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CONTENTS







o   DRS2016 conference -- open call

o   DRS2016 conference -- additional theme

o   DRS2016 conference -- additional theme

o   Design Studies -- call for special edition


o   Calls

o   Announcements


o   The Design Research Society: information

o   Digital Services of the DRS

o   Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN

o   Contributing to DRN







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27-30 June 2016 -- DRS2016 | Design + Research + Society |
Future-focused Thinking
50th Anniversary International Design Research Society Conference
Brighton, UK

Paper Submission for DRS2016 is Now Open!
Deadline: 9th November 2015

We have been working hard over the summer on preparations for
DRS2016 in Brighton next June.Theconference websitehas been
refreshedand authors are now able to submit their full papers to
theonline submission system. We've also been planning the
conference experience sothat venues, events, and most importantly
good conversation will provide a truly memorable occasion.

We invite new and challenging paper submissions from any area or
discipline of design research. We embrace research looking at and
usingdesign in the widest possible sense with interdisciplinary
work, and work responding to the conference themes, particularly
encouraged.

Full papers can be submitted, using thepaper template, either to
the Open Call or to one of the Additional Themes or Special
Interest Groupslisted below.

DRS2016 OPEN CALL

Future-Focused Thinking:

Papers, case studies, or designs that anticipate developments in
one or more of the three areas of Design, Research and Society.

Papers critically engaging with our key conference questions:

How can design research help frame and address the societal
problems that face us?

How can design research be a creative and active force for
rethinking ideas about Design?

How can design research shape our lives in more responsible,
meaningful, and open ways?

50 Years of Design Research:

Papers looking critically at key contributors and contributions
over the past 50 years of Design Research.

More details about the Open Call

DRS2016 ADDITIONAL THEMES

- Reframing the Paradox: Examining the Intersections between
  Evidence-based Design and Design for the Public Sector
- Design Research - History, Theory, Practice: Histories for
  Future-focused Thinking
- Aesthetics, Cosmopolitics and Design
- Embodied Making and Learning
- Design for Design: The Influence and Legacy of John Heskett
- Design Policy
- Design Epistemology
- The Politics of Commoning and Designing
- Design-ing and Creative Philosophies
- Food and Eating Design
- Design Innovation for Society
- Effective Information Design
- Design Thinking in Industry and Academia
- Aesthetic Pleasure in Design
- Design and Translation

More details about DRS2016 Additional Themes

DRS SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

- Objects, Practices, Experiences, Networks (OPENSIG)
- Wellbeing and Happiness (SIGWELL)
- Design for Tangible, Embedded and Networked Technologies
  (TENTSIG)
- Design Pedagogy (PedSIG)
- Inclusive Design (Inclusive SIG)
- Design for Behaviour Change (Behaviour Change SIG)
- Design Management (DM SIG)
- Sustainable Design (Sustainability SIG)
- Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG)

More details about DRS Special Interest Groups

CONTACT US!

Any enquiries about the conference should be directed
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Sign up for updates on our conference
website:http://www.drs2016.org/

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DRS2016 DESIGN + RESEARCH + SOCIETY | FUTURE FOCUSED THINKING

50th Anniversary International Design Research Society Conference
27-30 June 2016, Brighton, UK

Call for Papers: Additional Theme Session

Session Title: REFRAMING THE PARADOX - EXAMINING THE
INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN EVIDENCE-BASED DESIGN AND DESIGN FOR THE
PUBLIC SECTOR

SUB-CHAIR

Luke Feast, Aalto University, Finland
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CO-CONVENERS

Birger Sevaldson, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
Sabine Junginger, Hertie School of Governance, Germany
Peter Jones, OCAD University, Canada

Today we face complex challenges: preventing migrant deaths in
the Mediterranean, delivering health and social care for an aging
population, and dealing with the social impacts of growing
economic inequality. Increasingly, designers are working to
address such complex challenges and to deliver improved societal
outcomes, for example, through the use of service design
approaches to meet the needs of the elderly, the disabled, and
the marginalised.

However, a paradox is emerging. On the one hand, governments are
realising that they cannot address new complex socio-technical
challenges in the way they approached them in the past, and so
are turning to design for new strategies and techniques. On the
other hand, policymaking and social design practices are
increasingly being influenced by the positivistic view of
research that underpins traditional evidence-based practice
models. Furthermore, evidence-based practice and evidence-based
design are seductive terms for those of us interested in
advancing research-informed design. Therefore, we believe that
critical examination of the underlying meaning and assumptions of
evidence-based design and design for the public sector is
warranted.

This additional theme session seeks to bring together current
design research that critically examines the tension between the
potential of design approaches to address governments most urgent
challenges and the growing influence of evidence-based practice
in design.

Questions we are interested in include:

(1) What constitutes evidence in the design of public services
and policymaking?
(2) How is design being used to improve effectiveness in the
public sector?
(3) What challenges and enablers are affecting capacity building
of strategic design in the public sector?
(4) What ways of thinking and acting are special to
evidence-based design practice?

We welcome submissions that concern any of the following aspects
of evidence-based design and design for the public sector:

(1) Context  discussion of concepts and frameworks that underpin
evidence-based design and design for the public sector;
(2) Case Studies  concrete illustrations of how design can drive
innovation within public services and policymaking;
(3) Tools  practices and strategies of using design as a tool in
the public sector.

Deadline for full papers: 9th November 2015

http://www.drs2016.org/additional-themes

Enquiries
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DRS2016 DESIGN + RESEARCH + SOCIETY | FUTURE FOCUSED THINKING
50th Anniversary International Design Research Society Conference
27-30 June 2016, Brighton, UK

Call for Papers: Additional Theme Session
Session Title: The Politics of Commoning and Designing

SUB-CHAIRS Bianca Elzenbaumer
<[log in to unmask]>, Leeds College of Art, UK
Valeria Graziano <[log in to unmask]>, Middlesex University, UK
kim Trogal <[log in to unmask]>, University of the Arts,
London

This theme aims to bring together practitioners, activists and
researchers to explore the tensions and potentialities around
commoning in design and the (re)production of community
economies. As De Angelis (2007) and others point out, commons are
today thought as the basis on which to build social justice,
environmental sustainability and a good life for all. But they,
just as community economies (J.K. Gibson-Graham and Roelvink,
2011), operate within a world dominated by capitals priorities
and are thus also sites of struggle as well as targets of
co-optation and enclosure.

We invite papers that relate to the following questions:

- What are the tensions and contradictions we encounter or create
  when designing for the commons?
- In activating commons to create and sustain alternative
  livelihoods, how does the role of designers change as well?
- If we take the commons and community economies as a tool rather
  than as a goal, what do they allow us to contribute to?
- What practices of self-organization and division of labour are
  useful in getting people involved in commoning for progressive
  social change?

This theme focusses on, amongst other things, how design relates
to new forms of enclosure, struggles and social justice, and the
reproductive labour necessary to care for commons. It seeks to
benefit practitioners who want to imagine alternative ways of
making their livelihoods away from waged relations and
professionalism, and those who are questioning the role of the
designer as a problem solver not implicated in the community s/he
interacts with.

INDICATIVE REFERENCES

De Angelis, Massimo and Stavrides, Stavros. 2010. On the Commons:
A Public Interview with Massimo De Angelis and Stavros Stavrides.
in E-flux 17 (August 2010).
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/150.

Elzenbaumer, Bianca. 2014. Designing Economic Cultures:
Cultivating Socially and Politically Engaged Design Practices
Against Procedures of Precarisation. London: Goldsmiths,
University of London.

