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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 14 Number 2 Feb 2009 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o DESIGN PEDAGOGY SIG
o IASDR Conference 2009
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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DESIGN PEDAGOGY SIG
Friday 27th March 2009: Invitation to the Design Pedagogy
Special Interest Group Symposium 0930-1600
The SIG is led and supported by Mike Tovey, Jack Ingram, Jane
Osmond, David Peck and Megan Strickfaden. It 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.
The Inaugural Meeting of the Design Pedagogy Special Interest
Group Symposium will be held in the Bugatti Building, Coventry
School of Art and Design, Coventry University, UK.
The purpose of the Symposium is to launch the SIG, meet each
other, share expertise and interests.
The event will be hosted by Centre of Excellence for Product and
Automotive Design. Attendance is free for DRS members who
register.
Please register your interest in attending the meeting by
emailing Jane Arthur on [log in to unmask]
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IASDR Conference 2009
A reminder that the third IASDR (International Association of
Societies of Design Research, of which DRS is a founder member)
congress will be held in Seoul, Korea, 19-22 October this year.
It would be good to have strong DRS representation there.
A Doctoral Colloquium and Special Sessions will be held, as well
as the normal conference.
Deadline for abstracts of papers is 28 February.
Conference website: http://www.iasdr2009.org/
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CALLS
24-26 September 2009: 2nd International Conference on Advances
in Design and Manufacture (ADM2009) Harbin, China.
The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Design and
Manufacturing (ADM 2009) will take place in Harbin, China, 24-26
September 2009. All papers included in ADM2009 conference
proceedings will be indexed in EI and the papers presented at
the conference will be offered the opportunity for submission to
refereed international journals.
The conference topics will cover, but are not limited to:
- Product/Industrial/Engineering design
- Manufacturing technologies, production, control
- Sustainable technology, environment friendly design and
manufacture, renewable energy
- Material science and engineering materials
- Web/Internet technologies,
- CAD/CAM/CAE, Computer simulation and virtual reality
- Engineering management
- Concurrent engineering, agile manufacturing, rapid prototyping
- Soft computing, artificial intelligence, evolutionary
computing, agent computing
- Engineering education
Important Dates
Please submit abstracts and papers to conference e-mailbox:
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Deadline for abstracts (300 words): 10 March, 2009
Deadline for full papers: 15 April 2009
Deadline for final papers: 31 May 2009
Deadline for registration fees: 31 May 2009
Conference: 24-26 September 2009
Conference contacts:
- Professor Daizhong Su, E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44
(0)115 8482306
- Mr Jose Casamayor E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel: +44
(0)115 8482792 Nottingham Trent University, UK
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=206
26-28 October 2009: ASSETS 09 -- Eleventh International ACM
SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility. Pittsburgh,
PA, USA
CALL FOR PAPERS
People with disabilities can use Computer and Information
Technologies to overcome barriers encountered in day-to-day
life, and to participate more fully in society. The ASSETS
series of conferences explores the potential of Computer and
Information Technologies to support and include individuals with
disabilities, and those around them. ASSETS is the premier forum
for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both
mainstream and specialized assistive technologies by people with
disabilities. Sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) and its SIGACCESS Special Interest Group on
Accessible Computing, ASSETS includes formal paper sessions,
demonstrations, posters, a doctoral consortium, and a student
research competition. The single track and friendly atmosphere
make ASSETS the ideal venue to meet researchers, practitioners,
developers and policymakers to exchange ideas, share
information, and make new contacts.
Topics
High quality, original submissions on topics relevant to
computers and accessibility are invited. Appropriate topics
include (but are not limited to) the use of technology by and in
support of:
- Individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments,
- Individuals with motor impairments,
- Individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments,
- Individuals with multiple impairments,
- Older adults
Successful submissions typically present (though submissions
from other related areas are encouraged) novel ideas, designs,
techniques, systems, evaluations, scientific investigations,
methodologies, social issues or policy issues relating to:
- assistive technologies that improve day-to-day life
- assistive technologies that improve access to mainstream
Computer and Information Technologies
- innovative use of mainstream technologies to overcome access
barriers
- accessibility and usability of mainstream technologies
- identification of barriers to technology access that are not
addressed by existing research
Where relevant, work that includes empirical data from the
target user groups is strongly preferred.
Submission Procedures
ASSETS accepts submissions in the following categories:
- Technical papers
- Posters
- Demonstrations
- Student research competition
- Doctoral consortium
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by an international panel.
Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished
material. Overlapping material should not be submitted to
multiple categories. Please refer to the ACM policy on
plagiarism (http://www.acm.org/pubs/plagiarism%20policy.html)
for guidance.
Important Dates
- Requests for mentors: February 27, 2009
- Paper submission: May 10, 2009
- Notification of acceptance (papers): June 29, 2009
- Poster and demo submission: July 6, 2009
- Student research competition submission: July 6, 2009
- Doctoral consortium submission: July 17, 2009
- Notification of acceptance (posters and demos): July 27, 2009
- Notification of acceptance (student research competition):
July 27, 2009
- Camera-ready materials due: August 11, 2009
- Notification of acceptance (doctoral consortium): August 21,
2009
Technical Papers
Accepted technical papers will be presented at the conference,
will appear in the conference proceedings, and will remain
accessible after the conference as part of the ACM Digital
Library. Authors of select papers will be invited to submit
extended versions to a special issue of ACM Transactions on
Accessible Computing (TACCESS). Authors who have never published
at ASSETS can request a mentor. Mentors will be experienced
ASSETS contributors, who can help authors to improve their
submissions. See the mentor program page
(http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09/mentor/) for more
information.
Papers must be a maximum of 8 pages long, in the ACM conference
format (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).
Papers that do not follow the submission guidelines will be
returned without review. Writing guidelines on technology and
people with disabilities are available at
http://www.sigaccess.org/newsletter/sept08/sep08_4.pdf. Papers
should be submitted electronically (in PDF format) via the
conference web site no later than May 10, 2009.
Posters and Demonstrations
Posters and demonstration proposals should be submitted using
the ACM conference format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html), and they
are limited in length to 2 pages. Proposals will be reviewed,
and accepted proposals will be included in the conference
proceedings. Submissions (in PDF format) should be submitted
electronically via the conference web site no later than July 6,
2009.
Doctoral Consortium
The ASSETS 2009 Doctoral Consortium will provide a forum for
doctoral students to present their research plans and receive
feedback from senior researchers, and promote contact among
students working in similar areas. Doctoral Consortium papers
will appear in a special issue of the SIGACCESS newsletter.
The focus of the Doctoral Consortium is on work in progress -
more advanced research should be submitted to the Student
Research Competition or the main conference. Submissions (in PDF
format) will be due July 17, 2009; more information about the
consortium and submission instructions will be available
shortly.
Student Research Competition
[To be confirmed] The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) is
an event open to undergraduate and graduate students, interested
in presenting their research to a panel of experts. Students
wishing to participate submit abstracts of their work.
Qualifying research must deal with topics that are relevant to
the mission of the ASSETS series, as described by the
call-for-papers. Preference will be given to work that has been
completed (or close to completion), and not submitted for
presentation as a regular technical paper. Selected students
will receive partial support from ACM to attend the conference.
