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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 17 Number 4 Jul 2012 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o DRS Administrator post
o 2nd International Conference
for Design Education Researchers
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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DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
ADMINISTRATOR POST
The longstanding DRS Administrator, Linda Marshall, is retiring
at the end of this calendar year. This is a key post which Linda
has fulfilled admirably for some years. The Society is therefore
looking to recruit someone suitable to this part-time paid post.
We are looking for someone to work on a contract/freelance basis
with experience of administration, Higher Education project
management, and ideally web content development and management.
Deadline for applications is Friday 7 September 2012 by email to
DRS admin email address: [log in to unmask] and
applicants are encouraged to talk to the Chair (Seymour
Roworth-Stokes), Vice Chair (Tracy Bhamra) or the current DRS
Administrator, Linda Marshall, who can all be contacted via this
email address, to express an interest in the role and have an
informal discussion.
Professor Seymour Roworth-Stokes
DRS Chair
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14-17 May 2013: DRS // CUMULUS Oslo 2013
The 2nd International Conference for Design Education
Researchers, Oslo, Norway
CALL FOR PAPERS
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.
e-mail address: [log in to unmask]
web address: http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus
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)
KEY DATES
24 July 2012 .............Intention to submit a Paper
2 October 2012 ...........Deadline for Workshop and Symposia
proposals
30 October 2012 ..........Deadline for full Papers::
18 December 2012 .........Paper accepted
5 February 2013 ..........Deadline for full Paper with
corrections
26 February 2013 .........Deadline for early bird registration
19 March 2013 ............Deadline for author registration
14 May 2013 ..............Conference opens
http://www.hioa.no/eng/content/download/17215/186423/file/
call_DRS_CUMULUS2013Oslo_May18.pdf
http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus
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CALLS
JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
SPECIAL ISSUE:
Why have 'Sustainable Product-Service Systems' not been widely
implemented?
Meeting new design challenges to achieve societal sustainability
In this special issue the editorial team has the aim to analyse
and better understand the dynamics, mechanisms and factors
impeding/driving the implementation of sustainable PSSs, and of
the strategies, approaches and tools that can be adopted, at
different levels, to design, manage, stimulate and monitor the
widespread adoption of PSS concepts. At the same time we seek to
increase our understanding of the way in which interwoven and
convergent approaches, such as social innovations, distributed
economies, sufficiency, cradle-to-cradle, etc., can be synergetic
with the PSS concepts and approaches.
TOPICAL AREAS
We invite contributions (including comprehensive reviews,
theoretical frameworks, empirical studies,
case studies and applied studies) that focus on (but are not
limited to) one or more of the following issues:
- How do sustainable PSS innovations take place? What are the
dynamics and factors that facilitate and hinder the process of
introduction and scaling-up? What conceptual and analytical
frameworks can describe these transition processes? How can firms
organise and manage the shift towards a PSS-oriented business
approach? What role(s) can be played by different stakeholders
(governments, public institutions, NGOs, citizens, research
centres, etc.) in stimulating these processes? What can be
learned from failure and success cases?
- What strategies, approaches and tools can be adopted to trigger
the scaling up of sustainable PSSs? How can transition processes
be designed and managed and to what extent? How can concepts such
as socio-technical experiments, transition experiments, living
labs, etc., trigger, guide and sustain these processes? What
knowledge and capabilities are required to design, monitor and
manage transition processes and their impacts? What kinds of
design approaches, methods and tools can be used to improve the
quality, breadth, depth and spread of the needed changes?
- What are specific characteristics of transition processes in
different contexts (industrialised, emerging and low-income)?
What are the similarities & differences and the specific
challenges & opportunities? What specific design strategies and
approaches can be applied to support transition processes in the
different contexts?
- What synergies can be built with other promising models? The
PSS concept seems to be a valuable and promising concept to
tackle sustainability issues, but it does not represent a silver
bullet. Synergies have to be built with other promising and
interwoven concepts, for example the social innovation,
distributed economies, sufficiency and cradle-to-cradle concepts.
How can these concepts be combined to favour and to speed up
radical changes for sustainability? Are there cases that document
the synergistic benefits of using different combinations of
approaches, concepts and tools? What can we learn from them that
can help us to speed up the up-scaling processes?
- How do/can final users influence the introduction and scaling
up processes? Sustainable PSSs usually require fundamental
changes in user behaviour, practices, and mental frameworks. What
strategies and approaches can be adopted to stimulate people to
accept new consumption models? What role(s) can the aesthetic of
PSSs play in this? How can/should sustainable PSSs be designed to
stimulate behavioural changes and to foster user acceptance and
satisfaction? How can/do different socio-cultural conditions
foster or hinder the acceptation of sustainable PSSs? What can we
learn from them that can help us to speed up the upscaling
processes?
