Dear All,

**Apologies for cross posting**

The Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest 
and the Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics warmly invites you
to the *Design Culture and Somaesthetics Conference 2019*:

Conference Date: *06-08. 05. 2019.*
Conference Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest

Confirmed keynote speakers:

*Richard Shusterman*, Professor of Philosophy and English, Dorothy F. 
Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Director for Body, Mind 
and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Initiatior of somaesthetic 
research.

*Guy Julier*, Professor of Design Leadership at Aalto University, 
Helsinki. Former Principal Research Fellow in Contemporary Design and 
Professor of Design Culture at the University of Brighton/Victoria & 
Albert Museum. Author of founding books on design culture studies, 
editorial board member of the Journal of Visual Culture and Design and 
Culture.

*Patrick Devlieger*, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social 
Sciences at KU Leuven, anthropologist, leading international researcher 
of disability studies.


*DEADLINE OF SUBMISSION: 20.01.2019 ***
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***** Call For Participation: Design Culture and Somaesthetics 2019 *****
Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields,

In the recent past, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research has 
provided remarkable progress and development within the humanities and 
social sciences. The early phase of this development witnessed 
preliminary dialogues between separate disciplines and their 
representatives who have gathered to discuss common interests. The 
initial goal was to understand each other, to recognize common topics of 
research. This phase induced productive dialogues but did not lead to 
long lasting, organized post-disciplinary projects, let alone 
integrative conceptual frameworks.

The latter only started in a second phase, when emerging 
post-disciplinary fields began to make suggestions for research 
platforms that were more defined and methodologically better founded. 
Somaesthetics, initiated by Richard Shusterman, and design culture 
studies, initiated by Guy Julier among others, are two among these most 
promising new post-disciplines.

Design discourses, practices and products that are constituted in the 
synergy of all our senses are the protagonists of design culture studies 
that takes design culture as a flow of cultural products produced by 
social practices and reflected in cultural discourses. To Julier’s mind, 
design culture as an object of study includes both the material and 
immaterial aspects of everyday life. At the same time, somaesthetics 
explores and reconceptualizes the focal point and ultimate reference of 
human environments, products, practices and discourses, namely, the 
embodied experience. Whereas somaesthetics reflects the pragmatist 
understanding of philosophy as a means of improving experience through a 
reflective art of living, it defines itself as a tool for designing good 
life. According to Shusterman, somaesthetics is the critical, 
meliorative study of the experience and the use of one’s body as a locus 
of sensory-aesthetic appreciation and creative self-fashioning devoted 
to the knowledge, discourses and disciplines that structure such somatic 
care or can improve it.

Both design culture studies and somaesthetics are interested in 
body-mind interactions and both include theory, methodology and practice 
alike within their action radius.

The purpose of this conference is to take a step backward and address 
design theorists, philosophers, anthropologists, aestheticians, social 
scientists, healthcare professionals, technology experts, artists, 
designers and educators to discuss the parallel and complementary 
possibilities of these post-disciplinary approaches in the spirit of 
initial dialogue and pragmatic goodwill in order to create platforms of 
fulfilling and fruitful future collaborations.

*Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
*– Somaesthetic aspects of user experience
– Virtual reality, immersive technologies
– Posthumanism, Artificial intelligence and embodiedness
– Human-computer interaction
– Ambient experience design
– Atmospheres in human environments
– Social body and experience society
– Everyday aesthetics
– Object biography, material memory and material engagement

We are expecting original and unpublished articles. A selection of the 
papers will be published in the forthcoming issues of the peer-reviewed, 
online, academic research journals /The Journal of Somaesthetics/ and 
/Pragmatism Today/ or in a volume on somaesthetics and design based on 
the conference and published in the Brill series /Studies in 
Somaesthetics/.

Further details and online submission at: 
https://doktori.mome.hu/conference-2019/?lang=en
Or submit your proposal(in no more than 300 words with 5 keywords) of a 
20-30 minutes presentation to: [log in to unmask] 
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Best Wishes,

The Conference Committee:

Bálint Veres (Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design) [log in to unmask]

and

Attila Horányi (Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design)

Alexander Kremer (University of Szeged)

Márton Szentpéteri (Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design)

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Bálint Veres, PhD <> Institute for Theoretical Studies <> Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design



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