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o IASDR Conference 2015
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o Digital Services of the DRS
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INTERPLAY 2015 | iasdr Brisbane, Australia
2-5 November 2015
Call for Participation
IASDR 2015 invites papers, posters, workshops, exhibitions and
doctoral colloquium submissions from any area of design research
that explores the interplay between design research, science,
technology and the arts. All submissions will be double blind
reviewed. Submissions must be in English and submitted through
the online submission system. All submissions should comply with
IASDR 2015 guidelines. IASDR 2015 will explore the interaction of
design research with science, technology and the arts. This
continual INTERPLAY provides opportunities to explore interaction
between cross-disciplinary knowledge and various design research
approaches. IASDR 2015 aims to establish trans-disciplinary
research platforms across diverse domains to foster new research
and education opportunities and stimulate innovation. Call for
Papers: We invite papers which offer original research and
application across all domains of design: architecture, planning,
industrial design, engineering design, software, interaction
design, fashion or media design. The papers should demonstrate
collaborative research and application with science or technology
or the arts. Papers should be 3000 - 5000 words excluding
abstracts and references and comply with IASDR 2015 guidelines.
Call for Posters: Posters should demonstrate original research in
progress. Poster size is one A4 sheet.
Call for Workshops: Workshop program will run on 2 November 2015.
Proposals are welcomed for full day and half day workshops.
Maximum length of proposal is four pages.
Call for Exhibitions: Proposals should demonstrate application of
research to product, systems services and artifacts. Maximum
length of proposal is four pages.
Call for Doctoral Colloquium: Submissions must include a research
proposals maximum two pages.
Important dates for all submissions:
Full paper submission: 6 April 2015
Poster submission: 4 May 2015
Workshop proposals: 30 June 2015
Exhibition proposals: 30 June 2015
Doctoral Colloquium: 31 July 2015
IASDR (The International Association of Societies of Design
Research) was established on November 1, 2005. The purpose of the
Association is to promote research and study into the activity of
design in all its many fields of application, through encouraging
collaboration on an international level between independent
societies of design research. The Association will promote,
amongst other activities, the organisation of biennial
International Congresses of Design Research, at appropriate
venues around the world. Congresses have been organised in Taiwan
(2005), Hong Kong (2007), South Korea (2009), The Netherlands
(2011) and Japan (2013). The 6th IASDR Congress is in Brisbane
(Australia) in 2015.
http://www.iasdr2015.com
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CALLS
7 November 2014: PhD By Design conference being held in the
Department of Design at Goldsmiths
The event is an opportunity to present work and discuss the
diverse aspects of what it means to do a practice-based PhD in
Design.
Aim:
The aim of this event is to vocalise, discuss and work through
many of the topical issues of conducting a practice-based PhD in
design. It will enable early career design researchers to explore
the many aspects of knowledge production within an academic
institution.
Who for?
The conference especially invites designers undergoing a
practice-based PhD, as well as supervisors, MRes students, MPhil
students within and outwith design departments.
What will happen?
The two day event will include twelve discussion sessions,
presentations from leading design researchers Dr. Jennifer Gabrys
(Goldsmiths, University of London), Professor Jon Rogers
(University of Dundee), Professor Teal Triggs (Royal College of
Art) and a public lecture by Professor Bill Gaver (Goldsmiths,
University of London). The conference is an opportunity to come
together to share practices, experiences and provide a forum to
build a practice based design research community.
How to get involved
If you are interested in taking part, we ask you to submit three
questions that relate to the issues you are discovering within
your practice-based research. One questions relating to
doing/making/planning the second to do with output/dissemination/
use and the third we are leaving open for you to decide.
We also ask you to bring with you a 5 minute presentation
describing your practice-based research. Find out more on how to
get involved: phdbydesign.com
Registration deadline is the 26th September 2014.
phdbydesign.com
11 November 2014: ACE'14 Workshop on "Designing Systems for
Health and Entertainment: what are we missing?"
In conjunction with ACE 2014: http://www.ace2014.info/
Madeira, Portugal
DESCRIPTION:
Systems that aggregate health and entertainment goals are
proliferating, but little is known about the way to design and
evaluate these systems and how to manage the different (if nor
opposite) needs of these two main areas. This workshop will
promote the discussion of issues surrounding these areas,
enabling a better understanding of the how's and why's of
designing systems for health and entertainment, as well as the
identification of new avenues of research in the field.
Therefore we invite designers, researchers and practitioners to
participate in an exciting full-day workshop where they are
invited to share their personal views and research on the
intersection of technology, health and entertainment.