- How can changes in economic and legal frameworks foster and
accelerate the implementation of sustainable PSS innovations?
What governmental, regional and local policies can be adopted to
specifically favour the introduction and scaling up of
sustainable PSSs?
- What are the challenges/opportunities for Higher Education
Institutions (HEIs) to help to facilitate the necessary
transitions? What knowledge and know-how should be provided to
challenge students to become active within the transformation of
our consumption and production patterns to truly sustainable
patterns? What educational strategies and approaches should be
put into practice?
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
Contributors with proposals for papers are encouraged to
communicate with the co-editors by e-mail. The following schedule
will be applied:
- Submission of extended abstracts of max 1000 words to the
Special Issue (SI) Editorial team at e-mails:
[log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask], by
September 15, 2012.
- Invitations from the SI Editorial Team will be sent to all
prospective authors of full papers by October 15, 2012.
- Authors will submit their 'peer-review ready' documents to
Elsevier via the EES system by February 15, 2013.
- The first round of the peer review/paper revision process will
be done from February to April 30, 2013.
- When needed, the second and third rounds of the peer review/
paper revision process will be done from May 1 to July 15, 2013.
- Submission of the final/nearly final versions of all revised
papers will be done by September 15, 2013
- Authors will be informed of acceptance and/or about additional
minor changes they are to make on their documents by October 15,
2013
- Deadline for revisions for the SI by November 1, 2013.
- Submission of all documents for conversion to uncorrected
proofs by November 15, 2013.
- Authors return uncorrected proofs along with suggested
corrections by December 1, 2013.
- Publication of the SI January 2014.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S0959652612002855
NODEM Call for abstracts - Archiving and Visualization of
Intangible Heritage
Special Session 1: Archiving and Visualization of Intangible
Heritage
Call for participation
A special session will be held as part of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong,
organised by DIHA (Digital Intangible Heritage in Asia).
The aim of this special session is to provide a platform for
culture heritage researchers, museum curators, educators, digital
media specialists, linguists, designers and others in these
related industries to present the challenges in their respective
fields with a view to promote opportunities for interdisciplinary
collaboration. We believe that collaboration at this level will
spark major breakthroughs in highlighting awareness of intangible
heritage in Asia.
Project abstracts are invited on all aspects from the following
sub-fields including, but not limited to:
- cultural research and inquiries in intangible heritage
- enviromental and ecological issues and intangible heritage
- the role of language and cultural knowledge repositories in the
conservation of intangible heritage
- curating intangible heritage in museums
- interface and design of digital media for the exhibition of
intangible heritage
- meaning-making and the interpretation of intangible heritage
exhibitions
- visual media and memory and intangible heritage
- innovative ways of accessing intangible heritage resources
Submissions are welcome from researchers, developers, curators
and exhibition designers. Please submit your abstract (300 words)
to [log in to unmask] by 1 September 2012. Participants will be
notified about the status of their submission by 15 September
2012. The participants of this special session also will be able
to attend the entire program of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong.
About DIHA
DIHA is an interdisciplinary research cluster involving several
researchers across Schools and Colleges in Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore (NTU) as well as external partners. DIHA
captures the vibrant cultural and linguistic fusion of the Asia
Pacific region through interdisciplinary lenses. Go to the DIHA
website.
DIHA Co-founders
- Assoc Prof. Ng Bee Chin | School of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies.
Email: [log in to unmask]
- Visiting Assoc. Prof. Halina Gottlieb | School of Humanities
and Social Sciences / The Interactive Institute, Sweden. Email:
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18-19 April 2013: Design Business and Service Conference, Rome
Call for Contributions
2013 Design Business and Service Conference, Rome
After having a successful conference in Milan, 2010 and a
successful event in Barcelona 2011,
(http://www.designforsocialbusinessconference.org, and
http://www.designbusinessconference.com)
We are calling for your contribution to the 2013 Design Business
and Service Conference, which will take place in Rome April 18th
& 19th, 2013.
This year's guiding theme: Design(ing) Business and Services
Over the past decade, several conferences and interactive
workshops have focused on managing as designing, on design
management, business design and on changing the decision-making
paradigm within the management field. Design is taught to
management students and management to design students. Managers
now can be thought of as designers, although they may not even be
conscious about the design practices and methods they employ. In
the midst of this development, the design of services has emerged
as an important issue in professional conferences, in academic
environments, and in the business world. Overall, it seems that
the boundaries between professional claims are getting more and
more fuzzy: Marketing departments are claiming that they have
been developing services for years. Similarly, design thinking is
moving through university departments and through corporate
offices with the speed of a fashion fad. The aim of this year's
conference is to develop the necessary discourses around
designing in the contexts of business, services and management,
and to deepen our understanding around the following topics:
Designing business as a service
Design thinking in business and service design
Designing policies, frameworks for services
Design management in contrast to business design
Designing business systems and service systems
Limits of designing business, Limits of designing services
Please submit a proposal for your contribution via the online
form on our website by January 29th, 2013 (fixed deadline). We
have a tradition of calling these contributions provocations.