At the conference, entrants will display a poster and make a
brief presentation to a panel of judges. A small number of
semifinalists will be chosen by the judges to present their work
in a conference session, and of those up to three students will
be designated finalists by the judges, receive cash prizes and
award certificates from the ACM, and a chance to compete in the
SRC Grand Finals, whose winners will be recognized at the Annual
ACM Awards Banquet. An ASSETS finalist recently won the top
award at the ACM Grand Finals. Submissions (in PDF format) will
be due July 6, 2009; more information will be available shortly.
ACM SIGACCESS Best Paper Awards
The following awards will be made at ASSETS 2009:
- SIGACCESS Best Paper Award (chosen from the technical program)
- SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award (chosen from the technical
program)
The selection process for SIGACCESS Best Paper Award and
SIGACCESS Best Student Paper Award will be carried out by
members of the program committee based on the technical paper
review process. Papers to be considered for the SIGACCESS Best
Student Paper Award, must have the name of the student as first
author and must be indicated as such on submission. Awardees
will be presented with a certificate from ACM during the
conference.
http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09
26-27 October 2009: [DeSForM 2009] Call for Papers & Demos
International Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement
Taipei, Taiwan
The College of Design at National Taiwan University of Science
and Technology and the INSIGHT (INnovation and Synergy for
IntelliGent Home Technology) Center at National Taiwan
University are delighted to invite you to DeSForM 2009, an
international workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement,
to be held on October 26 & 27, 2009, in Taipei, Taiwan, a city
offering a vibrant blend of traditional culture and cosmopolitan
life.
Scope and Focus
The scope of the conference is the design of products, systems
and services with a focus on the meanings conveyed by their
forms and behaviors. After four successful workshops in the
Europe, DeSForM 2009 comes to Asia and creates an international
platform where researchers and practitioners across different
cultures can share findings and insights about the aesthetics
and meanings of human-object interactions.
Themes and Topics
1. Methods and tools:
Active forms
Theatre and choreography
Sketching in space and time
Aesthetics and notation of motion
Editing and scripting of movements
2. Theoretical developments:
Meaning and perception
Conditions of applicability
Ambient versus interactive movement
Structuring mechanisms and linguistics
Gestalt theory and compositionality of meaning
3. Practice-based research and case studies:
Using movement as a mediator
Appropriation of the everyday
Effects of context on meanings
New typologies and ecologies of objects
Dependencies between form and movement
Timeline
Submission of Full Papers: May 1, 2009
Notification of Accepted Papers: August 1, 2009
Submission of Demo Proposals: August 15, 2009
Notification of Accepted Demo Proposals: September 1, 2009
Deadline for Final Version of Papers: September 15, 2009
Conference: October 26-27, 2009
Online Submission
Papers should be submitted online by May 1, 2009. Proposals for
interactive demonstrations should be submitted online by August
15, 2009. If you wish to check the relevance of your research
prior to submission, please send your abstract to
[log in to unmask] to receive a quick feedback from the
Program Committee.
Contact
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http://desform2009.dt.ntust.edu.tw/
"Co-design: design, project management and knowledge transfer"
Call for papers
In order to gather content for the next issue of our research
journal CADI to be released in September 2009 we hereby wish to
launch a call for papers. The articles submitted should not
exceed 8000 characters and should be focused on the following
topic: "Co-design: "Co-design: design, project management and
knowledge transfer"
Prospective authors are welcome to provide analyses and to
relate their reflections and views on the workings of the kind
of cooperation efforts underlying design project management
understood as a collective initiative. To address the issue
properly authors should make sure to provide a definition of the
notion of "co-design," focusing especially on the players
involved in such processes. A complementary notion, the concept
of "knowledge transfer" should also be clearly outlined in said
article. Today as design is reflecting upon its own existence as
a true knowledge production field,
One must imperatively understand the mechanisms ruling knowledge
actualization at play in various disciplines, which set design
professionals at the crossroads between a wide range of fields
of activities.
To pursue this reflective endeavor even further, the issues
raised by the above-mentioned notions should also be brought to
the fore when evoking the related issue of education in design.
Any proposal centered on these topics are welcome and should be
submitted in the shape of a short abstract (500 characters at
the utmost) via e-mail before February 15, 2009. All submitted
papers will be proofread and evaluated by our editorial board.
The most relevant propositions is to be published in September
2009.
Frederic Degouzon, Research and International Development,
f.degouzon[at]lecolededesign.com
Jocelyne Le Boeuf, Director of Studies,
j.leboeuf[at]lecolededesign.com
4-5 July 2009: Media Art Scoping Symposium Vital Signs:
Revisited Media art education at the intersection of science,
technology and culture http://mass.nomad.net.au/
Location: Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
Call for Abstracts - Deadline 27th March 2009
The media/electronic art scoping symposium seeks to explore the
current pioneering educators, artists and scientists who have
brought about the dissolution of boundaries that have
traditionally existed between the artistic and technological
disciplines. The symposium will survey the work of media art
educators who have developed new interdisciplinary curricula,
facilities and information technologies.
The symposium aims to add to the media art scoping study via
collaborating between leading universities in Australia
currently conducting research and academic teaching and learning
programs in new media/electronic arts. The symposium will
explore influential theoretical, scientific and philosophical
pedagogies that have influenced the development of media/
electronic arts.
It is the ambition of the scoping project to establish the basis
for a functional network model. Significantly, the establishment
of an online historical database and link to the symposium will
provide a body of information to assist development of
appropriate infrastructure reflecting an approach to training
that is in tune with the distinctive characteristics of the
discipline area now and for the future.
The Mass symposium calls for refereed and non referred papers,
posters on the following themes
- media art, media art histories and associated pedagogical
strategies.
- media art in the context of contemporary art education.
- examples of media art, descriptions and analysis of science,
media art and culture.
- creative practice as research in new media
- media art innovations in teaching and learning
These would be based on the introduction and infiltration of
digital media, technologies and related pedagogies in
disciplines such as Art & Design, Architecture, the Humanities,
Arts & Social Sciences; as well as examples of
interdisciplinarity through art-science-technology
collaborations.
We particularly wish to encourage presentations from and about
new developments in teaching Media Art. Proposals are welcomed
from academics, artists, theorist, and researchers in media art,
media art history, performance studies, literature, film, and
science and technology studies.
Deadline for 200 word abstracts: 27th March 09. Please submit
proposals by email to:
Julian Stadon Media Art Scoping Symposium organizer
[log in to unmask] Abstracts of proposals, panel
presentations and posters should be submitted in either text,
RTF, or Word formats.
5-9 October 2009: INVITATION AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
CHANGING ROLES NEW ROLES; NEW CHALLENGES
International Conference, Industry day and Students day
Rotterdam 5-9 October 2009 CIB Co-Sponsored Event
Purpose of the conference
The purpose of the conference is to bring together architects,
building professionals, researchers and students to meet and
discuss from a broad perspective how recent developments in
building and construction influences and alters the roles of the
participants in the building industry. Special attention will be
given to the changing role of clients, managing specialists,
architectural designers, engineers, consultants, and
contractors.
Worldwide initiatives to re-value construction can be seen
nowadays. A lot of attention is given to new ICT approaches,
procurement routes and so on. Less attention has been given to
the changing roles of the participants, and how this effects
their professional and contractual position, tasks and
responsibilities.
