First Call for Papers
New Views 2: Conversations and Dialogues in Graphic Design
An international symposium defining graphic design for the future
Papers and posters are solicited for an international symposium which seeks
to look in depth at the broader questions that graphic designers are facing
today in terms of the graphic design profession and educational practices.
At the same time, the symposium is meant to generate debate and to provide
direction, solutions, and identify what new challenges might lay ahead for
practitioners, academics, industry and the profession overall. New Views
sets out to offer a platform for enabling academics and practitioners from a
broad range of international perspectives and approaches to discuss the
current state of their practices.
Poster Submissions
Poster submissions will through the use of graphic language, address issues
and the core themes of the conference. We are keen to explore and
demonstrate the use of graphic design as a means to critique and reflect
upon its future. Submissions are sought from either individuals or groups
and from Design students, Design Faculty and Professional Design Studios.
Each academic institution may submit no more than 5 posters, Design Studios
1 entry. Further details for required format upon request. Selected works
will be included in the traveling exhibition and/or the digital exhibition.
Digital pdf: A4 no larger than 3Mb file size
Print poster: A2 - notification will be given to those whose posters are
accepted and print quality version will be requested then.
Audience
New Views 2 will provide a stimulating event for all designers and those
working in related visual fields as well as students, academics,
professional bodies and related industry. It is hoped submissions will also
come from outside the main discipline to embrace the fields of geography,
literature, science, urban planners, architects, engineers, government
policy makers, and so forth.
Structure
We have adopted the terms Śconversationsą and Śdialoguesą to suggest the
sharing of ideas amongst a group. We believe in fostering collaborative
design discussions and the potential this method has for moving forward the
exchange of knowledge in new and innovative ways. By facilitating large and
smaller more focused groups of delegates, New Views 2, aims to identify the
challenges we are currently facing in graphic design, but more importantly
proposing potential ways forward.
Themes which to be addressed might include:
· Who are we? Problems of defining terminology: visual communication,
communication design, graphic design, information environments
· the role of graphic design for the Śreal worldą
· graphic design and interdisciplinarity
· graphic design and research methods
· design writing/criticism and repositioning the debate
· practice-led PhD research in the field of graphic design
· responsive curriculums and shifting paradigms
· research, innovation and new critical thinking
Paper Abstracts
Abstracts should be no more than 400 words as seen as position statements in
relation to the above themes. Those who have accepted abstracts may be
invited to develop their papers more fully for inclusion in a proposed
publication.
Key Dates
Deadline for Paper Abstracts: 1 February 2008
Deadline for intention to submit Posters: 30 March 2008
Notification of acceptances of Abstract: 30 March 2008
Submission of posters 15 May 2008
Submission for amended Abstracts: 15 May 2008
Symposium
July 9-11, 2008
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
UK
Exhibition
9 21 July 2008 opens in London and then travels to RMIT, Australia
A digital exhibition will also be presented through the conference website.
Full details will be on the website 1 December or by contacting the
organisers:
Professor Teal Triggs: [log in to unmask]
Head of Research, School of Graphic Design, LCC and co-Director, UAL
Research Unit for Information Environments, London
Dr. Laurene Vaughan: [log in to unmask]
Director of Research and Innovation School of Applied Communication, RMIT,
executive member RMIT Design Institute
Supported in part by:
UAL Research Unit for Information Environments
RMIT Design Institute
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