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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS  Volume 18 Number 4 May 2013 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter      http://www.designresearchsociety.org


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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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EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE CONFERENCE

4-5 July 2013 -- EKSIG 2013: Knowing Inside Out - experiential
knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship

International Conference 2013 of the DRS Special Interest Group
on Experiential Knowledge

Loughborough University, UK

EKSIG 2013 will address the theme of "Knowing Inside Out -
experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship". It will
be convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential
Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by Loughborough University, UK.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Professor Paul Greenhalgh, University of East Anglia, UK (Skills
and Modernism in Design)

Professor Janet McDonnell, Central Saint Martins College of Arts
and Design, UK (Collaboration Practices in Fine Art and Design)

Professor Michele Dickey, Miami University, USA (Instructional
Design and Technology)

REGISTRATION (Early Bird Registration by 31 May 2013)

http://www.experientialknowledge.org.uk/conference_fees_2013.html

EKSIG 2013 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.

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.

Organisers: Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristina Niedderer, Mark Evans,
Seymour Roworth-Stokes

Contact: [log in to unmask]

http://www.experientialknowledge.org






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DESIGN STUDIES

Contents of Volume 34, Number 3 (May 2013)

Cognitively describing and designing affordances
Jeremiah D. Still, Veronica J. Dark
Pages 285-301

A theoretical framework of design critiquing in architecture
studios
Yeonjoo Oh, Suguru Ishizaki, Mark D. Gross, Ellen Yi-Luen Do
Pages 302-325

The capability approach as a framework for the assessment of
policies toward civic engagement in design
Andy Dong, Somwrita Sarkar, Crighton Nichols, Thomas Kvan
Pages 326-344

Using eco-design tools: An overview of experts' practices
Flore Vallet, Benoit Eynard, Dominique Millet, Stephanie Glatard
Mahut, Benjamin Tyl, Gwenola Bertoluci
Pages 345-377

Detailed empirical studies of student information storing in the
context of distributed design team-based project work
Hilary Grierson
Pages 378-405

Synchronous versus asynchronous manipulation of 2D-objects in
distributed design collaborations: Implications for the support
of distributed team processes
Novi Rahman, Ruo Cheng, Petra Saskia Bayerl
Pages 406-431

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X/34

Volume 34, Number 4 (July 2013) will be a special issue on
'Articulating Design Thinking', guest edited by Paul A. Rodgers.






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CALLS






CRAFT PETITION

There is a move by the UK government to sideline Craft and
exclude it from the list of creative disciples. Please help us
prevent this by signing the following e-petition, which seeks to
petition to dissuade the government from reclassifying Craft as a
non-creative industry. Craft is a significant creative area.
Support Craft and makers and join in signing the e-petition:

Petition to stop the government reclassifying craft as
non-creative

Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

We request the Government reconsider the proposal that craft no
longer be considered part of the creative industries, as part of
the 30 April proposed changes set out in Classifying and
Measuring the Creative Industries consultation paper.

The craft industry and those who work in it, over 88,000 people
making a GBP3bn annual contribution to the UK economy, are
inherently and by their very nature creative. We want the UK
Government to stop ignoring The Crafts Council and the thousands
of mostly sole trading craftsmen and women who consider
themselves to be and indeed are creatives. The Government should
be proud & supportive of our vibrant creative craft industry &
celebrate the unique, rich diversity of skills & craftsmanship,
not seek to declassify, dismiss & undermine it.

Calling an IT Business Analyst a creative but refusing the title
to a skilled potter or ceramicist shows the level of
understanding that those proposing the change have of what is and
isn't creative.

It's important that craft isn't sidelined further.  It doesn't
take long to sign up.

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49537

It needs 100,000 signatories to be debated in Parliament
(currently 25,000+)

(I understand that this petition can only be signed by British
Citizens or UK residents -- Ed.)






7-9 November 2013 -- Cumulus Conference 2013. Dublin, Ireland
National College of Art and Design

Organised by:

NCAD (National College of Art and Design), Ireland and CUMULUS
(the International Association of Universities and Colleges of
Art, Design and Media).

In association with Dublin Design Week and University College
Dublin.

CONFERENCE THEME

Today's global recession forces design practice, research and
education to address a number of questions:

- Consumption - How can design find a balance between excess and
austerity

- Growth - How can design stimulate sustainable economic growth?

- Research - Is design research and development a luxury we can
still afford?

- Education - How can we change pedagogical content and delivery
methods to become more efficient while maintaining standards?

- Environments - How can we use design to create places and
spaces for renewal and growth?

- Wellbeing - How can design improve our wellbeing and welfare in
the face of public sector cuts and financial hardship?

- Communities - How can design bring local communities together
to work on projects that improve how we live, work and play?

We propose that in the deepest recession since the great
depression of the 1930s we need to turn the modernist mantra
'less is more' on its head as the reduced budgets of governments,
business and people demand 'more for less', and develop a 'New
Deal' for design.

Vibrant economies are built on innovation, but with this comes an
ethical responsibility that Design, the engine of the previous
decades unsustainable consumerism and excess needs to address.
This conference hopes to stimulate discussion on how design
researchers, practitioners and educators can respond to today's
fiscal constraints, and stimulate growth and renewal in our
economy, culture and society. After all you can't impose
austerity on the imagination!

This international conference is intended to act as platform for
sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design research in
this age of austerity. Contributors are invited to submit
research that addresses contemporary approaches to design
research. The conference is open to research through, for and
into design.

The conference will consist of keynote talks, paper
presentations, poster exhibition and curated gallery exhibition.
The conference coincides with Dublin Design Week 4 - 10 November
2013, a celebration of design including walks, talks, launches,
exhibitions and workshops. The festival's audience includes the
designers who design things, the business community who purchase
design services and most importantly, the public who are the end
users of all designers' services.

We invite submissions of abstracts for papers and posters that
relate to the themes of the conference.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Authors are invited to submit an abstract of up to 400 words.

Abstracts can be submitted using the downloadable template via
e-mail to [log in to unmask]

The deadline for abstract submission is Friday the 31st of May.

The abstract text should be submitted in English using the
conference template, and will not be accepted if submitted in any
other format.

All abstracts submitted will be double blind peer reviewed by the
conference's Review Panel, who will provide feedback where
necessary.

The conference welcomes papers that discuss both work-in-progress
projects as well as finished work. Papers are required to
demonstrate originality and, irrespective of the range and stage
of your research, the conference organisers expect the highest
standards of scholarship in terms of establishing context,
explicating the methods of inquiry, and reporting results that
may aid other researchers or creative practitioners. We
especially welcome early career researchers and PhD candidates.

Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to present full
papers at the conference, with the abstracts published in printed
and digital form at the event.

All paper presentations will last 20 minutes, followed by 5
minutes of questions.

Please note that each person can only submit one conference paper
as main author. In the case of several papers submitted by a
group of co-authors, a different 'primary author' must register
for each paper.

A selection of authors will subsequently be invited to submit
their full papers - between 3000-5000 words - for review and
inclusion in a published book, edited by the conference chair and
team, for publication in early 2014.

Submissions details and templates are downloadable from
www.cumulusdublin.com

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 31st May 2013  Deadline for Abstracts and Poster Proposals

http://www.cumulusdublin.com






INTERIORS: DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, CULTURE - Berg Publishers

2011 Best New Journal Award - presented by the Council of Editors
of Learned Journals

Call for Articles - Special Issue (Vol. 5 Issue 2 - 2014)

SEDUCTIVE DISCOURSES: DESIGN ADVICE FOR THE HOME

The guest editors Patricia Lara-Betancourt (Modern Interiors
Research Centre, Kingston University) and Emma Hardy (Geffrye
Museum) invite contributions to the journal's 2014 special issue
Seductive Discourses: Design Advice for the Home.

This issue will examine the role of design advice for the home,
recognising its significance in shaping contemporary and
historical perceptions and representations of the domestic
sphere.

