Ken! Best from Iceland at the moment.
Could you please remove me from this postlist?
I do not seem to be able to do that myself and this postlist is filling my mail server. All old mails return to my box however I delete them.
Best to Australia
Dori

Professor Halldór Gíslason,
Oslo National Academy of the Arts,
Oslo, Maputo, Reykjavik,
Personal Website: http://www.dorigislason.com/
Work Website:
http://www.khiodesign.com/
Academy Website:
http://www.khio.no/

On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Ken Friedman wrote:

> Swinburne Design: Creating Value for Business and Industry
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> The Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology is
> appointing a high profile Professor of Industrial Design for leadership
> in a preeminent design school with an international reputation for
> research. The Professor of Industrial Design will contribute to
> innovation and excellence in research, teaching, and learning in the
> discipline in the Faculty and through national and international
> collaboration.
> 
> We seek a strong professional designer with solid teaching experience.
> We also seek demonstrated ability in applied research to develop the
> discipline, working with business and industry in Australia and around
> the world while.
> 
> For application information, please go to the Swinburne web site and
> click on External Jobs:
> 
>  http://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/hr/jobs/index.htm
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> The Faculty of Design
> 
> Our purpose is to sustain our world by leading a philosophy of
> respectful design.
> 
> At the Swinburne Faculty of Design, we focus on design as thought and
> action for solving problems and imagining new futures. We emphasize
> strategic design to create value through innovative products and
> services.
> 
> Creativity, critical inquiry, and ethics guide the Swinburne philosophy
> of respectful design. We value understanding, empathy, and appreciation
> for people, for nature, and for the world we shape through design. Our
> designers, researchers, and graduates work serve business, industry, and
> the public sector. We base our actions and choices on sustainability
> principles for positive social and economic outcomes. 
> 
> The Faculty of Design emphasizes rigorous research for effective
> results in today’s challenging design profession. All new appointments
> to the academic staff have a PhD degree. Teaching, creative practice,
> and research are the foundation of robust professional education. We
> expect senior staff to have a strong research profile, and we expect
> junior staff to demonstrate the potential for innovative research. Our
> emphasis on published research enables us to share what we do with
> Australia and with the world.
> 
> Academics and administrators at the Faculty of Design are “design
> people.” Our culture is: equitable, respectful, creative, innovative,
> resilient, vibrant, and inspired. We state our focus in four words:
> “Design respectfully, grow responsibly.”
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> Our Beliefs
> 
> - We work with design as a way of thinking and working to create
> preferred outcomes.
> 
> - We offer research-led, theory-informed, practice-relevant design
> education. 
> 
> - We inspire people with the power and potential of design.
> 
> - We deliver the highest quality in education and experiences for
> individual students. 
> 
> - We embrace sustainability principles to underpin all our activities.
> 
> - We nurture an equitable community that enables people to flourish.
> 
> - We work with industry, government, and community to create new
> possibilities.
> 
> - We grow stronger by internationalizing everything we do.
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> Professional Education
> 
> The Faculty of Design offers 3-year professional Bachelor of Design
> degrees and 4-year honors degrees in Communication Design, Industrial
> Design, Interior Design, and Digital Media Design. We share the Bachelor
> of Engineering (Product Design Engineering) with the Faculty of
> Engineering and Industrial Science. We also offer a Bachelor of
> Design/Bachelor of Business double degree as well as the Bachelor of
> Communication. Many students undertake industry practice as part of
> their degree work.
> 
> The Faculty of Design includes the Swinburne School of Film and
> Television. The School offers a Bachelor of Film and Television and a
> suite of industry-specific undergraduate and postgraduate programs with
> strong industry links. Swinburne graduates are employed in many areas of
> the film and television profession.
> 
> The Faculty of Design offers postgraduate courses and the MDes in the
> design disciplines and design anthropology.
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> Research Education
> 
> The Faculty of Design offers the PhD and the MDes by Research. We have
> one of the world’s best PhD programs in design with strong supervision
> and one of the highest completion rates in Australia.
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> Swinburne Design Factory
> 
> The Swinburne Design Factory is an industry-focused, university-wide
> research center for staff and students from all faculties. The Design
> Factory is built on the highly successful ‘Living Lab’ model
> pioneered at Aalto Design Factory in Finland. We collaborate closely
> with Design Factory living labs at Aalto University in Helsinki and at
> Tongji University in Shanghai. 
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> Research at Swinburne Design
> 
> Our research takes place through the National Institute for Design
> Research with research in neuroaffective design, cultures-based
> innovation, strategic design, and design education. We have 25 tenured
> academics: 10 senior researchers and 15 early career researchers as well
> as 20 doctoral research fellows. Our research focuses on theory and
> practice of industrial design, communication design and strategic
> design, along with design history and management. We also engage in
> multi-disciplinary research involving collaboration with colleagues in
> such diverse fields as business, information communication technology,
> and psychology.
> 
> In 2008, Swinburne made the strategic decision to focus on traditional,
> empirical research methods and outcomes with publication as the standard
> measure of research quality. Design research at Swinburne provides
> business, industry and government with empirical research for innovation
> and development, creating strategic opportunities for manufacturing
> through research in the cognitive components of artefacts, neurological
> measures of aesthetic response, and understanding of visual recognition
> and affective processing. Our researchers develop new and profitable
> business models by successfully capitalising on such new fields as
> augmented reality and social media.
> 
> Swinburne works with Delft University of Technology, Cambridge
> University and Vienna University in Project UMA, a global research
> program in neuroaffective design funded by the Dutch National Science
> Fund with a 1,500,000 Euro grant, the largest grant ever awarded for a
> pure research project in design.
> 
> Swinburne has also hosted highly influential conferences on strategic
> design, design thinking, participatory innovation and cultures-based
> innovation, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Victorian
> Endowment for Science, Knowledge, and Innovation, Design Victoria
> (VESKI), and the Victorian state government. 
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> Design and Research with Impact
> 
> Professors at Swinburne Design influence business, industry, and
> government through publications, invitations to speak at state,
> national, and global forums, and advisory roles for state and federal
> government. At Swinburne, you will work with the Chairman of VTT
> International – the Technical Research Center of Finland, the
> President-Elect of the International Institute for Information Design in
> Vienna, the Past President of the International Council of Graphic
> Design Associations, the recent Thinker in Residence for South
> Australia, and the Vice President of Cumulus, the international
> association of art and design schools, along with the editors and
> editorial board members for 6 of the top 12 research journals in design.
> Swinburne experts have undertaken studies on design policy,
> manufacturing policy, innovation and industry for the governments of
> Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, as
> well as for the state governments of South Australia and Victoria, and
> the Australian Office of Prime Minister and Cabinet.
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> For application information, please go to the Swinburne web site and
> click on External Jobs:
> 
>  http://www.swinburne.edu.au/corporate/hr/jobs/index.htm
> 
> For further information, please contact:
> 
> Professor Ken Friedman
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> Telephone +61 3 9214 6449
> 
> or
> 
> Stephen Langdon
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> Telephone +61 3 9214 6509
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