Federici, Silvia. 2011. Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
<http://www.commoner.org.uk/?p=113>.

Gibson-Graham, J.K., and Gerda Roelvink. 2011. The Nitty Gritty
of Creating Alternative Economies. Social Alternatives 30 (1):
2933.

Graziano, Valeria, and Mara Ferreri. Passions without objects:
the politics of temporary art spaces, Revue de Recherches
Sociologiques et Anthropologiques, 45 (2), 2014: 83-102.

Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. 2009. Commonwealth. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.

Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. 2013. The undercommons: Fugitive
planning & black study. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions.

Harvey, David, 2012 Chapter 3 The Creation of the Urban Commons,
in Rebel cities: from the right to the city to the urban
revolution. Verso Books, 2012: 67- 88

Midnight Notes Collective, 1990. The New Enclosures. Midnight
Notes (10), Jamaica Plain, MA: Midnight Notes.

Petrescu, Doina and Trogal, Kim, (forthcoming). The Social
(Re)Production of Architecture. Politics, Economies and Actions
in Contemporary Practice. London: Routledge.

Deadline for full papers: 9th November 2015
CFP link 
http://www.drs2016.org/additional-themes
For an extended version of this call:
http://bit.ly/1LMOY8q







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Design Studies: Call for Special Issue papers Topic: Design
Processes in Service Innovation

Guest Editors
Fernando Secomandi
Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Dirk Snelders
Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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Although design has a long and strong history in working for the
service sector, only over the last two decades have these efforts
become more established as a new discipline in designing: service
design. The coming-of-age of the discipline has coincided with
the advent of new digital and networking technologies that have
transformed both the design process and the resulting service
innovations. As a result, there has been a growing entanglement
of manufacturing and service operations, with many new types of
services and product-service systems coming to market.

It is in this context that Design Studies places its call for
papers on design processes in service innovation. Which design
processes and methodologies are supportive of innovation in
services? How is technology affecting design processes in service
innovation? How is service design different from innovation
processes originally conceived for product design? How can design
be practiced in traditional industries that are becoming more
service-oriented? (Or vice versa, does design in traditional
service sectors contribute to a productisation of operations?)

The present call invites contributions from experts in service
design from various fields, such as industrial design,
engineering, marketing, operations and economics. Following the
types of questions described above, papers can be conceptual,
descriptive of current design practices, or action-oriented
towards new standards of design processes.

As a young developing discipline, service design is still in a
process of defining its own scope and of setting its boundaries.
For this reason, we will accept papers on a wide range of service
design practices. Thus, we invite work on topics as far apart as
user and provider experiences of services, social relations in
services, the planning of service co-production, designing
services in innovation networks, the design of technical
infrastructures for service delivery, tools and methods for the
orchestration of service touchpoints, etc. Over this wide range
of topics, the criterion for admission will be a focus on design
processes in the innovation of services, i.e. how these processes
lead to some form of material change in our world.

Schedule

Extended abstract (1000-1500 words) deadline: 1 February 2016
Notification of abstracts selected for full paper submission: 1
March 2016
Full paper deadline: 1 August 2016
Expected date of publication: Mid 2017

Instructions for authors

Potential contributors are invited to submit an extended abstract
ranging from 1000 to 1500 words outlining the papers content,
orientation to the topic and contribution to the literature.
Based on an initial evaluation of these abstracts, the editors
will invite a selection of authors to submit full papers, which
will undergo the regular review procedure of Design Studies.
Extended abstracts should be sent to [log in to unmask] in
DOC, DOCX, or PDF file formats.

Full papers must be prepared according to the Design Studies
guidelines, which can be found at the journal website
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/design-studies/ - link Guide
for Authors). Submissions of invited full papers will be made
online through the journals submission system
(http://www.journals.elsevier.com/design-studies/ - link Submit
Your Paper).







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2-5 November 2015 -- IASDR2015 INTERPLAY

Brisbane, Australia

Join us for INTERPLAY between design, science, technology and the
arts at the IASDR 2015 Congress in Brisbane, Australia.

Important dates

Presenter registration deadline: 1 October 2015

More information: www.iasdr2015.com<http://www.iasdr2015.com>







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CALLS







30 March-2 April 2016 -- CAADRIA 2016 Call for Papers
Living Systems and Micro-Utopias: Towards Continuous Designing
21st International Conference of the Association for
Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia

Abstract due: 25 September 2015
Submit to: www.caadria-review.org

The University of Melbourne, Melbourne School of Design (MSD),
Melbourne, Australia; in collaboration with RMIT University

Today, human activities constitute the primary environmental
impact on the planet. In this context, commitments to
sustainability, or minimization of damage, prove insufficient. To
develop regenerative, capabilities, architectural design needs to
extend beyond the form and function of things in contained
projects and engage with the management of complex systems. Such
systems involve multiple types of dynamic phenomena  biotic and
abiotic, technical and cultural  and can be understood as living.
Engagement with such living systems implies manipulation of
pervasive and unceasing change, irrespective of whether it is
accepted by design stakeholders or actively managed towards
homeostatic or homeorhetic conditions.

Responding to this challenge, CAADRIA 2016 seeks to interrogate
the notion of continuity and the applicable architectural
toolsets in order to map and discover opportunities for
innovation.

For the full version of the call and further information, see the
PDF version:
https://www.academia.edu/13830081/Living_Systems_and_Micro-
Utopias_Towards_Continuous_Designing

And the conference website:
http://caadria2016.org/







19-20 October, 2015 -- UD15: PERIPHERY AND PROMISE
4th PhD in Design Research Forum
University of Porto, Portugal

The UD15 Executive Committee invites you to take part in the 4th
PhD in Design Research Forum <http://www.ud15.org> in Porto,
Portugal, and share the present call with those interested.
*There are still more than three weeks left to submit your
proposal  deadline is set for July 31st 2015.*

The UD15 website <http://www.ud15.org/> has just been updated
with the latest conference details and info on confirmed,
internationally relevant keynote speakers: Cigdem Kaya (Turkey),
Jaime Munarriz (Spain), Lus Fernandes, Joo Paulo Queiroz, Susana
Barreto and Heitor Alvelos (Portugal).

Call for short papers

UD is an annual, peer-reviewed conference series organised by the
PhD in Design Programs of University of Porto and University of
Aveiro since 2012. Our aim is to enable as much relevant feedback
as possible for PhD research in progress.

This year, UD stands for Under Development: doctoral research in
Design currently in progress or recently completed. The motto of
UD15 is Periphery and Promise. We welcome papers and projects
that are Under Development from PhD candidates in and around
Design field. Our definition of Design is open to be broadened,
challenged and bridged with kindred practices and research
disciplines. Regardless of the scientific field, we invite
contributions from anyone whose research is relevant to design.

The contributions are thematically framed  but not limited 
within the following five streams:

Disciplinarity
Contextuality
Collectivity
Creativity
Perplexity

We therefore invite you to submit a short paper of your own PhD
research or a specific contextual/methodological approach to it.
Every article, selected or not, will receive advice from the
Scientific Committee.

Please find all detailed info on the research streams and the
short paper guidelines at the conference website:

http://www.ud15.org/







4 December 2015 -- Call for exhibits

Exhibition curators: Kollette Super, Craig Barber and Helen
Gorrill.

Exhibition date: Friday 4th December 2015, Institute for Creative
Enterprise (ICE), Coventry University Technology Park, Puma Way
CV1 2NE

An exhibition of drawing to accompany the Drawing Conversations:
reflecting upon collective and collaborative drawing practices
symposium. This exhibition along with the symposium, will
consider the nature and characteristics of a range of drawing
processes, which are enacted through collaboration and collective
imaging.