New types of procurement, changing building regulations,
developments in ICT the worldwide strive for re-valuing
construction at the end all have one purpose delivering better
buildings by means of better managing and organising the way we
built them. Papers are invited on the themes: Integration and
collaboration, New roles, New challenges, Supply chain
integration, and Adaptable futures. These themes are for
guidance and should be interpreted widely.
Please visit our website for more detailed information and to
download a full colour brochure (also available in Chinese), for
regular updates, submission and registration:
http://www.changingroles09.nl/
ORGANISATION AND CONFERENCE VENUE
This international conference is organised as a CIB Co-sponsored
event by the Design & Construction Management group of the
Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology. The
following groups and institutions are actively supporting the
conference:
- CIB W096 Commission on Architectural Management,
- CIB W104 Commission on Open Building Implementation,
- The College of Architecture and Planning of Ball State
University,
- Adaptable Futures group of Loughborough University,
- CIB TG53 Task Group on Postgraduate Research Training in
Building and Construction
- BuHu The Research Institute for the Built and Human
Environment, University of Salford.
- CIB's Integrated Design Solutions (IDS) Program Committee
- CPI Knowledge Centre for Process Innovation in Construction.
- BOSS RE&H Students Society from TUD.
The Conference will be held at the steam ship SS Rotterdam, one
of the largest Dutch Steam Cruise Vessels and the former
flagship of the Holland - America Line. The SS Rotterdam will be
opened as a four star hotel and luxury conference venue after a
total rebuilt in 2009. More information on the SS Rotterdam can
be found, at
http://www.derotterdam.com/default.aspx?TaalID=2
Abstract Invitation and conference themes
Abstracts must be submitted before 17 April 2009 and are invited
on the following themes:
- Integration and collaboration
- New roles
- New challenges
- Supply chain integration - Adaptable futures
These themes are for guidance and should be interpreted widely.
Abstracts and papers will be subject to a double blind review
procedure by the scientific committee. Accepted papers will be
published in a refereed ISBN registered proceedings.
The conference organisers might invite authors to contribute to
post conference publications in special edit editions of
international peer reviewed journals: - The international peer
reviewed journal of "Architectural Engineering & Design
Management".
- The international peer reviewed journal of "Engineering,
Construction and Architectural Management".
- The international peer reviewed journal of "Facilities".
IMPORTANT DATES
- From now on: Starting date Early Registration
- 17 April 2009: Deadline abstract submission
- 1 May 2009: Authors notification on abstracts
- 1 July 2009: Deadline Full Paper submission
- 31 July 2009: Authors notification on full papers
- 15 August 2009: End of Early Registration
- 1 September 2009: Deadline Revised Full Paper submission
- 15 September 2009: Deadline payment conference fee for
presenting authors
- 5-9 October 2009: Changing Roles 2009 in Rotterdam
SPECIAL STUDENTS DAY ON POST GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAINING AND
STUDENT COMPETION
Concurrent to this conference several meetings are organized.
Parallel to the conference a special -PhD students conference
will be organised in which -young- researchers, at the start of
their PhD or Post Graduate work will present and actively
discuss their work. There also will be a special MSc. student
design competition on the theme: "Urban
-Building-Transformable", organised by CIB W104 Open Building
Implementation. Please check our website for regular updates on
these issues: http://www.changingroles09.nl/
REGISTRATION AND MORE INFORMATION
More information on this event, the linked activities, your
abstract submission, the registration procedures and so on can
be found on our website: http://www.changingroles09.nl/
CONTACT
Changing Roles 2009 Conference Secretariat: Mrs. Dineke Heersma
or Mrs. Gemma van der Windt Email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.changingroles09.nl/
6-9 August 2009: AMCIS 2009 Minitrack on Users-as-Designers:
Theory and Research on Tailorable Systems and Services
Minitrack Chairs:
Dirk S. Hovorka
Bond University
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Judy McKay
Swinburne University of Technology
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Contact Email: [log in to unmask]
Objective and Aspirations
The proliferation of tailorable information systems and services
has engendered a shift in our conceptions of information systems
as 'artifacts'. The shift away from provision of defined and
preset applications and services toward dissemination of
information environments that enable users to actively select
and integrate information services presents unique challenges to
design research and design theorizing. The recognition of
secondary redesign or tailoring of systems and services by users
has exposed a new problem space for the creation of information
environments that are mutable, loosely coupled, and emergent.
Designers and users engage in an interplay of continual
creation, consumption, disengagement, and re-creation in a broad
design process resulting in use as intended, and/or
appropriation for some unanticipated purpose, and/or redesign.
The actions, created meanings, and processes by which
'designers' and 'users-as-designers' engage in design-redesign
of information systems and services are poorly understood.
In this context services refer to "the offering of a capability
for generating, acquiring, storing, transforming, processing,
retrieving, utilizing, or making available information via
technology" (Federal Communications Commission, 2008). This
mini-track focuses on design research approaches that focus on
the broader context of tailorable information systems and
services and how design theory that supports these interactions
is developed and evaluated.
Description
Recent initiatives have demonstrated a shift from the provision
of defined and preset services or applications, to an
environment that enables users to select and integrate pre-built
technology services in the ongoing creation and re-creation of
unique information systems. Information services make multiple,
heterogeneous information sources discoverable and accessible by
breaking through traditional barriers of location, structure and
context. What faces us now is the reality that many of our
information systems have multiple design states, including an
initial design state and multiple secondary states, in an
evolutionary trajectory of human-system-service interactions.
Design can be viewed as a series of 'production' activities (by
a designer or a user), and also 'interpretation',
'appropriation', and 'understanding' activities. So, for
example, a stakeholder may 'produce' a problem statement or
articulate a need...which is interpreted by a designer, and a
'solution' produced...which is then interpreted, appropriated
and redesigned and possibly disseminated to a user community.
The process may continue as the new information system or
service is again 'designed' by a primary designer.
Traditionally, research has focused on building and evaluating
information systems in accordance with performance criteria that
are frequently not reflective of the range of interactions. Much
of the current design science research and theorizing focuses on
programmatic building of artefacts and evaluation of performance
in terms of utility and efficiency. Little research has examined
design from the perspective of the user to understand how the
user interacts in the secondary design states of the system,
what goals are accomplished, or what meanings are created
through the recombinant design.
Questions regarding the philosophical foundations of design
research and a pervasive view that design science as currently
conceptualised is about technical 'things' have increased
interest in extending design research into areas less amenable
to traditional technically-oriented design research. A variety
of research questions of a more socio-technical and
interactionist nature and oriented more towards the roles of
users and designers in design-redesign have in the main not been
addressed. For example, can design metaphors, the rhetorical
framing of the problem space, or alternative epistemological
approaches provide greater insights and understandings into
design research? (e.g. How has the Cartesian object-subject
dualism defined views of design research? Does the concept of
embodied interaction inform secondary design in design science?)
