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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o Calls
o Announcements
o DRN search
o Contributing to DRN
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EDITORIAL
This is the 25th year of publishing Design Research News, and it has proven
perhaps the oddest year of all. Many events were cancelled, sometimes at
the last moment, and there seemed a mad scramble to go online, with
occasional mixed results. Strange times. Let us hope that the
post-vaccination new normal is more settled.
As we move into the 26th year of publication of DRN, may I take this
opportunity to thank all those of you who have kindly sent information, and
to wish you all a happy and safer new year.
warm wishes
David
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CALLS
28 June- 2 July 2021 - Media Architecture Biennale
MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE (MAB20)
Amsterdam & Utrecht
CALL FOR PAPERS
deadline Jan 25th, 2021
The conference proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital
Library.
MAB20 would like to invite papers from academics, students, and industry
practitioners that align with the theme Futures Implied and the sub-themes,
Playful & Artistic Civic Engagement, More-Than-Human Cities , Restorative
Cities, just to mention a few. The paper contributions should address
current practices, discuss theoretical approaches, or present novel
research that explores and further develop our understanding of media
architecture through relevant case studies, design processes, and community
and industry examples. The papers should have a minimum of six and a
maximum of ten pages in length, in ACM format, and the submission deadline
is 25 January 2021. All papers should be submitted via
https://easychair.org/cfp/mab20
You can find more details about the themes and the submission on MAB Call
for Papers
https://mab20.mediaarchitecture.org/calls/call-for-papers
DISCERN, International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
It is said that mighty oaks from little acorns grow... We would like to
share with you the inaugural issue of 'DISCERN, International Journal of
Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship'.
https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J
The deadline for submissions for the next issue is 1st February 2021.
If you wish to become a reviewer for DISCERN, please visit the above link
and register with the journal as a 'reviewer'.
Call for Case Studies for EnGendering Design
Seeking critical case studies for my latest book, EnGendering Design that
will interrogate and challenge gender norms in graphic design education,
professional practice, and self-directed work.
Case studies may include typographic projects, culture jams, information
design, packaging design, data visualizations, brand design, social design,
social activist or advocacy projects, speculative and experimental work,
design for digital and immersive environments, or environmental design for
the built environment.
Case studies may examine notions of gendered identities, seek to question
or subvert normative assumptions about gender, challenge gender
stereotypes, detail specific gender inequities, speculate on or pose
solutions addressing gender inequality through design.
Case studies that interrogate the means by which design itself establishes
and reinforces notions of gender and historical analysis of these will also
be considered. Work directed at contemporary issues and events are also of
particular interest.
Case studies are sought from design educators who emphasize international
perspectives in design research challenging artificial divides that appear
natural and apparently intractable and who integrate research into the
studio classroom to produce scholarship of teaching and develop new
pedagogies of design.
Peter Claver Fine
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https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/peter-fine/
HRI 2021 Late Breaking Reports / Videos / Demos: Deadline Dec 14
The 16th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot
Interaction gathers researchers from across the world to present their best
work on the theory, technology, and science furthering the state-of-the-art
in human-robot interaction. The theme of the conference this year is
"Bolder Human-Robot Interaction."
We invite submission of Late-Breaking Reports (LBRs), Videos and Demos
related to all aspects of Human-Robot Interaction:
LBRs (4 pages): The Late-Breaking Reports venue at HRI provides authors
with the opportunity to present early stage results and new ideas over
exciting cutting-edge and experimental research. LBRs are an excellent
opportunity for researchers new to the field to participate in the
conference.
Videos (2 pages): We invite videos related to all aspects of HRI. The
videos must be self-explanatory for the audience, of scientific relevance,
and fun to watch. Besides the importance of the lessons learned, impact of
content and the novelty of the situation, the entertainment value will be
judged as part of the peer-review criteria.
Demos (2 pages): We offer the opportunity to demonstrate innovative ideas
and advances in HRI. We invite demonstration proposals for cutting-edge
systems that make interaction with robots more intuitive, seamless, and
pleasant, or otherwise illustrate some aspect of HRI in an exciting and
engaging way. Demonstration proposals will be peer-reviewed based on these
criteria.
The deadline for submitting a Late Breaking Report, Video, or Demo is
December 14, 2020. LBRs should be 4 pages long, excluding references. Video
and Demo proposals should be 2 pages long, excluding references. These
submissions should conform to the ACM SIG proceedings specifications as the
full HRI papers. For the video and demo categories, a video must be
submitted as well.