We are inviting proposals from practitioners in all disciplines
for drawings, books, illustrations, objects and animations for
inclusion in this one-day event. The selection criteria are
artistic quality, originality and relevance to the themes of the
symposium.

The deadline for submissions is the 15th September 2015.

Selected work will be confirmed by the 30th September.

Work selected for inclusion will need to be delivered to the
`ICE` building, Attn: Helen Gorrill, Coventry University
Technology Park, Parkside, CV1 2NE in an exhibition ready state
by Wednesday 2nd December. Please note that artworks will be
covered by insurance during the exhibition however we are not
able to take responsibility for artworks whilst in transit to or
from the building.

All proposals should be sent to Helen Gorrill at
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In your proposal please include the following:

Names of artist and organisational/institutional affiliation(s)
if any
Contact email address
Link to online profile/website/blog
Short CV
Title of work
Up to 3 images of the proposed piece/recent work
A short statement/description of the artwork and its critical
context (200 word max)
Media, technical specifications, space and duration requirements
Dimensions
Value of the work for insurance purposes
A statement indicating who hold the rights of each
object/image/video proposed for the exhibition and under what
conditions (if any) the artwork is being made available.

For publicity purposes include:
High res image of work in j.peg format
Short biography (max 200 words)

If you require further information please contact: Helen Gorrill
on [log in to unmask], or Craig Barber on
[log in to unmask] or Kollette Super on
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Call for papers: Message Journal, edition 3

What is the topography of the contemporary graphic design /
communication landscape in relation to art practice? What
occupies the space between disciplines?

Call for academic submissions
Scholarly submissions are invited for consideration in Message
edition 3  an international open access journal published by the
University of Plymouth Press.

Message Open Access is an open access journal where all
materials, once published will be freely available. Published
papers/reports will remain the copyright of the author.

Message edition 3 will be published in July 2016

Dates for submission of abstract (300-500 words): 25 September
2015
Notification of abstract acceptances: 9 October 2015
(4000-6000 words): 8 January 2016

Email to: [log in to unmask]

What is the topography of the contemporary graphic design /
communication landscape in relation to art practice? What
occupies the space between disciplines?

Message journal edition 3, aims to explore further the boundaries
between contemporary graphic design/communication and art, as
well as examining what occupies the space between the
disciplines.

Authors, through written and illustrated submissions, may
question and investigate the broad nature of graphic design and
communication practice in relation to both historical and
contemporary contexts. The intention of this edition is to debate
and illustrate whether graphic design/communication can be seen
as imaginative, intuitive and creative self (or group) expression
 a form of artistic composition  in the same way that we
recognise much of art practice? Or is there practice outside the
conventional boundaries of contemporary graphic
design/communication that demands a space of its own?

For this exploration to take place it is important to put forward
some definition of the broad nature of graphic
designers/communication practice. As a frame of reference we
might include (or exclude) the following:

Graphic designers/communicators:

- working with brand and identity
- in editorial and publishing
- envisioning information

Illustrators, photographers, animators, film-makers, typographers

Graphic artists

Convention defines graphic design/communication as visual
communication and problem solving. This methodology  involving
intuition and conceptual thinking  uses image, type, materials,
colour and space, in varying amounts, to achieve clarity of
message, as well as appropriate tone of voice to reach a chosen
audience.

Often employed in commercial environments, these methods are well
known to the graphic designer, illustrator, photographer and
typographer. But many outside these professions fail to recognise
the complexities of work and outputs. Some see the output of
graphic designers and communicators as some kind of lower art
form. Many fail to recognise the intrinsic value of much of the
design and communication we experience in our world. How can this
be?

Further, the boundaries of graphic design/communication and art
are constantly in flux and being questioned. Illustrators create
type, photographers illustrate, and both of these types of
practitioner commonly create artefacts. The role of the graphic
designer continues to change. Traditionally, image making for the
most part, has rested in the hands of illustrators and
photographers. But, for as long as designers have existed (and
that is not very long) many have wanted to explore image as part
of their output. Now, as boundaries between disciplines blur,
designers do not always rely on the commissioning of others to
complete designs and communicate messages.

So, a number of questions arise

- When/how can graphic design/communication be art?
- When/how is the graphic designer/communicator an artist?
- When/how can graphic design/communication be seen as
  imaginative - or creative self or group expression?
- When/how can graphic design/communication be seen as artistic
  composition?
- When/how can graphic design/communication be seen as an
  expression or application of human creative skill and appreciated
  for its - beauty or emotional power?
- When/how can the design/communication of a brand message be
  seen as art?
- When/how can the design/communication of an editorial message
  be seen as art?
- When/how can the design/communication of envisioned information
  be seen - as art?
- When, why and how do boundaries exist between graphic
  design/communication and art?
- When and why is it relevant to make distinctions between
  graphic design/ - communication and art?
- Who creates or breaks the boundaries?

This journal will add to ongoing discussions and research and
intends to capture contemporary views and examples relevant to a
changing graphic design and communication landscape nationally
and internationally. It will also aim to evaluate in part how
current practice impacts on wider art and design/communication
culture.

An overarching aim of this journal is to provide context for, as
well as drive, new and future cultural discussions and research
alliances, capturing and publishing new experiences,
environments, methods and outputs. It should enhance our
contemporary understanding of the nature of graphic design and
visual communication presenting opinions across subjects and
institutions.

Background

Message is a peer-reviewed academic journal that consists of
blind reviewed academic papers plus one to three commissioned
essays/articles. It is dedicated to the development and
discussion of contemporary Visual Communication research
particularly within Art & Design with an emphasis on Practice,
Outputs and Artefacts.

The aim of the Message journal is to explore and expand the
boundaries of Visual Communication within Art & Design through an
experimental and developmental ethos, challenging the
practitioner, the development and use of technology, as well as
questioning Visual Communication values and social, ethical and
sustainable practices.

The Message journal welcomes contributions from national and
international Visual Communication researchers and practitioners
from a variety of perspectives  theoretical, conceptual,
educational, industrial.

The Message journal has been initiated by the Message research
group at Plymouth University. The groups research focuses on the
areas of graphic design, illustration and visual communication.

The Plymouth University Message journal and research group is
committed to enhancing the development of these subject areas,
both in education and commercial design, through research and
enterprise.

Submissions

Contributions can take the form of:
Research papers (40006000 words)
A critical analysis and contextualisation of initial stages,
on-going or completed practice based research projects (to
include research question(s), methods and where appropriate
outcomes and findings).

Position papers (40006000 words)
Put forward and debate a position on a particular issue.

Reports (40006000 words)
Reports that document advances in the field for example new
collaborations, technological developments, processes, methods
etc.

All papers are considered with the understanding that they
represent at least 80% original material and have not been
previously published.

Papers/reports that exceed the stated length should be discussed
with the editor prior to submission.

Dates for submission of abstract (300-500 words): 25 September
2015
Notification of abstract acceptances: 9 October 2015
(4000-6000 words): 8 January 2016

Full submission must include: abstract, written paper or report,
images (with evidence of permissions), captions, and
three-sentence biography with contact details (affiliation,
address, email).

When submitting a full paper/report, contact details from authors
should be included on a cover sheet only and have authors details
(name/s etc.) within the paper or report removed.

It is essential that all authors provide a thoroughly proofread
and checked manuscript by 8 January 2016.

