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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 17 Number 6 Oct 2012 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o DRS / CUMULUS conference
o EKSIG 2013
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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DRS // CUMULUS OSLO 2013
14-17 May 2013: DRS // CUMULUS Oslo 2013
The 2nd International Conference for Design Education
Researchers, Oslo, Norway
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE FULL PAPERS: 30 October 2012
We welcome full paper contributions whether you have or have not
submitted an abstract/ intention to submit a paper.
Full papers should be between 4000-6000 words, included an
abstract of 200 words max.
Conference theme:
Design Learning for Tomorrow
- Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD
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
When submitting papers written in English using the conference
paper template via the conference management tool you should
indicate your first and second choice conference theme for your
proposed full paper listed above.
Please, submit the paper via: www.hioa.no/DRScumulus
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http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus
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EKSIG 2013
4-5 July 2013: EKSIG 2013: Knowing Inside Out - Experiential
knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship. Loughborough
University, UK
International Conference 2013 of the DRS Special Interest Group
on Experiential Knowledge
EKSIG is part of a programme of Special Interest Groups set up by
the Design Research Society (DRS) to facilitate international
exchange and advance in relevant areas of design. EKSIG is
concerned with the understanding and management of knowledge in
research and professional practice in design in order to clarify
fundamental principles and practices, with regard to both
research degree regulations/requirements and research
methodology.
CONFERENCE THEME
With the theme Knowing Inside Out: experiential knowledge,
expertise and connoisseurship, the conference aims to provide a
forum for debate about expertise and connoisseurship by
professionals and academic researchers, exploring the role and
relationship of generating and evaluating new and existing
knowledge in the creative disciplines and beyond.
The issue of expertise and connoisseurship has come to the fore
in recent years as professionals and scholars from many
disciplines negotiate the tension between the explicit
justification required by research and the tacit appreciation and
judgment that expertise and connoisseurship entail.
Expertise is considered the highest level of skill acquisition
and knowledge within professional practice, being based on
experience and tacit understanding and an intuitive grasp and
judgment of its processes and situations (Dreyfus & Dreyfus
1986). Much expertise operates without conscious effort and the
tacit knowledge that sustains expertise is not generally made
explicit nor is it easily articulated. Deliberate practice and
extended experience result in automaticity and immediate
intuitive response. For example, a pianist's hand movement, a
designer's choice of material, a radiologist's instant diagnosis,
etc.
In contrast, connoisseurship can be defined as the external
judgement or 'the art of appreciation displayed in any realm in
which the character, import or value of objects, situations and
performances is distributed and variable' (Eisner 1998: 63), and
which relies on experience and tacit knowledge. For example,
curators utilise their tacit expertise and connoisseurship
together with their explicit knowledge in museology and
conservation to make judgements on which artefacts are suitable
for collections or exhibitions. This raises the question, for
example, how inquiry into the practice of curatorship may
accommodate the requirements of the practice of research and how
we judge academic and creative output.
In many disciplines, expertise and connoisseurship pervades all
parts of practice, including processes, the creation of artefacts
and/or other kinds of physical manifestations and finally the
interpretation through other professionals, such as curators,
critics, historians, gourmets etc. While knowledge and experience
generated from within creative and professional practice have
extensively been disseminated in the research context as a
written text and artefacts, the expertise and connoisseurship of
professionals have rarely been considered in this context.
However, this seems key to understanding, for example, procedural
inquiry, using the role of creative output within any inquiry as
an illustration or demonstration of the researcher's knowledge or
any embedded meanings (e.g. concepts, function, user behaviour,
etc.). How professionals develop their expertise and
connoisseurship and how these forms of tacit judgement facilitate
explicit justification in research, including the generation,
evaluation and communication of knowledge therefore remains open
to questions and debate.
