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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 18 Number 2 Feb 2013 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o DRS Conference Proceedings online
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 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The Design Research Society website hosts a number of conference
proceedings, particularly those arising from the most recent DRS
international biennial conferences. The DRS 2012 Bangkok
conference proceedings are now available online:
Design Research Society 2012 Conference Proceedings Vol. 1
ISBN 978-616-551-574-0
DRS website
http://www.designresearchsociety.org/docs-procs/drs2012/drs2012-1
.pdf
Scirbid website
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117585763/2012-DRS-Proceeding-01
Design Research Society 2012 Conference Proceedings Vol. 2
ISBN 978-616-551-568-9
DRS website
http://www.designresearchsociety.org/docs-procs/drs2012/drs2012-2
.pdf
Scirbid website
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117586255/2012-DRS-Proceeding-02
Design Research Society 2012 Conference Proceedings Vol. 3
ISBN 978-616-551-570-2
DRS website
http://www.designresearchsociety.org/docs-procs/drs2012/drs2012-3
.pdf
Scirbid website
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117587165/2012-DRS-Proceeding-03
Design Research Society 2012 Conference Proceedings Vol. 4
ISBN 978-616-551-569-6
DRS website
http://www.designresearchsociety.org/docs-procs/drs2012/drs2012-4
.pdf
Scirbid website
http://www.scribd.com/doc/117587763/2012-DRS-Proceeding-04<http:/
/www.scribd.com/doc/117587763/2012-DRS-Proceeding-04>
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CALLS
1-3 July 2013: [SouthCHI 2013] CfP: DESIGN CULTURE FOR AGEING
WELL: DESIGNING FOR 'SITUATED ELDERLINESS'
Special Session (Special Track) on Design Culture for Ageing
Well: Designing for 'Situated Elderliness' (paper presentations,
keynotes from European senior organisations and a half-day design
workshop), 1-3 July, Maribor, Slovenia at SouthCHI2013
(http://southchi.org/)
The special session Design Culture for Ageing Well: Designing for
'Situated Elderliness' aims to open up interdisciplinary
discussions between social scientists, seniors' association
members, healthcare practitioners, researchers and practitioners
from human-computer interaction, ambient assisted living and
related fields, and other interested persons. The special session
aims to bring together people from diverse backgrounds. Roles of
"diversity", "heterogeneity" and "abilities" will be core themes,
based on an ability-based understanding of aging and situated
elderliness. The organizers invite position papers that focus on
topics related to "ageing well", "ambient assisted living" or
similar.
Topics of Interest
Community based practices in relation to ageing (senior
associations, clubs)
Situated elderliness (practices of "feeling old", "being old")
Bottom up research on ageing
Defining heterogeneity in "ageing well"
Creative space of life-span changes
Case studies and examples of real-world seniors' related
technology design solutions
Design process and continuous involvement of senior participants
Life experiences as sources of innovations
Broader understanding of ethics, including design ethics,
giving-back mechanisms, language and sustainability
Broader understanding of accessibility and exclusion (e.g:
semantic access)
Important Dates
Full and Short Papers: 05 March 2013
Deadline for camera-ready paper is 30 April 2013
Special track will be held between 1-3 July 2013
Submissions and Format
We encourage two types of papers. People who are working with
seniors on daily basis or senior individuals are encouraged to
make contributions in form of a reflection paper, where they can
describe their daily work and drive conclusions for Human
Computer Interaction, design and related areas. The second type
of papers can be from any relevant area to the given call topics
above. Both everyday, research and practice insights are welcome.
Special session papers should be formatted according the LNCS
format
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-12-73062-0
The [blinded] paper should be submitted electronically as a
single PDF file through the ConfTool submission system
https://www.conftool.net/southCHI2013/ . We encourage papers
between 4 and 8 pages with given format. In addition, even pages
should be submitted in the camera-ready version (4, 6, 8).
Peer Review and Publication
All position papers will be peer reviewed by an international
review committee. All accepted papers will be published in LNCS
Book as a part of SouthCHI'13, indexed by Thompson Reuters
Citation Index. Please see details for indexing and formats
under: http://southchi.org/Publications. Authors of selected
papers will be invited to submit an extensively expanded version
of their papers to be considered for publication in special
issues of international journals, indexed with Science Citation
Index.