Understood as a culturally and historically framed genre, the
discourse on the design of the home expanded quickly in the
second half of the nineteenth century with the dissemination of
design ideas through books, magazines, department stores and
exhibitions offering advice on topics related to furnishing,
decoration and home management. In the twentieth- and
twenty-first centuries the genre has adopted new media and
technological platforms including television and the digital and
virtual world with its array of websites and blogs, showing the
adaptability of this narrative to diverse modes of mediation and
representation. While this material seems ubiquitous today and
has been highly influential in shaping perceptions of the
domestic sphere, it has proved problematic as a primary source
for those hoping to study 'real' domestic spaces and practices.
The sometimes all too obvious gap between the tastefully
furnished, efficiently managed  homes depicted and our own
everyday domestic experiences raises questions about who and what
domestic advice is really for. Through the examination of
domestic advice, we invite contributions addressing the following
issues and themes, among others:

advice as mediation

domestic advice in the digital world advice as representation

the model home

analysis of textual and visual narratives, and other
methodologies

authoritative voice: interior decorators, designers, architects,

amateurs, journalists

domestic advice as a gendered discourse

the publisher's role

advice, advertising and product placement

advice as design reform / ideology

the consumption / reception of domestic advice

international exchange of advice

The editors welcome submissions of articles addressing the topic
of design advice for the home, broadly defined. Submissions
reflecting the latest research on the interior from historians,
practitioners and theorists are particularly welcomed. Principal
articles of 5,000 words, including notes and references, with 4-6
illustrations are invited, and should be sent as an attachment to
[log in to unmask] by 31st August 2013.

Further details of the Journal, including Notes for Contributors,
are available at   http://www.bergjournals.com/interiors

If you have any queries about the Journal or about submitting an
article, please contact the editors Anne Massey and  John Turpin
on this email address: [log in to unmask]






Call for Papers: Special Issue of the Int. Journal of
Human-Computer Studies

Perspectives on participatory HCI research: Beginnings, middles
and endings

Scope

Participation is a research area of sustained interest to the HCI
community. Traditionally, the term has been used to suggest a
democratized approach to the design of technology that calls for
end-user involvement in the design process. This may vary from
researchers inviting specific users or stakeholders to
participate in design workshops, through to long term engagements
with communities to define research questions and study
deployments of new technologies. As HCI is an interdisciplinary
field, however, there are multiple understandings of what
participation in research might mean, from subjects and
disciplines such as social science, participatory and performance
arts, international development, and action research. Beyond
these influences, there is also increased pressure from funding
bodies and public institutions to involve a wider spectrum of the
public in academic research. The convergence of these factors has
drawn attention to the potential benefits and challenges, both
theoretical and practical of involving users and the public in
HCI research.

While user, citizen or stakeholder participation in design
processes can offer great insight into the applicability of
technological interventions in certain contexts, the HCI
community would benefit from critically reflecting on how
participation is planned, managed, and sustained. The mundane yet
still significant details of how participatory HCI research is
performed are rarely documented and discussed by the community.
The coming together of multiple perspectives from different
disciplines 
the very notion of participation 
HCI researchers to reflect critically on how people are involved
in design processes. Specifically, we call attention to the
following three phases of performing participatory HCI research:

How we begin:

How do researchers establish relationships with communities,
participants, or users and stakeholders prior to commencing
participatory research? Who here determines the research context
and the setting it takes place in, or what research questions are
formed? Furthermore, what agendas, skills and assumptions do
researchers bring to a participatory project? Why are certain
participants selected or invited to take part over others?

How we reflex and reflect:

How do researchers reflect upon and manage the complicated
processes of participation and engagement while working with
groups or communities? How are researchers and participants given
space to document and reflect upon the activities they perform
and how does this inform the research or design process
throughout? How do we understand our practice when busy doing it
and can we develop strategies to elicit generative reflections on
practice as it is enacted? Furthermore, is it possible to
document participatory work along the way without skewing the
process itself?

How we end:

How do researchers determine whether deployments or interventions
should be sustained beyond the formal completion of research, and
what are the practical challenges of leaving a legacy of a
participatory project? Is sustainability or legacy always
positive outcome of participatory research, and are there ways of
empirically understanding transformations within a context beyond
the uptake or success of a specific technology or intervention?

Topics

This special issue aims to present a set of high quality, thought
provoking, original research articles that address one or more of
these stages through topics including, but not limited to:

- Empirical studies collaborating with organizations and
communities in the design or evaluation of new technologies.

- Studies of participatory HCI that target specific populations
or communities, such as older people, young people, activist
groups, charities, rural communities, among others.

- Theoretical and conceptual frameworks that unpack the questions
and related problems of participation as a process.

- Critical reflections on existing and historical examples of
participation in HCI.

- Strategies for documenting and eliciting reflection from both
researchers and participants engaged in research.

- Considerations of the ethical, moral and political implications
of designing technologies with communities of users and
stakeholders.

- Interdisciplinary perspectives on participatory HCI research.

- Case studies discussing experiences of beginning, reflecting on
or sustaining participatory HCI research.

It is anticipated that submissions will tackle at least one stage
of participatory research/design processes in use, as described
above, and that accepted papers will comprise examples from each
phase. Papers addressing theoretical issues will only be
considered where the contribution is exceptional.

Email guest editors prior to submission: 31st July 2013
Paper due date: 31st August 2013

Review completion date: 15th November 2013 (Notification of 1st
review)
Re-Submission by: 17th January 2014
Final Acceptance: 21st February 2014 (Notification of 2nd review)
Final Version due: 7th April 2014

Guest Editors

John Vines, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Rachel Clarke, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
Ann Light, Northumbria University (United Kingdom)
Peter Wright, Newcastle University (United Kingdom)
http://di.ncl.ac.uk/participation/special-issue/







23-27 June 2013 -- call for proposals for the 11th International
Conference of the Learning Sciences. Boulder, Colorado, USA.

We want to extend a special invitation to researchers interested
in becoming part of the learning sciences community who have
never attended or presented before. In particular, we seek
perspectives on design as it relates to learning.

The theme of the conference is "Learning and Becoming in
Practice." The call for proposals and details on the conference
theme can be found at: http://www.isls.org/icls2014/

We welcome new perspectives on:

engaging in design

designing learning experiences for scale and sustainability

analyzing and modeling learning across settings and time

engaging in the epistemic practices of disciplines

participating in sociocultural practices

We will hold two webinars on May 7th and June 4th at 9am MT for
people interested in learning more about the conference theme and
about preparing a submission for ICLS. To sign up for the
webinar, email: [log in to unmask]

Submissions for symposia, papers, and posters will be due
November 8, 2013.

Help us spread the word on Twitter (#ICLS2014) and other social
media:

Want to submit to International Conference of the Learning
Sciences but have ?s Attend webinar June 4:
http://www.isls.org/icls2014

Bill Penuel, Susan Jurow, Kevin O'Connor

ICLS 2014 Conference Co-Chairs

Call for proposals for the 11th International Conference of the
Learning Sciences,

#ICLS2014: http://www.isls.org/icls2014






20 November 2013 -- Current issues in global furniture

Gateway Lecture Theatre at Bucks new University, High Wycombe,
HP11 2 JZ, UK.

Topics

Consumption of furniture

1.1 Domestic requirements for furniture - changes in demand for
changing living environments
1.2 Ergonomics - size and shape of people
1.3 Contract/commercial utilisation of furniture

Sustainable issues

2.1 Materials - plastics - smart materials - recycling/sourcing
2.2 Timber regulations
2.2 Manufacturing processes and legislation
2.3 Transportation and distribution

Design

3.1 Mass production technologies
3.2 Customisation
3.3 Hand craftsmanship - bespoke, design art
3.3 Conservation of modern materials

Futures

4.1 Markets
4.2 Emerging production
4.3 Changing values and consumption
4.4 Conservation futures

Please submit your abstract (200-300 words) to Jake Kaner at
[log in to unmask] By May 30th 2013.

Notification of acceptance will be returned to you by June 30th
2013.

Full paper (30 minutes) to be submitted by September 30th 2013.

For informal discussion on topic and general questions please
email [log in to unmask] or call 01494 522 141 ext 3583.






30 July - 1 August 2013 -- Acting--Learning--Understanding

The American Society for Cybernetics reminds you of its
forthcoming conference on the theme
"Acting--Learning--Understanding", to held in Bolton, UK between
30 July and 1 August 2013 (inclusive), with a pre-conference on
28 and 29 July, and a post-conference on 2 and 3 August.

The web site, http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2013, has been
greatly expanded and we have now opened our registration and
payment procedure.

This conference will be conversational, though there is also the
possibility of presenting a formal paper. Proceedings will be
published in a renowned cybernetics journal.

