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o IASDR2017 conference
o Design Studies
o Calls
o Announcements
o The Design Research Society: information
o Digital Services of the DRS
o Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN
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IASDR2017 ANNOUNCEMENTS
Conference - 31 October-3 November 2017 University of Cincinatti, USA
Call for Papers for the International Association of Societies of
Design Research (IASDR) 2017 Conference - held for the very first time
in the USA.
EXTENSION
Please note that the deadline for paper and poster submissions has
been extended until 18 March 2017
ATTENDANCE
The organisers have also made this statement:
To allow all world citizens to participate in the IASDR2017
conference, every effort will be made to accommodate alternative forms
of presentation such as recorded video or real-time online video
conferencing. If you experience travel restrictions which will prevent
you from attending the conference in person, please contact us at
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DESIGN STUDIES
Contents of Design Studies Volume 48, January 2017
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X/48 \0x2028
Acknowledgement of Referees
From Design Methods to Future-Focused Thinking: 50 years of design
research
Peter Lloyd
Viewpoint: Design age: Towards a participatory transformation of
images of ageing
Kathrina Dankl
The role of logbooks as mediators of engineering design work
Hamish McAlpine, Philip Cash, Ben Hicks
Emotional activity in early immersive design: Sketches and moodboards
in virtual reality
Vincent Rieuf, Carole Bouchard, Vincent Meyrueis, Jean-Francois
Omhover
Visual attention and association: An electroencephalography study in
expert designers
Chaoyun Liang, Chin-Teng Lin, Shu-Nung Yao, Wen-Shan Chang, Yu-Cheng
Liu, Shi-An Chen
Behavioural design: A process for integrating behaviour change and
design
Philip Cash, Charlotte Gram Hartlev, Christine Boysen Durazo
Book Review: The Routledge Companion to Design Research
Nigel Cross
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CALLS
20 May 2017 - Criteria. A Conference on Critical Design
The MENA Design Research Center <https://www.menadrc.org/> is pleased
to host an interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the value of
critical theory to design, arts, social sciences, and media. The
conference aims to encourage interdisciplinary engagement that brings
together academics and practitioners to share knowledge on how
critical theory encourages social change by challenging assumptions
about the status quo.
The conference seeks to understand how the relatively new field of
Critical Design positions the design discipline within a larger
constellation of critically-oriented research. As Dunne, Raby, and
others have shown, critical design, as opposed to affirmative design,
asserts that design ought "to raise issues, to ask questions and to
challenge assumptions" rather than only emphasizing problem-solving
and production. Critical Design uncovers the "values, ideologies, and
behavioral norms" that design processes often obscure. In the same
vein as the Frankfurt School-inspired critical theory that preceded
it, critical design is a research orientation dedicated to
transgressing and undermining social conformity, passivity, and other
values of capitalist ideology, in hopes of bringing about social
emancipation. We are surrounded by products that give us an illusion
of choice and encourage passivity. But "industrial design's position
at the heart of consumer culture could be subverted for more socially
beneficial ends by providing a unique aesthetic medium that engages
the user's imagination."
With increasing social and environmental challenges, the future seems
unnerving; however, instead of taking critical and opposing stances,
many tend to conform and retreat into self-constructed consumerist
realities. Social media helps create the illusion that humanity is
passionately united under similar causes and struggles, but in reality
most have accepted these world challenges as norms. What roles can
designers play in such circumstances? Designers are taught and
expected to use their skills to create products and experiences that
shape the opinions, values, emotions, and behaviors of their users.
With what tools and methods do critical designers need to be equipped
in order to become agents of change? How can designers disrupt the
value that systems and generations of products have created since
industrialization and shed light on contemporary social issues to
which we have become oblivious?
For example, in 2010, a group of Lebanese students showcased a range
of products that critiqued aspects of Lebanese society at the Salone
del Mobile in Milan. These products included Union - a radio that
allows users to listen to all six main political party stations
simultaneously; INcognito - a dome-shaped umbrella that addresses the
physical impositions of the burka; and Dust in the Wind - a product
that critiques the illegality of cremation in Lebanon. The exhibition
was named 'Design in Times of Crisis'. Although these students may not
have been aware of critical design, their projects nevertheless
epitomized the drives and motivations of this new, emerging field.
