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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 22 Number 3, May 2017 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Expressions of Interest for hosting IASDR2019
o Design Studies
o DRS2018 call for tracks
o Open letter
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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Call for Proposals for Hosting 2019 IASDR Conference
The Board of the International association of Societies of Design
research calls for proposals for the hosting of the 2019 IASDR
conference.
Key Dates (provisional deadlines that may be revised once the
conference dates are confirmed):
Expressions of interest 24 May 2017 (midnight UTC)
Initial detailed proposal 9 June 2017 (midnight UTC)
Fully developed plan to be agreed 7 July 2017 (midnight UTC)
Notification of successful bidder 14 July 2017
Presentation at Cincinnati Congress November 2017
Event website, public announcement January 2018
Call for papers mid 2018
For further enquiries or to send expressions of interest,
please email:
David Durling Secretary General IASDR
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http://www.iasdr.org/node/37
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DESIGN STUDIES
Contents of Design Studies
Volume 50, May 2017
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X/50/
Where next for research on fixation, inspiration and creativity in
design?
Nathan Crilly, Carlos Cardoso
Pages 1-38
The dynamics of micro-conflicts and uncertainty in successful and
unsuccessful design teams
Susannah B.F. Paletz, Joel Chan, Christian D. Schunn
Pages 39-69
Prototype for X (PFX): A holistic framework for structuring
prototyping methods to support engineering design
Jessica Menold, Kathryn Jablokow, Timothy Simpson
Pages 70-112
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Call for Tracks: DRS 2016 Limerick
The DRS 2018 organisers are seeking Track Session Proposals that will
act as a Catalyst for Change, the main theme for the conference.
In DRS2018: 'Design as a catalyst for change' we will critically
engage with our key research questions: How can design research help
explore the changing territorial contexts of design practice and/or
policy? How can design, as a catalyst, shape the relationship between
research and practice? How can design, and social, economic and
political change, shape each other?
Track sessions
To capitalise on emerging research networks, as well as existing
networks not already covered by SIG areas, we welcome proposals for
track sessions of full papers related to any area of design research.
The aim of track sessions is to provide specific research themes for
paper submissions. These sessions will be managed by sub-chairs as
part of the general paper submission and final programme.
Sub-chairs will be responsible for promoting their track to potential
authors, identifying and allocating reviewers, curating conference
sessions, and sub-editing their specific track section for the
proceedings. Tracks will require a minimum of four accepted papers.
Proposals should consist of a title, proposed sub-chair/s for the
session, a list of 2-3 key people who will assist in managing the
track submissions, track context and an outline (up to 250 words), and
a brief list of references (up to 5) to indicate the track scope.
Submission
To allow us to publicise additional tracks prior to the full-paper
deadline, track session proposals should be submitted to
https://www.conftool.pro/drs2018/ on or before the deadline of 16th
May 2017.
Track session proposals will be reviewed by a subset of the programme
committee with sub-chairs informed of outcomes within two weeks of the
deadline. Successful proposals will be publicised on the website as
part of the conference Call for Papers. Submissions for successful
track sessions will take place via the online submission system along
with standard paper submissions.
http://www.drs2018limerick.org/participation/call-tracks
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Open Letter to the Design Community:
Stand Up for Democracy
1. There is no need to point out that we are now in difficult and
dangerous times. For many years we were living in a world that,
despite its problems, has been nevertheless engaged in a
democratization process whereby human rights, fundamental freedoms and
opportunities for personal development were increasing. Today, this
whole picture has changed. Attacks on democracy are active in several
countries, including the ones where democracy seemed to be unshakable.
2. In these new times, the design community (practitioners,
researchers, theorists, students, journalists, publishers and curators
who are professionally involved in design- related activities) should
stand up, speak out and act. To do that we do not have to share the
same idea of what democracy is. It is enough to recognize the strong
convergence between democracy and design. This convergence can be
characterized in four ways: (1) design of democracy, improving
democratic processes and the institutions on which democracy is built;
(2) design for democracy, involving issues of access and transparency,
allowing more people, especially using technology, to participate in
the democratic process; (3) design in democracy, including projects
that help to bring about conditions of equality and justice; (4)
design as democracy, whereby the equitable and inclusive principles of
participatory design set a stage on which diverse actors can come
together to share constitutive power in shaping the present and future
world we live in. Design has always been instrumental as a tool for
democratization, in the four ways described above, either directly or
indirectly. Today, these multiple commitments should continue, and
designers need to support and increase democratic practices in their
respective communities and countries. But now "normal" ways of
designing are not enough. At this time it is essential that the design
community takes a strong stand against the on-going de-democratization
process and supports broader and richer opportunities for democracy
and well being. In practical terms, this can be defined by as
conceiving, developing and connecting multiple actions of resistance
and proposals of new possibilities. It means using every possible
arena where design has a voice, to stand up against
de-democratization. It means conceiving of and enhancing highly
visible and effective actions of resistance. It also means proposing
and developing projects that address both crucial short-term problems
such as job creation and welfare reform and long-term issues such as
environmental and economic sustainability. These two threads of action
should interact and support each other, resulting in a dynamic
proactive resistance.