Images

Images within papers/reports should be 300 DPI and sent via
wetransfer.com
Images should be properly referenced and proof of copyright
permissions cleared by the author. Evidence of this needs to be
sent via emailed to the Editor.
Abstracts/Full paper/report, images and permissions should be
emailed to the Editor:
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Receipt of your submission will be made within 5 working days.

http://messageresearch.net







20-22 April 2016 -- 12th Quality in Postgraduate Research
Conference: Call for Papers (Adelaide, Australia)

Conference theme: Society, Economy & Communities: 21st Century
Innovation in Doctoral Education.

Quality in Postgraduate Research (QPR)is the worlds biggest &
longest-standing conference on doctoral education. Heldevery two
years in Adelaide, South Australia, QPR brings together
educational researchers, policy makers, university leaders,
research students & research degree supervisors for the purpose
of better understanding the processes, practices, pedagogies and
theoretical frameworks of doctoral education.

The next QPR will take place between 20th  22nd April 2016, once
again at the Australian National Wine Centre in Adelaides
beautiful Botanic Gardens, adjacent to the CBD.

Submissions are now being accepted and close Monday9 November
2015. Details of the 2016 conference (and previous conferences)
and how to submit a proposal for a paper, a poster or a pecha
kucha presentation can be found on the QPR website at
www.qpr.edu.au . Refereed conference proceedings will be
published and the conference organisers are seeking and welcome
offers for special editions of journals in which selected papers
can be published.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Society, Economy & Communities: 21st Century Innovation in
Doctoral Education. Globally, doctoral education continues to
develop rapidly in terms of size, form, diversity and ascribed
purposes. Alongside these developments, debates continue over its
future, forms of delivery and the nature of the learning and
innovation that it facilitates and engenders. These debates
involve actors as diverse as individual research students and
international bodies such as the OECD and the World Bank.

Since 1994 Quality in Postgraduate Research Conference has
brought together from across the world research degree
supervisors, postgraduate students, academic developers,
university decision makers and administrators, governmental
representatives and those who conduct research in postgraduate
education and associated areas. Together we discuss, debate and
make sense of this complex and changing area of policy and
practice. Proposals for presentations and full papers are
therefore invited on topics including, but not limited to:

- the doctorate relationship with societies, economies and
  communities in the 21st century
- research degrees, employability and research skills agenda
- governmental and institutional policy on research training
- supervision practice, the pedagogy of supervision and the
  student experience
- research degrees outcomes and assessment
- diversity in doctoral education
- the management of research degrees
- actors and agency in doctoral education

In addition to full papers, a plenary Pecha Kucha session is
planned in which up to 15 presenters will be given 5 minutes and
allowed a maximum of 10 powerpoint slides to make their argument.
If your proposal is for a Pecha Kucha, please indicate this
clearly in the title when submitting via EasyChair. The audience
will be invited to vote for the best Pecha Kucha presentation,
for which a prize will be awarded.

Proposals for poster presentations are also invited. If your
proposal is for a poster presentation, please indicate this
clearly in the title when submitting via EasyChair. A prize will
be awarded for the best poster. Posters will this year be shown
in electronic format throughout the conference venue.

Proposals for other forms of presentation will also be
considered.

Full details are on the QPR website which can be found at:
www.qpr.edu.au

For reference, the Easy Chair QPR site can be found at
https://easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?key=26787068.
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21-25 March 2016 -- Popular Culture Association & American
Culture Association's (PCA/ACA)
National Conference - Seattle, WA (www.pcaaca.org)

Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design is seeking paper
proposals for oral presentation at the annual conference.

Please join us in Seattle, WA March 21 - 25, 2016 for the
National Conference. We will be staying at the Sheraton Seattle
(book early due to room-block maximums). Please note oral
presentations will take place Tuesday through Friday this year
only. The PCA/ACA is highly regarded in the academy with well
over 5,000 academic oral presentations given internationally, two
top-tier journals (The Journal of American Culture and Journal of
Popular Culture), and over 3,000 members. This year's Seattle
conference should be exciting with papers on an enormous array of
subjects. The deadline for online abstract proposal of papers
will be October 1, 2015. Please do not email your abstract to an
Area Chair, submissions can only be submitted via the site
http://ncp.pcaaca.org/ <http://ncp.pcaaca.org/>. Select a Subject
Area, enter your proposal's title and input a clearly defined
abstract of your scholarship of no more than 250 words and a
short 50-word bio (please review in the database your full name,
university, abstract title and abstract for spelling & grammar).
Submit only one proposal to one area. Multiple submissions are
not allowed.

Key Dates:

Oct. 1, 2015 Registration opens
Oct 1, 2015 Submission Deadline
Nov 15, 2015 Early Bird registration deadline
Dec 15, 2015 Last day to register for the conference and remain
listed in the program
Jan 1, 2016 Preliminary schedule published on-line

Fashion, Style,is concerned with all areas and aspects of style,
fashion, clothing, design, and related trends, as well as
appearances and consumption using and/or including: historical
sources, manufacturing, aesthetics, marketing, branding,
merchandising, retailing, psychological/ sociological aspects of
dress, body image, and cultural identities, in addition to any
areas relating to purchasing, shopping, and the methods consumers
construct identity.

Papers from all methods and disciplines are welcome! Innovative
and new research, scholarship and creative works in the areas of
fashion, design, the body and consumerism are encouraged!







Call for papers for the Special Issue of the Strategic Design
Research Journal (Aug/Sep 2016): "Exploring Participatory Design
as a strategy to act within the city"

Guest editors: Chiara Del Gaudio and Giacomo Poderi

http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/pages/view/call

During the last decades, design has been changing: a
system-oriented design practice has emerged and opened design's
field of action to several different contexts which relate to
human activities both individual and collective (Manzini,
2014).On one hand, the design object extended itself from
products to services and then to systems, made by tangible and
nontangible elements. On the other hand, design has started to
concern not only about the industry and commerce, but also about
other areas such as health, energy, education and transport
systems, urban planning and development, and well-being. In this
sense, design is often considered to act within the public sphere
and in those areas that aim at improving one or more aspects of
people's life, particularly urban and suburban contexts
transformation.

Among the main reasons of this evolution are the widespread
scepticisms, fears and resistances against the predominant
governance systems and the institutions ability to deal with
contemporary societal challenges that call for greater and
different efforts for greater and innovative efforts for tackling
them. Moreover, they prompt society for the need for a change in
the approaches and methodologies used for pursuing them.
Simplistic, monologic or unidirectional solutions seem no longer
efficient and hardly pursued. New configurations of actors, open
solutions and a constant dialogue are necessary to change and
foster a more sustainable society in an ecosystemic perspective.
In this sense, a Strategic Design approach to problem setting and
solving (Manzini, 2014) combined with the tradition and practices
of Participatory Design (PD) appears as a fruitful path to
follow. Actually, the main pillar of the former is to enable a
strategic dialogue among different actors that can inspire and
guide their diverse perspectives towards the construction of a
shared and plural vision. Its core interest is the constant
articulation of the ensemble of relationships existing and
developing in the ecosystems made of different organizations such
as consultancy, firms, institutions, governments, territories and
associations. At the same time, the activities and techniques of
the latter are able to regenerate the local, to rise interest
around conflictual topics, and to point out different ways to
conceive and to solve them by initiating and supporting human
endeavours that are highly characterized by collaborative, open
and participatory processes.

