It will bring together, for the
first time, his key papers so that they will be available and
accessible. Bruce was an enthusiastic collaborator in this
project too. I would hope that they will be published within
the next few months; we'd hoped, obviously, that they would have
been published in his lifetime. When I worked with Bruce at the
RCA, I'd made a point of collecting his papers (of which, in
spite of his own archival thoroughness, he didn't have his own
full set). These, edited and ordered, will form the book.
John Restrepo writes that his book 'Information Processing in
Design' (reviewed previously in DRN) is now available from the
publisher's website. The full details are as follows:
Information Processing in Design
by John Restrepo
Design/Science/Planning
Delft University Press Imprint: DUP Science 2004, 204 pages
ISBN 90-407-2552-7
Two design events run by the Royal Melbourne Institute of
Technology University (RMIT), Melbourne, Australia.
Character - Just what does type say about us? A two part series
of public forums concerning the social and cultural aspects of
graphic design and typography. These are taking the form of free
public forums and debates. Current research in the field will
also be presented.
Topics include:
'Can a City be style-guided?' A public debate on the graphic
depiction of Melbourne.
Mythbusting - How true are the public myths of legibility?
Typeset Left or Right? - The political possibilities of graphic
design
26 letters a second - Melbourne's first typographic film
festival.
Typo-tour - A twilight tour of Melbourne's greatest typographic
highlights.
PART ONE 4pm, Saturday July 17, BMW Edge, Federation Square,
Melbourne (As part of Melbourne Design Festival)
PART TWO 4pm, Saturday October 1, BMW Edge, Federation Square,
Melbourne
http://www.the-letterbox.com.au
4-7 September 2005: Digital Resources for the Humanities
conference (DRH 2005), Lancaster University (UK)
At this, the tenth DRH conference, we will focus on critical
evaluation of the use of digital resources in the arts and
humanities. What has the impact really been? What kinds of
methodologies are being used? What are the assumptions that
underlie our work? How do we know that the work that we
accomplish is truly new and innovative? How does technology
change the way that we work?
The Conference will also address some of the key emerging themes
and strategic issues that engagement with ICT is bringing to
scholarly research in the arts and humanities, with a particular
focus on advanced research methods. What sort of research does
ICT in the arts and humanities enable researchers to do that
could not be done before at all? Does this enable 'old' research
to be done in a significantly new way? In what ways does the
technology serve the scholarship? Similarly, what are the key
aspects of virtual research environments ("cyberinfrasture")
which can facilitate collaborative research?
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drh2005/
We are interested in discussing how institutions
approach/envision future scenarios for designing, particularly
on the way universities create such scenarios in collaboration
with industry. Please contact for further discussions.
http://www.designledfutures.com/
Visit http://www.wikidraw.org for a new drawing resource that
anyone can edit.
It's whatever you decide it is, i.e you provide the content.
Others can edit (unless you lock it!) your entry, which is
useful for a growing database.
Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (JAPR)
As a researcher in architecture, urban planning, or related
fields, we thought you might be interested to receive news of
the latest issue of the Journal of Architectural and Planning
Research (JAPR).
For over twenty years now, the Journal of Architectural and
Planning Research has been an award-winning, scholarly,
quarterly (double-blind, refereed) journal providing researchers
and practicing professionals with up-to-date, innovative ideas
and designs. JAPR includes subscribers and authors from around
the world, and is the only fully blind refereed research journal
affiliated with the AIA and the Royal Institute of British
Architects. JAPR provides a link between theory and practice,
focusing on areas including:
- Architectural and design research,
- Urban planning research,
- Architectural design, interior design, and urban design.
Do you want more information? Check out our website,
http://www.lockescience.com, for information on subscription
pricing and how to subscribe.
JAPR is always, of course, looking for excellent manuscripts to
consider for publication. Our website,
http://www.lockescience.com also has lots of information on how
to do this, too. Original manuscripts and book reviews are
published in JAPR after review by members of our international
board of editors. We work very hard at JAPR to bring authors'
and reviewers' comments together to aid in the manuscript review
and revision process.
5-7 September 2005: The Rules of Engagement - a conference of
interest to artists, scientists, curators, organisations,
educators and science communicators, whether already engaged in
science and art practice, or wishing to pursue an active
engagement, University of York.
Further details of these conferences and events can be found via
the links in the Artifact Newsletter
http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/june05.htm
26-28 September 2005: Til Forskernetvoerket
Til orientering sendes hermed information om konferencen
"Creativity: Design meets technology Europe", an International
Conference for the Fashion and Textile Industry, som afholdes
den 26.-28. september i Kobenhavn i samarbejde med Philadelphia
University .
Arrangor: Kreativt Institut for Design og Teknologi 'KrIDT'
Se hele programmet og download folder pa
<http://www.kridt.dk/conference>www.kridt.dk/conference.
For yderligere information kontakt Helle Abild, designer og
koordinator hos Kridt
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3-5 November 2005: DUX 2005, San Francisco, California.
Now, join us to as a reviewer. Help shape the program.
