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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 13 Number 11 Nov 2008 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o EKSIG conference
o SIG on pedagogy
o DRS AGM
o IASDR 09 conference
o Design Studies - contents
o Symposium - Completing the Circle
o Calls
o Announcements
o The Design Research Society: information
o Digital Services of the DRS
o Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN
o Contributing to DRN
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EDITORIAL
Well, the Design Research Society had its Annual General
Meeting, and there are some new faces on the block. A short
statement about the current DRS Council is below.
One of the changes is that I have taken over as the new
Communications Secretary, following on from Ken Friedman's
valued work over the past couple of years which, for example,
saw the introduction of Design Research Quarterly under Peter
Storkerson's excellent editorship.
My immediate emphasis is on improving the content on the DRS
website. We have recently completely reconstructed the website,
and everything is now in place to add further content, and to
make this site a first port of call for design researchers.
The time has come to establish an important new role for a Web
Editor, and I am looking for a volunteer. The main requirements
of the role will be to:
- have editorial oversight of the website, working with the
Communications Secretary and a small editorial team
- work with other Council members to develop policies and best
practice
- work with web volunteers to further develop content for the
benefit of DRS members and the field as a whole
- work with the DRS web developer to develop the site
The role requires someone with a good understanding of
information delivery through websites, and who wants to be at
the heart of DRS communications both with members and with the
outside world. This is likely to be a high profile post within
the society, and could be a significant career development
role for the right person.
I am am happy to provide further details, or discuss the role
informally. Please pop a note to [log in to unmask]
-- David Durling
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EKSIG CONFERENCE 2009
EKSIG 2009: EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE, METHOD and METHODOLOGY
International Conference 2009 of the DRS Special Interest Group
on Experiential Knowledge
*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FINAL DATE for submissions of abstracts
has been EXTENDED to: 5 December 2008
The EKSIG International Conference 2009 will address the theme
of "Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology". It will be
convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential
Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by London Metropolitan University.
Date: Friday 19 June 2009
Organisers: Linden Reilly, Chris Smith, Kristina Niedderer,
Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Venue: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org
Contact: [log in to unmask]
Final CALL FOR PAPERS
For EKSIG 2009, we invite submissions for the theme
"Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology". With this
theme we aim to provide a forum for debate about methodology and
methods for the inclusion and communication of knowledge in
research and practice in the creative disciplines.
The need to be more explicit about research methods, frameworks,
and methodologies has arisen from the increasing use of creative
and professional practices as part of the practice of research
in recent years. While research guidelines and regulations have
been either generic enough, or were adjusted, to accommodate the
use of some creative and professional practices under certain
conditions, the debate about the nature, aims, validity,
evaluation, and necessity of such research has continued.
While all research has a method, and disciplines are
characteristically driven by debates about the best methods for
achieving their aims, that which constitutes a research method
in design and related disciplines is still a matter of debate.
The debates about research methods in design in many ways echo
questions addressed in the design methods movement of the 1960s
and 1970s, such as: 'What are design methods?' Now framed in
terms of design research, questions address the conditions under
which design methods might be used as research methods as well
as the nature of discipline specific methodologies.
The developing understanding in this debate is that the
inclusion of practice in the research process or as a research
outcome helps to integrate and/or communicate those kinds or
parts of knowledge that cannot easily be made explicit, such as
the tacit part of experiential and procedural knowledge,
commonly known as tacit knowledge. With this conference, we wish
to explore the different ways in which tacit knowledge can be
integrated and communicated within the framework of research.
Questions of interest are, for example:
- What are design methods and what are design research methods?
- How is knowledge/knowing created within the process of
research?
- What frameworks are there to guide discipline specific
methodologies?
- How can we integrate and utilize tacit knowledge in the
process of research?
- Why is the use of tacit knowledge important in research?
- What contribution can the use of practice make to the
inclusion of tacit knowledge in research?
- What contribution can the use of design practice make to the
development of design research?
- What methods are there for the communication of tacit
knowledge within research?
- Can we talk about the communication of tacit knowledge, or
should we talk about a transfer?
- What means and methods do we have to transfer tacit knowledge?
We wish to bring together people from different fields and
disciplines with different approaches to address these issues.
We invite contributions from the design disciplines (design,
engineering, craft, media etc), philosophy, education, health
and knowledge management that are concerned with methods and
methodology in research and in creative and professional
practice; with the nature, role, and management of knowledge
within research; and with the role and use of creative practice
(both as process and outcome) as a means by which to develop and
manage experiential/tacit knowledge within research.
SUBMISSIONS
For EKSIG 2009, we invite position papers, which offer
challenging new views on the subject. Position papers will be
selected subject to a double blind review process by an
international review team. In the first instance we ask for the
submission of abstracts. Authors of selected abstracts will be
asked to submit full papers (4000-5000 words).
We invite the submission of abstracts of 700-800 words
(excluding references) for position papers by 1st December 2008.
Abstracts should be sent as plain text in the body of the email
from the lead researcher's email address. Please send your
abstract via e-mail to [log in to unmask]
PUBLICATION
All papers selected for presentation at the conference will be
published in the conference proceedings, an abstract booklet and
a CD/website.
The conference has also secured collaboration with the Journal
of Research Practice, and selected papers will be published in
the journal.
IMPORTANT DATES
8 September 2008 Submission of abstracts open
1 December 2008 Submission of abstracts ends
5 January 2008 Notification of accepted abstracts
1 March 2009 Submission of full papers
1 April 2009 Notification of acceptance of papers
1 May 2009 Submission of revised papers
19 June 2009 Conference
Please find further details on the conference home page:
http://www.experientialknowledge.org
or contact Dr Kristina Niedderer, Reader in Design and Applied
Arts, School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton,
Molineux Street, Wolverhampton WV1 1SB. email:
[log in to unmask] tel: +44 (0)1902 321 550 web:
http://www.niedderer.org
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SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP ON DESIGN PEDAGOGY
The SIG aims to bring together design researchers, teachers and
practitioners, and others responsible for the delivery of design
education, to clarify and develop the role of design research
in providing the theoretical underpinning for design education.
We are proposing to have a launch event in Coventry for the new
SIG. This will be a one day symposium for those DRS members
whose interest lies in Design Pedagogy. It will provide an
opportunity for discussion and for the presentation of different
views. We hope that the outcome will be that we will be able to
identify ways forward as both research directions and plans for
future events.
Attendance will be free for DRS members, as will the
refreshments. We are looking at dates in the new year. It would
be helpful for us if colleagues could let us know if they would
be interested in coming and are likely to attend such a
symposium.
If you are interested in coming please contact Mike Tovey
([log in to unmask]).
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MESSAGE FROM CHRIS RUST, CHAIR OF DRS COUNCIL
Dear Colleagues,
Thanks very much to everybody who took part in the recent
elections to the DRS Council. Here are the results, announced at
the Annual General Meeting on 10th November
These members were elected to the council for a period of two
years
Erik Bohemia (UK)
Ken Friedman (Australia)
John Knight (UK)
Stephen Little (UK)
Rivka Oxman (Israel)
Tiiu Poldma (Canada)
Wendy Wong (Canada)
These members continue for a further year, having been elected
for two years in 2007
Linda Drew
Jack Ingram
Peter Lloyd
Kristina Niedderer
Chris Rust
These members were nominated to be officers of the council for
one year.
Hon. Treasurer - John Langrish
Membership Secretary - Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Communication Secretary - David Durling
Events Secretary - Philippa Ashton
Following the AGM, the council met to elect a Chair and
Vice-Chair for the coming year, and the following were elected:
Chris Rust - Chair
Linda Drew - Vice Chair
Neither was opposed
Following the AGM, Dr Paul Rodgers, of Napier University, was
co-opted to Council as Hon. Secretary.
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19-22 October 2009: IASDR 2009 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
(International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009)
Seoul, South Korea.
Theme: Rigor and Relevance in Design
We invite you to submit high quality design research outcomes to
the IASDR 2009 conference which will be held on 19-22 October,
2009 in Seoul, Korea. This is a large, international design
research conference with an intensive and high quality program.
This venue will bring together top design researchers and
practitioners to build and advance knowledge in the field of
Design. We encourage your enthusiastic participation for this
exciting opportunity.