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Participants are invited to submit a short paper (2-4 pages in
ACM SIGCHI format) presenting their personal views and research
on the intersection of technology, health and entertainment.
Possible contributions may include but are not limited to:
- Health and entertainment systems
- Studies on the effectiveness, and acceptance of health and
entertainment systems and their impact on health and wellbeing
- Methodologies and frameworks for the design, development, and
evaluation of health and entertainment systems
- Design principles and guidelines for special user populations
and specific diseases
- Insights on how to leverage these systems to the medical care
and attract health professionals into the design and development
of these systems
The workshop welcomes participants who have not submitted papers
but wish to actively contribute to the discussion of the
challenges. These participants should state and justify their
interest through the email bellow.
Contributions and statements of interest should be sent to
[log in to unmask] until September 19.
IMPORTANT DATES:
September 19, 2014: Submission deadline for position papers and
motivation letters
October 17, 2014: Notification of acceptance
November 3, 2014: Camera ready version
November 11, 2014: Workshop at ACE 2014
http://designingsystemsforhealthandentertainment.wordpress.com/
18-20 May 2015: Participatory Innovation Conference
The next Participatory Innovation Conference will be held in The
Hague, The Netherlands. Organised jointly by The Hague University
of Applied Sciences and the University of Southern Denmark, this
conference will bring together practitioners, researchers and
artists to discuss the future of participatory innovation as a
practice and as a research field - across research disciplines
and organisational boundaries.
- Abstract Submission deadline: 20 October 2014
- Notification of acceptance: 8 December 2014
- Full paper submission deadline: 9 February 2015
- Full paper review results: 9 March 2015
- Print-ready paper submission: 13 April 2015
The conference is also a good chance for PhD-students to try out
their research in a friendly, cross-disciplinary setting.
http://sites.thehagueuniversity.com/pinc2015/home
11-12 December 2014: 1st INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM 'EDUCATION' in
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE' in GERMAN-TURKISH RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND
INNOVATION YEAR
Hacettepe University Ankara Turkey
Main purpose of the symposium
-To build and strengthen the cooperative facilities between
Germany and Turkey on behalf of research education and innovative
acts.
-To complete the general meeting with the planning of some future
projects and cooperative studies in between Germany and Turkey in
order to activate the facilities among both countries with
necessary actions.
-Making future studies captivating all students primarily with
activities like integrated studies hosted by Germany and Turkey
composing from student's necessities and expectations.
Paper Submission Deadline: SEPTEMBER-15- 2014
Poster Abstract Submission Deadline: SEPTEMBER-15- 2014
Notification of Acceptance: SEPTEMBER- 30- 2014
Final Submission after reviews: OCTOBER- 30- 2014
Publication of Papers: One month after the conference
SYMPOSIUM THEMES
-Project Works Concerning the Interaction Between Germany and
Turkey Project suggestions for the future Interior Architecture
Education in Germany and Turkey
-Research Methods in German and Turkish Education System
Quantitative research methods in Interior Architecture Education
-Similarities and Differences Between the Education System in
Germany and Turkey Similarities and differences between Germany
and Turkey in terms of Interior Architecture Education
Applied and theoretical education and teaching methods
Multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches and
applications in education
Pedagogical formation and its requirement in Design Education
-Reflections of the Bologna Process on Design Education; Impacts
of these reflections on the quality of Design Education in
Germany and Turkey.
Interior Architecture Education in the process of European Union
Universal Notions on Education
-Approaches of Ecological Education Principles of Interior
Architecture profession in Germany and Turkey
http://www.gsf.hacettepe.edu.tr/etkinlik/en_ict-sempozyum.html
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1-2 May 2015: Call for Papers/Designs: Fashion and Gender -
University of Minnesota May 2015
Proposals are due January 9, 2015.
The University of Minnesota [USA] is organizing a symposium
entitled Fashion and Gender to be held May 1-2, 2015. This
symposium is the fourth in a symposium series entitled "Fashion
And ... " connecting fashion with other themes of importance in
today's world. Members attending the symposia of Fashion And...
examine the interconnections and intersections of fashion in
today's world.
Crane (2000, p. 16) noted that "fashionable clothes are used to
make statements about social class and social identity but their
principle messages are about the ways in which men women and men
perceive their gender roles or are expected to perceive them."
Thus, for our fourth symposium we focus on relationships between
fashion and gender.