Accepted abstracts will be archived in the companion proceedings of the
conference, which will appear in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE
Xplore. LBRs, Videos and Demos will be presented as videos through the
HRI2021 platform.
Important: Due to a tight publication deadline with the publisher, all
submitted Late Breaking Reports, Video reports, and Demos should be
"camera-ready" at the time of submission (i.e., proofread, spell-checked,
etc.). Non-conforming submissions are candidates for instant rejection.
Website Information for LBRs
The Late-Breaking Reports (LBR) venue at HRI provides authors with the
opportunity to present early stage results and new ideas over exciting
cutting-edge and experimental research. LBRs are an excellent opportunity
for researchers new to the field to participate in the conference.
All LBR submissions will undergo blind peer-review and will be published in
the companion proceedings of the conference. These proceedings will appear
in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. LBRs will be presented
during the main conference. The final format for the presentation will be
communicated in January 2021.
Important Dates
14 December 2020: Submission deadline
08 January 2021: Notification of acceptance
18 January 2021: Final camera-ready deadline
Submission Instructions
Authors must submit their Late Breaking Reports as a 4-page article,
excluding references (which do not count towards submission length). Papers
should conform to the ACM SIG proceedings specification. Authors should use
the sample-sigconf.tex or interim_layout.docx template files.
In connection with SIGCHI's efforts to improve conference accessibility,
HRI is moving towards generating accessible PDFs for all accepted papers.
This year, we encourage all authors to add accessibility features to their
PDF submissions. Please see the CHI 2021 guidelines for information on how
to prepare an accessible PDF.
Publications should be fully anonymized at the time of submission. For
additional information, authors may refer to the main conference
anonymization guidelines.
Due to a tight publication deadline with the publisher, all submitted Late
Breaking Reports should be "camera-ready" at the time of submission (i.e.,
proofread, spell-checked, etc.). Non-conforming submissions are candidates
for instant rejection.
Peer Review Process
Late Breaking Reports will be reviewed using a mutual blind peer review
process. To ensure that all authors receive feedback on their work and to
help invigorate the HRI community, at least one author of each LBR
submission must agree to review two other LBRs. Reviews will consist of a
brief questionnaire regarding the quality and relevance of the work
submitted.
DESIGN CULTURE(S)|Cumulus Roma Conference: UPDATES
Design Culture(s) is still accepting contributions for the special track
called "NEW NORMAL", revolving around the keywords HEALTHCARE | EDUCATION |
WORK/PLAY.
https://lnkd.in/dYCeddP
KEY DATES for NEW CALL FOR PAPERS | DESIGN CULTURE (OF) NEW NORMAL
Deadline for Full Paper Submission: 14 December 2020
Notification of Acceptance: 28 February 2021
Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submission: 31 March 2021
Additionally, please note that Early Bird registration for both in-person
and virtual participation are available until January at:
https://lnkd.in/dJqQJRR
OTHER KEY DATES
Early Bird Registration until 31-01-2021 (Virtual Participation available
soon)
Regular Registration from 01-02-2021 to 15-05-2021
Late Registration from 16-05-2021
DESIGN CULTURE(S)|Cumulus Roma Conference will take place from 8 TO 11 JUNE
2021 at Sapienza University of Rome.
cumulusroma2020.org
NORDES 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers
Matters of Scale
The 9th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) conference hosted at Design
School Kolding and University of Southern Denmark - Kolding.
15-18 Aug 2021
2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Full call is at http://conference2021nordes.org/
Matters of scale
Scale is ubiquitous in the world of design, but its implications mostly go
unnoticed. Terms that are easy to use, like the global or human-scale, have
widespread allure and even impact, yet they also hide and confuse.
Although scale is a fundamental feature of all systems, artefacts and
organisms, it is surprisingly rarely reflected upon in design. In the
abstract, scale points to mathematical features but it is, above all,
inherently relational and comparative. To think about scale nearly always
involves thinking about another context of activity or reception that is
either inside, outside or beyond the immediate field of practice. Design
research may be pivotal in how matters of scale are understood and acted
on.
In these times of urgent troubles, problems appear to be large-scale and
designers are often invited to 'scale up' their efforts to solve them, or
defend the wellbeing or the rights of a universal 'human'. Meanwhile
viruses, for instance, wreak havoc in machines and bodies across different
orders of scale, connecting and disconnecting in complicated ways. If size,
temporal duration, scope, territory and impact work in scalar ways in
design, whether noticed or not, how can we learn to take scale seriously?
