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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 14 Number 8 Aug 2009 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Design Studies
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 STUDIES
Contents of Volume 30, Issue 4 (July 2009)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X
The ontology of Gero's FBS model of designing
Per Galle
Pages 321-339
Design knowledge recycling using precedent-based analysis and
synthesis models
Buthayna Hasan Eilouti
Pages 340-368
Optimising design objectives using the Balanced Scorecard
approach
Franky W.H. Wong, Patrick T.I. Lam, Edwin H.W. Chan
Pages 369-392
An affordance-based approach to architectural theory, design,
and practice
Jonathan R.A. Maier, Georges M. Fadel, Dina G. Battisto
Pages 393-414
Assessing perceived credibility of traditional and computer
generated architectural representations
Nada Bates-Brkljac
Pages 415-437
Cultural patterns in product design ideas: comparisons between
Australian and Iranian student concepts
Mohammad Razzaghi, Mariano Ramirez Jr., Robert Zehner
Pages 438-461
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X
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CALLS
SPECIAL ISSUES OF THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN HISTORY
The Journal invites collaboration in the development of the
subject through thematic Special Issues. It invites both the
proposal of promising themes (and guest editors) and the
contribution of individual articles to themes under development.
Please send initial proposals and abstracts to
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Papers should be submitted according to the Instructions to
Authors which can be found at:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/design/for_authors/index.html.
Papers for special issues will be subject to the usual
refereeing and selection procedures of the Journal of Design
History
At the present time the Journal particularly invites proposals
and contributions relating to the following themes:
- History of design education
- The re-appropriation of tradition in design
- History of design for sustainability
- Design and material culture before 1800
- Design and the re-shaping of regions
- Uniforms in design historical perspective
Uniforms are complex clothing series of great variety, designed
for uses spanning religious, military, professional,
educational, and recreational activities. Uniforms may be
designed to control, but at the same time they invite
subversion; they may be loathed as well as admired; their wearer
may be feared, but also envied.
The significance of uniforms in everyday life should not be
underestimated; they are important material markers of culture.
Papers for this Special Issue may address the design of
uniforms and their significance from various disciplinary,
geographical and cultural perspectives, and explore the
relationship between uniforms and:
- changes in the relations of design and manufacture
- the shaping of modern identities in private and/or public
institutions
- the evolution of discipline, self-expression, and
subjectivity
- the history of occupations or leisure activities
- the history of design in fashion, film or theatre.
Please send abstracts of 300-400 words relating to this Special
Issue by 25 September 2009 to
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ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for the new journal of CRAFT RESEARCH
Editors
Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton, UK email:
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Dr Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent University email:
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Aims & Scope
Craft Research is the first peer-reviewed academic journal
dedicated to the development and advance of contemporary craft
practice and theory through research. The aim of Craft Research
is to portray and build the crafts as a vital and viable modern
discipline that offers a vision for the future and for the
sustainable development of human social, economical and
ecological issues. This role of craft is rooted in its flexible
nature as a conduit from design at one end to art at the other.
It gains its strength from its at times experimental, at times
developmental nature, which enables craft to explore and
challenge technology, to question and develop cultural and
social practices, and to interrogate philosophical and human
values.
Call for Papers
Craft Research aims to actively promote and strengthen this
future-oriented role of the crafts. In order to do so, it
recognises inter and cross disciplinary practices, and
encourages diverse approaches to research arising from practice,
theory and philosophy. It welcomes contributions from new and
established researchers, scholars, and professionals around the
world who wish to make a contribution to advancing the crafts.
Contributions may include research into materials, technology,
processes, methods, concepts, aesthetics and philosophy, etc. in
any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including
craft education. Craft Research welcomes a number of different
types of contributions as set out below.
Contributions
Full Research Papers (4000-6000 words) They will describe
completed research projects, including research problem,
questions, methods, outcomes, and findings. They should include
original work of a research and/or developmental nature and/or
propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly
presented and argued.
Short Research Papers / Position Papers (2000-3000 words)
- Short Research Papers may describe smaller research projects
or research in progress including research problem, questions,
methods, (expected) outcomes and findings. They are an
opportunity to new researchers/practitioners to get into
publishing.
- Position papers may put forward and debate a position on a
particular (current) issue (e.g. new technology, material,
theoretical, social or educational issue). Both should include
original work of a research or developmental nature and/or
propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly
presented and argued.
Both should include original work of a research and/or
developmental nature and/or propose new methods or ideas that
are clearly and thoroughly presented and argued. They are an
opportunity for new researchers/practitioners to have their
research/work published.