Please visit the web site and explore this exciting and
challenging conference. Bolton, on the fringe of the great
revived city of Manchester (home of the Industrial Revolution),
is near some of the most beautiful land- and sea-scapes in the
UK.

http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2013






8-10 January 2014 -- MECCSA 2014: CALL FOR PAPERS

This is a Call for Papers for the next Annual MeCCSA Conference,
to be held 8-10th January 2014 at The Media School, Bournemouth
University.

We invite abstracts of 250 words to be submitted for peer review
by:
Monday 16th September 2013.

Conference contacts

Website:
http://meccsa2014.bournemouth.ac.uk<http://meccsa2014.bournemouth
.ac.uk/>
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/500155406711675/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/meccsa2014
Email:
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>

CONFERENCE THEMES

The theme of the MeCCSA 2014 conference is 'media and the
margins', the engagement of marginalised and minority groups with
the media. We invite papers that address this theme, examining
how we might advance thinking on for example: changes to
representation of marginalised groups, participation and power
relations, new and alternative media practices, the role of media
policy, public service media, development communication and media
for social change.

We also welcome scholarly papers, panels, practice contributions,
film screenings, and posters across the full range of interests
represented by MeCCSA and its networks, including, but not
limited to:

- Film and television studies and practice

- Radio studies and practice

- Cultural and media policy

- Representation, identity, ideology

- Creativity and digital spaces

- The value and future of journalism

- Approaches to media pedagogy

- Children, young people and media

- Social networking and interactive media

- Participatory/alternative/citizens'/community media

- Diasporic and ethnic minority media

- Political communication

- (New) media narratives

- Methodological approaches

- MeCCSA subject areas as disciplines

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted for peer review by:
Monday 16th September 2013.

Alongside the conference programme will be a series of cultural
events - screenings, tours, exhibitions, and of course the
traditional pub quiz!

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Confirmed speakers that will participate in keynote panels
include:

- Prof Daniela Berghahn (Royal Holloway, University of London)

- Prof Suzanne Franks (City University)

- Zane Ibrahim (Bush Radio, South Africa)

- Prof Sonia Livingstone (LSE)

- Dr Sarita Malik (Brunel University)

- Dr Monica Metykova (Sussex University)

- Dr Darrell Newton (Salisbury University, Maryland, US)

- Prof Zizi Papacharissi (University of Illinois at Chicago, US)

- Prof Roberta Pearson (University of Nottingham)

- Prof Clemencia Rodriguez (University of Oklahoma, US)

- Prof Karin Wahl-Jorgensen (Cardiff University)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted for peer review using
the MeCCSA Open Conference System by Monday 16th September 2013.
Proposers will be notified via email of proposal acceptance by
Monday 21st October 2013.

http://ocs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/meccsa/meccsa2014






'Fashion and Materiality' Call for papers for a Special Issue of
the journal Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty

Whilst the fashion system persists over time, the relative
fashionability of an item of clothing is, by definition,
ephemeral; the knowledges and transient meanings that are seen to
constitute fashion would seem to be at odds with a focus upon
materiality of items of clothing. Even if items wear down and
change, their material persists for longer than they are
fashionable. However, this special issue will engage with
understandings of materiality not only in terms of persistences
and endurances, but also in terms of transformations and material
processes. The emphasis then will be upon how fashion is
materialised, and conversely, how clothing is immaterialised.
Paradoxically, even if the immaterial sense of 'being in fashion'
can be detached from a specific garment, often it is the very
materiality of clothing that was necessary to the creation and
connotations of fashionability in the first place. The processes
through which they come about are no longer present in
consumption; their presence in/as fashion is their materiality.

Centring on the core question of how fashion is made material and
how clothing is rendered immaterial, papers are invited in, but
not restricted to, the following areas:

The way in which items of clothing are visualised or images are
materialised. The temporalities of fashion and of clothing. The
consequences of materiality in terms of sustainability. How
relationships to the materiality of clothing has changed over
time (including in a 'fast fashion' era). Sensory effects and the
tactility etc. of clothing

The length of papers is negotiable; images are welcomed. Please
send proposals for papers in the form of an abstract of between
500 and 1000 words, to Tom Fisher ([log in to unmask]) and
Sophie Woodward ([log in to unmask]) by June 14th
2013. Full drafts should be ready by 2nd September 2013.

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-journal,id=178






22-25 September 2013 -- FOODSCAPES

Access to Food - Excess of Food Seggau Castle, Austria

We are delighted to announce the first Foodscapes conference
organized by the Department of Geography and Regional Science,
University of Graz, with the support of the two EU LEADER regions
Vulkanland and Almenland (Styria) and in cooperation with the
Agro-Food Network. The conference will take place from the 22nd
to the 25th of September 2013 in the Castle of Seggau, in
Southern Styria, 40 km from Graz. Confirmed Keynote speakers
include: Julie Guthman and Melissa Caldwell (University of
California, Santa Cruz); Mara Miele (Cardiff University); David
Evans, (Manchester University); and Mike Goodman (King's College,
London). Foodscapes focuses on "Access to Food - Excess of Food",
a theme that brings special attention to the contradictions
inherent in contemporary practices of modern industrialized food
production, circulation, and consumption.

We therefore invite you to send us papers and/or panel proposals
on, but not limited to, the following broad topics:

- Conventional and alternative food networks

- Everyday practices of food provisioning, consumption and
circulation

- Food quality and quantity

- Food waste

- Food in education and the media

- Food safety, policy and ethics

- Regional development through production and marketing of food

- Local and global food chains

- Changing food geographies in recent history

- Sustainability of food systems/regimes

Please send your abstracts (200-300 words) to foodscapes@uni-graz
by June 1st, 2013.

An excursion to visit the South Styrian wine region is planned
for the afternoon of September 22nd. Excursion cost to be
determined.

A website for the Foodscapes conference to be launched soon.

For registration details (incl. board fee) and further
information please contact: [log in to unmask]

ACCOMMODATION

Accommodation is provided by the Castel of Seggau
http://www.seggau.com/ Please book through the Seggau hotel:
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Tel.: +43 (0) 34 52 / 82 4 35-7235 or -7234
Please specify that you are attending the Foodscapes conference.
Accommodation cost:
Single room: [euro] 72 per night, including breakfast.
Double room: [euro] 57, including breakfast.






Asia Design Journal Vol. 7

Korean Design Research Institute (KDRI) Invites Papers for ASIA
DESIGN JOURNAL (ADJ) 2013. ADJ hopes to explore new Asian
concepts each year through papers on multi-interdisciplinary
topics, including culture, social science, literature,
engineering, management, liberal arts and design, which deal with
Asian culture and design.

The theme of the 7th issue of ADJ is Beyond Sharing. As the
importance of how to live well rather than how well you live is
increasing more and more, how valuable a work is rather than how
great it looks is also being emphasized more within the world of
design. The current era, where the focus is centered upon public
benefits and social values, allows designers to ponder upon what
kinds of design they should produce. New concepts such as
universality and eco- have been granted to designs as well.
Furthermore, a design which thinks of us rather than me, in other
words, one which holds the role of a shared design rather than
one which is owned, is being emphasized. Therefore, design is
developing one step further as a creative industry which produces
social values. This 2013, ADJ is suggesting a future design plan
which fits accordingly to this era and is focused on the theme
Beyond Sharing and how designs which consider sharing are
interpreted and materialized.

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Call for Papers: Architecture and Culture, Vol. 2, Issue no. 01

Editors: Igea Troiani and Suzanne Ewing

Vol. 2/Issue 01 is an open call for submissions that address
Architecture and Culture through the broad lens of disciplinary
practices. We welcome full-length submissions that explore
historical, geographical, anthropological, sociological, filmic,
acoustic, design or literary interpretations of what this might
mean. Architecture and Culture publishes explorations that are
rigorously speculative, purposively imaginative, visually and
verbally stimulating. We welcome orthodox and unorthodox methods
of representation and critical writing. Whether a comic strip,
film, fiction story, drawing, design hypothesis or scholarly
paper, in this CFP we seek submissions with a critical argument
about disciplinary practices, architecture and culture.

Architecture and Culture is the international, peer-reviewed
journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association
(AHRA). It investigates the relationship between architecture and
the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. Whether culture is
understood extensively, as shared experience of everyday life,
Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in
and engages with it - and how both culture and architecture might
be reciprocally transformed.