Nordes 2021 provides opportunities to explore the multiple roles, processes
and impacts of scales across all areas of design and design research in all
their manifestations. How does scale matter in the context of design,
designs and designers? What kinds of scalar relationships does design
involve and how does or might design research identify and problematise
these?
Full papers, exploratory papers, exhibition artifacts and workshops that,
in design research, explicitly address the topic of 'Matters of Scale' are
invited.
The matters of scale
Potential conference themes may include, but are not limited to:
- Audit, measurement and ranking
- Manufacture, modularity and making
- Human-, non-human and other scales and calibrations
- Queer scales
- Communities, publics, diasporas, networks
- Governance, design for policy and implementation
- Downscaling, relocalising, resilience, resistance
- Territories, borders, shrinkage, dead spaces
- Economies of scale
- Temporal regimes: routines and irregularities; sprints and hacks
- Open, big and small data
- Prototypes, toolkits, archetypes, blueprints, guidelines, models
- Platforms and one-offs
- Representations, reproductions, fakes
Submission categories Full submissions to all categories are due to
January 20, 2021 and will receive peer review. Full and exploratory papers
are subject to a double-blind, peer review process, and accepted full and
exploratory papers will be published in the online Nordes Digital Archive.
Submission categories:
- Full papers
- Exploratory short papers
- Exhibition artifacts
- Workshops
- Doctoral Consortium
You can now find the submission template, and detailed descriptions of each
of the submission categories: Full papers, Exploratory papers, Exhibition
and Workshops.
We are especially excited about the workshop and exhibition categories
where the chairs are encouraging everyone to stretch and explore different
formats and places for engagement.
The Workshop Chairs Danielle Wilde & Susan Kozel introduce the call with:
"Nordes Workshops in 2021 will provide the opportunity to translate Matters
of Scale into practice. With the shattering of conventions and practices of
all kinds occurring at present, Matters of Scale can be addressed with
added urgency and vitality. The what, the how, and the scope of scale?
Micro, macro, global, multi-species, relational, temporal, ephemeral? The
inside, the outside, the beyond? We invite you to investigate Matters of
Scale at the same time as posing the question of what it means to workshop,
to make or to practice together in current circumstances? For Nordes 2021,
the traditional workshop format can be stretched so that Matters of Scale
are reconfigured, critiqued and re-performed. Formats can engender
opportunities to meet, engage in in depth exchanges, discuss, reflect or
provoke. They can take place in Kolding, in distributed locations, outside
or online". Call for workshops: Matters of Scale in Practice
The Exhibition Chairs Eva Knutz & Kathrina Dankl have moved the exhibition
into urban space. They introduce the call with: "The exhibition format of
Nordes 2021 will take participants outside the doors of the main conference
venues and into the city of Kolding. Alongside a route through the city,
spatial objects such as a bridge, flora such as trees and fauna such as
ducks have been picked as starting points for site-specific design
experiments that negotiate matters of scale. Scaling in this context,
attempts to bring about temporary experiments that create a dialogue
between different actors and relate to the term "scale" in various ways.
These may be spatial investigations and interactions, dealing with light/
heavy, micro/macro, below/above the ground; they might discuss relations
and context-specificity, for instance public places/private
spaces/non-places or local/global scale/connecting with many/linking a few;
design experiments may well negotiate cultural citizenship and
communication among humans and non-humans in the city." Call for
exhibition: Agency in the City of Kolding
Key dates
20 Jan 2021 Deadline for submissions
1 April 2021 Notification to authors and contributors
3 May 2021 Final submission deadline
15-18 Aug 2021 Conference
Jamer Hunt as keynote speaker at NORDES'21
The organizers of Nordes2021 proudly present Jamer Hunt as the first
keynote speaker at the conference. Under the heading Powers of Eleven, Hunt
will address how designers need scale as a conceptual framework for
thinking through the present. To quote from Hunt's keynote abstract:
"Digital dematerialization and network entanglements are deforming our
perception and conception of scale and unsettling our capacity to link
cause and effect -- or design with its outcomes. Cutting across disciplines
and ranging across topics (from ants to traffic circles and from
surveillance systems to COVID-19), this presentation will x-ray our current
social predicaments and outline design strategies for navigating the
complexity of our many "broken" systems." Hunt's talk is a further
development of ideas found in his recently published book Not to scale -
how the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable and the
unthinkable becomes Possible, published on Grand Central Publishing. Jamer
Hunt is Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives and Associate
Professor of Transdisciplinary Design University, The New School, Parsons.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
BLOCKCHAIN-CULTURAL
Blockchain in the Cultural and Creative Sectors is a forum for debate and
discussion of research and ideas about the implementation of this
technology in these sectors
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/blockchain-cultural
Intellect Books. CFP. Art and Design Book Series.