Design has been evolved into a unique but highly influencing
discipline in this rapidly changing society. But it has also
struggled to find its own rigor and relevance as a disciplined
field as its own. In this conference, we invite various
perspectives and research outcomes that may address the issues
of establishing our own rigor and relevance of design research
and practice in the field of Design, as well as discussions and
research activities related to all the important design subjects
as follows:
1. Design Theory and Methodology
2. Design Philosophy, Ethics, Values, and Issues
3. Design Education
4. Design Management and Strategy
5. Sustainability, Culture, History, and Society in Design
6. Human Behaviors, Perception, and Emotion
7. Semantics, Aesthetics and Experience in Design
8. Interaction and Interface Design
9. Design Tools and New Media
10. Universal Design/Inclusive Design
11. Design Creativity
12. Design Project Cases
Abstract deadline: February 28, 2009
Notification of abstract acceptance: March 31, 2009 Full paper
deadline: June 1, 2009 Notification of full paper acceptance:
August 1, 2009 Full paper submission deadline: September 1, 2009
There will be two categories for the paper submissions--one is
an oral-session full paper category, and the other is a
poster-session paper category. When you submit your paper, you
will be required to indicate either one of these options, and
the reviewers will review the abstracts according to the
selected option. However, if an abstract was submitted to the
full paper category and if the abstract does not meet the
criteria for the full paper quality, there is possibility to be
suggested for considering poster presentations when that is
judged to be the better option. The oral-session full paper
category will have stronger rigor in the reviewing criteria
comparing to the ones for the poster paper category. We will
post more details of the review criteria and this distinction
between full papers and poster papers on the web site near
future.
For the abstract submission, we will soon post the format to be
followed. In addition, we will also post call for participations
for other submission categories such as tutorials, special
sessions, and doctoral colloquiums. Please visit our website
regularly for these updates.
http://www.iasdr2009.org/
(DRS is a founder member of IASDR)
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DESIGN STUDIES
Contents of Volume 29, Number 6 (November 2008)
A special issue on Interaction Design and Creative Practice,
guest edited by Linda Candy and Brigid Costello, featuring work
from the Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of
Technology, Sydney, Australia.
Contents
Editorial: Interaction design and creative practice
Linda Candy, Brigid Costello
Pages 521-524
Designing for creative engagement
Zafer Bilda, Ernest Edmonds, Linda Candy
Pages 525-540
Emergence and the art system plus minus now
Jennifer Seevinck, Ernest Edmonds
Pages 541-555
Designing and evaluating virtual musical instruments:
facilitating conversational user interaction
Andrew Johnston, Linda Candy, Ernest Edmonds
Pages 556-571
Our Content: generative montage methods for multimedia data
Shigeki Amitani, Zafer Bilda, Ernest Edmonds
Pages 572-586
Exploring design options for interactive video with the Mnemovie
hypervideo system
Mike Leggett, Zafer Bilda
Pages 587-602
Embedding expert users in the interaction design process: a case
study
Tania Humphreys, Linda Leung, Alastair Weakley
Pages 603-622
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19 January 2009: One-day public symposium 'COMPLETING THE
CIRCLE: INCORPORATING EVALUATION METHODS IN CREATIVE WORK',
London.
This event is organised by the Lansdown Centre for Electronic
Arts at Middlesex University and supported by the BCS Computer
Arts Society and the Design Research Society.
Registration to attend is now OPEN.
Attendance for the day costs GBP50, reduced to GBP25 for
full-time students, members of the British Computer Society
(BCS), Computer Arts Society (CAS) and Design Research Society
(DRS).
The fee includes refreshments and a copy of the proceedings on
CD.
About the Symposium
The symposium celebrates curiosity in creative digital work,
bringing together artists, designers, computer scientists,
developers and academics. All papers have been peer- reviewed by
an international panel.
What is the point?
The theme is controversial: the event title - 'Completing the
Circle' - implies that evaluation is often missing from the
creative process. But what is the role of evaluation in creative
practice and how, if at all, is this altered by digital
technologies?
Interactive digital technologies offer an increasing range of
opportunities for artists, designers and other creative workers
to find out how their work is experienced. Some creative people
are keen to embrace these opportunities, while others consider
such methods an intrusion. The symposium allows participants to
share ideas and expertise and tackle some hard questions.
An international programme of speakers present papers which
focus on using interactive technologies and other novel methods
to evaluate the user's or audience's response to media including
artworks, designs and performance.
Leaders of the field from around the world will contribute,
including Professor Ernest Edmonds who directs the Creativity
and Cognition Studios at the University of Technology in Sydney,
and Kristina Hook, professor in human-machine interaction at
Stockholm University/Royal Institute of Technology. The day of
eight papers plus discussion includes papers exploring
innovative uses of eye-tracking technology; non-verbal
elicitation of responses to design; changes in the relation
between artist, exhibit, gallery and public brought about by
digital interaction (including a speaker from the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York). Other speakers will interrogate the
basic principles in question.
Participants will benefit from new knowledge on techniques of
evaluation, important case studies, and the practical and
conceptual issues to be confronted.
The papers are listed here:
http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=59&item=31
The symposium will be held on Monday 19th January 2009 at:
British Computer Society The Davidson Building 5 Southampton
Street London, WC2E 7HA United Kingdom
Further information here:
http://www.cea.mdx.ac.uk/?location_id=59&item=31
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CALLS
DESIGN HISTORY FUTURES - SUSTAINING WHAT?
An issue of Design Philosophy Papers to be edited by Karin
Jaschke, Paul Denison and Tara Andrews in association with
Anne-Marie Willis
Design history has evolved over recent decades through
engagement with matters of concern like class, gender and the
postcolonial. In turn, critical design histories have
contributed to new ways of understanding the world around us.
Today, the matter of concern is sustainability: an issue that is
almost too large in its implications to be grasped outright. It
presents a challenge that is new in scope and kind. Design
history cannot remain unaffected by this.
Design historians are well aware of the role design has played
in making the modern world. Yet the modern lifestyles and
material cultures made possible by design are now being seen as
so deeply implicated in unsustainability that on these grounds
alone a re-writing of design history seems inevitable. Modes of
practice and thought, social and economic contexts, and the
ideological premises of past design practice need to be
addressed anew.
At the same time, this raises the question of design history's
own disciplinary past, present, and future. Design histories
have used and perpetuated ways of thinking that have fed
directly into current, unsustainable design practice, including
notions of progress, newness, and obsolescence, 'iconic design',
and the star-designer or 'starchitect'. Historians of design
thus need to consider the implications of their value-systems.
Climate change, resource depletion, and pollution will lead to
major changes in modern lifestyles in the near future. Design
has a major ethical and professional stake in this transition
and the direction it will take.
We propose that a revitalised, critical design history could
play a major role in providing an intellectual framework for
new, redirective design practices. Thus we ask the following
questions, and invite papers that address them:
- How does awareness of sustainability and unsustainability
affect design history?
- What insights could be gained by re-reading design's past
through perspectives of sustainability and unsustainability?
- Could design history contribute to a more developed
understanding of sustainability and unsustainability?
- Are there past writers who have already done this? Is their
work relevant to today?
- Have we overlooked historical subjects that are of importance
to the sustainability debate?
- What part has design history itself played in the development
of unsustainability?
- Do we need radically new ways of thinking to understand the
role that design has played in bringing about the present
unsustainable state of the world?
- What does this mean for specific areas of research: histories
of product design, architecture, fashion, graphics, material and
visual cultures, etc.?
- Is there an ethical imperative for historians to reconsider
their disciplinary approach with view to sustainability? Does
this imperative undercut notions of impartiality?
- Where are the blind-spots in design historiography that may
hinder a real rethinking of design history?
- What methods and approaches from other disciplines or
traditions of thinking could offer ways of understanding our
unsustainable past that might be relevant to the historical
study of design?
SCHEDULE
Abstracts (200 words) due by: 12 Dec 2008
First drafts of papers due by: 13 March 2009
Final drafts due by: 24 April 2009
Publication online by: May 2009
SUBMIT ABSTRACTS TO:
Anne-Marie Willis Editor, Design Philosophy Papers
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12-16 October 2009: REVITALISING BUILT ENVIRONMENTS:
Requalifying Old Places for New Uses Istanbul - TURKEY
JOINTLY ORGANIZED BY IAPS-CSBE 'Culture & Space in the Built
Environment Network' and the IAPS - HOUSING Network
The organising committee of the International Symposium on
'Revitalising Built Environments: Requalifying Old Places For
New Uses' is pleased to announce that the symposium will be
held in Istanbul 12 - 16 October 2009. This symposium is the
4th of a series of international symposia organized by the IAPS
-International Association of People-Environment Studies-
Network on "Culture and Space in the Built Environment", with
the objective of bringing together participants from various
disciplines. The first symposium of the network was "Culture and
Space in the Home Environment" in Istanbul in 1997, then
'Traditional Environments in a New Millenium: Defining
Principles and Professional Practice', in Amasya in 2001, and
'Social Change and Spatial Transformation in Housing
Environments' in Istanbul in 2005. The IAPS Housing Network has
also organized four international symposia since 1989 in the
United Kingdom, Poland and Sweden. These events are now
recognized as an established tradition of the IAPS community and
in international architectural and urban research, a tradition
that combines research studies within an interdisciplinary
framework with high relevance for practice. It will be the
primary aim of the organizers of this symposium to build on
these tradition.
