dear all, this call for papers may be of interest to some of you:
DesignEd
Asia Conference 2012 - Into Design Education: 4 - 5 December 2012

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/

 

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Us

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Deadline
for Abstract Submission: 5 August 2012 (Sun)