Therefore, critical design needs to be located within an
epistemological network of critically-oriented research, especially
with a focus on local context.
The conference is set to take place on the 20 May 2017 during the
sixth annual Beirut Design Week
<http://beirutdesignweek.org/page/45/Home-Page>. MENA Design Research
Center welcomes proposals for presentations, papers, workshops, or
artefacts from media, design, and social sciences students, scholars,
and practitioners. Please submit a 300-word abstract to
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2017. Proposals should include a 100-word biography and the form that
your presentation will take (paper, presentation, workshop, artefact).
Accepted submissions will be notified by 17 March 2017.
3-5 November 2017 - 3rd International Conference & Exhibition
Semiotics and Visual Communication 2017 branded. the
semiotics of branding - culture + context
Cyprus University of Technology Lemesos, Cyprus
The 3rd International Conference & Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual
Communication will take place from the 3rd to the 5th of November 2017
at the Cyprus University of Technology and welcomes papers from a
broad interdisciplinary and diverse theoretical spectrum on the
subject of 'branded. the semiotics of branding - culture + context'.
Branding and brand-design has achieved a reputation and status of
almost mythical proportion over the past few decades. Emerging from
its forerunner- corporate identity - to incorporate advertising,
consumer lifestyles and attitudes; image-rights; market-research,
customisation, global expansion, sound and semiotics, 'the
consumer-as-the-brand'-the word 'branding' currently appears bigger
than its own umbrella definition. From tribal markers such as totems,
scarifications and tattoos, to emblems of power, language, fashion,
architectural space, insignias of communal groups, heraldic devices,
religious and political symbols, national flags and the like, a form
of branding is at work that responds to the need to determine the
presence and interaction of specific groups, persons or institutions
through a shared code of meaning. The conference will be accompanied
by a Poster exhibition with the theme 'explosion[s]: the global logo'.
This inclusive conference and exhibition aims to investigate the broad
subject field of semiotics in its widest context, celebrating the
exploration of connections, tensions, contradictions and
complementarity between the diversity of outputs. The event seeks to
bring together researchers, scholars and practitioners who study,
evaluate and reflect upon the means by which semiotic theories can be
analysed, perceived and articulated within the context of the various
forms of theoretical and practice based visual communication. Papers
will be accepted in Greek and English.
http://icsvc-conference.com
12 October 2017 - Third annual Researcher Education and Development
Scholarship Conference
University of Leeds
First developed at the University of Sheffield, this is 'The'
conference for those interested in research and scholarship in respect
of the development of researchers.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ris/ecr/events/reds2017
CALL FOR PAPERS AIEDAM Special Issue, Summer 2018, Vol.32, No.3
"Design Creativity" Guest Editors: Katherine Fu, Mark Fuge, David C
Brown
This special issue of the AIEDAM journal will be devoted to papers
concerned with Design Creativity.
Engineering design relies on creative thought to produce new and
exciting products, systems, and services. The study of creativity
provides many opportunities for interdisciplinary research between
engineering, cognitive science, and computer science. This special
issue aims to capture a snapshot of some of the best work at this
intersection of areas.
For this issue, while papers with normal AI content are desired, we
will broaden the scope to include papers that explicitly discuss
creative thinking, types of reasoning, and explicit use of knowledge;
such topics often influence the foundation of creative AI design
systems.
We are interested in papers that address either or both of the
following:
(1) Empirical outcomes -- such as creative results, processes, or
systems;
(2) Foundational theory -- such as understanding how, why, and what
makes designs or designers creative, so as to provide useful
performance bounds on computational creativity.
We encourage authors to emphasize rigorous evaluation (e.g.,
benchmarking their results to the existing state-of-the-art where
feasible), rather than describing a case study or implementation in
isolation.
Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Computational models, techniques, or systems for simulating
individual or team creativity in engineering design;
- Computational models, techniques, or systems for simulating social
or other influences on creativity;
- Models of creative reasoning (including transductive reasoning such
as analogy or bio-inspiration); - Studies of creative reasoning;
- Techniques for evaluating products, systems, services and processes
for decisions about creativity;
- Methods for learning to assess design creativity;
- Mixing human and computational design creativity;
- Mathematical and computational foundations of design creativity;
- Computability and complexity limits of design creativity.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three
reviewers. The selection for publication would be made on the basis of
these reviews. Information about the format and style required for
AIEDAM papers, as well as about submission, can be found at:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ai-edam/information/
instructions-contributors
Note that all queries and information about submissions for special
issues should be addressed to the Guest Editors, and not to the Editor
in Chief.
