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CONTENTS
o EKSIG Conference 2011
o IASDR 2011
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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23-24 June 2011: EKSIG 2011: SkinDeep - Experiential Knowledge
and Multi Sensory Communication International Conference 2011 of
the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge
EKSIG 2011 will address the theme of "SkinDeep - Experiential
Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication". It will be convened
by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge
(EKSIG), and hosted by the University for the Creative Arts, UK.
Organisers: Kerstin Mey, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour
Roworth-Stokes, Linden Reilly
Venue: University for the Creative Arts, UK
Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org
Contact: [log in to unmask]
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions for the theme "SkinDeep - Experiential
Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication". With this theme, we
aim to provide a forum for debate about the multi faceted, multi
sensory and multi modal possibilities of communicating knowledge
in the creative and practice-led disciplines.
The need to address the issue of communication has arisen from
the different approaches and requirements regarding the
dissemination of knowledge and experience in research and
creative practice. For example, creative practice tends to
convey its content and meaning through its outcomes, which can
relate to different, often intersecting or converging sensory
stimuli such as visual, aural, tactile or olfactory. Equally,
procedural or process knowledge - in the creative disciplines
more commonly known as skill - relies on demonstration and first
hand experience for its communication as much, or more so, than
on written text.
In contrast, the presentation of research traditionally has been
fixed to its verbal and textual articulation with a whole
tradition of dissemination, mainly in written formats, such as
peer reviewed conferences and journals. This predominance of
textual presentation has long been questioned in the creative
disciplines, and recent workshops on the role and balance
between text and other forms of the communication of research,
and on the multi modal presentation of research have indicated a
strong interest and need to exchange knowledge and experiences
on the issue of multi sensory communication of research.
With this conference, we wish to explore the different ways in
which tacit knowledge can be given more appropriate
consideration within the framework of research. This may include
for example investigations into the nature, aims, validity,
evaluation, and/or necessity of different modes of communication
and exchange.
Questions of interest are, for example:
- What do we mean when we say we 'communicate knowledge'?
- How can we articulate and/or communicate tacit
knowledge/knowing within the process of research?
- What frameworks, modes and methods are there to guide the
communication and presentation of research (process and/or
outcomes)?
- What frameworks are there to guide the communication of the
contribution to knowledge?
- What frameworks are there to guide the reception and
interpretation of any research communication, for example
research exhibitions or performances, etc?
- Why is the communication of tacit knowledge important for
the understanding of research?
- What contribution can the use of creative practices make to
the understanding and communication of tacit knowledge in
research?
- What issues evolve from criteria of research such as
repeatability and transferability for the foregrounding of tacit
knowledge in research in the creative disciplines?
- Can we talk about the communication of tacit knowledge, or
should we talk about a transfer, etc?
- What means and methods do we have to transfer and iterate
tacit knowledge?
We wish to bring together engaged practitioners and scholars
from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge
production, and methodological approaches to explore these
issues. We invite contributions from the art and design
disciplines (design, engineering, craft, media, fine art, etc),
philosophy, education, health and knowledge management,
neuroscience and others that are concerned with multi sensory
and multi modal communication of knowledge in research and in
creative and professional practice.
SUBMISSIONS
For EKSIG 2011, we invite papers, which offer challenging new
views on the subject. Papers will be selected subject to a
double blind review process by an international review team. In
the first instance we ask for the submission of abstracts.
Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to submit full
papers.
We invite the submission of abstracts of 800 words including
title and references by 30 September 2010. Authors of selected
abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit full papers
(4000-5000w) in January 2011. Please submit your abstract
through the conference submission system, which you will be able
to access from the conference website.
http://www.experientialknowledge.org
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IASDR CONFERENCE 2011
The International Association of Societies of Design Research is
planning its next biennial conference for 2011. This will be
hosted by TU Delft.
In case you were wondering... please be aware that there is a
spoof website "IASDR 2010 Amsterdam Conference"
http://iasdr2010.blogspot.com
This site has nothing to do with IASDR.
The OFFICIAL CONFERENCE WEBSITE for the next IASDR biennial
conference, which will be hosted by Delft University of
Technology is at http://www.tudelft.nl/iasdr2011
Please wait for the real CFP from TU/Delft to submit paper
abstracts in January 2011. It will be announced here!
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CALLS
New Journal: University of Chicago Press and Bard Graduate
Center Announce West 86th
The University of Chicago Press and the Bard Graduate Center
(BGC) have announced a partnership to publish _West 86th: A
Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material
Culture_.