Ecosystemic, participatory and strategic approaches acquire an
astonishing relevance in the public and urban sphere, where the
paradigm of open-innovation and collaborative ecosystems is
becoming a consolidated frame for attempting to tackle a very
heterogeneous set of issues which can range, for instance, from
public transportation to environmental challenges, from elderly
care to education and integration of marginalized groups. In
fact, co-design practices and services that are implemented in
these collaborative ecosystems and that involve local population,
enable and foster a dialog among local forces and resources, and
urban governance mechanisms (Rizzo et al., 2015). Urban Living
Lab and Human Smart City increasing initiatives are, for
instance, an example of the promising interplay among the three
approaches that consider issues intertwined, putting into action
a great variety of actors at the centre of the process and
solutions.

In this frame and in practical terms, the designers aim turns out
to be promoting democratic spaces where different and conflicting
voices and perspectives may be expressed, and where activities
and institutions are implemented to mediate, mitigate and solve
controversies (Bjrgvinsson *et al.*, 2012). These spaces are
social spaces. This means that they are both physical and
abstract: they can be squares, streets, neighbourhoods, as well
as intangible gathering places that work as arenas for questions
and possibilities. This way, designers contribute to a resilient
society in which diversity, redundancy, and experimentation make
society itself able to cope with challenges without collapsing
(Manzini and Till, 2015).

The mediation among different and conflicting voices, the
experimental and on-going trait of these spaces move the
designers focus of action. Designers have to set up, to enable
and to nurture them: designers have to focus more on the process
than the project. This means focus on infrastructuring (Karasti,
2014): the ongoing and open process involving the anticipation of
future scenarios and the alignment of heterogeneous
socio-technical elements, which shall support the emergence of
such scenarios. Focusing on the process that allows a context
change through different projects leads to the idea of having a
metadesign approach. Actually, even if metadesign is a concept
subjected to several different interpretations that are welcome
in this call, we focus here on one of its most commonly shared
features: the idea of developing a design process of the design
process itself.

Considering the core interest of *Strategic Design Research
Journal*, in this special issue, we welcome contributions 
conceptual analysis, case studies or empirical findings  that
critically engage with one (or more) of the provocative questions
raised here:

How do Strategic Design, Participatory Design and
infrastructuring relate to each other in conceptual or practical
terms?

How does the infrastructuring process, as defined above,
critically challenge the scope of Strategic Design?

If metadesign suggests to defer some design and participation
until after the design project, and opens up for use as design,
design at use time or design-after-design (Ehn, 2008), then how
does the design process change the implications of its actions
and the level in which it operate? At what level does the
designer think and act? What is the relation between metadesign
and infrastructuring?

In relationship to the key attention that Participatory Design
and open design projects pay to the relational dimension, how
does infrastructuring enter, contribute to or benefit from
metadesign?

Which kind of interactions among citizens, local forces and
public institutions does the designer stimulate to promote and
feed collaborative ecosystems that support public democratic
spaces? Which are the challenges and how could they be minimized
by specific applications of the Strategic and Participatory
Design approaches?

Schedule

Full Paper Due: January 31st, 2016
Notification of Review Results: March 31st, 2016
Final Version of Paper Due: May 31st, 2016
Notification of Acceptance: June 30th, 2016
Special Issue Publication Date: August 31st, 2016

Submission of Papers

Manuscripts must be prepared using the guidelines found at the
Submission page
http://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/sdrj/about/submissions#
onlineSubmissions

For this special issue, the manuscript must be written in
English.

Previously published articles will not be accepted. Submitted
articles must not be under consideration for publication anywhere
else. The publication of the article is subjected to the previous
approval of the journal's Editorial Board, as well as to peer
review made by, at least, two ad hoc reviewers using the double
blind review process.

Manuscripts must be sent through the online submission system.
You have to register in order to send your article:
http://revistas.unisinos.br/sdrj

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Call for submissions:  EXPANDING THE BOUNDARIES OF COMMUNICATION
AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION-MAKING

In 2004, SUNY Press published Communication and public
participation in environmental decision making (Depoe, Delicath &
Elsenbeer, Eds.). This volume made a significant contribution to
the field, including a much-cited chapter by Sue Senecah on the
"trinity of voice" concept. Research in this area has flourished
since then, including the recent book Citizen voices: Performing
public participation in science and environment communication
(Intellect, 2012; Phillips, Carvalho & Doyle, Eds.). In an effort
to expand the boundaries of scholar-practitioner conversation,
Kathleen Hunt, Gregg Walker, and Steve Depoe are issuing a call
for submissions for a new edited volume that will feature work
exploring theoretical, applied, empirical, and critical
dimensions of communication and community engagement in
environmental decision making at local, regional, national, and
global levels. TOPICS: We encourage submissions that explore a
wide variety of theories, perspectives, and case studies of
community engagement, including, but not limited to:

- case studies and empirical examinations of public participation
  in environmental and natural resource policy contexts
- innovations in government- or regulatory-based public
  participation processes at all levels
  (local/regional/national/international)
- analyses of private and non-governmental sector work regarding
  public participation
- instances of environmental protest against dominant
  participation regimes and practices
- meanings and practices of indigenous, community-based
  environmental dialogue and decision making in locales around the
  world
- extension and application of relevant theories pertaining to
  public sphere, deliberative democracy, etc.
- examination of the role of nature speaking or being spoken for
  in environmental disputes, etc.
- roles and impacts of contemporary communication technologies
  (including social media, GIS, etc.) on public participation

AUDIENCES: We hope to produce a volume that will be read and
utilized by scholars of environmental communication, natural
resource management, and environmental policy, and by
practitioners in the field, including NGO members, environmental
educators and advocates, and government officials. The editors
will choose submissions to publish and develop an overall
framework for the volume with an eye toward reaching a crossover
audience.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Submissions should be formatted in WORD,
using APA 6th Ed. citation guide. We are looking for submissions
of 8,000 words or less, including references. Deadline for
submission is January 15, 2016. All submissions will be peer
reviewed. Submissions should be sent via e-mail attachment to:
Steve Depoe, Professor and Head, Department of Communication,
University of Cincinnati, [log in to unmask]







2016 Design in Mental Health Conference

The Design in Mental Health Conference has established itself as
THE leading professional forum for mental healths built
environment. In 2015, the content featured papers from leading
experts drawn from the worlds of academia, architecture and
design, construction, clinical practice and service management.
Uniquely, delegates also heard from service users, who shared
their direct, personal experiences of, and priorities for,
Britains mental health provision.

Papers are now being invited for the 2016 Conference. So, if youd
like to be on the platform this year, please submit a 300-word
summary of your proposed paper, which will be considered for
inclusion by the Conference Committee.

Submit your paper online at:

www.designinmentalhealth.com







24-26 May 2016 -- ServDes.2016 CONFERENCE
Aalborg University-Copenhagen

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 29 2015

This is a reminder about ServDes 2016 in Copenhagen. The full
proceedings of the conference will be published by Linkping
University Electronic Press. A number of relevant design journals
have been contacted, to publish a selection of the best papers.

SERVICE DESIGN GEOGRAPHIES

After a long maturation period, the discipline of Service Design
is evolving in several directions and exploring new territories.

The discipline has been founded on the area of affluence of many
knowledge streams, from service marketing and management to
interaction design and product design. The ground knowledge from
those disciplinary areas has been integrated through research and
cases studies that have emphasized different and new aspects of
service design, including user-participation and co-creation,
user experience, systemic and social aspects, technological
implications and strategic perspectives.

This relatively young area of design research is now exploring a
wide landscape, that includes methodological contributions,
practice-based research, concrete cases and prototypes, while new
stakeholders are expressing interest in this discipline and
promoting new cases and experiences.

The last few years have also seen an increasing number of public
sector initiatives with the support of design agencies,
foundations and research groups that are promoting novel
approaches to public service innovation. This includes for
example modes to capture and amplify signals of social innovation
projects or the set up of innovation labs within Government
offices. At the same time the private sector is exploring the
potential of more collaborative approaches to service innovation
that value users contribution and participation in the design
process.

