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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 19 Number 4 May 2014 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
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o Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN
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CALLS
Journal of Communication Design
New to Bloomsbury in 2015
Editor-in-Chief
Teal Triggs, Royal College of Art, UK
Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce that from 2015 it
will be the publisher of Journal of Communication Design:
Interdisciplinary and Graphic Design Research, the official
publication of Icograda (The International Council of
Communication Design). Journal of Communication Design was
originally launched by Icograda in 2009 as an online publication
called Iridescent with the aim of providing a platform to share
ideas and findings between scholars and researchers across
different cultures and to facilitate collaboration between the
members of the Icograda network.
Edited by an international editorial team, led by Teal Triggs,
the new incarnation of the journal will build on the rich
groundwork already established.
As a full double-blind peer reviewed publication, available in
print and online, it will develop and critically examine the
emerging discourses in research related to contemporary
communication and graphic design practice, education and methods,
as well as their history, theory and criticism. It will feature
theoretical, historical and applied research in communication
design, exploring both analogue and digital forms.
Submit your next manuscript to this journal
Journal of Communication Design (formerly Iridescent) is the
official publication of Icograda (The International Council of
Communication Design).
We would like to invite academics, scholars, educators, and
researchers from disciplines related to communication design to
submit their work to Journal of Communication Design.
The editors will consider papers from a range of disciplines
related to graphic and communication design, including but not
restricted to: cultural geography, cultural studies, education,
ethnography, design history, journalism, museum studies,
semiotics and linguistics, psychology, and sociology.
Reasons to publish in Journal of Communication Design:
- Double-blind peer review
- High profile, internationally recognized Editorial Board
- Association with Icograda, an organization with international
reach
- Short submission to publication times
- International visibility in print and online
The following types of submission are welcome:
- Academic research papers (approximately 4,500-8,000 words)
- Book and exhibition reviews (approximately 500-800 words)
- From the Archives (approximately 1,000-1,500 words)
- Visual essays (4-6 pages, B&W)
Initially, please submit an abstract of between 300-500 words,
accompanied by a C.V. to the editors at [log in to unmask] If
you would like your article to be considered for publication in
2015 then abstracts should be submitted no later than 1 July
2014. Full manuscripts would need to be submitted no later than 1
October 2014. For more information, and a copy of the journal's
style guide, contact the editors at [log in to unmask] or visit
the website.
http://email.bloomsburynews.com/c/12zo84DnKlqPhZDT5Zqs5fEL
Design and Culture
The Journal of the Design Studies Forum
Editor: Elizabeth Guffey, State University of New York at
Purchase, USA
Design and Culture probes design's relation to other academic
disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies,
anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture and
political economy. Visit the journal website where you can:
- Register for a free trial
- Sign up for TOC Alerts
- View a free sample issue
- Submit your next paper
http://www.bloomsbury.com/designandculture
16 June 2014: TWO FABLEARN EUROPE WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP ON FABLABS IN EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT: A RETROSPECTIVE AND
OUTLOOK
As part of the "FabLearn Europe Conference 2014"
Aarhus University, Denmark.
FabLearn Europe brings together international researchers,
educators, designers, and makers to discuss and explore digital
fabrication in education, making, and hands-on learning for the
21st Century. This one-day conference is organised jointly by
Stanford University, Bremen University and Aarhus University, and
is a spinoff of the global FabLearn conference held for the past
three years at Stanford University.
This workshop is intended for researchers, interaction designers,
makers, fabbers, educators as well as newbies. The goal is to
summarize first impacts and envision future prospects of FabLabs
in educational contexts by discussing different learning
approaches. Participants are asked to send in concepts on how
children can learn with and about FabLab technologies (2-3
pages). These contributions can present recent projects, future
visions, educational concepts or a theoretical reflexion.
Please submit your contributions by Sunday, May 18th 2014
Acceptance notification: Wednesday, May 20th 2014.