With this conference, we wish to explore the roles of the
researcher's professional knowledge and the different ways in
which it can be utilised and communicated within the framework of
research. This may include, for example, investigations into the
nature, aims, evaluation, and/or necessity of different forms of
expertise and connoisseurship as well as modes of communication
and exchange for experiential and procedural knowledge.
We wish to bring together engaged professionals and scholars from
various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production
and methodological approaches to explore these issues. We invite
contributions from creative subjects and other disciplines, e.g.
design, architecture, engineering, craft, media, performance,
music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy,
knowledge management, education, health, cognitive science,
gastronomy, oenology, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned
with the expertise and connoisseurship in research and in
creative and professional practice.
KEY DATES
3 September 2012 First call for papers
1 October 2012 Second call for papers
1 November 2012 Final call for papers
15 November 2012 Submission of abstracts ends
20 December 2012 Notification of accepted abstracts
15 February 2013 Submission of full papers
29 March 2013 Notification of acceptance of papers
29 April 2013 Submission of revised papers
4&5 July 2013 Conference
SUBMISSIONS
For EKSIG 2013, we invite papers which offer new or challenging
views on the subject. Papers will be selected subject to a
double blind review process by an international review team. In
the first instance we ask for the submission of abstracts by 15
November 2012. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to
submit full papers.
We invite the submission of abstracts of 800 words (including
references) by 15 November 2012. Authors of selected abstracts
will subsequently be invited to submit full papers (4000-5000
words) by 15 February 2013.
http://www.experientialknowledge.org
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CALLS
18-20 June 2013: PARTICIPATORY INNOVATION CONFERENCE 2013,
Lahti, Finland
Call for Papers:
The 3rd Participatory Innovation Conference, PIN-C will be held
in Lahti, Finland on 18-20 June 2013. Organised jointly by
Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lahti School of Innovation
(LUT LSI) and University of Southern Denmark, Sonderborg
Participatory Innovation Research Centre (SPIRE), this conference
will bring together researchers, artists, designers and
practitioners. The 3-day programme will include presentations by
leading keynote speakers, research paper sessions, applied
theatre, a hands-on innovation session with industry cases, and
artistic interpretations of research.
Participatory Innovation combines theories and methods across
academic fields that describe how people outside an organisation
can contribute to its innovation. Join this conference to help
identify ways for industry, the public sector, and communities to
expand innovation through the participation of users, employees,
suppliers, citizens, members, etc. - on a strategic level, in
concrete methods, and in day-to-day interactions.
Industry, public agencies, and communities increasingly adopt
people-driven and open innovation, as they realise that
innovation cannot come solely from within an organisation.
Innovation happens in between people outside and people inside -
because they have different stakes and perspectives.
In academia, new breakthrough contributions to understanding and
supporting innovation also emerge in the borderlands between
disciplines that traditionally do not collaborate. PIN-C 2013 is
a forum where participants from different disciplines and
organisations can meet and challenge each other to develop the
field of participatory innovation.
The conference theme for this year is Participation as
Performance. In particular we welcome contributions that in
concrete terms explore how performance can support innovation, or
that draw on performance theory and methods to understand
participation and innovation.
Keynote speakers include, inter alia:
Prof. Giovanni Schiuma, Chairman of the Arts for Business
Institute and Professor in Innovation Management at Universita
della Basilicata (Italy)
Prof. Elena Antonacopoulou, GNOSIS, University of Liverpool
Management School (UK)
PAPER TRACKS
The trademark of this conference is that participants contribute
with papers in one of five tracks that each explore a potential
combination of disciplines. This year you can submit to any of
these five exciting paper tracks:
1. Designed Interactions
2. Design Anthropology and Social Innovation
3. Social Shaping of Innovation in Organisations
4. Participatory Business Design
5. (Regional) Innovation Policy and Local Participation
More detailed track descriptions will be published in early
November.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: 3 December 2012
PIN-C follows a two-step peer-review process: both abstracts and
full manuscripts are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be
presented in the conference programme and published in the
conference proceedings.
http://www.lut.fi/en/pin-c2013/Pages/Default.aspx
3-5 July 2013: 2nd European Design4Health Conference, which will
be held at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
Design 4 Health 2013 provides a platform for dialogue between
designers, healthcare professionals, funding bodies, researchers
and users. It seeks to explore the relationship between design,
and health and wellbeing. Building on the 1st European
Design4Health conference in 2011, D4H2013 will explore key themes
emerging within this field including (but not limited to): the
role of evidence based design in healthcare, the challenges of
interdisciplinary working and the development of new
methodologies.