Reviewers will need to be available between July 1 and August 1
to read and comment on one or more submissions. (You can decide
how many submissions you'll be able to handle during that
month.)
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match the keywords used to index the successful proposals.
In fact once you have a login at PCS, you can see how to submit
a proposal.
6 September 2005: symposium THE ECLECTIC IDEA IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY - A SYMPOSIUM DEVOTED TO THE PHENOMENON OF ECLECTICISM
IN NINETEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY AND ART. St-Lucas School of
Architecture, Paleizenstraat 65, Brussels
In the turbulent era after the Napoleonic Empire the young
philosopher Victor Cousin put forward an eclectic philosophy by
combining elements of philosophical systems of the past.
Remarkably enough, eclecticism spread beyond its original realm
of philosophy. Contemporary art critics in periodicals as Le
Globe and those written by the young Charles Baudelaire hint at
an eclectic taste in painting and literature. In architecture,
eclecticism developed into the main building practice and relied
for its theory strongly on the ideas laid down by Cousin.
Several researchers have investigated Cousin's influence in
European society, politics and philosophy. Others have studied
eclectic art and architecture as part of research into art
history. The aim of this symposium is to assemble some of these
scholars from the different backgrounds
of philosophy, history and art history in order to obtain an
interdisciplinary view on nineteenth century eclecticism. A more
complete understanding of eclecticism and of the nineteenth
century may arise: can we speak of the nineteenth century as the
age of eclecticism?
The symposium <The Eclectic Idea in the Nineteenth Century> is
on the initiative of dr. Geert Palmaerts (Free University of
Amsterdam) and dr. Yves Schoonjans (Free University of Brussels
/ St-Lucas School of Architecture Brussels)
Speakers: Patrice Vermeren (Universite de Paris & Centre
Franco-argentin des Hautes Etudes de Buenos Aires); John Brooks
(Fayetteville State University); Julian Wright (University of
Durham); Barry Bergdoll (Columbia University); David Van Zanten
(Northwestern University); Geert Palmaerts (Free University of
Amsterdam) & Yves Schoonjans (Free University of Brussels &
St-Lucas School of Architecture)
http://www.architectuur.sintlucas.wenk.be/nl/eclectisme/
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26 June-23 July 2005: LAND2 : BEYOND LANDSCAPE?
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
This exhibition is of work by twenty-one members of LAND2
(formally LAN2D). The group started in 2002 as a national
network of artist / lecturers and research students. We share a
common interest in how art can engage with the possibilities and
problems of 'landscape' as it is understood today. The network
meets for presentations of members' work, has a web site at
http://www.lan2d.org - that both represents the network and
serves as a resource for those interested in practice-led
research into landscape - undertakes occasional group projects,
and organizes conferences and exhibitions. In the future we hope
to run research symposia in addition to our regular seminars,
and to expand our exhibition and conference programme.
Membership of the network is by invitation.
22-24 September 2005: JOINING FORCES Design Research,
Industries and a New Interface for Competitiveness University of
Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
The preliminary program is now available!
This conference explores the various ways in which design
research can benefit the development of industries and
innovation generation of both international and local nature.
Other core issues are related to the implementation of research
outcomes and to the feedback to the research context and
research education, as well as in which ways these occur in
different contexts of global and national scale.
To see the program, go to
http://www2.uiah.fi/joiningforces/program.html.
There you will find
- the topics of the keynote speeches with the schedule
- all papers by time and track.
The session & track information can also be found on
http://www2.uiah.fi/joiningforces/papers.html under the name of
each accepted paper. This list is in alphabetical order by the
surname of the first author.
Do not also forget the main event World Design Congress - ERA05
and the other pre-conferences in Gothenburg and Oslo.
More information
http://www.uiah.fi/joiningforces
http://www.era05.com
To register, please go to
http://www2.uiah.fi/joiningforces/registration.html
In matters concerning the program, please contact: Pekka
Korvenmaa, Conference chairman PhD, Professor, School of Design,
MA and Doctoral Programme in Industrial and Strategic Design
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In matters concerning the practical arrangements, please
contact: Lotta Palmi, Conference secretary [log in to unmask]
Tel. +358 9 7563 0649 Fax. +358 9 7563 0433
The conference office is closed on 24 June - 12 July!
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WEB
John Thackara writes:
PLANET AS CRASH-RIG "Many a garage inventor would argue that
poorly designed, superfluous products are necessary by-products
of the innovation process, not fundamental flaws in our design
philosophy. Thackara deems it foolhardy, but maybe it's
Darwinian". Fast Company, in reviewing my book, pinpoints a
dilemma: how to combine trial-and-error innovation, on the one
hand, with the precautionary principle -consideration of the
consequences of design actions before we take them - on the
other. Yes, it's a conundrum - but do we have any right to carry
on treating the planet, our only home, as a glorified crash-test
rig? http://www.fastcompany.com/bookclub/reviews/0262201577.html
On the 4th of June, Tate Modern hosted the CURATING,
IMMATERIALITY, SYSTEMS symposium to kick off its epochal Open
Systems survey show of the conceptual and informatic art that
swept the 1960s-70s. The conference acted as the first docking
bay for UK-based programmer Grzesiek Sedek and curator Joasia
Krysa's open source curating software KURATOR. Drawing on
affinity between code art and curatorial praxis, the software
tries to redevelop curating as a generative experiment in social
relations, within and against an art world that is only
beginning to bypass the genteel stultification of curator as the
golden alibi of art markets and aesthete-at-large. KURATOR
posits "software curating" as a way to distribute curatorial
process over networks of people, including artists and others,
and finally outwards from the special domain of an individual.
