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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 18 Number 7 Nov 2013 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o DRS2014 CONFERENCE - Call for workshops
o Honorary Secretary, Design Research Society
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 2014 PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS AND CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE DOCTORAL
COLLOQUIUM
The 2014 Design Research Society Conference is accepting
submissions for Workshops: half- or full-day workshops that
advance existing and emerging areas of design research. The
workshops are conceived as a complement to the formats of the
main conference program. They allow workshop organizers more
freedom and more time to stage structured discussions,
collaborative processes and the use of experimental session
formats.
The Doctoral Colloquium is accepting submissions from PhD
students in the first half of their doctoral research to explore
and exchange ideas on design research on equal level. The
Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for participating
doctoral students to share their research ideas and approaches
with other students and obtain feedback from advisory experts
with different perspectives.
Call for Workshops
The 2014 Design Research Society Conference is accepting
submissions for Workshops: half- or full-day workshops that
advance existing and emerging areas of design research. The
workshops are conceived as a complement to the formats of the
main conference program. They take place on the day before the
regular conference program starts, and they allow workshop
organizers more freedom and more time to stage structured
discussions, collaborative processes and the use of experimental
session formats. Thus, there are two groups of people involved in
a workshop: the organizers and the participants. Organizers are
responsible for submitting a workshop proposal, choosing the
topic and focus, creating a schedule for the day, creating a call
for participation and selecting participants, and disseminating
knowledge about the final outcome. Participants will shape the
content and discussion for the day.
We welcome workshop proposals from all areas of design research.
In particular, we encourage proposals that engage in the areas of
the DRS Special Interest Groups, proposals that aims at community
building in new and emerging areas of design research, and
proposals that make use of session formats not possible within
the main conference program.
The workshops are part of the pre-conference program taking place
the day before the main program starts. Organizers and
participants in the workshops are expected to register to the
conference, and to pay the conference fee. There is no additional
fee for attending the workshops.
Chair: Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Submission of workshop proposals: January 15th
Link to more information about Call for Workshops
http://t.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=1694860&uid=572544908&&&http%3A%2F%
2Fwww.drs2014.org%2Fen%2Fparticipation%2Fcall-for-workshops%2F%2F
Call for Participation in the Doctoral Colloquium
The 2014 Design Research Society Conference' Doctoral Colloquium
is accepting submissions from PhD students in the first half of
their doctoral research to explore and exchange ideas on design
research on equal level. The Doctoral Colloquium provides an
opportunity for participating doctoral students to share their
research ideas and approaches with other students and obtain
feedback from advisory experts with different perspectives. We
welcome research approaches from any field of design. The
Doctoral Colloquium can accommodate 10 students. If more
submissions are received, the selection criteria are based on the
quality of the submission and available expertise.
Chairs: Peter Gall Krogh, Aarhus University (DK) and Tuuli
Mattelmaeki, Aalto University (FIN)
Deadline: Submission of position paper for Doctoral Colloquium:
February 15th
Link to more information about Call for Doctoral Colloquium
http://t.anp.se/track?t=c&mid=1694860&uid=572544908&&&http%3A%2F%
2Fwww.drs2014.org%2Fen%2Fparticipation%2Fcall-for-doctoral-
colloquium%2F
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VACANCY FOR HONORARY SECRETARY
Design Research Society
Our esteemed Honorary Secretary, Rebecca Cain, is stepping down
from her post to concentrate on her family. The Society would
like to fill this role as soon as possible.
Does anyone know of someone who might be suitable for this role,
and interested in joining the DRS council? This is a great
opportunity to get to know the people and the business of the
Design Research Society and the community.
Hon Secretary Duties:
- Communicating with council members about all aspects of council
business.
- Attending all council meetings (which are UK-based).
- Organising bi-monthly council meetings.
- Taking and writing meeting minutes and maintaining accurate
records of meetings.
- Organising the Annual General Meeting.
- Organising and running the annual Council elections.
Person description:
The role requires good organisation and written communication
skills, and a commitment to attend all UK-based council meetings.
Experience in running meetings, taking minutes and record keeping
is preferred. The role would suit someone with an interest in
playing a key role in DRS council business. It may suit an early
career researcher, or someone wishing to create new networks
within the design research community.
It is a role that is at the heart of the Society. For further
information, or to make an informal enquiry, please contact the
the DRS Chair Prof. Seymour Roworth-Stokes
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CALLS
2-4 April 2014
Duesseldorf (Germany)
You were not expected to do this. On the Dynamics of Production
In ordinary terms, the word production refers to an act of
creation and its result, or to a process at the end of which
there is a materialisation of some kind, or to the act of making
something present. By productively interfering with this common
idea of production we would like to work towards establishing
different ways of thinking about this concept. Distraction and
Interference as well as Resistance and Accident are exemplary
categories of the unexpected moments that may or may not take
place in the course of production. They remind us that production
cannot be reduced to the momentum of 'achieving a product'.
Rather, these categories help to reveal the physical presence of
those who produce, the materiality of the objects involved and
the unforeseen effects of the 'product'. Furthermore, they allow
us to question the alleged linearity of the processes that form
part of production. Thereby, Distraction, Interference,
Resistance and Accident make us aware to what extent production
involves a 'lived' and 'living' tension between the producer and
what is being produced, between the subject and the world.