We invite submissions to the conference in the following forms:
- Abstract submissions: extended abstracts that address
the conference themes
- Exhibition proposals: exhibits of innovative artefacts
or systems that make significant progress in design for health
Please download the attached Call for Papers for full details of
the conference themes or visit www.design4health.org.uk.
For announcements and news about D4H2013, please sign up to our
email list at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/DESIGN4HEALTH
IDEA JOURNAL 2013: Unbecoming
GUEST EDITOR: Ed Hollis
Call for proposals
http://www.idea-edu.com/Journal/2013/2013-IDEA-Journal
The forthcoming issue of the IDEA Journal calls for contributions
in the form scholarly essays, visual essays and theorized
creative practice on the topic of Unbecoming.
Provocation
Designing interiors is the process, we say, of finding a place
for everything, and putting everything in its place. Alberti
claimed that 'Beauty is that reasoned harmony of all the parts
within a body, so that nothing may be added, taken away, or
altered, but for the worse...' (Leone Battista Alberti)
But it shouldn't be, and it never is for long; and Bruce Mau
replied, in his Incomplete Manifesto for designers: 'Make
Mistakes Faster.'
We want to know about:
Interiors from the past that went wrong, are broken or
disappeared.
Interiors from the present that are ugly and useless.
Interiors from the future we haven't planned.
Comedies and satires, but above all, Tragedies
This issue of the journal invites interdisciplinary
collaborations with landscapists, geographers, gardeners, and
other lovers of the changing environment of life as well as
politicians, anthropologists and theologians: papers, projects
and reviews that explore the emerging consideration of the ethics
of the interior: how does, or could, the interior provoke, rather
than dictate, behaviours and responses? How can design make its
users neither its objects, nor its subjects, but its citizens?
This is a call for unbecoming meditations on the interior: ugly
images, and stories about things that went wrong. It is
provocation for provocations. This is a proposal for an issue of
IDEA, in which we explore the liberating wrongness of interiors,
and the ways in which it can foster incomplete knowledge, the
willingness to make mistakes, and the ethics of freedom of
enquiry.
Important deadlines/dates:
Registration of interest including 50 word abstract and image if
appropriate due by 21 October 2012
Journal published early 2014 with 2013 date
http://www.idea-edu.com/Journal/2013/2013-IDEA-Journal
2-3 July 2013: Include Asia 2013
International Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
'Global Challenges and Local Solutions in Inclusive Design'
Organised by Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong, China
The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art,
London, is pleased to announce that Include 2013, the seventh
international conference on inclusive design, will take place on
2-3 July 2013 at the Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong, China.
Include Asia 2013, organised in partnership with the Hong Kong
Design Centre, marks a major international departure for the
Include series after six successful conferences in London.
Include Asia 2013 will form part of HKDC's Knowledge of Design
Week 2013 and draw in new design researchers and practitioners
from south-east Asia to the Include network.
We are inviting paper proposals for Include Asia 2013 on the
theme of Global Challenges and Local Solutions in Inclusive
Design.
Researchers and practitioners are asked to consider the role of
inclusive design within the twin contexts of emerging global
challenges such as ageing populations, better healthcare and
climate change and the need for local tailored solutions for
individuals and communities. In effect we want to explore the
paradigm shift from scaling up (the main driver of design over
the past 50 years, through mass manufacturing, global branding)
to 'scaling down' to meet specific needs.