In addition, questions about appropriate means of design
theorizing are under-developed in relation to theories that can
offer insights into the production, interpretation, redesign and
appropriation of artifacts by users-as-designers? (e.g. Can
understanding their point of view help develop theory? How are
recombinant systems disseminated into broad use? How can
inherently flexible services, which encourage loosely coupled,
ad hoc, temporary and emergent systems be evaluated?) This
minitrack seeks to look at this new problem space and the
processes and interactions of design, redesign, and evolution
from a broad perspective with the goal of informing design
theory and practice.
Suggested Topics
- Theoretical and conceptual foundations of users-as-designers
- Research approaches to explaining, understanding, or
predicting user redesign of tailorable information systems and
services
- Theory development for the phenomenon of tailoring
- Principles of secondary design by users-as-designers
- Design and theory in Information Environments
- Ecologies of components vs. 'artifacts'
- Discovery and innovation with information services
- Active vs. reflective environments
- Service Science
- Co-value creation
- Balance of commodities and innovation
- Configuration of resources (people, technology, organization,
& information)
- Definition and categorization of 'information services'
- Evolving information systems and services
- Reconciling Design Science frameworks with evolving systems
- Cycles of system
innovation-dissemination-acceptance-(re)innovation
- Principles of 'rigid' systems vs. mutable, evolving systems
- Contributions to design by user and designer production and
interpretation activities
- Approaches to Design Science in tailorable systems
- Use of metaphor in design theorizing
- Alternative ontological/epistemological approaches for design
science
- Designing 'interactions' vs. 'artifacts'
http://www.amcis2009.org
24-26 November 2009: First Nordic Conference on Service Design
and Service Innovation
Call for contributions
The Norwegian Design Council and the Oslo School of Architecture
and Design invite you to submit suggestions for contributions to
the first Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service
Innovation, November 24th - 26th 2009. We hope it will become a
bi-annual event to bring researchers and practitioners together
to discuss, share and evolve the emerging discipline of service
design, and design-related service-innovation.
Service Design and Service Innovation
In the Nordic countries, almost 80% of employed people work in
the service sector. The transition from a product to service
economy has occurred at a time in which design has become
recognised as a major contributor to innovation. Focus is now
upon the role that design can play in innovation and design of
services and service experiences, and the Nordic countries seem
to be taking a leading role in researching this change. This
conference is the forum for discussing and accelerating this.
Service design focuses upon innovation through the holistic
design of service experiences that occur accross touch-points
and over time. Design brings a different perspective to
established service disciplines such as service management and
service innovation, and both complements and catalyzes them.
This first conference will bring together researchers,
practitioners, clients and teachers who are working in the area
of service design to discuss and build the area.
Themes:
This is the first Nordic conference so we would like to see a
wide range of submissions within the area of service design or
design-related service innovation. These could include such
areas as:
- boundaries, foundation and constituent parts of the emerging
discipline of service design
- history and trajectories of service design
- inclusive-design approaches to services for all
- critical views
- methods, tools and processes
- case studies
- relation to design thinking, design leadership and design
management
- education and research perspectives
The conference will run over three days, and participation can
be for one or more days.
Day 1, 24th November: The Business case
A day adressing business issues and commercial potential. This
day will be organised by the Norwegian Design Council, and will
present Service Design to business. This call does not relate to
this day.
Day 2, 25th November: Crossover
A crossover day, bringing business and research together through
tutorials, workshops and more. This day will be organised by AHO
(The Oslo School of Architecture and Design)
Day 3, 26th November: A research day
A day to discuss research into Service Design and design-related
service innovation. This day will be organised by AHO (The Oslo
School of Architecture and Design).
In addition to this we will have an exhibition space and poster
session.
Submissions and call for new types of contributions
We want to debut new contributions,and new types of discussions
and presentations in addition to the traditional
workshop/tutorial/paper/poster solution. Please, suggest
something that fits the theme of the conference.
This call is for particpants who would like to contribute to the
conference days 2 or 3, either by presenting a paper, running a
workshop or tutorial or participating in the exhibition/poster
session or would like to debut a new contribution.
The contributions will be published on-line and we expect to
publish them in a special edition of a Service Design journal.
The call also welcomes contributions from outside the Nordic
countries.
Please send a 500 word summary detailing your proposed
paper/tutorial/workshop/poster/debut. Summaries will be
subjected to a peer review, and you will receive feedback
regarding your proposal shortly after the deadline.
Deadlines:
The deadline for suggestions is: 20th April 2009
Deadline for papers: 24th August 2009
http://www.norskdesign.no/servicedesign09/call_for_papers
2-4 September 2009: Designs on eLearning 2009 University of the
Arts, London
Call for papers
Following on the success of previous Designs on eLearning
international conferences since 2005 in the use of technology
for teaching and learning in Art, Design and Communication,
Designs on eLearning 2009 will be held at the University of the
Arts, London between 2nd and 4th September 2009.
We invite the submission of abstracts for consideration for full
research papers, short papers and posters by 31 March 2009.
Conference Themes include
1. Mobile computing and its impact on Art, Design and
Communication
2. Serious Gaming and Virtual worlds in education
3. Virtual Learning Environments in Art, Design and
Communication
4. Copyright and legal issues affecting the visual arts
5. The Social and Educational Interface
6. Innovations in teaching and learning in Art, Design and
Communication
Details of the conference including full list of themes,
registration and online submission of papers and posters can be
found at
http://www.designsonelearning.net/index.htm
If you wish to be placed on the mailing list for updated
information please register at
http://www.designsonelearning.net/mailing_list.htm
27-30 Oct 2009: ACM CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2009
Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action
October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Professor of Psychology & Management,
Claremont Graduate University, USA
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory,
California Nanosystems Institute, USA
Jane Prophet, Professor of Interdisciplinary Computing,
Goldsmiths University of London, UK
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Full Papers, Art Exhibition, Live Performances, Demonstrations,
Posters, Workshops, Tutorials, Graduate Symposium
Submission deadline: April 24, 2009
Creativity is present in all we do. The 7th Creativity and
Cognition Conference (CC09) embraces the broad theme of Everyday
Creativity. This year the conference will be held at the
Berkeley Art Museum (CA, USA), and asks: How do we enable
everyone to enjoy their creative potential? How do our creative
activities differ? What do they have in common? What languages
can we use to talk to each other? How do shared languages
support collective action? How can we incubate innovation? How
do we enrich the creative experience? What encourages
participation in everyday creativity?
The Creativity and Cognition Conference series started in 1993
and is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI. The conference provides a forum
for lively interdisciplinary debate exploring methods and tools
to support creativity at the intersection of art and technology.
We welcome submissions from academics and practitioners, makers
and scientists, artists and theoreticians. This year's broad
theme of Everyday Creativity reflects the new forms of
creativity emerging in everyday life, and includes topics of:
- Collective creativity and creative communities
- Shared languages and Participatory creativity
- Incubating creativity and supporting Innovation
- DIY and folk creativity
- Democratising creativity
- New materials for creativity
- Enriching the collaborative experience
We welcome the following forms of submission:
- Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
- In-depth case studies and ethnographic analyses
- Reflective and theoretical accounts of individual and
collaborative practice
- Principles of interaction design and requirements for
creativity support tools
- Educational and training methods
- Interdisciplinary methods, and models of creativity and
collaboration
- Analyses of the role of technology in supporting everyday
creativity
BERKELEY ART MUSEUM
The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive is the
visual arts centre of the University of California, Berkeley,
and one of the largest university art museums in the United
States. The museum is steeped in a history of radical
interdisciplinary creativity and provides the ideal environment
for researchers, practitioners and artists to come together to
examine and reflect on the role of technology in Everyday
Creativity.