3. Beyond expressing and sharing our concern, this letter aspires to
help catalyze discussions and initiatives that we know are already
happening in the design community. We believe that it is important
that these discussions and initiatives have more visibility and state
clearly how the design community, with its richness and diversity, is
standing up and taking a stance in these troubled times.
To contribute to this effort, we are sending this letter to friends
and colleagues who play different, relevant roles in the design
community including design associations, design schools, research
centers, design publications and media, and design-related cultural
institutions. Our proposal to the community is that its members
consider our open letter, and if they agree with its spirit, act in
three ways:
- write a personal statement of less than 500 words
- make it public and circulate it in their networks
- organize an event in the next few months
The two of us are committed to collecting these statements and the
information related to these events and to trying to find a way to
give them visibility. How this last step will happen is still an open
question. It will depend on how this letter is received and what new
energies it generates. We hope that it will stimulate designers to
stand up and fight for democratization in their own communities and
throughout the world.
Ezio Manzini and Victor Margolin
Chicago, 5 March 2017
Please, send your feedback to: [log in to unmask]
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CALLS
21-22 September 2017 - MAKING FUTURES
CRAFTING A SUSTAINABLE MODERNITY - TOWARDS A MAKER AESTHETICS OF
PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
Making Futures will be held on Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd September
2017 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River
Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon, UK.
The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is now open and the closing date for receipt is
22nd May 2017. Building on the success of its four previous editions,
Making Futures invites proposals for papers and presentations that
address the main conference topic, thematic fields and workshops.
Making Futures seeks to be broad and inclusive, and invites a diverse
range of response, from artists, craftspeople, designer-makers, Fab
Lab and maker-movement enthusiasts, campaigners and activists,
curators, historians and theorists.
CONFERENCE AIMS: Making Futures is a research platform exploring
contemporary craft and maker movements as 'change agents' within 21st
century society. Convinced of the transformative potential of
small-scale making and its capacity to contribute to new progressive
futures, our purpose is to examine and promote the possibilities for
maker economies built around contemporary craft, neo-artisanal
design-to-make and related creative micro-entrepreneurs and movements.
The September 2017 edition operates under the rubric 'crafting a
sustainable modernity: towards a maker aesthetics of production and
consumption'. The idea here is of reclaiming a craft future within a
contemporary moment that (contested definitions of the present
notwithstanding) still takes place essentially within the 'arc of
Modernity'. Thus rather than seeing maker cultures as necessarily
antithetical to contemporary Modernity, we want to see if we can frame
emerging regimes of neo-artisanal production as part of a
forward-looking attempt to reimagine a viable Modernity, one in which
small-scale makers and micro-manufacturers try to innovate around
technology, form, function, aesthetic meaning and social relevance -
engaging in responsible (often place-based) market economics but
striving to step outside the exploitative forms of commodification
associated with the 'disembedded' global markets resonant of
neo-liberalism.
WORKSHOPS: we are calling for submissions to three workshops that
address 'crafting a sustainable modernity' by triangulating approaches
to industry, care and community, and the broader social leadership
contributions that contemporary makers might make:
- Craft in Industry: in collaboration with the Royal College of Art.
- The Well Maker Space: in collaboration with Community21, University
of Brighton and University of Wolverhampton.
- Making Leaders (Innovation & Change): in collaboration with
CraftNet, the independent leadership and strategic development network
for contemporary craft. THEMATIC FIELDS: alternatively, submissions
might address one of six themes:
- Craft in Modernity - Critical Perspectives on Producers and
Consumers
- Lifecycles of Material Worlds - Sustainability in Practice
- Procedures of Making - Materials & Processes in Transformation
- Translations Across (Post-Colonial) Local-Global Divides
- Craft in an Expanded Field
- Making Thinking - Crafting Education TWO EXHIBITIONS: will run
during Making Futures:
- We The People (are the work): a citywide exhibition that will build
connections and collaborations that question our engagement with
politics and identity, activated by a series of newly commissioned
artworks by internationally renowned artists.
- Plymouth Art Weekender: a three-day annual event that takes place
across the city from the 22nd- 24th September 2017, showcasing a
diverse range of events by local, national and international artists.
In addition to the above two events, we expect to announce smaller
on-site exhibitions at the Mount Edgcumbe conference location.
CONFERENCE BURSARIES: a limited bursary scheme is open to independent
makers.
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
VISIBLE LANGUAGE
Call for Papers: Special Student Issue Visible Language is looking
for submissions for an issue to include student articles on research
into typographic and graphic design involving usability testing (e.g.
small scale testing of prototype iterations), observational studies,
or experiments comparing alternative designs. The objective of the
special issue is to allow students to experience the publication
process. The research might be on a smaller scale than would
normally be published. Therefore, studies may involve smaller numbers
of participants, be a pilot or scoping study (with a reasonable number
of participants), or usability studies with no need for statistical
analysis. The research would need to meet the criteria for a rigorous
study including:
- a clearly stated research question of relevance to design
practitioners
- ethical approval for the study
- appropriate experiment design
- valid interpretation of results In line with the aims of the
journal, we wish to actively support young scholars and therefore
encourage supervisors/tutors to be involved in the publication process
with joint authorship where appropriate. Also following the practices
of the journal, we are willing to liaise with supervisors and students
to advise on what is suitable for submission, make suggestions, and
provide feedback. Contact Mary Dyson ([log in to unmask]) or
Maria dos Santos Lonsdale ([log in to unmask]) well in advance of
the submission deadline with any questions about the submission
criteria or process and for advice. Criteria for acceptance
Criteria for acceptance of a submission to the special issue are:
- The submission was received on or before the date specified in
the call for submissions (12 February 2018).