We welcome paper proposals (abstracts) from researchers,
designers, educators and policymakers that address the Include
Asia 2013 theme. Authors of accepted paper proposals will be
asked to develop their ideas into full (10 page) papers for oral
presentation at the conference held in Hong Kong.
Paper proposals can contribute to inclusive design theory,
provide examples of empirical research or use case studies
(design stories) to illustrate how, when and why an inclusive
design approach can address wider challenges and/or local needs.
Include Asia 2013 will be a forum for the exchange of ideas,
academic research projects and models of best practice from the
global community of those engaged in inclusive design. Accepted
papers will be published online in the Include Asia 2013
proceedings.
Submission Guidelines
Please make a submission by paper proposal (abstract) for a full
paper. All proposals for full papers will be reviewed anonymously
by two reviewers on the Include International Review Committee.
The template for submitting abstracts can be downloaded from:
http://www.hhc.rca.ac.uk/4989/all/1/include-2013.aspx
1000 word abstracts should be submitted now through Kinetix
Events at
http://include13.kinetixevents.co.uk.
The deadline for abstract submissions is 1 December 2012.
Selected Authors will be informed of review decisions on 31
January 2013.
Full papers will need to be submitted by 30 April 2013.
7-9 March 2013: Typogrphy Day 2013 at Dod, IIT Guwahati
Focus on 'Display Typography'
Typography Day will be organized for the sixth time in 2013 at
the Department of Design (DoD) at the Indian Institute of
Technology Guwahati (IIT Guwahati) with support from India Design
Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya. The theme for this year's
event is 'Display Typography'. The event will feature a day of
workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of
conference dedicated to display typography. The international
conference which will be devoted to addressing issues faced by
type designers, type users and type educators. The conference
includes presentations of invited keynote speakers, eminent
academicians, blind juried papers, industry professionals,
research scholars and students. The event will also host an
exhibition of selected posters and typographic works of students
and faculty members from Design Institutes in India. The event
is planned over three days:Day 1: Workshops on Typography + Meet
on 'Research in Typography' Day 2-3 : Conference focusing on
'Display Typography'
Themes:
The Conference will focus on the following issues:
1. Experiments and Explorations in Display Typography design.
2. Display Typography design with multilingual scripts.
3. Display Typography design in native (indigenous) Scripts.
4. Display Typography design within local contexts.
5. Research activities in Display Typography.
Call for Papers
We invite a 300-600 word abstract (with examples) in three
categories:
1. Concerns in Display Typography Design (Academic
Research/Presentations).
2. Innovative applications of Display Typography Design (Industry
Presentations/Case Studies).
3. Student projects in Display Typography Design (Student
Projects)
http://www.typoday.in
METAVERSE CREATIVITY
Intellect is delighted to announce the publication of Metaverse
Creativity, issue 2.1
Metaverse Creativity is committed to an examination of creativity
in the user defined online virtual worlds known as the metaverse.
The pursuit of creative activity has become the most prevalent
reason for residency in a simulated world such as Second Life(R),
as it is an intrinsically unstructured environment which allows
for creative freedom. The journal examines artistic output within
a metaverse whilst also discussing other disciplines that make up
virtual worlds, such as fashion, architecture, landscaping and
object design.
In this issue, Guan-Ze Liao considers how digital storytelling
can create a learning environment that enables higher
understanding of the scientific invention process. Stephan
Glasauer, a practicing metaverse artist, explores the impact of
altering virtual physical laws on the creation of artwork, while
long-time resident of the metaverse Peter Hagerty shares insights
into day-to-day existence in the metaverse. Glauce Rocha De
Oliveira proposes that virtuality (virtual reality) is as real as
real reality, challenging the mainstream notion of pre-existing
realities. Sinan Bueyuekba and Kamer Ali Yueksel introduce the
AVIEM project, a comprehensive study of the connections between
audio, visual and the emotional in digital creation. Finally, in
a collaborative report exploring the stimulation of creativity in
the virtual classroom, Dean A. F. Gui, Lan Li, Dora Wong and Gigi
Au Yeung utilise the findings of an empirical study of
undergraduate language students who appraised the work of their
peers using a custom designed showcase space on Second Life(R).
