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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 15 Number 11 Nov 2010 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter      http://www.designresearchsociety.org


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CONTENTS







o   Editorial

o   DRS SYMPOSIUM '2050 and all that...'

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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EDITORIAL







This edition
In case you missed DRN last month, there wasn't an October
edition. Therefore please note that some of the announcements
below have short dates. In heavily revising content for this
month's edition I may have missed some announcements - if so
please let me know and I will add to the December edition of DRN
which will be published first week of the month.

DRS AGM
Also please note that the DRS AGM will be held in the morning of
10 December 2010. All DRS members should have been notified by
now. The AGM is of course open only to DRS members.

DRS Annual Symposium
In the afternoon of 10 December 2010 we are running the Annual
Symposium with the title "2050 and all that'. The announcement is
below, and full details are now on the DRS website
http://www.designresearchsociety.org

We are very fortunate in having secured John Thackara as the
keynote speaker, as well as several other experts in sustainable
designing including Tracey Bhamra (Loughborough) and Emma
Dewberry (OU).

If you can make it, I look forward to meeting you there. I
imagine this will prove a popular event, and there is limited
space, so please book soon.

DRS Website
Those of you who are used to browsing the DRS website may have
noticed some access problems over the past few weeks, and that
some content has disappeared. The reason is simply that it is an
entirely new site running an updated content management system
that allows us to do some things not previously possible. New
content and new services will be rolled out as they become
available over the next weeks and months.


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DRS SYMPOSIUM 2010

The DRS Annual Symposium '2050 and all that...'  on  design
opportunities for a sustainable future will be held

12:00 - 17:15 on Friday 10 December 2010 at the Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham UK and will include a
buffet lunch.

2050 has been established in the public mind, rightly or wrongly,
as a pivotal year. Many studies have focused on challenges and
opportunities arising in the period leading to 2050 and the
promise of a sustainable future. On the other hand, some believe
that the world will end.

If humankind is to survive, we face considerable changes to our
lifestyles over the next forty or so years. With population
growth and depletion of natural resources etc. coinciding in
2050, there are threats to national economies, food and water
security, and potential for social unrest. Cradle to cradle
approaches to design force us to radically rethink our approaches
to the built environment, the currently wasteful nature of
production, and the ways in which we design and promote designed
environments, products and services.

Our future can sound very gloomy. We certainly face some big
challenges, but the lead up to 2050 also offers great
opportunities for designers to change things for the better. We
have created the desires that drive present consumption, and we
have the capacity to change those desires for the better.

This symposium will gaze at the future and how we - designers -
might shape it. The event brings together a small number of
speakers with diverse perspectives who are optimistically seeking
new approaches. There will be plenty of time for discussion.

The event will be led by John Thackara, who is a leading thinker
in this area - perhaps best known for creating the Doors of
Perception conferences, John speaks regularly and publishes on
designing sustainably and, instead of pointing the finger at
designers as culprits, he is a friendly advocate for designers
and their ability to change things for the better.

The symposium is open to all, but a place must be booked in
advance.

DRS member delegate fee is GBP30.00 for fully paid up members of
the Design Research Society. This includes attendance, lunch and
other refreshments. Please login to book using the 'Symposium -
DRS members' menu item

Full delegate fee - for those who are not members of the Design
Research Society - is GBP60.00. This includes attendance, lunch
and other refreshments.

It is possible to join the DRS in order to claim the symposium
discount, thus having the addition of a year's membership of the
Society.

There are a limited number of seats for this event, so early
registration is advised.

There are a small number of free places for postgraduate research
students who are paid up student members of the DRS. Please
contact Ms Linda Marshall at [log in to unmask]

Please note that the last date for bookings is Friday 3 December.
No further bookings will be accepted after this date.

http://www.designresearchsociety.org







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DESIGN STUDIES

Volume 31, Number 6

The November 2010 issue of Design Studies is a Special Issue on
Studying Professional Software Design, with selected papers from
a NSF Workshop held in February 2010 at the University of
California, Irvine, USA. The workshop was based on analyses of
common data sets of three recorded examples of professional
software designers responding to a set task.

Guest Editors: Andre van der Hoek, Marian Petre and Alex Baker

Contents

Introduction
Andre van der Hoek, Marian Petre and Alex Baker

Representing structure in a software system design
Michael Jackson

Design requirements, epistemic uncertainty and solution
development strategies in software design
Linden J. Ball, Balder Onarheim and Bo T. Christensen

Ideas, subjects, and cycles as lenses for understanding the
software design process
Alex Baker and Andre van der Hoek

What makes software design effective?
Antony Tang, Aldeida Aleti, Janet Burge and Hans van Vliet

Accessing decision-making in software design
Henri Christiaans and Rita Assoreira Almendra

http://www.elsevier.com/locate/destud
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X







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CALLS







22-25 June 2011: DPPI-11: Designing Pleasurable Products and
Interfaces (Jun 2011, Milano)

How Can Design Research serve Industry?
Design visions, tools and knowledge for industry

Deadline for submission: 30 January 2011

In these days a mantra for companies and institutions seems to
be, almost mandatorily, the need to become design-oriented, in
order to increase their capability to build value, generate
innovation and increase market shares as well as profits. This
mantra, more often than not, comes with another one: design
innovation is putting the user at the center of the project.
Research on pleasurable products and interfaces is playing an
important role in this debate elaborating and formalizing new
knowledge on people (end users, value co-producers, etc.) and
their needs, expectations, beliefs, values, desires; and
suggesting the possibility to exploit user centered design in
sectors and markets that are not commonly thought as being
inherent its field of research. This has produced a significant
amount of knowledge, mainly through vast experimentation, whereas
less has been said on how to integrate this knowledge in
industry. Apparently there is a disconnection between research on
user centered design and pleasurability, and design practices
inside industry, especially in SMEs contexts. Given these
premises, it would be very interesting to investigate how this
research can be integrated into industry, and to discuss it in
relation to other approaches to design innovation.

TRACKS - Participants are encouraged to submit proposals that
focus on

1.Innovative ways to explore,

2. Industries engaging users in design,

3.Modes and aesthetics of interaction,

4.Design culture and thinking in industry,

5.Organizing design in industry,

6.Service Design and interactions.

DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - Invites participants to work through
aesthetic issues in their on-going doctoral work. Participants
are expected to write a short position paper about their
research, and prepare a 15-minute presentation, focusing on
explaining their research, how aesthetics figures in their
thinking and how they plan to work with aesthetics.

For further information please visit: http://www.dppi11.polimi.it







18-19 July 2011: WELL-BEING 2011

First Call for Papers: Deadline 26 November 2010

The First International Conference Exploring the Multi-dimensions
of Well-being, 18-19 July 2011, Birmingham, U.K.

The pursuit of high levels of well-being is a key goal of
society, yet well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue,
difficult to define and even more difficult to measure. 
Well-being is more than issues about health; it involves our
expectations, needs, aspirations, the ways that we interact with
the environment, our encounters with others and our routine
activities.

To further our understanding of well-being and how it can be
achieved Birmingham City University in collaboration with The
Royal Institute of British Architects invite abstracts of 300
words (or poster abstracts of 150 words) in relation to:

- Cross disciplinary exploration of the wider notions of
well-being (theory and practice)

- Well-being and sustainability
- Developing and designing supportive natural, home and working
environments
- Modelling well-being and the relationships between individuals
and their environment
- Measuring and assessing the impact of interventions
- Supporting the individual - art based, performative and other
innovative practices
- Community and salutogenic health

Papers are subject to an international peer review panel with
opportunities for publication in selected journals, on the web
and by Earthscan.

Queries and abstract submissions to Zoe Millman:
[log in to unmask]

School of Architecture BIAD, Birmingham City University
Corporation Street Gosta Green Birmingham B4 7DX UK

http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/wellbeing2011







16-18 July 2011: Making Modern Consumers: Rationalization,
Mechanization, and Digitization in the Twentieth Century

Workshop at the GHI

Conveners: Gary Cross (Penn State University), Angelika Epple
(University of Bielefeld), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI Washington)

Call for Papers

The historiography of twentieth-century consumption usually
either analyzes processes of production or centers on narratives
of actors. Consumption is presented as an active process,
grounded in the changing patterns of needs and wants driven by
firms, consumers, or both. While these narratives underline our
understanding of rationalization as a process of acceleration,
the rapidly developing spheres of consumption and production
emerge as more or less autonomous, clearly separated from each
other. Our conference will question this perspective.