For more information as well as detailed information about how to
participate, please visit our website:
http://fablearn.eu
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
WORKSHOP ON PARTICIPATORY DESIGN IN DIGITAL FABRICATION
As part of the "FabLearn Europe Conference 2014"
Monday 16 June 2014, Aarhus University, Denmark.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers, teachers and
practicians to discuss participatory design in digital
fabrication in schools. The workshop participants are to share
experiences on involving stakeholders in order to gain interest
for and increase learning in digital fabrication in an
educational setting. Researchers, practitioners, educators and
designers from different disciplines involved and interested in
participatory design in digital fabrication, both practically and
methodology wise, are welcome. We will consider the scope of
issues that might arise by asking workshop participants to draw
on their individual experiences to present a case study,
inspiration or approach relating to involving stakeholders in
digital fabrication. We invite the submission of short 2-4 page
informal position papers offering perspectives on the workshop
topics
Please submit your contributions by Sunday, May 18th 2014
Acceptance notification: Wednesday, May 20th 2014.
For more information as well as detailed information about how to
participate, please visit our website:
http://fablearn.eu
22-24 Septeber 2014: BFX 2014 Conference
Bournemouth University
The BFX Conference was setup in 2014 to run alongside the BFX
Festival hosted by the NCCA (The National Centre for Computer
Animation) at Bournemouth University.
Since its establishment in 1989 the NCCA has conducted research
of international significance and has pioneered both
undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University's Media
School in computer visualisation and animation and digital
effects. In 2011 BU was awarded a Queen's Anniversary Prize for
the NCCA's 'World Class' teaching.
conference draw attention to visual effects and animated
techniques present in moving digital images and their wider
applications.
Digital Convergences 2014
This conference intends to present and analyse the convergences
that are occurring across and within the genres of moving image,
in part resulting from the impact of digital technologies.
Through an interdisciplinary approach, the BFX conference invites
authors to examine various theoretical positionings with a view
to realign the discussion in the light of current technologies.
The conference seeks to revisit the arguments that position film,
animation and art as aesthetically, structurally and
intellectually different. The realm of moving images has
historically been framed by change and flux. It has accommodated
a variety of genres of art, cinema, animation and games and has
straddled the spaces of the popular and high art. The discussion
of the moving image has on occasion occupied separate discursive
spaces although with the onset of digital technology a
convergence of discourses across disciplines is increasingly more
visible.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference invites papers that reconsider the arguments that
position film, animation and art as aesthetically, structurally
and intellectually different. We are seeking proposals for paper
submissions in the form of a short synopsis of not more that 300
words. The submissions will be anonymous and presented to a panel
of selected reviewers.
We invite submissions related to, but not limited to, the
following topics:
Intertexuality in Moving Images
Transmedia
Digital Film
The Ontologies of Moving Images
Realism
Visual Effects
Interactivity
Games
Digital Arts
Animation
Computer Animation
Computing and Simulation
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 15/05/2014
The BFX organisers are in discussion with the Editor of
animation: an interdisciplinary journal about the possibility of
a Special Issue of the journal. All colleagues whose abstracts
are accepted at BFX Conference 2014 will be invited to submit an
extended version of their paper with a word count of between
7,000 - 10,000 words for consideration. Articles will undergo
further peer review independent of the BFX conference Peer
Review of the abstracts submitted to the conference. Details of
the publisher and manuscript submission guidelines can be found
at anm.sagepub.com
https://bfxconf.bournemouth.ac.uk/index.php?conference=BFX&
schedConf=2014&page=schedConf&op=cfp
1-3 December 2014: NODEM 2014
Due to numerous requests from participants, the deadline for all
abstracts has been extended until the 21st of May, 2014. The
extension provides another three weeks for abstract submissions
and the opportunity to participate at the international NODEM
2014 conference forum in Warsaw. Engaging Spaces -
Interpretation, Design and Digital Strategies
NODEM 2014 Conference & NODEM EXPO
Warsaw, Poland
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
NODEM 2014 Conference aims to reach the following objectives:
- To examine a variety of challenges and opportunities that newly
built or renovated museums and other culture-historical
institutions are facing to stay competitive in engaging today's
visitors.
- To explore interaction modes between exhibition spaces,
interpretative content and digital
visitor engagement at cultural and heritage institutions.
NODEM 2014 - Engaging Spaces is part of the NODEM Nordic Digital
Excellence in Museums conference series under the stewardship of
the Digital Heritage Center Sweden AB.