Call for papers
Metaverse Creativity welcomes articles covering a broad range of
topics including, but not limited to: creative output in online
virtual worlds, the Avatar, Education, Virtual culture in a
broader context, the social, physical and technological
infrastructure of the metaverse, historic precedents and
inspirations. Please visit our call for papers page for more
information: http://bit.ly/1IZtvj
To subscribe to Metaverse Creativity, please visit our website:
http://bit.ly/ftidlN
The first issue of Metaverse Creativity is available to download
for free at http://bit.ly/u1zppH
5-7 February 2013: Smart Design Conference 2013 The University of
Western Sydney (Parramatta South Campus)
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS CLOSES 28 OCTOBER 2012
The 2nd International Smart Design conference aims to bring
together researchers and practitioners to discuss issues,
identify challenges and directions, and share their R&D findings
and experiences in the areas of design, materials and technology.
The University of Western Sydney, in collaboration with
Nottingham Trent University (UK), is proud to be hosting this
conference in 2013.
Conference Scope and Theme
New materials and advanced technologies are critical to the
economy of the twenty-first century. Good product designs merge
materials, technology and hardware into a unified user experience
in which technology recedes into the background. By focusing on
functional gain, critical awareness and emotive connection, even
multifaceted and complex technology can become an integral part
of daily life. Researchers, designers and developers must
understand how to appropriate the right technical and human
knowledge to drive their innovations.
Who Should Participate?
Researchers, professionals, industrialists, academics and
students in appropriate fields. We welcome all who are interested
in the area of smart design and new and emerging technologies and
materials, for instance:
- Professionals and managers working in engineering, product
development, material sciences and related areas.
- National and regional development agencies and governmental
bodies.
- Appropriate professional bodies and media.
- Academics and researchers working in the field of Technology &
Design.
- Academics and researchers working in related disciplines.
Abstract Submission
The conference will feature keynote lectures and research paper
presentations (parallel sessions). We are calling for 300 word
abstracts that address the key conference themes:
- Smart materials/technical textiles/wearable devices
- Personal/home robotics
- Clinical and medical devices
- Smart packaging
- Intelligent environments
Abstracts will be blind-reviewed, with successful authors invited
to present and submit a full paper for peer review and
publication in the Smart Design book, to be published by
Springer.
Please submit your 300 word abstract through the Smart Design
Conference website:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/adbe/news_events/smart_design/call_papers/
index.html by Sunday 28 October 2012.
For further information on the conference, please visit the
conference website: http://www.ntu.ac.uk/smartdesign
For information on the 2013 conference location, please visit
http://www.uws.edu.au/smartdesign2013
Craft Research, Volume 4.2 - Call for submissions
After three successful issues, Craft Research is preparing to
expand to two issues per year. From 2013 there will be two
issues, one in January/February and one in September/October each
year.
Submission
The final date for submission of contributions for Vol 4.2 is
Monday 3 December 2012.
For guidance notes or further information, or to submit an
article or review, please contact the editors or visit the
journal's website for details:
Craft Research:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=172/
Kristina Niedderer [log in to unmask]
Katherine Townsend [log in to unmask]
Aims & Scope
Craft Research (CRRE) is the first peer-reviewed academic journal
dedicated to the development and advance of contemporary craft
practice and theory through research. The aim of Craft Research
is to elicit craft as a vital and viable modern discipline that
offers a vision for the future and for the sustainable
development of human social, economical and ecological issues.
This role ofcraft is rooted in its flexible nature as a conduit
from design at one end to art at the other. It gains its strength
from its at times experimental, at times developmental nature,
which enables craft to explore and challenge technology, to
question and develop cultural and social practices, and to
interrogate philosophical and human values.