The latest publication in the Intellect Books "Mediated Cities" series is
available. Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture,
Urban Forms and Social Life. Details below. The follows books on art, film
and culture in cities. The next in the series is planned from the June 2021
online/in-person conference, Urban Assemblage.
BOOK
Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms
and Social Life. Eds. A. Akcay Kavako, T. Nihan Hacioemero, L. Landrum.
Intellect Books, 2020
https://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city
Quando e design / When is design / Quand c'est du design,
Quando e design / When is design / Quand c'est du design ], in Ocula n. 24
(Michela Deni & Dario Mangano eds), is now available here:
https://www.ocula.it/rivista.php?id=36 |
Authors: Daniele Barbieri, Valeria Bucchetti, Michela Deni, Imma Forino,
Francesco Galofaro, Beatrice Gisclard, Dario Mangano, Marine Royer, Yves
Voglaire, Salvatore Zingale, Alessandro Zinna.
6 articles are in Italian, 4 in French and 1 in English.
Table of contents :
Michela Deni
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-DENI-La-cultura-del-progetto-
introduzione.pdf | The Design Culture, when is Design (in Italian)
When is design, we find those characteristics and values of "design
culture" that regard design processes and methods, designers' skills and
attitudes. When these necessary preconditions are fulfilled, in many cases
it is design. In some other situations, it is just a matter of finding a
strategy to light up night dinners under the starry sky. In the
Introduction of Ocula 24 we investigate the conditions that favour the
emergence of design processes typical of design and of its evolution, up to
social design which, by overcoming incremental and inertial innovations,
drives radical social innovations.
Alessandro Zinna
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-ZINNA-Les-consquences-du-quand-
archeologie-du-design.pdf | The consequences of "when". An archaeology of
design: from prehistoric times to the Anthropocene (in French)
The questioning of design by the "when" gives here the opportunity to
reconstruct the guiding lines of an archaeology of the discipline in four
steps: the prehistory, where the problems of cultural design are presented;
the history, from the birth of the culture of design depending on its
practice and research; the present, characterised by the opening to social
innovation; and, finally, the future, which poses design in the face of
climate change and the instabilities of the Anthropocene. This genealogy,
by reconstructing the key concepts of design, shows that, at each stage,
the answers to the question "when is design" change according to a process
that opposes already stabilized solutions to the innovation of new
inventions. This leads us today, facing the horizon of the Anthropocene, to
replace the human-centred design aiming at improving the habitability of
the world and the living conditions of a single species, by the future
living-centred design aiming at the stability of the world and the
permanence of the network of life.
Salvatore Zingale
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-ZINGALE-Design-o-progettualita.pdf |
Design or projectuality? The project as inventive transformation (in
Italian)
Design or projectuality? The project as inventive transformation - We are
often led to think about the terms "design" and "project" as synonyms. But
this is not entirely true. The English noun design also contains other
meanings, which we can consider as the premises, or conditions, of every
design action: drawing, shape, purpose, intention. The Semiotics that is
interested in design faces a choice: either limiting itself to the analysis
of artefacts, regarded as texts with which we interact in social and daily
life; or choosing to investigate also and above all the processes
underlying the project action. In the latter case, it is a question of
following a path still barely explored, which will have to tend to develop,
if possible, a real semiotic logic of projectuality.
Imma Forino
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-FORINO-Il-governo-della-scrivania-
design-come-dispositif.pdf | The government of the desk: Design as
"dispositive" (in Italian)
The desk has been a controversial symbol of the office work, a piece of
furniture to manage the confusion of papers and to settle all the
employees. Over the centuries its design was often instrumental in
identifying the personal habitat and the time of work. In the Ford era, the
desk is the first element to order the office environment - a strategic
"dispositif" for regulating employees and the work flow -, while today its
design satisfies the new desires of the organization of work: transparent
and thin, the office desk becomes dematerialized into the logic of the
"dynamic working" by contemporary Science Management, which involves its
use in sharing, in rotation or its elimination.