CONFERENCE THEMES
Special sessions
- Experience design inside/outside museums
- Strategies in Digital Heritage - Competence Centres,
Collaboration, Participation in Museum Innovation, Policies
Thematic sessions
- (Re)creating Spaces of Engaging Experience in Museums and
Heritage Sites
- Digital Curating on Interpretation, Learning and Collaboration
- Social Media for Creative Expression, Communication and Content
- Digital Support - Archiving, Documenting, Preservation,
Visualization, Recreating Tangible and Intangible Heritage
- Virtual Museum
SUBMISSIONS
NODEM 2014 invites contributions in five categories:
A // Academic Research or Project Presentations
B // Non-Academic Research or Project Presentations
C // Non-Commercial Demonstrations
D // Posters
E // Commercial Demonstration
For more information on the conference and submitting your
proposal, please visit our Submission Guidelines webpage:
http://www.nodem.org/conferences/nodem-2014/submission-guidelines
Abstract Submission Deadline: May 21, 2014
FURTHER INFORMATION
Visit http://www.nodem.org/conferences/nodem-2014/ for more
information about the conference venues, exhibition space, museum
tours, submission guidelines, etc.
1-3 September 2014: CAC.4 Computer Art Congress - Computer Art &
Design For All
The deadline has been extended to submit papers, workshops,
tutorials, posters and artworks for exhibition for the CAC.4 -
Computer Art Congress - computer art & design for all, taking
place September 1 -3rd 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The 4th edition of CAC is organized with the collaboration of
NANO LAB (www.nano.eba.ufrj.br), supported by the Graduate
Program in Visual Arts, at the School of Fine Arts of the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro (www.eba.ufrj.br).
Submission Deadline was extended until May 19, 2014 at
http://ictart.eu/ocs/index.php/CAC/index/login
CAC.4 CONGRESS - FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
Computer art & design for children.
Computer art & design for visually impaired.
Computer art & design for audio impaired.
Computer art & design for motor impaired.
PRESENTATION CATEGORIES
- Plenary (keynote) presentations
- Roundtables
- Communications
- Workshops and tutorials
- Demonstrations and posters
- Exhibition
OPEN CALL
Each participant can send a maximum of one (1) contribution for
each category (communication, workshop/tutorial, poster and
exhibition), which will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee
by means of a peer review process. At the congress the authors of
papers will have 20 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for
discussion with those present. The Congress Organization will
provide a space for the presentation and exhibition of the
posters selected by the Scientific Committee. These posters will
be exhibited every day of the Congress. The authors must print
the poster and deliver at the Congress Organization on the
morning of the opening day, September 1st, before the congress
starts. They should be available in the exhibition space during
the coffee breaks as set in the program.
Accepted papers will be distributed to all authors in a printed
copy, published by the Graduate Program of Visual Arts, School of
Fine Arts, and University of Rio de Janeiro. The proceedings book
will include only the selected papers and posters presented at
the congress. A digital copy of papers will be available for
download from the website. Accepted papers may be selected for
their publication in a special issue of the International Journal
of Design Sciences and Technology
(http://europia.org/IJDST/index.html).
Important Dates
Regular Paper, Poster, Workshop, Exhibition submission: May 19th,
2014
Author Notification: July 7th, 2014
Conference Dates: September 1-3, 2014
cac4.eba.ufrj.br
Special Issue of The Design Journal:
Visual Communication Design In the Balkans
Editors:
Dr. Jilly Traganou, Dr. Artemis Yagou
We are working on a special issue on the role of visual
communication in the Balkans to be published in December 2015. We
invite papers that discuss contemporary visual communication
practices across the Balkans or in its specific territories.
Topics might include, but are not limited to, the following:
The role of visual communication in official or grass-root
programs, including politics, sports and culture
The role of visual communication in the building of new
nation-states, identity politics, and processes of
democratization in the Balkans
Visual communication and social movements in the Balkans
The role of visualization in geopolitical conditions, such as
economic crisis, and relations of Balkan countries with the EU
and global institutions
Changing practices of the communication/graphic designer's
profession as cultural facilitator
Integration of visual communication design with other platforms
of design
The role of visual communication practices in public urban spaces
Educational practices related to visual communication in the
Balkans
Submission Guidelines
Prepare a full paper (approximately 5,000-7,000 words in length)
for review. You must also include a biography of the author(s) of
no more than 60 words on a separate page, an abstract of 100 to
150 words, and a list of up to five keywords. Authors are advised
to consult the website for style guidelines for contributors
http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/the-design-journal
The paper should be submitted electronically via Editorial
Manager at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/desj
Contacts:
Jilly Traganou ([log in to unmask])
Artemis Yagou ([log in to unmask])
Statement of interest Deadline: July 31, 2014
Submission Deadline: December 1, 2014
25-27 March 2015: Research Through Design 2015 conference
21st Century Makers and Materialities
Cambridge UK.