Full day international special session is a part of the
SouthCHi'13 Conference and will take place in Maribor, Slovenia
between 1-3 July 2013.
http://designcultureforageingwell.wordpress.com/
26-29 November 2013: CRITIQUE 2013: an international conference
reflecting on creative practice in art, architecture, and design
University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Call for participation
Critique, and by extension criticism, is a vital part of both the
everyday creative-practice and teaching in the creative
disciplines. The critique of creative works, such as buildings,
drawings, images, or artworks, is pivotal for creative
practitioners and the broader public to understand the work's
creative and cultural value. In other words, not just judgements
of the aesthetic pleasure that the creative work might provide,
but, more broadly, what cultural values and critical positions
are expressed by the work. However, there are fewer and fewer
opportunities and forums in which to mount such cultural
critiques of creative practice and its production. The nature and
role of critique is changing. So to the public's perceived value
of critique has waned since the 60s, and today is largely thought
of as exclusionary intellectual navel-gazing that only permeates
the walls of universities and academic journals. The more
familiar everyday practice of debating the latest shock-jock
celebrity gossip or news-cycle driven political sound-bite seems
preferable to deeper and more meaningful interrogations of
cultural and environmental questions. It would appear that
perhaps both the critique and the critic are in need of cultural
reinvention.
Critique 2013 aims to provide a forum that will to bring together
engaged professionals and scholars from various disciplinary
backgrounds, fields of knowledge, production, and methodological
approaches to discuss and debate the role, value and future of
both traditional and emerging forms of critique; such as, written
critique in the form of blogs, wikis, and social media, to
newsprint, to academic journals; opinion versus critique; verbal
critique; relationship between critics and creative
practitioners; designed artefacts as critique; and curated
exhibitions as critique. Specifically, this conference aims to
explore the following three broad categories of critique:
a) Critique in design education and creative practice (verbal &
visual, all forms)
b) Self-critique in design education and creative
practice(reflective practice)
c) Critique through creative works of things/ideas/policy/ in
the world (design as research)
We invite contributions from a broad range of disciplines that
are concerned with the creative and professional practice of
criticism including, but not limited to; design, the fine arts,
architecture, interior design, industrial design, urban planning,
craft, media, performance, music, exhibition curation, museology,
philosophy, education, journalism, and governance and policy.
The following themes are a guide for contributors to Critique
2013 to consider:
- Advocacy & Brokerage - the role of the critique of government
policy and regulatory authorities by design brokerage
organisations.
- Journalism - the role of the critique of design in newspapers,
magazines and professional journals.
- Social Media & online Commentary - the role of critique through
social media (Twitter & Facebook) and other forms of online, or
technologically-mediated commentary.
- Opinion vs Critique - the changing relationship between public
opinion and objectively informed critique in creative practice,
design education and the public; language, accessibility,
gatekeepers to taste, shock jocks.
- Illustration - the role of critique through satire, analogy, or
metaphor, as a means to comment on design and culture.
- Drama & Film - the role of critique in narrative commentaries
- Music - the role of music in critically engaging in narrative
commentaries about historical and/or contemporary cultural
practices.
- Reflective Practices - roles and methods of self-evaluation by
creative practitioners in creative practice, higher education,
and doctoral models.
- Design critique in higher education - pedagogies and education
practices in engaging peers and students in oral and written
critique.
- Exhibition Curation as Critique - the methods and role of
critique in visual arts exhibition curation.
- Post-critical theory - the role of critique in/of creative
works that are un-critical.
- Judgement - the methods and role of critical judgement in
theorists such as Emmanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida, Manfredo
Tafuri.
- Critique through Creative Speculation - the methods and role of
speculative design projects as critical devices to discuss,
problematise and theorise upon potential alternative techniques,
paths, and/or futures.
- Other - anything and everything that considers the nature,
effect and affect of critique.
Key Dates
28 January 2013 Call for Participation
1 March 2013 Online Abstract submission opens
31 March 2013 Deadline for Abstract submission
30 April 2013 Notification of acceptance of Abstracts
31 July 2013 Deadline for Full Paper submission
1 October 2013 Notification of acceptance of Full Paper
1 November 2013 Deadline for Revised Paper submission
Submissions
We invite papers that offer new or challenging views on the
subject of critique in the creative industries. The selection
process will be subject to a double blind review process by an
international peer review team.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted by 31
March 2013. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to
submit full papers (4000-5000 words including notes) by 31 July
2013.