Francesco Galofaro
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-GALOFARO-Ethnosemiotics-and-design.pdf
| Ethnosemiotics and Design. A Contribution to a Symptomatology of Design
(in English)
Ethnosemiotics, a term included in the Greimas and Courtes dictionary, has
been applied to various objects of observation in recent years.
Ethnosemiotics does not simply consist in the semiotic analysis of
ethnographic material; its ambition is rather to investigate the conditions
of possibility of observation. Learning a method to observe objects in the
context of everyday life, becoming aware of the planned and unforeseen
relationships that occur between the actors that populate it, understanding
the consequences of the project in the context in which the design will
operate: this is the ambition of ethnosemiotics applied to design. The
intervention presents the potential of the method and some preliminary
results.
Valeria Bucchetti
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-BUCCHETTI--design-della-comunicazione.
pdf | This is Communication Design (in Italian)
The contribution intends to limit the field of reflection to Communication
Design. We therefore propose to reformulate the question: "When is
Communication Design"?When can we talk about Communication Design and what
are the conditions and processes that allow us to support it? To take care
of them means to refocus the different levels in which the field is
articulated: from that of the communicative artefacts, in their prosthetic
dimension, to that of the systems that organize them, starting from
directorial logic, coming to trace implicitly the profile of the
communication designer.
Daniele Barbieri
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-BARBIERI-Soglie-e-ideologia-del-
progetto.pdf | Thresholds and ideology of the project (in Italian)
No idea of design exists before William Morris, in the second half of the
nineteenth century, came to develop it and put it into practice. Before the
Industrial Revolution there were arts and crafts, and certainly there were
also designing activities (architects, for example, have been doing it for
a long time), but the project in a modern sense, the design, was born from
the idea that society itself can be changed, and predictably, through a
project. In his action, Morris designs not only an object, but an activity
of social relevance through an object. Before him, objects belonged to the
material culture of the time, and were part of it in a traditional way: if
they came to transform it, it was not an expected consequence. What should
be considered an object is a complex question, however much it can have to
be extended to virtual and intangible objects. In any case, a book is an
object, even if we make reference only to its verbal or visual content. But
a theater play, is it? One of the thresholds that decide when the
projectual operation that produces it is design or not, depends on the
decision on what is and what is not an object. Another threshold is more
strictly pertinent to the precision with which the social consequences of
one's action are designed. From this point of view, the domain of art is,
for example, completely foreign to that of design, even though there may be
objects that fall under both.
Marine Royer
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-ROYER-Design-social-elments-
constitutifs-projet-maintien-a-domicile.pdf | Social design. Components of
a project on home support for the elderly and disabled people (in French)
Social design, as an expanding business line, covers a variety of
approaches, methods and actors. This article attempts to develop the
conditions and stages of its deployment, by listing the necessary elements
for its elaboration on the one hand and by considering more precisely both
ends and means on the other hand. These contextual elements useful for its
production are exemplified by a project on home care for the elderly and
disabled, called the Resource of Autonomy.
Beatrice Gisclard
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-GISCLARD-Lapport-du-design-social-
gestion-des-risques.pdf | The contribution of social design to rench
natural risk management policies. Towards a territorialized social
innovation (in French)
Protecting against hazards and organizing disaster management are constant
concerns for all human societies. However, current environmental challenges
require a rethinking of the division of responsibilities and roles of each
individual, both managers and citizens. Starting from the case of France,
our research aims to study the social design approach from the perspective
of territorialized social innovation, in order to better involve
inhabitants in the face of flood risk. We will question the place assigned
by the law to the individual as the first actor in his or her security, and
then we will detail the conditions for the implementation of a creative
workshop. Based on the results obtained, we will study the contribution of
design as a factor of individual and collective commitment, as well as its
reception by the actors.
Yves Voglaire
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-VOGLAIRE-Quand-cest-un-designer.pdf |
When it's a designer (in French)
What makes the specificity of design? What are the skills of a designer? In
order to answer to these questions, we will be looking to design as it used
to be practiced, and the goals it was assigned. We are going to look for
commonalities that make the different design practices bear the same name.
Design is able to make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar.
This sentence is the red thread that will help us to discover how the
designer distinguish himself from the other participants to the
co-creation, what differentiates expert design from diffuse design in
Manzini's words.