Please provide a title for the provocation, and select one of the
above topic areas for presentation. Your provocation should be at
least 500 but no more than 1500 words. Your provocation should
contribute to the discussion and the chosen topic and it should
have the potential to be developed into a full paper after the
conference. Authors of accepted provocations are automatically
accepted to participate at the conference. The conference has no
general access, since it is a working conference. Author
information should include your full name and e-mail address, a
short biography (25-50 words) including your background, current
position, key activities and projects. Provocations will be
accepted pending review on an ongoing basis until the conference
has filled up. This conference is limited to 90 participants.
All provocations will be reviewed by the review board (Jurgen
Faust, Sabine Junginger, Richard Boland).
There is a conference fee of 550 Euros, which covers two full
days of the conference. It includes access to all conference
events, evening activities and networking events. The fee also
includes a conference welcome kit with all necessary information
including the book publication from the 2011 conference. The fee
is due if your provocation has been accepted and you plan to
attend the conference. There is a reduced fee for students and
IED members (290 Euros).
http://www.dbs-2013.com
26 June 2012: NordiCHI 2012 workshop: Design for Audience
Engagement - Call for papers
Background
Engaging the audience has always been of fundamental importance
to the creative sector (performing and visual arts, video games,
film, interactive narrative etc). Media producers, publishers and
content providers are starting to use interactive technologies to
involve audiences in the creative process -- constructing audience
journeys, and exploiting the potential of co-creation and
crowd-sourced innovation. So design is central to engaging
audiences. What are the best methods and processes for designing
and evaluating audience engagement?
This workshop adopts an interdisciplinary approach to identify
design strategies for audience engagement.
We are calling for position papers investigating, but not
restricted to topics and questions such as:
- What is audience engagement and what are its goals?
- What design processes are appropriate for audience engagement?
- What contextual, cultural and ethical parameters should we
consider when designing for audience engagement?
- Can audience engagement be evaluated and if so, which are the
strategies that can be effectively employed?
We welcome contributions in:
- Original practical research and empirical studies
- Critical essays that explore design for audience engagement
- Models, methods and frameworks for designing and evaluating
audience engagement
- New technologies and platforms built for this purpose
Outcomes of the workshop
We will
- identify design and evaluation strategies for audience
engagement
- connect empirical studies and theoretical research across
interrelated fields
- produce an online visual infographic document summarizing and
interlinking the key points derived from the workshop's
activities, incorporating participants' abstracts and/or papers
and links to their work
Structure of the workshop
Accepted submissions will be circulated to the participants
before the workshop. There will be an introduction by the
organizers with a brief review of ongoing practical and
theoretical work in the area of design for audience engagement --
including case studies. The main part of the workshop will
involve presentations of the accepted papers in thematic sessions
with discussion after each presentation. The day will continue
with one design-led activity, involving an actual prototype as a
practical focus for discussion on the issues raised in the
workshop.
The key points and outcomes of the discussions will be integrated
into the infographic document.
How to participate
We welcome participants from all parts of HCI and related
disciplines. We seek to attract an interdisciplinary group of
researchers and practitioners in areas including HCI design (user
experience, value-based design, design for affect, user-centred
and user-driven design), interaction design, performing and
visual arts, video games, film, interactive narrative,
neuroscience, psychology and related fields with experience in
the workshop theme. The workshop will accommodate between 10 and
25 participants selected on the basis of submitted position
papers.
We invite workshop papers up to 4 ACM pages long, reporting on
recent projects, studies of the field and theoretical accounts.
We also invite position papers up to 2 ACM pages stating the
submitters' interest in the workshop's theme. (The ACM CHI
publication format is available at
http://www.nordichi2012.org/content/chi2012extendedabstracts.doc)
Submit the position paper in PDF format by email to
[log in to unmask] no later than 3rd August, 2012.
http://ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/NordiCHIWorkshop/
14 October 2012: Future Interactions:
Using Critical Design Approaches to Explore Urban Data
Transactions
Workshop at NordiCHI 2012 ( http://nordichi2012.org/ )
This interaction design workshop, at NordiCHI 2012 in Copenhagen,
will address the question of how we, as individuals, might gain
value from the exchange of data on a near-future urban setting.