Please submit your paper through the ScholarOne system online at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aie
Important dates:
Intent to submit (Abstract & Title): As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers: 1 May 2017
Reviews due: 30 Aug 2017
Notification and reviews to authors: 30 Sep 2017
Revised version submission deadline: 15 Jan 2018
Issue to publisher: 1 Mar 2018
Issue online: Jun 2018
http://inspire.usc.edu/aie/index.php/SpecialIssues/Vol32No3
27-19 September 2017 - #Decolonise!
Design educators reflecting on the call for the
decolonisation of education # The year 2016 will be noted in the
annals of history as a watershed year in South African Higher
Education. The calls by South African students for decolonised
education have been emphatically professed, loud and clear. This
call will be addressed at the 14th National Design Education
Conference of the Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA),
hosted by the Tshwane University of Technology's Faculty of the Arts
and Inscape Education Group from 27 - 29 September 2017 at Freedom
Park, City of Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa.
With the 2017 #Decolonise! Conference, design educators are provided
with the opportunity to reflect on, and critically interrogate the
notion of decolonisation in relation to design education with the aim
of transforming existing practices - asking questions on Who,
What, Where, When and How? Examples of questions which require our
urgent attention include: What is our understanding of the call for
decolonised education? How do our curricula and pedagogical approaches
stand up to this call? What values, assumptions and truths underlie
our discipline? To what extent do we incorporate the context and
knowledge of the South, and more specifically of Africa into our
discipline? How do we bring practitioners of design into the
conversation? How are we contributing textbooks and learning resources
to this project? What do our students have to say on these issues?
Through strategic partnerships with Freedom Park, and its Department
of Heritage and Knowledge, and the City of Tshwane, DEFSA invites all
role-players in design to submit academic papers that will contribute
to this discourse.
http://www.defsa.org.za
* Here's a thoughtful article from AIGA on curriculum change -Ed.
http://eyeondesign.aiga.org/why-cant-the-u-s-decolonize-its-design-
education/?mc_cid=a690e445cb&mc_eid=011a6cc8d8
8-10 November 2017 - Anticipation
London
The 2nd International Conference on Anticipation will provide an
interdisciplinary meeting ground in which researchers, scholars and
practitioners who are seeking to understand anticipation and
anticipatory practices can come together to deepen their understanding
and create productive new connections.
The overarching aim of the conference and of the emerging field of
Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how
individuals, groups, institutions, systems and cultures use ideas of
the future to act in the present.
http://anticipation2017.org/
ITERATIONS Design Research and Practice Review is currently seeking
submission for Issue 5, the review is especially keen to publish
articles on:
- Emerging/ Non-traditional design disciplines
- Inter-disciplinary Design
- Experimental/ Speculative Design
We are particularly interested in articles and papers which reflect on
the changing landscape of design and the cross-over with
non-traditional design disciplines. Interviews with design leaders and
reviews of design work will also be considered. Research articles,
action research and position papers will also be considered as per
previous issues. The review is an open platform for practicing
designers and design researchers alike and strives to publish a
reflection of contemporary issues in Design Practice and Research.
Submissions may include: 1. Research articles for peer review (6-8
pages: 6 page article requires 3000-3300 words, 8 page article
requires 4000-4500) 2. Reflections on practice focused on design
projects or process (Use full paper and commentary articles as a guide
to word count) 3. Single page A4 Portrait - Practice, creative work,
infographics, visual essay, illustration, etc. 4. Commentary, Opinion,
Position articles (up to 1500 words) 5. Interviews (up to 1500 words)
Deadline for receipt of articles: Friday 10th March 2017
http://www.iterations.ie
14-15 September 2017 - DeL 2017: Teaching Making/Making Teaching
University of the Arts London
The call for papers is now open for DEL 2017, which will be hosted at
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, 14-15 September
2017. For more information and to submit, visit the DEL 2017
website.
Deadline: 3rd
April 2017.
We welcome submissions from individuals and groups across all creative
disciplines, working in roles including instructors, lecturers,
researchers, artists and designers, support staff, instructional
designers and technicians.