Craft & Industry Reports (1500-3000 words)
Reports of Investigative Practice from Craft & Industry should
present an advance in and for the field, including
collaborations and new developments of work, processes, methods,
ideas etc. by practitioners and industry in the crafts.
Review Section. We invite reviews of the following:
- The Portrait Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature the work
of an individual (crafts person, artist, designer, maker,
researcher) within the field whose creative work stands out for
its developmental / research qualities and contribution to the
crafts.
- The Exhibition Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature
scholarly reviews of exhibitions that are of particular
developmental / research significance for the field for the
technical, conceptual, aesthetic, social etc. quality of the
work or for the curation.
- The Publication Review (1000-2000 words) Will feature
reviews of publications in print and new media.
- The Conference Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature
reviews of any relevant conferences/symposia/etc. in the field.
Calendar of Exhibitions & Conferences
We invite notifications of important and relevant forthcoming
craft exhibitions and craft conferences/research events.
Remarkable Image Section
We invite the submission of images of outstanding quality for
their novelty, beauty, complexity, simplicity, challenging
nature, humour, humanity, etc. that are representative of
contemporary crafts developments and research.
The final date for submissions for the first issue is Friday 15
January 2010.
For guidance notes, for submissions, or further information
please contact the editors.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=172/
20-29 August 2010: ISEA2010 RUHR
The submission platform of ISEA2010 RUHR is now open.
ISEA2010 RUHR is the 16th International Symposium on Electronic
Art, a major conference and exhibition event for art, media and
technology, in the German Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen,
Duisburg, a. o.).
We invite proposals for conference papers, artist presentations,
exhibition projects, live performances, and art projects in
public space.
Visual artists, musicians, dancers, designers, engineers,
software artists, researchers, theorists, media activists, and
hybrids of these, working with recent technologies and exploring
the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and
electronic media, should submit their projects or papers online
by 15 September 2009.
All submissions will be evaluated by an international jury. The
results of the jury process and invitations for ISEA2010 RUHR
are expected by the end of 2009.
Please note that all submitted information can be edited and
completed until the submission deadline. Detailed information
about the submission process can be found at:
http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/submissions
21-23 April 2010: ARTECH 2010 - 5th Internacional Conference of
Digital Arts, Guimaraes, Portugal
http://www.artech-international.com/artech2010
Call for Submissions
Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the
topic of Digital Arts. It aims at promoting contacts between
Iberian and International contributors concerned with the
concept, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic
Art. Artech 2010 aims at bringing the scientific, technological
and artistic community together, while promoting the interest in
the digital culture and its intersection with art and technology
as an important research field, a common space for discussion
and exchange of experiences, a forum for emerging digital
artistsunderstanding and be delighted with new forms of digital
expression.
Main areas are related with sound, image, video, music,
multimedia, architecture and other new media related topics, in
the context of emerging practice of artistic creation. Although
non exclusive, the main topics of the conference are:
-Art and Science Theory
-Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design
-Creativity Theory
-Digital Fabrication
-Electronic Music
-Generative and Algorithmic Art
-Generative Computational Design
-Immersive Art
-Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications
-Media Art history
-Mobile Multimedia
-Net Art and Digital Culture
-New Experiences with Digital Media
-Parametric Design
-Tangible and Gesture Interfaces
-Technology in Art Education
Submissions
Authors are invited to submit:
-A full paper of six to ten pages for oral presentation
-A short paper up to four pages for poster presentations or art
installations proposals Submissions are accepted in the
conference official languages: English, Portuguese, Galician and
Castilian.
Submission format
All papers should be in A4 format and should be formatted in
accordance with the norms and guidelines defined in the model
available in the Artech site.
All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a duly
registered book (ISBN) and a selection of the best papers will
be published in an appropriate scientific and technological
academic journal.
Full papers submission: 27 November 2009
Installations proposals and short papers submission: 04 December
2009
Full papers notice of acceptance: 15 January 2010
Installations proposal and Short notice of acceptance: 29
January 2010
Submission full paper final version: 25 February 2010
Early Registration Deadline: 22 March 2010
10-11 July 2010: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN
COMPUTING AND COGNITION - DCC'10 Bringing artificial
intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to
design research University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
preceded by Workshops
CALL for SUBMISSIONS
This biennial conference series provides an international forum
for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and
cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial
intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in
design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing
archive of design computing and cognition research. The
conference will be preceded by a series of half-day workshops on
specialist topics in design computing and cognition.
