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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 10 Number 1, Jan 2005 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o iASDR 2005 conference
o 4th conference Doctoral Education in Design
o Design Studies table of contents
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
In changing the dates for this newsletter, I was surprised to
see that we are now in the 10th year of publishing - it seems
like only yesterday that it started....
Please, if you know of others - perhaps your students - who
might benefit from receiving this publicatuion regularly, do let
them know. Just forward a copy of this edition, or give them
the link for them to register themselves:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/design-research.html
At the beginning of this new year, may I send all readers my
very best wishes for 2005.
David Durling
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
International Design Research Congress
The Conference of the International Association of Societies of
Design Research IASDR 2005.
Deadline for abstracts: Jan. 31, 2005
Notification of accepted abstracts: Feb. 28, 2005
Deadline for full papers: April. 30, 2005
Notification of accepted papers: Jul. 1, 2005
Deadline for revised papers: Aug. 1, 2005
http://www.2005idc.yuntech.edu.tw/
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4th conference DOCTORAL EDUCATION IN DESIGN
CALL FOR PAPERS/2nd Announcement
The 4th Doctoral Education in Design conference (4 DED) will be
hosted by the College of Architecture and Environmental Design
at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona from June 25 to
28, 2005.
Under the theme, From Master to Doctorate: The Challenges of
Transition, the conference will encourage the discussion that
surrounds the recent shift in design education from the master's
degree as the terminal degree to a situation in which the
doctorate is becoming the accepted qualification. Under this
banner, the following sub-topics could serve as areas for
discussion and exploration:
- The interrelationship between graduate education and industry;
- Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary models of graduate
education;
- Collaborative initiatives in graduate education;
- Alternative models in graduate education; and
- Design education that is occurring outside the normal
territory of design.
Papers on these or related topics in graduate design education
are sought for presentation at the 4 DED. Papers from PhD
students and other atypical sources are of particular interest.
We also welcome case studies of successful doctoral education,
examples of best practice in education, teaching, learning,
supervision and successful programs and/or initiatives. The
emphasis should be on practical advice about elements of
doctoral education that appear to be successful.
Abstract requirements:
Initial submission should take the form of a 300-word abstract,
including the title (and subtitle if applicable), authors and
affiliations. The abstract should include the nature of the
research, the methods used, and the main findings. Submissions
should be made through the abstract submission form found on the
4 DED web site (http://4ded.caed.asu.edu/).
Refereeing of Papers:
Selection of papers for presentation will be a two-stage
process. Firstly, all abstracts will be reviewed; authors
selected will be invited to submit full papers for a further
review process. In both cases, abstracts and papers will be
blind reviewed by an international panel of experts in the field
of doctoral education in design.
Key dates:
Deadline for abstract: January 10, 2005
Notification of accepted papers: February 7, 2005
Deadline for full papers: April 29, 2005
Contact:
For further information, please contact Jacques Giard at
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CONTENTS OF DESIGN STUDIES, Volume 26, Number 1, January 2005
Editorial N. Cross
Wicked problems revisited
R. Coyne pp 5-17
Students' learning styles and their correlation with performance
in architectural design studio
T. Kvan, J. Yunyan pp 19-34
Exploring the degree to which individual students share a common
perception of specific mood boards: observations relating to
teaching, learning and team-based design
D. McDonagh, H. Denton
pp 35-53
Form finding for complex structures using evolutionary
structural optimization method
Y.M. Xie, P. Felicetti, J.W.
Tang, M.C. Burry
pp 55-72
The changing environment of offices: a challenge for furniture
design
N. Anjum, J. Paul, R. Ashcroft
pp 73-95
Book review -
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
Design Studies is published by Elsevier, in co-operation with
the Design Research Society. For more information about the
journal visit:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/destud
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CALLS
12-13 July 2005: DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE FOR SUSTAINABLE
DEVELOPMENT 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Newcastle upon Tyne,
UK.