Distractions or Interferences involve an examination of the
subject of production. Correspondingly, on the side of the
objects of production, Resistances or Accidents are capable of -
and sometimes violently so - interrupting any given course of
production. These dynamics of production and their distinctive
and creative potentialities will form the main focus of this
conference.
In order to structure the topic, the conference will be divided
into four sections. The following suggestions serve purely
illustrative purposes.
Who: Traces of production
This panel aims to question the unexpected traces of the
producers' presence, from medieval copyists' variations to
Hitchcock's cameos in his own movies. There are at least two
different approaches towards exploring the traces of production:
on the one hand, by starting from the object so as to find the
unexpected traces of the authors' physical presence (beyond his
signature); on the other hand, by starting from the author/actor
in order to see the (un-) intentional plan of leaving
archaeological traces in the course of production.
Where: Spaces of production
This section investigates the relationship between distance and
production in two different directions. Firstly, by concentrating
on the interval between task and result and on the singular forms
of creation evolving from this space. Secondly, unexpected
results can also emerge from any production of distance in terms
of material objects or practices such as: proxemics in theatrical
performances, modern museography, Warburg's Bilderatlas.
Why: About the necessity of resistance
Far beyond the contingency of the unexpected, this session aims
to examine the material presence of a refusal to produce. This is
manifest in, for example, the modern idea of going on strike or
in the well-known "I would prefer not to" with which Melville's
Bartleby stubbornly decides to resist the process of copying. The
identity between task and result is only alleged and this tends
to conceal the self-productive presence of production as an
intrinsically human process! We would like to analyse the
political aspects of resistance by concentrating on the
potentialities of inaction.
When: Temporalities of production
This panel will attempt to highlight historical continuities as
well as ruptures in the unexpectable dynamics of production. This
can be achieved by asking how the very notions of production or
temporality, for example, have been modified in the course of
historical evolution. From the copyists of antiquity to the
invention of the printing press and beyond, from the 'birth of
the artist' in the 12th/13th centuries to Walter Benjamin's
concept of technical reproduction, this session is dedicated to
the heterogeneous and discontinuous processes of production and
their relation to the category of the unexpected.
http://arthist.net/archive/6061
Theme: Methods in Philosophy of Design and Philosophy of Science
Guest Editor: Pieter Vermaas, Philosophy Department, Delft
University of Technology
Philosophy & Technology invites authors to submit contributions
to its special issue Methods in Philosophy of Design and
Philosophy of Science with work on design and its methods.
Contributions may be about understanding and demarcating design,
and on design methods, using work on scientific methods in
philosophy of science. Contributions are welcomed from all
traditions in philosophy and beyond, ranging from older work on
the natural sciences to newer work on the experimental and social
sciences, and ranging from foundational to post-phenomenological
approaches. Contributions may be programmatic to philosophy of
design and may be presenting new results and arguments.
Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2013
http://www.editorialmanager.com/phte/
2014 ISPA Summer School: CALL FOR PAPERS
Contemporary philosophy and architecture discourse alike
marginalize the ethical dimension of architecture. Yet, it seems
that the ethical dimension in both architecture philosophy has
been compromised because both disciplines have not established a
clear interdisciplinary understanding of autonomy. Together, and
in service to both fields of study, we must reconsider what
autonomy means for both architecture and philosophy, or rather,
for architecture philosophy.
Without consideration to design intent, societal (at times,
utopian) agendas and programs, architecture is still largely
deemed to be ethically 'neutral' or silent. But is architecture
ethically neutral? Is it ethically silent? Can ethical evaluation
of designs and built objects operate autonomously from evaluation
of the human agents that create them? Can a designer's activity
be considered autonomous, and hence allow for questions of
attribution and responsibility? Once we isolate the
architectural, landscape, or urban designer from outside
pressures, and only focus on her core metier - to what extent is
that isolated activity autonomous? And if an architect's actions
cannot be autonomous, would architecture stop having to answer to
itself?
Philosophical ethics has opened its purview beyond human action
to animal ethics and environmental ethics, but has not yet found
a way to expand its existing reflections to designed objects,
particularly built ones. Perhaps in parallel to ethics,
contemporary aesthetics discusses the moral repercussions of art
works with clear representational content - socially critical
novels, figurative paintings - but has not paid closer attention
to architecture. Is the lack of attention in aesthetics due to
architecture's representational content being elusive, or because
architecture's aesthetic appraisal is taken to proceed
autonomously from moral considerations? How would architecture be
considered otherwise?
SUBMISSION:
The 2014 conference of the International Society for the
Philosophy of Architecture invites papers which probe these
questions, or re-draw the assumptions behind them. It welcomes
architects and philosophers willing to scrutinize extant
(inter)disciplinary boundaries and consensus on these questions.
The conference celebrates attempts to operate at the intersection
of both disciplines, and promotes work ready to give
philosophical ethics and concrete architect(ure)s serious
consideration alike. Authors are invited to submit a 250-300 word
abstract by January 31, 2014. To submit an abstract, and keep up
with latest updates on the conference and further ISPA
activities, we invite you to register on the society website.
SUMMER SCHOOL:
The 2014 ISPA Summer School aims to bring architecture
researchers together from the USA, Canada, and the European Union
to jointly seek means to redress the geographic and institutional
imbalance in addressing professional ethics in architecture. We
have invited researchers with a proven track record of research
and teaching in the professional ethics of architecture. Our goal
is to confront these researchers with masters students and
colleagues from (primarily) EU institutes, so they can hear their
questions and concerns. The very workshop-like nature of a summer
school seems ideally suited to materialize this aim, of creating
an atmosphere of competent discussion and fruitful exchange.