Together with a rapid ethnographic study of data exchange, the
workshop will adopt a critical design approach as a means to
reveal and examine potential issues around the design for this
new landscape. Critical design [1] presents design as a catalyst
or provocation for thought. It is a strategy for exploring the
space that lies tantalizingly beyond the current and the now
through the creation of "design fictions" [2]. At the core of
critical design is the attempt to challenge our assumptions and
preconceptions about the role that products and services play in
everyday life.
Participation
http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/submissions/
This is an active, interdisciplinary workshop encouraging
dialogue between researchers, technologists and design
practitioners who are interested in forming collaborative links.
Through the generation of design scenarios, participants will
focus on the possible human-level interactions that will occur
during these activities. These interactions will be explored
through the creation of lo-fi prototypes. Participants will
consider and discuss the merits and potential uses of this kind
of approach. It is hoped that new partnerships will be formed
with the aim of producing tangible "speculative" or "critical"
design outputs as means of exploring future-orientated
interaction design scenarios.
Design Methods: Rapid Ethnography and Critical Design
http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/format/
The workshop will employ (very) rapid ethnography as a means of
gathering rich visual data from the surrounding urban space. This
will involve the participants using camera phones to record
examples of how data is currently exchanged, and in particular
the "close" interactions associated with these transactions. The
subsequent digital scrapbook will become a stimulus for
participants' discussion in the second phase of the workshop. In
this next stage a "critical" or "speculative" design approach
will be adopted.
Context: The Data-Rich Urban Environment
If the promise of research in the fields of Ubiquitous and
Pervasive Computing, and the Internet of Things, are realized,
then we are rapidly heading towards a world populated by
sentient, interconnected objects. The workshop will address how
this new landscape affect our human interactions with these
near-future products and services? Furthermore, what will happen
to the data we knowingly, or unknowingly, share in the course of
our everyday living?
Outcomes: concepts and collaborations
The short-term outcomes of the workshop will be the early
concepts developed as part of the day's activities. These will
provide a tangible focus for new collaborations and partnerships.
In the longer term, it is intended that this workshop will
contribute to knowledge in the area of speculative and critical
approaches to interaction design and human computer interaction
(HCI), perhaps in the form of published outputs. It is also hoped
that this workshop plays a part in community building within this
area of interest.
Important Dates
August 17th, 2012 - Submission deadline of workshop papers
August 24th, 2012 - Notification of acceptance
October 14th, 2012 - Workshop at NordiCHI 2012
Michael Smyth
http://www.michael-smyth.co.uk
Ingi Helgason
http://www.ingihelgason.co.uk/
Workshop Website:
http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com
For further information contact:
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http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/
13-14 October 2012: NordiCHI 2012 Workshop: 'Crossing Boundaries:
Exploring What Design Can Do'
Call for papers: 'Crossing Boundaries: Exploring What Design Can
Do'
in conjunction with NordiCHI2012
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://boundariescrossing.wordpress.com
Due to increasing specialization in organizations and
multidisciplinary teamwork, boundaries are becoming more explicit
obstacles. Boundary objects are one proposed means for crossing
these boundaries. This workshop provides a forum for researchers
and practitioners to share experiences and issues with crossing
boundaries in multidisciplinary innovation projects.
The current workshop focuses on how one can make a boundary
object for use and aims to explore what the role of design can do
making appropriate boundary objects. We want to improve the
understanding of what works and what doesn't and be able to
develop both practical and theoretical applications of such *by
actually 'designing' boundary crossing solutions during the
workshop including a research-through-design approach*.
Participation:
The intended audience is primarily designers and human-computer
interaction researchers who are interested in the theme. The
workshop should also be relevant for practitioners who have
experiences with multidisciplinary design project and
making/using objects to cross boundaries.
Submission:
We welcome contributions that focus on crossing organizational or
disciplinary boundaries. This could include a reflective case
study which can be a kind of (auto)ethnography or
reflection-on-action from practitioners or researchers or those
wishing to make theoretical contributions. In both cases we
highly encourage bringing an artefact to bear during the workshop
or at least pictures of such. All papers will be four pages or
less in the ACM archival
format
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates
Important dates:
Paper submission: August 1th
Notification of acceptance: August 30th
Organizers:
Aaron Houssian, Philips Research
Ingrid Mulder, Delft University of Technology & Rotterdam
University of applied sciences
Lillian Henze, Delft University of Technology
After the workshop:
Of course, with permission, position papers will be made publicly
available on the workshop website, as well as a summary of the
workshop results. We are currently in contact with key design/HCI
journals about their willingness to produce a special issue on
the workshop theme: crossing boundaries through design.
http://boundariescrossing.wordpress.com
For any further information on the workshop please contact us at
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4-5 December 2012: DesignEd Asia Conference 2012 - Into Design
Education:
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong
SAR
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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
has established to provide a practical platform for international
design educators and professionals to share views, knowledge and
experiences on Design Education. It has come to its eighth year
in 2012. DesignEd Asia draws hundreds of international design
educators, design researchers, practicing designers, design
students, and design-related executives. They meet annually for a
two-day program featuring presentations, panel discussion,
workshops, 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.