In our view, historical analysis of consumption and consumerism
in the twentieth century must include the structural economic and
technological changes that are normally analyzed only in
reference to a supposedly independent sphere of production.
Depersonalized, anonymous structures shaped not only the way
consumer goods were manufactured, but also reconfigured the
sphere of consumption as well as the subject-formations and
self-definitions of the individuals involved. Rationalization,
mechanization, and digitization caused acceleration on all social
levels. They shaped and were shaped by all aspects of
twentieth-century consumption, from modern retailing, product
design, advertising, and supposedly personal forms of
communication to the perceptions and choices of all actors
involved, including entrepreneurs, marketing specialists, and
consumers.

To determine the extent and significance of these interactions
among anonymous structures, the twentieth-century history of
consumption, and the process of acceleration, the conference will
focus on three major topics:

First, we will present and analyze basic structural innovations
that served to rationalize, mechanize, and digitize consumption.
We will provide insight into both the actors behind these
processes and the new demands that these processes placed on
individuals, particularly on consumers. Examples include the
emergence of the first automatic restaurants, self-service shops
and restaurants, vending machines and vending machine streets,
ATMs, bar codes and labeling, as well as GPS and RFID. All these
innovations were accompanied by new challenges for consumers,
who, from now on, were spoilt for choice and constantly had to
control their desires to consume. This part of the conference
will not only analyze consumer goods and other elements of the
production process, but it will also investigate the interactions
between consuming subjects and anonymous determinants of
consumption.

Second, these structural changes not only influenced the
relationship between production, consumption, and consumers. They
also shaped how the spheres were mediated, that is, they
triggered new aesthetics in selling goods and attracting
consumers. Consumers were forced to develop new economies of
attention and new techniques of defense or resistance. Therefore,
we will focus on how these anonymous structures led to the
reconfiguring of services, consumer goods, and packaging<as well
as of shops and other spaces of consumption. We will also examine
shifts in the communicative presentation of services, changes in
advertising and marketing, and redefinitions of salespersons,
service staff, and consuming subjects.

Third, we will focus on acceleration processes caused by the
rationalization, mechanization, and digitization of production
and consumption. At the same time, we will also examine opposing
moments or slowdowns. Where or when did self-service fail? Who
was excluded from accelerating processes or access to technical
innovations? Who was outside the range of rationalization,
mechanization, and digitizing? Who resisted becoming a 
consumer

The conference will not only compare American and European
developments and examples. It will also investigate their
interactions and mutual interferences. Special attention will be
given to papers that include developments in non-Western
societies.

Paper proposals (one page preferred, two pages maximum) are
welcome for all topics from both young and established scholars
of different countries and disciplines. Proposals should include
an abstract in English and a curriculum vitae. These materials
should be submitted via email (preferably in pdf format) by
October 15, 2010 to Baerbel Thomas <[log in to unmask]> .

If you have any questions, please contact Uwe Spiekermann
([log in to unmask]).

http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&
id=1102&Ite mid=973







30 June 2011 - 2 July 2011: AESTHETICS AND TECHNIQUES OF LINES
BETWEEN DRAWING AND WRITING

Call for Papers

International Conference (CIHA Colloquium)
Florence

Lines and lineaments are fundamental concerns in many cultures.
They can be constitutive elements of pictorial and scriptural
systems, as well as of a combination of both. Lines can separate
or intersect, they can connect or link. Drawn, inscribed, incised
or woven into a surface they create or articulate space, denote
orientation or movement, they present or represent, they signify
or carry out meaning, they cancel or cross out. Lines are,
geometrically spoken, one-dimensional, but in scripture and
drawing they are material as is the ground on or in which they
appear. In this sense one can speak of techniques of "making
lines" which condition the aesthetics of lineaments as much as
the latter contribute to the invention and transformation of such
techniques. Under these premises, the conference will discuss the
differences, similarities and open borders between writing and
drawing, their techniques and aesthetics, especially in European,
Islamic and East Asian cultures. Given that lines play an
important but not exclusive role in this relationship, papers
could also discuss the limits of linear systems or explore
alternative models as for example the transition between line,
brush stroke, mark or spot. The major aim of the conference is to
envisage a dialogue among specialists of different cultures and
academic fields, questioning the role of lines in an
intercultural perspective, from an historical as well as
theoretical point of view.

The following list of arguments which could be addressed in the
conference is far from being exhaustive, it rather wants to
invite to further thoughts and critical considerations:

- Visualizing language, picturing texts, iconic letters and
words, texts as icons, writing in pictures, scriptural drawings,
signatures, profiles etc.
- Pictograms and graphic signs
- Techniques of drawing and writing in relation to various
supports (papyrus, parchment, paper, walls etc.)
- Scribbling, sketching, etc.
- Modes of correcting and reworking
- The art of calligraphy and the aesthetics of writing in a
comparative perspective
- Ornament between scripture, decorative lineaments and
figurative elements
- Techniques and aesthetics of reproduction for written text and
images
- Delineating the past (and the future): pictorial and scriptural
memories
- Delineating Nature: writing and drawing between art and science
- Modes and media of intra- und intercultural transmission
- Self-reflection of writers, draftsmen and visual artists
- Ontologies and theologies of the line, in relation to scripture
and image
- Non-linear concepts of writing and imaging.

The conference, organized by Gerhard Wolf and Marzia Faietti,
will be hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz -
Max-Planck-Institut and the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli
Uffizi.

Scholars interested in participating in the conference are
invited to send a proposal of 250 words, their CV and a list of
publications to the following address by 15 December 2010:
[log in to unmask]

The conference languages will be: Italian, German, English and
French.

Contact Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz -
Max-Planck-Institut Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf Via Giuseppe Giusti 44
50121 Florence ITALY







15-18 August 2011: "ICED'11 Conference"

CALL FOR PAPERS

We are pleased to invite you to prepare and submit a paper to the
18th International Conference on Engineering Design: ICED11,
which will be held at The Technical University of Denmark, on
15th-18th August 2011. We invite high-quality submissions for
ICED11, on topics that cover substantial, original and previously
unpublished research. Applied, theoretical and results-oriented
papers from both academia and industry, based on rigorous
analysis or argumentation, will all be considered for inclusion.
Submissions should aim to fit into one of the nine conference
themes, see www.iced11.org.

ICED is a biannual conference, with a growing academic and
industrial audience. The conference has its roots in engineering,
but has radically broadened in scope, to a general understanding
of designing as an activity, its human factors and knowledge
aspects, its composed and multi-disciplinary nature, and its
societal role and importance. Design has a central role in
bringing engineering and technology to practical use. We have
chosen, therefore, that ICED11 will focus on the balancing of the
societal impact of engineering design.

All papers, which must be submitted as full papers, will be
subject to a double-blind reviewing process. Paper submissions
are to be made through the ICED11 Conference Management System,
where registered authors will have access to the evaluations of
their papers, thus aiding them in preparing the final
camera-ready version of their papers.

http://www.iced11.org







Craft Research (1.1)

Intellect is delighted to announce the first issue of our latest
Visual Arts journal, Craft Research
(http://bit.ly/CraftResearch).

Aims and scope

The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote current and
emerging craft research, including research into materials,
processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. This may be in
any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including
craft education.

The journal will portray and build the crafts as a vital and
viable modern discipline that has a vision for the future. It is
distinct from mainstream journals in that it is dedicated to
presenting and reporting on research, in the widest sense, in
order to advance the knowledge in the field. Making this
knowledge, in whatever form, available to the community will help
build and advance the field, and present it - in all its
diversity - as a strong and essential force that cannot be
overlooked.

In addition to an enthralling editorial feature and a thorough
reviews section, the inaugural issue includes articles 'Surface
and substance: A call for the fusion of skill and ideas in
contemporary enamel jewellery' by Jessica Turrell and 'Exploring
net political craft: From collective to connective' by Otto Von
Busch.