Themed 'Teaching Making / Making Teaching', DEL 2017 seeks to explore
digitally engaged practices and processes of teaching, making and
researching within the creative disciplines.
By 'digitally engaged', we are referring to practices that are
actively with, about or in digital tools and spaces. We take the
creative disciplines to refer to a wide range of areas including (but
not limited to) art, design, media, performing arts and music. We
understand teaching, making and researching as uncertain 'crafts' that
involve processes of self-discovery, experimentation, enquiry,
reflexivity and development.
This year we have not defined conference tracks. We hope this
encourages submissions that resonate with the overall conference
theme, but that make sense in the context of the many disciplines and
practices participants may be coming from.
There are a number of submission formats, designed to accommodate
participants at different stages and places in their digitally engaged
teaching and learning journeys. You can propose any of the following:
- Workshop
- Presentation of scholarship (creative practice, teaching practice,
research)
- Panel discussion (2 presenters minimum)
- Micro teach/micro make
http://www.designsonelearning.net
13 September 2017 - Collaborations in
Textile Design Research, Conference and Exhibition
Loughborough University in London, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
INTERSECTIONS is a one-day conference with exhibition of work
organised by the Textile Design Research Group at Loughborough
University exploring collaborations in textile design research to be
held at Loughborough University in London on 13 September 2017.
INTERSECTIONS is interested in case studies which reveal unusual
connections and cross- or interdisciplinary collaborations furthering
research in the field of textiles and textile design. How are these
initiated? What makes a successful collaboration leading to innovative
research? What are the issues? Why collaborate?
Topics may include:
- Collaborations with society, industry, institutions
- Applied textile thinking
- Materials
- Processes
- Integrated digital practice
- Craft, hands-on design, hand processes
- Emerging technologies
- SMART, functional, wearable, interactive textiles
- Well-being
- Sustainability
Abstracts will be peer reviewed and accepted authors will be invited
to submit full papers (3000-5000 words) by 31 May 2017. Conference
contributors may be invited to submit to a Special Issue of the
Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice.
The exhibition will show work which demonstrates textile design
research through collaboration and cross/interdisciplinary practice.
This could be practice resulting from collaboration, a collection of
research samples illustrating a conference submission or collaborative
research. Key dates:
Deadline for submission of abstracts 28 February 2017
Notification of acceptance of abstracts 17 March 2017
Deadline for submission of full papers 31 May 2017
Deadline for exhibition proposals 31 May 2017
Deadline for submission of exhibition work 31 August 2017
Submit For paper presentations: a 200-300 word abstract for a
conference contribution with a 100 word author biography no later than
28 February 2017 to
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For exhibition application: a 200-300 word proposal of work with up to
4 related images (maximum size 1MB) and a 100 word artist biography no
later than 31 May 2017 to
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http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/aed/staff-research/intersections
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
29 March 2017 - The Graphic Design Educators' Network
With a shift simultaneous realities collide
Wednesday 29th March 2017 2:00-5:00pm (registration from 1:00pm)
London College of Communication
This half-day event will focus upon the role of writing
in/across/through design education and practice. The afternoon will be
in two parts and will encourage participants to share thoughts and
experiences. Dr Nicky Ryan (Dean of LCC's Design School) will open the
event. Paul Bailey (Course Leader of MA Graphic Media Design, LCC)
will introduce keynotes from Bryony Quinn (writer, educator, lecturer)
and James Langdon (designer, writer, educator). LCC's current MA
Graphic Media Design participants will host three parallel
workshops/activities to explore a series of provocations. After a tea
break, Professor John Wood (Goldsmiths Emeritus Professor in Design,
founder of WritingPAD and co-editor of the Journal of Writing in
Creative Practice) will offer an endnote. The afternoon will close
with a plenary panel discussion fuelled by questions and observations
from participants. We will then retire to LCC's local pub, The Prince
of Wales, to continue the conversation.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/with-a-shift-simultaneous-realities-
collide-tickets-31453182315
International Journal of Design Vol. 10(3) December 2016 | Table of
Contents
Original Articles
When 'Feeling Good' is not Good Enough: Seven Key Opportunities for
Emotional Granularity in Product Development
JungKyoon Yoon, Anna E. Pohlmeyer, Pieter M.A. Desmet
Influence of Curvature and Expertise on Aesthetic Preferences for