Call for papers: "Into Design Education"
Within different cultural and historical contexts, design has
been conceived as an art, as a hard science, as a social science,
as a political tool, as an economic sector, as a technical field,
and any number of other ways of framing this complex and
multidisciplinary realm of human endeavor. The way in which one
chooses to frame design has broad implications for the
pedagogical approaches that one applies to the teaching of
design. The cognitive frameworks, teaching methodologies,
research methodologies, vocabularies and value systems of
different fields are thus absorbed into design education, and
play a profound role in shaping students' views of the designer's
way of engaging the world.
The characteristics of each of these framings are also in
constant flux, as sociological agendas for instance shift from
patriarchal to participatory, and dominant technologies shift
from mechanized mass production to peer-to-peer social
networking. The evolution of design - and of design education -
can be recounted in terms of different positions taken vis a vis
other areas of human knowledge and activity.
We are seeking papers that critically explore relevant
contemporary practice in the appropriation of ideas and
techniques from other fields of knowledge and action into design
education, and which provide an understanding of these practices
within their cultural and historical contexts. We invite
submission of papers addressing the following five broad themes:
- From the social sciences into design education
- From the hard sciences into design education
- From the arts and culture into design education
- From business into design education
- From production into design education
While we expect that papers will be grounded in actual
pedagogical practice, papers should also address theoretical
issues of the impetus for adopting a given approach into design,
the value and consequences brought to design education by such
adoption, as well as the value and consequences for these other
fields from which design is borrowing.
Submission of an Abstract
- Presenters' names and affiliations (contact details,
organization, etc)
- An abstract limited to 500 words and a bibliography.
To make a submission, please sign up via the online conference
system: http://www.designedasia.com/openconf/openconf.php
For updated information, please visit our conference website:
http://www.designedasia.com/
Contact Us
Enquiries about Paper Submission: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 August 2012 (Sun)
19-22 November 2012: London International Conference on Education
(LICE-2012) London, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an
international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of
the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes
collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals
from Education.
The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and
professionals from various educational fields with
cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote
research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2012
invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis,
design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted
papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of
selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed
journals.
SUBMISSION:
Please email your research paper to [log in to unmask]
IMPORTANT DATES:
Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: August 31,
2012
Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission
Date: August 15, 2012
Proposal for Workshops: August 31, 2012
Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: September 10,
2012
Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress)
Acceptance/Rejection: September 10, 2012
Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report
Acceptance /Rejection: September 1, 2012
Camera Ready Paper Due: October 10, 2012
Participant(s) Registration (Open): May 25, 2012
Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): August 01 to
September 16, 2012
Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): September 17 to
October 30, 2012
Conference Dates: November 19-22, 2012
http://www.liceducation.org
Italian Design - call for contributions
We are working on a special issue of the Italian-based magazine
"Progetto Grafico", which will be focused on 'Graphic Design,
History, Italy'. The magazine will be released in 2013, and will
be available in both Italian and English.
Besides looking into the development of Italian graphic design
historiography, we are interested in mapping studies and research
that have been conducted in the recent years - or are still being
conducted - on the topic: Theses, papers, publications that deal
with lesser-known episodes and figures of the history and
historiography of Italian graphic design, that provide new
insight into already known stories, and disciplinary approaches
and research methodologies.
We invite scholars, researchers, graduates, and anybody who have
conducted research, published original papers and contributions
on the history and historiography of Italian graphic design, to
fill the enclosed form and send it back to us at
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October 30, 2012.
We will also be happy to receive information on research studies
and publications that deal in general with the history and
historiography of Italian design, beyond 'graphic design'.
Any suggestion on the topic will also be welcome.
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9-10 October 2012: Design Research Conference, IIT, Chicago,
Venue SIX10
This year's Design Research Conference seeks to expand the space
design research plays in by looking beyond our current best
practices.
The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is
that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new
combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations.
- Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From
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This year's Design Research Conference seeks to expand the space
design research plays in by looking beyond our current best
practices. Inspired by the notion of the adjacent possible, the
conference will present research from a combination of design and
decidedly non-design fields. In the ongoing search to better
understand behavior, decision-making, and the evolving
implications of data on it all, let's take inspiration from work
in different disciplines.