Furthermore new contextual conditions are changing the cardinal
points in service innovation: e.g. the availability of large data
sets create new grounds for a new generation of services, that
enable citizens to navigate and connect with dispersed resources;
social networking tools are creating new layers of interaction
and collaborations among close and far off people, while
amplifying human capability to elaborate existing information;
finally broader social changes are changing the patterns of the
demand for new services. ServDes 2016 will explore this new
landscape with the aim of generating new maps, new orientation
tools and coordinates, to help interpreting and framing this
evolving field. Thematic areas of the conference are:

- The centres: the evolution in the foundation of Service Design
- The fringe areas: exploring the boundaries of the Service
  Design discipline
- The tectonics: developing the methodological approach and
  practices
- New directions: e.g. emerging social and technology-driven
  innovation
- Private and public places: cases, strategies, initiatives and
  experiences in and across the public, private and third sector.
- Future transformation: the future research, education, and
  professional perspectives.

More information, recommendations, submission guidelines,
templates and important dates are available here:
http://www.servdes.org/conference-2016-copenhagen-cfp/

http://www.servdes.org







15-19 August 2016 -- 14th biennial Participatory Design
Conference (PDC)
Aarhus, Denmark

The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) is a premier venue for
presenting research on the direct involvement of people in the
design, development, implementation and appropriation of
information and communication technology. PDC brings together a
multidisciplinary and international group of researchers and
practitioners from multiple fields encompassing a wide range of
issues that emerge around cooperative design.

The theme for PDC 2016 is Participatory Design in an Era of
Participation. Over 25 years after the first PDC in 1990,
participation and co-creation have become essential features of
design and research into technology. Living in an era of
participation prompts critical questions around the goals and
practices of involving people in diverse aspects of developing,
redesigning and using IT. The distribution and promise of
information technologies cut across emerging societal challenges
at various levels. Sharing economy, crowdfunding and
participatory cultures create new forms of engagement that
challenge traditional ideas of participation. Public engagement
in radical social innovation is used to address shrinking
finances to public services, resulting in citizen-involving
projects and labs in various domains. Maker technologies, notions
of hacking and shared data, are promoting civic engagement with
technology innovation that changes the material and
socio-economic contexts of production. At the same time,
centralization of the Internet, big data and large-scale
infrastructuring challenge the core democratic ideals of PD.

These issues call for new perspectives on the values,
characteristics, politics and future forms of PD. We encourage
critical and constructive reflections about Participatory Design
as a past, present and future endeavor in an era of
participation!

Deadlines

- Full papers and short papers: February 5th 2016, 23:59 CET.
- Workshops, tutorials, doctoral colloquium and interactive
  exhibitions: March 1st 2016, 23:59 CET.

CONTRIBUTIONS

PDC 2016 invites contributions from a, but not limited to,
Human-Computer Interaction, CSCW (computer supported cooperative
work), Co-Design, Design Research, CSCL (computer supported
collaborative learning), ICT4D (information and communication
technology for development), Anthropology, Psychology, Industry
and the Arts. The conference offers multiple venues for
contributions, including Papers, Workshops, Tutorials, Doctoral
Colloquium, Interactive Exhibition, Industry cases, and Art and
Design installations. PDC 2016 seeks novel research results or
new ways of thinking about, studying, or supporting shared
activities in these and related areas:

PD in the era of Participation: Critical and theoretical
reflections of the role of participatory design in a
participatory era. What defining values, utopias and
characteristics does it hold, and what are the stakes and
challenges for the future?

Analysis of sociotechnical relations: Critical nalysis of social
and technical relations, e.g. how social and technical relations
shape and can be shaped towards cooperative design of IT;
politics and technology design; critical analysis of gender,
power, culture and sociomaterial dimensions in the development,
implementation and appropriation of technology.

Domain-specific applications of PD: Experiences and analysis of
applications of PD within specific domains, including: museums,
heritage, tourism, industry, healthcare, transportation,
education, navigation, public administration, crisis management,
social computing, and other domains and communities.

Empirical investigations: Findings, insights and guidelines from
empirical participatory design studies, in depth and/or long-term
social research, experiments and collaborative interventions of
design and user research.

Infrastructures and complex challenges: Empirical and theoretical
studies and perspectives addressing complex challenges such as
the infrastructuring of multiple and widely distributed
stakeholders in IT design.

Theory: Development of new theoretical concepts, introduction of
theoretical perspectives, or critical analysis with clear
relevance to participatory design and collaboration around
technology design and use.

Tools, methods and techniques: The description and evaluation of
new tools, methods and techniques developed to facilitate
co-operation on IT-based systems, artefacts, experiences or
organizational forms of technology design, including the
extension of existing ones.

SUBMISSION FORMATS

All submissions should be made via the PDC 2016 Precision
Conference System (see www.pdc2016.org<http://www.pdc2016.org>).

PDC 2016 invites submissions in the following categories:

Full Papers: (maximum 10 pages). Full papers should report on
original research that advances Participatory Design (PD). As a
single-track conference, and the only research conference
exclusively dedicated to PD, PDC full research papers have a
broad impact on the development of PD theory, approaches and
practices. Full papers will be published in the ACM International
Conference series. Each submitted paper will be double-blind
reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Please make sure your
submission is correctly anonymized. Accepted papers should be
revised according to the review reports and the language should
be checked by a native English speaker.

Short Papers: (maximum 4 pages). Short papers should present
original, unpublished ideas and research that advances the field
of Participatory Design (PD) or reflect on its potential future
developments. As these will be presented and discussed in
parallel, thematic sessions, short papers can benefit from a
clear scope. Compared to full papers, short papers may offer a
more limited discussion of related work, or they may provide a
novel design, method or theoretical concept, without a full
evaluation or with less detailed explanation. Short papers are
reviewed to the same standard as full papers. Each submitted
short paper will be double-blind reviewed by at least 3
reviewers. Short papers will also be published in the ACM
International Conference series. Please make sure your submission
is correctly anonymized. Accepted papers should be revised
according to the review reports and the language should be
checked by a native English speaker.

Interactive Workshops: (maximum 2 pages). Workshop proposals
should describe half-day or full-day sessions on topics that
include methods, practices, and other areas of interest related
to Participatory Design (PD). They should support an interactive
format wherein active participation is possible and goes beyond a
presentation format. These formats could include the mapping of a
problem definition, small discussion groups, etc. The proposal
must be written in a format that can be used for recruitment via
the web. It should justify the need for the workshop and should
contain the workshops title, its goals, the planned format,
methods or techniques used to structure the workshop, its
relevance to PD, and a schedule. The duration of the workshop
(half day or full day), envisioned participants, maximum number
of participants and how they will be recruited should also be
described. In the recruitment procedure important dates should be
clearly communicated to the participants (see important dates).
Finally, the workshop proposal should include a clear statement
about the expected outcomes of the workshop (e.g. journal
publication, research proposal, exhibition, etc.).

Tutorials: (maximum 2 pages). Half day and full day sessions for
teaching conceptual frameworks, methods/techniques, and novel
approaches in Participatory Design (PD). The proposal should
contain a title, goals, method or technique, its relevance to PD,
intended participants and a schedule for the tutorial. We are
looking particularly for tutorials with relevance to the
conference theme, and the local/societal context of PDC 2016.
Please describe in the proposal any handouts or materials that
you intend to make available to participants.