The new biannual journal, which takes its name from the BGC's
New York City address, will be an international forum for
research exploring the content, meaning, and significance of
objects in their cultural and historical frameworks. It replaces
_Studies in the Decorative Arts_, which the BGC had published
for 17 years.
As with its predecessor, _West 86th_ will maintain the highest
standards of scholarship and technical production. It will
present an open and interdisciplinary approach, seeking the
valuable input of design, art, and architecture historians;
scholars of film, fashion, and material culture; as well as
archaeologists, sociologists, and anthropologists. The aim is to
analyze objects from a wide variety of perspectives in a forum
where shared and differing approaches are respected. Content
will include scholarly articles, review articles, and primary
source translations, along with book, catalogue, and exhibition
reviews.
"The visual and material history of all cultures has never been
more prominent in academic life, yet this field of study remains
fragmented and problematic," said Dr. Paul Stirton, Associate
Professor at the BGC, who will serve as the journal's
editor-in-chief. "It is the aim of _West 86th_ to be an
inclusive forum that encourages scholarship from across
disciplines of objects from all cultures and all time periods."
_West 86th_ will publish in print and online twice yearly,
beginning in spring 2011 with volume 18:1 (picking up where
_Studies in the Decorative Arts_ terminated). The online edition
will incorporate supplemental digital material integral to the
articles. Online subscriptions will include recent back issues
of _Studies in the Decorative Arts_.
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/wes/current
21-23 November 2010: IE2010: The 7th Australasian Conference on
Interactive Entertainment
Massey University - College of Creative Arts, Wellington, New
Zealand
The Fish of the Day:
In this current economic client of uncertainty, we see a
convergence of innovative minds, creative solutions and emerging
technologies enabling change. IE2010 will cover how PLAY can
contribute to both major and minor challenges we are facing in
these roaring times. What can we learn from being inventive and
playful? And how can interactive entertainment contribute
towards facilitating these changes? What do we need as
designers, developers, critical thinkers and researchers to
consider, bring in, promote when faced with these challenges?
What is the role of play in future scenarios?
The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, in its
seventh year, is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings
together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio,
cognitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive
media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as
researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive
entertainment specific technologies or providing critical
analysis of games and interactive environments.
Accepted papers will be published in the IE2010 conference
proceedings and also published in the ACM Digital Library.
Please see http://ieconference.org/ for papers from previous
years.
General inquiries should be forwarded to
ie2010[at]ieconference.org
http://ieconference.org/ie2010
The deadline for the
AIEDAM Special Issue, Summer 2011, Vol. 25, No. 3
The Role of Gesture in Designing
Edited by: Willemien Visser & Mary Lou Maher
has been EXTENDED until 15 JUNE 2010
Call For Papers "The Role of Gesture in Designing"
Design generally involves teams of designers collaborating on a
design project. While individual participants in a design team
may make independent contributions to the project, collaborative
design assumes that contributions are based on the interaction
among different participants. This interaction occurs through
various modalities (semiotic systems): verbal interaction has so
far received the most attention, both in research and in
development, but graphical, gestural interaction and other
modalities (gaze, posture, prosody) also play an important role.
This special issue focuses on the role of gesture in designing.
Compared with verbal and graphical interaction, gestural
expression has barely been analyzed in studies on collaborative
design. Nevertheless, gesture has been shown to be used
frequently by designers in their interaction and with varying
functions (specification of design objects, but also management
of interaction, for example).
The analysis of gesture's function in collaborative design has
implications for environments that support remote collaborative
design. Until now, they mainly support pen-based pointing or
command gestures, but if such environments are to effectively
support designers collaborating from remote locations,
representational and other types of gestures must also be
visible and transmitted to the design partners.
To advance this important topic, we seek papers that provide
theoretical or empirical contributions to the role of gesture in
designing, either in the context of computer supported
collaborative design or as a precursor to designing effective
collaborative design environments.
Papers are sought from artificial intelligence (AI),
human-computer interaction (HCI), or computer supported
collaborative work (CSCW) perspectives as well as
cognitive-science disciplines, such as psychology and
pragmatics.
