Members of the list may be interested in a workshop I will be running at IASDR2011, 31 Oct 2011. Please note that this is the definitive version of the call, superseding the one shown on the conference website.
SHAPE: DRAWING MAKING SCRIPTING
Topic: Shape creation through dynamic design descriptions and their implications for authorship and practice in design.
Organizers:
Chris Earl - The Open University
Gareth Paterson - Umeå University
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Workshop committee:
Larry Sass - MIT
Ellen Yi-Luen Do - Georgia Tech
Bob Sheil - The Bartlett
Mine Özkar - Istanbul Technical University
Hsien-Hui Tang - National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Volker Mueller - Bentley Systems, Incorporated
Kristina Niedderer - University of Wolverhampton
Tavs Jorgensen - University College Falmouth
Anna Valtonen - Umeå University
Objectives, content and format:
Processes of making and shaping have returned as concerns of the professional designer. While designers have traditionally created the shape of their designs through static descriptions, such as drawings, now that CAD has evolved into CAD/CAM (and shape may even be generated through scripting) their practices begin to resemble those of the artisans and craftspeople they replaced.
Shaping objects is of course a fundamentally human activity. From the earliest stone hand-axe to the beginning of the industrial revolution we have been defined by our ability to make objects and to shape our environment. However, as creating shape may now involve many interwoven layers of explicit and implicit, physical and virtual, direct and indirect processes, and shape creation by end-users is becoming a distinct possibility, questions arise about the contribution made by actors other than ‘designers’ (such as constructability constraints, for example) to the final shape of a design.
It is timely therefore to examine the nature of authorship in contemporary shape creation. To this end this workshop is proposed as a forum for discussion of the implications of current shape creation practices. It will bring together participants who share a common concern in this area, such as practitioners and researchers from architectural, product, automotive and engineering design, and other stakeholders such as digital craftspeople or software developers.
The workshop itself will consist of a single three hour session, framed around a discussion of presentations of (at most) five peer-reviewed papers. These may focus on one, or more, of the following questions:
- On a practical level, where and when can available design descriptions be employed to greatest effect, and how might they be linked?
- How much of the shape of a design is intentional (due directly to the designer), and how much is emergent (due to scripts, tools, materials or descriptions)?
- Is there an unacknowledged continuity in shape generation practices which has been masked by the linking of design with drawing? Has the craft element of design, in fact, ever gone away?
- How are ideas put into practice in the context of tacit knowledge and the constraints of physical and virtual media? How are ideas operationalised in design?
Paper format and length:
Papers should be submitted in the conference format if possible. A template is available at http://www.iasdr2011.org/downloads/IASDR2011%20paper%20template.dot. As shape creation is a primarily visual activity, and the knowledge employed in it may often be tacit in nature, submissions will also be considered which do not conform to the conference format. These should demonstrate a more appropriate way of recording and reflecting on the non-verbal aspects of shape creation however.
All submissions will form the basis for a 10-15 min presentation to be given at the workshop. Papers should be between 4 and 8 pages, and a maximum of 3,000 words in length. Two copies are required in PDF format: one complete copy with the author’s name and contact details in place, and an identical one with these removed. Both should be submitted to [log in to unmask] by Mon 3 Oct.
Dates:
Submit papers by Mon 3 Oct
Notification of acceptance Mon 17 Oct
Papers distributed Mon 24 Oct
Workshop Mon 31 Oct
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