2nd Call for papers
Scope
This conference has its central focus on sustainability. It is
of interest to:
- engineers who design for sustainability
- those who wish to influence the design and manufacture
process.
Objectives of the conference
To engage all stakeholders who can help take design and
manufacturing forward towards sustainability
To stimulate technical and scientific discussions on sustainable
development and the implications for manufacturing industry
To provide a focus for the exchange of the latest ideas and
developments on sustainable product lifecycle, from design to
disposal
To evaluate the total impact of sustainable development
principles on product design and manufacture
Conference Themes
Design for a sustainable environment
Design of sustainable energy systems
Local and national government initiatives and enabling
technologies
Strategies towards 'Factor 10'
Consumer perceptions of sustainable design
Methods and tools for sustainable design
Environmentally conscious manufacturing (and engineering)
Life Cycle Engineering
Sustainability education for the next generation of engineer
Calls for Expressions of Interest
To reach the organisers by Jan 14th 2005
Please send a 300-400 word abstract for a paper, or a proposal
for a workshop, and requests for further information to:
[log in to unmask]
Further information on the conference will be available shortly
at:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/sustain
12 SEPTEMBER 2005: SHOW/TELL: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN TEXT,
NARRATIVE AND IMAGE. University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield,
United Kingdom
Posters, paintings, guidebooks, films, computer games and other
digital environments are just some of the cultural artefacts in
which text, narrative and image intersect in particular ways.
Art historians, design historians, material culturalists,
practitioners of cultural studies and others are invited to
reflect on their sources, the issues mobilised by articulating
images and objects with language, and the ways in which they
communicate with these cultural artefacts. To submit a paper
proposal, e-mail an abstract of 300 words, a short biography and
contact details to [log in to unmask] The conference
will be held 12 September 2005.
1 March 2005 Deadline for Abstracts
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes/research/tvad/event160905.html
28 MARCH - 1 APRIL 2005: PROBLEMS OF CO-OPERATION AND INQUIRY
CONFERENCE to be held in Lincoln, United Kingdom.
Co-operation has been studied for a sufficiently long period for
conceptual paradoxes to surface and even to impede further
inquiry.
One important paradox concerns the relation between co-operation
and knowledge. If it is possible to acquire knowledge about
co-operation, the results will allow for its enforcement. If one
isn't interested in this kind of totalitarian capability,
cooperation can be but a prerequisite to knowing, and hence will
be limited to a condition for successful inquiry.
It is proposed to explore the last possibility, i.e. how
co-operation may be used as a tool in acquiring knowledge, in
particular in the social and sociobiological domains.
There is a clear need for such a tool. Many authors see the
social sciences as having failed the yardstick of academic
aspiration as developed in the 19th and 20th century, evidenced
by a multitude or even excess of methods and proposals on how to
provide the resources that politicians and others need to
achieve life's organisation to be just, equal and fair.
Aim of the meeting
The meeting is convened to explore what knowledge is possible if
co-operation is used as a tool in knowledge acquisition in the
social domain.
Suggestions
Contributors are expected to present research (empirical,
theoretical and practical) in which the notion of co-operation
as a tool in inquiry is explored. Contributions should emphasise
general aspects, rather than particular and specific ones.
Abstracts of proposed contributions should be received by
January 31, 2005 and (draft) full papers, if possible, by
February 28, 2005.
http://www.lincoln.ac.uk/conferences/index.htm
23-26 APRIL 2005: 28 APRIL - 1 MAY 2005: UPCOMING IPSI BGD
MULTIDISCIPLINARY, INTERDISCIPLINARY, AND TRANSDISCIPLINARY
CONFERENCES.
They take place on two consecutive weekends, in two nearby
locations (only about 200km away from each other, in the hills
of France and on the coast of Spain).
