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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 17 Number 3 Jun 2012 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o New DRS Special Interest Group
o Contents of 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
There has been an unavoidable gap in publishing Design Research
News this year, but here at last is the latest edition. We'll try
to get them out regularly from here on. Many thanks to those who
have written to me recently wanting the publication to continue -
thank you for your kind support.
David Durling - Editor
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InclusiveSIG
New SIG Inclusive Design Research Special Interest Group
(InclusiveSIG)(WP)
The Inclusive Design Research Special Interest Group
(InclusiveSIG) aims to provide an international platform for
researchers, design practitioners, design educators and students,
and the general public to exchange knowledge about inclusive
design and to empower wider participation in design.
The main aims of the InclusiveSIG are:
1. To build and advance knowledge of inclusive design and
research
2. To share best practice in contemporary design, research,
education, and public engagement
3. To keep pushing the boundaries of inclusive design and
explore its potential in different contexts
InclusiveSIG runs workshops at the DRS and other inclusive design
conferences, and its members organize themed workshops in
different locations. It publishes a newsletter on a fortnight
basis and also runs a facebook discussion group
(http://www.facebook.com/InclusiveDesignResearch). You are warmly
invited to join the InclusiveSIG. If you are interested, please
contact Dr Hua Dong
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http://www.designresearchsociety.org/joomla/sig2/inclusive-sig.
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DESIGN STUDIES AWARD
We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2011 Design Studies
Award, for the best paper published in the journal. Theaward is
to be made to Arlene Oak (University of Alberta, Canada) for her
paper 'What can talk tell us about design?: Analysing
conversation to understand practice', published in Vol. 32, No.
3, pp 211-234; doi:10.1016/j.destud.2010.11.003
The Design Studies Award is made annually, jointly by the Design
Research Society and the journal publishers, ElsevierScience. It
comprises a certificate and a prize of #500. The criteria for the
Award, in order of priority, are: contribution to the development
of the field of design research, originality of research or
scholarship, breadth of relevance, and clarity and style of
presentation. Votes for the Award are cast by the journal Editors
and a group of Officers of the DRS.
Abstract
This paper considers how the conversational aspects of design may
be examined from perspectives associated with
micro-sociology/social psychology: Symbolic Interactionism (SI)
and Conversation Analysis (CA). Since many aspects of design
involve face-to-face talk, this paper argues that an SI-informed
CA offers an effective approach to understanding how
communication and negotiation are central to design. Through
analysing excerpts of talk (an architect meeting with a client,
and a design-education critique) we can see how the collaborative
nature of conversation contributes to understandings and
assessments of objects. This discussion outlines how SI and CA
can help delineate the processes that link the details of
interaction to the wider social conditions and constraints that
impact upon the practices and objects of design.
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DESIGN STUDIES
Contents of Volume 33, Number 1 (January 2012)
Editorial
Nigel Cross
Pages 1-3
Quality perceptions of design journals: The design scholars'
perspective
Gerda Gemser, Cees de Bont, Paul Hekkert, Ken Friedman
Pages 4-23
Understanding design research: A bibliometric analysis of Design
Studies (1996-2010)
Kah-Hin Chai and Xin Xiao
Pages 24-43
Accommodating disagreement: A study of effective design
collaboration
Janet McDonnell
Pages 44-63
The psychological experience of prototyping
Elizabeth Gerber and Maureen Carroll
Pages 64-84
User activity - product function association based design rules
for universal products
Shraddha Sangelkar, Nicholas Cowen and Daniel McAdams
Pages 85-110
Acknowledgement of referees
Page 111
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X
Contents of Volume 33, Issue 2 (March 2012)
Characterising affordances: The descriptions-of-affordances-model
Auke J.K. Pols
Pages 113-125
An online affordance evaluation model for product design
Shih-Wen Hsiao, Chiao-Fei Hsu, Yin-Ting Lee
Pages 126-159
Redesign for product innovation
Shana Smith, Gregory Smith, Ying-Ting Shen
Pages 160-184
Towards an integrated generative design framework
Vishal Singh, Ning Gu
Pages 185-207
Methodological insights from a rigorous small scale design
experiment
Philip Cash, Edward Elias, Elies Dekoninck, Steve Culley
Pages 208-235
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/271099-1-s2.0-
S0142694X12X00024
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CALLS
The Design Journal 16:4 ('Dezain no genjo: Design in contemporary
Japan')
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 29 August 2012
Few nations have seen the public image of their design and
manufacturing sector change so quickly and drastically as Japan
since 2000. Postwar Japan's manufacturing-intensive economy and
promotion of private consumption fostered the development of
design industries - product, fashion, graphic, vehicle, textile,
furniture, etc. - as integral to product development and
promotion. After 1990, these now-established design industries
faced new conditions such as decreasing domestic spending,
offshore manufacturing, domestic disasters and the influx of
digital technology.
Today, as 'minimalist good design' and 'kawaii' continue to
dominate perceptions of the nation's products and aesthetic
worldwide, general and industry media alike regularly report on
Japan's decline vis-a-vis the rise of Korea and China as emerging
leaders in electronics and other key industries. The
manufacturing sector's troubles - related also to the 3.11
disaster, subsequent power disruptions, the high yen, lowered
domestic consumption and a somber mood nationally - have only
added to the challenges facing designers, both independent firms
and in-house design divisions.
Against this difficult terrain for some established design areas,
however, Japanese fashion retains its global cachet amongst
consumers of high-end and street fashion alike. And newer design
industries such as game, service and interaction design continue
to take advantage of digitisation, the global popularity of anime
and manga and design's increased draw for business and policy to
shape digital and physical experience in new ways.
This special issue of The Design Journal will explore the current
state of key design disciplines and industries in Japan today,
and investigate potential next steps and directions that they
might take. It invites proposals that identify and critically
analyse the present and future of particular industries or
issues, both established and emerging. Submissions that map the
impact of recent change on design industries and identify
strategies developed by actors for adapting, even thriving, in
new circumstances, are particularly welcome.
Specific design disciplines/industries discussed might include:
- 'Traditional' modern design disciplines such as furniture,
product, industrial, fashion, textiles, graphic/communications,
vehicle, interior, set/stage/film, packaging, advertising, craft
and engineering design
- New and emerging areas such as service, game, information,
animation, interaction and digital design more broadly.
- Design within traditional/vernacular crafts industries
- Design education in the above areas
In addition to providing insight into changing conditions in
Japan, the special issue may provide insight into readers' local
conditions and inform current and future design-led innovation.
Now, as the future of manufacturing, global competition, consumer
spending and fundamental change in the structure of financial
institutions and government make headlines worldwide, new
technologies such as additive manufacturing are again changing
design practice, and innovation and creativity are promoted as
fuel for economic development and regional revitalisation on a
much larger scale, an inquiry into how designers in Japan are
reacting and contributing to these larger changes can have great
relevance for designers, students, policy makers, manufacturers
and educators worldwide.
To these ends, contributions that explore issues such as the
following are particularly welcome.
- the impact of societal, technological, economic, geopolitical
and natural shifts such as outsourcing, globalisation, the rise
of China and Korea as design and manufacturing centres, ageing,
shoshika, digitalisation, new materials including nano- and
bio-materials, concerns for sustainable practice and the 3.11
disaster on design practice, manufacturing, consumption and
attitudes towards design and commodities.
- government policies that directly address design industries or
directly/indirectly impact them, e.g. 'Cool Japan' and regional
manufacturing support and development schemes
- the adoption of 'design thinking' as a concept and practice
within business in Japan
- 'dezain' as a practice, method or stance, e.g. 'seikatsu
dezain'
- amateur/public use of design techniques and tactics for
political activism, local regeneration activities, etc.
- the emergence of amateur/public design culture, e.g. Design
Festa
- design in Japan in the economic and geopolitical context of the
larger North-East Asia region - China, South Korea, Taiwan,
Russia, etc.
- the contextualisation of current design practices and issues
within a historical framework, for example in comparison to
earlier periods
Contributions that combine empirical research with critical
analysis and open-ended questioning, that contextualise events
and conditions in Japan within larger regional and global trends
and shifts and that demonstrate awareness of Japan as one site
for design, manufacturing and consumption within global networks
are especially invited.
Ultimately, the special issue seeks to situate design practice
and issues in Japan within a wider global context, so that they
might serve as comparisons and catalysts for reflection and
discussions on how design can best adapt to changing conditions
globally, today.
Successful papers will be published as a special issue of The
Design Journal, with publication scheduled for December 2013.
Established in 1998, The Design
Journalhttp://www.bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/
TheDesignJournal/tabid/3650/Default.aspx<http://www.
bergpublishers.com/BergJournals/TheDesignJournal/tabid/3650/
Default.aspx> is an international refereed journal covering all
aspects of design. The journal welcomes articles on design in
both cultural and commercial contexts and provides a forum for
design scholars, professionals, educators and managers worldwide.
It publishes thought-provoking work that will have a direct
impact on design knowledge and that challenges assumptions and
methods, while being open-minded about the evolving role of
design.
HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL:
To propose an article, please e-mail a 400 word abstract of the
proposed paper, along with a one-page CV, to the guest editor,
Sarah Teasley, at
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
The closing date for proposals is 29 August 2012. Successful
authors will be notified by 12 September 2012, and asked to
submit the full article for peer review. An invitation to submit
a full article does not guarantee publication.
Schedule for authors:
Deadline for submission of title and abstract: 29 August 2012
Draft article submission: December 2012
Revised article submission: February 2013
Final copy submission: March 2013
Any inquiries regarding the special issue should also be directed
to Sarah Teasley at
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
12-14 December 2012: Design and Crime conference
Sydney, Australia.
This is a conference for designers interested in social issues.
Criminologists, social workers and those working with
disadvantaged groups know a lot about the roots of crime but have
a problem translating this into practical outcomes on the ground.
CCTV, high fences and increased surveillance have a place in
crime reduction but design should (and can) offer much more. The
conference includes specialist steams in urban living, transport,
retail, late night economy and counter terrorism. All design
disciplines are welcome to contribute to and learn more about
this important and fast developing domain.
Abstract topics might include:
Changing criminal behaviour through design
Reducing the fear of crime through design
New technologies employed to reduce crime
Healthy and safe cities
Relationship of urban planning and housing design to crime
Lessening alcohol related violence and anti-social behaviour
Graffiti in cities and public transport
Safety in public places and mass gathering sites
Theoretical concepts related to crime prevention and design
Designing products to limit theft
Reducing theft in retail outlets
Reducing ecommerce crime through software design
New supermarket technologies and security
Evaluating CPTED
Integrating crime issues into design education
Crime prevention campaigns and design
Empowering communities in crime prevention programs
Environmental attitudes to crime prevention
Security and privacy issues related to crime prevention
Close of Abstracts mid July
Notification to Authors early August
Final paper submission September 28th
FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS AND CONFERENCE DETAILS:
www.designandcrime.com
6 September 2012: Aalto Studying and Improving Design Practice
Symposium 2012
Aalto University Toeoeloe campus, Helsinki, Finland
Synopsis:
Join our symposium on the future of product design in Aalto
University. This event is aimed for both researchers and
practitioners of design. We present the selected local and global
research in the area. We present two international keynotes on
the empirical studies of design practice at global companies by
Stanford University (U.S.) and KTH (Sweden) researchers. Two
Aalto research projects, LUTUS and VISCI share their results from
collaboration with leading Finnish design companies.
Call for participation:
Researchers: if you would like to present your own results from
industry collaboration in this event, please submit a 100 word
abstract for Lassi Liikkanen via email (contact below) by first
of August (1.8.2012).
Details:
In this event you will learn and discuss the latest and upcoming
research in product design. Get inspiration for your own research
or ideas for developing your product design organization.
Learn how design practice can be studied and improved
successfully. Meet researchers and progressive company R&D people
Our guest speakers are:
PhD Ingrid Kihlander, Concept Leader at Volvo, recent graduate
from KTH, Stockholm
Ingrid studied decision making processes at Volvo in close
relationship for several years. She will share her experiences
of improving design practice through research.
Joachim Lyon, PhD student at Stanford University, working with
Prof. Pamela Hinds at Center for Work, Technology & Organization.
Joachim has been observing design practices at global design
companies for several years and will discuss emerging findings
from a study of design practice across continents and between
functional departments within organizations.
Location:
At Aalto Toeoeloe campus, downtown Helsinki, Finland. Aalto
School of Economics, Arcadia building (Adress: Lapuankatu 6) Map
Room OP-Pohjola (E-107)
RSVP & updates:
Register (for free) to reserve your seat and meal in this
exciting event in September in Internet:
http://hiit.fi/designPractice2012
9 November 2012: Swiss Design Network SDN Conference 2012:
"Disruptive Interaction", Lugano, Switzerland
Disruptive Interaction
This year's Swiss Design Network Conference 2012 in Lugano
focuses on the dialectical relationship between design and
disruptive ideas, practices and innovations.
In particular, we recognize that interaction and interactivity
have become core concepts, questioning and reshaping a world of
rapid change in society, sciences and technology. In addition,
one could argue that design and design processes from all design
fields - including fashion design, visual communication, interior
design, industrial design, product design, and so forth - share a
dominant role in making proposals for future interactions between
the built world, human beings and systems. Thereby interaction
and interactivity - in the sense of interaction design or in a
broader sense as social interaction between actors - currently
appear as promising concepts for the discourse of disruption and
radical change in economy, culture, politics etc.
What do designers do to fundamentally change accepted rules (or
to completely remove them) or to radically change the context and
the environment in which theses rules operate?
How do designers re-think and hack the taken-for-granted? How do
they create and communicate new perspectives on the use of
existing artifacts? How do they invent new ways of participation
and how do they visualize the obvious and the unforeseen? How do
they disrupt their own ideologies? How do designers react to and
interact with disruptive changes and innovations? Further, do
designers disrupt or will they be disrupted?
The conference is looking for projects which identify, describe
and invent design practices, processes, methods and strategies
which provide the potential for sudden and substantial change in
value systems. "Disruptive Interaction" aims to investigate and
discuss the capability, the responsibility and the agency of
design in areas of disruptive change.
Call for papers
We invite designers, researchers and scholars to present their
work at the SDN Conference 2012. We are looking for high quality
research papers in the field of design and design research to be
published in the on-line conference proceedings. Submitted
abstracts and papers must contain original research that has not
been previously published and is not concurrently submitted for
publication elsewhere. The conference official language is
English and all material must be submitted in English.
Submissions and review process
The process for submission is organized in two stages: submission
and review of extended abstracts, and final submission and
revision of full papers. You need to submit an abstract to be
considered for further submission of a paper. Based on the review
of the abstracts, a recommendation for submission of either short
or full papers will be given. Short papers are 3000 words, full
papers are 5000 words in length. The peer review process is
organized by Swiss Design Network.
Contact
http://www.swissdesignnetwork.idk.ch/index.php/2011-11-24-09-49-
44/2012-05-14-14-49-13/call-for-papers
INTERIORS: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE - Berg Publishers
2011 Best New Journal Award - presented by the Council of Editors
of Learned Journals
Call for Articles - Special Issue 4.3
EXPERIENCING THE EVERYDAY
The guest editor Lynn Chalmers (University of Manitoba) invites
contributions to the journal's 2013 special issue 'Experiencing
the Everyday'.
Our understanding of the everyday is ambiguous; the everyday
resides in the deeply habituated, repetitious and familiar,
things that are readily overlooked and easily maligned. Residues
of the everyday persist in the interior and mark our experiences
and memories of place; the worn carpet that evokes childhood, the
smell of familiar rooms. The designed interior is most often
modeled and photographed emptied of signs of everyday life,
distanced from lived experiences. However the everyday is more
than nostalgia and has room for possibility, for new experiences
and perceptions associated with mobility & resistance;
transgressive visions, revolutionizing everyday lives by small
design interventions. The everyday is authentic and anonymous,
present-but-persistent and indeterminate.
Submissions should examine the possible, existing or lost
experiences of the everyday interior with reference to the
following provocations:
- reclaimed practices
- daily rituals associated with social technologies
- designing for the everyday
- vernacular spaces, personal artifacts and practices
This Special Issue of Interiors explores practices and spaces of
the everyday.
The editor welcomes submissions of articles addressing the topic
of the Experience of the Everyday broadly defined. Submissions
reflecting the latest research on the interior from historians,
practitioners and theorists are particularly welcomed. Principal
articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words, including notes and references,
with 4-8 illustrations are invited, and should be sent as an
attachment to [log in to unmask] by AUGUST 31st, 2012.
Further details of the Journal, including Notes for Contributors,
are available at www.bergjournals.com/interiors
<http://www.bergjournals.com/interiors>
If you have any queries about the Journal or about submitting an
article, please contact us on this email address:
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14-17 May 2013: DRS // CUMULUS Oslo 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2nd International Conference for Design Education
Researchers, Oslo, Norway
Organised by
-Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences,
Faculty of Technology, Art Design -DRS (Design Research Society)
-CUMULUS (the International Association of Universities and
Colleges of Art, Design and Media).
This international conference is a springboard for sharing ideas
and concepts about contemporary design education research.
Contributors are invited to submit research that deals with
different facets of contemporary approaches to design education
research. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. This
conference is open to research in any aspect and discipline of
design education.
Conference theme:
DESIGN LEARNING FOR TOMORROW - DESIGN EDUCATION FROM KINDERGARTEN
TO PhD
Designed artefacts and solutions influence our lives and values,
both from a personal and societal perspective. Designers,
decision makers, investors and consumers hold different positions
in the design process, but they all make choices that will
influence our future visual and material culture. To promote
sustainability and meet global challenges for the future,
professional designers are dependent on critical consumers and a
design literate general public. For this purpose design
education is important for all. We propose that design education
in general education represents both a foundation for
professional design education and a vital requirement for
developing the general public competence for informed decision
making.