To download these articles for FREE please visit the Journal's
page on our website:
http://bit.ly/CraftResearch

For subscription information go to:
http://bit.ly/CraftResearchsubs

Title information
ISSN: 20404689|Online ISSN: 20404697 | 1 issues per volume

Editors
Kristina Niedderer: [log in to unmask]
University of Wolverhampton, UK

Katherine Townsend: [log in to unmask]
Nottingham Trent University, UK

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20-23 April 2011: Popular Culture Association & American Culture
Association's Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design
Area is seeking paper proposals for the annual conference.

Please join us in San Antonio, April 20-23, 2011 for the National
Conference. We will be meeting with the Southwest/Texas regional
at both the Marriott Rivercenter and Riverwalk hotels. We expect
about 3,000 participants; it should be an exciting conference
with papers on an enormous variety of subjects. The deadline for
proposing papers will be December 15, 2010.

Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design

Fashion, Style, Appearance,Consumption & Design is concerned with
all areas and aspects of style, fashion, clothing, design, and
related trends, as well as appearances and consumption using
and/or including: historical sources, manufacturing, aesthetics,
marketing, branding, merchandising, retailing, psychological/
sociological aspects of dress, body image, and cultural
identities, in addition to any areas relating to purchasing,
shopping, and the methods consumers construct identity.

Papers from all methods and disciplines are welcome! Innovative
and new research, scholarship and creative works in the areas of
fashion, design, the body and consumerism are encouraged!

Please email a short 50-word bio with contact information and an
abstract of no more than 250 words of your proposal paper by
December 15, 2010 to:

Joseph H. Hancock, PhD at [log in to unmask]
or
Alphonso McClendon at [log in to unmask]

Joseph H. Hancock, II, PhD.
University 
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia , PA. 19104 

Dr. Joseph H. Hancock, II Associate Professor & Fashion Scholar
Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design
Philadelphia, PA. 19104 Cell:  610-564-6200 
http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/about/faculty/?id=104

http://www.pcaaca.org







20-21 April 2011: 2nd International Conference of Professional
Doctorates John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh

CALL FOR PAPERS

You are cordially invited to submit a paper to the 2nd
International Conference on Professional Doctorates, which will
take place at John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh,
Scotland on 20th & 21st April 2011.  The Conference themes and
topics for submitted papers will cover all aspects of
Professional and Practice-based Doctorates - including:

-  International perspectives on developments in the Professional
Doctorate in North America, Australia and Europe
-  Employer/community expectations of the Professional Doctorate
-  Philosophical and educational developments in the pedagogy of
the Professional and Practice-based Doctorates
-  Approaches to doctoral training & professional development
-  Practical experience in the delivery of Professional
Doctorates
-  Special issues relating to Practice-based Doctorates
-  Sustainability issues of different models of Professional
Doctorate
-  Comparison of Professional Doctorates in various professional
arenas
-  Strategies for effective formal and informal assessment
-  Critical reflective practice and the accreditation of
experiential learning
-  Quality assurance and quality enhancement issues
-  Validation issues and audit practices
-  Ongoing or completed case studies of research projects /
theses of Doctoral Students

Papers are invited for presentation in one or more of the
following formats:

-  Lecture
-  Round Table Discussion
-  Workshop
-  Poster
-  Poster (with short Introduction)

The submission deadline for Preliminary Abstracts (ca 300 words)
is 22nd November 2010.   Full details, including key dates and an
online form for submitting Preliminary Abstracts, can be found on
the Conference web pages: http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs

ICPD-2 will feature Plenary Speakers internationally renowned for
their work in doctoral education. The Plenary Speakers will
present papers on the following overall themes:

Professor Bridget O'Connor, New York University, USA Professional
Doctorate Education and USA perspectives

Dr Andreas Frijdal, European University Institute, Florence,
Italy European Perspectives on the Doctorate

Professor Tom Maxwell, University of New England, Armidale, NSW,
Australia The Professional Doctorate - Generational Change

Professor Chris Park, Higher Education Academy, York, UK (TBC)
Doctorateness and the Professional Doctorate

The Conference themes covering all aspects of Professional and
Practice-based Doctorates can be found at:
http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs

Edinburgh's new John McIntyre Centre on the Pollock Halls campus
is set in the beautiful ambience of Holyrood Park. Located within
walking distance of the City and a full range of restaurants,
pubs and local attractions, the area has a wide range of
residential accommodation, from Guest Houses to Hotels.

http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs







3-6 November 2011: 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition
(C&C 2011) and related art program, tutorials, workshops, and
graduate student symposium.

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Submission deadline (for all kinds of submissions):  March 25,
2011.

We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners, from
artists and scientists, from designers, educators and decision
makers. Please send all inquiries to ([log in to unmask]).

C&C 2011 Conference

The broad theme of C&C 2011 is Creativity and Technology. Topics
of interest include:

-  Creativity in arts, music, story telling, poetry, design,
science, etc.
-  Everyday creativity
-  Individual, collaborative and collective creativity
-  Participatory creativity, organizational creativity and
creative communities
-  Democratizing creativity, do-it-yourself and folk creativity
-  Education and training in creativity
-  Creativity in education and training
-  Embodiment, sensations, perceptions, emotions and behaviors in
creativity
-  Visual and perceptual representations in creativity
-  New materials and processes for creativity
-  Emerging technologies and media in creativity
-  Digital media and technologies for creativity including
graphics, visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality and
tangible computing
-  Social computing and media in creativity
-  Interactive arts, theatre, music, games, story telling,
design, science, etc.
-  Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods
-  Case studies and ethnographic analyses
-  Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice
-  Cognitive and cognitive neuroscience models of creativity
-  Information-processing and computational models of creativity
-  Creative systems, tools and applications
-  Social and cultural studies of creativity
-  Transdisciplinary metaphors, methods, models

All submissions will be reviewed by an international program
committee. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM.

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C&C 2011 Artworks
Chair: Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

We are interested in computational media art performances,
screenings, and demonstrations. We are seeking a wide variety of
artworks related to the conference theme of creativity and
technology. The exhibition of these works will be juried and
presentation of works will be integrated into the conference
program. Selected artists will be requested to take part in
artist panels to discuss the works in light of conference themes.
Performances or screenings should involve interaction with the
audience and some time for discussion of the work. Fully realized
works will be prioritized over demos, however submission of
proposals to present significantly developed demos is encouraged
as well. Proposals (200-300 words) should include the title and a
short description of the work (including any links to your
material), a plan for presentation, technology requirements, and
a short (50 words) bio for each participant. A small number of
installation works may also be accepted for exhibition. However
priority will be given to performances, screenings, and demos
that can be presented in the main conference auditorium.

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C&C 2011 Tutorials
Chair: Yukari Nagai, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and
Technology

Creativity and Cognition 2011 is looking for significant
Tutorials developing research and education methods related to
the conference theme of creativity and technology. A half day
plan (3 hours) or a full day plan (6 hours) is available. Submit
your tutorial plan 4-8 pages proposal in A4 format by March 25th,
2011.

The proposals should include the title and an introduction, aims,
a framework of your main idea, a plan for Tutorial (please select
half day or full day), and a short (50-100 words) bio for each
instructor, tutor, and lecturer with references (URL, etc).

Additionally, the tutorial proposal submissions must include:

- Explanation how the tutorial will be conducted (e.g., lecture,
demonstration, etc.) and provide representative samples or some
idea of the materials that will be included in the course notes.
- The technology requirements list that includes materials and
conditions needed to run the tutorial. It should include any
supplies required for each participant, restrictions or
conditions on offering the tutorial such as an attendance limit,
technology support needed to run the tutorial.

Proposals will be evaluated by review committee on the basis of
their value in offering opportunities to conference attendees to
learn more about the work done by others interested in the
various themes and topics of the conference.

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C&C 2011 Workshops
Chair: Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

New developments often benefit from being presented, discussed,
demonstrated, speculated upon, and generally questioned in more
informal settings. The workshop portion of the conference
provides just such a rich channel for the dynamic exchange of new
ideas, creations, and discoveries.

We invite proposals for full-day and half-day workshops focused
on specific topics and questions related to the conference's
broader themes. We invite proposals for full-day and half-day
workshops focused on specific topics and questions related to the
C&C 2011 conference's broader themes. We are particularly
interested in topics likely to bridge the conference's many
communities around the theme of Creativity and Technology.