Symposium theme
Significant investments of monetary resources and professional
expertise during the last three decades in many countries have
led to numerous projects and programmes concerning urban
regeneration, housing renovation, and the revitalization of old
neighborhoods. Some of these investments have led to
problematic unintended consequences whereas others have been
considered successes. The common approach used in recent years
has been based largely on quantifiable criteria related to the
functional and physical performance of buildings, the financial
return of monetary investments, and projections about
demographic and economic trends; it has been rare to explicitly
integrate the aspirations, preferences and values of local
residents living in or adjacent to many projects. The key
question today is how can future projects define a comprehensive
programme of work if they continue to ignore the point of view
of the local population? Instead of relying heavily on technical
solutions by professionals, both quantitative and qualitative
approaches are necessary which would involve a wide range of
actors from the public and private sectors including citizens.
The economic, functional and physical lifespan of buildings
should be reconsidered in relation to the diversity of meanings,
including the contested meanings of some projects which reflect
the diverse values that different groups of the population
attribute to the built environment before renovation works are
defined. The two IAPS Networks organizing this symposium have
accumulated considerable scientific knowledge which can be
integrated with professional know-how in order to deal
effectively with the challenge of requalifying the existing
built environment. In contrast to terms such as urban
regeneration, housing rehabilitation, upgrading and retrofit,
the term requalifying is used as a verb to underline the
multi-actor process, the multiple criteria and the meanings and
values used during the reconfiguration of existing buildings and
public spaces in urban areas in order to improve the quality of
life of residents. Authors are invited to submit papers that
consider key theoretical and methodological issues,
post-occupancy evaluations, or present case studies that
illustrate specific principles and methods as well as examples
of best practice, in relation to:
- Residential buildings in the public and private sectors
- Private industrial and commercial buildings
- Public spaces and landmarks in urban and rural localities
- Industrial sites, derelict lands (brown fields) and green
spaces
Symposium structure
This international symposium is organized to encourage the
participation of scholars and practitioners from different
disciplines and areas including architecture, urban design,
planning, psychology, sociology and anthropology, and from a
range of countries and cultures. Contributions will be accepted
in the following categories:
- Paper presentations: at the heart of the symposium will be
paper presentations by researchers drawing on applied and
theoretical research. Papers from both academia and practice
will be considered for inclusion.
- Posters: describing contributions and the latest results of
scientific work from theoretical and research work (especially
PhD-researchers) best practice, qualitative case studies, etc.
- Symposia: representatives from various organizations involved
in revitalizing urban development initiatives including: the
private sector, commercial business, official agencies,
municipalities, NGOs, schools, universities, and other
institutions etc. are invited to organize symposia that will
give a platform for in-depth discussion. They will be based on
- Invited Symposia (invited by the Organizing Committee )
- Proposed Symposia (proposals of participants)
Contact
Symposium website: www.culturespace2009.org e-mail:
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1st CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS
Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and
Development: Technological & Organizational Perspectives
A book edited by Arlindo Silva (1) and Ricardo Simoes (2) (1)
Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, Portugal; (2) Polytechnic
Institute of Cavado and Ave, Barcelos, Portugal
Email: [log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=501
Submission deadline: December 13, 2008
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the "Handbook of
Research on Trends in Product Design and Development:
Technological & Organizational Perspectives" within your field
of expertise related to the handbook topics.
Introduction:
Product design and development (PDD) is an area of increasing
importance to industrial competitiveness. In a global market,
the competitive advantage of companies will lie not only on the
mastering of existing processes and methodologies, but most of
all on their ability to pursue different avenues, with increased
value to their customers. This can only be achieved with an
up-to-date knowledge of the field, but also with the inherent
risk associated to innovative PDD processes and methodologies.
Each of the main topics covered by this handbook is perceived as
contributing to an improved knowledge on PDD. Although each
chapter will present possible approaches and solutions, there
are no recipes for success. Each reader will find his/her
balance in applying the different topics to his/her own specific
situation. Case studies presented throughout will help in
deciding what fits best to each situation, but most of all any
ultimate success will come out of the interplay between the
available solutions and the specific problem or opportunity the
reader is faced with.
The mission and overall objectives of this handbook of research:
The main mission of the proposed book is to provide a detailed
view on the current issues, trends, challenges, and future
perspectives on product design and development, an area of
growing interest and increasingly recognized importance for
industrial competitiveness and economic growth. Product design
and development is affecting not only industry, but society in
general, as new and innovative products shape our way of life.
The book intends to disseminate the latest approaches,
practices, solutions, and pitfalls recognized by experts in this
field.
A very important aspect of the book is to approach product
design and development not only from the technology side, but to
consider the business and social aspects of this area, something
that has been particularly promoted by the Engineering Systems
Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the
United States. For the past few years, the need to have a
systems view on product design and development has caused many
changes in the previously established methods and practices. It
is now necessary to provide a fresh perspective on current
trends this field.
The overall objectives of the handbook are:
- To discuss the importance of product design and development
and the most recent trends and approaches.
- To discuss state-of-the-art technology that supports PDD.
- To introduce the non-technological aspects, namely the most
recent organizational and business aspects of PDD, but also the
social perspective.
- To discuss the challenges associated to systems integration
along the entire product development chain, and present success
approaches.
- To identify state-of-the-art advances in the promotion of
creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
- To tackle the important environmental issues associated with
new product design and development.
- To present practical case-studies that demonstrate pivotal
solutions and pitfalls of relevance to the topic of this book.
Submission Procedure:
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit before
December 13, 2008, a 1-2 page manuscript proposal clearly
explaining the purpose and contents of the proposed chapter. The
2 pages must include contact information. Proposals exceeding 2
pages will not be considered.
Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by January 14,
2009 about the status of their proposals and will be sent
chapter organization guidelines. Upon acceptance of your
proposal, you will have until April 14, 2009, to submit your
full chapter of 5,000-10,000 words and 6-10 related terms and
their appropriate definitions. Guidelines for preparing your
chapter and terms and definitions will be sent to you upon
acceptance of your proposal. All submitted chapters will be
reviewed on a double-blind review basis.
For more detailed information, please visit
http://www.igi-global.com/requests/details.asp?ID=501
COMPUTER GRAPHICS EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS SOURCE (CGEMS)
Spreading Educational Excellence in Computer Graphics & Digital
Arts
Deadline: February 1, 2009
The CGEMS is an online refereed repository for instructional
materials related to Computer Graphics, Digital Arts and Media.
It is backed by the SIGGRAPH Educational Committee and the
Eurographics Education Board.
We are collecting educational material showcasing the best
examples of teaching Computer Graphics and Digital Arts. If you
have developed valuable content in the field - publish it and
shape your academic identity!
Each submission undergoes critique by experts in the field -
long-term educators, professionals, and artists. Outstanding
contributions will be elected by members of the Editorial
Advisory Board and exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2009. The winner will
receive free conference access.
We consider material in the following categories:
1) Complete Module: A self-contained, single-topic teaching
unit.
2) Problem Set: Student assignment with underlying rational &
structure.
3) Teaching Gems: Innovative bits of teaching material that
highlight an approach to teaching a particular problem.
4) Curriculum: The body of knowledge of a specific curriculum
with knowledge areas, units, and exemplary topics.
5) Course Syllabus: Annotated sequence of course units with
requirements and student readings. New category!
Website: http://cgems.inesc.pt
14-15 May 2009: LIVING IN THE PAST: HISTORIES, HERITAGE AND THE
INTERIOR
The 6th Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference, Kingston
University.
The annual conference of the Modern Interiors Research Centre
has established itself as a leading forum for international
interdisciplinary debate on the history and theory of the modern
interior.
In 2009 the Modern Interiors Research Centre Conference will
bring together architectural and design historians and
practitioners, curators and policy makers, to examine and debate
the theme of the interior as a marker of history. Deeply
embedded in historical processes, interiors are mutable spaces,
shaped and re-shaped over time. The conference will seek to
reveal and debate the numerous ways in which interiors register
and mark the passing of time and will question the ways in which
time and the effect of social, cultural, political and economic
factors shape our understanding and assessment of the interior.
The convenors welcome proposals for 20-minute papers, which may
be historical or contemporary case studies, addressing the
following themes:
History and the Interior. How do interior designers,
decorators, architects and industry use or work with history?
Papers might explore:
- The concept of history as it informs design practice
- The challenge of working with/within historic buildings
- Historicism and revivalism in the work of architects, interior
decorators and designers
- The trade in architectural interiors
- Re-modelling as a design practice
The Re-designation of Interiors. How do/have interiors figured
in practices and discourses of urban and economic regeneration?