The submission deadline is 14th June 2013, 5pm UK time. We seek
full submissions, not abstracts, by this date. All papers should
be submitted electronically via Editorial Manager at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/archcult/

Accepted articles will be published in March 2014.

For author instructions, please go to 'Notes for Contributors' at

http://www.bloomsbury.com/journal/architectureandculture






International Journal of Communication and Health

The International Journal of Communication and Health is an
on-line peer-reviewed journal interested in any aspect related to
health communication. The International Journal of Communication
and Health is ready to receive manuscripts on all aspects
concerning health communication, particularly those of
international relevance.

Contribution exploring any context of health communication are
welcomed. The journal welcomes high-quality research and analyses
from diverse theoretical and methodological approaches from all
fields of communication, media, and health. The journal is
particularly interested in new approaches of health and
communication that have the potential to increase the body of
knowledge on the subject and generate future studies.

The Journal invites original empirical (qualitative or
quantitative) research, literature reviews, theoretical or
methodological contributions, integrative reviews, meta-analyses,
comparative or historical studies on the following topics:

- media, health and illness,

- communication, health and illness,

- policy of health communication,

- organizational aspects of health communication,

- culture and health communication,

- health communication in the community,

- health communication in mass media,

- interpersonal health communication,

- media and medical prevention campaigns,

- medical errors in the media, media and medical myths,

- E-health - new technology and health communication

The deadline of submitting the article is 1st of JULY 2013.

If you have any questions, please contact the editors at:
communicationandhealth@ gmail.com

The general instructions for authors are available at:

http:// communicationandhealth.ro/ submission-instructions/







THE FUTURE OF DESIGN - DESIGN OF THE FUTURE ICED 2013

DESIGN SOCIETY EVENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

AIMS:

- Set new or challenge established views of design within the
community!
- Share opinions and exchange ideas on vital design community
topics!
- Meet international young people working in design research and
practice!

FORMAT:

Speakers are invited to give dynamic, short talks (7 min) with
the help of multimedia (e.g. video, images, etc). The talk should
address the following points:

- What is design for you?
- What is your vision for the future of design?
- What is your coolest project (past / current / future dream
project) that illustrates this vision?
- How will your vision contribute to the future of design
research and/or practice?

Note to speakers: This presentation does not necessarily have to
correspond to your current or past research projects or work. It
is open to allow you to present new ideas, directions and hurdles
that need to be overcome to achieve your future vision of design
research and practice.

PARTICIPANTS:

Speakers will include participants of the ICED13 conference and
the local design, engineering and business community. Masters
students, PhD students, Post Docs and other young people, i.e. up
to and including seven years from their last degree, are invited
to apply. Only 10-12 spaces are available to broadcast your
vision on "The Future of Design - Design of the Future"!

APPLICATION:

Please send a title and one paragraph description of your
proposed talk addressing the questions above before 21 June 2013
to [log in to unmask] with the Subject "The Future of Design - Design
of the Future". Please include your current position, e.g PhD
student and year, Post- Doc and year, or industry position. The
participants will be selected based on the originality and
visionary nature of the proposal.

Applicants will be notified by email of the talk acceptance by 12
July 2013. www.iced13.org






9-11 April 2014 -- Service Design and Innovation (ServDes)
conference Theme: Service Futures Lancaster, UK

ServDes is the premier international research conference
exploring service design and service innovation. Submitted
contributions are subject to a double-blind peer-review process.
Accepted contributions will be published electronically in the
conference proceedings and selected best papers will be published
within special issues on Service Design in The Design Journal
(http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/the-design-journal/) or the
Managing Service Quality journal

(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=
msq).

Key dates:

31st October 2013: Deadline for all contributions
15th December 2013:  Notification of acceptance with suggestions
for revision
31st January 2014:  Final submissions uploaded to website
9-11th April 2014: Conference in Lancaster

Theme: Service Futures

This conference aims to explore how Service Design is
contributing to 'Service Futures' and, by doing so, to reflect on
its directions as a design field. The concept and role of
services in the economy and society have come a long way since
its first definitions and studies. Services have moved from being
a peripheral activity in a manufacturing centred economy, to
become an engine for growth and society driven innovation. This
transformation has been fully recognised with a flourishing of
service innovation and service research studies aimed at
deepening the understanding, and supporting the development of
services both as a sector and as a concept.

Service Design has followed this dynamic transformation. Starting
from its initial focus on service interactions and experiences,
Service Design research and practice have entered more strategic
and transformational roles, engaging with issues of
organisational change, system design, sustainability and social
change, among others. Increasingly, Design for Services is
considering ways to integrate and collaborate with other service
related disciplines. Questions are also emerging on the future of
this field considering the growing areas of application and the
expansion of the concept of service itself.

Contributions

We invite a wide range of contributions:

- Full-length research papers (max 10 pages including references
which is about 5000 words)

- Shorter research papers or case studies (max 5 pages including
references which is about 2500 words)

- Workshop proposals (max 2 pages including references which is
about 1000 words)

This conference welcomes contributions that reflect on the
'Service Futures' theme and its implication for Service Design as
a field of enquiry. Four topics with related sub-questions are
suggested as a possible focus: service innovation, transformative
services, service logic, and service science (please find more
information about the conference theme here:

http://www.servdes.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/
ServDes2014_Booklet_v01.pdf).

The core discipline of this conference is Design, but it is open
to interdisciplinary and non-design specific contributions if
they address the general aim of the conference. Looking forward
plenty of good quality submissions

http://servdes.org/






9-11 October 2013 -- Emerging Contexts for Systemic Design

Symposium Website http://www.systemic-design.net

AHO - Oslo School of Architecture & Design, Oslo, Norway

Relating Systems Thinking and Design is a free and open symposium
over two days with a preceding full day with diverse workshops
and a subsequent special issue in FORMakademisk. We encourage you
to submit your abstracts and to consider joining the workshops.
We are interested in both work in progress and more developed
contributions.

9th October: Workshops
10th - 11th October: Symposium

Call for abstracts

The emerging renaissance of systems thinking in design responds
to the increasing complexity in all challenges faced by designers
and transdisciplinary innovators. Our worlds have become too
complex for linear and goal-driven management, resulting in
hopelessly complicated social, economic, and political systems.
The global demand for sustainability, democratic economies, and
the emerging social arrangements for better education,
employment, and development have become too complex for
conventional thinking. The interrelationship between systems
thinking and design action was the theme of last years RSD
seminar at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. In
re-examining the relationship of systems thinking to design we
believe it possible for systems thinking and design praxis to
develop the foundations for new, interrelated practices. This
synergistic relationship will launch a new generation of
systems-oriented thinkers empowered with the creativity and
perspectives of design thinking. As educators and researchers, we
also seek better theoretical foundations and rigor in design
thinking. We areare interested in proposals that draw from recent
case studies from fieldwork, design inquiry and research, and
mixed methods in systems-oriented design. Sociotechnical,
service, and activity systems are characterized by highly complex
and emergent human-system relationships, and benefit from
nonlinear and creative design practices and engaged research
perspectives. Design practices found effective in fields such as
healthcare, governance, environmental stewardship, organizational
management and social change, are of particular interest for
cases and discussion in the conference. Systemic Design has been
suggested as a term for this emerging movement in design with its
multiple expressions including e.g. Systems Oriented Design,
Whole Systems Design, and is closely related to Dialogic Design.
What binds systems related theories and practices together with
design approaches may be the desire to reintroduce systems
approaches with design toward a more effective integrated praxis,
becoming more useful to designers (and stakeholders and clients)
than evidenced by past performance. This implies the reshaping
and design of systems approaches and the related practices so
that they are better integrated into design processes.

We invite you to submit an abstract of maximum 1000 words within
the following themes:

- New systemic practices in design

- Rethinking systems approaches from a design perspective

- Relating Design Praxis and Systems Thinking

- The role of systemic design when developing design practices in
new areas

- Teaching (systemic design or), systems thinking in design. (or
design in systems approaches)

- Relating systems and design theories, conceptually and
pragmatically

Accepted abstracts will be asked to submit a presentation.

The best presentations will after the symposium be invited by the
program committee to submit a full paper to be published in a
planned special issue in the Norwegian bilingual scientific
design research journal FORMakademisk. These papers will go
through a blind peer review evaluation process as normal for this
journal. See the journal website for details.