Please submit your abstract using the Online Conference
Management System available on the conference website
(www.critique2013.com).
Contact
For all other information please contact the conference conveners
Dr. Chris Brisbin
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=chris.
brisbin>&
Dr. Myra Thiessen
http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=myra.
thiessen
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http://www.critique2013.com
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DESIGN CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION
The inaugural issue of the International Journal of Design
Creativity and Innovation has recently been published online by
the publishers Taylor and Francis. Toshiharu Taura and Yukari
Nagai, editors of the new journal, have been very active in the
Design Society in leading the Design Creativity Special Interest
Group and in founding the International Conference on Design
Creativity. They invite all interested authors to consider
submitting papers for publication in the journal.
http://www.tandfonline.com/tdci
CFP SPECIAL ISSUE: INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE
Material Culture Review (MCR) solicits articles for a special
issue: UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible
Cultural Heritage.
UNESCO's Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural
Heritage, initiated in 2003, defines intangible cultural heritage
(ICH) as "the practices, representations, expressions, as well as
the knowledge and skills, that communities, groups and, in some
cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage."
Intangible cultural heritage can also be defined more simply as
"living traditions." Increasingly, members of the museum and
academic community throughout the world are playing a
significant role in the study, preservation, and sustainability
of intangible cultural heritage. Accordingly, MCR will be
publishing a special issue on intangible cultural heritage. We
welcome submissions from the following areas:
How does intangible cultural heritage play a role in sustainable
economic development?
What role does intangible cultural heritage play in identity
formation in communities, regions, and countries?
What role does intangible cultural heritage play in safeguarding
and sustaining the environment?
Policy implications surrounding intangible cultural heritage in
countries that have signed the Convention and nations that have
not signed the Convention
Intangible cultural heritage and education
Intangible cultural heritage and sustainable tourism
Other intangible cultural heritage topical areas are also
welcome.
The deadline for abstracts is May 31, 2013.
MCR a peer-reviewed journal published twice a year under the
auspices of Cape Breton University Press. MCR publishes original
articles, research reports and notes, and critical reviews of
books, exhibitions, and historic sites in English and French. The
editors encourage submissions from graduate students and scholars
at any phase of their professional career, professionals, and
historians from the art and museum world, and from independent
scholars with an interest in material culture.
Submit abstracts, manuscripts, or questions to:
[log in to unmask]
http://culture.cbu.ca/mcr/
DESIGN RESEARCH WITH RMIT UNIVERSITY PRESS: CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Our aim is to promote the publication of design research. Design
is a core activity in many disciplines, yet there are few
publishers who specialise in design-driven research. Research can
be conducted through designing, and the process of designing also
parallels "traditional" research in interesting ways. Designers
have a way of thinking and communicating that is different to
traditional researchers, but which is equally robust when applied
to its own kind of questions.
This book series is based on the premise that the activity of
designing constitutes a crucial mode of research specific to the
design disciplines. It primarily aims to publish research
embodied within the design of projects, their investigations and
outcomes. Accompanying exegeses will contextualise the design
research in relation to existing traditional research; these may
be text-based, but may also encompass other modes of
representation.
RMIT University Press welcomes the submission of project-based
design research undertaken through investigation, speculation,
and scholarly reflection upon design research methodologies. Also
welcome are essays and critiques addressing significant
contemporary design practice and problematics, as well as
emerging design strategies and practices.
Further details:
Dr Joseph Gelfer [log in to unmask]
http://www.informit.com.au/books.html
DESIGN4HEALTH: INVENTION, ADOPTION AND DIFFUSION
Call for Exhibits for the Design 4 Health exhibition, part of the
Design4Health2013 conference.
D4H2013 will be held at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield,
UK from Wed 3rd to Fri 5th July 2013.
The conference brings together designers and creative
practitioners with researchers, clinicians, policy makers and
users to discuss, disseminate and test their approaches and
methods.
The conference will feature an exhibition of innovative health
related creative responses, and product and service solutions to
health and wellbeing issues, plus special sessions and workshops.
More information at www.design4health.org.uk
or contact us at [log in to unmask]
4 June 2013: Call for Paper: ARTS, HUMANITIES, AND COMPLEX
NETWORKS -- 4th Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci2013 taking
place in Copenhagen at DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Important Dates:
Deadline for submission: March 31, 2013.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by April 8, 2013.
