Design Research Week Call for Papers and Projects:
Conference to be held at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of
Washington State University Spokane
January 10-11, 2008
Topic: Design + Politics
From obtaining a building permit to raising environmental awareness in
design, from "sick building syndrome" to designing for security, from
off-grid housing to New Urbanist town planning, the design of built
environments is intimately related to politics. The Interdisciplinary
Design Institute holds its Fourth Annual Design Research Conference
January 10-11, 2008, in Spokane, Washington, to discuss this
relationship. This is an interactive conference in which invited
speakers, paper presenters and students from a wide range of disciplines
participate in multiple venues for the exchange ideas during the
conference.
Submissions for papers and projects can address the following areas of
concern (other related topics will of course be considered as well):
* The politics of implementing design
* The affect of gentrification on disadvantaged urban
populations
* Funding diverse housing types to balance high-end condo
boom
* Implications of design standards and policy on
businesses and private property ownership
* Implementing service design into education: Habitat for
Humanity, student involvement in medical, faith-based, criminal justice,
etc, domains
* The politics of defensible space: how secure can you
make things before you separate people from others?
* Implementing history: returning to historical "stage
sets" to promote "new urbanism"
* How the built environment affects group behavior:
prisons, hospitals, schools, corporate headquarters
* How do practitioners inform policies promoting "best
practices?"
* Incorporating students "real-time" in policymaking and
design decisions
* Updating planning and building codes to meet the
cybernetic revolution
* Is ADA enough? Cultural sensitivities in relation to
accessibility
* Can design be embedded in medical insurance policies?
* Gender, design, and politics
Presenters' work actually presented at the conference will be further
peer reviewed for inclusion in the Interdisciplinary Design and Research
e-Publication (IDRP), sponsored by the WSU Interdisciplinary Design
Institute: http://www.idrp.wsu.edu/ <http://www.idrp.wsu.edu/> .
Papers are to be a maximum of 5,000 words. Initial submission shall be
an abstract not to exceed one page. For ease of distribution for blind
peer review, be sure the document is in MS WORD (not pdf).
Projects can be designs (or concepts) of a built form of any scale, so
long as an accompanying narrative explains how the project addresses the
conference topic. Initial submission shall be a one page document
providing an image of the project with a narrative explanation of
sufficient length to fit on the same page.
All submissions must include contributor(s) name, affiliation, and
contact information. Submission shall be by email only to
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> . All submissions will be
blind peer reviewed. DEADLINE for initial submissions: September 12,
2007, with decisions issued at the end of October.
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