Confirmed speakers and discussants for our summer school include
Prof. Vasilis Ganiatsas, head of Architectural Design at the
National Technical University of Athens (Greece), Prof. Tom
Spector, University of Oklahoma (USA), Dr. Martin Duechs, Munich
(Germany), and Prof. Graham Owen, University of Toronto (Canada).
Course coordinators from our IDEALeague partner institutes
include Prof. Axel Sowa, Theory Chair in Architecture at RWTH
Aachen, and Dr. Christoph Baumberger, Environmental Ethics Unit
at ETH Zuerich.
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Interacting with Computers, Special Issue.
Open call for papers for Special Issue of Interacting with
Computers (Oxford University Press) on INTUITIVE INTERACTION
Intuitive interaction or intuitive use has been much talked about
but until recently not much researched. This issue seeks to bring
together the current state of the art in intuitive interaction
research, which will then be easily accessible to a wide
audience, and will also encourage take-up of principles and ideas
for implementing intuitive interaction into user interfaces Each
paper should include a rigorous definition of intuitive
interaction or intuitive use (your own or cited from previous
work). Intuitive interaction should be the main focus of the
research reported in the paper. Scope includes intuitive
interaction:
- for the general population
- for older, younger or disabled people
- for other particular groups Also of interest are:
- methodology around researching intuitive interaction
- how to test products or interfaces for intuitive interaction
- how to design for intuitive interaction
- tools or methods than can be applied by designers or developers
to design for intuitive interaction
- other issues relevant to the research, understanding and
application of intuitive interaction. "Interaction" or "use" can
include but is not limited to interaction with:
- computers
- interfaces
- games
- products
- systems
Full papers to be submitted online at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iwc
Deadline for submission of full papers 15th March 2014
Editors of the special issue are Associate Professor Alethea
Blackler and Professor Vesna Popovic.
Alethea Blackler (PhD) is an Associate Professor in the School of
Design and Leader of the Intuitive Interaction theme at the
People and Systems Lab at Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane, Australia. She has conducted ten studies into Intuitive
Interaction over the past 12 years, in conjunction with
colleagues and students and has published on the topic for the
past 11 years.
Vesna Popovic (PhD) is a Professor in Industrial Design at
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her
research focus is within experience and expertise, intuitive
interaction and intuitive navigation domains. She was founder of
People and Systems Lab at QUT. Vesna is a Fellow of the Design
Research Society and the Design Institute of Australia.
27-30 May, 2014: AVI 2014 - International Working Conference on
Advanced Visual Interfaces - Como, Italy
The 12th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
(AVI 2014) will be held in Como (Italy) at the campus of
Politecnico di Milano, from May 27th to 30th, 2014. Started in
1992 in Rome, AVI has become a biannual appointment for a wide
International community of experts with a broad range of
backgrounds, who share the interest in the investigation, design,
development, and evaluation of innovative interactive solutions
impacting our world at individual and societal level. Through
more than two decades, the Conference has contributed to the
progress of Human-Computer Interaction, offering a forum to
present and disseminate new technological results, new paradigms
and new visions for interaction and interfaces. AVI 2014 offers
a wide variety of submission types to suit many types of
interests and works. They include full and short research papers,
demos, industry papers, and workshops. Theoretical and formal
approaches, novel methodologies, domain-specific applications,
empirical studies, new technological solutions, and industrial
achievements fit well into the framework of the conference. The
program also includes a number of prestigious invited talks as
well social events at magnificent villas on the Como lake.
KEYNOTES SPEAKERS
Gregory D. Abowd School of Interactive Computing, Georgia
Institute of Technology (USA) Gregory D. Abowd is the
Distinguished Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at
Georgia Tech. His research interests concern how the advanced
information technologies of ubiquitous computing impact our
everyday lives when they are seamlessly integrated into our
living spaces. http://www.gregoryabowd.com/
Piotr Adamczyk and Amit Sood Google Art Project, Google (USA)
Google Art Project is an initiative aiming at bridging ICT and
the world of cultural heritage. Many prestigious institutions are
currently involved, digitally exhibiting their works and their
buildings to a wide audience. Virtual visits to museums, in
particular, are likely to set a new standard about users
expectations for interaction and virtual spaces. Look at one
example of virtual visit:
http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/collection/uffizi-gallery
?museumview&projectId=art-project
Studio Azzurro (Italy) Founded in 1982, Studio Azzurro is an
internationally known group of artists who pioneered interactive
visual art. Their artistic research explores the poetic and
expressive capability of technology to create interactive visual
spaces and sensitive reactive environments that often involve
theatrical performance. Studio Azzurro installations have been
presented in major exhibition venues (including Biennale Arte in
Venice, Documenta in Kassel, and EXPO in Shanghai) and can be
experienced in major museums in all continents.
http://www.studioazzurro.com/index.php
COMO
Como is located approximately 45 km North of downtown Milano
and few km South of the Swiss border. The town and its area are
renowned for their natural and cultural heritage that amazed
generations of travellers, writers, and painters, and for the
great number of cultural events that are organized here. The
nearby unspoilt valleys and wild natural environments are full of
opportunities for mountain lovers who can try out every kind of
experience that this natural setting can offer. The wonderful
lake, where visitors can enjoy a variety of trips and activities,
is famous for its villas, its florid parks and secular trees, and
its VIP guests. Como and its surroundings are rich in art and
history, including museums, archaeological sites, architectural
venues from old Romanesque churches to Rationalist buildings.