The aim of this special issue on The Role of Gesture in
Designing is to further discussion at the intersection of theory
and practice.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- Theoretical aspects of gesture in design interaction
- The role of gestures in design thinking
- Gesture and multimodal interaction in design interaction:
gesture with speech, writing, drawing, and other
modalities
- AI and cognitive models of gesture in design interaction
- The role of gesture and multimodal interaction in remote
design collaboration
- HCI and studies of gesture in collaborative design
environments
- New HCI technologies that enable gesture in design
environments
- Gesture and multimodal interaction in CSCW design environments
- The role of gestures in defining an external representation of
the design model (either to the computer or to a person).
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three
reviewers. The selection for publication will be made on the
basis of these reviews.
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM
papers can be found at www.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/Instructions/.
However, note that all submissions for special issues go to the
Guest Editors, and not to the Editor in Chief.
CFP also published at
http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~aiedam/SpecialIssues/Visser-Maher.html
Guest editors:
Please direct all enquiries and submissions to the guest
editors.
Please put "AIEDAM Special Issue" as the Subject.
Willemien Visser
Email: [log in to unmask]
Mary Lou Maher
Email: [log in to unmask]
Interior Ecologies: IDEA JOURNAL 2010
CALL FOR PAPERS/PROPOSALS
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to
submit design research papers and critical project works that
engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and
practice for the IDEA JOURNAL 2010.
PROVOCATION
The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 provocation Interior Ecologies: exposing
the evolutionary interior seeks to elicit emergent interior
debates on contemporary spatial, material and performative
practices. Can a critical ecological approach to practice and
discourse in interiors enable expanded locales for research and
experiment across disciplinary and theoretical boundaries?
Normative concepts concerned with the designed habitat, or
discursive debates around the interfaces of interior and
exterior conditions, may fall short in provoking interior
thinking to engage through ecologies of practice that contribute
to advancing environments, technologies and cultures. Interior
Ecologies requests expressions of interest regarding theoretical
research, design practice and educational accounts that promote
the concept of evolutionary interiors. Examinations of
historical, contemporary and relational perspectives for
constructed situations and/or events are welcome.
The IDEA JOURNAL 2010 will expose the engagement of interior
practice in ecological, political, cultural and economic
systems. We invite scholarly accounts of writing and projects
that move across disciplinary perspectives and temporal systems
into an open-ended enquiry into ecologies for and of the
interior.
THE IDEA JOURNAL ACCEPTS:
DESIGN RESEARCH PAPERS
that demonstrate development and engagement with interior
design/interior architecture history, theory, education and
practice through critique and synthesis. The focus is on the
documentation and critical review of both speculative research
and practice-based research
REFEREED STUDIOS
that represent the nature and outcomes of refereed design
studios which have either been previously peer reviewed in situ
and/or critically discussed through text and imagery for the
IDEA JOURNAL.
PROJECT REVIEWS
that critically evaluate design-based works which seek to expand
the nature of spatial and theoretical practice in interior
design/interior architecture and associated disciplines.
PROPOSALS FOR BOOK REVIEWS
to encourage debate into the emerging literature dedicated to
the expression and expansion of the theory and practice of
interior design/interior architecture
Registration of interest June 7 2010
The IDEA JOURNAL is a publication of the Interior
Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association. Established
in 1996, the purpose of IDEA is the advancement of education by
encouraging and supporting excellence in interior
design/interior architecture education and research within
Australasia; and being the regional authority on, and advocate
for interior design/interior architecture education and
research.
http://www.idea-edu.com
18-20 April 2011: Include 2011
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU, UK
The Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art would like
to welcome you to the sixth International conference on
Inclusive Design
Deadline for submission of 300 word abstract: 15 June 2010
The Include 2011 international conference at the Royal College
of Art seeks papers on all inclusive design aspects that
catalyse social innovation.
The Role of Inclusive Design in Making Social Innovation Happen
As a concept, social innovation has growing currency in society,
government, academia and business. It manifests itself in many
different ways in different contexts. Its meanings extend from
public service and policy innovation to initiatives in assistive
technology and to aspects of civic participation and creative
entrepreneurship.
In all of these areas, design has a key role to play. It can
make policy visible and participation possible.
In particular, inclusive design can deliver innovations of
social value to communities and markets.
