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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 10 Number 4, Apr 2005 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o Announcement: Journal of Research Practice
o Calls
o Announcements
o Web
o The Design Research Society: information
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to Design Research News
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Editorial
It is a pleasure to be able to announce a new journal, below.
The Journal of Research Practice "seeks to develop our
understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend
and enhance that practice in the future". This journal may be
of considerable interest to serious scholars in the various
fields of design as we move forward in debating and defining
differences between design research and design practice, the
emergence of design research as a serious study in its own
right, and new opportunities offered by research to design
practitioners. It should also prove a helpful resource for
doctoral candidates and their supervisors. The editors welcome
suggestions and submissions to the journal.
Some members of Design Research Society have been enquiring
about their membership passwords to access the members area of
the new DRS website. The new members database is being rolled
out over the next few weeks together with digital subscription,
and new content is being added. Some members will have received
their username and password as they are added to the database.
It is expected that all members will have been notified over the
next month. Please be patient as we upgrade the member
services.
Please note that this is the 1 April edition of Design Research
News - in the tradition of 'April Fool's Day' I will assert that
everything contained herein is factual, but...
David Durling
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ANNOUNCING THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH PRACTICE
A new on-line journal
Editors:
DP Dash Xavier Institute of Management Bhubaneswar INDIA
HR Ponce Universidad de Santiago de Chile Facultad de
Administracion y Economia Santiago CHILE
The Web site is designed and maintained by:
International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic
Publication (ICAAP) Edmonton Learning Center Athabasca
University Edmonton Alberta T5J 3E4 CANADA
AIMS AND SCOPE
The Journal of Research Practice (JRP) seeks to develop our
understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend
and enhance that practice in the future. The Journal aims to
highlight the dynamics of research practice, as it unfolds in
the life of a researcher, in the growth and decline of a field,
and in relation to a changing social and institutional
environment. The Journal welcomes deliberation on the basic
issues and challenges encountered by researchers in any specific
domain. The Journal aims to explore why and how different
activities, criteria, methods, and languages become part of
research practice in any domain. This is expected to trigger
inter-disciplinary dialogue, mutual learning, facilitate
research education, and promote innovations in different fields.
The Journal's scope is not defined in terms of academic
disciplines. It cuts across disciplines and fields by drawing
out the living dimensions of research unfolding through history,
culture, research communities, professions, and of course the
lives of individual researchers. The Journal seeks to study the
evolving patterns of thinking and practice that underlie open
inquiry in any domain. The scope also includes topics such as
research training, research design, research utilisation,
research policy, and innovative forms of research. The Journal
targets all researchers, scholars, research-inclined
professionals, and research students, irrespective of their
disciplinary background. It seeks to attract reflective articles
on the dynamics and challenges of research practice in context,
as well as articles presenting experiences and learning from
research carried out in an innovative way.
In order to promote wider participation in these deliberations,
JRP will be published electronically in the open-access mode.
CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts in English, clearly related to the Journal's
editorial focus, are sought in the following four categories:
(i) Main Article (about 6000 words),
(ii) Research Design (about 3000 words),
(iii) Provocative Idea (about 1500 words), and
(iv) Review of published material (about 1500 words).
Main articles may relate to a general topic concerning research
practice (e.g., research contexts, research methods, etc.) or
focus on a specific research domain. If it is the latter, then
special care needs to be exercised to tailor the article to
focus on the generic challenges of doing research in that domain
and the specific innovations developed. The language of the
articles should be sensitive towards a multi-disciplinary,
multi-institutional, and multi-cultural readership. Each main
article should make a contribution to our understanding of
research practice, so as to keep open the possibility of
extending and enhancing that practice in the future.
The Research Design section will carry research proposals,
making explicit the context, available choices, and the actual
research design being proposed. Manuscripts under this category
should focus mainly on the methodological difficulties and
justification of the choices, so that the work may be of
interest to researchers in widely different research areas. It
may also focus on the implications of using specific theoretical
frameworks to approach the problem of research design. This
section can also carry accounts of unfinished research, or
research that ran into unexpected hurdles and could not
progress. Among others, research students are also encouraged to
contribute to this section.