Abstract:
The overall mission of the symposium is to bring together pioneer
work in the overlap of arts, humanities, network research, data
science, and information design. The 2013 symposium will leverage
interaction between those areas by means of keynotes, a number of
contributions, and a high-profile panel discussion.
In our call, we are looking for a diversity of research
contributions revolving around networks in culture, networks in
art, networks in the humanities, art about networks, and research
in network visualization. Focussing on these five pillars that
have crystallized out of our previous meetings, the 2013
symposium strives to make further impact in the arts, humanities,
and natural sciences.
Running parallel to the NetSci2013 conference, the symposium
provides a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers
in complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful
collaborations.
As in previous years, selected papers will be published in print,
both in a Special Section of Leonardo Journal MIT-Press and in a
dedicated Leonardo eBook MIT-Press.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007S0UA9Q
Submission:
http://artshumanities.netsci2013.net/
DESIGN AND CULTURE
We are pleased to announce that the peer-review journal Design
and Culture is now being covered by two major indices: Arts and
Humanities Citation Index and Current Contents/Arts and
Humanities.
Design and Culture, the official journal of the Design Studies
Forum, is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published
three times annually.
Design and Culture explores the dynamic, contingent relationships
between design and its many cultural contexts. Encompassing the
numerous professional, quasi-professional, and amateur fields of
design, the journal identifies and explores cultures of design
and designs of culture, investigating the tensions often
encountered between critical, analytical, and intellectual
activity and traditional studio-based endeavors.
The journal aims to broaden the discourse of design by examining
its relation to other academic disciplines, including
anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, marketing,
management, material culture, politics, and visual culture. It
also seeks congruence between traditional divisions within design
practice, such as graphic, product, industrial, and environmental
design. In so doing, the journal's editorial board proposes to
strengthen, clarify, and promote the study of design cultures,
including history, criticism, and design practice, in the
contemporary academy.
More information about the journal can be found at
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal/
More information about the journal's parent organization, the
Design Studies Forum, is at
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/about/
Article submissions can be sent to:
http://www.designandculture.org/index.php/dc/about/submissions#
onlineSubmissions
26-27 Septemmber 2013:MAKING FUTURES
INTERFACES BETWEEN CRAFT KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN:
NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ANNOUNCE: FIRST CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Making Futures will be held on Thursday 26th and Friday 27th
September 2013 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe
estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon,
UK.
The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is now open and the closing date for
receipt is 10th May 2013. Making Futures invites submissions from
artists, craftspeople, designers, curators, historians,
theorists, campaigners, activists, and representatives from
public and private institutions with an interest in the
relationship between contemporary craft practice, sustainability
and social issues.
CONFERENCE AIMS:
Making Futures aims to investigate contemporary craft as a
'change agent' within 21st century society - particularly in
relation to global environmental and sustainability issues,
social equity and social innovation practices. In doing so, it
tries to explore whether these imperatives present opportunities
for the crafts to redefine and reconstitute themselves as more
centrally productive forces in society.
Environmental sustainability issues constitute some of the most
pressing economic and cultural challenges facing societies across
the globe - factors that are forcing wider changes in thinking
and behaviour and that point to the urgent need to develop new
socio-economic paradigms, practices, and ideological rationales.
The ideological is fundamental here, in so far as it informs
social justice and innovation agendas that cannot, in our view,
be divorced from sustainability imperatives.
The ideological also plays its part in the so-called
'disappearance' of making evident in Western societies. This
absence is not simply the consequence of an economically driven
relocation of production into cheap (offshore) labour markets,
but also, at least in the UK, the innate effect of a culture that
has consistently underplayed the value of creative labour. If our
confidence in the world is founded on an embodied appreciation of
its materiality, one effect of this loss might well be a sense of
estrangement from our being in it, and a reduction in our shared
senses of agency and wellbeing.
Making Futures therefore places the material cultures of craft at
the centre of a critical debate facing global consumer society:
how might we move beyond the reductive instrumentalism of 'homo
economicus' and mass consumption, to a political economy capable
of valuing our needs for social well being and resilient
communities, that can also incorporate concerns for non-human
environmental resources? Needless to say, this issue has become
more urgent than ever in the wake of the global financial crisis
and the implementation of unparalleled austerity programmes
throughout many societies.