Details for submission of abstracts for paper and poster
presentation, and information on the Include conference event
can be found on:
http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/2968/all/1/include-2011.aspx
23 July 2010: CfP: Workshop on Accessible Search Systems -
Deadline extended to 4 June, 2010
Workshop on Accessible Search Systems in conjunction with the
33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference
Geneva, Switzerland
AIMS
Current search systems are not adequate for individuals with
specific needs: children, older adults, people with visual or
motor impairments, and people with intellectual disabilities or
low literacy. Search services are typically created for average
users (young or middle-aged adults without physical or mental
disabilities) and information retrieval methods are based on
their perception of relevance as well. The workshop will be the
first to raise the discussion on how to make search engines
accessible for different types of users, including those with
problems in reading, writing or comprehension of complex
content. Search accessibility means that people whose abilities
are considerably different from those that average users have
will be able to successfully use search systems.
The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum and initiate
collaborations between academics and industrial practitioners
interested in making search more usable for users in general and
for users with specific needs in particular. We encourage
presentation and participation from researchers working at the
intersection of information retrieval, natural language
processing, human-computer interaction, ambient intelligence and
related areas.
INVITED SPEAKERS
The organisers are pleased to announce two invited speakers who
will present at the workshop:
Dr. T.V. Raman, Senior Research Scientist at Google Labs. Dr.
Raman leads the project "Google Accessible Search", helping
users with impairments to find accessible Web content.
Dr. Allison Druin, Director of the Human-Computer Interaction
Lab at the University of Maryland. Since 1998, Dr. Druin has led
an interdisciplinary research teams looking for ways to improve
information access for children and understand their search
behaviour.
IMPORTANT DATES
4 June: Paper submission deadline (previous deadline: 23 May)
TOPICS
The workshop welcomes contributions on any issue concerning
accessible search, for instance:
- Understanding of search behavior of users with specific needs
- Understanding of relevance criteria of users with specific
needs
- Understanding the effects of domain expertise, age, user
experience and cognitive abilities on search goals and results
evaluation
- Non-topical aspects of relevance: text style, readability,
appropriateness of language (harassment and explicit content
detection)
- Development of test collections for evaluation of accessible
search systems
- Collaborative search techniques for assisting users with
specific needs (e.g. parents helping children)
- Potential of search personalization techniques to satisfy
users with specific needs
- Search interfaces and result representation for people with
specific needs
- Using assistive technologies for interaction with search
systems, e.g. speech recognition or eye tracking software for
querying and browsing.
http://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/~ir/accessiblesearch
3-6 March 2011: Association of Collegiate Schools of
Architecture's 99th Annual Meeting
Call for Papers
The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's 99th
Annual Meeting will be held in Montreal on March 3-6, 2011. I
would like to invite members of this listserv to participate in
a paper session titled "From Aristotle to Skateboarders: Roles
of Hermeneutics in Architecture." The submission deadline for
completed papers is September 15, 2010.
From Aristotle to Skateboarders: Roles of Hermeneutics in
Architecture
Architectural students, educators, and professionals are all
enthused about the recent developments and opportunities
afforded by the needs for sustainable design. The cloud of
self-doubt seems to have lifted, which has been with the
profession ever since Modernism failed to fulfill the promise of
a better, richer, and fuller life. After Postmodernism led us to
focus on the banality of everyday life and consumerism, and
Deconstructionists made us find it futile even to talk about the
meanings of built objects, we seemed to be left with little to
praise architecture for, other than as a spectacle merely on the
basis of the novelty and visual effect. With a clear sense of
purpose to fulfill environmental consciousness, the profession
seems finally to have revived the raison d'etre. Behind this
enthusiasm, however, is a danger associated with positivistic
clarity. The achievements are easily understood with sustainable
design because the conservation of resources, the generation of
energy, and the reduction of pollution are all positively
measurable. There is nothing wrong in pursuing these goals, and
saving the earth in particular is an urgent task. The problem
does exist, however, when we limit our pursuits only to those
goals we see are attainable and to those whose degree of
attainment is clearly measurable.
Architecture should contribute to our understanding of the world
and the self, even though this is difficult to measure. In order
to take architectural discourse beyond the limitations of
Postmodernism and Deconstruction, hermeneutics, as a body of
knowledge and methodology for dealing with the principles of
human understanding, can assist in exploring a participatory
interpretation of architecture as a means for understanding the
world and oneself. Here "participatory" is to be distinguished
from the type of interpretations that attempt to discover the
meanings intended by the author. Instead, participatory
interpretations suggest architecture's potential of assisting
the viewers and inhabitants with their understanding of the
world and the place of the self within that world. While David
Leatherbarrow's recent work lays out intellectual foundation,
there still is much to be explored in this area.
This session is not intended to demonstrate changes of meaning
over time, nor to argue for a text's contradictory meanings.