The Provocative Idea section is meant for faster communication
among researchers in different disciplines, who are looking for
fresh ideas, new perspectives, and bold conjectures relating to
some of the challenging puzzles of research in their specific
domains. Contributions in this section may also make innovative
suggestions concerning some generic aspect of research practice,
cutting across disciplines and domains, e.g., research training
or research utilisation.
The journal welcomes reviews of books, journal issues, Web
sites, films, and other forms of published material that address
some aspect of research practice. Reviewers should make an
attempt to connect with the journal's editorial focus.
All manuscripts submitted to the journal (except invited
contributions and reviews) will be subjected to a process of
double-blind review. Please consult the detailed Guidelines
before submitting your manuscript.
http://jrp.icaap.org/
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CALLS
26-27 September 2005: "Creativity: Designer meets Technology
Europe". Call for Papers
Creative Institute for Design and Technology at KrIDT (Denmark)
along with The Center for Excellence of Digital Ink Jet Printing
of Textiles at Philadelphia University (USA), will host a
conference at Skt. Petri Hotel (http://www.hotelsktpetri.com),
Copenhagen. There will be a publication of the lectures from the
conference.
"Creativity: Designer meets Technology Europe", will focus on
creativity and technology related to design, production,
manufacturing, workflow and new visions for the fashion and
textile industry.
(In addition to the conference, an extra day will focus on
digital textile printing to share experiences between users.)
Possible topics include:
- Industry overview
- Technology and implementation of fashion and textile
industry
- The automated manufacturing process
- Digital sale and marketing
- Smart fashion and textiles
- Digital fabric printing
- Creativity in fashion and textile design
- Pedagogy in fashion and textile design education
- Display and Presentation
- Bridging design to manufacturing
- Demands for a global business
- Digital supply chain management
- Sustainability in fashion and textile design.
A committee composed of Kridt and Philadelphia University
members will select papers. To submit, please send e-mail of
200-word abstract and a short bio by May 1st to: [log in to unmask]
If you have any questions or would like additional information,
please call +45 7022-7232 or email: [log in to unmask]
4-7 January 2006: CALL FOR PAPERS. Seventh Annual Minitrack on
Persistent Conversation.
Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science (HICSS 39)
Hyatt Regency, Kauai, Hawaii.
Summary of Topic
Persistent conversations occur via instant messaging, chat,
email, blogs, bulletin boards, MOOs, graphical VR environments,
document annotation systems, text messaging on mobile phones,
etc. Such forms of conversation play a crucial role in domains
such as online communities, the sharing and management of
knowledge, and the support of e-commerce, e-learning and other
network mediated interactions. The persistence of digitally
mediated conversation affords new uses (e.g. searching,
replaying, restructuring) and raises new problems. This
multi-disciplinary minitrack seeks contributions from
researchers and designers that improve our ability to
understand, analyze, and/or design persistent conversation
systems.
Who
Researchers and designers from fields such as anthropology,
computer-mediated communication, HCI, interaction design,
linguistics, management, psychology, rhetoric, sociology, and so
forth.
Chairs
Thomas Erickson, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
([log in to unmask]) Susan Herring, School of Library and
Information Science, Indiana University ([log in to unmask])
http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/HICSS39pc.html
Proyectodiseno magazine calls for ideas for the design of the
new Colombian peso.
This call is part of the celebration plan of the 10 years of the
proyectodiseno magazine and is open to the participation of
Colombian and/or foreign designers.
The subject of the first call is "New Colombian Peso". Ideas
must be submitted by 19 April.
Proyectodiseno will select a group of at least 10 proposals that
will be published in edition 39 of the magazine, available May
19, 2005.
Contact [log in to unmask] for complete information.
12-15 December 2005: THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
TECHNOLOGY, KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIETY Hyderabad, India.
Following the success of the inaugural International Conference
on Technology, Knowledge and Society held at the University of
California Berkeley, USA, we are pleased to announce the second
conference, to be held in one of the emerging IT centres of the
world, Hyderabad.
