Please see the following announcement of a conference theme at DRS (Design Research Society) 2016, from Maya Oppenheimer and Livia Rezende. There is a real need for papers looking at the past of design research and evaluating its relevance to the present. I have a particular interest in the uses of computing in early design research - Simone Gristwood and I posed some questions on this theme to the community at DRS 2014 (http://www.drs2014.org/en/presentations/310/) and will present a related paper at History and Philosophy of Computing next month. I am certain that there are important new contributions to be made to this debate, perhaps from those who were themselves involved in the early days. So please respond to the call, whether in the field of computing and design research or the broader agenda set out below.
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DRS 2016 - Design Research - History, Theory, Practice: histories for future-focused thinking
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We are pleased to announce the following panel theme, now seeking paper submissions as part of the 2016 DRS conference in Brighton.
Deadline for full papers: 9th November 2015
Design Research - History, Theory, Practice: histories for future-focused thinking
Design historians continually revise and reflect upon their preoccupations, omissions, emerging methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to design and research. Since design history•s emergence in the 1970s both as an academic discipline and as an intellectual practice concerning the past, present and future of design, this reflexive impulse has included several areas of critical discourse, including gender, material anthropologies, global narratives of design, histories of pedagogy, among others, with this panel's added preoccupation with histories of design research.
The Design Research Society 2016 conference offers an opportunity to examine overlapping constituencies and interests between design history, design research and current practice and asks, what has changed over the last 50 years in the field of design research? This panel takes the anniversary occasion of the DRS, the first multi- disciplinary society for the international design research community, as a starting point and extends the question to include geographies, histories, figures, practices and new models. What can historians contribute to the understanding of design research as a methodology of history, theory and practice? How do social, cultural frameworks influence design research methods?
This theme aims to contribute to the formation of new knowledge about design research over the past 50 years in a global context. We invite contributions from a range of constituencies that take histories of future-focused design thinking as their remit. Proposals of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Translation and shared vocabularies of design research (including geographic, disciplinary, theoretical and practice-led approaches to design and design language);
- Experiments in and histories of design pedagogy;
- Emergent constituencies of design research methodologies, agency and trans- national design;
- Texts and contexts related to design research;
- Gender in histories of design research and design practice.
Important dates
Submission system opens: 1st September 2015
Deadline for full papers: 9th November 2015
DRS 2016 will be held in Brighton, UK, 28th-30th June 2016.
Information regarding submission, the conference and further themes available via the DRS2016 conference website:
http://www.drs2016.org/additional-themes/
Or contact the sub-chairs: Livia Rezende <[log in to unmask]>, Royal College of Art, UK & Maya Oppenheimer <[log in to unmask]>,
London College of Communication, UK
Maya Oppenheimer, PhD
Teaching & Learning Officer, Design History Society
<http://www.designhistorysociety.org/>
Senior Lecturer & Support Coordinator
Contextual & Theoretical Studies
School of Design, London College of Communication
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Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB
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Livia Rezende, PhD
Treasurer, Design History Society <http://www.designhistorysociety.org/>
Tutor in History of Design
Lecturer and Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies
School of Humanities, Royal College of Art <http://www.rca.ac.uk>
Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
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Stephen Boyd Davis
Professor of Design Research
School of Design
Royal College of Art
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