The first one will be in Carcassonne, France (near Toulouse):
IPSI-2005 FRANCE (Carcassonne is a UNESCO World Heritage City)
Hotel de la Cite (arrival: 23 April 05 / departure: 26 April 05)
Deadlines: 27 December 04 (abstract) & 20 January 05 (full
paper)
The second one will be in Costa Brava, Spain (near Barcelona):
IPSI-2005 SPAIN (S'Agaro is the Pearl of Costa Brava) Hostal de
la Gavina (arrival: 28 April 05 / departure: 1 May 05)
Deadlines: 04 January 05 (abstract) / 27 January 05 (full paper)
All IPSI BgD conferences are non-profit. They bring together the
elite of the world of science; so far, we have had seven Nobel
Laureates speaking at the opening ceremonies. The conferences
always take place in some of the most attractive places of the
world. All those who come to IPSI conferences once, always love
to come back (because of the unique professional quality and the
extremely creative atmosphere); lists of past participants are
on the web, as well as details of future conferences.
These conferences are in line with the newest recommendations of
the US National Science Foundation and of the EU research
sponsoring agencies, to stress multidisciplinary,
interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research (M.I.T.
research). The speakers and activities at the conferences truly
support this type of scientific interaction.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Internet
- Computer Science and Engineering
- Mobile Communications/Computing for Science and Business
- Management and Business Administration
- Education
- e-Medicine
- e-Oriented Bio Engineering/Science and Molecular
Engineering/Science
- Environmental Protection
- e-Economy
- e-Law
- Technology Based Art and Art to Inspire Technology
Developments
- Internet Psychology
For more details email: <[log in to unmask]>
7-9 SEPTEMBER 2005: LOCATING DES1GN. the design history society
annual conference sir john cass department of art, media and
design london metropolitan university london, e1, britain
call for papers deadline - 25th February 2005
Design: Sites and Histories Research Group at London
Metropolitan University invite submissions for the annual,
international Design History Society conference to be held
Locating dEs1gn is concerned with a consideration of design
in/and place. It is also seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary
approach to thinking about design and its place in cultural
history. For, design and place are both material and imagined
and both design and place are co-constitutive. The East End of
London - where this conference is to be held - is instructive of
these ideas, demonstrating the immense investment of design
/material culture in the construction of place. Here in the East
End, the vestigial material culture of 17th century immigrant
Huguenots and 19th century East European Jews, or a forgotten
furniture and rag industry continue to haunt East London through
the sites and sounds of current day Bengali 'Banglatown', fused
uneasily with recently relocated design studios and the vogueish
strut of Hoxton/Shoreditch style. This East End site suggests
that the confluence of 'design' and 'place' across local and
global networks is as historically resonant as it is significant
today.
We invite participants to think of design as contingent upon
place and of the networks and linkages between design in/and
place as a complex that is affiliative and layered. This lends
further meaning to the 'social life of things' as formulated by
Arjun Appadurai. By design we ask that participants consider
both object and process. And, by place we do not only mean
'landscape': we suggest that place in (post-colonial) global
societies - or rather a global sense of place - is a complex
interaction of the body, language/discourse, history and
environment.
Locating dEs1gn will consider the place of design thinking at
interdisciplinary intersections. Thus, papers are invited from
design and architectural history, material culture studies,
history, historical and cultural geography, visual culture
studies, cultural studies, cultural history, art history, gender
studies, film studies, philosophy or any other area of study or
practice that engages with the inter-connection of design in/and
place. Locating dEs1gn is particularly keen to invite papers
from professional visual arts practitioners, and from
postgraduate students.
Participants are asked to consider:
design as process and object, as material and as imagined in/and
place as material, as imagined, as discourse
Thus sub-themes might include design in/and: place as material:
city, home, museum, body, landscape;
place as imagined/space: urban, rural, suburban, national,
local, global, imperial, post-colonial;
place as language and as discourse: archive, image, language,
history, inter-/ disciplinary methodologies.
Papers that consider design in/and the East End of London are
especially welcomed.
Papers proposed may be single papers, or a whole panel of 3
papers. Proposals must follow strictly, all the guidelines given
below. All proposals sent by email must be saved as a word
document and by proposer's name only.