Attendees are invited to participate in the conference in the
following ways:
- Submit a full-length paper on completed research relating
to design computing and cognition.
- Submit a poster describing ongoing research; there will be
time for oral presentations of posters.
- Submit a proposal for a half-day workshop on a topic
related to design computing and cognition.
A set of research papers that have been refereed by an
international board of reviewers will be presented and published
as a book. Posters describing ongoing research will be
presented.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Agents in design
- Artificial intelligence in design
- Biologically-inspired design
- Collaborative design
- Cognitive theories applied to design
- Computational theories applied to design
- Creative design
- Design in practice
- Digital media in design
- Evolutionary approaches in design
- Games and design
- Human cognition in design
- Learning from human designers
- Machine learning in design
- Multi-modal design
- Situated computing in design
- Virtual environments in design
- Visual and spatial reasoning in design
Researchers from all fields employing computation and or
cognition in design are invited to participate.
SUBMISSION DATES
- Paper abstracts due, electronic submission in PDF and RTF
formats only: 18 December 2009
- Papers for review due, electronic submission in PDF and RTF
formats only: 29 January 2010
- Workshop proposals due: 22 February 2010
- Poster abstracts due: 5 February 2010
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc10/
THE POSTER
The Poster is a new peer-reviewed journal published by
Intellect. Lead by Simon Downs ([log in to unmask]) at
Loughborough University, the journal draws on an editorial team
from Loughborough, the Universidade De Aveiro, the University of
Guadalajara and the University of New South Wales.
The Poster provides a forum for debate about the ways in which
visual devices are used to form opinion, sway, persuade,
provoke, unite and divide us. Scholars and practitioners of
visual culture, visual ethnography, critical studies,
cybernetics and the social sciences are invited to join in the
discussion about the ethics, aesthetics, effect and operation of
visual rhetoric in the public sphere.
Submissions can be practical, theoretical or philosophical in
nature, from essays on industrial practice (e.g. successful
campaigns, analysis of trends and methods) to artefacts from
practitioners in the field of visual communication (e.g.
graphics, illustration, curation, experience design,
photography, etc).
http://tinyurl.com/theposterjournal
19-22 May 2010: VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM
Call for Papers for VAF 2010 Annual Meeting "Housing Washington"
in Washington, D.C.
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for
its Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Papers may address
vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes
worldwide. Submissions are encouraged to explore topics related
to the conference theme of residential development in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including planned
communities, suburban living, apartment housing, urban renewal,
and racial and ethnic neighborhoods. Papers should be
twenty-minutes in length, although proposals for complete
sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that
facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome.
Proposals must be one-page, fewer than 400 words, and include
paper title, author's name, and email address. Please state
clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology
and content. Papers should be theoretical or analytical in
nature, rather than descriptive. Attach a one-page CV to your
proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 10,
2009.
Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF
members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not
register for the conference and submit their papers to their
session chair by April 1, 2010, will be withdrawn. Please do not
submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the
papers session on May 22. Presenter Fellowships to offset
registration costs are available to students and recent
graduates. For more information on Presenter Fellowships see
http://www.vafweb.org/awards/presenter.html.
Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are
preferred. Please send email proposals to or hard copies to
Cynthia Falk, VAF c/o Cooperstown Graduate Program, P.O. Box
800, Cooperstown, NY 13326. For general information about the
Washington, D.C. VAF Meeting, contact Lisa Davidson at or
202-354-2179.
2-6 February 2010: DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN - With focus on 'Play
+ Learn' at IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India
The international conference 'Designing for Children' with focus
on 'Play + Learn' is scheduled to be held at Mumbai, India in
Feb 2010 and is being hosted by the Industrial Design Centre
(IDC), at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay,
Mumbai.
This international event is aimed at deliberations and
discussions concerning design issues related to children. The
event is expected to throw light on the role of designing for
children as related to design of objects, media and environment
with focus on 'play and learn'.
The events are centered around the interests of students,
educationists, practicing designers and children related
interest groups. The event has been designed to be lively,
interactive and thought provoking and will provide great
opportunity to interact with thought leaders, listen to visions
by researchers and for networking.
Themes for the conference on 'Designing for Children with focus
on Play + Learn':
We invite interesting experimentation, different perspectives,
innovative design applications, in-depth case studies, research
outcomes and position papers centered on the theme of the
conference. The following are the suggested main themes for
submission of papers:
- Products for children
- School for children
- Children's environment
- Children and media
- Interactive environments for children
- Children with special needs
- Development issues of children
http://www.designingforchildren.net
24-27 August 2009: ICED'09: August 24-27 2009, Stanford,
California, USA
The Design Society Special Interest Group (SIG) Workshops will
be held during ICED'09.