The conference will take a broad and cross-disciplinary approach
to technology in society. With a particular focus on digital
information and communications technologies, the interests
addressed by the conference include: human usability,
technologies for citizenship and community participation, and
learning technologies. Participants will include researchers,
teachers and practitioners whose interests are either technical
or humanistic, or whose work crosses over between the applied
technological and social sciences.
As well as an impressive line up of international main speakers,
the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and
colloquium presentations. We would particularly like to invite
you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers
submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully
peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in
the new International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and
Society. If you are unable to attend the conference in person,
virtual registrations are also available which allow you to
submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this
fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the
electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline
for the first round call for papers is 1 June 2005. Proposals
are reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an online call for
papers form, are to be found at the conference website.
http://www.Technology-Conference.com
Designs on eLearning
The deadline for papers has been extended to 22nd April. Submit
at http://www.arts.ac.uk/itrdu/conference/
10-14 December 2005: CALL FOR PAPERS Sixth International
Roundtable Conference Computational and Cognitive Models of
Creative Design, Heron Island, Great Barrier Reef Australia
Papers on either computational or cognitive aspects of design
and creative design are being sought. This conference has a
roundtable format with extensive time for discussion.
Full papers are due 13 June 2005.
John Gero and Mary Lou Maher Co-Chairs
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/hi05/
AIEDAM Special Issue, November 2006, Vol.20 No.4
Constraints and Design
Edited by: Barry O'Sullivan
Constraint processing has emerged as an extremely expressive and
powerful paradigm in which to model, solve and reason about many
complex problems. Over the past several decades advances in both
the fundamental aspects of constraint processing and practical
applications of constraints have contributed to making it one of
the most promising of Artificial Intelligence technologies.
In product development and design, constraints arise in many
forms. The functional description of an artifact defines a set
of constraints, as does the physical realisation of that
functionality. The production processes that will be used to
manufacture the artifact can constrain the materials and
dimensions that the designer can select. Preferences can be
represented as constraints so that optimisation techniques can
be employed, as well as forming a basis for negotiation. Of
course, in many situations constraints emerge during design.
Therefore, techniques for supporting the acquisition and
discovery of constraints are important. Finally, designers often
wish to have explained to them why some design option is not
available to them, or how to overcome blind-alleys. Techniques
from the fields of diagnosis, as well as approaches to
visualisation and explanation are critical.
While the study of constraints has been maturing over the past
several decades, there are many opportunities to hybridise
constraint processing with other technologies from the fields of
both Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science to develop
sophisticated tools for supporting design. It is hoped that
papers in this special issue will demonstrate synergies between
constraints and techniques from fields such as machine learning,
information retrieval, psychology, engineering, human-computer
interaction, visualistion and intelligent user-interfaces.
However, the objective of this special issue is to collect
papers that primarily exploit developments in constraint
processing in the domain of engineering design.
Topics that may be addressed in papers for consideration for
inclusion in this special issue include, but are not limited to:
- constraint-based approaches to supporting the major phases of
design: conceptual/embodiment/detailed design;
- constraints for integrated product development, concurrent
engineering, Design For X, etc.;
- constraints for configuration;
- constraints and synthesis;
- constraints for design critiquing, design evaluation and
design checking;
- fundamental advances in constraints that are relevant to
design, such as constraint acquisition, explanation
generation, preference handling, negotiation, etc.;
- hybrid systems for design involving a significant
constraint-based element;
- realworld applications of constraints for design.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least two
expert reviewers, and a selection for publication made on the
basis of these reviews.
For formatting and submission details please visit the special
issue's web-site:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/SpecialIssues/OSullivan.html
Authors planning to submit papers to the special issue are asked
to send an "intent to submit" email to the guest editor as soon
as possible.
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest editor:
Barry O'Sullivan - [log in to unmask]
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and
Manufacturing
Special Issue: Call For Papers
AIEDAM Special Issue, August 2006, Vol. 20, No. 3
Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style Edited by:
Claudia M. Eckert & Ellen Yi-Luen Do
This special issue of AIEDAM will be devoted to papers concerned
with Understanding, Representing and Reasoning about Style.