Proposal types:
1. proposal for a 25 minute paper: title, suggested theme, no
more than 350 word abstract clearly communicating structure and
argument, 50-100 word biography of proposer with full
professional/institutional affiliation and contact email or
address.
2. proposal for a full panel of 3 x 25 minute papers: include
convener's name, panel title, an abstract of no more than 150
words for the full panel clearly outlining its thematic
interrogation, titles and 350 word abstracts for each paper
clearly communicating structure and argument, and 50-100 word
biography of each speaker with full professional/institutional
affiliation and contact email or address.
Do not exceed given word counts for abstracts: longer abstracts
will be rejected. All session chairs will be arranged by
conference conveners. All proposals must be received by 25th
February, 2005
Please send all proposals to dipti bhagat at
[log in to unmask] All attachments must be saved as a
Word.doc, by proposer's name and be formatted in 12 point Times
font.
27 June 2005: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FASHION MARKETING AND
MANAGEMENT RESEARCH London College of Fashion, UK
Original papers are invited for a 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 are particularly
encouraged. Possible topics within a fashion context include:
- Marketing and promotion
- Retailing and store design
- Design management
- Branding
- Luxury
- Buying, trend prediction and merchandising
- Supply chain management
- Understanding consumers
- Financial management
Paper selection will be by review of submitted abstracts by an
international panel of fashion researchers. Abstracts should be
no more than 500 words and must be submitted by 1st March 2005.
Full paper deadline will be end May 2005.
The symposium will include two keynote speakers who will address
current issues facing fashion research and researchers.
For full details about abstract submission please contact Dr
Philippa Ashton at [log in to unmask]
22-24 September 2005: JOINING FORCES. Design Research,
Industries and a New Interface for Competitiveness, University
of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland.
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 the feedback to the research context and research
education as well as in which ways this occurs in different
contexts of global and national scale.
Deadline for submission of papers is February 28, 2005.
For further information:
http://www.uiah.fi/joiningforces.
15-16 SEPTEMBER, 2005: 3rd ENGINEERING & PRODUCT DESIGN
EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Napier University, Edinburgh,
Scotland
The 3rd Engineering and Product Design Education International
Conference will be organised by the School of Design and Media
Arts at Napier University, Edinburgh in participation with the
Design Education Special Interest Group (DESIG) of the Design
Society [http://www.designsociety.org], and the institution of
Engineering Designers, UK (IED) [http://www.ied.org.uk]. The
official conference language will be English.
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. Papers are welcomed in the following
categories:
- Professional Collaborations with SMEs
- Design Curriculum Development
- Philosophies of Design Education
- Developing Design Expertise
- Design Knowledge
- Teaching and Learning Tools
- Problem-based Learning
- Studio-based Design Projects
- Interdisciplinarity
- New Materials and New Technologies in Design
- Design Education and the Internet
- Design Collaboration and Team Working
- Industrial Collaborations and Working with Industry
- Design Theory
- Design Communication
- Design Thinking
Deadlines
Submission of Abstracts (maximum 500 words) - January 31, 2005
Submit Abstracts to: [log in to unmask]
Notification of Successful Abstracts - February 18, 2005
Submission of Full Papers - March 25, 2005
Camera-ready Papers - June 3, 2005
Conference details:
http://www.designsociety.org
http://www.ied.org.uk
22-25 NOVEMBER 2005: THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
HUMAN SYSTEM LEARNING ICHSL.5 5em Colloque International sur
l'Apprentissage Personne Systeme (CAPS.5)
Common Innovation in E-learning, Machine Learning and Humanoid
approaches. Human System Learning, Who is in control?
Will be held in Marrakech, Morocco.