Proposals should be submitted in the conference publications
format (up to four pages), and include: A 2-page extended
abstract, the objectives and expected outcome of the workshop,
the planned activities, the background of the organizer(s), the
anticipated number of participants, and the means for soliciting
and selecting participants.

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C&C 2011 Graduate Student Symposium
Chair: Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

The Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) provides a supportive
setting for feedback on graduate students' current work and
guidance on future directions. GSS participants will meet and
discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced
researchers and practitioners in an informal and interactive
setting. We welcome applications from graduate students in
terminal degree programs, (i.e. doctoral programs in research
fields and master programs in the arts) in any of the disciplines
and approaches concerned with creativity and cognition.

Each application should provide a short written paper (no more
than two pages in normal ACM SIGCHI archival format) and a brief
letter of support from the student's principal adviser. The paper
should describe ongoing work and summarize the student's thesis,
or highlight a particular aspect. Advisor's letter of support
should indicate that the work has reached the appropriate level
of maturity for presentation in this venue. The letter of support
should be submitted together with the paper on the conference
submission site. Please note that GSC submission, unlike paper
submission, is not anonymous.

Participants will be selected based on their anticipated
contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual
discussions of the symposium. Selected students will be expected
to give a short presentation of their work, followed by
discussion with the panel and the other student participants. In
addition, each student is encouraged to present a poster
describing his or her work to the full conference and a 30-second
overview of their work as part of the "madness" session. We
anticipate that financial support will be available for graduate
students to attend the GSS and C&C conference.

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Please send all inquiries to ([log in to unmask])

http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html







Call for Papers: The Right to the City

The Right to The City is an exhibition and publishing project
exploring connections between architecture, art, philosophy and
action; cosponsored by Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of
Sydney and Architectural Theory Review. The Right to the City
special issue will bring together papers that particularly
consider architecture's potential for reimagining urban life (to
be published as Volume 16, Number 3, November 2011).

The Right to the City takes as its starting point David Harvey
polemical article that asserted urban existence as a contested
part of modern democracy: "The freedom to make and remake our
cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most
precious yet most neglected of our human rights".  Given
widespread, acute anxiety regarding our environmental
predicament, coupled with attention to the world
urbanisation, many artists, activists, planners and architects
are seeking ways to "remake" the city in more socially connected
and sustainable ways. These activities are often engaged with
negotiating the increasing fragmentation and complexity of the
contemporary city; developing critical spatial practices that
engage in micro-political actions.

Architecture as a Social Catalyst

Recent decades have seen the emergence of a renewed sense of
commitment by many architects to the idea of socially responsible
architecture; what might be termed "engaged practice". This
commitment is frequently directed toward small-scale approaches
of direct engagement, where the focus is on collaboration with
clients and users to create community resources. Although this
emphasis on collaboration and participation is familiar from
socially engaged movements of the past, the architects are often
at pains to distance themselves from grand manifestos or utopian
theories. Rather than model design solutions addressed at a
unified social entity the projects (often temporary) are highly
contingent and beholden to their specific contexts. A shift in
attitude might be discerned, where a broad "utopian" agenda is
set aside for provisional solutions in the here and now 
commitment to a "radical pragmatism" attentive to the
possibilities of addition, transformation and utilisation more
than demolition, subtraction or replacement.

At the same time, this engaged turn in architecture frequently
intersects with a contemporary convergence of site-specific,
installation, community and public art, and political activism.
Such practices 
"site-oriented", "site-responsive" or "socially-engaged" 
have a discernable emphasis on "microtopic" urban interventions.
Adopting do-it-yourself (and design-it-yourself) approaches,
temporary constructions, and the material organization of
communicative situations, they overlap with engaged architectural
practices in their concern for modeling alternative ways of
communally inhabiting the city. They also share an emphasis on
dialogical relationships through design processes that privilege
working with others: interactive activities, collective action
and participatory practices. Contingent, interactive, place
specific, models of possible universes; they strive to imagine
and invent positive social relations and better ways of dwelling
in the world.

With these tendencies and convergences in mind, we invite papers
that explore architecture
urban intervention - its capacity for transformative action. With
reference to the above, we are particularly keen to receive
submissions that reflect on:

- Architecture's agency in the city;
- Alternative or expanded models for architectural practice;
- Intersections of architecture, art and activism;
- The limits of participation and collaboration in engaged
architectural practice.

Completed manuscripts should be submitted to Architectural Theory
Review by the 3rd of May, 2011, via the journal's website:

Queries regarding the special issue or The Right to the City
project should be directed to Lee Stickells:
[log in to unmask]

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13264826.asp







16 March 2011: type writing

call for papers

The relationship between author and printer is often apathetic,
some- times vexed and occasionally inspired. Most writers know
little about typography; for them it is not the printing but the
getting into print that matters. on the other hand, some take a
great interest in how their words are presented and work with the
typographer to ensure that the quality of their text is reflected
in the visual manner in which it is served to the reading public.
Balzac, Blake, Graves, Huxley, shaw and Woolf all understood the
inextricable link between type and writing.

This symposium will explore the link between the typographer and
the writer of words, be they literary, commercial, instructional
or inspira- tional; whether produced by a professional writer,
graphic auteur or the casual passer-by who has simply given form
to his thoughts.

We are inviting contributors to either talk or present posters to
the theme of Type Writing. The topic may be interpreted either in
an historical or contemporary context; discussed not only from a
technical but also an empirical perspective; may be explored
either from an applied or theo- retical standpoint; and the
effects of the digital present can be considered and the unknown
future predicated.

applicants

academics, practitioners or students can apply to take part in
the sympo- sium. participants are sought from all areas of
typography, type design, digital media, printing, lettering,
calligraphy, advertising, publishing, literature, language, and
the book arts.

how to apply

applicants should submit a 300-word proposal in Word format,
together with a curriculum vitae, stating clearly whether they
intend to talk or make a poster presentation. all applications
and questions to caroline archer / [log in to unmask] /
0121 331 5871

closing date

1200-noon, 15 November 2010
Birmingham City University







21-24 June 2011: NOTHING LEFT TO THE IMAGINATION? at Sheffield
Hallam University, England.

Call for Papers

The Department of Media Arts and Communication is hosting a
cross-disciplinary conference which considers the implications
for viewing, spectatorship and participation arising from recent
technological developments in image production; developments
which have the capacity to increase detail, precision and
fidelity.

Nothing Left to the Imagination? encourages participants to
explore the ways in which the tendency towards the production of
immaculate image quality impacts on the experience of visual
media. Does heightened visual experience enhance, compete, or
co-exist, with the potential for cognitive pleasure, immersion
and interactivity? The conference invites consideration of the
possible tension between these two experiential qualities, in the
context of current practice and recent technological development
across a range of visual media. We also invite contributions that
consider the pedagogic implications of such developments.

We invite proposals for 20 minute papers. Send abstracts of up to
350 words to: [log in to unmask] by Monday 13th December 2010.
Please include your name, contact details and supply a short
profile indicating your background, affiliations and research
interests.

For further information, please consult our conference website
at:

http://nothinglefttotheimagination.wordpress.com/

This conference will be complimented by industry led workshops
and will launch a series of events which address emerging visual
media technologies. The aim of these events is to establish a
research network in order to exchange and disseminate ideas;
bringing together academia, industry and any other relevant
partners. A selection of papers will be published following the
conference; details to follow later.

We also plan a one day fringe symposium for students. See
conference web site for further details.







6-8 July 2011: Economy conference, to be held at the Welsh School
of Architecture, Cardiff University.

The word 'economy' first described the management of a household.
It comes from the Greek oikonomia /oikous (house) and nemein
(manage) but its description of domestic frugality bears little
relation to the contemporary 'economy' of governments and
financial markets. Economies and capital are central to the
dynamics of construction and urbanism, in ordering and
disordering patterns of production and consumption. Given the
collapse and mismanagement of the larger households of our
societies, is it not vital to now evaluate the multiple meanings
and potentials contained within this word? This international
conference invites papers that investigate economy under the
following themes:

-  Dwelling and Economy
-  Economy and/of Means
-  Politics of Economy
-  Architecture and Capital
-  Defining Value

Deadline for abstracts: 7th January 2011

htpp://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/economy







29 May - 1 June 2011: Nordes invites you to the 4th Nordic Design
Research Conference: Making Design Matter!
School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Call for Participation

Opening keynote: Professor Andrea Branzi, Politecnico di Milano

The challenges affecting society today require fresh approaches
-- how can we continue to make design matter? Nordes 2011 invites
designers and design researchers to explore the possibilities.