1st Call for Submissions
We are excited to invite submissions for the second bi-annual
Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in
Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD
supports the dissemination of practice-based research through a
novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated
exhibition of design research accompanied by round-table
discussions in OERooms of Interest
as a platform for presenting and demonstrating research processes
and outputs, and for generating debate about the role of the
design practitioner and their work in a research context.
Building on the success of inaugural RTD conference held in
Newcastle upon Tyne in 2013, the second conference, RTD 2015, is
to be hosted at Microsoft Research
centre of Cambridge, which promises to be an exciting venue for
exploring what design practice means in the early-21st Century.
RTD 2015 aims to foreground the materiality of design research,
placing its artefacts, processes, and practices centre stage. We
invite submissions from researcher-practitioners documenting
research through design projects, including descriptions of
methods, processes and insights emerging from a design inquiry
and offering a departure point for rich discussion. Criteria for
selection are based on the authors
(constituting research process or outcomes) as central to their
submission; the artefacts will be included in the curated
exhibition, and papers should accompany the exhibited artefact in
a presentation of 'research through design' at the conference.
Contributions to RTD 2015 may fall under (but are not limited to)
the following themes:
- Ways of Making: Experiences, explorations, procedures and
aesthetics;
- Ways of Knowing: Methodologies of practice, intentionality and
critical thinking;
- Ways of Being: Craft practitioners; researcher identity;
engagement and collaboration;
- Process Interrupted: Work in progress; critical reflective
practice.
We strongly encourage participation from a wide range of Design
disciplines including but not limited to: Product, Industrial,
Interaction, Service, Textile, Craft, Jewellery, Fashion,
Architecture, Interior, Experience, Film, and those working at
the intersection of disciplines such as Human-Computer
Interaction or in more emergent fields and practices such as
Synthetic Biology.
How to submit to RTD 2015
The submission process is made through the OpenConf system (check
back soon for link to submission site) and is split into two
stages:
Stage 1:
Authors are invited to submit a 300 word Abstract, accompanied by
up to 10 illustrations provided as a single PDF file by the 4th
July 2014. The Abstract should summarise the motivations,
intentions and/or outcomes of a 'research through design'
project, and describe an artefact or documentation representative
of this project, intended for inclusion in a curated exhibition
at the conference.
We invite the submission of diverse material forms of artefact,
including film, online media, installation, or live performance.
However the artefact
portable to be flexibly moved between the exhibition space and
Rooms of Interest during the conference programme. Abstracts
should summarise key aspects of a research through design
project, and will be double-blind peer reviewed by the programme
committee.
Stage 2:
Authors of successful Abstract submissions will be invited to
submit a 6-page (maximum) written commentary on their work, using
the RTD paper template provided, by 3rd October 2014. Papers
should comprehensively document a research through design
project, describing aims, process, (intended) outcomes and
critical reflections. Authors are encouraged to illustrate this
paper, leveraging visual communication in the presentation of
their work.
There are no constraints on the size and dimensions of proposed
artefacts at Stage 1 of submission. However, a central feature of
RTD is that exhibited artefacts are brought into the Rooms of
Interest to support discussion. Therefore, when preparing
submissions, authors are encouraged to consider transportation
logistics and costs, alongside artefact portability and ease of
handling at the conference. Venue staff will receive the
artefacts from 27th February 2015. If your artefact contains
latex or any other known allergen, let us know when submitting
and we will negotiate how best to display it if accepted. Authors
will be responsible for all shipping costs and insurance of
artefacts and for their removal at the end of the conference.
Papers and images of the artefacts will be published in ISBN
digital conference proceedings that will be made available at the
conference and on the conference website after the event. Works
of exceptional quality will be invited to be part of an edited
book that will be published following the conference.