Design Creativity SIG
The Design Creativity SIG is a new SIG within the DS, aimed at
elucidating the nature of design creativity through study of
issues such as the cognitive processes underlying design
creativity, computational models of design creativity and
practical processes to incorporate the human and social
dimensions. The SIG will be holding a Workshop during ICED'09
on 25 August from 9.00 to 12.30. The Workshop will aim to
present a forum to discuss the nature and potential of design
creativity from theoretical and methodological viewpoints. In
addition the workshop aims to discuss the direction of research
in design creativity. In particular the workshop intends to
establish a framework for themes and research directions for
design creativity.
Position Papers are invited for presentation at the Workshop,
due 8 August 2009. Attendees are requested to submit position
papers (4 page limit, A4 size, no specified format) on the
workshop theme to the SIG Secretariat ([log in to unmask]). The
position papers will be handed out at the workshop in a stapled
format.
The Agenda for the meeting will be:
1. Introduction of SIG Design Creativity (Opening,
self-introduction by the attendees, status of the SIG, and
report of the workshop in DCC (Yan Jin))
2. Presentations.
Keynote speech
-Speaker: Barbara Tversky (Stanford University).
Title: Studying Creativity is Impossible and Some Ways to Do It
-Paper presentation from accepted papers for the conference:
3. Panel and Open Discussions. Theme: Directions for Design
Creativity Research. Panelists: John Gero, Amaresh Chakrabarti,
Yong Se Kim, Yan Jin, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura.
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/ks/labs/nagai/DesignCreativityW/
17-20 May 2010: DESIGN 2010. The 11th INTERNATIONAL DESIGN
CONFERENCE will be held May 17-20, 2010, in Cavtat near
DUBROVNIK, Croatia.
The Conference aims to create opportunities for participants to
discuss their existing research, develop new research questions
and develop awareness and understanding of engineering design by
sharing and exchanging knowledge with fellow researchers and
practitioners.
The main topics of the Conference are:
- Design Theory and Research
- Design Organisation and Management
- Design Processes
- Design Methods
- Design Support Tools
- Design Information and Knowledge
- Human Behaviour and Design
- Engineering Design Practice
The Conference will also include a number of DS SIG Workshops.
Please note that contributions have to be submitted exclusively
through the conference web site. For any questions please
contact Organising Secretariat at [log in to unmask]
KEY DATES:
Online submission opened on June 1, 2009. The full paper
submission deadline is December 14, 2009. Abstracts are NOT
REQUIRED!
http://www.designconference.org
24-25 November 2009: THE ART OF RESEARCH Processes, Results and
Contributions
THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS & CONFIRMED KEYNOTES
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Over the last two decades, a lively discussion has developed
about the relationship between art and research. The roles of
the professional artist and the professional researcher have in
many ways come closer to one another and often merged in
fruitful ways. At the university level, the criteria for various
forms of research related to art and design have emerged. With
some variation, the suggested minimum criteria include: a
clearly articulated epistemic interest, a systematic and
sustained approach, explicit and articulated means for
communicating and evaluating the results, and established
practices for publishing the results.
This new institutional connection between research and
art/design has promoted much discussion concerning the dialogue
between theory and practice, or 'reflecting' and 'making', the
emphasis often being on the question of how they might be
combined in a productive way. This time the conference explores
the different ways to turn processes into results guided by
following questions:
To what extent is it productive to demarcate the practices of
art/design from theories of art and design? Do these
distinctions just serve the narration of the dialogues between
theories and practices or do they have relevance beyond that?
- How to conceive of the relationship between the art/design
processes and the research results from case to case?
- How to document art and design processes for research purposes?
- How to communicate non-verbal research results?
- What do we mean by contribution in terms of art and design
research?
- What is the relationship between saying and showing, or
argument and demonstration?
These questions might also stimulate other relevant questions.
The conference will go beyond conventional paper presentation,
as each conference session space will be designed to enable oral
presentations to interact with exhibited works of art and
design. The aim of the event is to continue and update the
discussions concerning the relationship between art and design
practices and research, in terms of both content and modes of
presentation.
We invite papers (5000 words max) by doctoral students,
post-doctoral researchers and academics dealing with following
themes:
(1) Explorative art/design projects. This type of papers must be
submitted together with creative works and must contribute to
understanding how the visual and the verbal are unified in
artistic and design research. Each submission should also
include a separate brief description (80 words max) of the
creative work and visual material such as photographs or video
(digital formats only, totally 10M max.).