Papers might consider:
- The re-development of war or disaster damaged buildings
- The re-purposing of obsolete
industrial/commercial/recreational/religious spaces
- Histories of alteration of re-use within a single building
type
- Hybrids (the preservation of the architectural facade /
tensions between modern interior/historic exterior)
Heritage and the Interior. How do curators and those working
within the heritage industry address the question of history?
Papers might:
- Consider issues of conservation, preservation or renovation
- Explore the curatorial challenges of working with and
presenting historic interiors (e.g. periodisation, narrative)
The Interior as History/Memory. How do interiors register
changing patterns of social activity or human presence and in
what ways do historic interiors act as a focal point of social
negotiation/cultural exchange? Papers might:
- Explore agents of change and the re-assignment of the use of
interiors in response to the changing needs of particular
communities
- Consider histories of alteration and re-use through study of a
single site (e.g. functional shifts from domestic to commercial
or religious to secular use) - Consider re-modelling and the
erasure of history/histories
Abstracts of 300 words and a brief cv should be submitted to the
conference convenors (Prof. Penny Sparke, Prof. Anne Massey, Dr.
Trevor Keeble and Brenda Martin) at 'Living In The Past:
Histories, Heritage and The Interior' The Modern Interiors
Research Centre, Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Kingston
University, KT1 2QJ, or by email to [log in to unmask] The
deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday 9th January 2009.
30 August - 1 september 2009: NORDIC DESIGN RESEARCH CONFERENCE
NORDES '09 ENGAGING ARTEFACTS Oslo, Norway, 30 August -1
September 2009
Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in
which we understand - and do - design. The conference invites
contributions from researchers in universities, design schools
and industry who share an interest in understanding and
developing design as a trans-disciplinary practice that is
always in the making. The scope of the conference reaches beyond
the traditional design disciplines and includes other research
areas with mutual interest in design research and engaging
artefacts. NORDES '09 directs its interest towards the
diversity, challenges and emerging practices and understandings
of design. The conference theme reflects a range of issues that
characterize design and design research today.
Confronted with the increasingly complex problems of our times,
design should engage in new ways of thinking. Design objects are
characterized by their form, aesthetics, functionality,
materials as well as social, political and cultural codings. How
do and might designers, and educators and researchers of design
respond to these different perspectives in design? How can
designers respond to the life cycle of artefacts? How can
designers be better at designing artefacts for performability
and sustainability? How do designers and researchers develop
ways of researching knowledges, skills, theories, methods,
intuition and passion in design practices? In addressing these
many issues, the Engaging Artefacts conference includes the
following themes:
- Consumption: critical perspectives on the increasing number
and diversity of artefacts and their creative design but also
use and abuse in global economy
- Production: critical perspectives on the complexity,
interrelations and consequences of production
- Technology: new forms given by new materials - and new
materials developed to enable new forms
- Interactivity: performance and system oriented thinking
regarding the interaction between artefacts, material systems,
environments and users
- Politics: the role of artefacts in shaping alternative futures
especially addressing accessibility, sustainability, poverty and
democracy
So as to fully take up the theme Engaging Artefacts, we invite a
range of contributions:
- Research papers (full paper - maximum 10 pages)
- Exploratory papers (maximum 4 pages)
- Doctoral consortium (maximum 4 pages proposal)
- Design cases (maximum 2 pages proposals)
- Artefacts for exhibition (maximum 2 page proposals)
- Tutorials (maximum 2 page proposals)
- Workshops (maximum 2 page proposals)
Submitted contributions are subject to an anonymous peer-review
process. Accepted contributions will be published electronically
on the conference website prior to the conference and in the
conference proceedings.
Important dates:
1 February 2009: Deadline for all papers (including design
cases, artefacts, tutorials, workshops)
2 April 2009: Feedback to authors and organisers with
suggestions for revision
1 June 2009: Final paper submissions uploaded to website
30 August - 1 September 2009: Conference in Oslo
Nordic Design Research Conference is a biannual conference
circulated in the Nordic countries. The NORDES '09 conference
will be hosted by The Oslo School of Architecture and Design,
AHO, in collaboration with University of Oslo.
http://www.nordes.org
22-23 April 2009: Creative Regions - Second Seminar in Cardiff
- CALL FOR PAPERS
The Regional Studies Association Research Network on Creative
Industries and the Regions invites you to take part and submit
you abstract for the second seminar of our programme, at the
University of Cardiff.
The title of the second seminar is:
Creative industries, scenes, cities, places: idiosyncratic
dimensions of the cultural economy.
The seminar will focus on the relationship between places
(cities, neighbourhoods, and quarters) and the development of
creative industries. It will question what makes a place a
'creative place'. In particular it will look at the
idiosyncratic dimensions which link creative practitioners to
the place where they operate. The seminar will also address the
fate of "non-creative" workers and places and explore how places
can become more creative and who can be responsible for making
this happen.
Deadline to submit your abstract: 12th December
Final paper submission: 28th February 2009
The network aims to address trends and issues around the
development of the creative and cultural industries at the
regional level in UK and abroad fostering a multi-disciplinary
debate among researchers, practitioners and policy makers in the
field.
http://gg-svr7.geog.soton.ac.uk/staff/rcn/cregions/subpages/
SeminarSeries.aspx
26-29 November 2009: Media art history conference Re:live
This is just a gentle reminder that the deadline for the Media
Art History Conference Re:live call for papers is 19th December
08. Currently confirmed conference keynote speakers Stelarc and
Zhang Ga
There are a number of events happening prior to the commencement
of the Re:live conference which will make Melbourne the place to
be in November 09.
http://www.mediaarthistory.org
22-24 July 2009: SAGSET (Society for the Advancement of Games
and Simulations in Education and Training) - 39th Annual
Conference
Coaching and Learning Through Games Leeds Metropolitan
University, Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Formed in 1970, SAGSET is a voluntary professional society
dedicated to improving the effectiveness and quality of learning
through the use of interactive learning, role-play, simulation
and gaming - in all aspects of education and training, from
Primary School to University - and in all levels of adult,
lifelong learning from the shop floor to the board room. The
39th Annual Conference will be held in The Old BBC Broadcasting
House in Leeds City Centre from 22nd-24th July.
Contributions:
Contributions are invited from all those interested in coaching
and learning through games and simulations in the following
areas:
- Students and teachers at all levels of education
- Researchers, designers and developers in business and
education
- Professional trainers
Content can be provided in a variety of formats: essays*,
articles, papers, posters, workshops and tutorials.
This call for abstracts of between 700-1000 words in Word format
and include additional indicative bibliography. Proposals for
workshops and tutorials should include the topic, scope and the
maximum number of participants expected. It is anticipated that
their duration will be half a day. Those that might appeal to a
broad spectrum of interests will be very welcome. Initial
selection will be through peer review. All contributions must be
original unpublished work. The conference language is English,
and paper, abstracts and other proposals should be written in
English.
http://www.leedsmet.ac.uk/inn/research_SAGSET_2009.htm
Wake up West! Technological, educational and social innovation
in design research is occurring worldwide. On October 22, 2008,
Rensselaer Polytechnic University in collaboration with the AIGA
(American Institute of Graphic Arts) successfully launched its
first virtual conference on global interaction in design (see
glide08.org). During the conference, some American design
educators and practitioners became acquainted with the work of
some designers from Australia, Italy, England, and Taiwan. Now,
Visible Language invites design researchers worldwide to reflect
on the following:
1) The concept of virtual conferencing as a viable option for
the global dissemination of new knowledge in design.
2) Cross-cultural and technical issues of global collaboration
in design.
There are two ways to contribute to this invitation: through
posting your thoughts/work on the GLIDE wiki or by the more
traditional submission of an abstract and paper to Visible
Language. Both the journal and the wiki will reference each
other.
Scholars and practitioners (who use research methods) are
invited to initiate theoretical and/or practical discussions
with their peers and others on these two topics by way of
GLIDE's wiki at glide.pbwiki.com. Guest editor for both the wiki
and the special journal issue is Audrey Bennett.
Possible themes include:
Issues of sustainability in virtual conferencing, such as:
- scalability in virtual conferencing
- etiquette (presentation and participation) in virtual
conferencing
- technical problems/solutions in global virtual conferencing
Global issues, such as:
- the politics of global design research
- design research for global impact
- participatory design on a global scale
- technical facilitation of global interaction in design
- control issues in global participatory design
- global versus local design perspectives
- cross-cultural issues in virtual conferencing
- use of social networking infrastructures in design research
Submission guidelines for wiki posts: Abstracts should be 250
words maximum with wiki posts around 2500 words and
appropriately illustrated. The author guarantees that the work
is previously unpublished. All visual material is submitted at
72dpi as jpegs.