Instead, this session encourages papers and presentations that
illuminate the specific nature of architecture which promotes
participatory interpretation, with "the specific nature"
possibly being about materials, light, orientation, or
procession. Authors are encouraged to draw from diverse thinkers
from Aristotle to Martin Heidegger and Paul Ricoeur, even to the
recent study on skateboarders by Iain Borden. A hermeneutic of
participatory interpretation will look at architecture as a way
of contemplating one's place through architecture. Where Do You
Stand?
https://www.acsa-arch.org/conferences/annual2011.aspx
8-10 October 2010: Call for Papers: 2010 Interstices Under
Construction Symposium - Unsettled Containers
University of Auckland, 8-10 October 2010
Keynote speaker (to be confirmed): Prof David Leatherbarrow
(University of Pennsylvania School of Design)
In architecture, as in ecology, equilibrium between inside and
outside is rather like paradise, something too good to be true,
therefore not good enough.
--David Leatherbarrow
Is architecture a cult of the externalised object? It would seem
so: of 46 images of prize winning entries on the 2009 World
Architecture Festival website, for example, only four show
interiors. This object-cult and neglect of the interior is a
symptom of architecture's domination by a polarised
nineteenth-century conception of containment. So efficiently are
interior and exterior sealed off from each other that they are
frequently treated as discrete professional domains.
However, inside and outside are always ready to be reversed -
their boundaries full of tension and at points occupied by
beings who awaken "two-way dreams" (Bachelard). In Benjamin's
Arcades Project, 19th century petit bourgeois encased themselves
in their interior as in a "spider's web, in whose toils world
events hang loosely suspended like so many insect bodies sucked
dry". In his dissection of their culture, where the private
sphere of the dwelling and public spheres of work and politics
are opposites, the interior appears as a counterpart to the
global consciousness of empire. European traders and travellers
retreated after their worldly adventures into their wallpapered
interiors, to "save their souls" (Sloterdijk). However, the
sealed world of the 1851 Crystal Palace turned the exterior
world into a magic form of immanence - by asserting the values
of imperialist capitalism in a spectacular domestication of the
globe. Conversely, the Parisian arcades appear as the workers'
living rooms.
To many, today's spaces seem more involuted, fragile and
unsettled than those of the past. Phenomenological theories of
architecture, like those of Pallaasma, Perez-Gomez, and
Leatherbarrow, represent an intense focus on the proximate
qualities of architecture, and a possible avenue for a new
emphasis on the interior. Other approaches highlight different
modes of every-day proximity, such as digital, intimate
involvements. Sloterdijk posits the ability to say "we" as the
fundamental condition of space, which creates interior spaces as
spheres for dwelling. Like immersive plants, these elaborate
human existence and embed human relationships - even if this
interiority is, from the beginning, touched by an exteriority
against which it must assert itself. Opposite forces create the
climatised hothouses of luxury consumption, relaxation and
privileged cosmopolitanism familiar to us today, in which nature
and culture are indoor affairs and history is left outside.
Those with purchasing power stage their daydreams on the inside
as, on the outside, more or less forgotten majorities try to
survive amongst traditions, adaptations, revolutions and
improvisations.
How can interiority be conjugated in new ways? If interiority is
a way of thinking of ourselves as being-in-the-world, to the
exclusion of whatever we fail to integrate, how do we draw the
lines and name the territories today? What constitutes
interiority? What does it have to say about the
institutionalised containment of refugee centres or gated
communities; the improvised urbanism of Freetown's shanties or
Brazilian favela; or, indeed, the openness of the Pacific? How
are transpositions of space from sacred to common, public to
private, mind to body affected by interiority? What is it like
to negotiate the pae from inside? Where are the spaces of Self
and Other? How do global and regional flows circulate in
interiors, and how do we register difference? How are interior
immensity and claustrophobia related, and is there a special
relationship between interiority and possession? When is a set
of walls an interior, when is an object a container, and when is
a container a world?
Interstices invites you to unsettle the dichotomy of interior
and exterior; to redefine and reorient the concept of the
interior for the present, and project it towards the future. We
welcome postgraduate students, academics and practitioners to
present their investigations in 20 minute papers. Please send a
500 word abstract of your presentation to Tina
Engels-Schwarzpaul ([log in to unmask]) by 5 July 2009.
