THE DEADLINE FOR THE ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS 30TH APRIL, ONLY A WEEK AWAY !

Join us at the upcoming LeNS conference in Bangalore on the 29th, 30th
September and 1st October 2010.
All proceedings will be published (with ISBN) and the BEST PAPERS will
PUBLISHED in the JOURNAL OF DESIGN RESEARCH (JDR) and in the INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABILITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION (IJSHE) .
We would also like to draw your attention to the international
representation of KEYNOTE SPEAKERS at the conference. 

 <http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#dossantos>
Aguinaldo dos Santos,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#ezio> Ezio
Manzini,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#geetha> Geetha
Narayanan,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#john> John
Thackara,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#walter> Walter
Stahel,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#zheng> Zheng
Shuyang,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/website.do?dispatch=adminSite&page=1175&idEvent=
37#jyoti> Jyoti Hosagrahar,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#lor> Lorraine
Justice,  <http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#mug>
Mugendi M'Rithaa,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#prabhu> Prabhu
Kandachar, Ursula Tischner,
<http://emma.polimi.it/emma/showEvent.do?page=1159&idEvent=37#yrjo> Yrjö
Sotamaa, Mom Rajawongse Disnadda Diskul.

Below is the information about the conference.

If you are unable to view it please go to the following url:

http://emma.polimi.it/emma/events/lensconference/images/LeNS2010-Bangalore-I
nvitation.html

INVITATION TO THE CONFERENCE
Sustainability in Design: NOW!
Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in
the XXI Century
Bangalore, India, 29th of September – 1st of October 2010
Deadline for abstract submission 30th of April 2010
Get more info and register on-line at
<http://www.lensconference.polimi.it/> www.lensconference.polimi.it
The Sustainability in Design: Now! conference is a platform for sharing the
latest knowledge and experiences in product, service and system design, to
promote sustainable systems thinking in design education, research and
practice communities. The conference approach is to look at various
stakeholders in this arena - designers, design educators and design
researchers - as a unique learning community. The objective is the creation
of a new ethos, within such a community, enabling all possible synergies and
fruitful processes of knowledge and know-how osmosis and
cross-fertilisation.
This conference is promoted and organized as the conclusive event of the
LeNS - Learning Network on Sustainability - project, funded by EU under the
Asia-link program, that aims at the development and diffusion of design for
sustainability in design. institutions.
The conference proceedings will be published (with ISBN)

Call for papers
Participants are invited to submit papers in the areas related to the
conference sub-themes outlined below. The conference is structured around
three main themes that include:

1. Design Research for Sustainability (DRfS)
2. Design Education for Sustainability (DEfS)
3. Design Practice for Sustainability (DPfS)

Note : Please  <http://tinyurl.com/yby5mor> click here to register and
submit your paper.

Deadlines for Abstract for Papers 30th April 2010
Notification of Acceptance 15th May 2010
Full Paper Submission 15th July 2010
Announcement of Paper Presenters 31st July 2010
Sustainability in Design NOW Conference 29th September - 1st October

General Guidelines for Abstract and Paper Submissions
Contributions should provide an original contribution to the field of
inquiry of Design for Sustainability. They are expected to be based on
identification of an issue worthy of investigation based on the paradigms of
the Conference themes and sub-theme.

Submissions should be original and unpublished.

The conference language is English, and abstract and papers should be
submitted in English.

Abstract submission guidelines
Abstracts have to be uploaded to conference website after registering as
"Author".

A free lay out can be used by Authors: However the Abstract should have the
following details:-

> Author (name, title, position, institution, address, telephone, fax and
e-mail)
> Title of the paper
> Text (max 500 words)

Paper submission guidelines
Full paper submissions are required to be done online on the conference
website (details will be available by May 7, 2010).

Note: In instances where there are more than one author for a abstract /
paper all authors should register, but only one should upload the abstract /
paper; so forth it is advised that before uploading one members of every
team agree on who of them will upload the abstract/ paper so that
duplication can be avoided. In other terms a team need to upload only one
paper (jointly aothored).

Please Note: There is no conference fee.
For more information on the conference please visit
<http://www.lensconference.polimi.it/> www.lensconference.polimi.it or
contact  <mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask] 
For information on the LeNS project please visit
<http://www.lens.polimi.it/> www.lens.polimi.it or contact
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> [log in to unmask]
Looking forward to meeting you in Bangalore!

The LeNS partners

 <http://www.design.polimi.it/new/pages.php?pagina=121&sez=Engl> Politecnico
di Milano, INDACO Department, Milan, Italy (coordinator) 
 <http://www.iitd.ac.in/> Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi,
India 
 <http://www.kmitl.ac.th/en/main.html> King Mongkut's Institute of
Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand 
 <http://srishti.ac.in/> Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology,
Bangalore, India
 <http://ad.tsinghua.edu.cn/yxweb_en/index.jsp> Tsinghua University, Academy
of Arts & Design, Beijing, China 
 <http://io.home.tudelft.nl/en/> Delft University of Technology, Delft, The
Netherlands 
 <http://www.taik.fi/en/> Aalto University School of Art and Design,
Helsinki, Finland