- The submission must fall within the scope of the Call for
Papers.
- The submission must not be under review or have been published
elsewhere.
- The literature review, limited to 1500 words, must be relevant to
the objectives of the study and cite the most relevant literature.
- The method used to collect any data included must meet standards
for validity and reliability.
- Any statistical procedures used and interpretation of results
must be appropriate.
- The conclusions drawn from the results of the study must follow
from the method and any statistics used in the study.
- Polished academic writing.
- While the special student issue editors will be looking for
quality work, the standard against which the papers will be judged may
not be the same as manuscripts by more experienced researchers.
- Any revisions requested are carried out to a level accepted by
the editors and within the specified timescale.
Submission length and structure The submission should be no longer
than 6000 words and may be shorter, in particular if reporting a
usability study. The structure should include (as appropriate)
- Abstract
- Background and Rationale (including literature review and
objectives)
- Method (including examples of test material, as appropriate)
- Results
- Discussion (including interpretation of results and
Implications)
- References in appropriate form (see the submission
guidelines of Visible Language)
Submission schedule The closing submission deadline is 12 February
2018 with projected publication in the journal's December 2018 issue.
Submissions will be reviewed by two people and feedback provided by 1
June 2018. Any revisions to the manuscript will be required by 15
August 2018. Final acceptance will be notified by 15 September 2018.
The acceptance of a submission will be determined by the special
student issue editors and Visible Language Editor Mike Zender. How
to submit a manuscript Manuscripts should follow the submission
guidelines of Visible Language and should be emailed to Maria dos
Santos Lonsdale by 12 February 2018 <[log in to unmask]>
12-13 April 2018 - Media, technologies and the City - Publication and
conference call
Moving Images - Static Spaces? ........... The blurring of Architectures,
Film, Animation, Digital Art, Coding and Design
Istanbul, Turkey
For those who cannot travel to Istanbul: Pre-recorded Video, Skype
Presentations
Publications:
1. Book Series - The Mediated City
2. Proceedings Series, ISSN 2398-9467
3. Architecture_MPS journal Special Issue, ISSN 2050-9006
Abstract deadline: 15 December 2017
http://architecturemps.com/istanbul/
This conference is international and interdisciplinary. It welcomes
filmmakers, animators, video artists, computer programmers,
cinematographers, interior designers, gamers, cultural theorists,
architects, urban designers and more.
Theme:
The relationship between architecture, urban environments and the
moving image is deep rooted. It is also mutating. Born in the City
Symphony films of the early 20th it was premised on the dynamic and
mobile representation of buildings, streets and cities. Today,
however, moving imagery and architecture coexist in multiple other
worlds too: virtual reality spaces explored through headsets and
haptic sensors; the animated environments of Second Life; the
projection mapping of buildings in physical space; the fantastical
settings of the gaming industry; fly-through representations of
architectural projects; and the real-time algorithmic formation of
parametric architecture on a computer screen. This complex new
scenario will be explored at this event and all its related
publications.
Website: http://architecturemps.com/istanbul/
Organisers:
Amps is a UK based non-profit that coordinates a consortium bringing
together universities and academics internationally around issues of
new technologies and medias, and their relationship to the built
environment, its representation, design and experience. Publications
and events have been developed in conjunction with Woodbury
University, Ravensbourne, the University of the West of England, the
Centre for Moving Image Research, the Brooks Institute, Altinba
Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, UCL Press and Intellect Books,
amongst others.
CfP: Design for Affective Intelligence (DfAI)
Intelligent and Affective systems are set to transform the way we live
and experience the world. While many intelligent systems already
benefits us through scripted automation and transactions, the need for
assistive, unscripted, autonomous systems capable of dealing with
growing and aging populations is on the increase. The active role that
AI systems are asked to play in people's life poses many challenges -
challenges that increase further when intelligent systems include
affective components. The design and development of affective and
intelligent systems face massive dilemmas related to the fundamentals
of human and social behavior. In addition to many unaddressed (social,
behavioral, decisional and moral) questions, many tensions exist among
the disciplines that shape how these systems will become part of
everyday life. The Design for Affective Intelligence (DfAI) workshop -
co-located with ACII2017 (International Conference on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction) in San Antonio, Texas on
October 23-26, 2017 - focuses on producing, discussing and building on
relevant scholarly work to develop a richer understanding of
human-centric approaches, tools and guidelines that should ground the
design of intelligent and affective systems. Through DfAI participants
will advance the field through scholarly articles and generate deep
multidisciplinary insights that will be published digitally after
ACII2017. DfAI is open to diverse verticals and applications domains
and insights related to smart spaces are particularly encouraged.