We invite submissions along the following themes:
- Philosophy of design education
- Design curriculum
- Design knowledge
- Design education for non-designers
- Research informed designed education
- Design education informing research
- Multidisciplinary design education
- Challenges in design education methods
- Assessment
- eLearning
- Internationalisation of design education
We are also seeking expression of interest to conduct workshops
and symposia.
We especially welcome early career researchers, PhD candidates
and Master students with work in progress.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Intention to submit a Paper
Proposals for papers in English should contain the following:
- Proposed paper title
- Summary of proposed paper including a description of
methodology used (200 words max)
- Up to 4 bibliographical references (on top of the 200 word
limit)
- First and second choice conference theme for the proposed
paper
Intentions to submit will be submitted online at
http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus. Paper proposals will not be
reviewed, but brief feedback will be given.
FULL PAPERS
Full papers should be between 4000-6000 words. This is a general
design education research conference and it is expected that a
wide variety of work-in-progress or finalized research will be
reported.
However, irrespective of the range and stage of your research,
the organizers expect the highest standards of scholarship in
terms of establishing context, explicating the methods of
inquiry, and reporting results that may aid other researchers
and/or practitioners.
To preserve anonymity, author names should NOT be identified in
the body of the paper. Authors should be referred to in the text
or notes in the third person only. Papers must be previously
unpublished.
Papers can be submitted online at http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus
Proceedings from the conference will be published online. Please
see the conference website http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus for
detailed guidance about submitting a full paper.
We are pleased to announce a partnership with the Scientific
Journals:
- FORMakademisk
- Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education
- TechneA
- Design and Technology Education
The journals will publish special issues with articles selected
from papers and keynote lectures presented at the conference.
Proposal for Workshop and Symposia, submission guidelines
- Working title
- Responsible person and for Workshop/Symposia also list
contributors' names and affiliation
- Aim and content (400 words)
http://www.hioa.no/eng/content/download/17215/186423/file/
call_DRS_CUMULUS2013Oslo_May18.pdf
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS "ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT & IDDS"
SPECIAL SESSION AT CIB's WORLD BUILDING CONFERENCE, ON:
ARCHITECTURAL MANAGEMENT & IDDS; Improving Societal Performance
of Architectural Design through Better Collaboration and
Integration with the Aid of Information Technology and Knowledge
Management.
The CIB working commissions W078 Information Technology for
Construction, W096 Architectural Management, and W102 Information
and Knowledge management in Construction, together with the Core
Group CIB's pro-active theme Integrated Design Delivery
Solutions, united in organizing a special session at the WBC
titled: "Architectural Management & IDDS; Improving Societal
Performance of Architectural Design through Better Collaboration
and Integration with the Aid of Information Technology and
Knowledge Management."
Abstracts are invited concerning:
- The integrated architectural design
- Design process integration and
- collaboration
- Improving societal performance
http://www.re-h.tudelft.nl/fileadmin/Faculteit/BK/
Over_de_faculteit/Afdelingen/Real_Estate_and_Housing/doc/
AMIDDS_WBC_2013.pdf
Visit http://worldbuildingcongress2013.com/ for more information
about the CIB World Building Congress, to be held on May 5-9 in
Brisbane, Australia, and instructions for submitting abstracts.
Please submit your abstracts by selecting AMIDDS as the option
under the 'CIB Task Group / Commission number' drop down box at
the submission page of the WBC.
International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation
We would like to inform you that a new journal called
International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation (Taylor
& Francis) will be launched in January 2013.
The journal is currently accepting manuscripts for review.
This journal aims to provide a forum to discuss the nature and
potential of design creativity and innovation from both
theoretical and practical perspectives.
Please find the details on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/7edbqs7
Feel free to contact us if you are interested in submitting your
manuscript to this journal.
Journal of Design History
The Design History Society wishes to invite individuals who can
make a distinctive and dynamic contribution to the development of
design history to apply to join the Editorial Board of the
Journal of Design History. The Journal, which is published by
Oxford University Press in partnership with the Society, is the
pre-eminent journal in its field and works to extend the
international and interdisciplinary significance of the subject.
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/design/design25.1.
back_matter.pdf
Closing date is 30 June 2012. The same ad is in the latest issue
of the Journal.
EMF 2012 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
About the Event
Electromagnetic Field 2012 is a three-day camping festival in the
UK for people with an inquisitive mind and an interest in
science, engineering, DIY, technology, arts, or crafts. It will
be a cross between a tech conference and a music festival, with
talks and workshops on a wide range of subjects. A great
opportunity to meet like-minded people, to learn, to teach, to
play, and have a drink with a stranger. A festival for anyone
interested in 3D printing, DIYBio, textiles, electronics,
Internet culture, music hacking, space, lockpicking, homebrewing,
computer security, robots, UAVs, mind hacking, radio, and pretty
much anything else you can think of... in a field!
http://www.emfcamp.org
Talks
A 1h presentation about a topic in science, engineering, DIY,
technology, arts, or crafts. The allocated time includes Q&A,
setup, and teardown.
Workshops
A 1h, 2h, or 3h workshop involving practices in science,
engineering, DIY, technology, arts, or crafts. The allocated time
includes setup and teardown.
We hope to have enough desk space and chairs for everyone, but
details are yet to be determined. If you prefer to hold
open-ended workshops then we encourage you to start or join a
village: see below for details.
Performances
Musical performances, DJ sets, artistic performances, general
evening entertainment, ...
We will provide a stage area in a tent and a basic PA.
Villages
Villages are dedicated camping areas for particular groups, with
shared access to power and Internet. You can form a village for
your local hackerspace, art form, project, or any other
community. This makes it easier for people to get to know each
other and encourages collaboration while at the festival, be it
for cooking sessions or to build ambitious installations.
Villages are not planned through our submissions system. Instead
you can register your village here:
http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Villages
You may also be interested in our mailing list and IRC channel:
http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Contact
Venue Details
EMF 2012 is a camping festival in a field. The venue is Pineham
Park, near Milton Keynes in the UK.
We plan to have two event tents with an audience capacity of
about 100 each, both with access to power and Internet, each with
a projector, and at least one of the tents will have a PA for
larger presentations. We also aim to have camp-wide wifi, and
ethernet ports in key locations.
We will attempt to stream the talks and performances and publish
the recordings after the event.
Budget and Travel expenses
The EMF camp is a non-profit event produced entirely by
volunteers, and speakers are not paid. Unfortunately we can not
subsidise your entry ticket, and we do not have a travel budget
for contributors either; due to the nature of the event we expect
that everyone pays. We may be able to make a few very rare
exceptions, but don't count on it.
Dates and Deadlines
The deadline for submission is Friday 29 June 2012, 23:59 UTC.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by e-mail as early as
possible, but on Friday 13 July 2012 the latest.
Electromagnetic Field 2012 is held between Friday 31 August and
Sunday 2 September 2012.
Submissions
All proposals for talks, workshops and performances must be
submitted online using our submission system at
http://pentabarf.emfcamp.org/submission/EMF2012. Please follow
the instructions, and state if you have special requirements
besides the basics mentioned there. If you have any questions
regarding your submission you can contact us at
[log in to unmask]
For more details about the event in general see our wiki at
http://wiki.emfcamp.org
Please note that much of this may be subject to changes, in which
case we will make corresponding announcements. To stay up do date
follow @emfcamp, or have a look at our mailing list and IRC
channel: http://wiki.emfcamp.org/wiki/Contact.
First call for the Nordes 2013 conference in Copenhagen/Malmoe
2013
Experiments in Design Research: Expressions, Knowledge, Critique
Design is closely affiliated with the experimental, which is as
an exploratory and probing undertaking. What does this mean in
the context of design research? Today, design research relies on
various and divergent notions of design experimentation and ideas
about their value and use. In one corner, experimentation is
conceived of as designerly exploration into, for instance,
materials, technologies, and expressions. In another corner,
design experimentation is shaped according to
hypothetical-deductive models of knowledge production inherited
from science and engineering. Yet, in a third corner, design
experiments are explored as a means for promoting social change
or as a critique of political and ethical values. For instance,
this can take the form of critique through fiction and utopias.
This raises a set of central questions for design research: How
is design experimentation similar and different from
experimentation in other research fields and areas? What is the
relation of exploration vis-a-vis experimentation in design
research? How is it possible, if at all necessary, to provide a
consistent account of research methods underlying experimental
design research? How can design experiments be staged other than
as highly idealized probing situations? What is the role of
design experiments as aspects of a critical aesthetic practice?
Nordes 2013 invites designers and design researchers to explore
the many aspects of design research as experimental practice.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:
- Objects of design experiments
- Experimental expressions
- Design experiments as critique
- Experiments in design research versus those in science and art
- Methods of experiments in design research
- Staging experiments
- Places of design experiments
- Experiments in design education
Nordes 2013 invites contributions that experiment with the
conference formats and experimental papers/presentations will
receive special attention.
All submissions should be in English. All submissions are subject
to double-blind peer review by at least 2 reviewers. Accepted
contributions should be revised according to the review reports
and the language should be checked by a native English speaker.