Abstracts will be double-blind refereed and, if accepted,
published on the Interstices website
http://www.interstices.auckland.ac.nz
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
10 July 2010: DCC10 Workshop: Assessing the impact of complexity
science in design
Designers today increasingly turn to concepts and tools coming
from complexity science in order to understand, manage and
exploit complexity in their everyday practice. Complexity
science has been used in design in various ways, as a theory of
design; as a method for research (e.g. in order to analyze or
model design artefacts, processes and activities); and also as a
method for generating design solutions. The aim of the workshop
is to discuss and assess the impact of complexity science in
design research, design cognition and design practice.
http://design.open.ac.uk/ecidII/complexity&design.htm
17 August 2010: Workshop DIS2010, Aarhus, Denmark
informing the design of the future urban landscape
It is envisaged that the urban spaces of the future will be
saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and
transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with,
interpret and shape the increase of data residing in our
environment will be a significant challenge. The forms in which
this data will be presented, and how we decide to conceptualise
it, is as yet unknown. Will the technologically enriched
environment adapt to accommodate human/city contact points, and,
in response, how will we choose to interact with and navigate
through, this information landscape? This workshop will identify
emerging design themes by bringing together practitioners and
researchers from across disciplines. Participants in the
workshop will collaborate in a practical exercise designed to
reveal issues that will increasingly impact upon the design of
the products and services that will populate the urban landscape
in the near future. The outcome of this workshop will be the
identification of challenges that designers and technologists
will have to address as they shape the media-rich urban
landscape. It is hoped that this workshop would form the basis
of a new collaborative network with the aim of taking this
technological design research agenda further.
http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/
14-15 June 2010: Computational Aesthetics 2010
You are invited to participate in the sixth annual Symposium on
Computational Aesthetics that will take place near Covent Garden
in London from the 14-15 June.
Organised as a collaboration between Eurographics and the
Computer Arts Society, the symposium brings together computer
artists and computer technologists for two days of
cross-disciplinary interaction. There are technical papers,
artist's presentations, technical posters, and art exhibits.
The venue has been chosen to be easily accessible, with
opportunity to visit other relevant sites in London before or
after the symposium. The programme will be of interest to anyone
interested in computer graphics, computer vision, human-computer
interaction, or computer art.
The invited speakers bring a wealth of experience: Maggie Boden,
Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex, and
George Mallen, co-founder, in 1968, of the Computer Arts
Society.
http://www.computational-aesthetics.org/2010/
Posts at KAIST
ID KAIST (Industrial Design at KAIST, Korea) invites
applications for tenure-track faculty positions. We continually
seek suitable candidates to join one of the best design
programmes in the world. The annual salaries are USD 70,000 -
80,000 for associate professor and USD 60,000 - 70,000 for
assistant professor, according to experience. Benefits include a
settlement research fund of USD 100,000 (including USD 10,000
relocation expenses) and a rented apartment.
KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is a
dynamic university with high aspirations to standing with top
ten universities of science and technology in the world within
ten years. Aggressive measures are being taken at the university
level to drive this vision forward. It is certainly among the
very best in Korea with top 2% student intake. These bright and
committed students are our greatest assets.
The Department of Industrial Design ranks among the top 30
design schools in the world, selected by Business Week in 2009
and the top 60 design schools in 2006 and 2007 in a row. Our
strengths lie in the interdisciplinary approach to design and
research, which have gained and continue to gain international
recognition in major academic journals and conferences as well
as prestigious design awards, including the IDEA, IF, Red Dot
and Japan Good Design. Each faculty member runs his/her own lab
for research and industrial projects. The research areas of the
labs are diverse, including: Product/Environment, Design
Management, Human-centered Interaction, Co-design/Interaction,
Design Media, Creative Product Design, Design Integration and
Strategy, Colour and Emotional Design and Design Technology.
We are looking for candidates with a Ph.D. or equivalent
qualification in a relevant discipline. The position requires
outstanding research and teaching skills, excellent command of
verbal and written English (courses are run in English). The ID
KAIST is a strong team thriving on co-operation, mutual respect
and cross-fertilization. Therefore, an aptitude for teamwork and
multi-disciplinary approach as well as strong interpersonal
skills are very important. Other qualities we week in the
candidate include: organizational and administrative skills;
motivation for hard work and harmony with other members of the
faculty and staff.