Call for submissions and suggestions-Ends July 30th
DRC 2012 is interested in how tangential topics and discussion
outside the typical realm of design may inform the future of
design research. Help us make this conference relevant and
exciting for you by filling out this form to suggest some
presenters you'd love to see on the stage. Feel free to nominate
yourself if you have something to share too!
Registration
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Register early to guarantee your seat at the conference. Group
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About IIT Institute of Design
Since its founding as the New Bauhaus in 1937, IIT Institute of
Design (ID) has grown into the largest full-time graduate-only
design program in the US. At ID, our master's and PhD programs
feature a curriculum focused on a methodological and
human-centered approach to design and strategy.
Jorge Angarita, John Shin, Stephanie Smith, and Janice Wong
DRC 2012 Co-chairs | www.drc.id.iit.edu | @drctweets
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
24 August 2012: International Glass Symposium
DEADLINE FOR BOOKINGS 3rd AUGUST 2012
The deadline for booking tickets for the International Glass
Symposium is now Friday 3rd August 2012
If you would like to reserve places for this conference some
tickets are still available
'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.
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.
Deadline for bookings Friday 3rd August 2012.
Time: 10am - 5.00pm
To book tickets please go to: www.wlv.ac.uk/sadstore and click on
'Read More'.
Contact: Dr Max Stewart on [log in to unmask]
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/artanddesign/glassbiennale
18-20 September 2012: ICDC 2012
The 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2012)
will take place in Glasgow, Scotland on 18th-20th September 2012.
ICDC 2012 will provide a forum to discuss the nature and
potential of design creativity from theoretical, methodological
and practical viewpoints and will include panel discussions on
the 'directions for design creativity research'. ICDC is the
Design Creativity Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Design
Society's biannual conference.
Scope
The topics and themes of the conference include
limited to:
- Collaborative creative design
- Cognition in creative design
- Creative design processes, methods and techniques
- Creative design styles and cultures
- Design creativity support tools
- Formal education in creative design
- Global creativity and innovation
- Measuring creativity and its impact
- Social dimensions of creative design
Speakers
This is a high profile event that will bring together policy
makers, academics and professionals from all over the world to
share their experiences, perspectives, insights and the latest
developments in the area. Highlights of this year's conference
include keynote addresses and speeches from:
- Colin Burns, Director of Stuff at Elmwood Brand and Design
Consultancy
- Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of Creative Scotland
- Peter Hughes, Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering
- Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for
Culture and External Affairs
- Shona Kinloch, Sculptor
- Will Mitchell, Design Director at 4C Design
Conference location & social events
ICDC 2012 will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow,
Scotland. Glasgow is a stunning Victorian city, the home of
Charles Rennie Macintosh, and a gateway to Scottish highlands.
For our conference social events we have organised a tour through
some of the most iconic buildings in Scotland. Our civic
reception will be held at the Glasgow City Chambers, one of the
city's most important and prestigious buildings. Our conference
dinner will be held at the Barony Hall the University of
Strathclyde's unique award-winning arena and will be followed by
a traditional ceilidh dance. The closure of our conference will
be followed by a Whisky tasting tour at Glengoyne reputed to be
one of Scotland's most beautiful distilleries.
ICDC 2012 App
For more information about our conference and our social events
download our conference app and follow us on twitter @ICDC2012.
You can now download our conference application (available now on
the Android Market and soon to be released on the Apple App
store). Download the app and use it as your personal aide
throughout the conference to:
- Keep track of the conference schedule
- Follow our conference twitter feed.
- Find out more about the venue including how to get there and
how to get around.
The organisers look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow to what
we hope you will find an excellent conference.
http://www.icdc2012.org.uk
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New issue-Design Philosophy Papers
Announcing the latest issue of Design Philosophy Papers on maps,
mapping and design.
Design Philosophy Papers 2/2012
http://desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html
Kaye Shumack, Editorial - Mapping: shifting ecologies of time and
place
Anne-Marie Willis, Ontological Designing and Mapping
Susan C. Stewart, 'Fresh Thoughts on Mapping and GIS:
cleanliness, temporality and sustainment'
Abby Mellick Lopes and Kaye Shumack, 'Please Ask Us -
Conversation Mapping as Design Research: social learning in a
verge garden site'
Clancy Wilmott, 'Living the Map: cartographies of mobile media
environments'
Sarah Barns, 'Retrieving the Spatial Imaginary of real-time
cities'
Peter Hall, 'Afterword: on Mapping and Maps'
Lisa Norton, Reply to Yoko Akama's 'A way of being in design:
Zen and the art of being a human centred practitioner'
http://desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html
DEADLINES NEAR, SLOTS STILL REMAIN for DPU summerLab 2012
|Zurich|Rome|
The current landscape of cities is that of contested processes,
interdependencies and relations which are dominated to various
degrees by diverse actors with contrasting voices and agendas.