Important dates
December 1, 2012: Submission system opens
December 20, 2012: Submission deadline for:
- Full papers
- Exploratory papers
- Exhibition artifacts/installations/performances
- Workshop proposals (workshop participation will be advertised
later)
- Doctoral consortium
March 20, 2013: Author notification
April 20, 2011: Submission of final versions
Full papers
The Nordes 2013 conference invites original papers on various
forms of experimentation within design and design research. Full
papers must be of the highest international standard and
contribute significantly to research and practice within design.
Nordes 2013 aims to be a multidisciplinary forum for emergent and
current research areas influencing the various design
disciplines. Full papers should be 10 pages including
illustrations, figures, and references. Papers will undergo
double blind peer-reviews and accepted papers will be presented
in the conference programme and published in the conference
proceedings. The proceedings will be available as an open access
online database during and after the conference.
Exploratory papers
We invite the submission of exploratory papers that include
design cases, position papers, work in progress, and emerging new
research areas which may yet lack solid theoretical foundations,
but point towards exciting new directions for design research.
Exploratory papers should be 4 pages, including illustrations and
references. Exploratory papers will undergo double blind
peer-reviews and accepted papers will be published in the
conference proceedings. The proceedings will be made available as
an open access online database during and after the conference.
Workshops proposals
Workshops at Nordes 2013 will enjoy a central position. The
ambition is to create common experiences and to provide different
kinds of platforms for exchaning new ideas. A day in the middle
of the program will be researved for workshops and all conference
participants are expected to take part in at least one workshop.
We especially invite proposals where the format encourages active
participation by the workshop attendees or which demonstrates new
ways of how experiments can be explored in a workshop setting. A
workshop can, for instance, take the form of on-site enactments,
excursions, tutorials, studios, discussion sessions, etc. A
workshop proposal should be maximum 2 pages and state its
purpose, a tentative programme for the day (or half a day), how
attendees are accepted for participating in the workshop (e.g.
through artifacts or position papers, or just by signing up),
requirements for the physical setting and materials.
Exhibition
Through the Nordes 2013 exhibition we wish explore ways that the
display of works of art, craft, and design can become a prominent
venue for exchanging ideas and understanding. Artists, designers,
and researchers will be able to present their work to the
conference attendees in dedicated exhibition sessions. We invite
submissions of artifacts, installations, and performances
documented via pictures, videos, or links to websites. A two-page
paper explaining how the exhibition artifact relates to the
conference's overall theme of experimentation should accompany
each submission. Paper and visual documentation will be included
in the conference proceedings and made available through an open
access online database during and after the conference.
Doctoral consortium
The doctoral consortium is an opportunity for doctoral students
to get feedback on their projects from some of the prominent
researchers and fellow doctoral students within the field of
design research. It is also an excellent chance to get to know
others in the same situation or to meet again after last year's
NORDES summer school. The doctoral consortium will take place
immediately before the formal opening of the conference.
Participants will be chosen based on the quality of their
submissions. Submissions should be 4 pages and can be published
in the proceedings if the PhD studen wish it. The proceedings
will be made available as an open access online database during
and after the conference.
http://www.nordes.org/index.php?Conference
A WORLD IN MAKING
CITIES CRAFT DESIGN
Guest edited by Suzie Attiwill
Following the recent closure of Craft Australia, the e-journal
craft + design enquiry has relocated to the Australian National
University (ANU) where it is hosted by the ANU School of Art
(with Australia Council for the Arts funding assistance) and will
be published by ANU e-press commencing with c+de#4 mid-year.
During this relocation period, information about craft + design
enquiry - past issues, policies, personnel and submission
guidelines can still be found on the Craft Australia website at
www.craftaustralia.org.au/cde By the end of this year, all
archival material on c+de will be migrated to the ANU and be
available on the ANU e-press website at www.epress.anu.edu.au
To assist with relocation arrangements, the current Call for
Papers (c+de#5) has been extended to 30 October 2012 as outlined
below. This issue will be published by ANU e-press in mid-2013. -
Jenny Deves, Managing Editor craft + design enquiry
c+de#5 call for papers:
A WORLD IN MAKING
CITIES CRAFT DESIGN
Guest edited by Suzie Attiwill
On 12 March 1913, a naming ceremony took place in an empty
paddock on a hill. This rural environment was to become a city,
the capital city of Australia, the city of Canberra. The
aspirations and the projections of the Griffins' winning design
for Canberra are an example of a world-in-making involving the
practices of design and craft. This issue of craft + design
enquiry will be published in 2013 - 100 years after this event
and when, for the first time in history, more than half the
world's population lives in cities. By 2030, this will increase
to at least 60% with significant growth happening in cities of
developing countries and the emergence of meta-cities with 20
million inhabitants. 'The twenty-first century will be known as
the century of the city'. (Tibaijuka, 2010).
This issue of craft + design enquiry will focus on and highlight
the role, contribution and potential craft and design practices
make to the urban environment as well as the transformation of
these practices * a world in making.
'The thing is what we make of the world. ... Things are our way
of dealing with a world in which we are enmeshed rather than over
which we have dominion. ... It is our way of dealing with the
plethora of sensations, vibrations, movements, and intensities
that constitute both our world and ourselves' ... 'We make
objects in order to live in the world'. (Grosz, 2009, pp.126 &
128).
Nuances of craft - a practice which values making and materiality
* will be foregrounded in the selection of papers for
publication. This emphasis on craft does not exclude design so
much as bring attention to practices of design which engage ideas
of making and materiality, where there is a sense of a hand(s) in
making, a valuing of haptic encounters and an attention to the
relation between people and surroundings. From small to large
scale projects, from individuals to communities, an intimate
approach to the question of how people inhabit and transform the
urban environment is invoked. What are the potentials in this
century of the city for craft and design practices? What is the
contribution of craft and design to cities and live-ability? What
might a craft sensibility bring to urban inhabitation? What of an
expanded idea of craft practice as a way of working and thinking
which addresses spatial and temporal urban conditions? What of
the emergence of new forms of practices to engage in the
condition of the urban environment and the social, political and
cultural forces of the twenty-first century?
Academics, practitioners, research students and others are
invited to submit research papers and critical project works. A
definition of research as 'the creation of new knowledge and/or
the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to
generate new concepts, methodologies and understandings*
(Australian Research Council, 2011) is reiterated here to
highlight the criticality of 'new and creative' in relation to
research and to encourage the submission of research through
craft and design practice, as well as about craft and design
practices situated in a world in making - 'the century of the
city'. Authors are also encouraged to consider the inclusion of
visual material as research.
- Suzie Attiwill, Guest Editor craft + design enquiry #5
Steps to submitting a paper for c+de#5
This issue of craft + design enquiry will be published by ANU
e-press mid-2013. The Call for Papers now closes on 30 October
2012.
Step 1:
Suzie Attiwill (Guest Editor) welcomes discussion with potential
contributors to the fifth issue. She asks contributors to submit
a brief outline of their ideas for papers (200 words) from now
until 30 June 2012. She will respond promptly to contributors
about their proposed papers. Send your brief outline to
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For inquiries relating to the call for papers and/or proposed
submissions contact [log in to unmask] For
administrative inquiries please contact [log in to unmask]
Step 2:
Following advice from Suzie Attiwill, contributors are required
to complete and submit their final papers by 30 October 2012.
Email to [log in to unmask]
craft + design enquiry Guidelines for Authors remains available
at www.craftaustralia.org.au/cde and is supplemented by ANU
e-press Information for Authors at www.epress.anu.edu.au
Suzie Attiwill is Associate Professor and Program Director,
Interior Design, RMIT School of Architecture and Design. Suzie
has an independent practice involving the design of exhibitions,
curatorial work, writing and working on a range of
interdisciplinary projects in Australia and overseas.
Publications include: 'Urban and Interior: techniques for an
urban interiorist' Urban Interior. Informal explorations,
interventions and occupations Germany: Spurbuchverlag, 2011;
'Spatial Relations' in Making Space: artist run initiatives in
Victoria Australia: VIA-N, 2007; co-editor with Gini Lee,
'INSIDEOUT' IDEA Journal 2005, Brisbane: QUT Press, 2005. From
1996 to 1999, she was the inaugural Artistic Director of Craft
Victoria and editor of Craft. Suzie is the current chair of IDEA
(Interior Design/Interior Architecture Educators Association) -
www.idea-edu.com, a founding member of the Urban Interior
research group - www.urbaninterior.net and a member of the Design
Institute of Australia.
References:
Australian Research Council, March 2011
http://www.arc.gov.au/pdf/2011_presentations/decra0311.pdf.
[Accessed 13 April 2011].
Grosz, E., 2009. 'The Thing'. In F. Candlin & R. Guins, eds. The
Object Reader. London & New York: Routledge.
Tibaijuka, A.K., 2010. Inaugural Address UN Pavilion Lecture
Series, Shanghai World Expo 2010 - Better Cities, Better Life.