Design of all disciplines involves the resolution of both form
and function. Many design artifacts exhibit visible qualities
and features that we call 'style'. While we can often recognize
a style easily, it can be difficult to define exactly what
elements of the design contribute to the style. Artifacts often
don't have only a single style, but display the style of an
area, a convention of practice, a manufacturer, a designer and
even a particular customer. We think of style as being
persistent over a series of objects and recognize it through the
similarity of these artifacts. Style is a relationship between
objects, but it influences how objects are understood and used:
i.e., relationships between objects and people.
Cultural and art historians, as well as design theoreticians,
have studied style from their different disciplinary
perspectives. However, we know little that is detailed and
concrete about how style is generated, deployed or appreciated.
This understanding is necessary for incorporating style into
intelligent computer applications. In this special issue we are
seeking to put together contributions that allow us to
understand what style is, how it works, how it can be supported
and how it can be regenerated.
Specifically, we are asking the following questions:
What constitutes a style? What are the mechanisms through which
style is generated, shared and appreciated? What does style in
different disciplines have in common? Are rules and constraints
part of the definition of style? Can the practices used to
analyze and generate style in one design domain be applicable in
a different field? Can we use systematic approaches and
methodologies to describe, understand and generate style? What
kinds of AI techniques are needed to represent and reason about
a style? Can styles be defined in functional terms as well as
structural terms? How is style recognized and how does the
notion of style influence the process and production of design
artifacts? What is the relationship between style and context?
Can a description of style be created automatically from one or
a set of artifacts? Where do the personal influences on style
and style perception come from? How important is style compared
to other attributes of a product as a success factor? What is
the function of style? Is style a meaningful concept beyond the
visual domains? What kind of computational tools have been built
to support engineering design, analysis and manufacturing
concerning style?
We are interested in how this understanding of style can enhance
the design, analysis or manufacturing of engineering artifacts.
We particularly welcome papers on the topics listed below from
all areas of design:
- cognitive and computational approaches to understanding
design style;
- computational tools that interpret styles, and infer design
intentions;
- generative design systems that represent or reason about
style;
- theories and procedures to analyze or generate style for
design artifacts;
- representation methods for helping human designers understand
the nature of style;
- reasoning mechanisms for generating style in engineering
design and manufacturing.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three
reviewers. The selection for publication would be made on the
basis of these reviews.
Further details about registration of interest, submission, etc,
can be found at the Special Issue information page:
http://code.arc.cmu.edu/~ellendo/aiedam/
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM
papers can be found at
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/.
However, note that all submissions for special issues go to the
Guest Editors, and not to the Editor in Chief.
Important dates:
Intend to submit (with Title): As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers: 1 July 2005
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest
editors:
Dr. Claudia M. Eckert The University of Cambridge, Department of
Engineering, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ UNITED
KINGDOM Email: cme26 @ cam.ac.uk
Dr. Ellen Yi-Luen Do Computational Design Laboratory CoDe Lab,
School of Architecture Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes
Ave, 412 Margaret Morrison Hall Pittsburgh, PA 15217 - 3890 USA
Email: ellendo @ cmu.edu http://code.arc.cmu.edu
See also:
http://www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/SpecialIssues/Eckert-Do.html
26-29 July 2005: the deadline for submitting to CGIV05 is 15th
April 2005. This year conference is hosted by Chinese Academy
of Sciences at Beijing, China. We hope that you will again be
able to submit a paper or attend this year's event.
Some other information that you might find useful with regard to
the conference are at:
http://www.graphicslink.demon.co.uk/cgiv05/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
21-31 July 2005: Orient-Orientation: Communication- Interactive
Design Summer Workshop by Arhan Kayar. Kadir Has University,
Department of Communication Design
Aim and Scope
Kadir Has University and Istanbul Art and Research
Foundation seeks seven talented students from around the world
for an interactive advertising summer workshop titled
"Orient-Orientation: Communication". The workshop will be held
in Istanbul, Turkey at Kadir Has University.