Important Dates
Submission of Abstract: 4th July 2014
Authors Notified: 1st September 2014
Paper Submission Deadline: 3rd October 2014
Authors Notified: 12th December 2014
Final Paper Submission: 9th January, 2015
Artefact Arrival Date: 27th February, 2015
Conference: 25th to 27th March 2015
http://researchthroughdesign.org
Call for Papers for the UAAC/AAUC 2014 Conference hosted by OCAD
University in Toronto Universities Arts Association of Canada
(www.uaac-aauc.com)
Deadline for Submissions, June 18, 2014
Please submit proposal to session:
THE TENSIONS AND SYNERGIES OF AESTHETICS OF 'DESIGN FOR
SUSTAINABILITY'
Paradoxically, while sustainability has become a keyword of
contemporary reorientations of design practices and theories,
most research endeavors have been devoted to improving efficiency
or performance and few to understanding the influences of these
injunctions on culture on the one hand, and design thinking on
the other. How designers address the ever increasing
environmental expectations or even, how they maintain a creative
balance between ethics and aesthetics, remains largely
unaddressed in recent design theory. This session is focused on
the questions regarding the tensions between cultural and
technical responses of design for sustainability that cross the
main disciplines concerned with design thinking, be it at the
scales of product, architecture, landscape, and urban design. Do
designers go beyond current injunctions of environmental norms,
certifications, and policies in order to maintain a creative
balance between ethics and aesthetics in their projects? Is the
aesthetic tension between form and content emerging as a new
framework for designing more sustainable environments?
Session Chair: Carmela Cucuzzella, PhD
Affiliation: Graduate Program Director, Certificate in Digital
Technologies in Design Art Practice
Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine
Arts, Concordia University
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14-18 September 2014: Workshop at the University of Technology in
Berlin
Design, Interaction, and Technologically Dense Environments.
Methodological challenges to entangled work practices
Katharina Bredies, Attila Bruni, Valentin Janda, Cornelius
Schubert
In Technologically Dense Environments (TDEs), manifold situated
interactions and layerings of humans and non.humans create
heterogeneous and messy spaces of work. It follows that density
is not a stable feature of TDEs, rather it is permanently
produced through the complex translations of actors and
artefacts. Likewise, these translations cannot be described as
static procedures, but should rather be conceived as constantly
developing and sometimes creative interactions of humans and
non.humans. This does not only make TDEs as workplaces more
similar to workshops - even though they are often framed as sites
of mere use. It also represents a challenge for designers who see
it as a core task to anticipate and enable trouble.free use for
technological artifacts.
Therefore we want to focus on the interrelations between design
and use, how novel (and possibly more or less dense?) ways of
work and interaction are envisioned and developed by designers,
and how users themselves re.design the complex arrangements of
TDEs. Both design and use can be thought of as being carried out
in technologically dense environments - in design laboratories
which are set up to enable and create new forms of interacting
with technology on the one hand, and professional sites where
these "scripts" for interaction are followed or modified.
In the workshop, we would like to connect design research and
science and technology studies (STS) through a shared engagement
with TDEs. We conceive TDEs as locales in which numerous
artefacts and infrastructures are increasingly intertwined, from
paper notes to communication technologies, sophisticated
instruments, and electronic information systems. Design and use
are thus two distinct social situations which are both mediated
by TDEs. Typically, STS analyses of TDEs show how artefacts are
locally appropriated by users, i.e. appropriation starts with an
artefact and ends with new uses. Design on the other hand, starts
with use.problems and leads to artefacts. Methodologically, STS
analysis works backwards from an observed phenomenon, trying to
identify and interpret the main characteristics of its
development. In contrast, design research is oriented toward
creating novel artefacts and infrastructures themselves, thus
employing a future oriented methodology for envisioning and
developing new technologies. We think that the continuous flux
and the complex translations of TDEs challenge both the backward
orientation of sociological analysis as well as the future
orientation of design research. Artefacts and infrastructures are
thus not seen as closed and ready.made (or to.be.made) fixtures,
but as experimental and creative arrangements in trans.formation.
As routine and adaptation mix in design and use practice,
sociological as well as design research must allow for
heterogeneous design.use constellations and we would like to
explore their interrelations by calling for papers which address
the above issues empirically and conceptually.
We specifically seek contributions that follow a "hands on"
approach to design and use. This may include specific design
methods that try to deal with the unsteady nature of
human.technology interaction in original ways, as well as social
research methods for studying how new artefacts are used in TDEs.
From a design perspective, we could ask how human.technology
interactions can be re.shaped and opened up for appropriation,
and how novel artefacts can be made to fit the messy
interdependencies of TDEs. From a social science perspective, we
could ask how to analyse the complex interrelations of work,
interaction and technology beyond isolated situations of use or
design. From both we may ask, how to follow actors and artefacts
through TDEs.