Music and theatre play an important role in the cultural heritage
of the area, where international events are organized. For
shopping, visitors can find every kind of silk products, and
visit silk factories or shops at concept stores.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full and short research papers
Abstract submission deadline January 7, 2014
Paper submission deadline January 13, 2014
Acceptance Notification March 7, 2014
Camera Ready due April 2, 2014
Workshops Proposals
Submission deadline January 13, 2014
Acceptance Notification January 27, 2014 Demo
Papers
Submission deadline March 10, 2014
Acceptance Notification March 21, 2014
Camera Ready due April 2, 2014
Industrial Papers
Submission deadline March 10, 2014
Acceptance Notification March 21, 2014
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
General Chair: Paolo Paolini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Program Chair: Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Full Paper Chairs: Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento
(Italy) and Giulio Jacucci, Helsinki Institute for Information
Technology HIIT (Finland)
Short Paper Chairs: Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano
(Italy) and Alessio Malizia, Brunel University (UK)
Demo Chairs: Matteo Valoriani, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and
Carmelo Ardito, University of Bari (Italy)
Industry Track Chairs: Walter Laurent Goix and Massimo Valla,
TELECOM IT (Italy)
Workshop Chairs: Paolo Cremonesi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
and Virpi Roto, University of Aalto (Finland)
Proceedings Chair: Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari (Italy)
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Online submission is required for all types of submissions. For
long and short papers a 250-words abstract is requested before
submission.
All submission must be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI
format
(http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-papers-word
-template/view).
Full and Short Research Papers
Long and Short Papers are archival publications that describe
original unpublished research in the following general
categories: 1. Theory, model, and method; 2. Design; 3.
Evaluation/User Study; 4. Technology; 5. Application and tool
Specific topics addressed include (but are not limited to) the
following ones:
- Adaptive and Context-Aware Interfaces
- Full-body Interaction
- Information Visualization
- Interaction Design Tools
- Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism
- Interfaces for e-Commerce and e-Branding
- Interfaces for i-TV
- Interfaces for Big Data
- Interfaces for End-User Development
- Interface Metaphors
- Interfaces for Social Interaction and Cooperation
- Mobile Interaction
- Motion-base Interaction
- Multimodal Interfaces
- (Multi)Sensory Interfaces
- (Multi)Touch Interaction
- Search Interfaces
- Usability and Accessibility
- Virtual and Augmented Reality
- Visual Analytics
- Visual Databases
- Web Interfaces
Maximum length of full papers is 8 pages. Maximum length of short
papers is 4 pages.
Accepted full and short research papers will be included in the
Proceedings published by ACM Press and will be available in the
ACM Digital Library.
DEMO PAPERS
Demo papers (up to 2 pages) describe previously un-presented
prototypes and systems and will be accompanied by a demonstration
during a dedicated session at the conference. Demo paper
submissions must include a description of hardware and software
requirements on a separate sheet. Demonstrators will use their
personal equipment. Accepted demo submissions will be included in
the Proceedings published by ACM Press and will be available in
the ACM Digital Library.
INDUSTRY PAPERS
Industry papers (up to 2 pages) address topics which are
particularly relevant to the industrial world and are not
necessarily intended to present research work only. Preferably,
they are co-authored by at least one person from industry.
Contributions concerning (amongst others) challenging research
and development, innovative business cases, market insights,
industrial research strategy, showcases and case studies, best
practices and lessons learned, are welcomed. Accepted submissions
will be included in the Adjunct Proceedings of the Conference.
WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
AVI 2014 will be a forum for workshops on emerging as well as
established topics relevant to interface research and practice.
The aims of workshops are to offer an opportunity to meet in the
context of a focused and interactive discussion, to develop
understanding, to exchange experiences, to build research
communities and to pave the ground towards future developments.
Workshops should ideally foster discussion and exchange rather
than being miniaturized conference sessions. Workshops will be
held on Tuesday May 27, 2014. A workshop may be half-day or full
day in length, and typically have 15 to 20 participants. The
extended abstract of the workshops and a selection of the best
position papers will appear in the conference proceedings and in
the ACM Digital Library. Persons interested in participating to
an accepted workshop can submit a position paper to the
organizers of that workshop, but workshop participation will be
open to any AVI 2014 participant, upon place availability.
http://avi2014.deib.polimi.it
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Call for participation
Evaluation in Research Through Design, 20-23 January 2014
The aim of the PhD course "Evaluation in Research through Design"
is to provide doctoral students with useful methods and tools for
establishing valid evaluation criteria in practice-based
research. The primary focus will be on how knowledge gained from
designerly experiments and the making of artefacts can be made
subject for scientific assessment. What kind of knowledge may
come out of research through design and how can we evaluate the
validity and originality of this knowledge when measured
according to existing scientific standards?
Theme
Research through design can take various and even incommensurable
forms. So can the types of knowledge that may result from this
research practice ranging, for example, from new techniques,
design guidelines, new methods, taxonomies or conceptual
frameworks. One of the central challenges for design researchers
devoted to this research methodology con- sists in being able to
account for what kind of knowledge they produce through design
practice and how it contributes to existing research agendas and
areas. Secondly, design researchers must be able to evaluate the
validity of this knowledge when held up against other predominant
notions of quantitative and qualitative research methods, action
research, grounded theory, art-based re- search, and so on.