We are interested in providing opportunities to share research
findings, innovative teaching strategies, and designs that
explore and investigate issues related to gender and fashion. As
there are many phases to fashion from ideation, design,
production, distribution, sale, consumption, and ultimately
disposal, there are many instances where gender issues are
evident in the formation of fashion. From where designs originate
(e.g., who is the designer and who gets credit for the design),
to gender roles within production and sales (e.g., who is working
on the sales floor or in corporate headquarters at what jobs
works in the fashion industry), to gender roles within marketing
(e.g., divisions into men's stores/departments vs women's
stores/departments, objectification of people in fashion
advertising ), and gender roles links to consumption (e.g.
shopping is women's work).
" Not everyone enjoys having to fit into the gender roles society
assigns us based on the clothing we wear but it can be
surprisingly tricky to find something to fit your body that does
not fall into these traditional categories" Lorraine Smith, 2011
Through a series of scholarly presentations, panel discussions,
and design presentations, the symposium participants will
explore, define, and document the interconnections between
fashion and gender.
The symposium has an inclusive definition of the term "fashion".
While fashion is often understood to center on apparel choices,
fashion can be recognized as the current style or way of behaving
in any field. Thus, proposals are welcome from divergent fields
such as architecture, anthropology, cultural studies, history,
interior design, graphic design, psychology, sociology, and
women's studies among others to examine interconnections and
intersections between fashion and gender.
Symposium Participation:
You are invited to participate in this symposium by submitting a
written abstract detailing research, an abstract of innovative
teaching strategy, a design, or a proposal for a panel of
speakers addressing some aspect of fashion and gender. The
official conference language is English. All accepted abstract
submissions will be published in the conference proceedings.
Symposium formats include poster sessions, design work,
concurrent design/research/teaching presentations [15 - 20
minutes], and panel sessions [60 minutes]. Panel or collaborative
presentations are encouraged.
Topics may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Historical views on gender in fashion
- Subcultural style(s) and gender
- Communicating gender identity
- Gender, power, and fashion
- Sexuality and fashion
- Gender equality and fashion
- Self-sexualization, fashion, and women
- Sexualization of childhood
- Male identity and fashion
- Contesting gender difference in fashion
- Bodies, body work, and gender
- Gender comparisons in apparel consumption
- Objectification and fashion
- Body image issues and gender
- The fashion workplace and gender issues
- Gender equality within the fashion industry
Proposals are due January 9, 1015.
http://design.umn.edu/fashionand/gender/
23-24 January 2015: INSIGHT 2015 Design Research Symposium
January 23+24 2015 Venue: National Institute of Design, R&D
Campus, Bangalore, India
INSIGHT 2015, a Design Research Symposium sets the stage for
dialogues, conversations and discourses amongst design academic
and professional practitioners and evangelists on the form and
space of design research. The symposium will constitute sharing
of knowledge and perceptions on design research culture,
methodology, framework, practice, collaboration and its
dissemination.
INSIGHT 2015 calls for Abstracts from Design academic and
professional practitioners from Institutions and Industry.
http://nid.edu/insight2015
ANTI-PO-DES
anti-po-des is published online, in New Zealand, and has an
editorial board drawn from throughout NZ, from Australia, UK and
USA.
We are about to release our third call for papers, so are not an
'established' or 'substantial' journal. But we double-blind peer
review, support new researchers, have lively themes, and remain
easily accessible. Under OEcurrent issue, you will be interested
to read Lubomir Popov's case study of the Fun Palace (UK) and
there is a paper on the future of design education in India by
Indrani de Parker, among other papers related to New Zealand.
The focus of the journal is on the social aspects of design in
this Pacific region and beyond.
Do check out the archive and the rest of the website and look out
for the call for papers.
www.anti-po-des-designjournal.org.nz
Design Knowledge Research third annual conference on Designing
Critical Messages February 2015. Design Knowledge Research is
situated in the School of Architecture, Design and Environment at
Plymouth University UK.
The event is alongside the international exhibition ENVELOPE at
Peninsula Arts Gallery and begins a dialogue for a festival of
Design in Plymouth. The exhibition is an open call to designers
and architects to exhibit what they value, from the significant
to the insignificant, from products to prototypes. Those taking
part are from the wide spectrum of design, from the famous to the
emerging.
DESIGNING CRITICAL MESSAGES: (ENVELOPE) CALL FOR PAPERS
People/Places/Spaces/Things/Experiences: This is an international
call for papers, a selection of which will be published in a book
published in the UK in 2016.
The conference begins from the premise that if there is a need
for designers to realise that they have to propose something that
inspires stakeholders to adopt designs as viable, desirable
alternatives, how does this equate design processes/design
thinking/materiality and research writing, in a demonstration of
what could become real. This conference is interested in the
suggestion that this is part of the skill set that designers
better have or need to have now, is this perhaps a different
value form of design practice or design research? If Design is
collaborative, whether as participatory design, working in design
teams, or in collaborations with other disciplines working on
projects that involve humans, can the core values of design
change to encompass and characterise new skills for designers?