KEY THEMES TO CONSIDER
- Usages, verticals and applications that affective and
intelligent systems should (and shouldn't) focus on
- Level of autonomy and agency that affective and intelligent
system should (and shouldn't) have
- Interaction and interface design approaches, best known
methods, guidelines, etc. for affective and intelligent systems
- Level of transparency that affective and intelligent systems
provide to end users
- Human-centric ways to develop technologically advanced
affective & intelligent systems with sustainable business models
- Methods to design affective and intelligent systems that are
unobtrusive, effective, accurate, respectful, intuitive and
transparent, hence more likely to be embraced (vs rejected) by end
users
- Social and behavioral contracts that should underpin
human-machine interaction within affective and intelligent systems
- Ethical considerations that should drive the developer
community when making technical and design decisions
- Attributes of affective and intelligent system that enable a
personal attachment
WORKSHOP WEBSITE: http://dfaiworkshop.wordpress.com/
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017
Notification Due by: July 21, 2017
Camera Ready Due: August 18, 2017
Workshop date: October 23 or 26, 2017 (TBA)
ACII2017: October 23-26, 2017
SUBMISSIONS
Workshop Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore.
The DfAI workshop solicits original and unpublished papers to (1)
discuss and reflect on the cultural, ethical, social implications
surrounding the design, development and deployment of affective and
intelligent system, and/or (2) explore approaches, tools and
guidelines that should ground the design of intelligent and affective
systems. Submissions can be send to workshop [dot] DfAI [at] gmail
[dot] com. If the submission size exceeds 10MB, please make it
available for download. Papers should not exceed 6 pages in length in
PDF format, and should conform to the IEEE publication guidelines. For
templates and examples, refer to:
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/
templates.html
201-24 August 2018 - The 16th biennial Participatory Design Conference
(PDC)
Hasselt & Genk, Belgium
"Participatory Design, Democracy and Politics"
The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) is a conference with a long
history in bringing together scholars who present research on the
direct involvement of people in design, development, implementation,
and appropriation activities of information and communication
technologies, spaces, artefacts, and services. PDC brings together a
multidisciplinary and international group of researchers and
practitioners encompassing a wide range of issues that emerge around
participatory design, encountered and discussed in multiple fields.
These include, but are not limited to, HCI (Human-Computer
Interaction), CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work), co-design,
design research, CSCL (Computer Supported Collaborative Learning),
ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development),
development studies, design anthropology, sociology, media studies,
architecture and spatial planning, and arts.
In 2018, the Participatory Design Conference will be held in Belgium,
in a year that is characterised by municipal elections in the region.
Not only on a local level are things in motion; we are facing several
challenges on a global level too: growing economic and social
inequalities, growing migration rates, and a rise of xenophobia,
right-wing upsurge and securitarian policies. PDC 2018's theme,
'Participatory Design, Politics and Democracy', questions both the
role of participatory design practitioners in the PD processes
themselves and in the changing political landscape.
DEADLINES
- Full papers: 10 November 2017, 23:59 CET.
- First notification to full papers authors: 12 January 2018, 23:59
CET.
- Full-paper revised submission, Short papers, workshops, tutorials,
doctoral colloquium and situated actions submission: 9 February 2018,
23:59 CET.
- Second and final notification of acceptance: 27 March 2018, 23:59
CET.
- Camera ready versions: 18 May 2018, 23:59 CET.
http://www.pdc2018.org
PRACTICE and RESEARCH - request
This is a request for your help finding articles, reports, and
documents of any kind on the topics of 1) practice based research, 2)
practice led research, 3) practice as research, 4) artistic research.
In working on an article, I am discovering that authors use these
terms in many different ways. In some cases, the same terms designate
very different approaches, methods, or perspectives. In other cases,
different terms indicate the same approach, method, or perspective.
More confusing still, some of these terms designate approaches,
methods, or perspectives that could easily be characterized using
standard research terms from the social sciences, natural sciences,
humanities, or liberal arts -- other than the fact artists, designers,
architects, composers, or other practitioners of the fine arts or
creative arts have done the projects, they might easily have been done
by researchers in other fields.
I seek anything that anyone can send me that has been published in
books, journals, reports, or even in the gray literature. I also
welcome research documents such as PhD dissertations or theses that
exemplify these terms if when the documents contain an explicit method
or methodology section that defines terms and methods,
When possible, I'd like actual documents in .pdf or MS Word .docx or
.doc formats.
It is easy to send documents in any standard format by using
WeTransfer. WeTransfer hosts a free service that allows users to send
up to 20 GB at no cost. It is easy to upload documents, and easy to
download them.
https://wetransfer.com/
When documents are not accessible, I also welcome links.
As usual, I will compile the documentation that I receive. I will send
a complete bibliography to everyone who contributes, and I will make
the full collection available to anyone who wishes a copy.
This project will take two or three months. As with similar projects
in the past, I will release the bibliography and make the collection
available when it is done.
If you have materials, I will be deeply grateful for your help.
from: Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>
[this item first appeared on phd-design discussion list in April 2017
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11-13th January 2018 - Participatory Innovation Conference
The 5th Participatory Innovation Conference (PIN-C) will be organized
on 11-13th January 2018 at Maelardalen University, Sweden (MDH). PIN-C
was established by the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), with the
goal of creating a truly interdisciplinary forum for innovation
research. The trademark of the conference is that it brings together
research disciplines that otherwise only seldom meet in dedicated
tracks throughout the conference. And that it does so in an active,
participatory format. Conference chairs of PIN-C 2018 are Tomas
Backstroem MDH, Jacob Buur SDU, and Peter E Johansson MDH. Innovation
and Product Realization (IPR) at MDH in Eskilstuna is the venue of
PIN-C 2018. Eskilstuna with 100.000 inhabitants is situated 1 hour by
train west of Stockholm. MDH, with 13 000 students and 900 employees,
has six research profiles, whereof IPR is one. The main focus of IPR
is research, development and training in change processes in
manufacturing industry, from three perspectives: Innovation
management, Design and visualization, and Product realization.
