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Dear colleagues,
with this email I would like to inform you that the first announcement of
the conference “CHANGING THE CHANGE: Design Visions, Proposals and Tools”
has been uploaded in the site www.changingthechange.org
The conference will be held in Torino 10th, 11th, 12th July 2008 in the
framework of World Design Capital Torino 2008,
an Icsid initiative of the IDA. It is organized by the Co-ordination of
Italian Design Research Doctorates with the Conference of Italian Design
Faculty Deans and Programme Heads.
It seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation
that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable
future. It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design
research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can
actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that
will have to take place. At the heart of the conference, design researchers
will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be
complemented by invited keynote speaker presentations that will help paint a
clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take
off. More about conference themes and aims has been uploaded in the
website.
The conference will have an International Advisory Committee including
members from different countries and continents. Abstracts will be evaluated
and selected by a blind peer review process. All selected and presented
papers will be published on line, and placed in the conference website in
printable form. The best papers and the presentations of the keynote
speakers will be published in book form.
In addition to the oral presentations, the conference will include an
exhibition of visualisations. These will not take the form of traditional
scientific posters, but will present visions and proposals (in other words,
more communicative reports of design research in progress).
Important dates:
October 22: publication of specifications for abstracts
November 19: publication of specifications for visualisations
January 21: deadline for abstracts and visualisations
March 3: notification to accepted abstracts and visualisations
May 26: deadline for full papers
Please forward this information to all those whom it may concern.
With best wishes.
Ezio Manzini
Conference Coordinator
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