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, Deadline for full papers: 9th November 2015
*Session Title: 4. Embodied Making and Learning*
CFP link http://www.drs2016.org/additional-themes
SUB-CHAIR
Professor Marte Sørebø Gulliksen, Telemark University College, Norway, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
CO-CONVENERS
Professor Pirita Seitamaa Hakkarainen, PhD, Helsinki University, Finland
Professor Maarit Mäkelä, Aalto University, Finland
Research Fellow/Assistant Professor Kirstine Riis, Telemark University College, Norway
Research Fellow Camilla Groth, Helsinki University, Finland
THEME CONTEXT AND OUTLINE:
Being immersed in a design process is an embodied process of making. In this thematic session welcome for papers that explore 1) the phenomenon embodied making and the conditions for it within the wide spectrum of design processes, and 2) how embodied making contribute to learning during the design process. The term 'design processes' is used in a broad sense: the focus is on the act of making, and the maker could thus be everyone engaged in creative processes making objects in a material (ranging from children's whittling to the professional carpenter, from the amateur knitter to the professional ceramist).
Papers presented in this thematic session will explore the basic conditions and consequences of being a body in the world, experiencing and learning through working in materials. Possible topics could be related to e.g. following keywords: making, creativity, and role of the body in design practice. We encourage papers on interdisciplinary approaches and within a variety of methods.
The context of the thematic session is the collective endeavors of a research consortium formally established in a symposium at the LearnXDesign2015-conference in Chicago, June 2015 by researchers from three research groups in Norway, Finland and Canada http://embodiedmakinglearning.blogspot.no/.
The aim of the thematic session is twofold. First, it will be a meeting point of researchers from a variety of backgrounds to jointly share and discuss their insights and ideas on the theme within the Design Research Society, and secondly it will be a forum for the research consortium to present their research to the larger DRS-community.
SELECTED REFERENCES TO INDICATE THEME SCOPE:
Gulliksen, M. S. (2015). Creative Cognition and Embodied Making. Paper presentation at LearnXDesign2015 https://www.academia.edu/13666702/Creative_cognition_and_embodied_making_-_presentation_at_LearnXDesign2015
Niedderer, K. (2013). Explorative Materiality and Knowledge. The Role of Creative Exploration and Artefacts in Design Research. FORMakademisk 6(2): 1-20. https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk/article/view/651/613
Lopata, J. A. (2014). Creativity as a mental state: An EEG study of musical improvisation. The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. London, Ontario, Canada, University of Western Ontario. PhD: 161.
Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception. London, Routledge.
Mäkelä, Maarit (2007). Knowing through making: The role of the artefact in practice-led research. Knowledge, Technology & Policy, 20(3), 157-163. http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs12130-007-9028-2.pdf
Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, P., et al. (2013). Materiality and Emotions in Making. Techné series - Research in Sloyd Education and Craft science A 20(3): 5-19. https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/techneA/article/view/702/654
Varela, F. J., et al. (2003). On becoming aware: a pragmatics of experiencing. Amsterdam; Philadelphia, PA, J. Benjamins.
Websites for the research groups behind the thematic session:
The Embodied Making and Learning research group, Telemark University College, Norway http://www.tuc.no/Research/Research-Groups/Embodied-making-and-learning-EMAL, http://embodiedmakinglearning.blogspot.no/
The Handling Mind research consortium, Aalto University, Finland http://blogs.helsinki.fi/handling-mind/
The Human Ingenuity Research Group, Western, Ontario, Canada http://www.edu.uwo.ca/HIRG/index.html
Questions concerning this session can be sent to
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Kind Regards,
Marte S. Gulliksen
Marte Sørebø Gulliksen, PhD
Institutt for forming og formgiving, Fakultet for estetiske fag, folkekultur og lærerutdanning
«Never make small plans»
http://www.hit.no/ansatte/vis/marte.gulliksen
LinkedIn: https://no.linkedin.com/in/martesg
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