DRS 2014 CONFERENCE -- CORRECTION

Please note the deadlines for full paper submissions and
proposals for conversations have been extended to 1 November and
1 December 2013 respectively. Please see the conference website 
for up to date information.

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DRS 2014 DESIGN'S BIG DEBATES

The Design Research Society's 2014 conference invites you to
engage in discussions and debates on the future directions of
design and design research. We welcome you to join us in Umea,
Sweden, 16-19 June 2014. We believe there is a shared discourse
in design, one that includes all areas of design research, and
that is of vital importance for our understanding and development
of the foundations of design. This discourse is something we
share and cultivate over long periods of time, as it tells
stories of past, present and future trajectories of design and
its role in society. The main purpose of the DRS 2014 conference
is to foster and support a shared design discourse. By focusing
on key big issues in design, we want to create a forum where the
questions that have the potential to change the way we think and
do design - its philosophy, theory, practise, methodology,
education, profession and history - will be discussed and
debated.

CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 1ST

http://www.drs2014.org/en/participation/call-for-papers/ 

We invite papers which offer new or challenging research or views
in design in the widest sense.  Papers should be 3000-5000 words
long, not counting the abstract, front matter and references, and
should adhere to the conference paper submission guidelines.
Submissions must be in English language. Papers must be submitted
by 1 November 2013 through the online submission system, which
will be open from August 2013. The DRS conference invites paper
submissions from any area of design research. Additionally,
papers are invited for special strands which link into and
highlight the conference theme of 'The Big Debates' as well as
the DRS Special Interest Groups. Authors of accepted papers are
expected to attend and present their paper at the conference. All
accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
which will be published in digital format. Please note that
unlike previous DRS conferences, the review for DRS2014 is by
full papers only.

CALL FOR CONVERSATIONS - EXTENDED DEADLINE: DECEMBER 1ST

http://www.drs2014.org/en/participation/call-for-conversations/

The 2014 Design Research Society Conference is accepting
submissions for workshops, structured discussions, and
experimental session formats that advance conversation around
emergent forms of design research. These sessions have been
conceived as alternatives to the traditional paper/presentation
format, and the ambition of this new format is to provide
innovative venues for project-based research and work that is not
easily captured or conveyed by the scholarly paper. We expect
that any Conversation will consist of 3-5 catalysts who will
present work or structure the experience to facilitate dialogue
and discussion. All sessions will last between 1-2 hours in
length.

Priority will be given to those proposals that already have
agreements from all catalysts that they will attend the
conference and participate in the Conversation. We are
particularly interested in proposals that bring together diverse
perspectives on the issues and opportunities of design research,
that are experiential in nature, and that will productively
challenge our assumptions of what the topics and forms design
research are or could be.

Welcome to Umea!

Johan Redstroem, Erik Stolterman and Anna Valtonen (General
Chairs),
Youn-kyung Lim and Kristina Niedderer (Papers Chairs)
Carl DiSalvo and Jamer Hunt (Conversations Chairs)