(2) Methodological and theoretical questions related to the
conference theme.
All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To
facilitate double-blind peer review process, authors should make
efforts to ensure that information about the authors' identities
do not appear anywhere in the paper. If an author is cited,
"Author" and year should be used in the bibliography and
footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc.
The conference is hosted by School of Design in co-operation
with Design Connection Doctoral School at the University of Art
and Design Helsinki. Since the first event in 2005 in Helsinki,
"The Art of Resear ch" event has been organized annually,
altering between twoof Art and Design Helsinki and Chelsea
College of Art and Design in London.
The paper and exhibition proposals should be sent to the
conference secretary Johanna Rauhaniemi
([log in to unmask]). For the paper template and other
practical details, see the conference web site at
http://www.taik.fi/designresearch/AOR2009. Conference fee
150Euros/100Euros for students, includes conference attendance
and refreshments.
The invited keynote presentations will be given by Pirkko
Anttila and Janis Jefferies:
Pirkko Anttila is Professor Emeritus of Craft and Design Science
at University of Helsinki. She has held several different
professional positions as a designer, teacher, counsellor and
executive director from 1950 until today. She has written
several books about design theory and design research
methodology. Her interest lies in the development of
practice-based and evaluative research methodology in art, craft
and design processes, and in conceptualizing visual creative
activities. At the present time she lectures and supervises in
several universities. In 2008 the Minister of Culture awarded
her with Finland Prize in appreciation of the establishment and
development the Craft Science.
Janis Jefferies is Professor of Visual Arts and Artistic
Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios at Goldsmiths College.
She is an artist, writer and curator. During the last 25 years
she has made significant contributions to the practice and
theory of contemporary textile art within the field of visual
and material culture through many solo and group exhibitions.
She has also curate numbers of exhibitions, written numerous
publications and edited two books. At the present time she is an
associate researcher at Hexagram (Institute for Research
Creation in Media Arts and Technologies), Concordia University,
Montreal on electronic textiles and new forms of media
communication in cloth. She also convened the only PhD practice
led programme in Arts and Computational technology within the
University of London.
KEYDATES:
9 April 2009 First call for papers
17 August 2009 Extended deadline for papers
1 September - 6 November 2009 Registration and payment
28 September 2009 Review notice and referee feedback
30 October 2009 Submission for final papers
10 November 2009 Arrival of exhibits
24-25 November 2009 Conference
http://www.taik.fi/designresearch/AOR2009
JOURNAL OF RESEARCH PRACTICE
It is time to mention this high quality journal once more, and
encourage submissions.
Journal of Research Practice (JRP) seeks to develop our
understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend
and enhance that practice in the future. The Journal aims to
highlight the dynamics of research practice, as it unfolds in
the life of a researcher, in the growth and decline of a field,
and in relation to a changing social and institutional
environment. The Journal welcomes deliberation on the basic
issues and challenges encountered by researchers in any specific
domain. The Journal aims to explore why and how different
activities, criteria, methods, and languages become part of
research practice in any domain. This is expected to trigger
interdisciplinary dialogue, mutual learning, facilitate research
education, and promote innovations in different fields.
The Journal's scope is not defined in terms of academic
disciplines. It cuts across disciplines and fields by drawing
out the living dimensions of research unfolding through history,
culture, research communities, professions, and of course the
lives of individual researchers. The Journal seeks to study the
evolving patterns of thinking and practice that underlie open
inquiry in any domain. The scope also includes topics such as
research training, research design, research utilisation,
research policy, and innovative forms of research. The Journal
targets all researchers, scholars, research-inclined
professionals, and research students, irrespective of their
disciplinary background. It seeks to attract reflective articles
on the dynamics and challenges of research practice in context,
as well as articles presenting experiences and learning from
research carried out in an innovative way.
In order to promote wider participation in these deliberations,
JRP is published electronically in the open access mode.
http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/about/editorialPolicies
3-4 December 2009: URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH: METHOD AND APPLICATION
Birmingham, UK.
CALL FOR PAPER CLOSES: 14 September 2009
The conference discusses questions related to contemporary urban
design research and its application. It encourages
trans-disciplinary approaches from disciplines such as urban
design and planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and urban
history. The conference invites papers on the following three
subject areas:
1- Exploration of contemporary methods of urban design research
and their influence on perception and understanding of the city,
2- Methods of application of research outcomes in practice, and
3- Case studies: appraisal of applied research in practice.