Can we develop models that value design skills and methods but
proactively seek connections to ethical, philosophical, social,
value for the economy and value for change?
We seek submissions of empirical studies including practice-based
case studies and reflections in the area of design
practice/education/research.
The conference calls for abstracts of 500 words with references
that fit into one of the following perspectives.
Designing Change through Practice
Designing Research to Create Value
Communicating the Education of Design Differently
Using Criticality in Design to Determine Difference
Please send your abstracts to Pete Quinn Davis coordinator for
Design Knowledge Research at [log in to unmask] by October
31st 2014
"Critical Making: Design and the Digital Humanities" special
issue of Visible Language
Proposal deadline: January 15, 2015
Anticipated publication: October 2015
Co-editors: Jessica Barness, Amy Papaelias
This special issue of Visible Language journal investigates
critical making at the intersection of design and the digital
humanities, which is a site for expanding the role(s) of
divergent scholarly and creative work. Design and the digital
humanities connect through critical making practices, centering
on human experience and advancing the prevailing expectations of
their respective disciplines. In keeping with the theme of
merging form and content, the traditional printed journal will be
expanded to include a corresponding online space for interactive
and digital work. We invite dialogues on what defines scholarly
works in regard to non-traditional forms of writing and
disciplinary crossovers. For this issue, we encourage
exploratory, creative works that incorporate evidence-based
research through critical commentary, traditional analysis,
audience responses or participant feedback.
Proposals should include a 300-word written abstract and a brief
outline to show the structure of your argument. A corresponding
visual abstract is strongly encouraged. For digital work, please
include a URL or screenshots.
Please send proposals or inquiries through January 15, 2015 to
Jessica Barness, [log in to unmask]
CFP online: http://bit.ly/1qQym8I
Download PDF: http://bit.ly/1zQQa4k
1-4 April 2015: Popular Art, Architecture & Design
School of Architecture at the University of Texas-Austin Faculty,
Greetings! We are now calling for papers in the area of Popular
Art, Architecture & Design for the annual Popular Culture
Association National Conference, the 1st - 4th of April 2015, in
New Orleans, LA, at the New Orleans Marriott right on the edge of
the French Quarter.
Popular Art, Architecture & Design is concerned with the
aesthetics, the history and the theory of popular culture in the
everyday world of the past, the present and the future. Scholars
from disciplines including Architecture, Art History, Fine Art,
Industrial Design, and Interior Design are invited to submit
abstracts for papers, proposals for panels, etc. At previous
conferences the topics have included, but were certainly not
limited to, World Fairs; Neon signs; architecture in the writings
of Umberto Eco; urban image; graphic design; the architecture of
Tadao Ando; Disneyland; railroad stations; sardine can art; the
paintings of Thomas Kinkade; Vietnamese shop-houses; mobile
homes; shopping malls; clothing design; Hopalong Cassidy
merchandise; Superman and Art Deco; Motels; the art of Howard
Finster; placemaking versus travelling; etc., etc. It is a broad
church!
Please upload your abstracts in the Popular Art, Architecture &
Design area on the PCA conference site: http://ncp.pcaaca.org/.
The deadline for abstracts is the 1st of November 2014.
http://ncp.pcaaca.org
21-24 Mat 2015: Unmaking Waste: Transforming Production and
Consumption in Time and Place
Hosted by Zero Waste SA Research Centre for Sustainable Design
and Behaviour, University of South Australia, Adelaide
Abstracts due by 17th October, 2014
Waste is created when we no longer value something we create,
possess or use. Barriers to prematurely discarding goods and
resources have steadily fallen in recent years. Easy credit, low
prices, instant online access, and a 24 hour promotional media
all reinforce an expanding consumerism.
While much effort has gone into researching and implementing
successful technical strategies for reducing waste and emissions,
accelerating rates of consumption are undermining these efforts.
It is clear that we need new systems-based approaches to reduce
this excess consumption, including the excesses of our
'waste-making', to generate a more sustainable circular economy.
This conference invites participants to explore new approaches to
reduce the speed, volume and impacts of 'waste-ready' global
consumerism. It will be organised around four themes:
1. Engaging Values and Innovative Practices Most advertising and
marketing seeks to make us aware of what we lack, especially in
the eyes of others. How can we steer our values towards a more
'custodial' use of things, places and experiences?
2. Engaging Communities through Social Innovation The dark side
of consumerism is poverty and exclusion, where social capital is
eroded, and the individual's capabilities frustrated. How can we
engage those currently these 'wasted' groups?