These complex relations emerge from historical and material
dialectics of the territory, linking diverse activities with the
environment in a time-based evolving process which simultaneously
unfold both locally and globally. To appropriately engage in this
arena, a critical re-appraisal is required concerning a new
paradigmatic shift in the culture and discipline of Architecture
and Urban Design.
To this end the Bartlett Development Planning Unit has launched
the summerLab 2012 series coordinated by Camillo Boano, William
Hunter, Anna Schulenburg and Giorgio Talocci. The workshops dates
are:
Zurich | Liminal Contours | 6 - 11 August
Rome | Occupation City | 10 - 15 September (app deadline 30
July)
Drawing on the extensive resources of the DPU in collaboration
with local partners in various host cities, DPU summerLab
leverages the reality of the city as a laboratory for developing
socially responsive design measures that provoke, stimulate,
strategize, and reconsider the role of designers in promoting
spatial justice.
DPU summerLab is a unique rotating platform for in situ immersion
and experimentation in urban environments where the boundaries of
spatial agency are actively tested, hinging upon critical
analysis and spatial knowledge development targeting
undergraduate and graduate students as well as emerging
professionals in design, architecture and planning. The workshops
offer a vital testing ground for the resolution of spatial
interventions with local socio-economic trends alongside embedded
political contexts.
For more information and to apply please visit
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/programmes/summerlab or contact
Anna Schulenburg [log in to unmask]
Design and Culture
The Journal of the Design Studies Forum
Volume 04, Issue 02 | July 2012
ARTICLES
Rethinking Design Thinking: Part II | LUCY KIMBELL
[FULL TEXT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/rethinking-
design-thinking-part-2/ [pdf]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/dsf/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/
kimbell2-berg.pdf
The Object of Nightingales: Design Values for a Meaningful
Material Culture | STUART WALKER
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/the-object-of-
nightingales-design-values-for-a-meaningful-material-culture/
Hey Babe - Take a Walk on the Wild Side!: Why Role-playing and
Visualization of User and Abuser "Scripts" Offer Useful Tools to
Effectively "Think Thief" and Build Empathy to Design Against
Crime | LORRAINE GAMMAN, ADAM THORPE, MATT MALPASS, and EVA
LIPAROVA
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/hey-babe---
take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side-why-role-playing-and-visualization-
of-user-and-abuser-"scripts"-offer-useful-tools-to-effectively-"
think-thief"-and-bu/
Connecting Values: Teaching Sustainability to Communication
Designers | ERIC BENSON and PAMELA NAPIER
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/connecting-
values-teaching-sustainability-to-communication-designers/
LOCATING DESIGN
A "Little Journey" to Empathize with (and Complicate) the Factory
| EZRA SHALES
Rediscovering Value: The Second Lives of Secondhand Goods |
PRASAD BORADKAR
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Rodarte: States of Matter | NICOLE LaBOUFF
Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry | MAGGIE TAFT
BOOK REVIEWS
Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identify, Discourse and Modernism |
DIVYA RAO HEFFLEY
A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present; The
Industrialization of Design: A History from the Steam Age to
Today | BRUCE N. WRIGHT
Global Denim | BEVERLY GORDON
LA Under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property | OLE
W. FISCHER
The Story of Graphic Design | DENISE GONZALES CRISP
American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture |
KRISTINA WILSON
220* Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair | CARMA GORMAN
Roger Excoffon et la Fonderie Olive | CRAIG ELIASON
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | ANGELA NORWOOD
Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In |
SARAH FROELICH
Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use
Clothes | BEVERLY GORDON
Into the Universe of Technical Images; Does Writing Have a
Future?; Vilem Flusser: An Introduction | STUART KENDALL
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal/
23-24 August 2012: The HAID 2012 - The Seventh International
Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID) - Lund,
Sweden.
Call for participation - registration is open - the early bird
rate is available until the 31st of July.
The combination of haptic and audio for interaction design is a
challenging research area, and we invite researchers and
practitioners interested in these non-visual modalities to come
to HAID to exchange designs and research findings. This year's
HAID has a particular (but not exclusive) focus on the mobile
setting - while on the move the haptic and audio combination has
great (but sadly under-exploited) potential. More non-visual
interaction designs will make applications and devices easier to
user for everyone. We invite contributions on the appropriate use
of haptics and audio in interaction design: how do we design
effectively for mobile interaction? How can we design effective
haptic, audio and multimodal interfaces? In what new application
areas can we apply these techniques? Are there design methods
that are useful? Or evaluation techniques that are particularly
appropriate? We also welcome artistic exhibits and commercial
design cases for our exhibition.