Tracks at PIN-C 2018:
1. Practice-based innovation and quality
improvement. Chairs: Anders Fundin, Maelardalen Universtity (MDH), and
Henry Larsen University of Southern Denmark (SDU).
2. Participatory innovation in health practices Chairs: Mia Folke,
MDH, and Tomas Markussen, SDU.
3. Creative interaction and artistic practices in workgroups Chairs:
Bengt Koeping Olsson, MDH, and Anne Paessilae, Lappeenranta University of
Technology.
4. Visual representations in participatory innovation Chairs: Jennie
Schaeffer, MDH, Koteshwar Chirumalla MDH, and Brendon Clark,
Interactive Institute.
5. Collaborative research on product design and production innovation
Chairs: Glenn Johansson, MDH, Kristina Saefsten, Joenkoeping University,
and Jacob Buur SDU.
Important dates:
20 April 2017: Call for abstracts.
20 June: Deadline for abstract submission.
6 September: Acceptance notification.
8 October: Deadline for full-paper submission.
8 November: Review feedback.
8 December: Deadline final paper.
http://www.mdh.se/forskning/event/2.4653
6 September 2017 - WONDER
The WONDER seminar will take place the 6th of September in connection
with the E&PDE conference September 7th to 8th at Oslo and Akershus
University College of Applied Sciences, Department of Product Design,
which will have participants from all over the world. It will
constitute a great chance to bring our discourse into an international
setting.
The theme of the seminar will be Gender, design and market.
Topics for contribution might cover
Products semantics and features of the feminine / masculine Gender in
the market Branding gender And others
http://www.hioa.no/Aktuelle-saker/Call-for-contributions
http://www.hioa.no/Aktuelle-saker/Call-for-manuscripts
6-7 September 2017 - Dementia Lab 2017 - stories from design and
research (Dortmund, Germany)
The theme for this year's Dementia Lab is sharing the underlying
questions that designers, researchers and educators face in their
design process for and together with people with dementia.
These questions vary from such practical challenges as recruiting
persons with dementia to finding funding before a project begins or
failing to have a method work as expected. Designers may struggle to
find a way of communicating with people with dementia when words fail
or have a hard time coping with the stress of dealing with people who
are in constant mental and physical decline. Finally, once a design is
made, designers and researchers often encounter resistance to the
first iterations of the things designed or have difficulty integrating
the designs into the routines of daily life and care.
This second edition of the Dementia Lab event, wishes to support the
sharing of these successes and failures by inviting contributions from
designers and researchers who are designing for and together with
persons with dementia.
The event program is open for traditional contributions such as papers
and workshop proposals. Additionally, there is the possibility to
share experiences through stories as well as showcase the designs made
for persons with dementia. The poster exhibition gives the opportunity
to discuss preliminary ideas or share an experience in a poster
format. Selected submissions will be published in the event
proceedings.
Deadline for submission: June 12
Notification of acceptance: beginning of July
Dementia Lab event: 6 & 7 September 2017
As the event is supported by the Robert Bosch Stiftung and the
Fochhochschule Dortmund, the cost to attend is free. However, no more
than 50 participants can attend. We have a travel support for students
of up to 250 euro.
www.dementialab.com
Leonardo Three-Year Symposium on the Ph.D. in Art and Design
Ken Friedman and Jack Ox, Guest Editors
In 2017, the journal Leonardo celebrates 50 years of publishing
research and works of art at the intersection of art, science and
technology. As part of the celebrations, we initiated a 3-year
symposium to address issues surrounding the development of the Ph.D.
in Art and Design. The first articles are about to appear.
Call for Papers
The Ph.D. for art and design has become a significant issue in
worldwide university education. As the world's oldest peer-reviewed
interdisciplinary journal for the arts, sciences and technology,
Leonardo has a responsibility to serve as a forum for the
conversation. This symposium is our contribution to the emerging
dialogue on this issue in North America and around the world.
We seek several kinds of contributions to a 3-year symposium on the
Ph.D. in art and design.
- First, we seek full-length peer-reviewed articles for publication in
the Leonardo addressing key issues concerning the Ph.D. in art and
design.
- Second, we seek significant reports, research studies and case
studies. Since these will be longer than journal articles, we will
review them for journal publication as extended abstracts with
references, and we will publish the full documents on the Leonardo web
site.
- Finally, we will welcome Letters to the Editors in response to
published articles and to the documents on the web site.