Design touches human lives in a myriad of ways. Designers create
products, systems and services that have become indispensible to
the ways in which people work, live and communicate. Many designs
merely feed consumerism, while others never impact the market.
Whereas some design introduces formative changes within society,
the majority falls into disuse or is simply forgotten. Designers
create things that shape human life, but the value created and
common good of design cannot be taken for granted.

Designers currently work to make design matter in many ways, such
as:

-  Impacting the public sector, as in urban and service design
-  Revisiting craft approaches to skill, aesthetics and
production
-  Studying the historical and social shaping of material
culture
design processes
-  Involving design management to influence organizations and
stakeholders
-  Stimulating changes in values through critical and artistic
tactics

Nordes 2011 invites participants to explore and discuss:

What matters are at stake for designers today?
What kinds of perspectives and alternatives are needed?
In which ways can we develop the discipline and practice?
How does design research matter?

Nordes 2011 invites contributions that share:

-  Examples exploring the meaning and consequences of design
-  Explorations of the changing im/material objects of design
-  Experiments in design teaching, research and management
-  Analyses of design culture, methods and theories
-  Reflections on the limits of design, including ethics and
politics

Submission categories and templates. Templates for papers, short
papers, design case studies, and doctoral consortium will appear
on the conference Web site on 15 September.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE for full papers: 10 January 2011

About Nordes. Previous Nordes conferences have been organized in
Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo. They have attracted 150-200
participants. Papers are online on nordes.org.

Conference organizers. Chairs and program chairs: Ilpo Koskinen
and Tiina Haerkaesalmi (Aalto University), Ramia Maze
(Interactive Institute) and Ben Matthews (University of Southern
Denmark). Web master: Tatu Marttila (Aalto University).

http://designresearch.fi/nordes2011

http://nordes.org







6-8 July 2011: ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS
EVA London 2011

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Visualising

ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences:
digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D
imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social
media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical
visualization and more

OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 15th January
2011

We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations or short
performances, workshops or panel discussions. Demonstrations and
performances will be an important part of this year's conference.
Only a summary of the proposal on up to one page is required for
selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the
instructions on the EVA London
<http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london>  website.

Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on
visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and medical science,
broadly interpreted. We especially invite papers or presentations
on the newest and emerging technologies and applications. Papers
are peer reviewed and may be edited for publication as hard copy
and online. Other presentations may be published as summaries or
as papers.

If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for
discussions of wider principles or applications using the case
study as an example. A few bursaries for EVA London registration
fees will again be available if you don't have access to grants.


EVA London's Conference themes will particularly include new and
emerging technologies and applications, including but not limited
to:

-  Visualising ideas and concepts
-  Imaging and images in museums and galleries
-  Digital performance
-  Music, sound, film and animation
-  Medical humanities
-  Reconstructive archaeology and architecture
-  Digital and computational art and photography
-  Visualisation in museums, historic sites and buildings
-  Immersive environments
-  Technologies of digitization
-  2D, 3D and high definition imaging -  Virtual and augmented
worlds
-  Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies in art and culture
-  Digital visualization of performance and music

http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london







4-8 July 2011: HCI 2011 - Health, Wealth and Happiness, Call for
Papers

The 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
(HCI2011), Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.

HCI 2011 will be held between the 4th of July and the 8th July,
2011, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.  The HCI Educators conference,
Workshops and Tutorials will be held on 4th and 5th July, 2011
and a Doctorial Consortium on the 5th July. The main conference
runs from the 6th-8th July, 2011. HCI 2011 is organised by the
PaCT Lab (Northumbria University) in cooperation with the British
Computer Society.

This year we will be looking for papers to put in our alt.hci
sessions. So if you think your work doesn't usually make it into
this conference then maybe this year is your year.

Accepted papers will be published by BCS in the annual conference
proceedings, freely available online in BCS Electronic Workshops
in Computing (eWiC) and will also be included in the ACM digital
library.

Important Dates:

-  Full Paper and Workshop submission: 21st January, 2011
-  Conference: 4th July - 8th July, 2011

Conference Scope and Description

Human Computer Interaction is a key area of computing, This is
the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction
in the UK. It covers the design, evaluation and application of
techniques and approaches for interacting with devices and
services.  HCI is now on its 25th conference and at this
anniversary we ask you to reflect on our theme of Health, Wealth
and Happiness. .  Technology is posed to play a growing part in
our health and maintaining well being into older age; wealth
manifests itself in many ways, many of which we do not always
recognise - relationships, richness of life experience,
creativity and innovation, knowledge and qualities of character.
Lastly is there a relationship between happiness and technology
use, will more gadgets increase our well being? And as ever
contributions in any aspect of HCI are welcome.

Suggested topics

We solicit original research and technical papers not published
elsewhere including the following topics :

-  Affective interaction
-  Aesthetic interaction
-  Art and interaction
-  Bodily interaction
-  Cyber-relationships, sex and eroticism
-  Design and Evaluation methods
-  Ethnographic and field studies
-  Ethics and HCI
-  Experience Design
-  Fun and Play
-  Health informatics and technology
-  Human values
-  Information visualization and presentation
-  Interaction Criticism
-  Moods, meditation and relaxation
-  Musical and audio interaction
-  Novel interaction techniques and devices
-  Privacy, Security and Trust
-  Social networking
-  Spirituality and Beliefs
-  Sustainability and HCI
-  Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction
-  Universal design
-  Usability studies
-  User Experience (UX)
-  Wearables and fashion
-  Wellbeing and technology

Paper Submission

Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format. All
submissions should be formatted to the ACM standard, see
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates , and
will appear on-line in the BCS EWiCS series and the ACM Digital
Library. Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system,
which will open for submissions in November and will be linked
from the conference website http://www.hci2011.co.uk/ with
detailed instructions. We have put together an international
review panel. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3
peer-reviewers, selected by the appropriate chairs. Additional
guidelines can be found on the conference's website.

It is a condition of acceptance that at least one author must
register for each accepted paper, no later than the early bird
deadline of 4th May 2011.







12 February 2011: ARCHITECTURE IS ALL OVER

A Workshop Investigating Architecture in the Context of
Cross-Disciplinary Spatial Practices

University 

CALL FOR PAPERS AND DESIGN-BASED PROVOCATIONS

Building projects continue to proliferate at a global scale in
spite of the economic climate. Architectural concepts are being
incorporated by a variety of discourses. Ever-expanding arrays of
spatial practices are able to be considered within the bounds of
the discipline. Is architecture becoming ubiquitous?

Or think about the same circumstances a different way:
are constructing ephemeral environments, micro-scalar
interventions and even invisible phenomena. Other fields are
unremittingly appropriating architecture. The cleft between the
discipline of architecture and its own professional practice is
deepening. Is architecture evaporating? Either way, it is
becoming more apparent that architecture needs to be
re-conceptualized to address disciplinary conditions that are
becoming harder to ignore. Where do we go from here?

This workshop is an opportunity for creative thinkers and
practitioners from a variety of disciplines to work through the
paradoxical expansion and contraction of architecture as it both
affects and is affected by a larger milieu, and as it is situated
within a range of cross-disciplinary spatial practices. We seek
innovative discussion papers, graphic provocations and
design-based proposals from emerging practitioners and theorists
that analyze, re-imagine or foment architecture in new ways.

Location

Gathering a series of international thinkers and practitioners
from a range of fields in Toronto, Ontario, for a one-day public
event, this workshop will take place at OCAD University on
February, 12, 2011.