We seek contributions on the graduate and post.graduate level,
interested in presenting work.in.progress at the intersection of
design research, STS, and technological density. Topics may
address, but must not be limited to, the following themes and
questions:
- How do anticipated use and everyday use relate? In how far can
future work and interaction be envisioned or designed and in how
far do users re.design artefacts in practice?
- What non.traditional ways of design.use relationships can we
think of that could be more appropriate for TDEs? Which design
approaches have proven beneficial to produce useful results for
TDEs?
- Which empirical methods lend themselves towards studying the
real.time entanglements of technologically dense work settings?
How can we account for objects and technological representations
and agencies in everyday organizational life?
- Along which lines are interactions and technological density
likely to change in the future? For instance, are our bodily
engagements with technical artefacts likely to change? . How are
drafts in design and workflow in everyday work connected with
TDEs and how do elements of TDEs relate to different types of
work? . In which ways does the cooperation of users and designers
challenge design processes as well as the study of
technologically dense work settings? . How can STS studies of
TDEs inform design, and how can design projection of TDEs inform
STS in turn?
The "hands on" approach of the workshop will extend past the
presentations of papers as we want to include visits to different
TDEs in Berlin. We will start the workshop on Sunday the 14th
with an excursion to an abandoned TDE in Berlin (location yet to
be terminated) and will visit the Design Research Lab
(www.design.research.lab.org) in the afternoon of the 15th as a
laboratory for possible future TDEs.
Please address submissions of about one page to
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Deadline: 30.05.2014
5-7 November 2014: Creating_Making Forum
The College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma invites
paper proposals for its 2014 Creating_Making Forum, which will be
held in Norman, Okla.
Abstracts of 300 words are due May 30: please submit to
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To engender a broad range of discussions, we encourage paper
proposals from graduate and undergraduate students, professionals
at all stages within their careers, and scholars from a variety
of disciplines. Papers may address contemporary or historical
issues of creating and making within the realms of architecture,
interior design, construction science, city and regional
planning, landscape architecture, industrial design, engineering,
and other creative disciplines such as fine arts that have impact
on our everyday lives.
Please visit our website (http://www.ou.edu/creating-making) for
more information.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Book -- Design in a Complex World - Challenges in Practice and
Education.
It brings together practitioners and educators from five
continents to discuss the socio-economic and cultural issues in
their region, and how they impact on education and the design of
the built environment.
It covers various disciplines: urbanism, landscape design,
architecture and interiors. It has articles dealing with the
socio-economic factors affecting design and design education in
South Africa, Finland, China, India, the USA, Germany, the UK,
Australia.
It is the first book to be produced by the scholarly journal
Architecture_MPS. The publisher is Libri Publishing UK.
An example of one its chapters can be downloaded at:
http://architecturemps.com/
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Complex-World-Challenges-Education
/dp/190747174X
PhD Spaces project
Questionnaire: Tell us where you do your research and get a
chance to win #100 of Amazon vouchers!
The PhD Spaces project wants to explore how Research Students
(Masters and PhDs) and Early Career Researchers use physical
spaces and online tools/social networks to conduct their
research, collaborate with other researchers and to communicate
their results. Filling out the questionnaire should take around
15 minutes.
The survey is conducted as part of the PhDSpaces project funded
by the library and the registrar's office at the University of
Warwick. The project is investigating the Physical and Digital
needs of postgraduate and early career researchers.
As part of the project, we're asking Research Masters, PhD
students and Early Career Researchers to fill in an online
questionnaire about the digital research tools/social networks
they use, including finding out about their awareness of the
teaching & learning spaces and their associated social network
accounts.
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/phdspaces/questionnaire
10-11 July 2014: Inaugural European Conference on Social Media
ECSM 2014 - Preliminary Timetable
Preparations for the inaugural European Conference on Social
Media ECSM 2014, which is being held at the University of
Brighton, UK are now well underway.
You can see the preliminary programme at:
http://academic-conferences.org/ecsm/ecsm2014/ecsm14-timetable.
htm
Please note that the timetable is subject to change and will be
updated as necessary until early July 2014.