Mobile Device Designs
Chun-Heng Ho, Yen-Nien Lu, Chun-Hsien Chen
The Barriers and Enablers of Co-design for Services
Antti Pirinen
Towards A Framework for Holistic Contextual Design for Low-Resource
Settings
Clara Beatriz Aranda Jan, Santosh Jagtap, James Moultrie
Design Case Studies
Social Design as a Creative Device in Developing Countries: The Case
of a Handcraft Pottery Community in Cambodia
Lina Kang
Designing for Informal Contexts: A Case Study of Enkanini Sanitation
Intervention
Lorraine Amollo Ambole, Mark Swilling, Mugendi K M'Rithaa
www.ijdesign.org
Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
The International Journal for Researcher Development has now changed
to Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education with the following
revised aims and scope:
Aims and Scope
Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education focuses on scholarship
and practice related to graduate education, including masters and
doctoral level, and postdoctoral experiences. The journal publishes
scholarly articles from a range of academic disciplines and research
methods that represent issues of interest to the international
community. These articles provide research findings and implications
for scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. Areas of emphasis
include:
- Masters and doctoral program development, including issues related
to curriculum and financing
- Masters and doctoral student experiences and outcomes before and
during enrolment as well as after degree completion
- The role of faculty as doctoral advisers, mentors and supervisors
- The postdoctoral experience, including issues related to career
transitions, institutional support, individual decision making, and
outcomes
- Professional graduate degree programs as well as alternative models
of graduate education
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/loi/sgpe
28-31 May 2017 - 5th World Conference on Research Integrity
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
We have recruited a number of highly interesting plenary keynote
speakers and accepted 12 symposia on relevant actual issues. From the
about 300 abstracts submitted we accepted 105 for oral presentation.
There will also be poster walks with pitches and moderated
discussions, and focus tracks and the final plenary sessions will be
dedicated to the Amsterdam Agenda on transparency and accountability.
www.wcri2017.org
The Dovetail Journal
We are delighted to announce that Issue 2: Phenomenology, Literature,
Creative Arts and Media, of The Dovetail Journal (2016), from Bangor
University, is now accessible online at:
http://www.the-dovetail-journal-bangor-university.co.uk/issue-2
10-14 June 2017 - ACM SIGCHI Designing Interactive Systems conference
2017
THEME: BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE, CONNECTING PEOPLE
The theme of DIS 2017 is bridging and connecting - across disciplines,
practices, places and understandings. The most interesting things
happen at edges and boundaries, and so the aim of the 2017 conference
is to examine different approaches to framing knowledge about the
design of interactive systems. As advancements in interactive
technology continue to blur the demarcations between people and data,
and between things and software, interaction designers and researchers
are finding new ways to explore this evolving, interdisciplinary
landscape. At DIS 2017 we shall consider the contrasts and
commonalities that are central in shaping the landscape of emerging
interaction paradigms.
The DIS 2017 conference will take place in Edinburgh, UK, 10-14th June
2017, hosted by the Centre for Interaction Design, Edinburgh Napier
University.
http://www.dis2017.org/
Designing Publics
Contemporary computing technologies have thoroughly embedded
themselves in every aspect of modern life--conducting commerce,
maintaining and extending our networks of friends, and mobilizing
political movements all occur through a growing collection of devices
and services designed to keep and hold our attention. Yet what happens
when our attention needs to be more local, collective, and focused on
our immediate communities? Perhaps more important, how can we imagine
and create new technologies with local communities? In Designing
Publics, Christopher Le Dantec explores these questions by designing
technologies with the urban homeless. Drawing on a case study of the
design of a computational infrastructure in a shelter for homeless
women and their children, Le Dantec theorizes an alternate vision of
design in community contexts.
Focusing on collective action through design, Le Dantec investigates
the way design can draw people together on social issues and create
and sustain a public. By "designing publics" he refers both to the way
publics arise out of design intervention and to the generative action
publics take--how they "do design" as they mobilize and act in the
world. This double lens offers a new view of how design and a diverse
set of design practices circulate in sites of collective action rather
than commercial production.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/designing-publics
5 June 2017 - Building Transatlantic Networks Through the
Creative Industries'
https://events.chapman.edu/24348
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