Dear Victor,

Thanks for your comments and thank you for this excellent session 
proposal. As our field evolves, we should consider different kinds of 
review and selection processes.

We have room for different kinds of sessions in Lisbon. I have 
already consulted with co-chairs Eduardo Corte-Real and Terry Love 
and we will develop the session you propose.

Every conference sees a special session that draws extraordinary 
interest based on key issues in the field. The special session on 
doctoral supervision that David Durling and John Shackleton hosted at 
Brunel was a good example of this. Your session on reviewing and 
selection processes will create comparable interest in Lisbon.

Because this proposal is so close to my own interests, I will sponsor 
the session and work out the details on how and when to run it.

Let me work with Eduardo and Terry to plan this and then report the answer.

Your question on papers involves a major series of challenges and 
solutions. It echoes questions that Eduardo, Terry, and I have been 
reviewing together with our colleagues in the conference group. Since 
others have been asking similar questions, I want to explain our 
review and selection process carefully for the entire DRS community. 
I will be back tomorrow with a few facts that shed light on our 
reviewing and paper selection process.

Warm wishes,

Ken

--

Victor Margolin wrote,

"I am looking forward to Wonderground but I am wondering how we have 
come to the point in our design research community where we have to 
complete a full paper in order to be considered for a conference. In 
my professional association, the College Art Association, which is at 
least seventy years old, papers are accepted on the basis of 
abstracts. The conference is also divided into sessions and session 
leaders get to choose the abstracts. The assumption is that 
professionals are very likely to develop a good paper from an 
abstract and need not have their final paper reviewed and possibly 
rejected. I wonder whether or not the call for completed papers in 
order to be considered for a conference is a disincentive to some 
people who don't want to spend the time on a full paper without the 
certainty that they will be able to present it. I'd like to call for 
a session on the selection process, which would be held at the 
Wonderground conference. I'd like to make my argument there for a 
different way of organizing such events."

-- 

Ken Friedman
Professor of Leadership and Strategic Design
Institute for Communication, Culture, and Language
Norwegian School of Management

Design Research Center
Denmark's Design School

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