Tibaijuka was then Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, the United
Nations agency for human settlements.
http://www.unhabitat.org/content.asp?cid=8273&catid=560&typeid=8&
subMenuId=0 [Accessed April 24 2011].
http://www.craftaustralia.org.au/cde
Architecture, Evidence and Evidentiality, a special issue of
Architectural Theory Review (to be published as Volume 18, Number
1, March 2013)
Edited by William Taylor, Andrew Leach & Lee Stickells
Call for Papers:
Conceptually, evidence differs from material, matter and content
for its relationship with a problem. Evidence offers proof in
support of a position, a fact or a path of inquiry, or it
provokes one to search out a question that relates the newly
known to the established. This is as true for architectural
historians correcting chronologies, repopulating narratives or
recasting contexts as it is for critics and theoreticians of
architecture bringing new questions or perspectives to bear upon
architectural works and themes.
Material, matter and content that is not yet framed by a problem
may not be evidence as such, but it is nonetheless latently
evidential. The field of proof and provocations against which
architecture is defined as an institution, discourse, profession,
technique or elsewise is evidence for the question of what
architecture is, shaping its edges (or arguing their porosity),
and determining relationships between architecture and other
fields. Making for the presence or absence of evidence, the term
'evidentiality' describes the various historical, philosophical,
legal, social and political contexts in which forms of proof
acquire 'objective', demonstrative and moral value. The
evidentiary potency, usefulness and value of material, tangible
and otherwise, is therefore--like the border between latent and
actual evidentiality--constantly under revision.
Whereas the material and matter of architecture one way or
another shape architectural practice, culture and discourse,
evidence has a subject. Evidence of what? For what? Evidence is
clearly associated with reason (and reasoned proof), but it is
also, easily, the stuff of debate, dispute and doubt. In contrast
with what might seem to be architecture's most obvious issues, as
defined by media and by debate within and beyond architectural
culture, the consideration of evidence, in relation to problems
in the knowledge and conceptualisation of architecture, and in
and of itself, is more likely to be the stuff of cloistered
debate on scholarly methods and fine-grained historical analysis:
the cost of bricks, the contents of libraries, corridors shared,
drawings lost and found, telling words uttered carelessly. But
evidence comes into play whenever someone thinks to check on some
grandiose and uncorroborated claim made for architecture or by
the everyday uncertainty at stake in design methods, quantity
surveys, post-occupancy surveys and other recipes for making
architectural 'facts' on the ground. What counts as evidence can
be the basis for expertise as well as the nearly always taken for
granted.
This issue of ATR will consider matters of evidence for
architecture where they reflect (as theory and criticism) on
architecture's limits, content and extra-architectural
relationships and (as history) the shape of its past and its
relation to the present. It will reflect upon evidence and
(coming as much the same thing) what counts as evidence in all
manner of transactions in architectural culture. By treating
moments in which a heightened awareness of the evidentiary value
of the material tabled as proof or provocation has an impact on
architecture, be it significant or subtle, immediate or remote,
ATR opens evidence and the theme of evidentiality to review.
In particular, we invite papers that take a piece or body of
evidence as their object of review, exploring and exploding the
matters at stake in seeing something as evidence in particular.
We encourage contributions that explore connections between
architecture, evidence and evidentiality in relation to
architecture history, theory, criticism and practice. Papers
investigating categories of evidence and modes of evidentiality
that establish or problematize relations between these domains of
activity are particularly welcome.
As an additional thematic for authors to ponder, this call for
papers invites submissions that consider the idea and meanings of
'a crisis state' as part of architecture's social imaginary and
litmus of its contestability. What fields of evidence come to
bear upon architecture in moments and matters of crisis? And how
does architecture figure in those moments, as evidence?
Completed manuscripts should be submitted to Architectural Theory
Review by the 17th of September, 2012, via the journal's website.
Queries regarding the special issue should be directed to Lee
Stickells: [log in to unmask]
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13264826.asp
5-6 December 2012: 3rd Call for Papers: HWID2012 working
conference on "Work Analysis and HCI", Copenhagen, Denmark
Deadline for submissions: August 1st, 2012.
Hosted by Copenhagen Business School
Venue: Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Solbjerg Plads 3,
DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark
Theme, Scope and Focus:
The HUMAN WORK INTERACTION DESIGN 2012 (HWID 2012) working
conference analyzes the combination of empirical Work Analysis
and Human computer interaction (HCI).
Human work analysis involves user goals, user requirements, tasks
and procedures, human factors, cognitive and physical processes,
contexts (organizational, social, cultural). In particular in the
HCI and human factors tradition, work is analyzed as end-user
tasks performed within a work domain. The focus is on the user's
experience of tasks (procedures) and the artefact environment
(constraints in the work domain). Hierarchical Task Analysis
(Annett & Duncan, 1967) and Work Domain Analysis (Salmon,
Jenkins, Stanton, & Walker, 2010) are among the methods that can
be used to analyse the goal-directed tasks, and map the work
environmental constraints and opportunities for behavior. In
addition, there is a strong tradition in HCI for studying work
with ethnographic methods (Button & Sharrock, 2009) and from
socio-technical perspectives (e.g., Nocera, Dunckley, & Sharp,
2007). These approaches focus on work as end-user actions
performed together with other people in a field setting, that is,
the user's experience of using systems are social and
organizational experiences. User experience, usability and
interaction design are influenced by these approaches and
techniques for analyzing and interpreting the human work, which
eventually manifests in the design of technological products,
systems and applications.
The working conference will present current research of human
work interaction design and industrial experiences in a wide
spectrum of domains such as medical, safety critical systems,
e-government, enterprise IT solutions, learning systems,
information systems for rural populations, etc. The relevant
domains not mentioned here could also be considered.
The purpose of the working conference is to enable practitioners
and researchers to analyze the relation between empirical work
analysis and HCI/user experience. After the conference, a limited
number of selected papers will be published in an IFIP Springer
book. We expect the participants will be people from industry and
academia with an interest on empirical work analysis, HCI,
interaction design and usability and user experience in work
situations and at the workplace. The working conference will be
conducted in a good social atmosphere that invites to openness
and provides time to reflection and discussion about each of the
accepted papers and cases.
We are interested in submissions that discuss the before
mentioned aspects of work analysis and how the results of these
manifests in the design of technological products, systems and
applications. Also, today generic designs are applied to
use-situations with very different purposes, as using the same
social software or game for work and leisure situations. Thus,
design shifts from design of a technology to design of various
use-situations encompassing the same technological design, and we
find that there is a need to discuss the relations between work
analysis and design in both situations.
The topics include, but are not limited to:
- Techniques and methods for mapping the relations between work
analysis and interaction design
- Translating (Cognitive) Work Analysis to Interaction Design
- How work analysis can feed HCI testing and evaluation
- Work analysis and HCI in medical and safety critical ICT
- Work analysis and HCI in business contexts
- Work analysis and HCI in enterprise-level systems
- Work analysis and HCI in e-government services
- Work analysis and HCI in Mobile Devices
- User experience in work situations and at the workplace
- Design cases bridging the gap between work analysis and
interaction design
- Socio-technical theory and HCI combined
- Work analysis and HCI in cultural contexts
- The concept of Work Analysis (Enid Mumford, Tavistock, "work
style", HCI work analysis, cognitive work analysis, more)
- Theory for relating interaction design and work analysis
- Synergies between work analysis and model-driven interface
development
- Evolution of interface models in accordance to evolving human
activity systems
- Impact of emerging interaction technologies in human work
practice
Submission guidelines:
We invite two types of papers:
- Full research papers (10 pages)
- Industry - case studies & work in progress (4 pages)
For submissions to the working conference, the authors must use
the LNCS templates and style files available from
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-
0#anchor10. Download paper template with format specifications:
typeinst.doc. All papers should be in the working conference
publication format and sent as both pdf and MS Word files to
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[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by August 1st 2012. An IFIP
Springer copyright form must be filled in for each paper. They
can be downloaded from http://www.springer.com/series/6102.
Acceptance notification for conference papers:
Notification of acceptance will be provided by 1st October 2012.
All accepted papers will be published in the working conference
proceedings in the form of an electronic copy with ISBN and made
available to the participants.
Selection of Papers for IFIP Springer Book:
During the review process, the reviewers are asked to evaluate
(also among papers from industry and students) whether the paper
is suitable for an IFIP Springer book. We aim at most accepted
full research papers to be included here, but also the
possibility to have a very interesting perspective from industry
or similar represented. This IFIP Springer book will be available
after the conference. In addition, four to five papers will be
selected for further development for a special issue in the
International Journal of Socio-technology and Knowledge
Development.
About the conference:
The Human Work interaction Design (HWID) working conference is
organized by IFIP TC 13.6 working group, see http://hwid.cbs.dk/.
