Dear Colleagues,
Due to several last-minute requests for deadline extension, the organizers
of EKSIG2019 has decided to extend the submission deadline to Wednesday 17
April 2019.
Looking forward to your submission.
Best wishes,
Nithikul
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*EKSIG 2019: KNOWING TOGETHER – EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND COLLABORATION*
International Conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential
Knowledge at Estonian Academy of Arts, 2019
*Date:*Monday and Tuesday, 23 - 24 September 2019
*Venue:*Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
http://www.eksig2019.com
EKSIG 2019 will address the theme of “Knowing Together – experiential
knowledge and collaboration”
Our confirmed keynote speakers are:
- Ron Wakkary, Professor, School of Interactive Arts and Technology and
Founder of Everyday Design Studio, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
- Juhani Pallasma, author of *The Embodied Image* (2011) and *The
Thinking Hand *(2009)
With the theme ‘Knowing Together – experiential knowledge and
collaboration’ the conference aims to provide a forum for debate about
knowledge generation in collaboration by professionals and academic
researchers in the creative disciplines and beyond.
Creative practice has transformed from one based on the production of
material artefacts to one that engages expertise and knowledge from
multiple disciplines. Recent research in the creative disciplines has
revolved around the changing territorial context of ‘making’ and has
increasingly involved professionals and academic researchers working
collaboratively to explore an interdisciplinary inquiry. Collaboration in
such research has therefore become vital. A research team may comprise
different disciplinary experts, such as scientists, technologists, artists,
designers, architects, psychologists, business strategists and policy
makers, working across academic, commercial and public sectors. They may
work with materials and/or non-materials. Examples include research the
fields of New Materials, Smart Textiles, Virtual Materiality, Material
Innovation, Embodied Ideation, and Participatory Practices in Business in
which various partners are in dialogue with one another, developing,
consolidating and enhancing knowledge while generating new opportunities
for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange.
EKSIG 2019 aims to examine collaboration within research and commercial
teams that comprise creative professionals/researchers (such as designers,
artists, architects, etc.) and members with other diverse disciplinary
expertise. This is to understand how individual experiential knowledge, or
knowledge gained by practice, is shared, how collective experiential
knowledge is accumulated and communicated in and through collaboration, and
how it is embodied in the outputs and may be traced back to the origin of
the practice. The conference also aims to illuminate ‘making’ as the action
of change in which matter and materials are transformed through
collaboration, interaction or negotiation between the collaborative team
and their material and non-material environments.
This conference welcomes contributions exploring and discussing
experiential knowledge generated when researchers and practitioners
collaborate with experts in other fields. We interpret collaboration here
in the widest possible sense to include any kind of working together. We
are interested in building a rich collection of case studies that
illuminate the relationships built within the collaboration, the approaches
used and the new knowledge gained and transferred within the team. This is
expected to contribute to a more systematic approach for studying and
integrating experiential knowledge into collaborative practice and research.
*Questions of interest are for example:*
• What are the current understandings of collaboration and
interdisciplinary research?
• How can collaboration be utilised within the framework of research?
• How can a researcher’s disciplinary expertise benefit collaborative
research and practice?
• How can we articulate material (and immaterial) knowledge which are tacit
and embodied within the process of research?
• How can skills and embodied knowledge in different professional
disciplines be shared and/or applicable to one another in a collaborative
practice?
• How can we gain and communicate individual and collective experiential
knowledge in and through collaboration, and how is it embodied in the
outputs and may be traced back to the origin of the practice?
• What means and methods can be utilised to transfer and replicate tacit
knowledge accumulated in collaborative practice?
We wish to bring together engaged professionals and scholars from various
disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production and methodological
approaches to explore these issues. We invite contributions from creative
subjects and other disciplines, e.g. design, architecture, engineering,
craft, media, HCI, performance, music, fine art, curation, museology,
archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, health, cognitive
science, gastronomy, oenology, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned
with collaboration in research and in creative and professional practice.
For EKSIG 2019, we invite submission of full papers (4000-5000 words) which
offer new or challenging views on the subject. Papers will be selected
subject to a double-blind peer-review process by an international review
team.
Please submit your full papers via EasyChair –
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eksig2019.
Author’s Guide for the EKSIG2019 can be found on the conference website
http://www.eksig2019.com/calls/
*KEY DATES*
First call for papers – 19 December 2018
Second call for papers – 29 January 2019
Third call for papers – 4 March 2019
Submission of full papers – 5 April 2019 *extended to 12 April 2019*
Notification of acceptance of papers – 10 June 2019
Submission of final revised papers – 19 July 2019
Conference – 23–24 September 2019
*CONFERENCE ORGANISERS*
Kristi Kuusk, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia
Nithikul Nimkulrat, OCAD University, Canada
Julia Valle Noronha, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia / Aalto University,
Finland
Camilla Groth, University of Southeast Norway / Aalto University, Finland
Oscar Tomico, ELISAVA | Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Spain
Kristina Niedderer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
*ABOUT EKSIG*
EKSIG is part of a programme of Special Interest Groups set up by the
Design Research Society (DRS) in 2007 to facilitate international exchange
and advance in relevant areas of design. EKSIG is concerned with the
understanding and management of experiential knowledge in research and
professional practice in design in order to clarify fundamental principles
and practices, with regard to both research degree regulations/requirements
and research methodology. Please see http://experientialknowledge.org.uk for
more information about the Special Interest Group and previous conferences.
EKSIG 2019 will be convened as part of a regular programme of EKSIG
conferences which serve to address specific themes by bringing together
researchers and practitioners from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields
of knowledge production and methodological approaches to engender
challenging multi vocal debates around these themes and to facilitate
exchange and cross fertilisation between the creative disciplines and other
practice-led disciplines. We invite contributions from design,
architecture, engineering, craft, media,
performance, music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy,
knowledge management, education, health, cognitive science, gastronomy,
oenology and others that are concerned with expertise and connoisseurship
of creative and professional practice and research. Papers selected for
presentation at the conference will be published in the conference
proceedings: an abstract booklet with an online publication of the full
papers, the preferred format of the DRS. As in past years, the organisers
will collaborate with an appropriate journal to publish selected papers
from the conference as a special issue.
*INDICATIVE REFERENCES*
Frickel, S., Albert, M. & Prainsack, B. (eds.) (2016). *Investigating
Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines*.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Ingold, T. (2013). *Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture*.
London, UK: Routledge.
Plattner, H., Meinel, C. & Leifer, L. (eds.) (2018). *Design Thinking
Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation*. Cham,
Switzerland: Springer.
Sennett, R. (2008). *The Craftsman*. New Haven, London: Yale University
Press.
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*DR NITHIKUL NIMKULRAT*
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
MATERIAL ART & DESIGN (MAAD)
FACULTY OF DESIGN
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