The Role of the Humanities in Design Creativity
International Conference - East Midlands Media and Technology Centre,
University of Lincoln, 15th-16th November, 2007, hosted by the
Faculties of Art, Architecture & Design and Media, Humanities &
Technology.
This conference considers the influence of the Humanities on the
processes of design. By taking both historical and contemporary
perspectives, the conference explores how the traditional inter-
relationship between word and image, highlighted for example in
architecture, theatre, interior design and urban design, has in more
recent years become obscured by the growing dominance of image as the
only legitimate means of developing and communicating design ideas.
The conference will be organised around a series of parallel paper
sessions with presentations by academics as well as practitioners.
Keynote speakers include Karsten Harries, Professor of Philosophy,
Yale University and Eric Parry, founding partner of Eric Parry
Architects, London, and past visiting professor of architecture at
Harvard University and University of Houston.
For more details and registration information, please see: http://
auth.lincoln.ac.uk/home/conferences/human/
Jeremy Hunsinger
Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research,
School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(www.cipr.uwm.edu)
Words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a
thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions,
think. --Byron
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