The successful candidates will be responsible for teaching a
minimum of 6 credits a year at undergraduate and postgraduate
levels, setting up their own research lab, securing funded
research and industrial projects, conducting their own research
which will be disseminated through international journals,
conferences, design competitions, etc. They will also be
responsible for taking both educational and pastoral care of the
students (including tutorials and thesis supervision),
participating in committees, assessment/interview sessions,
various administrative and organizational work for educational,
departmental and university affairs.
Please send your enquiries and/or completed application form
(downloadable at: http://www.kaist.ac.kr/) with C.V. to the
contact below. Three references should be sent in directly from
the referees.
LEE, Kun-Pyo Ph.D DRS Fellow
Professor & Head, Department of Industrial Design, KAIST
kplee:kaist.ack.kr
http://dpl.kaist.ac.kr
29 November - 3 December 2010: The 11th Participatory Design
Conference. PDC 2010.
Sydney, Australia.
Follow us on twitter @PDCSydney
http://www.pdc2010.org
30 June - 2 July 2010: Create10 :: the conference for innovative
interaction design
Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh UK
The provisional programme is online now, early registration ends
31st May.
The Create conference centres on interaction design, a young
discipline with roots in human-computer interaction, ergonomics,
product and graphic design, multi-media and art. An interaction
designer is a difficult person to pigeon hole and can be found
in mobile phone companies, consumer product manufacturers,
design consultancies, as a single practitioner, or within
academic computing and design departments.
As well as presentations of academic research and student work,
the conference will provide real learning opportunities through
case studies, discussion and demonstrations. We also present
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.
Digital Creativity Journal
We have also agreed with the journal Digital Creativity that
successful papers and student submissions will be invited to
submit their work for potential publication.
Conference Keynotes
Mika Tuomola is artistic director of Crucible Studio at the
Media Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki and has
produced highly innovative interactive TV productions.
Jason Bruges produces innovative installations and bridges his
work between architecture, interaction design and installation
art. He has just been nominated for a Brit Insurance Design
Award for his Panda Eyes installation, originally created for
the World Wildlife Fund.
Prof. Ernest Edmonds, University of Technology, Sydney is one of
the rare academics who has successfully brought together
human-computer interaction, creativity and art.
http://www.create-conference.org/
International Journal of Design
Volume 4, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Design is
published online at www.ijdesign.org. All contents are freely
available online. You can read, download, or forward these
articles to your colleagues.
The journal is now indexed in the DAAI Design and Applied Arts
Index, and the Ergonomics Abstracts. It is included in the EBSCO
Computers and Applied Sciences Database, and the Web Archives of
The United States Library of Congress. According to Google
Scholar, the 63 articles published so far have been cited 212
times. The journal statistics for the period up to April, 2010
is summarized at
http://www.ijdesign.org/materials/Journal_Statistics.pdf
We sincerely invite you to submit your best work to the
International Journal of Design. Please refer to Author
Guidelines online at www.ijdesign.org.
International Journal of Design
Vol. 4 (1) April 2010 | Table of Contents
Original Articles
Navimation: Exploring Time, Space & Motion in the Design of
Screen-based Interfaces
Jon Olav H. Eikenes and Andrew Morrison
Protect and Appreciate - Notes on the Justification of
User-Centered Design
Turkka Keinonen
Conceptual Designing and Technology: Short-Range RFID as Design
Material
Kjetil Nordby
Social Attributes of Robotic Products: Observations of
Child-Robot Interactions in a School Environment
Kwangmyung Oh and Myungsuk Kim
Impact of Product Pictures and Brand Names on Memory of
Chinese-Metaphorical Advertisements
Pin-Chang Lin and Chao-Ming Yang
Design Case Studies
Supplier Websites: Could They be Inspiring to Lighting
Designers?
Jarmila A. Kopecka, Sicco C. Santema, and Erik Jan Hultink
http://www.ijdesign.org
Victor Margolin says:
In 1985 my colleague Ken Isaacs and I taught a course at the
University of Illinois, Chicago, called The Design of Utopia. We
taped some of the presentations and discussions and these are
now available as MP3's at http://hdl.handle.net/10027/6979. If
anyone listens to one or another of these and has any feedback,
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22 June 2010: Assemble 2010: Crafts Council Conference
Come to Assemble - the Crafts Council's post election conference
- on Tuesday 22 June at LSO St Luke's, London. Assemble will
look at the economic innovation and social value of craft in the
new economy.
Craft is a major player within the creative industries, growing
more rapidly by employment than any other creative sector.