Submission guidelines for Visible Language submissions:
Abstracts are 250 words maximum with full papers around 6000
words submitted as Word.doc files and illustrated with separate
visuals (not inserted into the Word.doc) submitted as 300dpi tif
or pict files. The journal uses social science references
(Jones, 2007) inserted into the text as appropriate and a
reference list at the end of the article. The author guarantees
that the work is previously unpublished.
Schedule for both wiki and journal:
February 1, 2009 - Abstract submission deadline
February 15 - Abstract selection and notification
May 1 - Submission of Wiki posts
July 17 - Submission of full journal papers
October 2009 - Publication of Visible Language special issue
43.3.
For more information or to submit a post or paper, contact
Audrey Bennett at [log in to unmask]
20-21 April 2009: W4A 2009 Third Web Accessibility Challenge --
Call for Submissions
The Third Web Accessibility Challenge in conjunction with the
W4A 2009, in Madrid, Spain.
We invite you to profile your work in this area by submitting a:
- Two-page abstract (see the W4A submission page -
http://www.w4a.info/2009/submissions.shtml
- Demonstration movie (or audio recording) with audio
description.
- Software is not required, but encouraged.
Please note that submissions can be related to the theme,
"Accessibility Technologies for Older Users", but it is
certainly not a requirement as all accessibility technologies
are welcomed for the challenge.
Submission deadline is 30-Jan-2009 (Midnight Hawaii Standard
Time).
A Judges Award and a Delegates Award will honour the best of the
submissions. You will also have a chance to receive feedback
from the judges as well as from the participants.
For system requirements and full submission details, please see:
http://www.w4a.info/2009/challenge.shtml
For more information on the W4A-2009 Conference, please see the
website
http://www.w4a.info/2009
CALL FOR PAPERS FOR IDRP VOLUME III
Topic: Design + Politics
The Interdisciplinary Design and Research e-Publication (IDRP)
is calling for papers to be included in IDRP Volume III, themed:
Design + Politics.
In keeping with our commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry, we
welcome the broadest possible range of interpretations for what
"Design" and "Politics" can mean.
We invite submissions from the following disciplinary domains:
The natural sciences, the social sciences, health care/public
health, the arts, the design disciplines, from the academic and
business worlds, and from public and private sectors.
All submissions will be considered for peer review, provided
that the submission interweaves design and politics in a
well-defined way. By way of suggestion, topics can address the
following areas of concern:
- Political factors in the psychology of design process
- Regional-national versus global factors in design (specific
case studies)
- The politics of defensible space: are secure environments also
segregated environments?
- Politics and cybernetics
- Environmental design and group behavior: prisons, hospitals,
schools, corporate headquarters
- The politics of "sustainability"
- The effect of gentrification on disadvantaged urban
populations
- Implications of design standards / policy on businesses and
private property ownership
- Implementing service design into design education: Habitat for
Humanity, student involvement in medical, faith-based, criminal
justice, etc.
- Political agendas and "best practices"
- Gender, design, and politics
Maximum word count: 5,000. For ease of distribution for blind
peer review, be sure the document is in MS WORD (not PDF).
All submissions must include contributor(s) name, affiliation,
and contact information. Submission shall be by email only to
David Wang at [log in to unmask] All submissions will be blind
peer reviewed.
Deadline for initial submissions: January 15, 2009. We
anticipate releasing IDRP Volume 3 in Spring 2009.
17-18 September 2009: MAKING FUTURES - THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT
OF GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR RICHARD SENNETT (USA)
'Making Futures' will be held within the magnificently sited
Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of
Plymouth, Devon, UK.
The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is now open and the closing date for
receipt is 1st April 2009. 'Making Futures' invites submissions
from craft practitioners, curators, historians, theorists,
campaigners, activists, and representatives from public and
private institutions with an interest in the relationship
between the contemporary crafts and sustainability issues.
CONFERENCE AIMS:
The aims of the 'Making Futures' research conference are to
improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary
crafts are responding to ideas and agendas connected with global
environmental and sustainability issues. Also, to try to discern
whether these new imperatives present opportunities for the
crafts to redefine and reconstitute themselves as less
marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society.
The crafts, perhaps more than many areas of creative practice,
have instinctively strong affinities with concerns for
environmentally responsible and sustainable development. For
example, Western craft ideals (perhaps less so realities) have
typically sought to mobilise aesthetic experience as a key
dimension and expression of responsible living in the face of
mass industrialization - through their empathy with natural
materials and the natural world, and through 'slow' and
cooperative models of living. Indeed, important initiatives in
pursuit of ethical and sustainable development objectives
continue to take place within craft enterprises and agencies
today. But the fact remains that our understanding of the
interactions between the contemporary crafts and the modern
environmental and sustainability 'movements' remains largely
uncharted, unrepresented and under-theorised.
'Making Futures' takes up this challenge and will explore the
ways in which environmental and sustainability discourses might
be leading to new formulations, or re-articulations, of craft
practices, identities, positions and markets, in ways that might
engage more directly with contemporary social, cultural and
economic needs. Perhaps even, to recover ideological purpose.
CONFERENCE SCOPE:
The conference scope is international and will welcome accounts
from non-western contexts, especially those experiencing rapid
industrial and urban development and newly expanding consumer
markets. These will be contrasted with analysis from within the
so-called post-industrial 'leisure economies' of the West in
order to generate comparative insights and heighten awareness of
the trans-national nature of many of the issues. The conference
is therefore interested in inputs arising from across the full
spectrum of crafts practice today. This includes makers of
individual works who place a premium on traditional processes,
locales, skills and haptic qualities; designer-makers producing
limited editions and batch-produced artifacts; and
artist-craftspeople whose work might be more conceptually-based
- perhaps consciously drawing upon cross-disciplinary and
hybridized practices to critically reflect upon global dialogues
and forms of exchange.
This inclusiveness of practice and trans-cultural perspective
will in all instances be grounded in studies that evince
convincing connections with ethical, environmental and
sustainability concerns.
http://makingfutures.pcad.ac.uk
1-2 July 2009: INTERROGATIONS: CREATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN
ART AND DESIGN RESEARCH
AHRC Postgraduate Conference, De Montfort University &
Loughborough University,
The conference addresses various aspects of interdisciplinary
approaches in Art & Design research, as well as practical and
theoretical methods for interlinking with other disciplines. The
objective is to explore interdisciplinarity as a new trend that
brings together different disciplines, forging new connections
and contributions to collective knowledge. Ultimately, the aim
is to promote and encourage interdisciplinarity as a way to
enhance creativity in research.
Contemporary culture is full of disciplinary overlaps; concepts
and linkages once abandoned re-emerge, meanings are transformed
and re-configured. Similarly, there is a tendency towards
interdisciplinary research in art and design. New styles emerge
from unique interlinking of versatile approaches and techniques
within and beyond art and design practices. This trend
facilitates bridging disciplines, traditions and cultures and
provides new opportunities for researchers and practitioners
like Simone O'Callaghan promoting interdisciplinarity in her
work.
This conference aims to address the challenges and trends of
interdisciplinary research that contributes to art and design.
It encourages presentations of methodological and theoretical
insights, as well as practical projects based on
interdisciplinarity as a method of transferring ideas and
stimulating creativity across disciplines. It will also discuss
various aspects of working with unfamiliar concepts and
approaches from multi-dimensional fields.
We seek any inventive and creative interdisciplinary insights
with a broad understanding of the topic. Possible topics may
include but are not limited to:
Theoretical developments (what and why)
- Why interdisciplinarity?
- How does interdisciplinarity stimulate theorists and artists?
- The history of disciplines and interdisciplinarity.
- How to redefine disciplines and interdisciplinarity.
- The parallel between interdisciplinarity and other
intellectual spaces
- Can art and design be treated as a separate sphere or is it
now totally immersed in transitions, linkages, crossovers?
Methods and Tools (how)
- How to cross from one discipline to another? How to connect
varying or similar paradigms? How to make a whole from a
plurality of disciplines? How to translate the sources: modify
or stay 'true' to them?
- Transfiguration, intersecting disciplines from art, design and
'outside' them, creating a net of disciplines from diverse areas
- how to locate and examine the crossovers and gaps?
Practice-based research through examples
- The relationship of theory to practice in interdisciplinary
research.
- How interdisciplinary research might be best performed.
- How inderdisciplinarity works? - an insider's view on crossing
disciplines.
- Individual projects with an interdisciplinary approach
- Collaborative projects across the disciplines - advantages and
possible problems.
- How to start an interdisciplinary project?--various
opportunities
We invite papers from current and graduated research students as
well as academics and practitioners in art and design. We are
also looking for artworks and design solutions from digital
visualisations to physical installations, which could highlight
significant features of interdisciplinary research. Researchers
and professionals beyond art and design disciplines are also
invited to present research that contributes to art and design
in novel and interdisciplinary ways.
