Hi Sylvia
thanks
i just got an email from them this morning too
not much time to the deadline!
jonathan
On 5 Jul 2011, at 16:13, Sylvia Tzvetanova Yung wrote:
> Dear all, this might be of interest to some of you: call for papers
> for the design education conference in Hong Kong:
>
> DesignEd Asia Conference 2011 – CALL FOR
> ABSTRACTS
>
>
>
> http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2011
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>
>
> 29 and 30 November in Hong Kong
>
>
>
> Jointly hosted by The Hong Kong
> Polytechnic University
>
>
>
> School of Design & Hong Kong Design
> Institute
>
>
>
> The 7th Annual DesignEd Asia Conference
> will be held on 29 and 30 November 2011, Tuesday and Wednesday, at
> the Hong
> Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Co-
> organized with
> Hong Kong Design Centre, the conference is a concurrent event of the
> Business
> of Design Week (BODW). It aims to provide a practical platform for
> international design educators and professionals to share views,
> knowledge and
> experiences on Design Education. Every year, it draws hundreds of
> international
> design educators, design researchers, trend analysts, practicing
> designers,
> design students, and design-related executives.
>
>
>
> As part of the 2-day programme, design
> researchers from international educational institutions will be
> presenting
> papers at the Conference. For those who have been conducting design
> research,
> this is a great opportunity to share pioneering views with other
> professionals
> in the industry.
>
>
>
> Call for Abstracts
>
>
>
> Design is a professional discipline, which
> is to say that design academia is linked to a family of design
> professions, and
> needs to be sensitized to the norms, practices, values and trends of
> these
> professions. Even while preparing students with the skills and
> knowledge to
> perform as design professionals in this industry, design schools
> also must
> imbue students with the curiosity, social and cultural awareness and
> critical
> attitude to question and transform the conventions and assumptions
> of these
> professions through their practice. DesignEd Asia plays an important
> role in
> providing contexts for the testing of radical propositions, the
> gestation of
> transformative strategies and the nurturing of speculative
> approaches that spur
> and inform the continuing evolution of the professional practice of
> design.
>
>
>
> We are seeking papers that propose
> positions on the relationship between design academia and the design
> professions, and demonstrate how these positions are actualized in
> actual
> pedagogical practice and initiatives within schools of design. In
> the selection
> of papers, we aim to achieve a cross-section of the ways in which
> positions and
> approaches vary between different national or regional cultures, and
> between
> design schools with different histories and pedagogical philosophies.
>
>
>
> We invite papers addressing the following
> areas:
>
>
>
> - facilitating the transition between
> academia and industry, including the incubation of student
> entrepreneurs and
> support for commercialization, production and marketing of student
> projects and
> ideas
>
>
>
> - educating for change, including
> curricular and pedagogical approaches that reflect and anticipate
> changes in
> the parameters of the design professions, as well as approaches to
> providing
> students with the skills and knowledge to pro-actively drive change
> in the
> design professions
>
>
>
> - design education beyond the design
> professions, including the rationale, goals and challenges of
> teaching design
> to students in non-design professions, as well as preparing design
> students to
> enter into professional contexts outside of the traditional design
> disciplines
>
>
>
> - dissemination and impact, including
> examples of successful dialogues between design academia and the
> design
> professions that have led to positive impact on some aspects of
> professional
> practice
>
>
>
> Review Process for Abstracts and Full
> Papers
>
>
>
> Submissions are invited on significant,
> original, and previously unpublished cases and research in the above
> areas. The
> abstract will be reviewed on a double blind basis. The accepted
> abstracts will
> be invited to submit a full paper with maximum 4,000 words in length
> that will
> be reviewed again for a final paper submission.
>
>
>
> The accepted papers will be published in
> the conference proceedings, and the authors will be invited to make
> a 25-minute
> presentation including Q & A at the conference.
>
>
>
> Submission of an Abstract
>
>
>
> • Presenters’ names and affiliations (contact details,
> organization, etc)
>
>
>
> • An abstract limited
> to 500 words and a bibliography
>
>
>
> To make a submission, please sign up via
> the online conference system: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2011/openconf/
>
>
>
> For updated information, please visit our
> conference website:http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2011
>
>
>
> Contact Us
>
>
>
> Enquiries about Paper Submission: [log in to unmask]
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> Enquiries about the Conference: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Hope to see you in Hong Kong! ;) sylvia
> Important Dates
>
> Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31
> July 2011 (Sun)
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