3. Engaging Design for Reuse Reuse can subvert the fetish for the
new, and shift attention to what remains useful in the long term.
In what ways and through what means can design for reuse be
harnessed to transform consumerism?
4. Redesigning Urban Systems for Low Carbon Living We need a
technologically integrated approach to reduce the impact of our
waste and emissions. How can technology be used to shift
community expectations and wasteful social practices?
These ideas will also be explored in a linked design exhibition,
a workshop, and a PhD student poster session.
Confirmed Keynotes: Professor Stuart Walker, Lancaster University
and Professor Susan Strasser, University of Delaware.
Abstract Submissions should be no more than 400 words (max).
Abstracts will be peer reviewed and all submissions will receive
a written response from the Conference Organising Committee by
November 7th 2014. The authors of successful abstracts will then
be invited to submit a full paper by January 16th, 2015. All
papers will be double-blind peer reviewed. Accepted papers will
be published in an online conference proceeding volume with an
ISBN number. A selection of the best papers will be resubmitted
to the authors for revision for inclusion in an edited volume, to
be published in late 2015.
www.unmakingwaste2015.org
3-4 December 2014: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP DESIGN
MEETS BUSINESS University of Southern Denmark Kolding, Denmark
THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Social Fund
THE EUROPEAN UNION The European Regional Development Fund
Paper Development Workshop for young researchers interested in
the crossroads of design and business (extended deadline for
abstract - 15th of September).
THE CONFERENCE
'Design meets Business' is a two-day international conference for
researchers and practitioners operating across the
multidisciplinary domains of design and business. The conference
takes place on the 3rd and the 4th of December 2014 at the Campus
of the University of Southern Denmark and Design School Kolding.
Day one of the conference program features keynote speakers and
facilitates conversations among design practitioners,
policy-makers, business executives and academics to advance
knowledge about the crossroads of design and business. Among the
keynote speakers are Ulrik Gernow, Senior Vice President, LEGO
Group (DK), Kurt Ward, Design Director, Philips Design (NL), Sam
Bucolo, Professor, Design and Innovation, University of
Technology, Sydney (AUS) and Roberto Verganti, Professor,
Politecnico Di Milano. Please, consult the conference website for
more information about the program: www.designmeetsbusiness.com.
PAPER DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
Day two of the conference features five tracks: Four practitioner
workshops and one paper development workshop for early career
researchers. We particularly invite doctoral students, postdocs
and assistant professors to participate in this paper development
work- shop where current as well as upcoming themes and
challenges of research in the crossroads of design and business
can be addressed. Topics may cover various aspects of the
intersection between the two fields, including (but not limited
to): The value of design in busi- ness, the context of design in
business and the process of design in business. Chairs at the
workshop will be Madeline Smith, Head of Strategy from Institute
of Design Innovation at Glascow School of Arts and Professor Poul
Rind Christensen from the University of Southern Denmark.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Participants are invited to submit abstracts for the workshop by
email to Jytte Krogh Jorgensen ([log in to unmask]) by September
15th 2014. Abstracts should not exceed two pages (approx 500
words) in length and should contain the title, idea of the paper,
methodology, theoretical framing, anticipated results and
contributions to literature, industry or society. If the abstract
is accepted by the reviewers you are kindly asked to submit your
paper proposal to us no later than the 1st of November 2014
together with a poster which, in a visual form, presents the
essence of the contribution of your work. A template example of
the poster is available on request. The paper proposals are work
in progress and should not exceed 10 pages (2500 words) incl.
references and illustrations. At the workshop each participant is
expected to present his/her work and to be discussant on another
participant's paper. A constructive paper review is also provided
by the senior researchers. We intend to keep the workshop
relatively small in size so that participants have ample
opportunities for con- structive conversations and feedback from
chairs as well as peers. In submitting your abstract please make
sure to provide name of author(s), affiliation, e-mail address
and phone numbers. If you submit an abstract, you should have the
intention to attend our two-day pro- gram. The conference fee is
[euro] 140. You will be provided with further information
regarding the registration and payment process after your
abstract has been reviewed and accepted for the conference.