We invite to submit an abstract (300 words maximum) with
author/title in heading, and a short CV by 16th January 2009.
Send materials or enquiries to
http://www.interrogations.org.uk/
11-14 June 2009: Subtle Technologies Festival, Toronto
Call for Submissions 2009
Deadline January 5th 2009
The 2009 Subtle Technologies Festival in Toronto is currently
seeking submissions for it's festival under the theme of
"networks". As in previous years, the 2009 festival will explore
it's theme from a broad cultural and interdisciplinary
perspective.
We live in an increasingly connected age, where flow of capital,
material goods, people and information occur on a global scale
in ever-shortening timescales. This increased flow is
accompanied by pollution,contamination, infectious diseases and
the rapid dissemination of ideas and economies. Metaphors of
connectivity in information technology have matured and found
resonance in art, science, and society at large. The
availability of massive amounts of data supported by increased
computing power and the rapidity of its propagation, has made
the idea of interconnectedness more visible to us all. Science
has made great strides in helping us to understand the connected
age. The so called "small world problem" has revealed the ways
networks of people form and become interconnected. Studies of
oscillators, insects, heart cells, epilepsy, and crowds has
shown us the natural affinity for various networks and systems
to synchronize and self organize.The creation of new computer
architectures based on biological networks has brought
artificial intelligence ever closer to natural intelligence.
With the proliferation of online social networks, Web 2.0
applications such as Facebook, Twitter and Second Life have
blurred the boundaries between public and private, virtual and
real. Web 3.0 and the "internet of things", where common
household objects will become interconnected, will be one of the
next major advances in digital networking. Increased bandwidth
has made it possible for media artists to collaborate in online
real time networked performances. "Network lag" is slowly
disappearing from our vocabulary as our accessibility to
bandwidth improves. It is time to critically discuss the network
metaphor and how it affects the direction of various disciplines
and our societies at large. Under this theme, we will be
curating a symposium, exhibition, workshops and performances.
http://www.subtletechnologies.com
28-30 May 2009: International Symposium on Computational
Aesthetics in Graphics, Visualization, and Imaging
Location: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Call for Artworks, Performances, and Artist's Presentations
You are invited to participate in the fifth annual Symposium on
Computational Aesthetics that will take place in Victoria,
British Columbia, Canada on May 28-30, 2009. CAe is co-located
with Computer Graphics International
Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic, by
integrating aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology,
and the fine, applied & performing arts. It seeks to facilitate
both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviour.
CAE also investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the
expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our
understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning.
Invited artists will be involved in the technical, artistic, and
theoretical aspects of this young field. The invited artworks
aim to help participants better understand what aesthetics is,
what computer technology is currently capable of delivering, and
what is involved in the creative process. Artistic submissions
are invited across the broad range of mediums covered by
Computational Aesthetics.
Submission deadline: February 13, 2009
http://www.computational-aesthetics.org/2009/
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
Journal: Artifact
Special issue: Canonical writings on design
Artifact, an international peer-reviewed academic journal
dealing with design, plans a special issue for mid-2009
dedicated to canonical writings on design. Any search of the
literature on design reveals a burgeoning field of writing that
recurrently reformulates itself according to processes of
economic, social and technological change. Within this
historical flux of ideas, however, there are certain books that
warrant acknowledgement as anchor points for any investigation
into their respective area of design. The Artifact special issue
on canonical writings in design welcomes articles on single
books or groups of books that you consider have a significant
and enduring place in the literature of design.
Where some view canon formation as an expression of ideological
control, the special issue seeks to stimulate debate concerning
design's essential readings by exploring the authority of highly
valued texts. Artifact encourages cross-fertilization,
interconnections, and crossbreeding among different scientific
disciplines, the design industry, and the arts. We are happy to
receive commentaries on books that reflect the broad field of
design and show how a canonical design literature is open and
expanding, as new issues and influences impact on the activity
of design.
The goal of the issue is to add to the design field's
intellectual robustness, to establish principles for the ongoing
critical evaluation of key texts and to ensure that important
works are not neglected as a result of the ongoing cycle of
publication. Alternatively, we recognize that the scope of a
single journal issue means any attempt at canon-identification
will be neither all-embracing nor definitive. The proposed books
will thus shed light on current and enduring concerns in design
as well as suggesting how long it takes for a text to become
part of a set of foundation readings.
Review essays should be no more than 3,500 words in length and
are due 1 February 2009.
We already have a number of books proposed for review, so please
check to see whether your intended book is free for review by
contacting the special issue editor:
Carolyn Barnes, PhD Senior Lecturer, Senior Research Fellow
Swinburne Design Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne,
Australia
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http://www.informaworld.com/artifact
Interior Territories: IDEA Journal 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to
submit design research papers and critical project works that
engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and
practice for the IDEA Journal 2009.
PROVOCATION:
Proposals are requested to respond to the provocation Interior
Territories: exposing the critical interior in order to elicit
emerging interior discourses influenced by explorations into
contemporary spatial, material and performative practices. What
are the critical issues facing environments and societies that
can be explored around the ideas of interior territories? We
suggest that within increasingly homogenised and globalised
public and private interiors, concepts of territory that infer
relationships with located place and field can provoke new
relationships concerning spatial practices and material and
immaterial ecologies. The IDEA Journal 2009 seeks to expose the
engagement of interior practice in contemporary ecological,
cultural and economic systems. We invite scholarly accounts of
writing and projects that move across disciplinary perspectives
and temporal and political systems to express an open-ended
enquiry into an expanded territory of the interior.
IDEA ACCEPTS:
DESIGN RESEARCH PAPERS
that demonstrate development and engagement with interior
design/interior architecture history, theory, education and
practice through critique and synthesis. The focus is on the
documentation and critical review of both speculative research
and practice-based research
REFEREED STUDIOS
that represent the nature and outcomes of refereed design
studios which have either been previously peer reviewed in situ
and/or critically discussed through text and imagery for the
IDEA Journal.
PROJECT REVIEWS
that critically evaluate design-based works which seek to expand
the nature of spatial and theoretical practice in interior
design/interior architecture and associated disciplines.
PROPOSALS FOR BOOK REVIEWS
to encourage debate into the emerging literature dedicated to
the expression and expansion of the theory and practice of
interior design/interior architecture
REGISTRATION OF INTEREST:
Authors are invited to register their interest in submitting a
paper on the following form. Receipt of expression of interest
will be acknowledged and guidelines for authors provided.
Please forward by email to the Executive Editor, Gini Lee by
December 19 2008
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Registration of interest December 19 2008
IDEA (Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators
Association) IDEA*s charter is the advancement of education by
encouraging and supporting excellence in interior
design/interior architecture education and research within
Australasia; and being the regional authority on, and advocate
for interior design/interior architecture education and
research. www.idea-edu.com
2-3 November 2009: 24th International CIB W096 Architectural
Managament Conference, Taiwan.
For all those interested into the areas of management,
architectural design and construction:
Future Trends in Architectural Management
The conference is hosted by: Dr. Chun-Ta Tzeng, of the
Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University in
Tainan
Please note the dates in your diary and submit an abstract
addressing one of the following architectural management themes:
1. Sustainable architectural design management and public policy
2. Integrated design -- the changing role of AEC organisations
3. BIM, ICTs and the management of architectural design
4. Management, preservation and reconstruction of historical
buildings
5. Influence of new construction contracts on the architect's
role and design value
6. Emergent management paradigms in Architectural Management
Submission schedule
Abstracts should be written in English, and not be more than 250
words. The abstract should clearly state the nature of the
contribution and identify the status of the work being reported.
Full papers should be 10 pages maximum. All submissions of
interest/abstracts should be sent by E-mail, as an MS Word
attachment, to Dr. Chun-Ta Tzeng before the deadline. Please
remember to include your correct email address, postal address,
and affiliation.
Abstract submission: Friday 19 December 2008
Papers will be published in the refereed conference proceedings,
which will have an ISBN number.
Please visit the CIB-W096 website for additional information and
for download of the conference flyer:
http://www.bwk.tue.nl/CIB-W096/index.html
VISUAL REASONING AND KNOWLEDGE
The Knowledge Engineering Review (a journal dedicated to the
development of the field of artificial intelligence) plans a
special issue on visual reasoning and knowledge. The topic is to
be understood broadly. We welcome papers covering pictures,
diagrams, thought experiments, etc. that connect to some form of
reasoning (as opposed to mere illustration). And we welcome a
broad range of approaches: philosophical, historical,
anthropological, psychological, computational, and so on. Papers
should be of interest and intelligible to a broad audience,
including: working scientists and mathematicians, philosophers
and historians of science, anthropologists, sociologists, and
cognitive scientists.