PROCEEDINGS
All submissions will be peer reviewed. Printed proceedings,
published by ACM Press, will be available at the conference and
will be included in the ACM digital library.
We aim to produce special issue(s) of international journals (to
be confirmed) from the Creativity & Cognition conference.
http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/
SPECIAL EDITION OF Art, Design and Communication in Higher
Education. Special edition Issue 8.3
What has the HEFCE funded Centres for Excellence in Teaching and
Learning (CETL) initiative meant for the world of Art Design and
Communication? Special edition Issue 8.3
Guest editors: Alison Shreeve, CLIP CETL University of the Arts
London Anne Asha, CETLD University of Brighton
Call for Papers
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education is a refereed
journal that aims to inform, stimulate and promote the
development of research with learning and teaching focus for
art, design and communication within higher education.
Special issue: The editors of the special issue of the journal
calling for CETL related papers and are interested in media
related and indeed any creative practice in the broad area of
art, design and communication that relates to the work with
CETLs in our subject areas.
Background
The HEFCE initiative to create Centres for Excellence in UK
Higher Education resulted in a number of CETLs that were
situated in art, design and media departments and others that
had relevance to the sector in terms of more general activities
in learning and teaching, such as enquiry based approaches and
the development of re-usable learning objects. As CETLs were
constructed from the point of demonstrable excellence in
teaching and learning there are many different forms and shapes
that the CETLs have taken and many different activities they
have engaged in since they were set up in 2005.
As an initiative to raise the profile of learning and teaching
in higher education, to invest in excellent practice and to
disseminate that practice more widely, we feel that ADCHE can
play a significant part in telling the story of the CETL
initiative. Funding is due to end in March 2010 and we think it
is relevant to obtain a picture of activities and their impact
on our knowledge of teaching and learning in the sector. We
therefore invite anyone who has been involved, in whatever
capacity, to reflect on their activities and make their thoughts
available to the readers of ADCHE. We would like these to be
written from a scholarly and informed perspective, situated in
the wider literature, but also situated within the particular
and temporal constitution of the CETLs.
We would welcome papers that are written from the perspectives
of those who manage and direct the centres, those who evaluate
their activities and those who participate as students,
researchers or educational practitioners supported by CETL
funding. We do not limit the scope of our call for papers only
to the main art and design CETLS. If you are an art, design or
media tutor and have been engaged in any kind of CETL we would
be delighted to consider papers, but the main focus of the
journal is on our subject disciplines. Please see below for more
details of the kinds of submissions considered by the journal.
Contributions
The journal invites contributions from a wide and diverse
community of researchers. It seeks to generate and promote
research from both experienced researchers and to encourage
those new to this field. The aim is to provide a forum for
debate arising from findings as well as theory and
methodologies.
A range of research approaches and methods is encouraged. Major
Papers (5000-6000 words) should include original work of a
research or developmental nature and/or proposed new methods or
ideas which are clearly and thoroughly presented and argued.
Shorter items (1,000 to 2,500 words) include:
- Reports of research in progress
- Reflections on the research process
- Evaluations of curriculum change or innovation relating to the
themes
For this issue papers should address aspects of the following
themes or related issues:
- The impact of CETLs on institutional cultures
- CETLs as change agents
- Evaluation of CETLs
- Work on specific projects either commissioned or undertaken as
part of CETL work
- Enhancement of teaching and learning practices in art, design
and communication. (Please see guidelines on categories above)
- Problems or issues associated with the CETL activities
- Engagement with CETLs from a practitioner perspective
- Dissemination of outcomes from CETL projects - informing the
sector about research and scholarship undertaken in CETLs
Contributors may suggest additional relevant themes, however it
is recommended you consult with the editors prior to submitting.
Deadline: the submission deadline for this special issue is
March 1st 2009
Digital submission: Authors must submit papers in digital form.
For guidance notes for submissions, reviewers' guidelines or
further information contact: Editorial Assistant, Laura
Lanceley, Chelsea College of Art & Design, 16 John Islip Street,
London, SW1P 4JU.Tel: 020 7514 7836. Email:
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10-11 September 2009: Image 2.0: Digital Media Futures
Interdisciplinary Conference University College Falmouth
Tremough Campus Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
Proposal (250-500 words) deadline: 10th March 2009
Rationale:
This interdisciplinary conference aims to examine intersections
between digital technologies and visual media. Organised by
Falmouth's School of Media, the conference will provide a space
for debate on the present state and the future of visual media
as they enter a new stage of development, where established
boundaries between disciplines and practices, as well as between
producers and consumers, are dissolving.
We invite both traditional academic research papers and
practice-based presentations to promote cooperation and exchange
of experience between scholars and media practitioners. The
fields and disciplines that the conference will focus on include
film studies, photography, web design, advertising and digital
animation. Other academic or creative fields will be considered
insofar as the exploration of their modes of practice refers to
(or relies on) digital technologies.
Call for papers:
We invite established scholars, emerging researchers and
graduate students to present papers on a wide variety of topics
but are particularly interested in theoretical and
practice-based approaches to the following:
- Textual/genre analysis (how digital media affects visual
storytelling in film, photography and animation genres);
- Distribution/production/exhibition of creative visual work in
the global (or national) context (Internet film exhibition, web
publishing, accessibility, interactivity, new forms of leisure
and media consumption. Media 2.0, Web 2.0);
- Representations (digitally based minority creative groups and
subcultures, digital media in relation to gender, sexuality,
race, immigration, and visibility within the dominant culture);
- The changing nature of the moving image (reception and
audiences of digitally based film and animation, YouTube,
MySpace, video streaming, digital archiving);
- Art vs. commerce (the blurring distinction between the two,
photography and creative advertising);
- Learning and Teaching (digitally based research and
methodologies for analysing visual media, vlogging, digital
archives);
- Alternative cinema (digital technologies and their impact on
producing animation, documentary, pornography, experimental
films, music videos, etc.);
- Legal and ethical aspects of digitally based visual media
(control, censorship, pressure groups, copyrights).
Submission guidelines (paper proposals):
Please email the title of your proposed presentation and 250-500
word abstract with a 100 word biographical statement. Please
note that long CVs will be rejected. All proposals must be
included in the body of a single email. There is no application
form to fill out.
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Deadline for paper proposals:
10th March 2009
If your proposal is accepted we will notify you by the end of
March.
Call for creative work:
As a part of the event, we intend to put up an exhibition of
digital photography and illustration, as well as a space with
facilities for streaming videos. Therefore, we encourage entries
of photographic, illustration, poster, and film work from media
practitioners, artists, graduate and undergraduate students. Any
piece of original work is invited as long as the images and
films are digitally based. Those submitting will be fully
responsible for any copyright clearance related to their work
(including music).