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3-7 June 2015: 'CUMULUS Milan 2015 - The Virtuous Circle. Design
Culture and Experimentation'
Milano, Politecnico di Milano
The conference aims to investigate how design comes out of the
interaction between a practice, which seeks to change the state
of things, and a culture, which makes sense of this change. The
way this happens evolves with time: practices and cultures evolve
and so do the ways they interact; and the attention that is paid
at different moments to one or other of these interacting
polarities also evolves. In the current period of turbulent
transformation of society and the economy, it is important to go
back and reflect on the cultural dimension of design, its
capacity to produce not only solutions but also meanings, and its
relations with pragmatic aspects. Good design does not limit
itself to tackling functional and technological questions, but it
also always adopts a specific cultural approach that emerges,
takes shape and changes direction through a continuous circle of
experimenting and reflecting. Because the dimension and
complexity of the problems is growing, it is becoming evident
that to overcome them it is, above all, necessary to bring new
sense systems into play. This is ground on which design, by its
very nature, can do much. Indeed, the ability to create a
virtuous circle between culture and practical experimentation is,
or should be, its main and distinctive characteristic. However,
for this really to happen it is necessary to trigger new
discussion and reflection about the nature and purpose of design
practice and culture. We need to take a step back in history and
look at what they were like in the past; then come back to the
present and ask ourselves how they have changed and are changing
in today's world in transition. This process could start with
some questions, for example: how do the new design practices
produce culture? Vice versa, how can this culture orientate and
offer common horizons to the multiplicity of practices that take
place in design activities? How does this emerging culture tie up
with the design tradition of the last century? How can this add
depth and consistence to the design culture of the 21st century?
In order to discuss these issues the conference will be organised
into 7 tracks corresponding to 7 activities in which the virtuous
design culture-experimentation circle can take place: Nurturing;
Envisioning; Experimenting/Prototyping; Incubating/Scaling;
Assessing; Disseminating/Communicating; Training/Educating.
We expect contributions that acknowledge a systemic perspective
on the topics and present reflections arising from applied
research projects and experimentations:
http://cumulusmilan2015.org
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
18 September 2014: Creating Sustainable Innovation through Design
for Behaviour Change:
Results Workshop
Faculty of Arts, University of Wolverhampton, Molineux Street,
Wolverhampton WV1 1DT 3-7pm
Design for behaviour change seeks consciously to stimulate
ethical and sustainable behaviour and is seen as a potent way to
tackle some of the biggest problems in the world around us.
However, in covering such divergent fields and problems there is
a challenge to create a coherent understanding of practices and
approaches relating to design for behaviour change, and its
implementation. The project has explored the benefits and
opportunities of Design for Behaviour Change as well as obstacles
and challenges of accessing relevant information and implementing
design for behaviour change.
The study has comprised an extensive cross-disciplinary
literature review of design for behaviour change covering
academic and non-academic literature, complemented by a broad
online survey to elicit current voices of businesses and
organisations engaged in design for behaviour change. A series of
follow-up focus groups have looked in more detail into the
obstacles to implementation and access to generate a better
understanding of existing approaches and case studies
available,and to elicit current shortcomings and needs to improve
accessibility and implementation.
The importance of this research is in providing a better
understanding of the cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral
challenges for accessing and implementing design for behaviour
change, and in identifying viable ways forward through easier
access, increased cross-sectoral collaboration, and through
increased knowledge of its benefits. The workshop will report on
the findings from the project and offer time for discussion and
networking. Refreshments will be available, and the event will
close with a drinks reception. The workshop is free of charge,
but spaces are limited. Please RSVP your place by emailing
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http://www.behaviourchange.eu
2-3 December 2014: DesignEd Asia Conference 2014 ACTION! - Doing
Design Education
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design, Hong Kong
Design Institute (member of VTC Group) and Hong Kong Design
Centre jointly present the tenth DesignEd Asia Conference. The
Conference aims to provide a practical platform for international
design educators and professionals to share views, knowledge and
experiences on Design Education. It continues to draw hundreds of
international design educators, design researchers, practicing
designers, design students, and design-related executives.
The DesignEd Asia Conference is a key event under the programme
of Business of Design Week (BODW). BODW is an annual flagship
event organized by Hong Kong Design Centre since 2002.
This year the theme of the conference is:
ACTION! - Doing Design Education
We must do in order to learn, just as we must learn in order to
do.
Designers are doers. Beyond the "skills" and "knowledge" of the
respective design disciplines, design education needs to prepare
students with the tactical and interpersonal capacity to navigate
the world in which they are designing and construct the positive
change that they are envisioning. Learning designerly ways of
acting in the world involves developing positive habits, honing
tacit knowledge and rehearsing ways of conscious action through
modes of teaching and learning that transcend traditional
"classroom" and "studio" modes of learning.
http://www.designedasia.com
Design List
The Design-List version 1 began in the early 1990s under the
direction of Howard Ray Lawrence and the Pennsylvania State
University listserver. Over the next decade the list transformed
from a USENET newsfeed and information exchange to largely online
discussions. These running discourses ranged from a very wide
range of interpretation of 'art and architecture,' a core
mission of the list, to professional, political, education,
philosophical, and other perspectives.