How can valuable insights and knowledge be embedded in design
experiments and what expres- sive and interpretative techniques
may design researchers use to extract this knowledge? How are
evaluation criteria constructed out of considerations concerning
the research questions and hy- pothesis? How can deep knowledge
of few informants be as valid as large quantitative data sets
gained from case studies? These are some of the questions that we
will address in the format of lectures, collective sketching
exercises, one day of writing and presentations.
This course is the third out of three courses; the other two
courses are concerned with (1) The role of hypothesis in design
research and its value for staging the experiment; and (2) The
role of experiments in design research, their multiple shapes and
how they serve as methods of inquiry. It is the foundational
principle of the courses that knowledge production is based on
triangulating hy- pothesising, experimenting and evaluating.
Please notice that the courses can be attended in any order and
independently.
The course provides the theoretical outset, tools and techniques
for setting up evaluation criteria in design research where
knowledge can take many forms including text, artefacts and
practices. In particular, sketching will be one of the central
explanatory tools enabling us to account for the rich and
intimate interconnections between evaluation criteria,
experiments and research hypothesis. The expected outcome of the
course is that PhD students will have substantial material and
knowledge for describing the findings and contribution of their
research projects.
Participation
You can apply for participation in the course by submitting a
position paper (2 pages) in PDF for- mat. In this paper the
participants must explain the expected outcome of the course
participation in relation to the research questions, conducted
experiments and research purpose. Participants will be selected
on the basis of their ability to articulate how designing is an
act of research providing foundations and avenues of insights,
understanding and knowledge in the research process.
Preparation
When you are accepted for participation in the course, you will
receive a compendium containing excerpts from selected
PhD-dissertations that reflect a great diversity - with regard to
experiments in design research and the role they play in research
praxis. As preparation for the course, we ask the participants to
identify what types of knowledge are accounted for in these
dissertations and the models of evaluation used to generalize the
outcomes. We, furthermore, ask participants to identify the
'state of mind' of the author.
The course includes:
- A presentation of the participants based on position papers
- 2 international Keynote talks:
JohanVerbeke,
Professor in Research Through Design at Aarhus School of Architecture
Ilpo Koskinen Professor in Design at Aalto University in Helsinki
- A discussion and mapping of knowledge typologies and evaluation
criteria
- Scientific Theory
- A day set aside for writing
- A presentation and discussion of the work of the participants
during the course
Facts:
Value: 5 ECTS
Time: primary course activities will be held during week 4, 20-23
January 2014
Location:
Kolding School of Design, Denmark
Key teachers: Thomas Markussen, Anne Louise Bang, Johan Verbeke,
Mie Norgaard, Peter Gall Krogh
Cost: DKK 2,500 - Including materials, catering and two dinners
during the stay. Please let us know if you have any special
dietary requirements.
Deadline for application:
Please submit your application for participation no later than
November 25, 2013, to research secretary
Christina Stind Rosendahl, [log in to unmask]
Notification of acceptance: December 6, 2013
Registration deadline: December 18, 2013
Course material will be sent to the participants on December 12,
2013
Invitation to consider submissions to the Industry Track @ PDC14
(6-10 Oct 2014 - Windhoek Namibia)
The Participatory Design (PD) Conference is an important venue
for international discussion of the collaborative, social, and
political dimensions of technology innovation and use.
Techniques, technologies and perspectives that underpin
participatory design are shared in vibrant and critical debates,
presentations, and panel sessions. The Industry Track supports
and enables collaboration between international and local
researchers and industry practitioners from commercial,
government and not-for-profit sectors around the topic of
participation. We encourage practitioners who are working with
participatory methods or are interested in introducing such
approaches to their workplaces to attend and learn, share and
collaborate. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear local
and international practitioners from various fields report on new
research, methods and approaches. Case studies in the industry
track will present PD outside an academic context and illustrate
new and innovative approaches for addressing the challenges and
opportunities of participation across commercial, government and
not-for-profit sectors.
Suggested Industry Track topics
While we are open to other topics, we welcome contributions
addressing one or more of the following:
- Success stories of stakeholder collaboration
- 'War stories' of the challenge of participatory engagements
- Perspectives on new consultative paradigms
- Innovative co-design of applications, products and services
- Collaborative uses of technologies
- Programs with community and constituent participatory
involvement
More details, including submission guidelines:
http://pdc2014.org/index.php/industry-cases
FUNDING FOR A PH.D. STUDENT in "Architectural Robotics" entering
Clemson University (USA) in August 2014
Individuals trained in Architecture or the allied Design
disciplines (e.g. Industrial Design, Product Design, Interaction
Design, Media Arts, HCI and Human-Centered
Design/Computing/Engineering) and interested in pursuing a Ph.D.
focused on design research may apply now for one or more funded
openings, with August entry, to Clemson University. Full funding
and living stipend will be offered to qualified applicants
interested in engaging in research being undertaken within
CU-iMSE (the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems &
Environments). The successful candidate(s) will be expected to
focus on the design, prototyping and evaluation of "architectural
robotics" or, more broadly, interactive, cyber-physical
environments from furniture scale to the scale of the metropolis.