CONFERENCE SCOPE:
Making Futures invites relevant submissions from across the full
spectrum of art, craft and design practice. The scope is
international and we welcome accounts from non-western contexts,
especially those experiencing rapid industrial and urban
development and newly expanding markets. In terms of presentation
formats we invite proposals that work within, or across,
practice-led presentations and case studies, and
critical-theoretical and historical papers.
Proposals might address any one of the seven thematic fields
introduced through previous conference editions:
- Craft as Sustainability Activism in Practice
- Craft as Social Practice
- Craft in an Expanded Field
- Critical Perspectives on Craft, Industry and Consumerism
- Local-global Translations and Dialogues
- Technological and Material Discourses
- Endangered Subjects - Ethical Minds
In addition, we invite explorations of the new topic elected for
particular attention for this 2013 edition:
- Interfaces between craft knowledge and design: new
opportunities for social innovation and sustainable practice
Finally, we are also calling for submissions to three workshops
that will amplify and explore facets associated with the
craft-design topic:
- Craftwork as Problem Solving
(in collaboration with the School of Oriental & African Studies)
- Crafting with Digital Technologies
(in collaboration with the School of Materials, The Royal College
of Art)
- Transformations in / through Textiles
(in collaboration with the EC funded Crysalis network)
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk
The site contains links to previous editions of Making Futures,
both conferences and on-line journals. Note that Volume 2 of the
Making Futures on-line journal, The Crafts as Change-maker in
Sustainably Aware Cultures, (ISSN 2042-1664), will be published
in early March.
JOURNAL OF TEXTILE DESIGN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice (JTDRP)
publishes peer-reviewed research in textile design and provides a
forum to facilitate, stimulate and disseminate research in the
domain of textile design and practice. Encompassing a range of
approaches, disciplines and outcomes, the JTDRP invites
submissions from the following areas:
- research through textile designing and making - work that uses
practice as an integral part of the research process or as a
means/method to directly answer a research question; experimental
design research into materials and processes; or research in
which the creation of artefacts embody the results of the
research;
- research informed by textiles - studies which are informed by
textiles, textile design research methods and textile practice,
and include fields in which textiles are applied, for example,
product design, fashion and architecture; and
- research for textile design education encompassing pedagogic
studies into the development of textile designers, practitioners
and researchers.
Within these areas the journal is interested in the following:
interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches and the role
of collaboration; relationships between traditional and
contemporary practices; the application of new and traditional
technologies and materials from both technical and aesthetic
perspectives; sustainable textile practices, interfaces between
research and industry, the textile design process including the
role of drawing and the significance of craft.
The Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice invites
submissions in the following four categories:
1) Academic papers
Submissions in this format should address (a) the context of the
research/design problem including any research questions,
hypotheses or unique materials/processes; (b) how the
research/practice has been developed; including the investigative
methods used to answer the question and/or create new or novel
insights; (c) the main findings, insights, implications or
conclusions. Please send an abstract of 300-500 words to Faith
Kane at [log in to unmask] Following initial review by the
editors, you may be invited to submit a full paper for peer
review.
2) Practitioner Interviews
Submissions in this format should be positioned to provide
insight into individual practitioners, their practice,
techniques, studio innovations, perspectives on pedagogy and
education in textiles, and so forth. Please send an abstract of
300-500 words to J.R. Campbell at [log in to unmask] You may be
invited to submit a full article for peer review.
3) Exhibition Reviews
Submissions to this category can address past, present or planned
exhibitions. We welcome reviews of industry-based exhibitions
and trade fairs in addition to gallery based exhibitions. Please
send an abstract of 300 - 500 words to Nancy-Boiter Powell at
[log in to unmask], for consideration of an industry based
exhibition or trade fair and to Faith Kane at
[log in to unmask] for consideration for a gallery based
exhibition review.
4) Book Reviews
Please email Janette Matthews at [log in to unmask] if you
would like to be considered as a book reviewer.
This is an open call but the deadline for inclusion in the first
edition, due out in Autumn 2013 is Friday 22nd March 2013.
10 June 2013: DESIGN AND EDUCATION COLLOQUIUM IOE LONDON
Please join us if you are in London on the 10th June 2013, for
our colloquium at IOE, this year's theme is Design as/with/and
education.