Ultimately the list fractured in 2004 and the discussion list was
spun-off into Design-L version 2, to enable further exchange of
ideas without the constraint, threat, and limitations of
censorship. Both lists remain active.
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PAD (Pages on Arts and Design) is an international, open access,
and peer-reviewed e-journal published twice a year. PAD publishes
original and qualified intellectual production in all area of
design and arts research. It provides an international and
interactive forum for the exchange of ideas, debate and
criticism. PAD findings from researchers and professionals across
different countries and cultures of the Mediterranean areas and
encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design
theory and practice.
The publication of each issue will coincide with the publication
of the call for papers for the following monographic issue on
Call page. The journal is identified by an International Standard
Serial Number (ISSN 1972-7887) and each its article carries an
Article Number (AN). All the articles are freely available online
upon publication. They are published under the Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0)
PAD #12 CALL
https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1a5bTrxyTSINZXJDxiSz5iVKl3HSJxh-0YSHlSeeTgJ0/edit
http://www.padjournal.net/about/
27-29 October 2014: COGNITIVE IMPORTANCE OF DRAWING
We are inviting you to participate in the samvaad on the
COGNITIVE IMPORTANCE OF DRAWING to be held on October 27, 28,
29th at Pune.
We will have presentations, videos, discussions, exhibition as
well as 'Learning to draw sessions' to take fear out of drawing.
We want to explore the cognitive potential of drawing- as tool
for observation, description, analysis, communication,
abstraction and more importantly as a step to learn to write. Due
to various misconceptions drawing is not being given the
importance it deserves.
The fear of drawing prevents most adults from even attempting
this. The way we accept writing as a functional tool and put up
with bad hand writing drawing also needs to be seen as purely a
functional tool and accept 'bad drawing'. For this one may need
to disassociate drawing from art because art seems like something
one can't understand or it is not all that important. Also one
needs to put aside ideas like drawing as an inborn skill etc.
May be we should give equal weightage to drawing as much we give
to literacy. One thing to note is that writing is not a cognitive
tool nor does it help in cognition where as drawing does help in
observation which is the first step in cognition.
http://cognitiveimportanceofdrawing.weebly.com/
2-3 October 2014: The Intrinsic Logic of Design
The Institute for Design Research, would like to invite you to
our symposium The Intrinsic Logic of Design from the 2nd until
the 3rd of October 2014 in Zurich.
If you are in Europe at that time we would be thrilled to welcome
you. If this is not a convenient time and you would be happy to
mention our symposium in any way, we would make sure you get all
the information you feel necessary to have.
Already a brief overview about our topic:
In the context of increasingly complex technological and economic
developments, the social significance of design continues to
grow. Yet how are we to research these social aspects of design
(social design) and shed light on the conditions of their
emergence? The conference takes this question as the starting
point from which to examine the particular rationales underlying
various methods and procedures in design. In collaboration with
academics working in disciplines with other methodological
orientations, such as science studies, philosophy and
epistemology, and architectural anthropology, the aim of the
conference is to contribute to the development of both research
into design methods and design theory.
The conference also features an exhibition documenting the case
studies undertaken within the research project of which the
conference forms a part. They are presented using various
observational and analytical tools based on actor-network theory.
Speakers include: Alva No, Michael Hagner, Hans-Jrg Rheinberger,
Albena Yaneva, Alfred Nordmann, Daniel Demel, Marc Rlli, Tanja
Herdt, Gerhard M. Buurman
www.eigenlogik.ch
28 October - 11 November 2014: Shared Territories
The Design Research Institute at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool
University (XJTLU) in Suzhou, China is organising its inaugural
exhibition Design and Research: Shared Territories (28 October -
11 November 2014). The exhibition is curated by academics at
XJTLU - Dr Anuradha Chatterjee (Chief Curator), Dr Marian Macken
(Curator) and Dr Thomas Fischer (Co-curator and Design Research
Institute Director). The exhibition features peer reviewed, mixed
media contributions by scholars, academics and designers from
Australia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Finland, United States, United
Kingdom, and of course China, from interdisciplinary fields of
architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, fine art,
industrial design, biological sciences, and language. Design and
Research: Shared Territories explores two themes: Inquiring
Inquiry and Research as Design. The aim is to inquire and expose,
rather than present a known/given view of design research. To
this end, the exhibition is approached as a form of scholarship,
offering a productive space for creating new ways of knowing and
critical insights into existing ways of knowing.
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17-18 September 2014: Designs on e-Learning conference, Texas
State University, San Marcos Texas.