Submission guidelines (creative work):
Photographs, illustrations and posters: Please send your works
as email attachments (jpg files) and once your work is accepted
we will ask you to forward either prints or high- resolution
files to us. Limit: 5 pieces per entrant. Email:
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Short films and video installations (up to 10 minutes):
Please send a clearly marked DVD to: Anna Misiak Image 2.0
Conference Film Tremough Campus University College Falmouth
Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ England
Deadline for creative work:
1 May 2009
If your work is accepted we will notify you by 18th June 2009
Contact: Anna Misiak, Jason Whittaker, and Mark Douglas at
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17-20 June 2009: Workshop "Challenges, Opportunities and New
Trends in Higher Education"
We invite you to submit papers to the Workshop "Challenges,
Opportunities and New Trends in Higher Education" hosted within
the CISTI'2009 conference ( http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2009/)
which will take place in Povoa de Varzim, Portugal.
This forum is an opportunity to present your research and ideas,
to meet other researchers and colleagues, share experiences and
discuss innovative pedagogical practices and methods that can
foster and improve the development of higher education.
Submission deadline: 1 March 2009
TOPICS
Submissions that focus on the following issues are especially
welcome:
- Computing education research: methodologies and results;
- Educational technology: software and tools;
- Use of technology to support education in computing and
related sciences;
- Teaching innovations: best practices, experiences, assessment
development and case studies in Higher Education;
- Distance education: on-line contents, virtual and open
universities;
- E-learning methodologies and experiences;
- Pedagogic methodologies to face the Bologna Treaty
implementation;
- Classroom pedagogical experiences;
- Education trough games;
- Lifelong learning;
- Students and Teaching staff mobility;
- Joint Programs and accreditation;
- Industry support on learning process: experiences, benefits
and constraints, etc.
For any questions or suggestions, please contact us at:
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18-19 November 2009: ART.MEDIA.DESIGN|WRITING INTERSECTIONS
Melbourne, Australia Conference Swinburne University of
Technology
FOCUS
The fields of Art, Media and Design engage in the creative
production of digital and material artefacts that reproduce and
resist existing discourses. The text genres that accompany this
artefactual creativity also enter into reproductive and
contrasting relations with project work. ArtMediaDesign |
Writing Intersections offers a two day conference space to
explore and theorize the theoretical and applied consequences of
this text|artefact intersection. We invite faculty,
practitioners and students to join us in Melbourne (Australia)
to explore these issues. Writing Intersections follows
immediately after the Cumulus09 Melbourne (RMIT/Swinburne)
Conference and we encourage you to attend both events.
KEYNOTE: PROFESSOR SEAN CUBITT
Sean Cubitt was born in Lincolnshire of Irish parents. He
studied at Queens' College Cambridge and McGill University,
Montreal. In the 1980s he worked freelance in art schools,
community arts, journalism, the Open University and as National
Organiser for the Society for Education in Film and Television.
He spent the 1990s in Liverpool, where he became Professor of
Media Arts at Liverpool John Moores University, and was involved
in developing the Foundation for Art and Creative Technology
(FACT). In 2000, he moved to New Zealand with wife Alison and
dog Zebedee, where he was Professor of Screen and Media Studies
at the University of Waikato. In 2002 he was appointed Honorary
Professor of the University of Dundee. He now holds dual
nationality with New Zealand and the UK. In July 2006 he moved
to Melbourne where he is currently Professor of Media and
Communications and Director, Program in Media and
Communications.
THEMED PROGRAM
Day 1 (17th November): Postgraduate Student Focus
Registration
Opening Lunch and Welcome
Keynote: Sean Cubitt
Afternoon Workshops
Afternoon Break
Papers (Colloquium Format) 1
Conference Dinner
Day 2 (18th November)
Papers (Colloquium Format) 2
Lunch
Papers (Colloquium Format) 3
Afternoon Break
Papers (Colloquium Format) 4
Closing Drinks and Nibbles
COLLOQUIUM FORMAT
Papers will be grouped into two sequential hour colloquiums per
session. Each colloquium will have four presenters and a chair
with a maximum of ten minutes per paper followed by twenty
minutes for synthesis and discussion.
CALL FOR PAPERS (CFP)
We invite papers in two broad areas: pedagogy and theory. In the
pedagogy stream you will address the practical challenges of
writing Art, Media and Design in/for/about Further and Higher
Education. In the theoretical stream we invite papers addressing
substantive issues for the three fields regarding intersections
between writing practices and these three fields. All abstracts
and papers will be peer reviewed and notification of acceptance,
modification and rejection provided to meet DEST requirements.
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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstracts Due: June 16
Notification of Acceptance: July 16
Full Papers Due: September 16
COSTS
Full registration: $195 FT Student registration: $100
(excludes conference dinner A$45)
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE
Selected papers from the proceedings will be published in the
Journal of Writing for Creative Practice in early 2010. This is
the journal of the Writing PAD Network which is sponsoring the
conference.
http://artmediadesign.synthasite.com/
1-2 July 2009: CREATE 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS, VIDEOS AND EXHIBITS
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
Boom or Bust: creating digital technologies in turbulent times
Create 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative
interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive
services or interaction paradigms. This is the third year of
hosting the 'Create' conference.
This year, we are particularly interested in submissions from
practitioners and academics willing to share frank and open
accounts of research and design practice beginning to be shaped
or influenced by the global economy and climate considerations.
However, we also welcome submissions related to the more
traditional themes of this conference. How do we work together
as designers and HCI specialists to come up with people-centred
design, and how do we work with others to make our designs a
reality?
We are looking for three different types of submission all of
which will be peer reviewed
Short and extended papers
We invite case studies of innovative design from the commercial,
public, government and research sectors. Cases can come from any
paradigm - the web, mobile and hand held, or consumer
electronics. Please outline the problems, capabilities, or new
functions that were being addressed, and describe the solutions
you or your team created to resolve it. We are particularly
interested in receiving papers discussing issues related to
recent global events. We also welcome theoretical and research
perspectives on the process of design innovation and approaches
to creativity in HCI; how human factors can be integrated within
a creative design process, methods that encourage creativity in
interaction design, and the challenges of working in
multi-disciplinary teams.
Initial submissions should be no more than 3000 characters
(approx. 500 words). Accepted papers can be either short papers
2 pages long, or be extended to long papers of up to 8 pages.
Video papers
We welcome submissions which follow the themes for paper or
showcase submissions but would benefit from a more visual
presentation style. For example, this could be videos
illustrating or describing large scale installations that would
not be technically or physically possible to exhibit during the
conference. We also welcome videos demonstrating novel
interactive artefacts that may be in the early stages of
development, project descriptions or creative visions of future
interactive technologies.
Videos should be no longer than 7 minutes in length (including
titles and credits) and should not require any supporting
material to be understood. It is very important that you have
the rights to use all the material that is contained in your
submission. Successful submissions will be required to submit a
short 2 page paper which should also be possible to understand
without having seen the video.
Exhibits
Installations or exhibits should be of a relatively small to
medium scale and may include documentation in the form of videos
and posters to accompany them. We are particularly interested in
exhibiting: interactive products, interactive service design
solutions, small- scale interactive artworks, networked objects,
screen based interactive media and interactive installation
pieces.