The 1st HWID conference was organized at Madeira, Portugal in
2006 (Clemmensen, Campos, Orngreen, Pejtersen, & Wong, 2006). The
2nd HWID conference took place at Pune, India in 2009 (Katre,
Orngreen, Yammiyavar, & Clemmensen, 2010). In continuation with
this series of the IFIP WG 13.6 on Human Work Interaction Design,
the 3rd HWID conference will be held at Copenhagen, Denmark on
5-6 December 2012.
https://sites.google.com/site/hwid2012/
6 September 2012: Aalto Studying and Improving Design Practice
Symposium 2012
Aalto University Toeoeloe campus, Helsinki, Finland
Synopsis:
Join our symposium on the future of product design in Aalto
University. This event is aimed for both researchers and
practitioners of design. We present the selected local and global
research in the area. We present two international keynotes on
the empirical studies of design practice at global companies by
Stanford University (U.S.) and KTH (Sweden) researchers. Two
Aalto research projects, LUTUS and VISCI share their results from
collaboration with leading Finnish design companies.
Call for participation:
Researchers: if you would like to present your own results from
industry collaboration in this event, please submit a 100 word
abstract for Lassi Liikkanen via email (contact below) by first
of August (1.8.2012).
Details:
In this event you will learn and discuss the latest and upcoming
research in product design. Get inspiration for your own research
or ideas for developing your product design organization.
Learn how design practice can be studied and improved
successfully. Meet researchers and progressive company R&D people
Our guest speakers are:
PhD Ingrid Kihlander, Concept Leader at Volvo, recent graduate
from KTH, Stockholm
Ingrid studied decision making processes at Volvo in close
relationship for several years. She will share her experiences
of improving design practice through research.
Joachim Lyon, PhD student at Stanford University, working with
Prof. Pamela Hinds at Center for Work, Technology & Organization.
Joachim has been observing design practices at global design
companies for several years and will discuss emerging findings
from a study of design practice across continents and between
functional departments within organizations.
Location:
At Aalto Toeoeloe campus, downtown Helsinki, Finland. Aalto
School of Economics, Arcadia building (Adress: Lapuankatu 6) Map
Room OP-Pohjola (E-107)
RSVP & updates:
Register (for free) to reserve your seat and meal in this
exciting event in September in Internet:
http://hiit.fi/designPractice2012
International Journal for Researcher Development
Call for Papers
International Journal for Researcher Development is the first
international journal devoted exclusively to the scholarship of
researcher development. The interpretation of "researcher" is
wide and includes research students and other early career
researchers, established researchers, those for whom research is
a component of their work, experienced and distinguished
researchers, and those who aspire to be researchers.
Coverage Includes
- original empirical research
- research practice
- scholarship of research
- social and cultural aspects of research
- conceptual analyses
- policy analyses
- theoretical perspectives within the context of researcher
development
Submissions via ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online submission and
peer review system. Registration and access available at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijrd
Any questions can be sent to the Editor: Professor Linda Evans,
University of Leeds, UK. E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Journal homepage: www.emeraldinsight.com/ijrd.htm. For more
information on Emeralds Education Journals and Books, go to:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/ss/education.htm
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17-19 April 2013: 10th Conference of the European Academy of
Design
Crafting the Future, Gothenburg
Important dates:
Submission of full paper: September 15, 2012
*Notification of acceptance or revision: November 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2012
Conference date: April 17-19, 2013
TOPIC - The theme of the conference is designer's practice
knowledge. How can the specific knowledge of designers be brought
forward, articulated, made visible and be understood and used in
contexts like innovation, business developmente and social
change?
We are coordinating a track within the above mentioned EAD
conference and are inviting submissions on the topic:
MAKING TOGETHER - Open, Connected, Collaborative The track will
reflect on changes in creativity and production, traditionally
seen as the province of professional design but now driving new
ways to work, socialise, be creative and live across society.
This is informing the emergence of novel design scenarios to
create products and services (e.g. personal manufacturing, peer
production, fablabs, crowd sourcing, collaborative business
models) on many levels: people, companies, organisations,
institutions, communities.
Design is challenged with new business models, long tail markets,
new networked organisations, diffused distribution,
non-technological innovation, that are underpinned by new ways to
manufacture and design products and services. Creative
practitioners are increasingly working both through direct
creative input and through facilitating new processes. Design and
creativity can in fact rethink and give meaning to tools and
technologies that help people connect, understand, share and
create. Design is also taking the position of facilitator and
enabler where in the past it was a technological gatekeeper.
Although pervasive, this topic is still emerging and being
explored, both from an academic perspective (underlining the
theoretical bodies that can help such approach emerge), and from
the perspective of practitioners (detailing the development of
systemic and collaborative projects). Examples can be found in
Service Design, Transformation Design, Open Design. Moreover
these phenomena are underlining a revolution in work and human
relationships, mirroring a move to more distributed,
collaborative processes.
Can collaborative practices trigger new business models and new
innovation in products and services? How can collaborative making
enabled by social technologies be explored/practiced/developed
from a design perspective? What are the
implications/benefits/impact of collaborative making for design?
How may the boundaries and role of design be re-defined? Can
designers design collaborative networks?
http://www.craftingthefuture.se
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
4-5 December 2012: DesignEd Asia Conference 2012
at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Jointly organised by School of Design of The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Design Institute (member of VTC
Group) and Hong Kong Design Centre, the DesignEd Asia Conference
aims to provide a practical platform for international design
educators and professionals to share views, knowledge and
experiences on Design Education. The Conference has come to its
eighth year in 2012. It draws hundreds of international design
educators, design researchers, practicing designers, design
students, and design-related executives every year.
There will be a two-day programme featuring presentations, panel
discussion, workshops and paper presentations on major topics of
Design Education. The presentations and research papers will
bring you inspirations in design education, and allow you to
better prepare for the new challenges that lie ahead for design
educators.
The DesignEd Asia Conference is one of the key events under the
week-long program of Business of Design Week (BODW). Organised by
Hong Kong Design Centre, and supported by HK Trade Development
Council, and Create Hong Kong of the Government of the Hong Kong
SAR, BODW is an inspiring must-attend ideas exchange platform for
Asia's most innovative thinkers and business
leaders.
Organisers:
School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
Hong Kong Design Institute, Member of VTC group
Co-organiser:
Hong Kong Design Centre
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Liveable Cities research team
Our ambition is to create an holistic, integrated, truly
multi-disciplinary city analysis methodology, which uniquely
integrates wellbeing indicators, is founded on an evidence base
of trials of radical interventions in cities, and delivers the
realistic and radical engineering solutions necessary to achieve
our vision.
Our vision is to transform the engineering of cities to deliver
global and societal wellbeing within the context of low carbon
living and resource security through developing realistic and
radical engineering that demonstrates the concept of an
alternative future.
Our research objectives are: to understand how cities operate and
perform in terms of their people, environment and governance,
taking account of wellbeing indicators, followed by synthesis
into a city analysis methodology; to establish how city
performance relates to the vision of low-carbon living, working,
conserving and consuming; and to develop realistic and radical
engineering solutions as robust city design solutions that are
generally applicable.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lcfullresearchteam
24 August 2012: International Glass Symposium:
'Architecture and the Artistry of Glass'
Venue: School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton
As part of the 2012 International Festival of Glass this one-day
symposium entitled 'Architecture and the Artistry of Glass'
explores the relationship between glass and architectural forms
whether in terms of building materials or the artist wedded to
architecture.
The symposium brings together artists and designers whose
international profiles are distinguished: John Lewis, the
Californian sculptor and architectural artist; Danny Lane whose
furniture and sculpture ranges from the domestic to the
monumental; Brent Richards, award winning architect in the field
of glass technology; Tomasz Urbanowicz, the Polish architect and
Architectural Glass artist creating large-scaled kiln-formed
glass compositions; and Keith Cummings who has pioneered kiln
forming over the past 45 years and has been active as a teacher
and practitioner. Their work sits within the architectural
environment as structure, membrane or object. These artist's
notions of transparency and solidity exert a particularly
seductive and tenacious hold on the imagination, and the
relationship that is produced between glass and architecture is
at its most sophisticated when their technical limitations are
transcended.
Writing in 1931, Walter Gropius presciently observed: 'Glass is
the purest form of building material made from earthly matter. It
can mark the limits to spaces, it can protect us against the
weather, but at the same time opens up spaces, it is light and
incorporeal. Although glass as such has been known to us for many
years, it is the technical age we now live in with all its modern
manufacturing processes that has rendered this substance one of
the most valuable materials of our day and of the future. Glass
architecture, until recently deemed purely utopian, is now a
reality.'
By their expression the invited speakers have produced work that
have changed the way we view the world. The artists here know
that these intangible things are at the heart of what they
produce. The mastery of their medium combined with the intangible
are what astounds us in their work. This symposium explores their
thinking and delves into their methodology.
Contact: Dr Max Stewart on: [log in to unmask]
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/artanddesign/glassbiennale
The American Society for Cybernetics, working with the Bateson
Idea Group, is pleased to announce our joint conference to be
held in Asilomar, California, 9 to 13 July 2012. The title of the
conference is "An Ecology of Ideas". Please visit the web site at
www.asc-cybernetics.org/2012
for further information. A major (but not exclusive) intention is
to move forward from Bateson's work, which will provide a major
focus.
Our conference directly precedes the ISSS conference (round the
corner in San Jose, California) on the theme "Service Systems,
Natural Systems" which you can check out at
http://isss.org/world/index.php
The current issue of Design and Culture has been released and
available online.
