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DESIGNED ASIA 2015 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Jointly
organised by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design,
Hong Kong Design Institute (member of VTC Group), and Hong Kong Design
Centre, DesignEd Asia Conference aims to provide a practical platform
for international design educators and professionals to share views,
knowledge and experiences on Design Education. For 2015, we will feature
speakers from Barcelona, the partner city of Business of Design Week
(BODW).
Jointly
organised by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design,
Hong Kong Design Institute (member of VTC Group), and Hong Kong Design
Centre, DesignEd Asia Conference aims to provide a practical platform
for international design educators and professionals to share views,
knowledge and experiences on Design Education. For 2015, we will feature
speakers from Barcelona, the partner city of Business of Design Week
(BODW).
Spirit of Place and Design EducationThe
world’s great schools of design tend to be embedded in vibrant
metropolises, distinctive regional cultures, hubs of creative energy,
and other contexts that – in their rich design histories and unique
social and cultural patterns – provide grounding, inspiration,
challenges and nourishment to the teaching and learning of design. Local
industries and natural resources, the geographical and climatic factors
of the local environment, and the demographic and cultural
specificities of the local society all have a formative influence on
design students and teachers, and the institutions in which they
operate. The place in which an educational institution is situated is
the archive of tangible evidence of a heritage of design. Equally so, it
contains the inheritance of intangible ideas and values, and is the
stage for the ongoing performance of a local habitus.
In
learning how to think and act in designerly ways, students become
sensitized to the environment within which, and for which they design.
The geographical locus at which design education takes place is among
the most fundamental and profound of the resources on which design
education draws – as a laboratory, library, museum, sounding board,
palimpsest of memories and canvas of future visions. Not merely a site
or situation that is probed in the name of design research, the place in
which one learns design is the very medium within which the process of
one’s acquisition of ways of thinking, learning and doing is enmeshed.
Design
education can empower students to draw on the resources, values and
heritage of a place in critical and exploratory ways, educating each
generation of new designers to drive forward the evolution of local
design knowledge, identity and practice. However, a narrow and
superficial notion of the spirit of a place in design education can lead
to stultifying conservatism and trivialization of a locality’s
heritage, cloying appeals to fetishized clichés, prejudices sacralized
as “traditions”, hackneyed appropriations from a canon of artifacts from
the past, and uncritical hagiographies of “local heroes”.
Even
as design markets and tastes become increasingly globalized, as ways of
teaching and learning design become more and more internationalized,
and students around the world make reference to the same iconic
projects, trendy ideas and styles, and star designers, the importance of
place in design education remains. We are inviting papers that explore
different facets of this importance. Possible themes include, but are
not limited to:
The
ways in which the culture, history and society of a place influence and
nurture particular ways of teaching and learning, and the value derived
from such place-specific pedagogiesAppropriate
ways for critically addressing the design heritage of the place where
one learns, in ways that encourage deep engagement, rather than
superficial samplingParticular pedagogies for passing-on local knowledge and traditions, both tacit and explicitTactics
for engaging the local people, society and culture in sustained and
meaningful ways, beyond the generic methods of “user research”The
roles of design education institutions in promoting and defining the
spirit of place, including implications for educational strategy and
policyWays in which design education can take up an ongoing dialogue with its context and “give back” to the place that nourishes itExamples
of relationships and collaboration between design schools and other
institutions in society in perpetuating and elaborating the spirit of
place through designWays
that design education can tap into local wisdom and knowledge, as
embodied in the crafts, traditions, and people of the placeIn
all of these themes and others, we are seeking papers that address
theoretical and practical issues, while remaining grounded in actual
pedagogical practice.
Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2 August (Sun)
Notification of Acceptance of an Abstract: 7 September (Mon)
Sign up and submit via the online conference system:
http://www.designedasia.com/openconf
For the most up-to-date information, visit: http://www.DesignEdAsia.com/
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Call for Abstracts - DesignEd Asia Conference, 1-2 December 2015
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