Key dates
20 April 2009 - Closing date for abstracts and proposals
4-8 May 2009 - Author notification
25 May - Closing date for full papers and video papers
CREATE is jointly organised by the Human-Computer Interaction
Specialist Group of the Ergonomics Society, and British
Computing Society's Interaction Specialist Group, and will be
held at the British Computer Society conference venue in Covent
Garden, London, on 1-2 July, 2009.
http://www.create-conference.org
Mid December 2009: DAC09 (Digital Arts and Culture) Conference
2009 will occur on the campus of University of California Irvine
in mid December, 2009.
Call for abstracts is open until May 1.
Abstracts should be submitted according to conference themes:
- Embodiment and performativity
- Mobile/locative/situated/wearable practices
- Software/ platform studies
- Environment/ sustainability/ climate change
- Interdisciplinary pedagogy
- Cognition and creativity
- Sex and sexuality
http://dac09.uci.edu
13-16 October 2009: CALL for PAPERS and DEMOS of the conference
DESIGNING PLEASURABLE PRODUCTS AND INTERFACES, Compiegne-FRANCE.
The Paper submission deadline is postponed to March 20.
The Demos submission deadline is May 30.
We are pleased to invite you to the 4th International Conference
on " Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces " that will
be held in Compiegne, France, from 13rd to 16th of October 2009.
The general theme is FuTURN Innovation, the ground for
co-emergence of experiences and technologies. The scientific
community taking part in this conference is a compilation of
research experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds, i.e., the
Industrial Design and Engineering Design as well as the Human
Sciences. Its focus is on the exploration of the innovation
processes through an experiential approach, inspired and ignited
by the challenges of human comprehension. The integration of
their different approaches through a common ground, design, is
quintessential to its undertaking. The call for papers addresses
10 topics to the following communities: Engineering design,
Product Design,and Human Sciences.
1 : Aesthetics for intelligent product and system design
2 : Narrative design
3 : Pleasure of risk and risk of pleasure
4 : Products and services co-designed by Customers
5 : Sensory and innovative product
6 : Enaction design for Human World Interaction (HWI)
7 : Skilled Interaction: Making people better at being good.
8 : Mastering emotional values in the early phase of the
design process
9 : Product Usage Design in Virtual Development and
Manufacture
10 : Innovation centers
The conference welcomes scientific papers, prototypes demos,
posters, workshops and industrial exhibitions. Students
contributions are welcomed. As in previous DPPI conferences,
Pittsburgh, Eindhoven and Helsinki, we challenge you to
participate in an exhilarating week of listening, doing
research, designing, discussing, learning and having fun.
Important dates
Call for papers : November, 2008
Deadline for Paper Submission : Feb. 28, EXTENDED TO MARCH 20
Peer review results sent to authors : May 30
Final paper uploading : July 15, 2009
Conference : October 13-16, 2009
Registration opens by the end of June 2009
Early Bird Registration will be open until July 15th 2009
http://www.utc.fr/dppi09
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
16-17 April 2009: NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Design
Workshop.
This is an announcement for a conference on design education,
sponsored by the National Science Foundation, division of
Engineering. The conference should be of interest to those of
you who struggle to get design graduate education established
within a traditional university that expects the faculty to have
PhDs and to publish research. This is a special problem for
programs of design within technical universities and engineering
schools.
This will be the second event (Spanning Design Boundaries) in
the NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Design Workshop Series. It
will take place at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April
16-17, 2009.
At Northwestern, the workshop will explore different themes of
design. We assume a restriction of the otherwise overly broad
area of design to situations that involve interaction with
people. We identify four major themes: Human Factors and
Ergonomics, Engineering Design, Industrial Design, and Human
Centered Design (HCD: although this could be easily thought of
as a subset of any or all of the other three). This by no means
exhausts the demarcation of relevant design themes for, among
others, it fails to list Interaction and Experience Design,
Human-Computer Interaction , the distinction between products
and services, and the design of organizations and processes.
However, we believe a broad approach to these four themes covers
everything, including these topics: in the resulting discussion,
you might prove us to be wrong.
Design also has at least three viewpoints: Design as art, as a
practical discipline, and as a research endeavor. It is
important to distinguish these approaches because many an
argument results from failure to recognize that the underlying
premises are different.
The meeting will start by attempting to characterize these four
approaches and three viewpoints. We then ask what an ideal
curriculum would be for each, assuming zero institutional or
cost constraints. The goal is to derive some common themes that
as many possible can agree are at the heart of design, plus the
variants that would lead us to distinguish among the emphases
and skills of the specialties. It is too much to hope for
uniform agreement. But perhaps we can reach a deeper
understanding of the issues. Discussion of the four approaches
will be led by:
- Human Factors and Ergonomics: Alex Kirlik. Head, Human Factors
Division, UIUC
- Engineering Design: Jonathan Cagan. Integrated Design
Innovation Group, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, CMU
- Industrial Design: David Weightman. Professor Industrial
design, School of Art and Design, UIUC
- Human Centered Design: Don Norman. Co-Director Segal Design
Institute, Northwestern.
Funded by NSF with matching from the partner institutions
(University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Penn State,
and Stanford University), this series of workshops will explore
trends and recent developments in interdisciplinary graduate
design education. The workshop series is a continuation of the
NSF Interdisciplinary Design Workshop held in Washington, DC, in
May 2008 (http://www.design.psu.edu/NSF/workshop_May08/ ). The
first event of the workshop series was hosted by University of
Michigan/Design Science Program in November 2008 on the topic of
"The Design Discipline" (
http://designscience.umich.edu/designworkshop.html ).
Participation in the workshop will be limited to 50 attendees
and will require submission of the online application and
commitment to attending the entire workshop. Selection will be
based on having a broad, diverse group that best addresses the
theme of this workshop and that provides also cohesion over the
conduct of the entire workshop series. The selected attendees
will be eligible for travel support, which covers up to $600
cost of hotel accommodation and flight (or other means of
transportation).
Priority for attendance will be given to applications received
prior to February 8th, 2009. Selected attendees will be informed
prior to February 27th 2009.
Wei Chen, Department of Mechanical Engineering, <
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http://www.segal.northwestern.edu/designworkshop/
The Codes Project
This is to announce the official launch of "The Codes Project"
http://codesproject.asu.edu/
Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, this website is a
compilation of codes that affect urban form. We define "code"
broadly - from legal document to social custom.
We include all time periods - from the Code of Hammurabi to the
present - and all regions of the world. There are code documents
of various kinds, research papers on codes, and a "codes in real
life" section that links code to outcome.
We are especially interested in adding more material to the
website. If you have a code, a research paper, or a comment, we
would love to hear from you:
http://codesproject.asu.edu/php/submit.php
Please help us get the word out and distribute this announcement
widely.
Emily Talen, AICP, PhD Professor Arizona State University PO Box
875302 Tempe AZ 85287-5302 Director, The Codes Project
http://codesproject.asu.edu/
FLOOV
There several design/innovation newsletters around. They are
often dull. One of my favourite exciting newsletters is FLOOV.
FLOOV claims that it "is a knowledge center about Visionary
Design which benefits Environment, Society and stimulates
Economic Growth supporting Style, Modernity, Quality, Wellbeing
and Satisfaction."