It promises to be a highly engaging two days of inspiration,
knowledge sharing and debate around the use of technology for
teaching and learning in art, design and communication
http://www.designsonelearning.net/2014/content/welcome
FORMakademisk has just published its latest issue at
https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk
15-17 October 2014: Relating Systems Thinking and Design 3
Join us in accelerating the convergence of design, social, and
technology fields toward co-creating humanized systems. We invite
participants, presenters and students from across disciplines and
design fields to register for the RSD3 Symposium, Oslo, Norway.
Hosted again this year by AHO, Oslo School of Architecture and
Design, we are reaching for a wider audience, while maintaining
the lightweight mood of a small symposium. We reviewed responses
from over 70 paper proposals, and the selected presentations and
workshops are now posted. As last year, we hold a single day of
workshops offered by leading members of the design and systems
thinking fields to share their unique methods and practices. We
encourage participants to register for both the symposium and
workshops, to extend your learning and exploration into new areas
of practice. We have 6 extraordinary keynote speakers over the
two-day event:
- Hugh Dubberly
- Ranulph Glanville
- Harold Nelson
- Ann Pendleton-Jullian
- Daniela Sangiorgi
- John Thackara
Costs are kept low and (as we have found with previous years) the
highest value is in learning from one another in a relaxed,
exploratory approach to convening. However, you will need to book
lodging and travel to Oslo, which is better done sooner. We have
a few tips to help travelers on the symposium site.
The RSD series are convinced that integrated, more effective
systems thinking and methods are required for addressing complex
societal concerns - and our observation is that educational
programs and design agencies are not providing the skills and
knowledge necessary to deal with systemic design issues. We
believe a stronger integration with design and design thinking is
a promising way forward.
http://www.systemic-design.net
1-3 October 2014: EuropIA.14 : Architecture, City & Information
Design
14th International Conference on Advances in Design Sciences and
Technology. Nice -- Cote d'Azur, France
EuropIA Conferences are organized as a cross-platform for the
study and analysis of the application of the ICT to architecture,
archaeology, building engineering, civil engineering, urban
design and policy analysis. ?The aim of EuropIA international
conferences is to promote advancements of information and
communication technology (ICT) and their effective application
for the Building and Construction industry.?The characteristic of
these conferences is the interaction of different disciplines
regarding their approach, methods and techniques for the
application of advanced technologies. The main topic of
*EuropIA**14*is about the complex, interdependent and independent
relationships between Architecture and City Design (Urban
Planning) that have been recently increased by the important and
aggressive involvement as well as impact of Information and
Communication Technology on the City, Architecture Perception and
Design Practice.
No doubt that professionals of Architectural and City Design have
largely used ICT tools in their design. However they still
hesitate to integrate information design as part of their design
fields and as an important integrated component of the
Architecture and the City.
In fact information design, via the Internet as smart objects,
communicative objects, etc., that have penetrated, in an informal
way, via ICT users, the universe of architecture and city design
(urban planning).
Nowadays, ICT users perceive very differently most of the given
functions of their habitation, offices and the city. Indeed, on
the first hand unforeseen usages of ICT have seriously influenced
the design and the development of ICT itself. On the other hand,
emphasizes have shifted the relationship the users with their
architectural and urban spaces (including the infrastructures and
transportation).
http://eia14.europia.org
International Journal of Design
Vol. 8(2) August 2014 | Table of Contents
Original Articles
Tools for Participation: Intergenerational Technology Design for
the Home
Sonja Pedell , Frank Vetere , Steve Howard , Tim Miller , Leon
Sterling
Investigating the Unexplored Possibilities of Digital-Physical
Toolkits in Lay Design
Guido Hermans
Understanding Design for Dynamic and Diverse Use Situations
Mieke van der Bijl - Brouwer , Mascha van der Voort
The Boundaries of Public Space: A Case Study of Hong Kong's Mass
Transit Railway
Tianjiao Zhao , Kin Wai Michael Siu
The Emotional Characteristics of White for Applications of
Product Color Design
Nooree Na , Hyeon-Jeong Suk
Design Case Studies
Designing to Bring the Field to the Showroom through Open-ended
Provocation
Janet Kelly , Stephan Wensveen
Empathy or Inclusion: A Dialogical Approach to Socially
Responsible Design
Carla Cipolla , Roberto Bartholo
Perspectives
Exploring 'Immaterials': Mediating Design's Invisible Materials
Timo Arnall
Changing your Hammer: The Implications of Paradigmatic Innovation
for Design Practice
Paul Gardien , Tom Djajadiningrat , Caroline Hummels , Aarnout
Brombacher
www.ijdesign.org
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