Design and Culture
The Journal of the Design Studies Forum
Volume 04, Issue 01 | March 2012
ARTICLES
Dark Arts: Designed Communications and a New Rhetoric of
Authenticity| DANIELLE INGA [ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/%E2%80%9Cdark-
arts-designed-communications-and-a-new-rhetoric-of-authenticity/
Worldmaking: Working through Theory/Practice in Design | SHANA
AGID
[FULL TEXT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/worldmaking-
working-through-theorypractice-in-design/
[pdf]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/dsf/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/
agid_worldmaking_berg.pdf
Simmel's Handle: A Historical and Theoretical Design Study |
SIEGFRIED GRONERT
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/simmels-handle
-a-historical-and-theoretical-design-study/
LOCATING DESIGN
Keen House: Scale and the Architectures of Enthusiasts | STEPHEN
KNOTT
"I Have Seen the Future": Norman Bel Geddes' "Futurama" as
Immersive Design | NICOLAS P. MAFFEI
Socialism, Urbanization, and Nobel Burek in Ljublijana | FRANC
TR
The Evolving Terrain of the Book: Ariel Malka's Javascriptorium |
LESLIE ATZMON
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Design Museum Holon, Israel | BOBBYE TIGERMAN
Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s |
CATHERINE L. FUTTER
The Global Africa Project | BARBARA A. BEALL-FOFANA
BOOK REVIEWS
Picture This: World War I Posters and Visual Culture | PEARL
JAMES
Japanese Fashion: A Cultural History | TOBY SLADE
Design as Politics | TONY FRY
Interior Design: A Critical Introduction | CLIVE EDWARDS
Textile Futures: Fashion, Design, and Technology | BRADLEY QUINN
Lycra: How a Fiber Shaped America | KAORI O'CONNOR
Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe)
Story | PAUL SHAW
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal/
International Journal of Design
Contents
Beyond Surprise: A Longitudinal Study on the Experience of
Visual-Tactual Incongruities in Products
Geke D.S. Ludden, Hendrik NJ Schifferstein, Paul Hekkert
The Influence of Visual and Tactile Inputs on Denim Jeans
Evaluation
Osmud Rahman
I Knew I Shouldn't, Yet I Did It Again! Emotion-driven Design as
a Means to Motivate Subjective Well-being
Deger Ozkaramanli, Pieter M. A. Desmet
Design Case Studies
Designing for Unexpected Encounters with Digital Products: Case
Studies of Serendipity as Felt Experience
Rung-Huei Liang
Challenges of Doing Empathic Design: Experiences from Industry
Carolien Postma, Elly Zwartkruis-Pelgrim, Elke Daemen, Jia Du
The Quality of Design Participation: Intersubjectivity in Design
Practice
Denny K L Ho, Yanki C Lee
Perspectives
Supporting Creativity Within Web-based Self-services
Elizabeth Mara Gerber, Caitlin Kennedy Martin
http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/
Announcing the second of two issues on the theme of 'Beyond
Progressive Design'
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY PAPERS 1/2012
Anne-Marie Willis with Sean Donahue, Rama Gheerawo, Editorial:
Beyond Progressive Design 2
Oliver Vodeb, 'Beyond the image and towards communication: an
extra-disciplinary critique of the visual communication
profession'
Jan-Henning Raff & Gavin Melles, 'Design without designers:
thinking everyday design practice'
Eva Koppen & Christoph Meinel, 'Knowing people: the empathetic
designer'
Pirkko Raudaskoski, 'Beyond words: design for people with severe
brain injury'
Yoko Akama, 'A way of being in design: Zen & the art of being a
human-centred practitioner'
Petra Perolini with Tony Fry, 'Home eco-nomy: dwelling,
destruction & design'
http://desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html
Craft Research vol. 3 - Now available from Intellect
Craft Research
The search for craft's identity: Examining the continuing effect
of technology on the craft industry
About the journal
Craft Research aims to advocate and promote current and emerging
craft research, and to portray and build the crafts as a vital
and viable modern discipline that has a vision for the future.
It is this future vision that is of special concern in this issue
with the focus on the effect of technology on the craft industry
and the opportunities technological developments present. The
contributions demonstrate the continued desire for defining the
identity ofcraft while at the same time highlighting how craft is
evolving by opening up and contributing to cross-disciplinary
working.
Contributions
Alla Myzelev's account of the Ukrainian peasant craft revival on
the verge of World War I explores the nature of craft in
ahistorical context, investigating how craft revival and
avant-garde innovations merged to create objects that combined
traditional peasant skills with innovative Suprematist
compositions. Sarah Kettley's article explores the seven
'foundations of craft' that emerge through a discussion on a
programme of research in which contemporary craft was reflexively
employed as a methodology for designing digital jewellery.
Through this she demonstrates that the question of the identity
of craft is not merely a historical question but is as relevant
today, with crafts people themselves reflecting on the nature of
their practice and how established ways of working can
incorporate new technologies to express the true spirit of craft.
Victoria Mitchell's review of Sir Christopher Frayling's book On
Craftsmanship revisits historical perspectives on ideas of craft
and craftsmanship and in many ways provides a link between
Myzelev's historical account and Kettley's investigation.
The influence of digital technologies upon craft is a strong
theme throughout the issue. Both Brent Richards in his 'Craft and
Industry' report and Jane Harris' paper on the development of
digital craft paint a positive picture of the influence
technology can have, leading to abroader definition of 'craft',
and the influence craft skill can have on wider realms of
practice and industry. Rachel Philpott further demonstrates the
new opportunities presented by digital technologies for textile
makers to extend the sphere of craft by exploiting the potential
of CAD/CAM to create complex and innovative outcomes. Her
discussion is mirrored in the two makers' reviews - Michael Eden
(ceramicist) and Rebecca Riisberg (textile designer; reviewed by
Anne-Louise Bang). Emma Shercliffe's review of the Textile
Research in Practice (TRIP) conference and Pat Dillon's review of
the 'Lost in Lace' exhibition demonstrate how traditional domains
are being re-interpreted. This volume also includes an article by
Otto von Busch on the craft do guitar-making and a review by Paul
Harper of the second Making Futures conference which both take a
broader approach to the understanding of craft.
About Intellect
Intellect publishes a diverse portfolio of academic books and
journals in creative practice and popular culture. Their
publications are in the fields of art and design, film studies,
theatre and music, and media and culture.
Title Info
Full Title: Craft Research, volume 3, issue 1
Principal Editor: Kristina Niedderer, University of
Wolverhampton, UK; Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent
University, UK
ISSN: 20404689 | Online ISSN: 20404697 | Published by: Intellect
| Publication: May 2012 (Volume 3, issue 1)
For more information, or a review copy, please contact Nicola
Reisner: Nicola@intelle Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Rd,
Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3JG, UK [log in to unmask]
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk
The International Committee on Design History and Design Studies
is pleased to present its new website for the International
Conferences on Design History and Studies (ICDHS). It is
available at the address: www.ub.edu/gracmon/icdhs.
The website keeps record of past Conferences, with information on
themes, papers, venues, reviews, and more, along with the links
to coming or ongoing Conferences. It is hosted by the University
of Barcelona's Design Research Unit Gracmon, a partner of ICDHS.
http://www.ub.edu/gracmon/icdhs
27-29 August 2012: NORDES Summer School Oslo 2012
Title: Design on the Move
Venue: Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)
Submission: 1-2 page position paper about your project and the
relevance of summer school theme.
Deadline for submission: August 1th 2012.
Submissions may be sent to [log in to unmask]
Design researchers increasingly do approach complex environments
to find new possibilities and solutions. This challenges the
research methods as well as the design methods we use. This year
we have put together a programme for NORDES Summer School 2012
that will focus on how the research methodologies in several
design based research approaches do relate to the complex issues
of mobility and urban contexts.
The theme Design on the Move are to do with the shaping of
interdisciplinary inquiry and methods following the medley of
theory and practice related to the use of designed artifacts or
solutions in mobile situations. This year's summer school will be
dedicated to practical workshops as well as formal research
presentations and talk focusing on of how methods develop, in
accordance to theories and current approaches to designing for
mobility and place-making.
Mobile life, mobility and urban place making entail new forms of
citizen participation as well as community building that concern
a wide spectre of design related disciplines, such as urban
planning, cultural heritage, sustainability and green design
movements. Mobility is currently conceptualized as going beyond
the mundane movement-spaces function that move 'subjects' and
'objects' about (Thrift 2004) into forms of mobility that
transgress types of places and spaces. This summer school has put
focus on how we can explore, observe and conceptualize these
place-making processes methodologically.
The summer school is based on two formal research seminars where
invited keynotes present diverging approaches to design methods
into mobility, and where PhD students present mobility issues
from their own research project, in addition to an experimental
workshop day focused on practical activities with a variety of
research methods related to mobility. The aim is to motivate
participants to shift their current activities towards sharper
and faster production of written texts and hopefully papers for
the next NORDES Conference (2013).
Participation in NORDES summer school is free, but participants
have to cover travelling and stay by themselves. We will suggest
reasonable bookings.