It not only showcases innovative products, but -- and this is
often not the case -- it is designerly too, obviously compiled
by designers for designers. And it's free.
http://www.floov.net
WINTERHOUSE INSTITUTE
"In January 2009, Winterhouse Institute began a two-year
project, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation with a $1.5
million grant, to develop collective action and collaboration
for social impact across the design industry - and encompassing
a range of other institutions that work on the needs of poor or
vulnerable people. The funding will be used to develop specific
programs for social impact by the design community, to host a
major conference at Aspen in 2009, to develop case studies with
the Yale School of Management, and to create an editorial
website to monitor progress in the zone of design and innovation
around social issues."
http://www.winterhouse.com/institute/index.html
2-3 September 2009: Ars Textrina International Textiles
Conference 2009
Natural Fibres- A World Heritage: in celebration of 'The Year of
Natural Fibres, University of Leeds, UK
The conference will provide a multi-disciplinary forum for
textile theorists and practitioners, museum professionals with
interests relating to textiles and their collection, exhibition
and documentation, as well as teachers and academic researchers,
and those with interests spanning socio-cultural aspects of
historic, contemporary and future textiles. Since 2009 has been
designated 'The year of Natural Fibres', the principal focus of
the conference will be on natural fibres, their processing and
consumption.
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ulita.
Doors-Report
Doors-Report (it hails from the Doors of Perception conferences)
is an informative monthly newsletter compiled by John Thackara.
Subscribe to Doors-Report by the following link.
This is especially helpful to those with interests in
sustainable design.
http://lists.webtic.nl/mailman/listinfo/doors-report
17 March 2009: Lighting and Health
One day conference organised by the Institution of Lighting
Engineers March 17 2009 at the Barbican Centre in London
<http://www.barbican.org.uk/visitor-information> Although the
use of light to treat ailments can be traced back thousands of
years to ancient India, Egypt, and China, only in the past 10
years or so has modern science and medicine undertaken extensive
research into light's critical impact on human biology and its
relationship with myriad health-related issues.
A number of recent discoveries have been crucial in this
reassessment of the centrality of lighting to human health -
most notably, the discovery in 2002 that the visual system
contains photo-receptors (the 'third eye') working independently
of vision. Operating through hitherto unknown pathways in the
brain, these non-visual signals have a huge influence on the
various physiological systems that make up the body's circadian
cycle.
The challenges these findings present for architects and
lighting designers are enormous. We now know that the presence,
or absence, of daylight in buildings and the intensity, colour
temperature and timing of artificial lighting, can have a huge
impact on human performance, health and psychological well-being
- and we need to design our buildings and lighting systems
accordingly.
The one-day conference 'Lighting and Health' is the first
independent UK forum at which these issues can be discussed -
and at which researchers, academics and theorists can exchange
ideas with lighting designers, lighting engineers, architects,
interior designers and other construction professionals. It also
offers opportunities for health, education and facilities
professionals to discover some of the innovative ways that
interior lighting for hospitals, schools, offices and public
buildings could be transformed, in order to create the
healthiest and most beneficial conditions for their users.
The morning session of the conference will focus on the latest
theory and research findings in light and health, while the
afternoon will look at specific applications and case studies,
relating to therapeutic, educational and medical lighting
practice - and the implications for the future.
http://www.ile.org.uk/index.php?page=health
HIGHWIRE
Up to ten 4 year PhD Studentships Available in an Exciting
Cross-disciplinary Programme: Creating Innovative People for
Radical Change in the Digital Economy The HighWire Programme,
Lancaster University, UK
Are you interested in technology, its relationship to creative
practices or business and in acquiring the necessary skills to
lead innovation in the exciting world of the digital economy? We
are currently recruiting exceptional students with backgrounds
in computing, design and management to join HighWire in October
2009.
HighWire is a world class, cross-disciplinary and user-centric
Doctoral Training Centre which places innovation at the heart of
its curriculum and ethos. We go beyond traditional
multi-disciplinary approaches by seeking a creative fusion
between three key disciplines, namely computer science,
management and design.
The emphasis is on producing a new breed of innovative people
who understand and are able to advance the state of the art in
technical, design and business innovation: innovative people
prepared to work in challenging roles in organisations and ready
to drive radical change in the digital economy.
We closely align with the needs and goals of business and
industry to ensure the relevance of our programme and to
encourage technology exchange and early adoption of emerging
technologies, processes and ideas.
This builds on the strengths of Lancaster University's InfoLab21
initiative, a recognised leader in technology exchange, to seek
a more value-added and marketable pathway from the digital
laboratory to the marketplace.
If you join HighWire, you would:
- Undertake a 4 year MRes+PhD programme
- Receive a #16,290 p.a. enhanced stipend
- Study in a new purpose-built facility on the Lancaster
University campus
- Understand and apply innovation to the digital economy
- Perform research focused on problems, not disciplines
- Have a real impact on industry and society
- Work with world-leading commercial partners
We would like to invite you to a recruitment event on Wednesday
11th March 2009 at Lancaster University. For more information on
this event and about the programme generally please go to:
http://highwire.lancaster.ac.uk/
Our website also provides instructions on how to apply. Please
pay particular attention to the eligibility criteria as listed
on the web pages before applying.
Informal enquiries can also be addressed to Professor Gordon
Blair, Director of HighWire (email: [log in to unmask]).
The closing date for the first wave of applications is 31 March
2009 (further opportunities to apply may be available after this
date).
[CSS] ASSYST Roadmap for Socially Intelligent ICT
The new 2008-2011 coordination action ASSYST (coordinator: Jeff
Johnson) is funded from the FET Proactive initiative Science of
Complex Systems for Socially Intelligent ICT (COSI-ICT).
The kickoff meeting will be hosted by the Complex Systems
Society at the Institut des Systemes Complexes Paris in march
2009.
One of the mission of ASSYST is to propose a roadmap for
Socially Intelligent ICT. This roadmap will be launched on march
1 2009 with a first draft. In this perspective you are invited
to submit propositions and ideas to this Roadmap via the roadmap
website:
http://roadmap.csregistry.org/AssystRoadmap
You can also suscribe to the roadmap newsletter at the same
address.
This first draft will evolve with several consultations of the
community in the next few months, in particular during
forthcoming workshops.
23-24 March 2009: IEEE VS-Games'09 - International IEEE
Conference in Serious Games and Virtual Worlds, Coventry, UK
The international event marks the first IEEE academic conference
in serious games and virtual worlds and will be hosted in the
UK. The event will bring together international researchers from
a range of disciplines to formulate a new cross-disciplinary
community in the emerging field of serious games and virtual
worlds.
Keynote speakers will be: Professors Steve Benford (UK), Alan
Chalmers (UK) and Adrian Cheok (Japan). The conference is
chaired by Professor Sara de Freitas (UK), Professor Edward
Castronova (US) and Dr Kurt Squire (US). Sponsored by IEEE,
Becta and ALT, the event will be streamed onto the web and into
Second Life for those unable to attend in person. The
proceedings will be published by IEEE. The best papers will be
selected for publication in one of two international Journals:
Visual Computer and the British Journal of Educational
Technology.
The two day conference will be held at Coventry University
Technology Park, just one hour from London. The Gala Evening
Dinner will include a historic river boat ride along the Avon
past Shakespeare's birth place of Stratford-upon-Avon, and a
dinner near the river.
Participants are welcomed from the research, teaching, policy
development and industrial communities. The full programme and
booking are now available at:
http://www.vs-games.org.uk.
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