While the foundation of modern urban design goes back to the
work of Cerda and Sitte, twentieth century designers such as
Howard, Wright, and Le Corbusier broke with the past by
developing unprecedented utopian urban visions representing the
modern and industrialised society. In the 1950s, 'urban design'
became a distinctive term, and by 1960, the introduction of
analytical research methodologies in urban design challenged the
prevailing top down approach of modernist urban planning.
Researchers like Kevin Lynch, Gordon Cullen, M.R.G. Conzen, Amos
Rapoport, and Bill Hillier developed powerful concepts and tools
to analyse the city in terms of visual perception and cognition,
human behaviour, morphology, and connectivity. The conference
theme is therefore related to questions such as: what is urban
design research and how is it carried out today? What do we need
to know about the social, historical and cultural environment of
the city and how does this knowledge inform urban design and
architecture? Are research outcomes transferable or are they
specific to each location? How have research methods been
applied in urban design projects and how have they influenced
urban design?
Submissions: Proposals should relate to the questions outlined
above. Contributions will be organised in thematic sessions, and
published in form of conference proceedings. Abstracts should
not be longer than 400 words, and sent by e-mail as Word (doc)
or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files to [log in to unmask] by 14
September 2009. Abstract proposals will be reviewed by the
conference advisory board. The seminar language is English.
Further conference information:
http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/schools/architecture/
urbandesignresearch.htm
Time Schedule:
30 July 2009 Call for Papers issued
14 September 2009 Abstracts due
28 September 2009 Notification of acceptance
24 November 2009 Full paper due
3-4 December 2009 Conference in Birmingham, UK
CALL FOR BAGS
ACM CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2009
The 7th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference Everyday
Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action
DEADLINE: 24th August, 2009
Do you have conference bags that you never use? Are you ever
tempted to throw them away? The 7th Creativity and Cognition
conference is giving you the opportunity to:
- Be good to the environment,
- Generate some good karma,
- Breathe new life into rubbish.
Inspired by the theme of Everyday Creativity, we are asking you
to post your old conference bag(s) to one of the addresses below
so that we can recycle them into one-of-a-kind reusable
conference bags. Each bag that you send us will be hand crafted
and sculpted by up-and- coming British designer Sarah Atkinson.
Unlike many consumer products that we buy today, each bag will
come with its previous history attached.
APPLICATIONS
Applications of the CC09 bags after the conference could
include:
- A funky new bag to carry your shopping in,
- A bling pet carrier,
- A new piece of arm candy - your very own IT bag,
- A storage bag for your junkmail,
- A grow bag to plant a tree,
- Or you could even frame it as an ever-lasting souvenir of the
magical time you had at CC09.
IMPORTANT DATE
Submission of bags closes on: August 24, 2009. Please send your
bags before this date.
POSTAL INFORMATION
Please note that cloth bags are preferred rather than plastic
bags however, we will consider all bags that you have - not just
previous conference bags! Please post your bag(s) to one of the
addresses below:
Nick Bryan-Kinns Department of Computer Science School of
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary
University of London Mile End London E1 4NS United Kingdom
or
Daniela Rosner School of Information University of California,
Berkeley 102 South Hall Berkeley CA 94720-4600 USA
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Sarah Atkinson is a young, London-based fashion and textiles
designer who specialises in knit. Her work walked down the
runway at the London and Russian Fashion Weeks 2009 and has been
sold in Japan as well as being featured in a promotional video
for a well-known candy brand. Sarah's influences include
Psychobilly, 1950s Kitch, fast paced city life, Science Fiction
and her veganism. Her work encompasses a wide variety of
techniques and materials, and she has previously incorporated
themes of reuse and recycling. Sarah holds a BA Hons in
Textiles, Weave and Mixed Media from Middlesex University
London.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions, please contact us by email:
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SPONSORS
Call for Bags is commissioned by BigDog Interactive Ltd.
http://www.bigdoginteractive.com
http://www.creativityandcognition09.org
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
MEXICO DESIGN POLICY
It seems that in the development globally of national design
policies, Mexico has recently approved a new Science,
Technology and Innovation policy in which the subjects design,
and innovation were incorporated and formally acknowledged by
the goverment as important and vital elements to reshape
Mexico's industry and economy.
The actual agreement (in Spanish) is at
http://www.dof.gob.mx/avisos/1903/SEP120609/SEP120609.htm
and the 'Documento oficial ya aprobado (Diario Oficial de la
Federacion de Mexico): Politica de Ciencia y Tecnologia 2009
has a Google (English) translation at:
http://marciodupont.blogspot.com/
I further understand that design teachers at the Unistmo
University influenced this policy.