Symposium Website http://www.systemic-design.net






LUXURY: Call for Papers

LUXURY: History Culture Consumption will be the first truly
interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, academic journal devoted to
luxury, and will satisfy the demand for scholarly, unbiased and
penetrating thinking on the subject. The journal will consider
luxury in broad socio-cultural contexts, exploring and
interrogating both our historical and contemporary understanding
of the term.

Within the context of the contemporary global economic recession
our consumption of luxury is being questioned and indeed
transformed, notions of 'affordable luxury', 'sustainable luxury'
and even 'luxury for less' suggest a new discourse, which this
journal will provide a challenging and exciting forum for. And
yet the demand for luxury goods and services on a global scale is
at an unprecedented level, to that end LUXURY will examine all
aspects of luxury; its historical formation and understanding,
its contemporary global political and economic function,
alongside an exploration of how the concept of luxury remains an
impetus for design, popular culture, literature and fine art.

The journal will embrace serious, thought provoking
investigations spanning the Medieval concept of luxus and
luxuria, implying excess, to contemporary concepts of 'minimal
luxury', implying restraint, and not unlike the Renaissance
wunderkammer will display a diverse array of texts that will
articulate a new understanding of the term. Topics will range in
chronology from Classical Greece and Rome, through the Medieval,
early Modern and 18thcentury manifestations of luxury, to the
contemporary luxury landscape, and will interrogate what luxury
means within a broad range of contexts including, the luxury
goods industries (automotive, culinary, tourism, accessories and
so on), alongside the growing body of critical material arising
from the study of brand management, marketing, advertising and
those investigating the spaces of consumption. The networks of
luxury, its production, sale, transformation, reproduction and
dissemination will also be a vital topic that will be addressed
both historically and in its contemporary manifestations.
Similarly the relationship between luxury and class, gender and
desire will be a consideration underpinning many of the arguments
raised by the featured articles.

LUXURY welcomes proposals from scholars, writers, practitioners
and historians working directly within the remit of luxury as
well as those from disciplines such as geography, anthropology,
sociology, gender studies, literary theory, cultural
anthropology, economics and design studies for example.
Contributions from those working in areas previously regarded as
remote from considerations of luxury, but who recognise the
importance of the subject to contemporary society, and who wish
to join an international forum of thinkers eager to explore this
increasingly contested subject will be especially welcome.

Articles should be between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length.

Initially, please submit an abstract of between 300-500 words,
accompanied by a C.V. to Dr. Jonathan Faiers
([log in to unmask]).






UAAC/AAUC Call for Papers for 2013 Conference

Subject: Contradictions of Sustainable Design Practice

In the contemporary era of sustainability, the design discipline
is being transformed in a variety of ways. The dichotomy between
extensive performance measurements and the complexity of
architectural design projects is becoming a disciplinary
problematic, specifically with regards to the way buildings are
conceptualized and judged today. Some of the main strategies for
dealing with the degrading environmental and social conditions
are (1) ecological-efficiency - producing more with less - less
energy, less water, etc.; (2) substitutability of natural capital
- recreating nature through biomimetics or genetic engineering;
and (3) immateriality - adopting an economy of services. All are
approaches related to environmental performance improvements.
Each of these has obvious benefits, but they are not without
their flaws or paradoxes for design practice. This session is
dedicated to the reflection, theorization and study of specific
cases of these emerging contradictions related to design for
sustainability. Specifically of interest, are the paradoxes
related to the ways in which sustainability is reduced in design
practice and how these conceptual reductions present
contradictions, whether they may be in the environment, in
society, in the drastically changing aesthetic of the built
environment, or in any combinations of these. Are sustainability
requirements re-enforcing the definition of architectural quality
as a whole or are they rather distancing from and fragmenting
this definition?

Session Chair:  Carmela Cucuzzella, PhD

Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Concordia
University, Montreal, Canada, Faculty of Fine Arts

Please submit abstract directly to:
[log in to unmask]






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ANNOUNCEMENTS






29-31 July 2013 -- EVA London Conference

We are delighted to announce that the programme for EVA London
2013 is now up on the website. Three days of inspiring and
imaginative keynote speeches, Research Workshop, papers,
demonstrations and exhibits.

Presentations will include one on the London Olympics opening
ceremony!

http://www.eva-london.org






1-4 October 2013 -- ISMAR 2013. The 12th IEEE International
Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality.University of South
Australia, Australia

The fields of Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) seek
to interactively mix virtual media with a person's perception of
the physical world around them.  Whether interactively combining
physical and virtual objects and environments in 3D, or reacting
to location or other aspects of a users context, these paradigms
enable fascinating new types of user interfaces, and are
beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The
field is highly interdisciplinary, and MR/AR concepts are
applicable to a wide range of applications. Since 1998, ISMAR and
its forerunner events, IWAR/ISAR and ISMR, have been the premier
forums in this vital field.

This year we are proud to present the 12th IEEE International
Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2013). The
symposium will be held on Oct. 1 - 4, 2013 at University of South
Australia, Australia. We invite you all to participate in this
great event for the exchange of new ideas in this exciting field!

ISMAR 2013 now invites contributions to a range of categories:

- Papers and Posters to the Science & Technology (S&T) program

- Papers and Posters to the Arts, Media and Humanities (AMH)
program

- Innovation Workshops

- Informative Tutorials

- Demonstrations

- Art Exhibits

- Tracking Competition

Science and Technology Program:

In recent years, Mixed and Augmented Reality has been expanding
from an exciting research field into a commercially viable
technology. The field is highly interdisciplinary, combining work
in diverse disciplines, ranging from human centered research into
user interfaces, interaction techniques, education, design, human
factors, wearable computing and mobile computing, through more
technology oriented research including computer graphics, display
technology, computer vision, sensors, signal processing and
computer networking. The growing interest in MR/AR applications
is creating new challenges for research in all of these areas. We
invite papers, posters, workshops, panels, tutorials submissions
in the general field of Mixed and Augmented Reality.

http://ismar.vgtc.org/






Wunderkammer Press are delighted to announce their latest
publication:

Interpreting Ceramics, Selected Essays (ed. Jo Dahn and Jeffrey
Jones)

Interpreting Ceramics, selected essays demonstrates the diverse
interests explored by a range of international writers on
ceramics since the year 2000. The essays were originally
published on-line in the journal Interpreting Ceramics
(www.interpretingceramics.com) and have been selected to
represent the first ten years of the journal content. Written by
practitioners as well as leading academics, they vary in length,
tone and approach. Some were accepted for publication through the
journal's normal peer-review process, others began life as
conference papers and others were submitted in response to
special initiatives such as the 'Speak for Yourself' project.
Collectively they reflect the vibrant and scholarly debate that
has characterised the web pages of Interpreting Ceramics and
underline its contribution to the field.

Contributing Authors include both editors and:

Alison Britton, Christie Brown, Richard Carlton, Michael Casson,
Garth Clark, Emmanuel Cooper, Wilma Cruise, Mary Drach McInnes,
Eugene Dwyer, Carole Epp, Christine Longworth, Ozioma Onuzulike,
Matthew Partington, Elizabeth Perrill, Geraint Roberts, Anders
Ruhwald and Moira Vincentelli

ISBN: 978-0-9566462-5-5

You can order your copy directly through us by emailing
[log in to unmask] or by visiting Amazon.co.uk

http://www.wunderkammerpress.com






10-11 June 2013 -- 'Good Things and Bad Things' Symposium

Register now for the DRS OPENSiG symposium June 10th/ 11th 2013
Good Things and Bad Things: tricky objects, tricky people, tricky
processes At Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham. You can pay the
registration fee online, here:

http://onlinestore.ntu.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?modid=1&prodid
=0&deptid=6&compid=1&prodvarid=57&searchresults=1

Registration fees are as follows: Standard: GBP75 DRS Members: GBP60
Student/ unwaged GBP35 This covers lunches and refreshments on both
days. and when you register we will send you joining
instructions.

The programme includes an international line up of speakers who
will bring together a range of approaches to the 'rights and
wrongs' of designs, designers and designing, hearing perspectives
from Design (Jana Scholze, Victoria and Albert Museum), Sociology
(Tim Dant, University of Lancaster), Social Anthropology (Mike
Anusas, U of Strathclyde), Art (Gene-George Earle), Design
History (Ralph Mills, MMU), among others.