There are a number of registration options available, details of
which can be found at:
http://academic-conferences.org/ecsm/ecsm2014/ecsm14-registration
.htm
15-16 May 2014: Taste After Bourdieu
Chelsea College of Arts
The conference Taste After Bourdieu brings together UK and
international speakers from arts practice, art education,
curation, sociology and cultural criticism to ask - what is the
current relationship between aesthetic judgement and social
distinction? In response to the influential twentieth century
analysis of taste proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, how should we
construct a cross-cultural analysis of taste in the twenty first
century? Taste After Bourdieu offers an analysis of taste across
four key domains - the Museum, the Gallery, the Street and the
Home - to re-evaluate the relationship of aesthetic judgement to
social distinction for a new era.
On Thursday 15 May, the first panel, dealing with Taste and the
Museum, considers the fate of the 'post-taste' museum in Europe,
which, while it is no longer required to deliver the
self-cultivation of the individual, is facing new strictures on
what kinds of taste building it can now assume. Taste and the
Gallery, charts a course between the either/or of the
sociological reduction of aesthetic experience and an
uncomplicated assertion of the autonomous individual subject of
taste.
On Friday 16 May, Taste and the Street adopts an Asian
perspective on public taste that uses examples from street
fashion, popular culture and high art to challenge the
co-ordinates of a Bourdieusian analysis. Our fourth panel, on
Taste and the Home, adopts the cross-cultural ambitions of a
Bourdieusian analysis while questioning whether the very act of
switching from one context to another or from one geographical
space to another, undermines the social mechanisms of distinction
that Bourdieu has described.
Working within and across these four domains enables us to
embrace the Bourdieusian idea of a cross-cultural analysis of
taste while questioning the reduction of aesthetics to social
distinction that has accompanied it. On the one hand, the
reduction of aesthetic value to social distinction has proposed
an end to the separation of high and low culture and anxiety
about status and respectability. On the other hand, this same
reduction of aesthetic value to social distinction is supported
by new kinds of personal and cultural anxiety, new forms of
cultural institution and new expressions of social and political
power.
Introductory Panel:
Dr Thomas Docherty, Professor of English and Comparative
Literature, University of Warwick
Dr Laurie Hanquinet, Department of Sociology, University of York
Keynote Speakers:
15 May: Prof Tony Bennett, Institute for Culture and Society,
University of Western Sydney
16 May: Prof Penny Sparke, School of Art and Design History,
Kingston University
Prof Silke Ackermann | Dave Beech| Penelope Curtis| Dr David
Dibosa | Prof Paul Goodwin | Prof Yuko Hasegawa | Prof Ben
Highmore | Dr Katie Hill | Prof Susan Kaiser | Dr Sharon Kinsella
| Dr Dirk vom Lehn | Dr Michael Lehnert | Dr Michael McMillan |
Prof Peter Osborne| Pil & Galia Kollectiv | Dr Malcolm Quinn |
Prof Carol Tulloch | Prof Toshio Watanabe | Dr Ken Wilder | Dr
Stephen Wilson
For more information and to book a place visit the conference
website
http://bit.ly/1qpe7vS
REIMAGINING
Reimagining the University
This community of practice brings together educators,
practitioners and researchers from different disciplines who are
interested in innovative teaching and learning in higher
education and in the general future of universities. The focus
includes teaching and learning methods that involve the whole
human being in the learning process, participatory learning that
challenges and redefines how valid knowledge is created, and
learning that helps students become ethical leaders.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/reimagining
7-8 June 2014: Facing Extinction - The Conference
University for the Creative Arts Farnham
"The art, architecture and design world needs to take a stand
against the on-going erasure of species - even where there is
little chance of ultimate success. It is our privilege and our
duty to be at the forefront of the struggle. There is no choice
but follow the path of ethics into aesthetics. We live in
societies suffocating in waste. Every time you consider buying a
new laptop or mobile phone, you need to recall the agonising
photos of young men, prematurely aged, who spend their shortened
lives dealing with the toxic technology discarded by our
civilisation." (Gustav Metzger)
With this call to arms, UCA Farnham Fine Art department and
Gustav Metzger invite you to a meeting between artists,
scientists, ecologists and other specialist academics that will
explore:
(i) Climate Change; (ii) Biodiversity; (iii) Technology and
Resources; (iv) Global Systems: Food and Water.
What is the scale and scope of the problems we currently face?
How can we articulate and shape a program of action? Each of
these four panels will be explored through presentation,
conversation, round-table discussion and performance.