It further combats the reification of taste by partially
automating many of the traditional metiers that distinguish the
curator - selectivity being one.
http://www.kurator.org/read/Index
From ICOGRADA
Conferences: What motivates you to go?
59% The location
39% The speakers
5% The cost
The latest Artifact Newsletter - June 2005 is now available
online at:
http://www.artifact.ac.uk/news/newsletters/june05.htm
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BOOKS
Craswell, Gail. 2005. Writing for Academic Success. A
Postgraduate Guide. London: Sage Publications.
As postgraduate design education moves from craft-based guild
training to research-based study and learning, degree programs
require writing. This involves preparing students for
professional design practice as well as research practice.
Whichever track they pursue, many students face problems in
writing at the postgraduate level. Despite this fact, few
schools are adding academic skills courses and fewer still are
hiring experienced academic staff to teach the few courses that
exist. These problems are made worse by the fact that few senior
design teachers have the academic writing skills to match their
professional design skills. This book offers students - and
their teachers - a compact, effective approach to developing
writing skills for academic success.
Gail Craswell is a senior advisor to graduate students at the
Australian National University Academic Skills and Learning
Centre. She advises students from all the fields and disciplines
at ANU, and this book develops general skills. Craswell's book
offers a crisp, focused narrative and an intelligible structure,
together with useful cases, highlight blocks, examples, and
appropriate exercises.
There is value to the general approach. The design field
requires discipline-specific research methods and academic
skills as all fields do. Nevertheless, discipline-specific
skills function on the level of individual research program than
on the level of general skills and methods.
General skills are common across disciples. These include
effective writing, appropriate referencing, and searching the
literature, along with the skills of rhetorical development and
sound argumentation. Postgraduate design students need them all.
Professional designers must communicate effectively with many
kinds of clients, and they must prepare convincing research
reports to explain their work or to propose projects. Craswell's
approach involves developing the broad range of general skills
that help students and professionals work effectively for
different audiences. University design staff must participate in
many kinds of projects and programs, and they, too, must
communicate effectively with scholars and administrators from
many fields. This book will help them. Most important, research
students in every field need the skills that this book teaches.
The book has two main parts. The first part addresses general
issues in academic writing and communication, starting with the
challenge of managing the context of academic writing. Common
sense and experience are the foundation of useful comments on
self-management, effective planning, and avoiding the
occupational hazards of writing. Managing the act of writing
focuses on the different problems and tasks a writer will face.
These range from multiple tasks to communicating with teachers
and supervisors.
Craswell then moves to the mechanics of preparation. Here, the
voice of an experienced advisor becomes central in helping new
writers to identify the kinds of writing required for the
graduate writing culture, and in identifying the key problems of
critical inquiry and critical use of sources. One of the most
common problems I have observed in reviewing papers for design
conferences and journals is the uncritical acceptance of any
published source as a sound foundation for empirical truth
claims. Craswell helps students to avoid this mistake, and she
shows new writers how to read effectively with an appropriate
balance of intensive reading for depth and skimming for a broad
overview.
The third chapter considers current practices - the writer's own
practices, and practices in the field. Along with a discussion
of academic writing mechanics, plagiarism and referencing
practice, Craswell asks writers to consider the needs of their
readers. She also devotes an important section to clear writing,
giving examples of "low-fat writing" that show how careful
editing can improve bloated prose.
Craswell's fourth chapter discusses how to develop the text as a
whole. Her suggestions on how to develop a visual map of the
material are especially useful for visually oriented design
students. She attends to sentence structure, paragraph
development, linking, and overall structure issues in a way that
will help design students to understand the nature of writing as
a craft.
The five chapters in the second part of the book discuss
specific issues involved in several major writing types. These
include chapters on: research essays, book reviews, articles
reviews, and coursework papers; literature review, reports, and
research proposals; thesis writing; oral and visual
presentations; and - finally - journal articles and books.
These chapters are rich with detailed, step-by-step explanations
that will be as useful to experienced writers as to students.
Clear, specific advice with concise steps for succeeding at each
kind of writing makes each chapter a valuable tool. Writers will
want to read the book once through for content and
understanding, returning to review specific chapters - and use
them - when specific writing tasks make each chapter most
useful.
Gail Craswell has written an excellent book. Design Research
News recommends Writing for Academic Success for students and
research supervisors, as well as for design school libraries.
-- Ken Friedman
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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 a range of research journals
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 to join online:
http://designresearchsociety.org
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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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