This two day symposium on 10th and 11th of June will be an
opportunity for discussion that bears on the 'rights and wrongs'
of designs, designers and designing. Taking an inclusive approach
to the definition of 'design' - formal and informal; commercial
and DIY; normative and subversive - the symposium will connect
abstract discussions of the ethics of objects and designing, with
concrete examples of things in action. We hope to engage
practitioners and academics across fields including sustainable
design, material culture, fine art, sociology/ philosophy of
technology, design history, cultural studies.

'Good Things' is a collaboration between the Design Research
Society OPENSiG (objects, practices, experiences, networks),
Nottingham Trent University, the Design against Crime Research
Centre at Central St. Martins and Nottingham Contemporary. It
will be hosted by Nottingham Contemporary to coincide with the
exhibition 'The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things' curated
by Mark Leckey. This juxtaposition is not accidental - the
symposium is predicated on the view that as well as being an
instrumental process bound up with conceiving and effecting,
change, Design is a manifestation of social and cultural
practices. The works in the exhibition, focusing on the
paradoxical combination of rationalism and animism in 'common
objects' will form a useful counterpoint to the symposium
discussions.

http://www.designresearchsociety.org/joomla/sig2/opensig/opensig-
events/224-symp-opensig-goodbad.html






The Aesthetics Of Imagination In Design, MIT Press 2013.

By Mads Nygaard Folkmann

In The Aesthetics of Imagination in Design, Mads Folkmann
investigates design in both material and immaterial terms. Design
objects, Folkmann argues, will always be dual phenomena--material
and immaterial, sensual and conceptual, actual and possible.
Drawing on formal theories of aesthetics and the phenomenology of
imagination, he seeks to answer fundamental questions about what
design is and how it works that are often ignored in academic
research.

Folkmann considers three conditions in design: the possible, the
aesthetic, and the imagination. Imagination is a central
formative power behind the creation and the life of design
objects; aesthetics describes the sensual, conceptual, and
contextual codes through which design objects communicate; the
concept of the possible--the enabling of new uses, conceptions,
and perceptions--lies behind imagination and aesthetics. The
possible, Folkmann argues, is contained as a structure of meaning
within the objects of design, which act as part of our interface
with the world. Taking a largely phenomenological perspective
that reflects both continental and American pragmatist
approaches, Folkmann also makes use of discourses that range from
practice-focused accounts of design methodology to cultural
studies. Throughout, he offers concrete examples to illustrate
theoretical points. Folkmann's philosophically informed account
shows design--in all its manifestations, from physical products
to principles of organization--to be an essential medium for the
articulation and transformation of culture.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/aesthetics-imagination-design






PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ANNOUNCE THE PUBLICATION OF:

MAKING FUTURES
THE CRAFTS AS CHANGE-MAKER IN SUSTAINABLY AWARE CULTURES
VOL 2. ISSN 2042-1664

With an introductory essay by Malcolm Ferris, the conference
curator, the papers in this Volume represent the results of the
second Making Futures international research conference held in
September 2011 by Plymouth College of Art.

Making Futures explores our relationship with the making of
things. The beguilingly simple reasoning behind its title implies
that if we are to have any hope of making a better future for
ourselves, we must also fundamentally shape the future of our
material culture - a culture configured around the mass
commodification of materials, people and non-human life forms, in
globalised circuits of production whose logics of
disproportionate accumulation and consumption now threaten the
very foundations of life on the planet.

This means we must develop a renewed sense of the possibilities
surrounding making now, and particularly, of reappraising and
resituating craft in the contemporary moment, for unquestionably,
we are witnessing a rehabilitation of the value of craft in
society. As such Making Futures goes to the heart of contemporary
debates about materials, agency and transformation, both personal
and social, investigating how the contemporary crafts are
practiced in the context of developing environmental and social
equity agendas. It explores how these agendas interrupt and
restage the possibilities of craft in fundamental ways that are
important to makers, their audiences, and to society more
generally; and how they present opportunities to redefine and
reconstitute the crafts as less marginalised, more centrally
productive forces in society, through new formulations and/or
re-articulations of practices, identities, positions and markets
- as a change-maker that is modestly, yet fundamentally, making
the future.

Thirty-eight presentations were selected for the second
conference programme following a process of double-blind abstract
reviewing by a distinguished peer review panel. By far the
overwhelming majority of presenters (thirty-five) responded
positively to the post-conference call to publish and all are
included in this volume.

To ensure the widest possible dissemination Making Futures Volume
2 is published as an open-access academic resource.

PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART
ALSO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ANNOUNCE:
MAKING FUTURES III
INTERFACES BETWEEN CRAFT KNOWLEDGE AND DESIGN: NEW OPPORTUNITIES
FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION & SUSTAINABILITY

The third international Making Futures conference 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.

http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/journalvol2






New Issue: International Journal of Design Vol.7 No.1 (April,
2013)

Volume 7, Issue 1 of the International Journal of Design has been
published online at www.ijdesign.org. The table of contents is
listed at the end of this email. All contents are freely
available online. You can read, download, or forward these
articles to your colleagues.

The journal is indexed in Thomson Reuters SCI-E, SSCI, and A&HCI,
SCOPUS, ProQuest DAAI and ABI INFORM, and the Web Archives of The
United States Library of Congress. In addition, all journal
contents since vol. 1 issue 1 have been included in the Web of
Science (WOS) database. In the 2011 edition of Journal Citation
Report, IJD received a 5-year impact factor of 1.253.

We sincerely invite you to submit your best work to the
International Journal of Design. Please refer to Author
Guidelines online at www.ijdesign.org.


International Journal of Design

Vol. 7(1) April 2013 | Table of Contents

Original Articles

Physical Interaction in a Dematerialized World
Lukas Van Campenhout, Joep Frens, Kees Overbeeke, Achiel
Standaert, Herbert Peremans

Ten Ways to Design for Disgust, Sadness, and Other Enjoyments: A
Design Approach to Enrich Product Experiences with Negative
Emotions
Steven F. Fokkinga, Pieter M. A. Desmet

Exploring Problem-framing through Behavioural Heuristics
Dan Lockton, David J. Harrison, Rebecca Cain, Neville A. Stanton,
Paul Jennings

The Influence of Product Exposure on Trendiness and Aesthetic
Appraisal
Janneke Blijlevens, Ruth Mugge, Pinpin Ye, Jan P. L. Schoormans

Impacts of Geometrical Manufacturing Quality on the Visual
Product Experience
Karin Forslund, MariAnne Karlsson, Rikard Soederberg

Positively Picturing Pain? Using Patient-generated Pictures to
Establish Affective Visual Design Qualities
Catherine Stones

Usability and Design Guidelines of Smart Canes for Users with
Visual Impairments
Sung Yeon Kim, Kwangsu Cho

http://www.ijdesign.org






13 June 2013 -- Writing in Creative Practice: Writing and the
Object. Middlesex University.

Within the art and design academy we witness few of the expanded
possibilities that lie between writing practices and the object.
This workshop will combine theoretical and practical approaches
to consider different writing-object relationships, including:
writing about objects, writing as an object, writing to generate
objects, etc.

This day-workshop will examine different relationships between
writing practices and the object in art and design.

We write about objects, we produce writing as objects, we write
in order to generate objects and sometimes we write in spite of
objects, yet within the academy we rarely witness many of the
expanded possibilities that lie within the relationship.

Our workshop will take a theoretical and a practical approach to
exploring these possiilities, so we will schedule sessions which
theorise on these themes but also sessions which allow for
practical, hands-on experience. We will also allow time for
reflection on themes raised in the sessions and for discussion.

Papers will investigate topics such as the use of writing as a
means of generating design; the role of intuition within
object-focused writing practices, and its relationship to
formalised writing norms; ways of drawing on art and design
practices in writing, such as the use of making in writing
instruction with art and design students.

Speakers at the workshop will be both external to Middlesex
University and internal, and the day's activities will involve
the University's Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture and
its collection.

To book please check the HEA events page

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/
Disciplines_AH/GEN404_Middlesex

2 July 2013 -- Writing in Creative Practice: Towards Academic
Publication (2nd July, Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent)

Staffordshire University will be hosting another workshop in the
Writing in Creative Practice series. Since starting this series,
which developed out of the work of the Writing-PAD network and
has been supported by the Higher Education Academy, we have
mostly shared best practice and allowed some space for
exploration to link to engaging our students in writing for
Higher Education in the creative disciplines. This workshop will
focus not on students' but on our writing, and how we can turn it
into writing for academic publication. Therefore it is aimed at
members of staff who want to publish in this very specific
context for the first time (or just more); it would also be
suitable for post-graduate students within art, media and design.