30 August - 1 September 2009: NORDES conference in OSLO.
We invite you to participate in the third Nordic Design Research
Conference, NORDES'09: Engaging Artefacts taking place in Oslo,
Norway, from 30 August to 1 September 2009. The conference is
hosted by The Oslo School of Architecture and Design in
collaboration with The University of Oslo.
We offer an interesting program over two and a half days. The
keynote speakers are Lizbeth Goodman (SMARTlab, London), Mark
Cameron Burry (SIAL at RMIT, Australia) and Lavrans Lovlie
(LiveWork, Oslo/London). The programme includes paper
presentations of 20 research papers and 13 exploratory papers,
six workshops and one tutorial, five design cases and an
exhibition of 13 artefacts and one performance, in addition to a
doctoral consortium. We expect lively social gatherings and
promise a reception at Oslo's New Opera and a conference dinner
at Ekebergrestauranten, both very beautiful buildings with a
spectacular view of The Oslo Fjord.
Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in
which we understand - and do - design. The scope of the
conference reaches beyond traditional design disciplines and
includes other research areas with mutual interest in design
research and engaging artefacts. Some of these themes are:
- Consumption: Critical perspectives on the increasing number
and diversity of artefacts and their creative design but also
use and abuse in a global economy
- Production: diverse views 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.
The bi-annual Nordes Conferences provide a meeting point for the
Nordic Design Research network. The network also arranges the
Nordes Summer schools and other Nordes activities. Nordes
promotes the dissemination of design research through the Nordes
Digital Archive. The Nordes board includes design researchers
from all Nordic countries, elected at each Nordes conference.
http://www.nordes.org
FURTHER PHD OPPORTUNITIES AT BIAD
As a result of further funding success, we have several more
studentships to offer. These are BIAD studentships for full-time
PhD study and are available for October 2009 entry.
The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is one of the leading
UK providers of doctoral training across art, design and
architecture. BIAD is recognised for its doctoral programme and
research training, including the innovative Research Training
Initiative (RTI). We are one of only a handful of post-1992
universities to hold an AHRC Block Grant Partnership for masters
and doctoral studentships.
We welcome proposals for any subject within our expertise to
supervise. For a full list of subject areas and how to apply,
please see:
http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/pages/
studentships_studyarea.php
THE LAUNCH OF INTELLECT'S NEW WEBSITE
After a year of planning, implementing and designing the website
was devised with the intention of being as user-friendly and
interactive as possible. Through offering a range of new Web 2.0
facilities including comments areas, multimedia and interactive
content, the focus was to make the Intellect website a virtual
environment within which existing and potential authors and
editors could interact, share ideas, and obtain useful resources
both on publishing and related academic issues.
New features allow our community of authors and editors to
promote their academic activities beyond their relationship with
Intellect. Users can directly update profiles, post links to
blogs and social media groups, and their own comments and ideas
published on the site. The new conference calendar is also a
fantastic resource for the academic community, providing
detailed information on all events related to creative practice
and popular culture, to which users can contribute.
http://www.intellectbooks.com
PhD STUDENTSHIPS
University College Falmouth is offering 16 full-time doctoral
studentships for October enrolment:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/KH730/PhD_Studentships/
30 August 2009: Critical Artefact Methods: a workshop at Nordes
'09 by Simon Bowen.
http://ocs.sfu.ca/nordes/index.php/nordes/2009/paper/view/216
PhD STUDENTSHIP WITH STIPEND IN INNOVATION AND INNOVATION POLICY
Design and its inputs lead to innovation. Insufficient is known
about the influence of these inputs, of the designs, of the
designers, and of the different kinds of users and consumers on
innovation, innovation policy and policy development.
This three year project, funded by the US National Science
Foundation, uses concepts from situated cognition to construct
different classes of agents that form social interactions as a
model of the systemic behavior of innovation, from which
innovation policy may be learned.
This is an opportunity for a student who wants to work in a
multidisciplinary field at the graduate level. The PhD will be
taken in the Department of Computational Social Science under
the supervision of Professor John Gero. A background in design,
computer science, information technology, cognitive science,
sociology or a related field would be an advantage.
The studentship covers tuition and the stipend provides funds
both during semester and over summer.
For further information contact John Gero, Research Professor,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University,
USA (http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/), at [log in to unmask]
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PhD STUDENTSHIP WITH STIPEND IN DESIGN COGNITION
Designing is one of the most influential ways in which humans
change their physical and virtual worlds. We design consumable
artifacts, production facilities, drugs, food, research
experiments, websites, computer games and educational systems,
amongst everything that we design. Given its ubiquity it is
surprising how little is known about the cognition of designing.