Call for Papers
Craft Research aims to actively promote and strengthen this
future-oriented role of the crafts. In order to do so, it
recognises inter and cross disciplinary practices, and encourages
diverse approaches to research arising from practice, theory
andphilosophy. It welcomes contributions from new and established
researchers,scholars, and professionals around the world who wish
to make a contribution to advancing the crafts. Contributions may
include research into materials, technology, processes, methods,
concepts, aesthetics and philosophy, etc. in any discipline area
of the applied arts and crafts, including craft education. Craft
Research welcomes a number of different types of contributions as
set out below.
Contributions
Full Research Papers (4000-6000 words) They will describe
completed research projects, including research problem,
questions, methods, outcomes, and findings. They should include
original work of a research and/or developmental nature and/or
propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly
presented and argued.
Short Research Papers / Position Papers (2000-3000 words)
- Short Research Papers may describe smaller research projects or
research in progress including research problem, questions,
methods, (expected) outcomes and findings. They are an
opportunity to new researchers/practitioners to get into
publishing.
- Position papers may put forward and debate a position on a
particular (current) issue (e.g. new technology, material,
theoretical, social or educational issue). Both kinds of
contributions should include original work of a research or
developmental nature and/or propose new methods or ideas that are
clearly and thoroughly presented and argued.
Craft & Industry Reports (1500-3000 words) Reports of
Investigative Practice from Craft & Industry should present an
advance in and for the field, including collaborations and new
developments of work, processes, methods, ideas etc. by
practitioners and industry in the crafts.
Review Section. We invite reviews of the following:
- The Portrait Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature the work of
an individual (crafts person, artist, designer, maker,
researcher) within the field whose creative work stands out for
its developmental / research qualities and contribution to the
crafts.
- The Exhibition Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature scholarly
reviews of exhibitions that are of particular developmental /
research significance for the field for the technical,
conceptual, aesthetic, social etc. quality of the work or for the
curation.
- The Publication Review (1000-2000 words) Will feature reviews
of publications in print and new media.
- The Conference Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature reviews
of any relevant conferences/symposia/etc. in the field.
Calendar of exhibitions and conferences
- We invite notifications of important and relevant forthcoming
craft exhibitions and craft conferences/research events.
Remarkable image section
- We invite the submission of images of outstanding quality for
their beauty, complexity, simplicity, challenging nature,
novelty, humour, humanity, etc. that are representative of
contemporary craft developments and research.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
30 November - 1 DECEMBER 2012: CONFIA 2012 International
Conference on Illustration and Animation Portugal, Ofir
CONFIA 2012, the International Conference on Illustration and
Animation: aligning drawing, illustration and animation, as well
as art theory as it applies to illustration and animation.
Organized by the Department of Design of the Polytechnic
Institute of Cavado and Ave.
Under the auspices of the Masters in Illustration and Animation,
CONFIA intends to be a pivotal moment in the contemporary
discussion of these areas, which have a long tradition and, at
the same time, are pioneers in technological innovation. We
intend to broadly explore the multidisciplinary space that
includes illustration and the animated image, from the
construction of the narrative to character development, from art
theory to critical reflection on the objects that populate the
market and the industry. The conference seeks quality original
submissions from artists, the industry, the academic community
and the market as well.
http://confia.ipca.pt
REPORT
Nielsen Norman Group Report: "Beyond ALT Text: Making the Web
Easy to Use for Users With Disabilities" Design Guidelines for
Websites and Intranets Based on Usability Studies with People
Using Assistive Technology
"The goal of our research was two-fold: to learn how people with
low vision, no vision, and motor-skill challenges use assistive
technology and the Web, and to find examples of usable and
unusable designs. We selected participants from both the U.S. and
Japan.