Successful applicants must have a professional 5-year bachelors
degree in a design field and/or a Masters degree in any of the
aforementioned disciplines. We particularly seek applicants with
strong design and communications skills who are well-versed in at
least one of the following: tangible/physical computing,
interaction design, human factors psychology, digital/parametric
design, media arts and/or digital fabrication. CU-iMSE research
projects are collaborative, developed in partnership with faculty
and students in Architecture, Electrical & Computing Engineering,
Materials Science & Engineering and Human Factors Psychology. The
degree of Ph.D. will be granted by Clemson's Ph.D. Program in
PDB&E (Planning, Design & the Built Environment). Clemson is a
top-25 U.S. public research university located between Atlanta
and Charlotte. For consideration, applicants must complete the
on-line application form; forward to the Graduate School official
GRE scores (and TOFEL scores, if English is not the primary
language); and email Dr. Keith Evan Green a design-research
portfolio (a pdf file of less than 5MB exhibiting creative,
published and/or research activities). For best consideration,
all materials should be received by January 15.
Prof. Keith Evan Green, CU-iMSE Director: [log in to unmask]
Apply on-line: http://www.grad.clemson.edu/admission/
6-10 October 2014: 9th International Design & Emotion Conference,
Universidad de Los Andes in Bogota, Colombia
With the conference's current motto "The Colors of Care" the
organizing committee opens the discussion on the relation between
Design, Emotion and Social Innovation. We invite practitioners
and researchers from the fields of design, social science,
humanities, marketing and business, psychology, engineering, HCI
and health sciences, to submit research results and case studies
that explore basic aspects of human emotions(individual or
collective), demonstrate the application of theories of emotion
in functional applications, or discuss developments of
experimental artifacts from the point of view of design, social
practices and emotion.
Your contributions could be aligned (but not limited) to the
following conference topics:
Design for Social Innovation
Theoretical Issues of Design and Emotion
Methodological Issues of Design and Emotion
Well-being and Sustainability
Experience and Interaction
See the conference website for a more detailed description of the
topics and our Call for Papers.
Important Dates
February 1st, 2014, deadline for papers and design cases
March 15th, 2014, deadline for workshop proposals
October 6-10, 2014, Workshops and Conference
http://de2014.uniandes.edu.co
23-25 June 2014: SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN
COMPUTING AND COGNITION DCC'14, London, UK
CALL FOR PAPERS
This conference series aims to provide an international forum for
the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting
edge research and developments in design computing and cognition.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Agents in design
- Artificial intelligence in design
- Big data in design
- Biologically-inspired design
- Collaborative design
- Collective design
- Cognitive theories applied to design
- Computational social science applied to design
- Computational theories applied to design
- Creative design
- Crowdsourced design
- Evolutionary approaches in design
- Games and design
- Human behavior in design
- Learning from human designers
- Multi-modal design
- Situated computing in design
- Social interaction in design
- Visual and spatial reasoning in design
Attendees are invited to participate in the conference in the
following ways:
- Submit a full-length paper on completed research relating to
design computing and cognition: full papers due 16 December 2013
- Submit a poster describing ongoing research; there will be time
for oral presentations of posters: poster abstracts due 31
January 2014
- Submit a proposal for a half-day workshop on a topic related to
design computing and cognition: workshop proposals due 31 January
2014
Researchers from all fields employing computation and/or
cognition to research design are invited to participate.
Full details at:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc14/
Infrastructures of Creativity Conference
Infrastructures of Creativity: a conference on institutions and
innovation in the 18th & 21st centuries April 10-11, 2014,
Chicago
The Benjamin Franklin Project at the Illinois Institute of
Technology (IIT), along with the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) and the University of Wisconsin at Madison,
invite you to participate in an interdisciplinary conference on
innovation on April 10th and 11th at IIT's historic Mies Van der
Rohe campus in Chicago, IL, USA.
The Atlantic Enlightenment of the eighteenth century ushered in
an era of unprecedented innovation and creativity along with new
types of institutional infrastructure that fostered and informed
those creative processes. Please join as we consider this
historical moment alongside today's innovation landscape,
exploring what it takes for innovation to flourish and how
institutional structures inform creativity, along with its
successes and failures. In addition to open submission
presentations, the program will feature distinguished
practitioners and scholars reflecting on the past, present and
future of science, commerce, and law. Confirmed keynote speakers
and panelists include:
- Lori Andrews, Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of
the Institute for Science, Law, and Technology, Chicago-Kent
College of Law, IIT
- Genevieve Bell, Director of Interaction and Experience
Research, Intel
- Michel Benard, University Relations Manager, Google Europe -
Fred Block, Research Professor in Sociology, University of
California, Davis
- Adrian Johns, Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History,
University of Chicago
- Kurt Haunfelner, Vice President of Exhibits & Collections,
Museum of Science and Industry
- Laura Hosman, Assistant Professor of Political Science,
Illinois Institute of Technology
- Simona Maschi, Partner, Copenhagen Institute for Interaction
Design
- Peter Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of
History, Emeritus, University of Virginia
- Michael Schrage, Research Fellow, MIT Sloan School of
Management
- Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs and
Stuart Professor of Communications and Public Affairs, Princeton
University
- Lindsey Thieman, Curator and Director of Development,
International Museum of Surgical Science
- John Zumbrunnen, Professor of Political Science, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
The organizers also issue an open call for presentations on
topics broadly related to institutions and innovation in the
eighteenth and twenty-first centuries. Scholars from all fields -
from the natural and social sciences to the humanities and
performing arts, as well the applied fields of law, medicine,
engineering, architecture, design, finance, ecology, and
technology - are invited to submit a proposal. Topics could range
from the processes of innovation and the innovators themselves to
the institutions - private or public - that support (or inhibit)
them.