Largely made up of self employed makers and owner SMEs, the
sector has a vital role in the UK's future economic landscape
Craft knowledge and innovation impacts on sectors ranging from
film and fashion to health and aerospace. Craft thinking, is
crucial to learning at all ages, and there is growing evidence
that its practice shapes character.
Assemble is a major gathering together of crafts professionals
and policy makers, which will explore the unlocked potential of
the sector, showcase innovation and talent and launch
substantial new research.
http://www.assemble.org.uk
10-11 June 2010: PROTOTYPE SYMPOSIUM, SCOTLAND
Twelve inspiring speakers from across the globe are coming to
Dundee this summer to discuss the innovative ways they are
prototyping. Leaders from Art, Business, Design, Media, Music
and Science are presenting on 10-11 June, 2010.
Speakers include: boundary-pushing artists musicians, Chicks on
Speed; the NASA space architect, Constance Adams; international
business guru Michael Schrage; product designers Leonardo
Bonanni and Pieter Jan Stappers; the Turner Prize winning
artist, Simon Starling; interactive jeweller, Hazel White;
cultural critic Norman Klein; participatory design methods
pioneer Liz Sanders; art and architectural historian Frederic
Schwartz; biomedical engineer Stuart Brown and design theorist
Rosan Chow.
The discussion and debates will be chaired by leaders from
Industry, including:
Dee Cooper, Director of Product and Service for Virgin Atlantic;
Chris Van der Kuyl, CEO BrightSolid Ltd, one of the UK's
internet pioneers; Steve Gill, product designer and academic,
University of Wales Institute Cardiff; Colin Burns, independent
designer, consultant, entrepreneur, educator, and former
Director of IDEO's London Studio.
www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping
Issue 5 of Colour: Design & Creativity
New Articles Published
More content has been published in Issue 5. When new articles
are available online, a weekly e-cast will be issued to all
subscribers.
This latest issue is a special issue published in association
with the International Colour Association (AIC).
All submissions to the journal undergo peer-review by experts in
the field. Full author guidelines are available at:
www.colour-journal.org/static/authors.htm. To submit a paper,
please email: [log in to unmask]
Early registration is now open for the 7th International Design
& Emotion Conference
We are also delighted to announce our three confirmed keynote
speakers:
Cynthia Breazeal, Roboticist, Social Robotics, MIT Media Lab
http://web.media.mit.edu/~cynthiab/index.html
http://www.media.mit.edu/people/cynthiab
Mark Johnson, Knight Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences,
University of Oregon
Author of The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human
Understanding and with George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh:
The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought
http://www.uoregon.edu/~uophil/faculty/profiles/markj/
Jeroen van Erp
Creative director design firm Fabrique
http://www.fabrique.nl/en/
http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/des+emo-registration.html
Reader/Professor in the History/Theory and/or Practice of Design
Application Deadline: 29/06/2010
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
Reader/Professor in the History/Theory and/or Practice of Design
in one of the following areas:
Visual Communication, Fashion and Textiles, Interior
Architecture or Spatial Cultures
A significant senior appointment within the University's
Department of Art and Design, building on our outstanding
achievements in research and scholarship in this area.
This is an exciting time for Art and Design, with growing
student numbers, a strong reputation in the subject area, and
the expansion of popular programmes into exciting new areas. Our
students win significant awards and go on to successful
world-wide careers. Middlesex has the benefits of a diverse
national and international student community and our flagship
campus at Hendon in north-west London is a lively and enjoyable
working environment.
In 2011 we will be moving to state of the art new buildings at
Hendon, providing world-leading facilities, cutting edge
technology, teaching and studio space, galleries and social
areas.
This new appointment will augment the area's already excellent
research performance in preparation for the REF and beyond, and
will focus on the development of high level research across the
key areas of Fine Art, Communication Arts and Photography,
Fashion and Textiles, Interior Design and Architecture, and the
Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts.
Non-UK applicants please note that this is a tenured full
professorship. Only candidates with significant experience
should apply.
Guardian online advert:
http://jobs.guardian.co.uk/job/995604/readerprofessor-in-the-
historytheory-andor-practice-of-design
CEPHAD 2010
Second volume of material from CEPHAD 2010 is now online.
The PDF version of Copenhagen Working Papers on Design 2010 no 2
is now available at
http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Publikationer/
Copenhagen_workingpapers_on_design
It is the second and last volume of material from our conference
in January, CEPHAD 2010. It contains the invited speakers'
contributions, plus some supplementary material, including a
brand new paper by Greg Bamford. Enjoy!
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