The workshop is free to all participants but we are only able to
provide grants for international (non-Turkish) students. The
grant covers accommodation and 300 $ allowance for travel and
subsistence costs for each student accepted. Accommodation will
be in the historic section of Istanbul, and quite close to the
university.
The basic aim of this workshop is to explore interactive
advertising ideas for Istanbul, using information design
theories and the latest multimedia technologies. In the
workshop, participants will examine how to use the oriental
atmosphere alongside the modern face of Istanbul in interactive
information design ideas. Advertising here is not considered as
commercial but conceptual, to promote Istanbul city in terms of
information design.
The format is totally free depends on designing information in
advertisement. The project can be visualized in computer
interface, printed materials or/and physical environment or
both.
The workshop is limited to conceptual design and not a final
product, but participants, using ideas from the workshop, will
be invited to apply for an exhibition in International Design
Week which will be held in Istanbul, September 21-27, 2005
organized by Istanbul Municipality, DDF and AD Magazine-Turkey.
http://www.interaction-idea.info
7-9 July 2005: IIID/AIGA Conference: Vision Plus 11. Needs,
trends and themes for Information Design: Developing Information
Design Subject Areas, Vienna, Austria
Vision Plus 11 will focus on the development on information
design as a distinct profession and area of expertise. The
symposium will be carried by the IIID Board Members and invited
speakers, who will discuss the development of information design
subject areas. About 20 speakers of 10 countries are expected to
give presentations.
PARTICIPATION FEE: EUR 560 Various reductions are available for
- IIID and AIGA members (10%)
- students (33%)
- additional participants from same address (33%) and
- early bird bookings until 3 June 2005 (10%).
ORGANIZATION:
- International Institute for Information Design
(IIID)
- The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA)
PATRONAGE:
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization)
SPONSORS:
- Verband Wiener Volksbildung
- VHS Urania
- Design Austria
http://www.iiid-visionplus.net/
11-23 July 2005: IIID/AIGA Summer Academy 2005 "(Im)Material
Exchange", Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
The IIID/AIGA Summer Academy is in harmony with the 8th UN
Millennium Goal "Developing a Global Partnership for
Development". Its focus: the Cape Verde Islands, situated in the
middle of the Atlantic.
The IIID/AIGA Summer Academy is an integral part of idX (the
IIID Information Design Exchange project) within the EU/USA
Cooperation Programme in Higher Education and Vocational
Education and Training. It will enable all idX participants of
Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, Idaho, Illinois and Michigan to
meet, to exchange experiences and to work collectively -
together with the other participants - on the development of a
challenging communication project focussing on issues of
cultural, educational and economic development.
The IIID/AIGA Summer Academy is open to information design
students and professionals likewise.
Availability of places is limited. Applicants will be accepted -
depending on their qualification - on a first come first served
basis.
PATRONAGE:
- UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization)
DIRECTOR:
- Prof. Jay Rutherford, Free University of
Bozen/Bolzano
PARTICIPATION FEE:
- EUR 1100 (Members of IIID and AIGA,
students and participants of previous IIID summer academies: EUR
990)
http://www.iiid.net/SummerAcademy.htm
9 April 2005: Wallpaper in the Black British home.
Discussion Workshop.
This event will focus on the Black British home in Britain,
and the ways in which the choice of decoration - especially
wallpaper - have helped to define identity and create a sense of
'home'.
Michael McMillan is Guest Curator at the Geffrye Museum, where
he is currently preparing to mount an exhibition entitled "The
West Indian Front Room: three generations of change in the Black
British home" which opens in October 2005.
Michael will discuss the process of curating the Geffrye
Museum's exhibition, with an emphasis on examples of wallpaper
that will be on show. He will discuss the choices in design and
the reasons why some of these designs became fetishised for the
Black British community. He will also look at how these designs
have changed over generations given the shifting identities,
desires and practices in the domestic domain.
Workshop participants are asked to bring samples of wallpaper
from their grandparents, parents and their own homes to explore
connections.