A 500-word prospectus, along with any questions beforehand,
should be submitted here (mailto:[log in to unmask]) by January 15,
2014. Panels will be announced by February 1, 2014. Proposals not
accepted for panel sessions will be considered for poster
presentation.
Registration will begin at www.iit.edu/franklin on December 1,
2013.
To contact one of our conference organizers, please email
[log in to unmask] . This conference is made possible by a gift from
the Jack Miller Center with the generous support of the Templeton
Foundation and the Brinson Foundation.
http://www.iit.edu/franklin
2-4 July 2014: INTERNATIONAL FOOD DESIGN CONFERENCE AND STUDIO
FOOD DESIGN ON THE EDGE
Dunedin, New Zealand
The Food Design Institute and School of Design at Otago
Polytechnic (Dunedin, New Zealand) invites researchers, chefs and
designers from all disciplines to submit papers and workshop
proposals for the International Food Design Conference and Studio
2014. The International Food Design Conference and Studio 2014 is
a forum where chefs and others involved in the food industry will
work with designers and design researchers to deliver
presentations, workshops and food experiences to an international
audience. It is positioned as a junction between the food and
design worlds - on the edge of the world. International Food
Design Conference and Studio 2014 aims to explore:
- the interplay between food and design;
- the processes and people that influence food design, and;
- what the future holds for food design.
Conference & Studio structure
Not your 'typical' conference, this event aims to engage
academics in the 'food design' fields as well as industry-
leading chefs and designers, food producers and media from New
Zealand and across the globe. Its format is also intended to
facilitate collaboration between design experts from different
fields (communication, product, events, interiors, architecture,
fashion) and chefs, artisan food producers and mixologists
(cocktail experts) that will lead to high levels of innovation on
public display.
We are calling for:
A) Papers on Food Design Research and Practice
B) Proposals for Food Design Studios
C) Food Experiences (evening events for conference attendees and
the wider public)
A) Call for Papers on Food Design Research and Practice Mornings
at the International Food Design Conference and Studio 2014 will
be devoted to the dissemination of the findings of the latest
research into food design and an exploration of best practice in
food design.
We are calling for papers from academics, researchers (including
post-graduate students) and practitioners (chefs, designers
designing for food, designers inspired by food) with an interest
in the confluence between food and design.
Papers are due 13 December 2013 and should conform to the paper
guidelines available at the call for papers page
www.fooddesign.org.nz.
Papers will be double-blind peer reviewed by a panel of food and
design experts and will conform to the requirements of quality
assurance for academic institutions. Papers are limited to 7
pages in length including images, tables
http://www.fooddesign.org.nz
Call for Papers - PhD Colloquium "Designing for Exhibitions"
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Friday,
25th April 2014
Exhibition design is a rich and varied field of practice and can
be approached from a range of different perspectives including
those of designers, institutions and audiences. Topics of
discussion might range from questions of how design shapes the
way content is represented and experienced in galleries, to
investigations of individual design disciplines that are involved
in the process of exhibition making such as interior design,
scenography, exhibition graphics, digital media, lighting or
sound design.
This one-day colloquium, held in association with the summit
"Chaos at the Museum" organised by Central Saint Martins and the
University of California Davis, seeks to create a platform for
the discussion of current PhD research in the area of exhibition
design, and to initiate a dialogue on questions such as:
What is exhibition design, as practice and as outcome?
How and why is exhibition design changing?
Who are the designers, producers, makers, authors of an
exhibition?
What is the role of design in museum and exhibition making?
What is the role of the designer?
How are these roles evolving with changing interpretation and
display strategies?
What is the relationship between design and content, between
design and object?
What is the relationship between the designer and the curator,
the institution, the visitor?
How does exhibition design impact on the stories that are told
and on the visitors' experiences of these stories?
We invite PhD students and early career researchers, whose
research addresses the topic of designing for exhibitions and
museums, to submit proposals for short papers. We are aiming to
create a day of presentations, conversations and exchange shaped
by the interests and themes emerging from the submissions.
Dates
November 2013: Call for Papers
16th December 2013: Abstracts due for submission
3rd February 2014: Notification of acceptance and information on
the schedule for the day
Abstracts
Abstracts should be no more than 250 words in length. Submissions
should also include the title, author name, contact details and a
short biography. The document should be emailed as word-file to:
Jona Piehl at [log in to unmask] by Monday, 16th December, 2013.
18-20 June 2014: 20th Annual International Sustainable
Development Research Conference, Trondheim, Norway
The International Sustainable Development Research Society
(ISDRS) is pleased to announce its 20th Annual conference to be
held 18-20 June 2014 in Trondheim Norway.
The conference is hosted by the Department of Product Design
(IPD) and the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology
Management (IOT) at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology (NTNU) in association with ISDRS and ERP Environment,
publishers of the international journal Sustainable Development.
The 20th Annual ISDRS conference in 2014 is dedicated to research
contributing to solving the human efforts for securing well-being
and a decent life for all while maintaining the planets
ecological capacity for future generations.