Questions and correspondence should be sent to Jack Ox at
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Manuscript proposals and articles submitted for publication
consideration should be sent to:
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17-20 October 2017 - DeSForM 2017: Sense and Sensitivity
10th Conference on Designing for the Semantics of Form and Movement
October 17-18 Delft, October 19-20 Eindhoven, The Netherlands
http://desformx.org/
CALL FOR WORKSHOPS
Important dates and deadlines
- Workshop proposal deadline, May 26 2017
- Notification of acceptance, June 21, 2017
- Camera-ready deadline, July 21, 2017
DESIGN AND SEMANTICS OF FORM AND MOVEMENT - 10th EDITION
This year we celebrate the 10th edition of the DeSForM conference
series, which will be hosted by the industrial design schools of TU
Delft <http://ide.tudelft.nl/> and TU
Eindhoven <https://www.tue.nl/en/university/departments/industrial-
design/> and Philips Design <https://www.90yearsofdesign.philips.com/>
DeSForM 2017 will host up to five one-day (or a maximum of 10
half-day) workshops on Friday October 20th, 2017. The aim for these
workshops is to translate theoretical perspectives, tools, methods,
materials from DeSForM design research to relevant use for practice
and industry. We are looking for workshops that try to explore novel
approaches to methods, tools and techniques for future design
paradigms. Inspiration may be found, for instance, in Gardien et al.
(2014).
We encourage workshops to explore applications covering the conference
topics <http://desformx.org/call-for-papers/>. We find it important
that workshop organisers concretely address the theme they propose and
their approach towards novel insight and method generations are
emphasized in their proposals.
The workshops will be co-organized with the Philips Design CoCreator
Lab <http://www.philips.com/a-w/cocreatorlab/homepage.html> at the
High-Tech Campus in Eindhoven. Companies such as Philips have always
been actively involved in collaborations between academic design
research and their industry practice. The DeSForM 2017 workshops are
an excellent opportunity to further support and explore these
relationships and interactions.
GENERAL INFO
Each workshop must be introduced in the format of a short intellectual
and creative output where appropriate.
We encourage tangible outcomes of the workshops, such as product
prototypes, videos, models, acted-out scenarios, etc. These should be
made accessible to the community as much as possible. Workshops can be
full day, or half-day (9:00 am-12:00 pm / 1:00 pm-4:00 pm), with
organized coffee and lunch breaks.
At least one author of each accepted workshop submission must register
for the conference and the workshop before the early registration
deadline for the workshop to be included in the conference program,
and the short paper to be published in the conference proceedings. The
organizing committee of DeSForM 2017 will communicate the workshops
though their website, social media and distribute it amongst
participants. However, workshop organizers are also encouraged to
recruit participants themselves. A minimum number of registered
participants will be required for a workshop to take place. All
participants will need to register for the workshop they are
attending.
Proposals ideally accommodate around 10-15 participants, with a
maximum of 20. We encourage the workshops to be open to any conference
participant although this is ultimately at the discretion of the
proposers.
SUBMISSION Please format your proposals appropriately
<http://desformx.org/how-to-submit/> and submit them via the EasyChair
website easychair.org/<http://easychair.org/> by May 26 (extended from
April 21), 2017, 23:59 pm CET.
MORE INFORMATION If you have further questions about Workshops, send
an e-mail to [log in to unmask] and use "Workshop" in the subject
title.
29-30 November 2017 - Art of Research VI
Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations
Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and
Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Over the past two decades, the Art of Research conferences have had a
significant role in promoting continuous dialogue and fruitful
convergence between art- and design-related research practices. The
conferences have contributed to the development of rapidly growing and
spreading contemporary discourse on artistic and practice-led research
- while acknowledging and engaging in multiple notions of research
where diverse modes of creative practice are used as catalysts for
enquiry.
The theme of this sixth Art of Research conference addresses the
agency of the artist-researcher as a catalyst that challenges
established ideas and produces new thinking through artistic and
practice-led research. Moving on from early preoccupations within the
field about ontological or epistemological foundations, this Art of
Research VI Conference poses the questions:
How do artistic research activities act as catalysts in the domain of
different praxes? How can ideas and/or practices of catalysis be
considered within a particular research processes, or in relation to
larger contexts and realms of art, politics and society?
Art of Research VI conference explores the different manifestations,
articulations and emergent agencies triggered by artistic means and
related methods of theorizing. In the context of artistic research,
catalysis is understood as an action that causes reactions and
continues to activate critical thinking that provokes further
reactions. Therefore, Art of Research VI focuses on the multitude of
bodies of artistic and practice-led research and their effects towards
producing new knowledge, new experience, new materialities, new
theoretical insights, new praxes and poetics.
We invite submissions to the conference that are original proposals on
various forms of art that significantly contribute to praxis and
research through art and design. As a guide to developing submissions
relevant to the conference, we suggest some potential questions. The
themes are not categorical nor fixed; rather, we encourage broad
contextual thinking and perspectives that relate but are not limited
to the following areas:
- How can artistic and practice-led research offer alternative
accesses and options for challenging established epistemologies?
- How can artistic and practice-led research trigger revisions
and transformations in art and design in relation to present day
ethical, societal and environmental challenges, on a diversity of
scales?
- How does artistic and practice-led research intervene in the
realms outside the art world or academia? How does it relate to
activism/artivism?
- How can artistic research enable collisions of different
practices, methods and agencies?
- How is thinking at the intersection of poetics, ethics and
politics transformed?
- How can the theory-practice interface catalyze new poetics or
praxis in relation to a singular artistic research project or in a
wider context for any field of art?
- How does the artistic/ practice-led research context challenge
the ways the research is written, expressed or performed.