Doctoral Colloquium: (maximum 4 page proposal). The doctoral
colloquium is a full-day session intended for PhD students
working within the field of Participatory Design (PD). It will
provide students with an opportunity to discuss issues of concern
to them in their studies and receive extensive feedback from the
session co-chairs and other student participants. Enrollment is
limited and selection will be based on the quality of application
submissions, taking into account how the research is related to
PD. The aim will be to include a spread of students with
different disciplinary emphases, at different stages of study,
and coming from different cultural backgrounds. The proposal
should give an overview of the PhD project, including research
motivations, questions, methods, status of current work, major
findings and plans for further research. Accepted applicants will
be asked to provide a revised and elaborated research summary (4
pages), and to participate in some pre-conference online
discussions.

Interactive Exhibitions: (maximum 2 page proposal). If you would
like to share a concrete participatory design experience in an
interactive format during the main conference program, then this
is for you. The interactive exhibition format includes
submissions of research cases, industry cases, art and design
installations or projects. This format involves the multi-sensory
presentation of material (visual, audio, physical, etc.) that
will be on exhibition throughout the conference. And
additionally, a set up for 30-minute hands-on mini sessions where
an audience of approximately 15 conference participants will be
invited into a concrete participatory design encounter.
Submissions should include (1) A description of what will be
displayed during the conference, and, (2) A description of how
you will engage participants in interactions with your material
during the 30-minute sessions. Each submitted project, case and
art work will be peer reviewed for applicability to the PD
community, and (once accepted) undergo a process of curation into
the interactive exhibition format. In addition to research cases,
the category of Interactive exhibitions include the following two
subcategories:

- Industry Cases: (2 pages). Proposals should report on the use
of participatory methods, tools, and/or practices within
commercial, non-profit, institutional or governmental
organizations. We are interested in a broad range of submissions
that explore what a participatory approach means to different
practitioners and audiences, which may include ideas, approaches,
projects, experimentations or reflections on participation. We
encourage submissions from practitioners who might not ordinarily
attend the Participatory Design (PD) conference but who are
grappling with the complexities of participation or who are
experimenting with novel approaches. Cases should highlight the
benefits, challenges, and outcomes from the application of
participatory approaches and should provide concrete lessons or
challenges for others who are interested in applying PD in their
organizations.

- Art and Design installations: (2 pages). PDC incorporates
participatory art and design installations to inspire and
innovate, and we invite artists and designers working with any
form of interactive participatory methods to submit their
projects. The works can take inspiration from visual and digital
media, performance arts, installations, communication
technologies, touch, sound and any other genres that allow
participants to take part or become part of the art piece. Those
submissions that address or explore the theme participation in an
era of participation will be favored in the selection process.
Proposals should include a description of the artwork (incl.
sketch/design) and interactive exhibition format (above), its
relation to PD, and specific requirements for display.
Alternatively artists can submit audio or video files describing
the project.

The Artful Integrators Award: We welcome nominations for the
seventh Artful Integrators Award, to be presented at PDC 2016 in
Aarhus. The Award is intended to recognize outstanding
achievement in the area of participatory design of information
and communications technologies. Where traditional design awards
have gone to individual designers and/or singular objects, the
Artful Integrators Award emphasizes the importance of
collaborative participation in design, and a view of good design
as the effective alignment of diverse collections of people,
practices and artefacts.

http://pdc2016.org







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ANNOUNCEMENTS







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list is intended for academics and practitioners to explore
connections between professional UX and Design, and academic HCI
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Accessible by Design

The purpose of this list is for anyone interested in the
competition Accessible by Design to be run via the Jisc elevator

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Special Issue on Creativity in Innovation - Article: Luxury and
Creativity

Some of you may find the following article of interest: Luxury
and Creativity: Exploration, Exploitation, or Preservation?. It
was recently published in a special issue of the journal
Technology Innovation Management Review focused on Creativity in
Innovation. The article is available at the following website:

For the pdf file:
http://timreview.ca/sites/default/files/article_PDF/
RobertsArmitage_TIMReview_July2015.pdf

For the online version: 
http://timreview.ca/article/913

For the whole issue see: 
http://timreview.ca/issue/2015/july







11-12 November 2015 -- Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities

The Glasgow School of Art, UK

The identities of those employed within fashion and textiles are
multifaceted. In the higher education sector individuals operate
in complex roles as teachers, educators, facilitators,
instructors, mentors, supervisors, creative practitioners,
researchers, collaborators, coordinators, managers and leaders,
in a continually evolving system responsive to external factors
including the latest government agendas, policy initiatives and
industry developments. The fashion and textiles industry is
transient. Creative professionals work as designers, artists,
makers, colourists, stylists, photographers, illustrators,
technologists, futurologists, curators, authors, historians,
conservators, journalists, buyers, marketers and publicists. It
is commonplace for individuals to associate with numerous
intersecting identities within the global fashion and textiles
community.

The Association of Fashion and Textile Courses (FTC) forthcoming
conference Futurescan 3: Intersecting Identities will provide an
international forum for dissemination of research surrounding
fashion and textiles. Keynote speakers, full and short paper
authors will present preliminary, existing and completed work
that intersects the following themes:

- Education and Industry
- Research and Teaching
- History and Contemporary Practice
- Creative Practice and Theory
- Making and Technology
- Sustainability and Society
- Local and Global Communities

Keynote speakers:

Carole Collet, Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures,
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
Noa Raviv, Fashion Designer & Artist, Creative Director Noa Raviv
Paul Simmons, Designer & Owner, Timorous Beasties

The conference is intended for educators, established and early
career researchers, postgraduate students, practitioners and
industry professionals.

www.ftc-online.org.uk/futurescan-3

For enquires please email: [log in to unmask]







FORMakademisk has just published its latest issue at
https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk

This special issue of FORMakademisk is built upon papers from the
DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 conference  2nd International Conference
for Design Education Researchers  at Oslo and Akershus University
College of Applied Sciences (HIOA) 14-17 May 2013 in Oslo.

The conference was a cooperative event between the Design
Research Society (DRS) and the International Association of
Universities and Schools of Design, Art and Media (CUMULUS), and
hosted by the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design at HIOA.

The theme for the conference was Design Learning for Tomorrow 
Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD.

The conference received an overwhelming response both ahead of
the conference, with 225 admitted papers, and during the
conference with 280 delegates from 43 countries listening to 165
presentations and having a good time in Oslo. The last day of the
conference was the 17th of May, Norway National Day, with
traditional songs and a childrens parade in the centre of Oslo.

We see this positive response to the conference as a growing
awareness of perceiving design in a broad interdisciplinary
perspective in support for a better tomorrow. For years the
Design Literacy Research Group, with a base at HIOA in Oslo, has
promoted the idea that sustainable design solutions should
include more than professional designers; they should also
include the general public as conscious consumers and decision
makers with responsibility for quality and longevity, as opposed
to a throw-away society.

