Doctoral Education in Design -- Practice, Knowledge, Vision.

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Save the date - Sunday, May 22 to Wednesday, May 25, 2011

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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design and Swinburne  
University of Technology Faculty of Design announce a conference on  
the challenges and opportunities of doctoral education

It is nearly a decade since the last comprehensive global conference  
on doctoral education in design in La Clusaz, France, and it's time to  
revisit this issue for a conversation on this vital theme in design  
education.

We'll start the dialog with a dinner on Sunday for three full days of  
intense discussion, studios, and workshops with limited community of  
120 participants.  Papers will be selected from extended abstracts  
with references.  We will enter into a rich dialog in a single track  
plenary sessions.  Tuesday's plenary will be followed by a day of  
design studios in which participants address key problems and  
challenges, designing solutions and outcomes for the future.

Papers will be delivered to participants in a proceedings document two  
weeks before the conference to give everyone time to prepare. The real  
conference publication will come afterward. Authors will be asked for  
a commitment to deliver a book chapter within 90 days of their return  
home from the conference. This book will allow people to expand and  
improve their papers with new insights and ideas based on the  
conference conversation.

Studios will create process documents and solutions for publication in  
working paper format.

The book and the working papers will stimulate new thinking to help  
our colleagues around the world to set new standards for our field.

Save these dates!  Full information to follow.

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Lorraine Justice, Director
School of Design
Hong Kong Polytechnic University 

Ken Friedman, Dean
Faculty of Design
Swinburne University of Technology 

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