Through these questions, the main aim of the event is to engage in a
shared exploration of bold and visionary thinking across different
entangling practices. Historically, the Art of Research conference has
been widely appreciated as an unconventional and highly-interactive
format for discussing, exhibiting and performing different modes of
discourse. Art of Research VI will offer an academic framework for
discussing catalyses, interventions and transformations in a diversity
of art-, craft- and design-related practices.
The Conference is interested in proposals drawing from the full
spectrum of artistic and practice-led research today. We encourage
submissions from artist-researchers and practice-led researchers
representing different art forms e.g. contemporary art, film,
photography, scenography, craft, design, media and architecture. The
conference themes include a diversity of perspectives that relate to
the conceptualization and to the different forms and formats that
artistic research can take, as well as to its contribution to critical
thinking and groundbreaking change. Other questions that potential
contributors see as productively challenging these themes are most
welcome.
We invite full papers (5000 words maximum) from doctoral students,
post-doctoral researchers and mature academics. Specifically, we
invite contributions that contribute to one of the following
categories:
(1) Explorative papers/presentations including works of art
This type of papers must be submitted together with works of art,
artifacts, or documentation of artistic processes and must contribute
to the understanding of how the visual/audiovisual and the textual are
unified in research. Each submission must also include a separate
description of the artwork (80 words max.) and visual material such as
photographs or video (digital formats only, up to 10MB in total). The
submission should also entail explanation of the related equipment
required to display this material. Please note that the transportation
of the artwork(s) is the author's responsibility. The exhibition will
be curated by the organizers.
(2) Methodological and theoretical papers related to the conference
themes
All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To facilitate
the review process, authors are responsible for removing any
identifying information from their submissions that might lead a
reviewer to discern their identities or affiliations. The author's
name in self-citations must be replaced with "Author" in in-text
citations, reference entries and footnotes. For the paper template and
other practical details, see the conference web site at
artofresearch2017.aalto.fi. For more information, please contact
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This is the sixth in the Art of Research conference series, the first
of which took place in Helsinki in 2005. The conference is
co-organized at Aalto University by the Department of Design, the
Department of Film, Television and Scenography and the Department of
Art, in the School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
KEY DATES
15 January 2017: First call for papers
15 June 2017: Deadline for full papers
31 August 2017: Notification of acceptances and reviewer feedback
15 September - 20 November 2017: Registration and payment
15 October 2017: Submission of final papers
12 November 2017: Submission for exhibits (with photos & description)
23-28 November 2017: Exhibition Building
29-30 November 2017: Conference
http://artofresearch2017.aalto.fi
Design for Health
Call for papers: Design for Health
A refereed journal covering all aspects of design and creative
practice in health and wellbeing
The journal publishes work which utilizes design and creative practice
as methods within research to engage people to understand problems,
and visualize new possibilities and future scenarios.
The Editors invite high quality, original submissions that make a
contribution to knowledge and practice in the context of the design of
health products, services, and interventions that promote dignity and
enhance quality of life.
For this journal
- a typical Article should be more than 5000 and no more than
7000 words;
- a typical Review (book / exhibition / conference) should be
more than 1500 and no more than 2000 words;
- a typical Opinion Piece should be no more than 2000 words;
- a typical Visual Essay should be no more than 2000 words;
- a typical Case Study should be more than 2000 and no more
than 4000 words.
All word counts are inclusive of abstract, endnotes, biographies,
tables, figure captions and references. The use of images to accompany
articles is welcomed, where appropriate; between three and eight
images is suggested, subject to overall word count and page length.
Visual essays may include additional images. Three to eight key words
summarizing the paper should be indicated.
Submission is ongoing, but for your paper to be considered for
inclusion in the next issue, please submit by Friday 16th June 2017.
Submit electronically / find out more about the journal:
www.tandfonline.com/rfdh
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
15-16 June 2017 - New Experimental Research in Design / NERD
Conference at Braunschweig University of Art (HBK), Johannes Selenka
Platz 1, 38118 Braunschweig, Germany,
http://www.transformazine.de/nerd
Design has long expressed and established itself as an independent
research competence - a fact that also companies, institutions and
politicians have come to acknowledge. What is still needed, however,
is a stronger public platform for design to confidently reflect upon
this process and to establish and communicate the specific dimension
of design research.
For this reason, BIRD, the Board of International Research in Design
for the eponymous design research book series published by Birkhaeuser,
has developed and set up the New Experimental Research in Design/NERD
conference.
The conference will provide a forum for the presentation and
discussion of an impressive and diverse range of new intelligent and
experimental approaches in design research.
Young design researchers from, for example, South Africa, Austria,
Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, the US and the UK will be presenting
important and insightful examples of innovative design research,
putting their contributions up for discussion: anevent promising to be
most inspiring and give rise to further debate and action.
The conference is open to everyone working in, or with an interest in,
design, to representatives from universities, companies and other
interested parties, who are invited to actively contribute to the
discussions. Attendance is free of charge.
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Crafts Council UK
The Crafts Council is keen to work more collaboratively with higher
education institutions to achieve greater excellence in research
investigating craft, making and materials. This short prospectus sets
out our research interests, what we can offer and how we believe
co-produced research with us can offer new pathways to impact
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/what-we-do/research-strategy
We're seeking to develop more research partnerships with higher
education institutions, drawing on our networks, collections,
archives and well-regarded research projects - do get in touch if
you're interested in a conversation.