This report includes design recommendations based on our
behavioral research. We hope this will help Web designers and
other product designers better understand how people use
assistive devices, how design elements can enhance or impede
accessibility, and how to create designs that are easy for
everyone to use."
http://nldr.library.ucar.edu/collections/monographs/MONOGRAPH-000
-000-000-051.pdf
22-26 OCTOBER 2012: ICMI 2012 - International Conference on
Multimodal Interaction Santa Monica, California, USA
http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012
11-12 December 2012: International Design Conference entitled
'Work in Progress'
The Faculty of Art and Design and the Faculty of Digital Arts at
Rangsit University, Thailand in collaboration with the Executive
Committee of International Conference of Design for
Sustainability of Japan would like invite researchers, designers,
artists, thinkers, inventors, and makers from different
disciplines to join us in our 1st International Design Conference
entitled " Work in Progress."
http://www.rsu-ids2012.com/
23-24 November 2012: DE-MYSTIFYING METHODS. A Critical
Perspective On Current Design Research Methods Annual conference
of the German Society of Design Theory and Research (DGTF)
Venue: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim (HAWK),
Germany
This year's conference will be a forum to present, compare and
discuss the specifics of design research methods. What are the
current positions of research methods within the discipline of
design? Are they overestimated, or too often neglected? With
keynotes, project presentations, parallel workshops and several
possibilities to engage in open discussions. Conference
languages: German, English
Keynote speakers:
Bill Gaver, Goldsmith University London
Karmen Franinovic, Zurich University of the Arts
Jesko Fezer, University of Fine Arts of Hamburg
Registration:
Registration is now open: http://www.dgtf.de/conftool
http://www.dgtf.de/tagung2012
28-29 November 2012: The Art of Research Conference: Making,
Reflecting & Understanding (AOR2012)
The 4th Art of Research Conference: Making, Reflecting &
Understanding (AOR2012) will take place on 28-29 November 2012 at
Aalto University School of Art, Design and Architecture,
Helsinki, Finland. The aim of the event is to continue and update
the discussions concerning the relationship between art and
design practices and knowledge, in terms of both content and
modes of knowledge production and exchange.
Registration
We are happy to announce that the registration for the conference
is now open. In order to help the organizers with their planning,
we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible, and no later
than November 23rd. To register, please find all details at
http://designresearch.aalto.fi/events/aor2012/
fee_and_registration.php
Conference Proceedings
We are also pleased to announce that in collaboration with the
journal Studies in Material Thinking we will publish a
post-conference collection of invited research papers. The aim of
this volume is to further the contemporary discourse regarding
notions of practice-led research and to discover how contemporary
practitioners bring into play the relationship between their art
and design practices and the emergence of new knowledge. Full
information about the journal is available at
http://www.materialthinking.org/
Call for workshops
Pre-conference workshops will be offered on Monday, November 26
and Tuesday, November 27, 2012. These workshops are designed to
give in-depth training on specific topics.
1) The 'Common Grounds' 24-hours 'inSite' is a colloquium for
post-graduate students and early career researchers exploring
methodologies for researching architecture and the built
environment, with an emphasis on collaborative research
incorporating innovative practice and activist methods. Separate
registration is required, the deadline is Thursday 1st November
2012. More information is available at:
http://designresearch.aalto.fi/events/aor2012/workshops_1.php
For registration please contact Adam Park, University of
Sheffield adam.park [at] sheffield.ac.uk
2) Further to collaboration with the journal Studies in Material
Thinking, there will be a workshop facilitated by Nancy de
Freitas, the editor of the journal. The workshop is open for
authors of accepted papers. More information is coming soon,
please check our website.
http://designresearch.aalto.fi/events/aor2012/
ORGANIZATIONAL AESTHETICS
The Society for Organizational Aesthetics Research is proud to
announce the publication of it's new, open-source journal called,
"Organizational Aesthetics" - available online
Organizational Aesthetics is about how the five senses and
artistry inform business, non-profit, and government
organizations. We mean for both terms, aesthetics and
organizational, to be understood broadly to include a range of
topics. Examples are the use of arts-based methods in
organizations, theoretical accounts of aesthetic phenomena in
organizations such as beautiful (or grotesque) leadership, and
the art about/in/behind organizations. In fact, we hope that
authors and artists will take us to places we haven't even begun
to describe here. The content of the journal is organized into
four sections: Theory, Practice, Art, and Reviews.