Price: UKP10.00 or UKP8.00 concessions. Light refreshments
included. Booking enquiries: 020 8411 4394 or [log in to unmask]
MoDA - Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. Based on the
Cat Hill campus of Middlesex University, MoDA's varied
exhibitions give a vivid picture of domestic life in the first
half of the twentieth century whilst also looking at
contemporary design, art and issues related to the domestic
environment.
+44 (0)20 8411 5244
http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk
23 March 2005: Biosemiotics: the new challenge.
FurnitureWorks, London Metropolitan University, 41 Commercial
Road
The symposium will feature the following papers:
'On the biology of the subject' Jesper Hoffmeyer (Denmark)
'Biosemiotics and beyond' Soren Brier (Denmark)
'Alive signs, dead matter: Living for semiotics, dying for
physics . . .' Kalevi Kull (Estonia).
Biosemiotics has been responsible for the acceleration of
semiotics' impetus in the last decade.
Biosemiotics promises to transform biology; it poses a challenge
to aspects of Darwinian orthodoxy; it re-orientates the study of
the sign; and, arguably above all, it precipitates a major
re-thinking of the human subject.
'Biosemiotics: the new challenge' is a one-day international
symposium run by the Communications and Subjectivity Research
Group at London Metropolitan University in conjunction with the
journal, Subject Matters. It is the first event of its kind in
Britain to be devoted exclusively to biosemiotics.
Papers will be aimed at a humanities audience addressing, in
particular, biosemiotics' consequences for the theory of the
subject.
To book or gain further information, email
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16 April 2005: Symposium Designing Designers 2005 Milan
Fairgrounds, Milan, Italy
The theme of Designing Designers 2005 is: Design Evolution by
East & West. New ambient, new products, new designers and
comprises two thematic areas: The role of design in the
university and Design in the East and West today. In particular,
Designing Designers will focus on the very important theme of
how design is applied and which role it plays for the growth of
enterprises, the housing and commercial activities in the
evolving economy and market of the Asian cities and countries.
http://www.design.polimi.it/news/desdes_call.pdf
The latest issue of Design Philosophy Papers
has just been posted. We are also seeking material for future
issues on a wide range of design-related themes, and are
interested in receiving proposals from a variety of disciplines.
DPP 1/2005: CONTENTS
Ezio Manzini Interviewed on Scenarios for
Sustainability Anne-Marie Willis
Scenarios, Futures & Design
Tony Fry
The Scenario of Design
Anne-Marie WIllis
Reviews: Manzini/Jegou Sustainable Everyday; Jonas/Meyer-Veden,
Mind the Gap; The Archeworks Papers
http://www.desphilosophy.com and click on 'current issue'
Also in this issue: - news about a new budget subscription -
more information about upcoming themes and how you can
contribute - see 'coming issues' link on our homepage.
Only the latest issue of DPP is available free. Subscribers can
access all back issues plus other benefits.
Yours sincerely, Anne-Marie Willis, Editor Design Philosophy
Papers, PO Box 159 Crows Nest QLD 4355 Australia.
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11-17 June 2005: Symposium DesignInquiry Maine College of Art,
Portland, Maine, United States
DesignInquiry is a working design symposium; in a series of
short lectures, discussions and studio workshops, participants
will explore the aesthetics and ethics of graphic design:
through Motive, method and medium.
Join Elliott Earls, Peter Hall, Melle Hammer, Ellen Lupton,
Marlene McCarty, Douglass Scott, Matt Soar, Louise Sandhaus,
Nancy Skolos. Thomas Wedell, Rick Valicenti, and Lorraine Wild
for workshops
Come for a week to Portland, Maine, to engage with outstanding
design professionals, advanced students and educators.
DesignInquiry frames the questions, participants explore the
answers.
Presented in Partnership with AIGA.
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http://www.designinquiry.meca.edu
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WEB
Typo 12 Czech Republic
Out of the Table of Contents:
Typo.Fenomen: Eight centuries of blackletter fonts
Typo.Interview: About a group of castrates with impotent
equipment
Typo.Fotoesej: Kill flies or alcohol diminishes moral and
increases absenteeism
Typo.Nazor: Iva Knobloch: Together
Jan Sipek - Catalunia independent
http://www.magtypo.cz
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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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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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