Colloquium-Seminars at Institute of Education (IoE), University
of London, UK
The colloquium will be placed in the Research Week of the EdD
(International) programme at IoE, on the 10th June 2013. The
colloquium includes presentations from IoE staff as well as NIE
staff, and other invited speakers.
The colloquium is also open to interested EdD (International/DA)
students, or other students at IOE in other programmes, and
presentations would double up as a seminar for them.
Theme: Quodlibetal Questions on Education
Call for Papers
As the theme suggests, the colloquium welcomes papers related to
educational matters, and papers can address anything what-so-ever
(Latin: quod-libet; whatever you like). Papers can be
conceptual or empirical but should not exceed 6,000 words, and
could be circulated beforehand informally. The presentation
could be kept within 30 min plus some time for discussion.
Presentations should ideally represent the scholar's recently
published work or current on-goingly revised drafts/work.
Usually also, the research for these papers feed into their own
teaching for the EdD programmes.
2013 Special Interest: For this year's Quodlibet, we would
especially welcome papers encircling the topic, "Design in/as/and
education", but as usual we would also welcome papers focusing on
other educational issues.
If interested please contact :
Dr. Jude Chua Soo Meng FRHistS FCOT FCollT at
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Programme Coordinator, IoE-NIE EdD (Dual Award) programme.
National Institute of Education (Singapore), Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
LAUNCH OF ONLINE ACADEMIC RESOURCE REPOSITORY
Areas: Architecture_Media_Politics_Society
Call for comments
Architecture_MPS aims to establish an innovative academic online
forum that combines, for the first time, a double-blind
peer-reviewed academic journal with a collection of resource
materials related to the journal content. In this regard it
represents a new approach to facilitating cross-disciplinary
collaborations in academic institutions both nationally and
internationally.
As the organisers of this collaboration we are asking for
feedback / comments from academics on how to develop the
repository into an extensive resource that is of use to them and
students.
All the research materials are available according to an open
access policy and are intended to facilitate research, projects
and teaching in the field of design and related subjects such as
media studies, political communication and the social sciences.
http://architecturemps.com/
TRACEY JOURNAL
TRACEY Journal is a fully peer reviewed electronic journal
dedicated to drawing and visualisation. It is varied and diverse
with a fast growing readership of academics, students and
practitioners representing a wide range of drawing interests
including fine art, architectural design, product design and
visual communication - ideally any activity in which drawing and
visualisation is essential.
In this next invitation for submissions, we are focusing on the
theme of Drawing in-situ, particularly in relation to the
following questions:
How does drawing on site inform the way we think about place and
space?
Can drawing in the landscape act as a mirror to nature?
Does drawing in-situ add authenticity to the visualization of
place?
In what way is drawing in-situ a phenomenological act? How does
it inform our knowledge and understanding of site?
Is drawing in-situ a speculative strategy?
In contemporary education, how might drawing in-situ be used to
challenge and extend a student's perception and understanding of
the site in which they are working? What are the fundamental
skills advanced through this activity?
In what ways have contemporary approaches to drawing on site
challenged existing orthodoxies concerning the depiction of place
and space?
In a digital age, what are the benefits of real-time engagement
with site through drawing on location?
A submission may constitute drawings or other visual material,
texts or research papers that have not been published before or
have been published in a different context and also texts and
images combined. There is no word or image limit. All submissions
will be peer reviewed by two members of the peer review panel.
Please visit the site to view our guidelines for submissions and
a list of our peer reviewers.
Submissions should be on submitted electronically as compressed
folders, saved with your name and theme as the folder identifier
(eg. Smith_A_Drawing_in-situ). The folder should include:
- Introduction
- Brief biographical paragraph
- Concise summary of content for the editorial team as a MS Word
document.
Together with the following files, depending on your submission
type:
- The paper, text or images
- Text submissions should be formatted using the template, which
can be downloaded by clicking on the link below:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/journal/call.html
- If your text includes images, please send these as separate
jpegs and ensure that they are correctly captioned. Italics
should be highlighted in colour.
- Image submissions should be sent as 300 dpi, RGB Tiff files.
Please send all submissions to [log in to unmask] or c/o Dr.
Deborah Harty, TRACEY, Loughborough University, School of the
Arts, Epinal Way, Loughborough, Leicestershire UK, LE11 3TU no
later than Friday 5th April 2013.