Nancy de Freitas, Associate Professor at AUT University, New
Zealand and Editor-In-Chief of Studies in Material Thinking, will
share her expertise of writing in the context of material
thinking practices, introducing workshop participants to methods
and insights on good structure, clear writing and elegant style
when talking about research, processes, images, objects and
spaces. There might also be the opportunity to discuss the genre
of academic writing - and review this as currency within the
creative, studio-based disciplines. This day is meant as a day of
starting points, sharing tips to get (academic) writing projects
on the go. It would be helpful if participants come with a
particular writing project in mind.

The attendance of this workshop is free of charge to all those
interested in the workshop topic, with preference being given to
staff working in HE institutions and HE in FE colleges from
across the UK. Places will be allocated on a first come, first
served basis. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, but travel
expenses will not be covered.

For more information or to book a place, please get in touch with
Alke Groppel-Wegener ([log in to unmask]).


12 July 2013 -- Writing in Creative Practice: Making Writing.
Falmouth University.

Held at the Tremough Campus of the University College Falmouth,
12th July 2013, this one-day workshop will explore approaches to
writing in creative, practice-based disciplines. It will provide
opportunities to share ways of engaging students in academic
writing through practical exploration of a range of research into
the synthesis of arts-based practices with the more traditional
modes of academic writing.

The workshop is aimed at those teaching and supporting learning
in practice-based disciplines, particularly for those working
within the creative curriculum. This includes colleagues teaching
higher education courses in further education settings and staff
supporting access to higher education.

The workshop will be hosted by Learning Futures at University
College Falmouth and facilitated by the Educational Development
team, plus Alke Groppel-Wegner, Pat Francis and Nancy de Freitas.

Alke and Pat will explore how kinaesthetic and performative
approaches to writing can support the structure and development
of academic writing.

Nancy de Freitas will share some of her expertise in writing for
people coming from a background of working with materials
particularly.

The Educational Development team will draw on research and
practice developed through the Writing-PAD project and
Performance Writing.

The workshop will provide participants opportunities to try out a
range of active writing strategies and to reflect on how these
may be applied within their own context.

For more information and to book, please go to the HEA events
page
(http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2013/Seminars/
Disciplines_AH/GEN403_Falmouth)


13-14 July 2013 -- Writing in Creative Practice: Weekend Writing
Retreat. Falmouth University.

Following on from the Making Writing workshop, for those who wish
to have an in-depth experience which gives time, space and
support to focus on your own academic writing project
(dissertation, paper, journal article, book, etc), Falmouth
University will also host the first Writing in Creative Practice
Writing Retreat.

Using the expertise of Professor Nancy de Freitas (Associate
Professor at AUT University, New Zealand), Dr Alke
Groppel-Wegener (Senior Lecturer at Staffordshire University and
founder of the Tactile Academia website and network), Pat Francis
(author of Inspiring Writing in Art and Design and long-time
lecturer at the University of the Creative Arts) and Caroline
Cash (award leader, Creative Education at Falmouth University),
these two days will allow us to come together in a supportive
environment to work on our writing.

We are still working on the details of the programme, but expect
room for discussion, practical tools to assist in achieving
precision, clarity and elegance in writing about art and design
for academic publication. It is important, for yourself and for
others attending, that you come to the workshop prepared to focus
on the workshop goal. Artists, designers and makers who are
considering preparation of a critical text on art and design or a
paper for academic publication will be introduced to methods and
insights on good structure, clear writing and elegant style when
talking about research, processes, images, objects and spaces. It
is a weekend for artists and designers who write with reference
to their 'material thinking'. The programme will include talks,
tasks and time for tea and writing. Provocations will be set for
individual and small group work on tone of voice, audience, and
shape. Small group assignments will focus on: writing plans;
structure/schema; image text intersections; writing abstracts;
clarity; keywords; concluding/making sense; and fearless editing.
Sessions include collegial critique with a final group plenary
discussion for sharing insights. Small groups will support each
other in their writing and we will end with a 'poster party'
where the groups will share their progress and top tips with each
other.

The fee for this retreat is GBP230 which includes 2 nights
accommodation, all meals and a Saturday night excursion. For more
information and to book, see

http://pedare.falmouth.ac.uk/workshops/writing-retreat/







11 June 2013 -- Workshop on "An Experiment of Reflection on
Design Game Qualities and Controversies"

at the NORDES 2013 conference, "Experiments in Design Research:
Expressions, Knowledge, Critique" (Malmoe/Sweden)

Are you interested in Design Games and Co-Designing Processes?

A team of co-design/design game researchers, Kirsikka
Vaajakallio, Mette Agger, Eva Brandt, and Maria Hellstroem
Reimer, will organize a workshop on June 11 as part of the
NORDES'13 conference in Copenhagen/Malmoe. Call for participation
is now open.

"An Experiment of Reflection on Design Game Qualities and
Controversies":

This is a hands-on workshop where all participants will play
various pre-designed Design/Learning Games. Through various
game-inspired formats we will reflect upon the topic of design
game qualities and controversies.

More information about the whole conference, the workshop topic
and programme, and how to participate:
http://nordes.org/nordes2013/

(This workshop is no. 2 in the list of 11 workshops).






17 June 2013 -- DRS Symposium: Value of Design Research and AGM
2013 will be hosted by Loughborough Design School (UK)

You are warmly invited to attend the Design Research Society's
2013 AGM and Symposium hosted by Loughborough Design School, UK
on Monday, 17 June. This year's symposium theme is 'Value of
Design Research'.

The symposium is open to all. Registration is free of charge for
current Design Research Society (DRS) members and full-time
students. There is GBP40 attendance fee for non-members. The
symposium will be preceded by the DRS AGM (DRS paid-up members
only) and lunch (DRS members and non-members). Lunch is included
in the registration fee for both DRS members and non-members.

We are fortunate to have secured three prominent design
researchers to address this year symposium's theme. Professor
Georgina Follett from the University of Dundee will outline
lessons learned from a collaborative research project undertaken
with V&A. Then Dr Daria Loi, the UX Innovation Manager at Intel
Corporation, will discuss how a multi-region,
ethnographically-informed study, which focused on touch for
clamshell devices, has influenced Intel's Ultrabook strategy.
This will be followed by Dr Sue Hignett's presentation on the
development of the national specification to standardise the
design of emergency ambulances, and the design of paramedic
equipment and vehicles to support the delivery of care without
transportation to hospital.

Speakers' biographies and brief outlines of their presentations
are available on our website along with a full programme. You can
download the brochure at
http://www.designresearchsociety.org/doc-events/2013/drs-agm-2013
.pdf

To register follow this link
http://store.lboro.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=64&modid=2&
compid=1

Venue: Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University,
Loughborough, LE11 3TU Directions can be found here:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html On the campus map, the
Loughborough Design School is number
108http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/map/index.html

To join the DRS for only GBP30 per annum go to
http://www.designresearchsociety.org/ There is a reduced
subscription for full-time design research students of GBP30 for 3
years.

For more information follow this link

http://www.designresearchsociety.org/joomla/events/symposia/229-
drs-agm-symp-2013.html

or contact Erik Bohemia, Design Research Society Events Secretary
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10 June 2013 -- Join us at IOE: Design and Education

You are welcome: there is no charge.

Quodlibetal Questions on Education

Colloquium-Seminar at Institute of Education (IOE), University of
London by members of National Institute of Education(NIE),
Singapore/Visiting Academics at IOE and friends and staff of IOE,
London

This year's theme: "Design in/as/and Education"
Date: 10th June 2013 (Monday)
Venue: IOE, London, Room 770

http://ioeniecolloquium.wordpress.com/2013-design-asinand-
education/






24 April 2013 -- GLAD Conference 2013
GLAD Conference 2013: Start, sustain, succeed - art and design
education in the new policy landscape

- Location/venue: University for the Creative Arts, Ashley Road,
Epsom, Surrey , England, KT18 5BE
- Book on this event
- The Group for Learning in Art and Design (GLAD) will be holding
their 2013 annual conference on 24 April 2013.

Themes

The conference will consider the following themes.

1. Starting. Changes to the school art and design curriculum and
how the new English Baccalaureate and the demands it places on
school timetables might crowd out of the curriculum offer in the
arts. How we might engage to redress this? Speaker/s from the
school sector.