Please send your submission electronically in Word or PDF format
to one of the three editors of the special issue of KER. We
strongly recommended contacting one of the editors to check the
suitability of the planned submission.
James Robert Brown (Department of Philosophy, University of
Toronto): [log in to unmask]
Melanie Frappier (History of Science and Technology, King's
College): [log in to unmask]
Letitia Meynell (Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie
University): [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submission: February 28, 2009.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=KER.
7-11 October 2009: Internet Research 10.0 -- Internet: Critical
The 10th Annual International and Interdisciplinary Conference
of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Hilton
Milwaukee City Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
As the Internet has become an increasingly ubiquitous and
mundane medium, the analytical shortcomings of the division
between the online and the offline have become evident. Shifting
the focus to the fundamental intermeshing of online and offline
spaces, networks, economies, politics, locations, agencies, and
ethics, Internet: Critical invites scholars to consider material
frameworks, infrastructures, and exchanges as enabling
constraints in terms of online phenomena. Furthermore, the
conference invites considerations of Internet research as a
critical practice and theory, its intellectual histories,
investments, and social reverberations. How do we, as Internet
researchers, connect our work to social concerns or cultural
developments both local and global, and what kinds of agency may
we exercise in the process? What kinds of redefinitions of the
political (in terms of networks, micropolitics, participation,
lifestyles, resistant or critical practices) are necessary when
conceptualizing Internet cultures within the current
geopolitical and geotechnological climate?
To this end, we call for papers, panel proposals, and
presentations from any discipline, methodology, and community,
and from conjunctions of multiple disciplines, methodologies and
academic communities that address the conference themes,
including papers that intersect and/or interconnect the
following:
- critical moments, elements, practices
- critical theories, methods, constructs
- critical voices, histories, texts
- critical networks, junctures, spaces
- critical technologies, artifacts, failures
- critical ethics, interventions, alternatives.
Sessions at the conference will be established that specifically
address the conference themes, and we welcome innovative,
exciting, and unexpected takes on those themes. We also welcome
submissions on topics that address social, cultural, political,
legal, aesthetic, economic, and/or philosophical aspects of the
Internet beyond the conference themes. In all cases, we welcome
disciplinary and interdisciplinary submissions as well as
international collaborations from both AoIR and non-AoIR
members.
Submissions Due: 1 February 2009
http://ir10.aoir.org/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
WESSEX ROUND TABLE OF INVENTORS
View WRTI's website, which contains hundreds of links to other
sites relevant to inventors, entrepreneurs and innovative
companies, plus back issues of Inventique, containing articles
by guest columnists such as James Dyson and Mandy Haberman, as
well as details of forthcoming events. They distribute an
accasional newsletter too.
http://www.wrti.org.uk
NEW BOOK ON EDUCATION
Unspoken Interactions Anthology : Exploring the unspoken
dimension of learning and teaching in creative subjects
A collection of selected writings on how theoretical concepts of
emotions and social interactions can be incorporated to enhance
educational practice in creative disciplines.
This Creative Learning in Practice Centre for Excellence in
Teaching and Learning CLIP CETL research project at University
of the Arts London is the result of collaboration with Visiting
Professor Dr Noam Austerlitz.
For further information, please visit the website
http://www.arts.ac.uk/clipcetl-unspokeninteractions.htm
NOTJUSTFORCHRISTMAS
Not Just for Christmas: Consumption, Popular Culture Religious
Observance
An open academic discussion group related to the AHRC Workshop
'Not Just for Christmas'. This workshop will engage academic and
non-academic participants in the discussion of issues
surrounding ethical responses to visual culture, consumption,
and their embedding in moral and religious narratives at
Christmas.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/notjustforchristmas
POSTGRADUATE NETWORK
For those of you new to the Postgraduate Network, our aim is to
bring together postgraduate students in media, communication and
cultural studies from different intellectual traditions and
cultural backgrounds to form research, teaching and learning
networks and also to ensure peer support. We are supported by
the Art Design Media Higher Education Academy Subject Centre
(ADM-HEA), which works to support us and also to enhance
learning and teaching in higher education.
And a note to definitely put in your diaries, our Annual MeCCSA
Postgraduate Conference, the ONLY PG media conference in the UK,
at Bangor University on the 8th and 9th of July, 2009.
Additionally, all papers presented at the conference will have
the opportunity to be published in our own online peer-reviewed
journal!
We are hosting several events this year, the details of which
can be found on our website:
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/pgn/index.htm
WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2012 BID LAUNCHED
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design
(Icsid) announced the launch of the World Design Capital (WDC)
2012 bid process during the International Design Policy
Conference held in Torino, Italy.
The vision of the World Design Capital project is to promote and
encourage the use of design to further the social, economic and
cultural development of the world's cities. In this spirit, the
designation honours those cities that use design to revitalise
and reinvent their urban environment. The World Design Capital
is a biennial designation awarded to cities to showcase their
design merits with national and international audiences.
While there are many awards that recognise individual
accomplishments in design, the World Design Capital designation
is unique as it aims to focus on the broader essence of design's
impact on urban spaces, economies and citizens. The designation
also provides a distinctive opportunity for cities to feature
their accomplishments in attracting and promoting innovative
design.
Interested cities are encouraged to download the application
form and guidelines from the official World Design Capital
website at www.worlddesigncapital.com. Deadline for submission
is 31 March 2009. Applicants will be evaluated based on a
predetermined set of criteria and the final selection will be
announced at the Icsid World Design Congress in Singapore, in
November 2009.
9-10 December 2008: DesignEd Asia Conference 2008, Hong Kong
Theme: Culture as Inspiration
The "DesignEd Asia Conference" is in its fourth year this year.
The Conference provides a practical platform to bring
international design educators and professionals together to
share views, knowledge and experiences. Prominent speakers and
researchers from around the world will be attending to discuss
culture in design and other current issues related to design
education.
Website: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2008/
Research in Art & Design Education: Issues and Exemplars
Edited by Richard Hickman
9781841501994
Under Richard Hickman's careful editorship Research in Art &
Design Education makes a strong case for the importance of art
education as a subject, summarising important issues in the
field such as non-text based approaches and interdisciplinary
work. Featuring a range of research projects published in the
International Journal of Art & Design Education, and reflecting
on current attitudes, the title offers close analysis of new
methods and radical attempts to improve the quality of art
education today. The book is an indispensable and engaging
resource for students and tutors involved in teacher training
courses internationally, in addition to students on
undergraduate level courses.
'Research in Art & Design Education confirms Picasso's claim
that artists do not seek, but find; thus capturing the real
meaning of art's doing and how in doing art, we learn. From
their respective positions, this book's contributors converge in
making a strong case for art and design research as a horizon of
specificities; as a wide and ever-expanding ground of autonomous
plurality; and as a discipline that is neither restricted to the
empirie of fact and measure, nor to generalist platitudes.' -
John Baldacchino, Columbia University.
http://www.intellectbooks.com
Writing on Drawing: Essays on Drawing Practice and Research
Edited by Steve Garner
9781841502007
The breadth of drawing practice in contemporary culture is vast,
and yet there are very few published books on drawing research.
This book, written in a straightforward and accessible way, sets
out to inspire new practices by reflecting on where drawing
research is today and citing priorities for the future. Edited
by Steve Garner, this title contains a varied collection written
by both drawing makers and drawing researchers. An essential
resource for artists, scientists, designers, and engineers, this
volume offers consolidation, discussion and guidance for a
previously fragmented discipline.
'This book captures the range of current debates, each
contributor addresses themes that are significant to the
development of drawing both as a practice and as a critical
discourse. The book helps to outline an intellectual frame of
reference for drawing practices, and allows an interdisciplinary
conversation around the role of these activities in the wider
world. This is an impressive achievement, as an academic who
wishes to explore drawing as a cognitive process and as an
artist working in the mass mediated world where the language of
drawing has found a vital role, this book will be invaluable for
me and to my students.' - Prof Mario Minichiello, Birmingham
City University 'The past decade has seen a change of attitude
towards drawing. Its importance as an element in human
intelligence is now widely appreciated.' - Professor Ken Baynes,
Loughborough University.
http://www.intellectbooks.com
13-14 January 2009: WORKSHOP - 'BUILDING CAPACITY IN VISUAL
METHODS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL METHODS'. University of
Leicester.
Over the last decade there has been significant growth worldwide
in visual research. The training and development of resources
required to meet the burgeoning need for qualitatively and
quantitatively driven visual methods across the social sciences
is often considered inadequate. This workshop is part of a
project to address this; to build visual capacity across the
social sciences through developing a national infrastructure of
training and development. The workshop will enable researchers
will little or no experience to learn by a combination of
theory, hands-on work and discussion.