HAID12 is a direct successor to the successful workshop series
inaugurated in Glasgow in 2006, in Seoul in 2007, in Jyvaeskylae in
2008, Dresden in 2009, Copenhagen 2010 and Kyoto 2011. The aim of
HAID12 is to bring together researchers and practitioners who
share an interest in finding out how the haptic and audio
modalities can be used together in human computer interaction.
The research challenges in the area are best approached through
user-centred design, empirical studies or the development of
novel theoretical frameworks. We invite your papers, posters,
demonstrations and exhibits/design cases on these topics, and
look forward to seeing you in Lund in August 2012!
Charlotte Magnusson Associate Professor Certec, Division of
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Department of Design Sciences
Lund University Lund Sweden tel +46 46 222 4097 fax +46 46 222
4431
http://www.haid.ws
6-7 September 2012: Practice makes Perfect
Theorising Method in Visual Research
Swansea Metropolitan University
Early Bird Registration Now Open
This two-day symposium brings together post-graduate,
post-doctoral and independent researchers to present and debate
the issue of methodology in practice-based and practice-led
research. This is an opportunity to theorise methods within a
methodological framework in order to generate dialogues and
synthesise potential models that move the debate forward.
Key note speaker confirmed; Dr Jac Saorsa
Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist, writer and researcher in art
practice and philosophy. She has exhibited her work and lectured
internationally and is currently Programme Director of the MA/MFA
Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University School of Art and
Design where she lectures in the theory and practice of drawing.
Recent publications include her second book; Narrating the
Catastrophe: an artist's dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, 2011,
Intellect Books.
http://www.smu.ac.uk/practicemakesperfect
DRAWING RESEARCH NETWORK
As a field drawing research is blossoming. In the art schools and
studios, academies and laboratories, through creative practice
and innovative theory, the drawing community is building novel
partnerships across a range of disciplines. Through these
networks, drawing research is revealing a new and powerful
relevance as a tool for uncovering the traces of thought drawn on
the world.
In celebration of this outpouring of work the DRN Conference on
Drawing Knowledge, a festival of diversity in drawing research,
will be taking place at Loughborough University on September the
10th and 11th, 2012. The conference will host international
delegates representing a range of research from the arts, design,
sciences, performance, theory and practice.
We are proud to confirm that along with a presentations from more
than 40 researchers and practitioners in the field, together with
a host of drawing performances, there will be a digital art
exhibition curated by Sue Golliffer of Brighton University. The
conference keynote speakers are:
- Emma Robertson -Drawing practitioner and writer from the
University of New South Wales?
- David Dernie - Architect and drawing theorist from DeMontfort
University
- Jordan Mackenzie - Performance artist extraordinaire
- Iain McCaig - Draughtsman, concept artist and visualizer for
screen
We would like to invite all colleagues in the world of drawing
and drawing research to join us in Loughborough for the
conference.
Over the two days of the conference; at the talks, informal
break-out sessions, performances, lectures and exhibitions;
collaborations will be formed and for many new drawing research
agenda will be discovered. We would like to see you there. The
link below will take you to the conference web page, from where
you can find out more and book a place with us.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/
DRN_conference_location_accommodation.html
11-14 September 2012: 8th International Conference on Design and
Emotion
Registration is now open.
This years conference theme is 'Out of Control' and is hosted by
Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design University of
the Arts London at our new home in Kings Cross London:
http://www.dande2012.com/conference_venue
The programme includes over 100 papers case studies and poster
presentations from international authors. In addition to the
programme there are a number of pre-conference workshops.
Throughout the conference there will be exhibitions of work,
instillations and demonstrations from a range of internationally
recognised brands that have embraced the conference themes and
opted to showcase ideas at the event.
Our Keynote speakers come from both academia and industry, from
fields of olfactive design, fashion, automotive design, psycology
and consumer experience.
- Dr. Michael Apter: Research Psychologist
- Ron Dennis CBE: Chairman: Mclaren Group
- Clive Grinyer: Director Of Customer Experience At Cisco IBSG
- Bernardo Fleming: Olfactive Designer At Olfactive Design
Studio, International Flavors And Fragrances
- Cecilia Weckstroem: Head Of Consumer Experiences Senior
Director, Lego Group
- Hussein Chalayan MBE: Fashion Designer Creative Director Puma
- Declan O'Carroll: Group Leader at Arup Associates
Early bird registration closes on 31st July 2012. To register go
to:
http://www.dande2012.com/contact_and_registration
A provisional programme can be found at:
http://www.dande2012.com/downloads/Provisional%20programme%
20version%202%20 17-07-12.pdf
Finally, just one small point to note: the conference coincides
with the London design festival 14
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