Main topics
- Human and Machine Learning Fuzziness
- Human Robot Interaction (focused on learning approaches only)
- Interactive Learning
- Interactive e-learning
- Interactive Mining Tools
- Learning from electronic dynamic documents
- New Learning Support Systems
And ICHSL relevant topics
Cognition, Data Mining, Distributed Artificial Intelligence,
Ergonomic, Human-System Interactions, Humanoid, Knowledge Data
Discovery, New Educational Technology, System Design, Text
Mining, Wireless & Web Based Learning, Web Mining
Important dates :
- 15 April 2005: Papers Submission
- 15 May 2005: Notifications to Authors
- 10 July 2005: Final papers camera ready
http://europia.org/ICHSL5
http://europia.org/CAPS5
http://www.europia.fr/ICHSL5
CONVERGENCE Summer 2006 - SPECIAL ISSUE (copy deadline: 28
October 2005) CALL FOR PAPERS
Guest Editor: REBECCA COYLE
Special Issue: Ether to 01 - Digitising Radio
To state that digital technologies have irrevocably altered
radio production practices can be taken as a given. This issue
proposes to tackle the hows and whys of those transformations
and to examine in detail the ways in which digital production
technologies have transformed philosophies, policies and
practices of radio for regulators, producers and audiences.
Research articles and debates are invited on topics such as
digital broadcasting, digital editing practices, digital
exchanges of program material, digital networking, the current
state of play with various forms of 'internet radio' as well as
ethical issues of plagiarism and content regulation. The issue
offers a broad approach to this area, as outlined in the
questions below.
Internet radio immediately presents a challenge in terms of
definition, given that 'internet radio', 'digital radio' and
other terms are often used loosely or even interchangeably. This
issue will establish a framework for such nomenclature. In
addition, radio on the internet can be made available in various
forms, as real time streamed audio or in downloadable chunks.
Technologies of digital radio production and broadcast have
affected all aspects of radio, from digital location recording
and non-destructive editing, to digital mixing. The euphoria
surrounding prototypes of digital receivers (for example, those
that include small screens for text and graphics) has gone into
abeyance and an exploration of why and how this occurred is
invited for this issue. In addition, the sonic value of mobile
phone recorders and the challenge this offers to traditional
recording with handheld microphones raises questions about audio
'quality'and high fidelity radio.
Radio has always operated on various levels, from narrowcast
stations reaching a limited population or special interest
group, to regional broadcasters, and international services.
Internet services challenge this geographical categorization of
different radio services. But the address to audiences markedly
changes when the audience is understood to be potentially global
rather than local. However, local services may well be
considered important in countries and locations, for example,
where emergency news or literacy pose problems. Internet radio,
like websites, may offer specialised services not restricted by
geographical boundaries. These and other issues of audience
address are invited for discussion in this issue.
Additional to its effect on audiences, regulation and controls
of these services present issues to be tackled. The blurring of
reception 'borders' presents problems for policy-makers. The
relevance of country-originated content regulation is debatable
in light of the potential availability of material on a global
scale. The ways by which different regulatory authorities are
approaching licences for digital (and satellite) radio services
is worth detailing in this issue.
Internet radio offers issues and challenges for station managers
and commercial owners as to how to incorporate radio into other
media services. Terrestrial services find their operations being
fractured where delivery of material is both via traditional
broadcast services (with specialist and trained personnel) as
well as involving the convergence of text, audio, visuals and
interactivity on the internet.
An additional issue in relation to radio is that of programming
content. Where stations are primarily concerned with music,
radio is inevitably affected by many of the issues of music
availability via the internet that have brought about changes to
music industries. This issue invites articles on i-pod radio and
other forms of personally programmed music 'radio'. The question
must be asked as to whether this is still 'radio' as such.
Furthermore, this affects terrestrial services, when individuals
can readily find music in other ways than listening to music
radio. Interactivity in radio programs has always been a feature
for various reasons (such as the relative cheapness of talkback
or telephone caller radio) but internet services offer different
forms of interactivity that are worth analysing.
Internet radio also affects production practices and
availability of material, while at the same time presenting
potential problems around remuneration for journalists and
radio-makers. Where journalists and program-makers are
increasingly expected to provide packages across various media
forms - radio, television and print - the specialist skills of
the radio-maker may not be so highly valued. Community radio
benefits by the ready availability of program material and
internet networks and program exchange services. Discussion of
this sort of activity is invited in this issue.