12 MAY 2011: 'Pairings: Conversations,Collaborations, Materials'

International Conference at Manchester School of Art, a part of
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

We are looking for high quality academic papers that explore
subjects related to collaborative practice in a craft, design and
art environment. These could include (but are not limited to)
discussions of

-  collaboration within and  across disciplines
-  good practice of how to work between institutions and
collaborate with outside partners
-  the impact  of strategy
-  collaborative curating of exhibition
-  collaborative student projects
-  influence of collaborative  strategies onlearning and teaching
practice
-  collaborative manifestos

We invite the submission of abstracts of 500 words by 7th January
2011. Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be invited
to submit full papers (3000-5000 words) in February 2011.  We are
interested in both theoretical papers and ideas for discussion
formats. Please indicate the nature of your submission within
your abstract.

While we expect to publish all submissions in an ISBN
publication, we are also currently in negotiation to develop a
number of appropriate papers into a special issue of The Journal
of Modern Craft.

Please submit your abstract by 7th January 2011 to:
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17-18 November 2011: The Life of New Materials

Paper proposals are invited for a conference on Nov. 17 and 18,
2011 that will explore the lives of the new materials that have
made possible many of the technological advances of our age.
Whether based on plant, metal, chemical, or nano technologies,
the development, use, re-use, and disposal of new materials is an
embedded feature of our industrial society. The focus of this
conference is to understand the relationships from which new
materials emerge, and which they in turn often refashion. We are
especially interested in proposals that focus on the life history
of a new material: its biography, use cycle, place in supply
chains, or features as material culture. We encourage papers to
address the reasons and methods for development of a new
material; its design, manufacture, testing, and subsequent
incorporation into final products or already existing
technologies; its reuse or disposal after completion of its
primary purpose; and its impact - anticipated or not - on
subsequent innovations. Exploration of the creation of new
materials should situate those scientific and technological
processes within the commercial, institutional, or social
contexts that lead to their development.  Papers should be
historical and based on original research, and may consider any
region of the world after 1900. Submissions should include a
brief c.v. and an abstract for the proposed paper that is no more
than 500 words in length. The deadline for proposals is April 1,
2011. Please go to http://www.pachs.net/newmaterials to submit a
proposal. Travel support will be available for those presenting
at the conference.

http://www.pachs.net/newmaterials







10-11 March 2011: Making visible the invisible: Data
Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations
University of Huddersfield, UK

1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline:
December 6th 2010

Keywords: data visualisation, multi-modal visualisation,
sonification, interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability,
ecology

A two-day conversational conference on interdisciplinary
collaboration in data visualisation.

In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data
and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary
collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works
reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based
applications to experimental physical installations. While some
are intended to inform by making the complex and abstract clear
and visual, others focus on the aesthetic quality of the
experience. What many of the works have in common is being the
outcome of collaboration across disciplines.
not only to contribute to the debate around data visualisation
but also to a better understanding of what makes
interdisciplinary collaborations successful. We wish to provide a
platform for open dialogue and discussion across disciplinary
cultures and seek a better understanding of the critical
requirements for interdisciplinary collaboration. We ask what are
the most fruitful conditions for interdisciplinary collaboration?
How can trans-disciplinary understanding be best facilitated?
are seeking contributions that advance the state of data
visualisation through interdisciplinary collaborations. In
particular approaches which include:

- Sensual, aesthetic, poetic and conceptual approaches
- The role of inter-, trans-, or meta-disciplinary collaboration
- Methods, case studies or frameworks that facilitate dialogue
and exchange across disciplines
- Themes around sustainability, ecological literacy or climate
change
- Physical installations that transcend screen-based modalities
- Sonic visualisation and sonification
- Interactive and immersive visualisation,
- Affective visualisation (real time representation of affective
data)
- Aesthetic and semantic investigation of data sets
- Novel interfaces for navigation of data
- Human statistical data (such as bio-signal, biological,
birth-rates, energy consumption)
- Astrophysical data (such as solar wind, cosmic radiation,
planetary motions)
- 'Displays' that make use of natural forces such as light,
water, fog, wind etc. as outputs
- Pollution and environmental data (weather, gravity, volcanoes,
earthquakes)
- Live data (local and remote)
- Neuro-plastic applications
- Open APIs, open platforms, open formats, open hardware

Other relevant works concerning the processes of
interdisciplinary exchange and scientific data visualisation not
directly included in the above categories are also welcome for
submission.

Abstract submissions:

Your abstract should not exceed 300 words and be in rtf
format.
write so that everyone can understand. Reviewers will be from
multiple disciplines.

Please submit your abstract via Easychair > ADS-VIS2011:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsvis2011

Abstract submission deadline is December 6th, 2010, 24:00 h
GMT
authors. Notice of acceptance will be given December 20th. Once
accepted, final submission date of an up to 3000 word (short)
paper is February 16th.


http://www.hohlwelt.com/en/conferences/visible.html







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ANNOUNCEMENTS







SERVICE DESIGN EVENTS

The service design community is scattered all over the world and
has activities going on in several different places. here are 
some.

SDN Berlin: This is the big event of the SDN. A networking
conference, leaning over towards a business, professional and
dissemination kind of event."

http://www.service-design-network.org/content/welcome

ServDes.2010, Linkoeping, Sweden: This is a research conference,
submissions are peer-reviewed in a double-blind process.

http://www.servdes.org/about

SDN Cambridge, MA: A get together for the US network of service
design.

http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2010/09/10/us-service-design-
network-conference/







PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF:
MAKING FUTURES
THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY
AGENDAS
VOL 1. ISSN 2042-1664

AVAILABLE AT:
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/journalvol1

The papers in this Volume represent the results of the first
bi-annual Making Futures international research Conference held
in September 2009 by Plymouth College of Art.

The purpose of the Making Futures Conference series is to improve
understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are
practiced in relation to significant and new emerging agendas
relating to global environmental and sustainability issues. The
objectives include trying to understand whether these 'agendas'
offer opportunities for the crafts to redefine themselves as less
marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society,
through new formulations and/or re-articulations of practices,
identities, positions and markets, in ways that might engage more
closely with contemporary social and cultural needs.

Thirty-nine presentations were selected for the first Conference
programme following a process of double-blind abstract reviewing
by a distinguished peer review panel. By far the overwhelming
majority of presenters (thirty-five) responded positively to the
post-Conference call to publish and all are included in this
volume, accompanied by an introductory essay by Malcolm Ferris,
the Conference Curator.

To ensure the widest possible dissemination Making Futures Volume
1 is published as an open-access academic resource.

PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ALSO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ANNOUNCE:

MAKING FUTURES II THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING GLOBAL
SUSTAINABILITY AGENDAS

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THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL MAKING FUTURES CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD
ON THURSDAY 15TH AND FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2011 AT DARTINGTON
HALL ON THE DARTINGTON ESTATE, DEVON, UK.







Department of Design College of Arts + Sciences, The Ohio State
University

Position title: Associate Professor, emphasis in Design Research.
The Department of Design at The Ohio State University seeks a
faculty member recognized as both a prolific academic researcher
and an expert in user-centered design research processes in
professional practice. Minimum qualifications would include a
terminal master degree (MFA), though a Ph.D. is preferred. An
established or clearly-emerging national and/or international
reputation in the field is expected. Competitive candidates will
possess an extensive academic teaching and research record, and a
long history of involvement in applied design research in the
field. Teaching responsibilities will be predominantly in the
graduate program, and a significant level of graduate committee
advising will be expected. Candidates may possess a
professional/academic background related to one of our current
design disciplines (Industrial, Interior, or Visual Communication
Design), or they may come from an associated discipline, such as
Architecture, Business, Engineering, or the Social Sciences.

Responsibilities:
The appointed faculty member will be expected to actively pursue
research opportunities, and teach undergraduate and graduate
courses related to user-centered design research in a dynamic,
interdisciplinary environment. The faculty member will be
expected to participate in curriculum development, engage in
academic and professional service, and work collaboratively with
internal and external research partners, organizations and
corporations. The faculty member will also be expected to
actively pursue funded research opportunities in his or her area
of interest, and provide service at the Department, College, and
University levels.

Appointment:
Regular nine-month tenure track appointment at Associate
Professor level.

Salary:
Negotiable and competitive, commensurate with experience.

Closing date:
Applications will be considered beginning October 18, 2010 and
continue until the position is filled.

Starting date:
September, 2011.