This three year project, funded by the US National Science
Foundation, uses protocol studies of engineering designers as
the empirical data source from which to examine their cognitive
behavior as they utilize different design methods. A novel,
principled coding scheme will be used to code the behavior
recorded on video.
This is an opportunity for a student who wants to work in a
multidisciplinary field at the graduate level. The PhD will be
taken in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of
Professor John Gero. A background in psychology, cognitive
science, design science or a related field would be an
advantage.
The studentship covers tuition and the stipend provides funds
both during semester and over summer.
For further information contact John Gero, Research Professor,
Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University,
USA (http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/), at [log in to unmask]
24-30 October 2009: ICOGRADA WORLD DESIGN CONGRESS 2009
The list of confirmed speakers for the International Conference
is now available on the official Congress website. Profiles,
portraits and select portfolio images are also online.
There is a separate education conference.
http://www.beijing2009.org
3-7 of November 2009: 'in a planet of our own' - a vision of
sustainability from across six continents at IDC, IIT Bombay,
India
The event 'In a Planet of Our Own' is scheduled to be held at
Mumbai, India from 3rd to 7th of November 2009 and is being
hosted by the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), at the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai.
This international event is aimed at creating design awareness
on sustainability and simultaneously offers a platform for
interaction for the design community. The events are centered
around the interests of students, educationists, practicing
professional designers and sustainability interest groups.
The event has been designed to be lively, interactive and
thought provoking and will provide great opportunity to converse
with grandmasters of design, interact with thought leaders and
listen to visions by outstanding speakers.
The event is expected to throw light on the role of design in an
interconnected global world within the context of
sustainability.
http://www.inaplanetofourown.net
Have a whale of a time:
http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html
MAKING FUTURES THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING GLOBAL
SUSTAINABILITY AGENDAS
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR RICHARD SENNETT (USA)
'Making Futures' will be held on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th
September 2009 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe
estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon,
UK.
DRAFT CONFERENCE PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE:
The three calls for abstracts generated an excellent response
and the quality was generally very high. We received a broad
range of proposals that included both practice-based case
studies and more historical and theoretical treatments. The
final selection was made on the advice of the Peer Review Panel
who double blind peer-reviewed each abstract. The draft
programme gives a sense of the overall shape to the conference
and will be detailed up once papers have been confirmed. We look
set for what should be an important and enjoyable Conference.
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
RE-PUBLIC ON-LINE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE on Innovative Service
Design for All, July 2009
CONTENTS
Walter Aprile, Henrik den Ouden Runshaug and Eyal Fried -
Applicable culture: Towards future services for the city of
Milan
Mikael Runonen, Sakari Tamminen, and Petri Mannonen: Reflections
on how service experiences arise
Qin Han - Mind the gap: Theories and practices in managing
stakeholders in the service design process
Nicola Morelli - Beyond the experience: In search of an
operative paradigm for the industrialisation of services
Soumitri Varadarajan - Service design for India: The thinking
behind the design of a local curriculum
Saleh Ahmed - Inclusive governance strategy for urban services
delivery
Gioulina Kokkalia and Aristotelis Skamagkis - Secondary
education for all: The case of specific learning difficulties
(dyslexia)
Georgia Bizios and Katie Wakeford - Learning and serving:
Architecture students as community stewards
Rodanthi Tzanelli: Ceremonial Olympism: Towards an art of
democratic dialogue?
Matthieu Lietaert - Cohousing: A new form of urban
community-based network services
http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=1316#more-1316
Registration for DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
2009 (DRHA) at Queens University Belfast, is now open
http://dho.ie/drha2009
AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE
Visual culture - art, advertising, architecture, cinema,
television, cartography, video, the internet, and images of
science - has shaped American national identity more than that
of any other country. Covering the period from the late
nineteenth century to the present day, the book explores how
visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the
image of the United States.
American Visual Culture presents both an analysis of the
diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction
to the study and interpretation of visual culture.
Thematic chapters - on American urban and rural landscapes,
icons, popular culture, art and photography, as well as on
crime, anxiety and sex - describe the cultural, intellectual and
historical context. Throughout, these themes are discussed in
conjunction with clear and concise explanations of key visual
theories and methodologies.
American Visual Culture By Mark Rawlinson PB 978 1 84520 217 0
GBP17.99/$29.95
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