For further information and preliminary program, please visit:
http://www.nordes.org/index.php?Summer+Schools
26-28 June 2012: National Design Innovation Conference
"Abhikalpana ", at IDC, IIT Bombay
We would like to invite you to the National Design Innovation
Conference "Abhikalpana", proposed by Shri. Sam Pitroda
(Chairman, National Knowledge Commission, Government of India).
The conference was mooted during the meetings at Yojana Bhawan,
Delhi for the proposals for setting up of design innovation
schools and the initiative to include design innovation as an
important component for the 12th five year plan for our country.
The conference will serve as a platform to draw attention to
untapped potential and discuss processes for need based
innovation through presentations and projects done in various
fields. The seminar will also draw attention to different
approaches to the 'innovation process' which starts with user
study, finding problems, ideating, realizing concepts into
workable solutions and implementation. The conference will look
at innovation as a process arising from a gamut of disciplines
with design as a key drive. It will address the need to focus on
innovation as an essential factor for progress of the country.
This year we will focus on:
- Human Centered Innovation
- Innovation for emerging economies
- Innovation in design education
The conference will showcase case studies by eminent experts from
government, industry and academia. The conference will be
rotated every year among the institutes offering design courses.
This year the conference will be hosted by IDC, IIT Bombay on
26th and 27th June 2012 at Victor Menezes Convention Centre
(VMCC), Opp. IDC, IIT Bombay along with the Design Degree Show
2012 showcasing the project of the passing out students.
http://dds2012.com/abhikalpana/index.html
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DIGITAL CREATIVITY
The latest issue of Digital Creativity is now available online.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Original Articles
Retrieval of motion composition in film
Maia Zaharieva, Dalibor Mitrovi
Kissing and making up: time, space and locative media
Chris Speed
Full-body movement as material for interaction design
Lise Amy Hansen
Adventures in remediation: the making of Echo
Coral Houtman
Appropriating an architectural design tool for musical
ends
Michael Fowler
Art Space: editorial
Sue Gollifer
Miscellany
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24-27 September 2012: MAKING - an International Conference on
Materiality and Knowledge
We kindly invite you to participate in MAKING - an International
Conference on Materiality and Knowledge, Notodden, Norway.
http://making.nordfo.org
The MAKING conference aims to provide an arena for discussions on
field-specific, inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production
within Making Disciplines/Making Professions/Making Education.
The conference is organized by the Nordic research network,
Nordfo <http://www.nordfo.org>.
Confirmed keynote speakers at the conference are:
Professor Michael Biggs, University of Hertfordshire, UK,
Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Sao Paulo and University of
Lund, Sweden
Professor Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Helsinki University,
Finland
Professor Fredrik Nilsson, Chalmers University, Sweden
Dr. Kristina Niedderer, Reader, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
You will find an updated program of the conference days here:
http://making.nordfo.org/program-posts/program
Read more at
http://making.nordfo.org
Do you have any questions; do not hesitate to ask either
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13-15 December 2012: AIGA Design Educators Conference, Honolulu
Geographics: Design, Education, and the Transnational Terrain
The East-West Center and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawai'i; USA
Conference
Many design educators in different parts of the world today are
working in what may be called a transnational context. The
boundaries that define the field of higher education have become
increasingly fluid, and professors, students, programs, and
curricula are moving back and forth between distant regions of
the world as never before. The design projects, research, and
institutions that result retain a unique cultural complexity
because they promote meanings and values that often transcend the
cultures and boundaries of the nations within which they
originate.
The conference Geographics: Design, Education, and the
Transnational Terrain will provide international design educators
the opportunity to share examples of design projects and programs
that have been implemented within a transnational context, while
allowing others to present theoretical or reflective positions
about what it means to design within a transnational context
today. The conference will also be open to presentations from
practitioners who design within transnational contexts and who
view design as a strategic framework for intercultural
collaboration and intersection. The conference will use the term
"transnational" to describe the ways in which designs moves
through a wide range of contemporary and historical geographic
contexts, including the movement of design between multiple
nations and other geopolitical entities; the movement of design
between peoples who define themselves as belonging to different
geopolitical entities, regardless of their location or national
affiliation; and the movement of design against the constraints
of any particular national, international, or global geographic
construct.
By examining the movement of design projects, ideas, and
institutions throughout a wide variety of global contexts, we
hope to stimulate discussion about design education and how it
engages some of the following questions: How do graphic design
practices and products take shape within a given transnational
context, and consequently give shape to it? How is this context
revealed in the design products we make as well as the ideas and
values that fortify such products? How do graphic designers
explore, support, and reinforce notions of multi-national
cultural identity that move beyond nationality and universality
within their contemporary practice? How are design educators
working to establish new connections or to facilitate existing
connections between different global regions and peoples? How can
design educators formulate research objectives that better
respond to their own transnational contexts--ones that respond to
the specificity of cultures and yet reach beyond the
commodification of cultural difference?
Conference Audience
The conference Geographics: Design, Education, and the
Transnational Terrain will bring together nationally and
internationally renowned design educators and practitioners as a
community of individuals with global interests. The conference
will offer experienced educators the opportunity to share
examples of transnational projects and ideas that have worked
well for them, and will allow interested educators to learn about
transnational design education from the ground up. While the
conference will focus on the ways in which the transnational
experience has informed education and practice within the graphic
design discipline, we will also welcome compelling proposals that
address aspects of transnational design more generally
(historically and/or theoretically).
Conference Format and Structure
The conference will take place over three days (Thursday through
Saturday) and will consist of three thematic strands. These
strands will allow conference participants to address the ways in
which design projects, design ideas, and design institutions move
within transnational contexts. Two renowned design thinkers will
launch each conference strand by presenting their ideas about the
ways in which transnational design operates today. These opening
sessions will then be followed by consecutive paper sessions,
which will continue throughout the second and third days of the
conference.
http://aigageogfx.com
10-13 October 2012: P&D Design 2012 Congress, Brazil
On behalf of the Federal University of Maranhao (UFMA) -
Department of Design and Technology (DEDET), in association with
the Brazilian Association to Teaching and Research in Design
(AEnD-BR), we would like to cordially invite you to participate
in the P&D Design 2012, 10th. Conference on Design Research and
Development which will be held from October 10th to 13th, 2012 in
Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil.
The Conference's central theme is Research and Development in
Design. For seeking to discuss design research and education, it
offers a crucial space to reveal and debate relevant questions
resulting from research either applied or scientific which leads
to the advancement of knowledge in design. The range of topics
listed on P&D includes all sorts of design subjects including
technology, usability, education, methodology, theory, critique
and history.
The main objectives of the P&D Design 2012 Congress are:
To gather professionals from different technological areas that
involve design activities concerning research and methodologies;
To present and go into details of methodologies, methods and
techniques that emphasize the design process and discuss
diffusion and implementation strategies.
The opening ceremony will take place on Thursday, October 11th,
followed by a week of International and national plenary
speeches, workshop sessions, oral technical sessions, and posters
session in design research.
We are both greatly honored and proud to host the P&D Design
Conference in Sao Luis, Maranhao, Brazil in the 2012 year. Sao
Luis, the capital of Maranhao, is located in a transition area
between northeast and northern regions of Brazil. Sao Luis is a
marvelous city with many attractive sightseeing places, such as
beautiful beaches and an ensemble of over 3,500 colonial
buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries with uncountable
architectural elements and details. We have exerted all our
efforts to make this gathering a very rewarding and fruitful one
socio-culturally as well as professionally and we sincerely hope
that you will join us in making it success.
http://www.peddesign2012.ufma.br/home/?lang=en
22-24 August 2012: NordDesign 2012
Aalborg, Denmark
Center for Industrial Production, Department of Mechanical and
Manufacturing Engineering, and Department of Architecture and
Design, Aalborg University, invites you to participate in the
NordDesign 2012 conference to be held August 22nd - 24th 2012 in
Aalborg, Denmark.
Topics
The conference topic is design in a wide context: Integrated
Product Development, Engineering Design, Industrial Design and
Conceptualisation.
An International Conference
This ninth biannual conference serves as a Nordic complement to
the large European and American conferences within the field of
Engineering Design and Product Development, but participants from
other countries are also cordially welcomed.
The conference is organised in cooperation with the Design
Society and complies to the Design Society's rules and quality
standards with respect to review process, publication etc.
A Nordic Approach
Our Nordic approach to product development in industry, research
and education is based on cooperation between industry and
academia. The cooperation is close and informal.
Industrial companies allow researchers and students access to
carry out empirical studies in practice, and companies offer
student projects based on actual and important product
development tasks. Students are expected to work responsibly and
to synthesise results on operational as well as strategic levels.
Nordic design education is based on contemporary research
results.
http://NordDesign2012.aau.dk
EKSIG 2011 - SkinDeep - Proceedings
The conference proceedings of EKSIG 2011 - SkinDeep are now
available online from the conference site at
http://www.experientialknowledge.org
You can access them either from the 'resources' menu item or from
the home page of the EKSIG 2011 conference from where you can
download them.
http://www.experientialknowledge.org
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