Editorial Team
- Editor-in-Chief: Steven S- Taylor, Worcester Polytechnic
Institute
- Theory Section Editor: Donna Ladkin, Cranfield University
- Practice Section Editor: Martin Wood, RMIT University
- Art Section Editor: Ralph Bathurst, Massey University
- Reviews Section Editor: Stefan Meisiek, Copenhagen Business
School
http://www.organizationalaesthetics.org
NEW BOOK
Architecture & Design versus Consumerism: How design activism
confronts growth (Earthscan for Routledge 2012).
September saw the U.S. release of a new book by Ann Thorpe,
Architecture & Design versus Consumerism: How design confronts
growth (Earthscan for Routledge, 2012). Taking as its premise
that in high income countries like the US or the UK,
consumer-driven economic growth constitutes one of the biggest
obstacles to real sustainability, the book focuses on the ways
that spatial and material designers can confront this constant
pressure for growth.
The book opens by tackling the four main challenges of
consumerism, such as the accelerating pace of consumerism, and
shows how designers are responding. The second half of the book
turns to a range of examples that illustrate the five main
methods that design activists use to confront the challenges of
consumerism--methods such as organizing or mobilization--and a
range of tactics, such as design competitions or demonstration
buildings, which are deployed across these methods. Closing
chapters examine how these methods and tactics have the capacity
to build power to bring about change, even despite their low
budgets and speculate on how the role of design might be
transformed in a "post-growth" society.
The author is offering workshops on the book's topic and also
promoting the idea of readers forming groups to discuss and apply
the ideas. Learn more at
http://www.designvsconsumerism.net
FUNDING FOR A PH.D. STUDENT in "Architectural Robotics" entering
Clemson University (USA) in August 2013
Individuals trained in Architecture and/or the allied Design
disciplines and interested in pursuing a Ph.D. focusing on design
research may apply now for one or more funded openings, with
August 2013 entry, to Clemson University. Full funding and living
stipend will be awarded to qualified applicants interested in
engaging in research being undertaken within CU-iMSE (the
Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems & Environments -
www.CU-iMSE.org) under the direction of Keith Evan Green.
The successful candidate(s) will be expected to focus on the
design, prototyping and evaluation of "architectural robotics"
or, more broadly, interactive, digital-physical environments from
the scale of furniture to the scale of the metropolis.
Successful applicants must have a professional 5-year bachelors
degree in a design field, or a Masters degree. We particular seek
applicants with strong design and communications skills who are
well-versed in at least one of the following: digital/parametric
design, digital fabrication, programming, hearuistic evaluation
methods and/or HCI.
All CU-iMSE research projects are collaborative, developed in
partnership with faculty and students in Electrical & Computing
Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering and Human Factors
Psychology. The degree of Ph.D. will be granted by Clemson's
Ph.D. Program in PDB&E (Planning, Design & the Built
Environment).
Clemson is a top-25 U.S. public research university located
between Atlanta and Charlotte. For consideration, applicants must
complete the on-line application forms and forward official GRE
and (for non-US citizens) TOFEL scores to the Graduate School;
and email a design portfolio (a pdf file of less than 5MB,
please) and copies of GRE and TOFEL scores to Professor Green.
For best consideration, please submit these materials by January
15, 2013.
Professor Keith Evan Green, [log in to unmask]
IMSA: www.CU-iMSE.org
PH.D. PDBE Program Director Mickey Lauria, [log in to unmask]
Ph.D. PDBE: http://www.clemson.edu/caah/pdbe/.
Apply on-line: http://www.grad.clemson.edu/admission/
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