Confirmed Speakers & Performers
Saturday 7th June:
- Gustav Metzger - Artist / Keynote Speaker
- Prof. Peter Head - Founder 'Ecological Sequestration Trust'
- Michael Pawlyn - Architect & Director of 'Exploration'
- Assemble - Design & Architecture Collective
- Martin Charter - Director of the Centre for Sustainable Design,
UCA
- Dr. Joe Ravetz - Co-Director of the Centre for Urban & Regional
Ecology
- Maria Arceo - Artist
Saturday Evening Performance:
- Yoko Ono - Text piece written exclusively for the conference
- Peter Kennard & Kat Phillipps (Artist Collaborative) - Demo,
Talk, Performance
- Simon Watt ( Biologist, writer, TV presenter and comedian) -
Stand up comedy
- Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau ( Artist, musician) - Spoken
Narrative
- Carl Gent (Artist, Fine Art alumni from UCA Farnham) -
Performance Lecture
Sunday 8th June:
- Gustav Metzger - Artist / Keynote Speaker
- Polly Higgins - International Environmental Lawyer & CEO 'Earth
Community Trust'
- Ackroyd & Harvey - Collaborative artists
- Yasmine Ostendorf - Programme Manager from 'Cape Farewell'
- London Fieldworks - Artists Jo Joelson & Bruce Gilchrist
- Prof. Jonathan Rosenhead - Emeritus Professor of Operational
Research LSE
- John Fanshawe - Senior Strategy Adviser at 'BirdLife
International'
- Dr. Daro Montag -Associate Professor of Art & Environment,
Falmouth University & Co-Director of the 'Centre for Contemporary
Art and the Natural World'
- Charlotte Couch - Botanical researcher, Royal Botanic Gardens,
Kew
Ticket Information:
Ticket price includes attendance to the days' panel talks and
events, light lunch and refreshments. On Saturday evening there
will be some performance events exploring the themes of the
conference.
Tickets can be purchased from from the link below
http://store.ucreative.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid
=1&deptid=25&catid=81&prodvarid=54
For conference information contact:
Andrea Gregson, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, UCA Farnham
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18-19 September 2014: Creative Citizens: The Conference.
Royal College of Art, London
Who are today's Creative Citizens? What do they do? How are they
changing communities? Come and debate new research at the first
ever Creative Citizens Conference.
Register for this exciting programme online now
http://creativecitizens.co.uk/conference
The conference will spotlight the motivations, achievements and
the potential of creative citizens. Presenters will argue for the
importance of creative citizens' contribution to civic life to
social capital and to the economy. Panels will look at peer to
peer creative activism, creative local networking around
environmental issues, hyperlocal publishing, migrant and youth
media. Social media have redrawn the map for community media, art
and design.
This explosion of local / global communications networks raises
urgent new questions about how we understand the value of
creative mediation and motivate more of it. If you are interested
in planning, participatory media, co-creativity and co-design,
DIY creative activism, the civic potential of digital, or the
potential for creativity in community development you should be
at an event that brings together some of the leading critical
voices and analysis from around the world.
The two day event is the climax of one of the AHRC's first large
Connected Communities projects, 'Media Community and the Creative
Citizen'. Led by Ian Hargreaves, this work explores the dynamics
of creative citizenship in the context of digital media. We ask
how social media are affecting the value and sustainability of
creative citizenship.
As part of London Design Week, we will explore what Creative
Citizens add to civic and community life, with keynote speeches
from international perspectives including Geoff Mulgan, Chief
Executive of Nesta and Paola Antonelli from New York's Museum of
Modern Art. We will hear from Jean Burgess of Queensland
University of Technology as she talks about her ground breaking
research on YouTube. John Hartley from the Centre for Culture and
Technology at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia will
also be on hand to offer an analytic lead.
We will also be launching a new exhibition at the RCA as part of
the event. The Creative Citizens Show will host a new photography
commission as well as a range of works in video, graphics,
software and publishing, co-produced with our community partners
as part of the research process. There will be plenty of
opportunities to network and meet other creative citizens,
including a drinks reception and a live lounge to meet speakers
and continue the debate. This promises to be a field-defining
event, establishing new policy frameworks and new research
directions.
Come and join us for this exciting programme. Register online
http://creativecitizens.co.uk/conference
Tickets are available for both days or either day, along with
reduced rate tickets for PhD students and community partners. We
welcome participation from researchers, activists and community
organisations. We also have reduced rate accommodation at a
nearby hotel
http://creativecitizens.co.uk/conference/accommodation/
http://creativecitizens.co.uk/conference
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