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/
PRAXIS AND POETICS: RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN 2013 CONFERENCE
Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design 2013 Conference We
are excited to invite submissions for the first International
bi-annual Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design conference,
hosted by Northumbria University at the BALTIC Centre for
Contemporary Art. 3rd-5th September 2013. The conference is based
around a curated exhibition of design research, accompanied by a
maximum of a 4-page paper for each submission.
The first Research Through Design conference aims to explore
multi-textural opportunities for presenting and discussing non
discipline specific research through design and resists the
temptation to adopt a traditional format for both paper
submission and presentation in favour of an exhibition of design
research accompanied by roundtable presentations and discussions
in rooms of interest. The exhibition will be used as a platform
to present and express outcomes of research, demonstrate examples
of research enquiries and generate debate about the role of
making in design research. The conference of theme of Praxis and
Poetics represents the different modes and approaches to practice
as well as a larger ethos around content related to poetics,
beauty and grace.
Abstract submission deadline: March 25th, 2013. All submissions
will be double peer reviewed and the exhibition will be curated.
You can find out more about the set up and process of RTD at
www.northumbria.ac.uk/praxisandpoeticsRTD.
RTD will be run alongside the Design of Pleasurable Products and
Interfaces (DPPI) 2013 conference.
The full conference website will be up and running soon.
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MOBILITY FUTURES GLOBAL CONFERENCE
4-6 September 2013: Mobility Futures Global Conference,
Lancaster, UK
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Centre for
Mobilities Research anniversary conference. Please send it to
your lists far and wide.
http://www.tandfonline.com/rmob
DESIGN RESEARCH JOURNAL
The Design Research Journal invites you to submit design research
papers to a special issue with the theme design in and for public
sector and public spaces. Deadline is 1st of April.
We especially welcome contributions that develop our
understanding of and theories for:
- Embedding design capacity in public organisations
- Public and community spaces
- Reconfiguration of structures that promote resourcefulness
- Design in public procurement
- Design for health and care
Contributions in other aspects of design in and for public sector
are of course welcome.
http://bit.ly/VLPEkW
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
LISTS OF CONFERENCE CALLS
INTERACTION-DESIGN - For folks broadly in the interaction design
arena, there is a very helpful list of upcoming conferences that
is maintained by Mads Soegaard in Denmark. If you're organising
such an event and it's not on their list, they'd be pleased to
hear from you. There's a lot of other useful resources on the
site too.
http://www.interaction-design.org/calendar/
DESIGN - Filippo Salustri posts a summary of design CFPs sent to
http://designcalls.wordpress.com
ZOONTECHNICA - new issue - on interior environments
Announcing the latest issue of Zoontechnica - presenting new
thinking on, and beyond, interior design.
ZOONTECHNICA Issue 3, January 2013
Introduction: Redesigning Interiors, Environments and Lives
Naomi Hay, 'Outside as Inside'
Nora Kinnunen, 'Life in a Box: packing and unpacking the future'
Eleni Kalantidou, 'Design Psychology: exploring the human
dimension of designing 'otherwise'
Petra Perolini, 'Interior Environments: the space of interiority'
Donald Welch, 'Accounting for the Unseen: a multi-sensory
perspective'
Zoe Yakimoff, 'Reading Things: reading outside the lines'
Sabrina Giacometti, 'Moving on from Interior Design: a personal
view'
Zoontechnica is refereed online journal published by Design
Department of Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
http://zoontechnica.com
14-15 May 2013: IIT INSTITUTE OF DESIGN STRATEGY CONFERENCE,
Chicago
The nature of healthcare, education, governance, banking, and
other pillars of society were once understandable and stable. Due
to new technology and business models, they are now perplexing
and volatile. The standard methods and frameworks invented in the
20th century to help leaders manage with certainty are now
inadequate. Leaders are realizing that design can help them
navigate the world.
IIT Institute of Design Strategy Conference brings together
thought leaders from industry, civic organizations, and
government to see and discuss news ways of working that fit the
volatility of today.
Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, and Barry Schwartz, author of The
Paradox of Choice, will join other remarkable speakers to address
today's serious challenges and emerging opportunities.