On a broader level, community radio and the spirit of
volunteerism that informs such services may well be challenged
by internet operations that tends to focus on individual
activities. Some internet radio offers similar opportunities for
communal and outreach activities, although to make such a
comparison requires a study of how community radio operates in
various scenarios. How designated categories of radio services
are affected by internet radio is another issue that may be
debated in this special issue of Convergence, the International
Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.
Copy deadline for research articles: 28 October 2005
Proposal ideas and abstracts can be emailed to Rebecca Coyle at
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INTERPRETING CERAMICS: The journal Interpreting Ceramics was
specifically set up in order to meet the needs of the ceramics
research community. It is the first international, electronic,
peer-reviewed journal for ceramics with an editorial advisory
board consisting of thirty people, respected in their fields,
who between them bring a wide range of expertise in ceramics in
all its manifestations. The journal is a collaborative venture
of four UK universities, which are listed below. Electronic
publication means that the journal is able to be interactive and
can benefit from the many possibilities that new digital media
offers - such as video clips - while still continuing with
traditional text based modes of communication. A particular
advantage of an electronic journal is that it gives equal access
to all (assuming that they have access to the Internet) no
matter where they are in the UK, or indeed in the world.
Publication on the Internet also allows knowledge to be freely
shared across boundaries (whether they are geographical,
political or discipline boundaries) and, accordingly, the
journal can be accessed with no subscription charge at:
http://www.interpretingceramics.com
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
INFRA - NOW OPEN Registration is now open for Doors of
Perception 8. It's on the theme "Infra" and runs from 21-26
March in New Delhi. What infrastructures are needed to enable
bottom-up, edge-in social innovation - and how do we design
them? The weeklong event features a conference; project clinics;
exhibits of Indian media artefacts; a bazaar of social
innovation; visits in and around the city; Bhang Brunch and Holi
Party in Asola. The latest list of participants, a registration
form, and the conference blog, are at:
http://doors8delhi.doorsofperception.com/
TRANS-SIBERIA A conference on the Trans-Siberian train from
Moscow via Novosibirsk to Beijing is 'cosmological':
researchers, philosophers, artists and others will "try to cross
fixed boundaries and be open to the contaminating influences of
the continents we will be passing through during our journey".
10-20 September 2005.
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/conference
The 2 events above are repeated from John Thackara's excellent
newsheet Doors-Report mailing list. Though related to the Doors
of Perception conferences, it has a wealth of other interesting
stuff.
http://lists.webtic.nl/mailman/listinfo/doors-report
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY PAPERS 04/2004 - CONTENTS
Theme: Urbocentrism
Anne-Marie Willis, Editorial introduction
Tony Fry, From Urbocentrism to Hyperurbanism
Aidan Davison, Street Lights at the End of the Universe
(navigating sub- urban space)
Augustin Berque, Inauthenticity of Home, Insecurity at Heart
Hot Debate - Tony Fry, Lights Out: Reply to Aidan Davison
Voice of Sustainment- Tony Fry, On Design Intelligence
ACCESSING DPP The current issue is always free at
http://www.desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html
or http://www.desphilosophy.com - 'current issue'. If you wish
to access back issues, you can become a subscriber for a modest
cost (details are at the website.
DESIGN IN BRITAIN 2004 - Annual survey results
United Kingdom Publisher: Design Council
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/dib2004
ITHAKA is a new non-profit organization that applies the venture
capital model to investing in information technology ideas that
benefit higher education. It supports new approaches to problems
ranging from the dissemination of scholarly resources from the
developing world, to the long-term preservation of journals that
are published only electronically. Ithaka incubates ideas, grows
them into embryonic organizations, assists in crafting business
plans, helps set up board governance, then spins them off as
independent entities. JSTOR and ArtSTOR -- digital archives of
humanities and social science journals and art images -- were
the first two organizations launched by Ithaka's leadership, and
all three remain closely affiliated.
http://www.ithaka.org
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR - Design History. Pratt Institute's
Department of History of Art and Design invites applications for
a full-time tenure-track faculty position available Fall 2005 or
thereafter. The successful candidate will teach Interior Design
History, Concepts of Design and other basic design
history/theory courses on the graduate and undergraduate level.
http://www.pratt.edu/jobs.