About the Department:
The Department of Design is located within the College of Arts +
Sciences at The Ohio State University. It is a small and
selective professional program with a respected reputation at the
graduate and undergraduate levels, offering the advantages of a
large and diverse research university. It is associated with the
Advanced Center for Computing in the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at
the graduate level, and offers opportunities for collaborative
research and design activities with corporate partners, design
firms, and other disciplines. For additional information about
the Department, please visit our web site: http://design.osu.edu/

Application:
Interested applicants should submit a letter of application; a
statement of research interest and/or creative activity as it
pertains to their view of the evolving map of design research and
design practice; a curriculum vitae or resume; no more than 20
images representing examples of both professional and student
work (prints and digital files on accessible media); design
research case study reports and/or publications; along with
self-addressed return postage to: Professor Scott Shim Search
Committee Chair Department of Design The Ohio State University
380 Hopkins Hall , 128 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1318
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IxD Faculty Position - Carnegie Mellon

The School
Carnegie Mellon's School of Design is one of the oldest design
programs in the United States, offering undergraduate, masters
and PhD degrees in design. Located in one of the premier research
universities in the world, our School is noted for its core
degrees in interaction design, communication design, and
industrial design, as well as its transdisciplinary masters
degrees with the departments of English (Communication, Planning
and Information Design) and Engineering (Masters in Product
Development) and BHA, BSA and BCSA undergraduate degree programs
which enable students to design hybrid majors between Design and
the humanities, natural sciences, and computer science.

We believe design is central to constructing a better future. In
our teaching and research, we employ design methods that
synthesize an understanding of people and technological
innovation in order to envision products, services, systems, and
environments that meet human needs and desires. In 2009 the
School began a re-visioning process that places design for
society and the environment at the heart of the program,
educating designers as transdisciplinary problem-solvers, and as
catalysts for positive change. The School will launch several new
master's degree concentrations as well as executive and
continuing education programs over the next two years, providing
several opportunities to expand its visionary and collaborative
faculty.

The Position
We seek a dynamic individual with a balance of interaction design
practice and scholarly design research experience to serve our
Master's and PhD students. We will consider specialties
including, but not limited to, the following:

-  Industrial/Interaction design with a focus on physical and
tangible computing, basic electronics, and formgiving
-  Information/Interaction design with a focus on designing for
web and mobile, information architecture, and social and cloud
computing
-  Service/Strategic design with expertise in design synthesis,
diagramming and blueprinting, facilitation, and fundamental
research in service design
-  New media/Interaction design with a focus on motion graphics,
narrative and storytelling, and audio design
-  Strategic design and design planning
-  Design theory
-  Domain expertise such as healthcare, eldercare, public policy,
or sustainability

A candidate with a strong interaction aesthetic, an orientation
to research, and skills in problem framing is sought to teach and
conduct research within and outside of the School of Design. We
are looking for an individual who pushes current boundaries and
explores new territories; thus the ability to forecast, identify
and foster new areas of design research, experimentation and
innovation is key. The position will involve collaboration with
faculty at the School of Design as well as other departments
across the University.

Qualifications
We seek a versatile designer with a significant record of
professional practice, teaching, research publication, and/or
public exhibitions. Candidates should have a Master's or PhD and
professional design practice experience. University-level
teaching experience is desirable. Carnegie Mellon University is
an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunities employer committed to
diversity.

Application to Include
-  Letter of application with design practice, research and
teaching philosophies
-  Curriculum Vitae
-  Portfolio of work (see below)
-  Contact information, including phone numbers for 3 references
(No recommendation letters are required at this time)

Work Samples
Please provide a PDF containing up to 20 standard-size pages of
visual and written documentation of your work. This PDF may also
serve as a guide to additional online, interactive and/or video
materials.

Provide the URL of your web site and your Twitter handle, if
applicable. Sites will be viewed on Safari/Mac OSX with standard
installations of Java and Flash. Include instructions for viewing
select interactive projects, if applicable.

Up to 10 minutes of time-based work may be submitted on DVD-R, or
in a web page with embedded video streams from e.g. Vimeo or
YouTube.

Include samples of published research.

Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of your
materials.

Submit your application via email to:
John Zimmerman, [log in to unmask]

When sending email, please us the following subject: School of
Design IxD Search

Or mail to: Attn: John Zimmerman IxD Faculty Search School of
Design, MMCH-110 Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890

Application Deadline December 6, 2010, or until position is
filled.







29 November - 3 December 2011: The 11th Participatory Design
Conference. PDC 2010.

Sydney, Australia.

Register now to take advantage of Early Bird Registration to PDC
2010

http://www.pdc2010.org/registration/

PDC has a full and varied programme of workshops, tutorials and a
single track of 15 research papers enriched by sessions of
exploratory papers, industry case studies, panels, related art
events and keynote speakers. All this plus a conference dinner
right on Bondi Beach. Check it out at www.pdc2010.org/programme/

Follow us on twitter @PDCSydney. And join us to celebrate the
first PDC to be held in the southern hemisphere!







Beyond Behaviour Change

I would like to inform you of an initiative, and invite you into
a continued discussion with the Beyond Behaviour Change Research
Group that is operating from within the Centre for Design at RMIT
University.

The Beyond Behaviour Change (Beyond BC) research group is
exploring opportunities to facilitate change that move beyond the
current focus on individual resource consumption and behaviour to
consider why and how people consume within a broader social,
cultural, technical and institutional context. Our
inter-disciplinary team of social scientists, material
geographers, industrial designers, urban planners and engineers
takes a unique approach to behaviour change research and
evaluation by shifting emphasis away from individuals (and their
drivers and barriers for change), and onto the social practices
people participate in. The group builds on the recently completed
Australian Research Council Linkage project 'Carbon Neutral
Communities', which included an evaluation of 100 behaviour
change programs.

Drawing on the theory of 'social practices', the group is engaged
in projects and activities that seek to identify avenues for
change that add new dimensions (and establish alternatives) to
familiar economic and psychological approaches and theories
dominating the resource and environmental sectors, such as
rational action, consumer choice, information provision, demand
management and market mechanisms. We see the potential to draw on
practice theory to inform the design of our built world (from
products, architecture and urban planning) to script outcomes for
sustainability.

The team conducts applied research, undertakes inter-disciplinary
projects, supports Higher Education by Research (HDR) candidates,
and provides other collaborative opportunities to engage with the
research agenda, such as through a social practice theory reading
group.

For further information and contact details please visit our
Beyond Behaviour Change web page:

http://www.rmit.edu.au/cfd/beyondbehaviour







17-19 November 2010: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED
ENVIRONMENT Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy

This year's conference will be held in Venice, Italy alongside
the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice
Biennale. The Constructed Environment Conference is a place to
explore the forms and functions of the constructed environment
during a time of dramatic and at times disruptive change. The
conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together
researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the past
character and future shape of the built environment. The
resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the
empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social
idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference
traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue
which encompasses the perspectives and practices of:
architecture, anthropology, business, design, economics,
education, engineering, environmental design, industrial design,
interior design, landscape architecture, sociology, town and
regional planning, and transportation.

The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, entitled People
meet in architecture by Kazuyo Sejima, will be laid out in the
Palazzo delle Esposizioni della Biennale (Giardini) and in the
Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, with 48 participants:
firms, architects, engineers and artists from around the world.
On Wednesday, 17 November, conference participants may register
for a guided tour of both the Arsenale and the Giardini Biennale
exhibits. Additionally, participants may also register for a
guided tour of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, including its
library, archive, museum and exhibition space. To register for
one or both of these tours, please see:
http://constructedenvironment.com/conference-2010/activities-and-
extras/

This year's conference features the following plenary speakers:

-  Kathryn H. Anthony, University of Illinois School of
Architecture, Urbana-Champaign, USA
-  Rene Davids, FAIA, University of California Berkeley School of
Architecture, Berkeley, USA
-  David Mayernik, School of Architecture, University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, USA
-  Cristiano Lippa, Kengo Kuma Laboratory, University of Tokyo,
Tokyo, Japan

For more information about these speakers, please visit the
conference website:

http://constructedenvironment.com/conference-2010/plenary-
speakers

In addition to plenary presentations, the Constructed Environment
Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners,
teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the
conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may submit their written
papers for publication in the refereed 'International Journal of
the Constructed Environment'. If you are unable to attend the
conference in person, virtual registrations are also available,
which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible
publication in the journal.