The main aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary
forum for discussion on the complex issue of sustainability and
its relations to resilience in nature and society, welcoming both
empirical and theoretical contributions considering developed,
developing and transition perspectives.
ISDRC 20 addresses the following topics:
- Resilience thinking and the science of sustainability
- Demographic challenges for sustainable development
- Renewable resources and energy
- Sustainable Land Use & Sustainable cities
- Sustainable innovation through products, services and
infrastructures
- Globalization, justice and fair distribution
- Resilience of governance, institutions and economic and public
structures.
http://isdrs2014.org/
14-15 March 2014: AIGA Education conference hosted at the
University of Cincinnati
Connecting Dots
Research, Education + Practice
The purpose of the conference is to survey what is happening in
design research in academia and professional practice and make
connections between those two.
Also note, there is a workshop prior to the conference sponsored
by Visible Language to train peer-reviewers for design.
http://connectingdots.aiga.org/
8-10 May 2014: Cumulus conference Aveiro, Portugal
The 2014 Spring Cumulus conference [8-10 May 2014] will be held
at the Department of Communication and Art of University of
Aveiro, which is a multidisciplinary department that gathers the
areas of Design, Art Studies, Digital Media and Music. Therefore
the conference aims at joining together designers, artists,
musicians, theory-based researchers, and educators to develop
interdisciplinary discussion on the proposed theme.
The conference's theme is "what's on: cultural diversity, social
engagement and shifting education" aiming to bring together
theory and practice to discuss ways in which Design, Art, Music
and Digital Media are contributing, or can contribute, to
challenges in an era of global transformation characterized by
uncertainty, ambiguity and complexity.
Please be aware of the keydates:
December 30th, 2013- deadline for paper submission
January 30th, 2014- deadline for project and poster submission
March 15th, 2014 - end of early bird registration period
April 15th, 2014 - end of regular registration period
May 8th - 10th, 2014 - Conference
http://cumulusaveiro2014.web.ua.pt/
Designing Things Together: Intersections of Co-Design and
Actor-Network Theory
Special Issue of CoDesign - International Journal of CoCreation
in Design and the Arts
Guest editors: Cristiano Storni, Dagny Stuedahl, Thomas Binder
and Per Linde.
In this call, we acknowledge the emergence of an interesting
space at the intersection of co-design and Actor-Network Theory
(ANT), especially as design research is confronted with
increasingly complex issues such as sustainability, social
responsibility, inclusion and democracy; and new approaches such
as design activism, design participation, and social and
participatory innovation. The influence of Science and
Technology Studies (STS) on design research has a long history
and it is still enjoying a great deal of attention (Hanset et al,
2004; Ingram et al, 2007; Woodhouse and Patton, 2004). Through
the establishment of pioneering work in various disciplines such
as architecture (Yaneva, 2008), participatory design (Ehn, 2008),
human-computer interaction (DiSalvo, 2012), user-centred design
(Steen, 2012), critical design (Ward and WIlkie, 2010) some
design scholars have already started to explore this 'coming
together' of theoretical thinking and design practices where
different traditions, approaches and people meet. The interest is
mutual and while some STS scholars have started to appreciate
design as a key concern (Latour, 2008a,b, 2013; Yaneva, 2009;
Storni, 2012), the more activist wing of STS are looking at
design to extend and re-think the impact of social research
(Woodhouse et al, 2002; Venturini, 2010). As technology is
becoming ubiquitous and pervasive, and design is increasingly
recognized as a driving force for social change, approaches that
draw on both STS (conceptually equipped to deal with
socio-techno-scientific issues), and design (methodologically
equipped to intervene in such issues) are of increasing
importance.
In this context, we are interested in exploring, mapping and more
systematically investigating approaches emerging from exchanges
in which ANT (as well as related STS approaches such as
post-phenomenology, feminist and post-colonial studies) and
co-design become mutually relevant. Indeed, participatory and
collaborative design has a long tradition of focusing on the
politics of design, the methods, tools and techniques used for
democratic design, and the nature of participation (Kensing and
Blomberg, 1998). These concerns seem to be shared by recent
developments in ANT (e.g. Latour, 2004, 2008a,b) to further
affirm that this emerging area is worth exploring and mapping.
In this call, we aim to create an opportunity for exchange and
reflection on the interesting intersections between ANT and
co-design. We seek theoretical discussions as well as empirical
case studies carried out using methodologies underpinning the ANT
approach. We seek reflections, connections and mutual
influences; we seek new questions, a forward-looking attitude and
constructive critical analysis.
Specific topics may include but are not limited to:
ANT as a conceptual framework for participatory design and
co-design
ANT and material-semiotic/relational perspectives on design;
Design, dasein, (post-)phenomenology and ANT;
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/ncdncfp.pdf
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Volume 4, Issue 2 of the International Journal of Designs for
Learning is published
This special issue of IJDL focusing on Designs for Learning
Spaces examines the design process that led to the making of
places--both real and virtual--where teaching and learning happen
and provides the creation stories of eight projects that range
from classroom furniture to the design of an entire school
campus. The cases included in this special issue offer a rich
description of challenges, responses, successes, and setbacks
that characterize ideation and making. In all, this represents
over 100 pages of rich design precedent surrounding the creation
of spaces for learning.
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/ijdl/index
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