10-11 JANUARY 2005: FINAL PROGRAMME : CONFERENCE : "CHALLENGES
OF DESIGN PROMOTION, Paris.
If you want to know why design pays, with hard facts and figures
: don't miss the first day, we've made our best to gather all
recent studies, and they are enlighting...
If you wish to convince your partners in innovation, managers,
executives and civil servants of the specific value of design :
just bring them with you on the second day !
Please find the link to the final programme and registration
forms :
http://www.apci.asso.fr/seminaires_uk/presentation.php in
English
http://www.apci.asso.fr/seminaires/presentation.php in French
PhD 3 YEAR STUDENTSHIP: Ergonomics and School Environments. A
full- time PhD studentship is being offered by the Design
Institute, Coventry School of Art and Design to study school
design and ergonomics.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to lead
research in a new and expanding area. You should have a good
first degree and a postgraduate qualification from an academic
background that embraces at least two of the following -
ergonomics, social sciences, design, environmental psychology or
education. You should also have a good knowledge of the
educational system and the challenges faced by schools. During
the course of the PhD you will interview and observe a wide
range of stakeholders - children, teachers, architects, school
nurses and representatives from educational authorities.
Although teaching experience (in primary or secondary schools)
is not essential, it would be desirable.
If you would like more details please email:
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Closing date January 30th 2005
IDJDD
Issue 12:3 (2004)
Table of contents
The Warsaw subway signage system
Roman Duszek
Problems in the Field
Perspectives on Multimodality: From the early beginnings to the
state of the art
Martin Kaltenbacher
Interview
Visualizing uncertainty: The graphical representation of risk in
investor communications
Wes Ervin
New Media
Mood, persuasion and information presentation
Emiel Krahmer, Judith van Dorst and Nicole Ummelen
Book Review
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24-28 JANUARY 2005: DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN SCIENCES WILL ORGANIZE
THE FOURTH EDITION OF "THE ANTWERP DESIGN SEMINARS and
Lectures".
The Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures are an international
event taking place each year at the Department of Design
Sciences. Its aim is to stimulate cross boundary thinking in
design, and to familiarize students with an interdisciplinary
approach to design problems. The Antwerp Design Seminars and
Lectures intend to act as a forum for faculty and student
exchange on an international level. At the same occasion it is
an informal platform to discuss actual problems related to
design education.
ADSL 2005 main objective will be to brainstorm into the possible
applications of broadband technology for the baby boomers target
group. The event will start with keynote lectures and a
presentation of ongoing research done by master students of
Integrated Product Development on "technology watch" and the
"user pattern analysis". The results of this research may act as
a reservoir for inspiration to some of the workshops. Four
domains have been selected as particularly relevant:
1. personal domain (mind and body)
2. domestic domain (home and family)
3. public domain (the wider world)
4. mobile domain (on the move)
Within each domain two to three workshops will be operational.
Guest professors, recognized specialists in these domains, will
coach them. All workshops conclude with proposals envisioning
new products, or exploring new horizons for further research.
http://adsl.ontwerpwetenschappen.be/ipo/
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WEB
VIRTUALREALITY: this mailing list will cover various topics
related, but not limited to - 3D graphic - Virtual
Environments - 3D human computer interaction (HCI) The general
aim is to increase the mailing list member's research awareness
in the areas highlighted above, have an open discussion on the
challenges that the research might present, and provide an
opportunity to share ideas and feed-back on each others research
work, learning from each other experiences, rather than working
in isolation.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/VIRTUALREALITY
A NEW RESOURCE AND DISCOURSE ON DESIGN RESEARCH is available at
http://www.isworld.org/Researchdesign/drisISworld.htm#ovrDesRsch
A core strength of the site is that it describes a 'design
research position' in a coherent and justified manner.