We also invite you to subscribe to our free, monthly email
newsletter, and to our Facebook, RSS or Twitter feeds at
http://constructedenvironment.com/ .

http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/Conference







26 November 2010: What are the new roles of 21st Century Design
Managers? BRIDGEWATER HALL MANCHESTER UK

GBP45 book at www.mdmn.eventbrite.com

Please find attached information on our second Metamorphosis of
Design Management Workshop & Symposium. This will be exploring
the new roles of 21st Century Design Managers through
presentations from:

-  Rachel Alsbury, Creative Director, Puma International
-  Lorna Wain, Design Adviser, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust
Foundation
-  William Sermon, Director Viadynamics, Vice President Design,
Nokia Multimedia
-  Julian Thomson, Assistant Creative Director, Jaguar Cars
-  Professor Margaret Bruce, Manchester Business School
-  Professor Alex Williams, University of Salford

To book a place at the event please visit www.mdmn.eventbrite.com

Download the flyer

For more information on the Metamorphosis of Design Management
Network please visit

http://www.mdmn.org







Issue 5 of Colour: Design & Creativity
The final content in Issue 5 has now been published

Submit your work to the journal

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]

http://www.colour-journal.org







29 November - 1 December 2010: The First International Conference
on Design Creativity (ICDC2010)

Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa

Panel Discussions: Theme "Directions for Design Creativity
Research" Panelists:

Dr. John Gero (USA)
Dr. Mary Lou Maher (USA)
Dr. Steven Smith (USA)
Dr. Amaresh Chakrabarti (INDIA)
Dr. Yong Se Kim (KOREA)
Dr. Gabriela Goldschmidt (ISRAEL)

32 Podium presentations and 48 Short presentations & Poster
viewing (submitted from 27 countries)

The conference program is now available on the ICDC 2010
homepage:
http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/program1.html

ICDC2010 General Chair Toshiharu Taura (JAPAN)
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on behalf of International Program Committee of ICDC2010 Yukari
Nagai

http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/







28 November 2010: Mediating Practices: Design, Politics and their
Publics

GOLDSMITHS, University of London

The symposium is focused on design as a mediating practice; both
in the narrowcast sense of how it contributes to the production
of new forms of 'media', and, also, in the wider sense that
design is itself a mediatory practice; conditioning the spaces
and objects of our everyday practices and, in and through this,
effecting the way we are, and mediating the very sense of
ourselves, as individuals and communities. So the symposium is
not only focused on the design of media and its objects (this as
well, of course) but also on the way design shapes our ways of
being and belonging more generally.

The symposium speakers will reflect on the political, social,
technological and ecological implications of design interventions
in media, and, also, in mediating the spaces, objects and
practices of living - including its effect on selfhood, public
life and social relations.

In what it addresses the symposium will not merely be focused on
'thin slicing' current media spaces and practices - to study,
analyse and pronounce on contemporary trends and forms - but will
also be concerned with appreciating and having critical purchase
on future possibilities for design (as one of the key agencies
through which our lives are mediated).

All speakers, to a larger or smaller extent, will be concerned
with the possibilities and processes by which futures are gained
- they will be concerned with unpicking the retentive and
protentive dynamics at work in producing what is 'now' (our
contemporary conditions) in order to project thoughts on the
futures (or lack of futures) we are producing.

What is clear is that design is currently encysted within an
unsustainable programme of human development in which future
freedoms and freedoms to have particular futures are rendered
impossible.

In light of this, the speakers will through their different
positions and projects, tease out the ethical imperatives for
design (as profession) and designers (as individuals) in the
choices to be made in producing futures; the ethical imperatives
in the changes that design can effect in setting course for these
futures and in the changes that can (and should) be effected
within design practice to carry through these transformations.
The symposium has speakers from industry and academia, theorists
and practitioners, nationally based and international, who will
present ideas and projects that will address the concerns of
design as a concourse of 'mediating practices'.

This symposium is one of a number that have been organized under
the aegis of the Leverhulme sponsored Media Research Project
based at Goldsmiths (now in the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media
Research Centre (GLMRC)).

This symposium is preceded and linked to a symposium on Saturday
28th November titled ,Mediatizing Public Space'

If interested you may register for either or both symposia. To
register please contact:

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http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-research-centre/events/symposium2010/







The Designed World

Edited by Richard Buchanan, Dennis Doordan and Victor Margolin

The Designed World aims to break down the often rigid boundaries
between history, theory and criticism.

It brings together key essays from the preeminent journal, Design
Issues, structured to cover the life of a designed object from
conception and fabrication to evaluation. The essays are grouped
into themed sections, each separately introduced and concluded
with further reading.

The reader will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars
and practitioners across the field of design.

PB  978 1 84788 585 2

For more information on Berg titles or to request a review copy
please contact: 
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1865 245 104







22-23 November 2010: IE2010: The 7th Australasian Conference on
Interactive Entertainment
Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

The Fish of the Day:
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. The Institute of
Communication Design, Massey University is hosting this exciting
event for the first time in New Zealand. We see this as a unique
opportunity to engage designers, programmer's theorists and
artists at an area, where through play game and interactive
design converge.

Our keynote speakers this year are Katie Salen Professor of
Design and Technology at the Parsons the New School for Design,
leading game theorist and researcher, and author of the "rules of
Play". Locally we are joined by Joe Bleakley,  Art Director for
the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, and a leading
creative force in the New Zealand film and television industry
over the past 30 years.

http://ieconference.org/ie2010







12-13 November 2010: Annual Meeting of the German Society for
Design Theory and Research

Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Designtheorie
und -forschung (German Society for Design Theory and Research) at
the HBK Braunschweig

The 7th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer
Designtheorie und -forschung is dedicated to all the issues and
questions of its members and interested parties focussing on
networking and exchange of information. We have invited members,
providing insight into current research projects, and thereby
also address questions on organisation and implementation. To
accompany, we offer workshops on funding opportunities and
formats. In the section "Design promoviert" we present the
upcoming generation of designers and discuss questions of
promotion opportunities, institutions, and topics. The objectives
of the conference are to strengthen the design community's
exchange and to promote the various fields of design research.

Please find details for registration, program and further
information on:

http://www.dgtf.de/tg-news

http://www.dgtf.de/code/dgtf/Programm_DGTF-Tagung2010.pdf

The conference will be held in German.







Conference announcement

The relationship between driver and passenger behaviour, vehicle
and transport design

As the drain on the earth's resources becomes critical and our
cities more congested and polluted there is a growing emphasis on
the negative impact of vehicles and the need to change not only
vehicle design but the behaviour and expectations of those using
personal and public forms of transport as well. On the one hand
new fuels, manufacturing techniques, lightweight materials and in
vehicle telematics provide opportunities to transform vehicle
design and make it more accessible to a wider range of the
population. This is balanced, on the other, by an increased
awareness of the needs and expectations of the transport user.
Synthesizing these will create the vehicles of tomorrow.

This  conference provides an opportunity for designers,
researchers and other interested parties to show how their
research or designs are addressing future needs and responding to
changes to driver and passenger behaviour. In so doing it is
hoped that new themes and concepts will emerge, which recognise
the invaluable work of designers and ergonomists in this field.

This one day conference will provide an opportunity for delegates
to demonstrate and discuss the issues they are considering in the
design of future vehicles and transport systems, and how their
designs might evolve to reflect the new transport agenda and
greater awareness of driver/passenger issues.

Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:

-  Interior and exterior packaging and styling to accommodate
electric, hybrid and hfc technologies
-  Design challenges in relation to occupants/interface with
other road users
-  Integrated transport and logistics
-  Ergonomics and driver behaviour
-  Vehicle displays, communications and controls
-  Inclusivity
-  Older drivers
-  Sustainability
-  The influence of transport services on user behaviour
-  Transport and emotion

Students posters illustrating concept cars and 'blue sky
thinking' are welcomed. A prize will be awarded to the design
which captures the spirit of what transport could mean in the
future. Students from all HEIs and faculties are welcome to
contribute.

Date of conference: Friday 4th March 2011
Venue: Coventry University Technocentre

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