2. Sustaining. How we should evolve our working with students to
support their learning and to address the data-led climate for
student choice? Speaker/s from institutions that have improved
their student experience data and are engaging with students in
innovative ways.

3. Succeeding. What are institutions doing to support
employability? Case studies from graduates highlighting what was
useful to them in securing employment, plus speaker/s from
creative careers professionals.

Keynote

Lesley Butterworth, General Secretary, National Society for
Education in Art and Design

Dr Simon Ofield-Kerr, Vice-Chancellor, University for the
Creative Arts






Three-D Issue 20: media reform, Leveson and Royal Charter (online
pre-publication)

We have now pre-published a series of articles from the next
issue of Three-D on the MeCCSA website. You can access articles
relating to media reform, Leveson and the Royal Charter by
visiting:

http://www.meccsa.org.uk/news/three-d-issue-20/

Feel free to contribute to the debate by posting comments on the
website or sharing links to articles.






The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) has launched a digital
archive of work by celebrated British fashion designer Zandra
Rhodes at:

zandrarhodes.ucreative.ac.uk

The collection was unveiled by Joanna Lumley at the Fashion and
Textile Museum in London on Tuesday 26 March 2013.

Researchers and students from the University for the Creative
Arts (UCA) have worked alongside Zandra Rhodes to painstakingly
prepare, photograph, and catalogue 500 dresses and garments
selected from the designer's private archive at her studio in
London, including pieces worn by icons such as Princess Diana,
Jackie Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor, and Diana Ross.

The project has not only catalogued these designs for future
generations but also created contextual learning materials which
explore her creative processes and production techniques, through
video interviews, video tutorials, and exquisite drawings.

Zandra Rhodes studied at one of UCA's founder colleges, the
Medway College of Design, and became UCA's first Chancellor in
2010.

The Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection has been made
available online for non-commercial use in learning, teaching,
and research worldwide, and the project was funded by a grant
from Jisc.

See the press release on the UCA website at:
http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/news/2013/march/joanna-lumley

See the project in action in the ITV news report at:
http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2012-07-09/zandras-iconic
-outfits-out-of-the-closet/

To find out more about how the digital collection was created,
see the project blog at:

http://zandrarhodesarchive.wordpress.com






Design and Culture issue 5_1

The current issue of Design and Culture has been released and
available online. This issue marks our fifth anniversary and
includes a roundtable of articles that reflect on academe and
design writing today.  We have also made open access on the
Design Studies Forum website a discussion between designer,
educator, and researcher Lucy Kimbell and philosopher Graham
Harman.

Design and Culture

The Journal of the Design Studies Forum

Volume 05, Issue 01 | March 2013

http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal/issues/march-2013/

ARTICLES

ACADEME AND DESIGN WRITING

Introduction: Design Writing Today | ELIZABETH GUFFEY

Research  Writing in Design| MEREDITH DAVIS

De-tooling Design History: To What Purpose and for Whom Do We
Write? | KJETIL FALLAN

Changes in Design Criticism| PETER HALL

Becoming a Discipline: Problems in the Emergence of Design
Criticism as a Field of Inquiry| DEBORAH LITTLEJOHN

Writing Design Criticism into History| TEAL TRIGGS

On Design Writing| ANN-MARIE WILLIS

ARTICLES

Design in the Age of Prosumption| STEPHEN KNOTT
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/design-in-the-
age-of-prosumption-the-craft-of-design-after-the-object/

Bricolage, Hybridity, Circularity: Crafting Production Strategies
in Critical and Conceptual Design| CATHERINE ROSSI
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/bricolage-
hybridity-circularity-crafting-production-strategies-in-critical-
and-conceptual-design/

Statement of Practice: I Cling To Virtue| STEVEN HAYWARD
[ABSTRACT]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/i-cling-to-
virtue-an-exhibition-review-and-statement-of-practice/

Lucy Kimbell, Dialog: The Object Strikes Back Interview with
Graham Harmon [pdf]
http://www.designstudiesforum.org/dsf/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/
kimbell_harman_wm1.pdf

EXHIBITION REVIEWS

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay| MICHELE MAJER

Postmodernism: The Substance of Style, 1970-1990| PENNY SPARKE

California Design, 1930-1965: "Living in a Modern Way" Doin' It
in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building California's
Designing Women, 1896-1986| ELIZABETH GUFFEY

BOOK REVIEWS

Dirt, edited by Megan Born, Helene Furjan, and Lily Jencks| SARAH
CAYLOR

Toward a New Interior: An Anthology of Interior Design Theory,
edited by Lois Weinthal| D. J. HUPPATZ

Textiles: The Whole Story, by Beverly Gordon| JULIE HOLLENBACH






4-5 September 2013 -- Cambridge Academic Design Management
Conference (CADMC)

Cambridge, UK

We are pleased to advise that the full list of papers accepted
for the conference is now available on the conference website.
The Committee was delighted with the response to the call for
papers and are looking forward to an interesting and informative
few days in Cambridge.

We are also pleased to announce that Keynote speakers this year
will include:

- Alan Topalian, Koeln International School of Design

- Natalie Nixon, Philadelphia University

As part of CADMC 2013, one new feature will be to provide future
researchers in the area of Design Management an opportunity to
give exposure to their work and for discussion with their peers. 
As an active participant at the conference, they will be able, in
a poster session format, to present interesting, original,
thoughtful new ideas which might be at a speculative or early
stage.

This opportunity is open only to those who have not had a paper
accepted for the Conference. To take part in this session, you
must be a registered PhD student, have registered to attend the
conference and have approval from your Supervisor.  A display
board will be provided, but no papers or material will be
published.  To indicate your interest, please contact Jo
Griffiths (e: [log in to unmask]).

The conference programme will be available in July and to take
advantage of the "Earlybird" registration fee, you should
register before 31 July.  The on-line booking system is available
via the conference website.

www.cadmc.org/






2-6 September 2013 -- Victoria University of Wellington, in
conjunction with The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
welcomes researchers, artists, scientists, educators, curators,
designers and producers from academia, public sector
organisations, industry, Indigenous/Aboriginal and community
organisations, not-for-profit, and art practice organisations
into the conference space of the Third International Visual
Methods Conference :

Visual Methods in Mediated Environments: Connecting Diverse
Worlds

To be held in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

The two prior International Visual Methods Conferences
(University of Leeds, UK in 2009 and the Open University, Milton
Keynes UK in 2011) demonstrated that visual methods/(audio)visual
practices are proliferating. Professional associations, academic
disciplines, corporations and institutions of vastly different
sizes, with either local or global 'reach' are affected by the
rise of 'free-to-use' networking possibilities. This is due to
the world-wide take up of social media, increasingly accessed via
mobile devices, and the relative low cost of other image/sound
recording technologies.

The ubiquity of camera/video capabilities in mobile devices makes
visual 'documentation' of events, an any-time, anywhere,
activity. We therefore decided to focus the Third International
Visual Methods conference on Visual Methods in these Mediated
Environments and the opportunities and challenges they pose for
connecting diverse worlds. We are particularly curious about what
happens when we use visual methods in different ways, in
different spaces, and the sometimes, unpredictable effects that
these methods can produce.

We have a great line up of keynote speakers, pre-conference
workshops and masterclasses, and are working to ensure that
alongside the academic core of the conference there will be
exhibitions, tours, installations and screenings.  We welcome
abstracts and proposals and look forward to hearing from you. In
the meantime, to be kept up-to-date on announcements and
developments, like our FB page.

http://visualmethods.org/






Architecture_MPS

This month's edition of the journal Architecture_MPS
(Architecture, Media, Politics, Society)  is what we call an
interview-article by urbanist, architect, author and cultural
critic Michael Sorkin.

We have published pieces like this by Kenneth Frampton and Daniel
Libeskind in the past and have a number more planned. As a genre
it represents an attempt to move the interview format in a more
academic direction.

We also have an open call for articles for forthcoming editions
in 2013 and will shortly be announcing details on a
multi-disciplinary conference on 'the mediated city'. Details on
the call can be found on the website.

http://architecturemps.com/






....and from Julia Mia Stirnemann (PHD Student at University of
Berne)

I would like to present you the worldmapgenerator, it's a
research project from the university of applied science in Bern
(Switzerland). I would be glad if you are  interested in this
project.

http://www.worldmapgenerator.com






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