PAPER PACKAGING GLOBAL INDUSTRY GUIDE. Publisher: Research and
Markets Ltd
A resource for top-level data and analysis covering the paper
packaging industry. It includes detailed data on market size and
segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive
landscape, and profiles of the leading companies.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c10513
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BOOK REVIEWS
Design Research: Methods and Perspectives
Brenda Laurel (ed.), MIT Press (2003) 334pp, ISBN 0-262-12263-4,
UKP 25.95
Human Factors Methods for Design: Making Systems Human Centered
Christopher Nemeth, Taylor & Francis/CRC Press (2004) 392pp,
ISBN 0415297982, UKP 60.99
What differences there are between these two books, both
ostensibly offering guidance on research methods for designers!
Both talk about initiating new product development from a basis
of understanding users' needs, and both contain examples and
instructions for the use of research methods. But one (Laurel's)
is hip and superficial, and the other (Nemeth's) is erudite and
profound.
In the Introduction to her book, Laurel suggests that "A
designer who knows how to deploy formal research appropriately
may introduce strong new currents into the ocean of
possibility." This hints at a major theme of the book, which is
making a link between "design research" and product innovation.
The dust jacket claims that "The goal of the book is to
introduce designers to the many research tools that can be used
to inform design as well as to ideas about how and when to
deploy them effectively." Good aims, but sadly not achieved. The
book simply does not offer much help to a designer about how to
use research tools, nor how to deploy formal research
appropriately and effectively.
The book has some good content, including chapters on
ethnographic methods and inclusive design, but this is sparse
and buried amongst the overwhelming majority of content, which
comprises personal accounts of "research-based" design projects,
organised idiosyncratically into sections on people, form,
process and action. The forty disparate contributions are mainly
brief, anecdotal accounts of the front ends of design projects -
the research that goes into preparing and informing a designer
at the start of a project. Mostly, this is what I would have
hoped is normal practice. There is a deeply disappointing
failure to provide any depth. For instance, two potentially
useful chapters, overviews of quantitative and qualitative
methods respectively, have just one reference between them, and
that's to Cooper's The Inmates are Running the Asylum, in the
qualitative methods chapter.
In contrast, Nemeth's book is founded in the established
tradition of human factors and ergonomics research, offering
insight and understanding, and a background of patient, careful
building of knowledge. The book is organised coherently into
three sections. Part 1 is an introduction to human factors
practice in the context of new product development, including
understanding human abilities and limits, problem solving
behaviour, and the product research and development process.
Part 2 provides comprehensive coverage of human factors methods,
presented in clear language that guides the reader through the
use of the methods and illustrates their use with examples. Part
3 reviews the application of human factors methods, including
cost effectiveness, effecting change, and communications. It
concludes with a number of case studies of design applications
from small to large scale.
The core of the book is its teaching of human factors methods.
Six chapters range over a wide selection of methods, from
analysis to evaluation, from design guidance to usability
assessment, from surveys to controlled studies. Here the reader
learns about the use of methods such as activity analysis,
critical incident study, cognitive task analysis, fault tree
analysis, work load assessment, questionnaires, interviews,
usability testing and experiment design. Some thirty methods are
introduced, explained, and described in a step-by-step style.
The approach is always lucid and concise, with additional
background references, and the methods are illuminated with
examples of their use in practice. The approach is also always
embedded in a concern for user-centred design - as the author
confesses in his Preface, "I have a bias: people matter".
What the reader learns from this book is how to develop goals
and criteria, how to collect and organise relevant information,
how to use collected information to guide the creation of
solution concepts, and how to evaluate potential solutions. It
is a genuinely useful guide to conducting user-orientated
research for design.
-- Nigel Cross
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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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David Durling PhD FCSD
Professor of Design
School of Arts, Middlesex University
Cat Hill, Barnet, Hertfordshire EN4 8HT, UK
tel: 020 8411 5108
00 44 20 8411 5108
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