The avalanche of stuff
During the last three decades, we have witnessed a revolution in
manufacturing products, creating new services, and increasing
options for getting information. The wedding of information
technology to factories has increased the variety of offerings to
what often seems an infinite avalanche of stuff. This causes
unproductive complexity: producers struggle to manage their
growing plethora of offerings, and consumers are overwhelmed by
what Barry Schwartz calls "the paradox of choice."
Carl Bass will give us a glimpse of a new vision of software
tools. Well known as CEO of a leading software company, Carl is
also an active craftsman who uses his hands to coax physical
materials into refined objects. He will talk to us about his
current thoughts about "crafting software."
For the last twenty years, Professor Barry Schwartz has noticed
the disquieting fact that the societies with the greatest
consumer choice have the highest incidence of depression. He
points out that individuals do not want unlimited choice; rather,
each of us wants what we want, and offering people unfathomable
choices is not the answer. I believe his ideas are a fundamental
challenge to the core ways that frame how we design, produce, and
use the innovations that drive most companies.
While the world needs innovation that attacks large-scale
problems of society and improves the daily life of individuals,
it is evident that the current patterns of production and
consumption are not sustainable for companies, people, or the
environment. Next week we will unveil more speakers who, along
with Carl and Barry, will help us reframe the way we work.
IIT Institute of Design's annual Strategy Conference will be held
on May 14-15, 2013 in downtown Chicago. Since 2005, Strategy
Conference has earned a reputation as a foremost gathering of
leading thinkers in design and strategy from around the world
addressing "where to play and how to win."
https://www.id.iit.edu/conferences-and-events/2013-strategy-
conference/
7-8 March 2013: COWBIRD: THE FUTURE OBJECTS AND METHODS OF THE
GRAPHIC DESIGN INDUSTRY
Cowbird: How will the future objects and methods of graphic
design and the industries it serves be reconfigured?
A two day symposium organised by Norwich University of the Arts
that will explore the relationship between print and digital, and
the coexistence of media in a wider sense; how they combine, and
how they provide unique opportunities.
As the design industry embraces dramatic changes in technology,
the Cowbird Symposium will look at graphic design as an output, a
practice and a profession, exploring the relationships between
print and screen-based communication. Guest speakers, all leading
thinkers and practitioners themselves, will be invited to comment
on the future of the distributed text - the book, magazine,
newspaper and poster, as well as the challenge and opportunity
afforded by new technologies, tablets, e-readers, smart phones,
augmented reality, social media, digital displays, and new
practices, crowdsourcing, coding, data sharing, and social
reading.
http://www.nua.ac.uk/cowbird
UKAN
Discussion list on Data Anonymisation
This discussion list will support the exchange of information on
data anonymisation to promote good practice.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ukan
LULEA UNIVERSITY: PROFESSORS
Lulea University of Technology (LTU) in Sweden is currently
seeking to appoint two fully-tenured Professor, one in Industrial
Design and the other in Product Innovation. LTU has around 1,600
staff and 17,000 students (20% of whom are postgraduate) and
prides itself on innovative and impactful research. It has strong
international collaborations with institutions such as Monash and
Stanford and companies such as Shell, Airbus and IBM and 50% of
the EUR 160m annual turnover is funded through research grants.
The University aims to develop an attractive and sustainable
society through inspiring teaching that challenges students and
leading-edge inter and multi-disciplinary research to engage
industry.
Industrial Design and Product Innovation are two of the four
discipline groups that make up the division of Innovation and
Design within the larger department of Business Administration,
Technology and Social Sciences. LTU is seeking to appoint two
research-accomplished, ambitious, senior Professors who will lead
the further development of the world-leading research and
teaching in the division.
To download appointment details, please visit
www.perrettlaver.com/candidates, quoting reference 1186/1
(Professor of Industrial Design) or 1186/2 (Professor of Product
Innovation). For further information please contact Jennifer
Tester from Perrett Laver, the University's appointed advisors,
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BIBLIOGRAPHY BEHIND A THEORY OF DESIGN THINKING
Charles Burnette posted "The Bibliography Behind A Theory of
Design Thinking" at independent.academia.edu/charlesburnette. It
lists over 50 years of publications organized by date to allow
scanning for emphasis on different topics as they emerged since
the early sixties. It provides an extensive listing of references
in cognitive science of relevance to design as well as listing my
published work as they occurred over the years. All the listings
contributed in their own way to the theory. I hope people will
find it a useful reference.
http://www.independent.academia.edu/charlesburnette
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