The members of this Special Issues Editorial Team have been:

- Liv Merete Nielsen, Professor, Dr. ing. Faculty of Technology,
Art and Design Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences
- Karen Brnne, Associate Professor, PhD Faculty of Art and
physical Volda University College
- Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus, PhD-candidate Faculty of Technology, Art
and Design Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied
Sciences

Please, like and share FORMakademisk at Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/FORMakademisk

FORMakademisk Vol 8, No 1 (2015): DRS // CUMULUS Oslo 2013 Table
of Contents
https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk/issue/view/68

Editorial

Design Learning for Tomorrow  Design Education from Kindergarten
to PhD
Liv Merete Nielsen, Karen Brnne,   Ingvill Gjerdrum Maus

Articles

Working memory and background knowledge - Cognitive science in
the design classroom
Pino Trogu

Imagining the unknown - Responsible creativity for a better
tomorrow
Eva Lutns

Ecological Literacy in Design Education - A Theoretical
Introduction
Joanna Boehnert

Testing keywords internationally to define and apply
undergraduate assessment standards in art and design
Robert Harland

The Global Studio - Incorporating Peer-Learning into the Design
Curriculum
Aysar Ghassan,  Erik Bohemia

An Audio-visual Approach to Teaching the Social Aspects of
Sustainable Product Design
Matthew Alan Watkins

Progressive Development of Creative Design Skills from
Kindergarden Education
Meryem Yalcin

Vernacular traditions in Norwegian jewelry design - Past,
present, future
Astrid Skjerven

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17-18 October 2015 -- Design Connects International Design
Conference
International Design Conference of KSDS and ADADA with Cumulus,
2015
Gwangju, Korea

An academic conference in connection with the International
Design Congress 17  23.10.2015 www.2015idc.org
http://www.2015idc.org/conference/

Cumulus is also extending an invitation to all interested to
visit the Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea on October
16, 2015. Max. 20 participants.

For more information please contact Cumulus coordinator Mrs
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The goal of this event is to create a forum to explore meaningful
changes in design profiles and convergence of design disciplines.
By connecting cross-disciplinary, cultural, and social knowledge
and various design approaches from diverse design domains, Design
Connects will explore emerging design issues to make our life
better.

Design Connects is a collaborative conference by the KSDS (Korean
Society of Design Science), the ADADA (Asia Digital Art and
Design Association) and Cumulus, the International Association of
Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media.

This conference will take place from October 17th through October
18th at the Asia Cultural Complex and Chonnam National University
in Gwangju, Korea. The theme of this conference centers around
the idea of design thinking to address issues on emerging
professional profiles connected to the most up-to-date evolutions
of the discipline of design.

The conference is a two day program. The first day of the
conference consists of paper presentation sessions and will be
held at Chonnam National University. The second day is the
Cumulus Forum and will take place at the newly built design hub
in Gwangju, the Asia Cultural Complex. The conference will be
held in conjunction with the International Design Congress of
2015. The respected associations in the field of design such as
ico-D(International Council of Design), ICSID(International
Council of Societies of Industrial Design), IFI(International
federation of Interior Architects/Designers), IxDA(Interaction
Design Association) and SDN(Service Design Network) are gathering
together to discuss and bring out questions that designers can
participate more actively with the changes and problems around
the world.

Information:

Korean Sciety of Design Science (www.design-science.or.kr)
Asia Digital Arts and Design Association (www.adada.info)
Cumulus Association (www.cumulusassociation.org)







Vol. 1 No. 2 - Journal of Design, Business & Society

Volume 1, Issue 2 of the Journal of Design, Business & Society is
now published. In this issue we have published an editorial
written by our Associate Editor, Cara Wrigley and five articles
that examine the role of design in business and society from a
professional perspective.

The first article examines sensemaking in design as a capability
for organisational and strategic change within a case study
conducted on Zodiac Aerospace. Zodiac is a world leader in
aerospace equipment and systems for commercial, regional and
business aircraft, as well as helicopters and space applications.
This article is written by Julia Debacker, Jrgen Tange, and
Christine de Lille of Delft University of Technology. Debacker is
a PhD researcher in Service Design for aviation, while both Tange
and de Lilles main areas of research include the design of
services, user-centered design, and how this impacts
organisations.

Following this we have an article by Gabriella Spinelli from
Brunel University London, which considers innovation from the
users perspective  specifically for elderly consumers, in order
to enhance technology-based products. The user studies for this
paper have been conducted in London and Tokyo. Spinellis
experience is in designing interaction, technologies and
communication from a user perspective. Her research interests
have attracted funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council, the National Police Improvements Agency, the
Technology Strategy Board, and the DAIWA Foundation.

Our third article is by Nico Florian Klenner and Lasse
Hartz-Olsson of Copenhagen Business School and Brett Capron of
CobaltNiche Design. The study examines how design can be employed
to create a competitive advantage for start-ups in seeking
external funding. It shows how competitive advantage might be
realised, and proposes a model that explains how the fundraising
process leading to an investment decision might be influenced by
design. Both Klenner and Hartz-Olssons research sits at the
intersection between business and design and Capron is an
experienced product designer with an Industrial Design and
Mechanical Engineering background.

The forth article investigates and articulates the role of
mindset within design thinking and capability and practice. The
paper is based on studies conducted through a doctoral research
program, but is framed around the practices of the strategic
design consultancy Huddle. It is co-written by Zaana Howard and
Melis Senova of Huddle, and Gavin Melles of Swinburne University
of Technology. Howards recently-completed PhD focused on design
thinking in practice and the development of design thinking
capability within organisations. Senovas areas of expertise
include service strategy and strategic service design. Melles is
Senior Lecturer in Swinburnes School of Design, with grants in
the areas of design education, design thinking and
sustainability.

Lastly, our fifth article from Piia Rytilahti, Simo Rontti, and
Satu Miettinen from the University of Lapland focuses on service
design integration within business development. This research
proposes an iterative action research framework for developing
the Finnish digital business ecosystem with the use of service
design thinking and tools applied to six Finnish case studies.
Rytilahtis design research focuses on regional research and
development projects. Ronttis work as a project manager and
university lecturer incorporates a research focus on service
design methodologies and environments. As a professor at the
University of Lapland, Miettinens research interests are in the
areas of social and public service development as well as digital
service development.

We believe these five articles to be insightful,
positively-impacting examples of a new, hybrid research area, and
trust that the readers of this second issue of the Journal of
Design, Business and Society will find them as exciting and
inspiring as we do.

The link to the Volume 1, Issue 2 is here:

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2934







Visual/Textual: SMT13 Volume - focusing on the materiality of
design research
SMT volume 13 is now online.

https://www.materialthinking.org/volumes/volume-13-0

The primary aim of this volume is to endorse research reporting
that prioritizes the materiality of design research, placing
artefacts of research practice centre stage. Discussions focus on
research through design and some go further, interconnecting the
verbal, textual, physical and visual within the description and
discussion of inquiry methods informed by practice. Two important
considerations in contemporary Design disciplines are brought to
the fore: how best to document the realities of research through
design practice and how to recognise and differentiate the
wide-ranging roles that the artefact may take within the
research. This special issue signals a constructive break from
conventional journal formatting, with submissions that reflect
new and alternative conceptualisations of design research. They
challenge expected mechanisms for communicating and translating
research to broader audiences through the communicative power of
combining and interweaving visual and textual elements. This has
resulted in a departure from the SMT house style in favour of
more eclectic and individualistic paper design and formatting.

- Editorial
Jayne Wallace, Joyce Yee & Abigail Durrant

- Reflections on Research through Design: The Evolution of
Silence
Rachele Riley

- Objects in Purgatory brooch exchange: Storytelling artefacts as
agents for audience engagement
Julia Keyte

- Understanding and Designing with (and for) Material Traces
Holly Robbins, Elisa Giaccardi, Elvin Karana and Patrizia DOlivo

- The Craft Technologist
Michael Shorter

- Synchronous agents: modeling communication design as rhetorical
and resonant interaction
Veronika Kelly

- Seeing me: the role of transparent bodies in the medical
consultation
Fionagh Thomson and John McGhee

- Visualising text-based data: Identifying the potential of
visual knowledge production through design practice
Dr Jacqueline Lorber Kasunic & Dr Kate Sweetapple







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