Contact Louise Williams ([log in to unmask]) for more
information or visit the website
http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/visual-methods
CALL FOR APPLICANTS INTERESTED IN PURSUING A PH.D. WITH A
DESIGN-RESEARCH FOCUS IN INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS AND MATERIALS
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY (USA)
Individuals trained in Architecture and/or Design and interested
in pursuing a Ph.D. focusing on design research may apply now
for one or more funded openings, beginning August 2009, in
Clemson University's interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in
Planning, Design & the Built Environment. Full funding and
living stipend will be awarded to qualified applicants
interested in engaging in research projects being undertaken
within the research group IMSA (Intelligent Materials and
Systems for Architecture) under the direction of Keith Evan
Green (www.IMSA-research.org). One successful candidate will be
expected to participate in developing intelligent environments
for children and for the aging population; a second candidate
will be expected to help develop R-TEX, a smart, sustainable,
bio-inspired building construction system and its application in
a deployable building. All IMSA research projects are
collaborative, developed in partnership with faculty and
students in Electrical and Computing Engineering, Materials
Science and Engineering and Human Factors Psychology. Clemson is
a leading public research university located between Atlanta and
Charlotte.
For application materials and general questions concerning the
Ph.D. PD&BE Program, contact Roger Liska, Program Director,
[log in to unmask] For inquiries specific to the research at
IMSA, contact Keith Evan Green, Associate Professor of
Architecture, Clemson University, email: [log in to unmask]
VISUAL ARTS DATA SERVICE
VADS is to upgrade its online image archive after securing
funding for a one year project from JISC - a joint committee of
the UK further and higher education funding bodies.
VADS is based at the Farnham Campus of the University for the
Creative Arts, where it has recently attained research centre
status within the library. It was founded to provide services to
the academic community 11 years ago, and since that time it has
built an online collection of more than 100,000 images which are
copyright cleared for teaching, learning, and research in the
UK.
Some three hundred educational institutions and museums have
contributed to the VADS collection since its inception,
including UCA's own Textiles and Fine Art Departments and the
Crafts Study Centre.
The JISC funding will allow VADS to enhance the online archive,
improve image searching, undertake user and evaluation studies
and to promote the archive's use in teaching, learning and
research.
Rosemary Lynch, Head of Library and Learning Services at UCA,
said: "This funding highlights the valuable contribution that
VADS makes to the higher education community and to creative
arts practitioners. It comes at an exciting time for VADS, which
has recently become integrated into UCA as a research centre -
the first to be based in the university library.
UCA has hosted VADS for 11 years and is delighted to support
VADS' ambition to be a leading centre in the research and
development of digital knowledge management in the creative
arts."
http://www.vads.ac.uk
PROFESSOR AND CANADA RESEARCH CHAIR IN DESIGN STUDIES
The Department of Art and Design at the University of Alberta is
seeking to nominate a Senior (Tier I) Canada Research Chair in
Design Studies. We welcome applications from exceptional
scholars with a strong record of teaching and collaborative
research in the field of design theory and practice. A PhD in
Design or a related field is preferred. Current members of the
Department of Art and Design take an integrative and
interdisciplinary approach to design studies, practice and
research, and focus on issues of social and environmental health
and wellbeing. The appointment will commence 1 July 2010, at the
level of either senior Associate or Full Professor, with tenure.
The Canada Research Chairs Program was established by the
Canadian Government to foster world-class research excellence.
As stated in the program's Terms of Reference (see
www.chairs.gc.ca/), "Tier I Chairs, tenable for seven years and
renewable, are for outstanding researchers acknowledged by their
peers as world leaders in their fields," with an excellent
record of teaching and graduate supervision. The candidate's
proposed research program should ideally conform to the
University's vision and "cornerstones" outlined in the
recently-adopted statement entitled "Dare to Discover"
(www.president.ualberta.ca/daretodiscover.cfm). The candidate
nominated by the Department will be subject to review by the CRC
Secretariat. The successful applicant will be expected to teach
at all levels of the curriculum, from first-year to graduate
level courses, and to take on graduate supervision as well as
other supervisory and administrative committee work.
Candidates should send the Chair a letter of application
outlining the proposed program of research, a complete
curriculum vitae (with full contact information, including phone
numbers and e-mail address), a sample publication (20-page
maximum), a portfolio of up to 20 examples in electronic format
of recent design work (if applicable), the names of at least
three referees, and a teaching dossier with evaluations of
teaching performance. Finalists will be asked to send letters of
reference and transcripts directly to the Department. The
closing date for applications is 1 April 2009. All application
materials should be sent directly to:
M. Elizabeth (Betsy) Boone, Chair Department of Art and Design
3-98 Fine Arts Building, University of Alberta Edmonton AB T6G
2C9 Canada
For further information about the position, or the Department,
please contact the Chair by email at [log in to unmask]
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With more than 36,000 students and 12,000 staff, the University
of Alberta (www.ualberta.ca) grants almost 7,500 degrees
annually to graduates of 200 undergraduate and 170 graduate
programs. A research-intensive, medical-doctoral, multi-campus
institution, the University of Alberta offers a full range of
academic and professional programs. The Faculty of Arts
(www.arts.ualberta.ca) is its largest Faculty with 340 faculty
members in 15 departments in Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social
Sciences in addition to the Office of Interdisciplinary Studies.
The Faculty of Arts has approximately 6000 undergraduate and 900
graduate students. The Faculty provides a variety of
opportunities for research funding, including the newly
established $1.5 million Killam Research Fund which supports
research, scholarship, and creative activities in the fine arts,
humanities, and social sciences. The Faculty also hosts
interdisciplinary units such as the China Institute, the Wirth
Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies, the
Institute for United States Policy Studies, and the Prince
Takamado Japan Centre for Teaching and Research.
The Department of Art and Design is a vibrant and collegial unit
with a superlative record for teaching, research, and service.
The Department offers degree programs at the undergraduate (BA,
BDes and BFA) and graduate levels (MA, MDes, MFA and PhD) in
Fine Arts, Design Studies (Industrial Design and Visual
Communication Design), and the History of Art, Design and Visual
Culture. It also encompasses the FAB Gallery, a Canada Research
Chair in Fine Arts, and a university centre of research
excellence in printmaking. For more information on the
department, please consult the departmental website at
www.ualberta.ca/ARTDESIGN. Greater Edmonton (www.edmonton.ca),
with nearly one million residents in the city and surrounding
communities, is a beautiful city straddling a spectacular river
valley park system. It is the capital of Alberta, with the
lowest provincial tax regime in the country, and has led the
nation in economic growth in the past five years. Edmonton is
known as Canada's Festival City, with more than thirty major
annual festivals celebrating its rich cultural diversity and
community spirit. It has all the attractions of a big city, yet
it is clean, safe, and livable, with excellent schools and
health care. Edmonton is located only a few hours drive from
Banff and Jasper National Parks, which offer skiing in winter
and excellent hiking and sightseeing in summer.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply for this
position; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be
given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of
merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in
employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from
all qualified women and men, including persons with
disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal
persons.
COLOUR: DESIGN & CREATIVITY
The latest issue of the Colour: Design & Creativity journal,
published online by the Society of Dyers and Colourists,
contains a fascinating range of articles on colour from leading
artists and scientists working in this important field.
This issue has been published in association with Colour
Research for European Advanced Technology Employment (CREATE), a
group of colour professionals who have come together to promote
and exchange research and knowledge through a series of
conferences and training courses. Their long-term objective is
to develop with artists, designers, technologists and scientists
a cross-disciplinary approach to improving colour and print.
In Colour: Design & Creativity Issue 3 Majed Chambah (France)
looks at ways of restoring movie prints by digital means, and
sets about determining how image quality can be defined from the
point of view of the scientist. Reiner Eschbach (USA) highlights
areas of colour reproduction that can and cannot be undertaken
scientifically, from the point of view of colour management and
colour reproduction. Alessandro Rizzi (Italy) reports on a study
into the properties and the limits of colour matching functions
when applied in a visual context.
In a wide-ranging article, John McCann (USA) bridges the art and
science of colour, analysing the work of early photographers and
the characteristics of some of the Old Master paintings,
discussing ways to create a luminance that is pleasing to the
eye. Carinna Parraman (UK), from the point of view of an artist
working in the field of colour management, shows how artists and
scientists have investigated the optical properties of the
juxtaposition of colour.
Other contributions are by Maria Musso (Argentina) who looks at
the relationship between colour and environmental protection in
textiles, Victoria Watson (UK) who reveals the concepts involved
in the creation of her 'air grid' installations, and Simten
Gundes and co-authors (Turkey), who present a historical review
of the development of Turkish tile art.
http://www.colour-journal.org.
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