Crafts Council, 44a Pentonville Road London N1 9BY Phone: +44 (0)20
7806 2500 Fax: +44 (0)20 7837 6891
www.craftscouncil.org.uk
Fabricate: Rethinking Design and Construction
Edited by Achim Menges, Bob Sheil, Ruairi Glynn and Marilena Skavara
Bringing together pioneers in design and making within architecture,
construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and
computation, Fabricate is a triennial international conference, now in
its third year (ICD, University of Stuttgart, April 2017). Each year
it produces a supporting publication, to date the only one of its kind
specialising in Digital Fabrication.
The 2017 edition features 32 illustrated articles on built projects
and works in progress from academia and practice, including
contributions from leading practices such as Foster + Partners, Zaha
Hadid Architects, Arup, and Ron Arad, and from world-renowned
institutions including ICD Stuttgart, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton
University, The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the
Architectural Association.
Download it free (or purchase print) from https://goo.gl/psEpvP
Intellect is delighted to announce that the new issue of Fashion,
Style & Popular Culture 4.2 is now available. For more information
about this issue, click here or email [log in to unmask]
This special issue of FSPC focuses on 'Fashion & Appropriation'.
Appropriation is a complex political and ethical discussion with many
nuances and layers that require careful and critical unpacking; the
articles in this special issue approach this complexity from different
angles and perspectives. Guest Editors, Denise Nicole Green and Susan
B. Kaiser, hope that this issue will encourage readers to think about
appropriation in new ways, engage with its various definitions and
articulations, and consider the impact appropriation has on
communities, identities, economies, and aesthetics.
Cumulus Hong Kong Working Papers 33/16 is PUBLISHED We are happy to
announce the publication of Cumulus Working Papers 33/16: Cumulus Hong
Kong 2016 - Open Design for E-very-thing, the fruit of great efforts
by authors and editors in the last three months.
The working papers capture highlights of the conference, including the
keynote speeches, open design activities, and most importantly,
academic contributions by more than 200 international authors in over
120 selected works. The works are organised by track and format,
showcasing the diversity and uniqueness of every paper, movie, fashion
collection, artefact and workshop.
The Cumulus Working Papers Hong Kong document the Cumulus conference
Open Design for E-very-thing hosted by the Hong Kong Design Institute
on November 21 - 24, 2016.
Publication information:
Editors: Cecile Kung, Elita Lam and Yanki Lee/ Hong Kong Design
Institute
ISBN 978-952-60-0080-0 (print)
ISBN 978-952-60-0081-7 (pdf)
ISSN 1795 1879 Cumulus working papers (pdf)
ISSN 1456 307X Cumulus working papers (print)
'Open Design for E-very-thing' has its roots in Hong Kong. The
Conference made possible for all of us to discover the unique city of
Hong Kong and its territories: the tours around the city, the trail
hiking tour in the country parks, the very special activities such as
jade jewellery making, dim summaking, embroidery, drumming, mould
making and casting helped entering some secrets of this city. All
these activities remind us how important it is to make things with our
own hands; to continuously feel through our fingers, feeding and
training the intelligence of our hands together with that of our
brains.' Luisa Collina, President of Cumulus, Professor, Dean of the
School of Design, POLIMI, Italy
'The theme of 'Open Design for E-very-thing' came about as a
contextualised response to a global question, a question that
resonates with the story of Hong Kong as the merging lane of cultures
and peoples, but more importantly, it alludes to the new universal
possibilities of design at a time when clashes and exchanges between
cultures, ideologies, peoples and society have reached a new level of
din and savagery.' Leslie Lu, Principal and Academic Director, Hong
Kong Design Institute
International Journal of Design
Volume 11, Issue 1 of the International
Journal of Design has been published online at www.ijdesign.org. All contents are
freely available online. You can read, download, or forward these
articles to your colleagues.
We sincerely invite you to submit your best work to the International
Journal of Design. Please refer to Author Guidelines online
www.ijdesign.org
Territories of Graphic Design Education: ADCHE 16.1 Special Issue
For those interested in this earlier call about graphic design
education research, you can find the published ADCHE journal contents
and read the abstracts here:
https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3280/
You may also be interested in a review of the Graphic Design
Educators' Network's most recent event, published by Design Observer
and written by student organisers:
http://designobserver.com/feature/with-a-shift-simultaneous-realities-
collide/39570
6-7 July 2017 - UKCGE Annual Conference 2017. Porto, Portugal
University of Porto, Portugal
Conference Overview
This year's UKCGE Annual Conference is in Porto, Portugal
The conference is a chance to join colleagues from Europe and beyond,
to discuss the future of the UK's longstanding collaboration with EU
higher education systems and institutions.
Keynote addresses will be given by leading practitioners in the
international postgraduate sector plus there will be over 30 other
conference sessions.
Download the list of Accepted Conference Papers here:
http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/media/download.aspx?MediaId=1736
This is a great opportunity to network with European colleagues as you
debate and showcase postgraduate education in both strategic and
operational contexts.
http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/events/annual-conference-2017-101.aspx
She Ji
New issue of She Ji. The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation.
Volume 2, Number 3 is available on our open access web site at URL:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/24058726
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