Dario Mangano
https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-MANGANO-Post-it.pdf | Post-it (in
Italian)
The history of the invention of post-it, the famous small piece of yellow
paper with a re-adherable strip of glue, help us see how designing can be a
way of redesigning more than creation ex nihilo. A designer is who works on
the meaning of things, focusing on the relations an artifact creates with
human and non humans. Standing in front of an object then, the question
changes: not what is design but when.
Craft Research 11.2 is now available
For more information about the issue and journal
https://www.intellectbooks.com/craft-research
Aims & Scope
Craft Research is the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the
development and advance of contemporary craft practice and theory through
research. The aim of Craft Research is to elicit craft as a vital and
viable modern discipline that offers a vision for the future and for the
sustainable development of human social, economical and ecological issues.
This role of craft is rooted in its flexible nature as a conduit from
design at one end to art at the other. It gains its strength from its at
times experimental, at times developmental nature, which enables craft to
explore and challenge technology, to question and develop cultural and
social practices, and to interrogate philosophical and human values.
Issue 11.2
Editorial
Crafting progress through research education and digital innovation
KRISTINA NIEDDERER AND KATHERINE TOWNSEND
Articles
Mapping the methodologies of the craft sciences in Finland, Sweden and
Norway
SIRPA KOKKO, GUNNAR ALMEVIK, HARALD C. BENTZ HOGSETH AND PIRITA
SEITAMAA-HAKKARAINEN
Promoting significant learning in a cultural craft course
TARJA KROeGER
Translational craft: Handmade and gestural knowledge in analogue-digital
material practice
NITHIKUL NIMKULRAT
Position Paper
Online matters: Future visions of digital making and materiality in hobby
crafting
ANNA KOUHIA
Craft and Industry Report
Re-inscribing the value of craft in times of dictated obsolescence
ABHISHEK CHATTERJEE AND HEITOR ALVELOS
The Portrait Section
Making as critical interrogation: An autobiographical reflection
SIMON PENNY
Exhibition Reviews
Cultural Icons: The drawings and sketchbooks of Dr John Hewitt, British
Ceramics Biennale 2019, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent,
UK, 14 September-19 November 2019
IAN WHADCOCK
Untitled, work by Fadi Yazigi, curated by Myriam Jackiche, atelier,
Damascus, Syria, 1 January-1 December 2019
ROMA MADAN-SONI
Publication Reviews
Crafts: Today's Anthology for Tomorrow's Crafts, Fabien Petoit and Chloe
Braunstein Kriegel (eds) (2018)
JANIS JEFFERIES
Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity, Anna Sznajder (2020)
CAROL QUARINI
Calendar of Events
Exhibitions, conferences
Remarkable Image
Ancestral Figures: Mid Victorian Couple, 2016
JOHN HEWITT
Keynotes and program for the Australian conference on computer-human
interaction released
We have released the keynote speakers and program for this year's
Australian conference on computer-human interaction and interaction design
(OzCHI).
The highlights are:
- Opening keynote by Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland) on
Human-Centered AI: A Second Copernican Revolution
- Industry keynote by Kate Freebairn (Google Home/Nest) on Designing for
the Home
- Closing keynote by Natasha Schuell (NYU) on her work on self-tracking
technologies
- 64 paper presentations
- 18 late-breaking work presentations
More info about the keynotes: http://www.ozchi.org/2020/keynotes.html
The full program is available at: http://www.ozchi.org/2020/program.html
All sessions will be delivered via Zoom this year.
Registration is free for CHISIG, ACM and ACM SIGCHI members; and AUD 30 for
non-members - info on how to register at:
http://www.ozchi.org/2020/attending.html
UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open
access book:
Fabricate 2020
Making Resilient Architecture
Edited by Jane Burry, Jenny E. Sabin, Bob Sheil, and Marilena Skavara
Fabricate 2020 is the fourth title in the FABRICATE series on the theme of
digital fabrication and published in conjunction with a triennial
conference (London, April 2020). The book features cutting-edge built
projects and work-in-progress from both academia and practice. It brings
together pioneers in design and making from across the fields of
architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials
technology and computation. Fabricate 2020 includes 32 illustrated articles
punctuated by four conversations between world-leading experts from design
to engineering, discussing themes such as drawing-to-production,
behavioural composites, robotic assembly, and digital craft.
Download free: https://bit.ly/2Kjgl3D
Cubic Journal #3 Design Making - The Values Had, The Object Made, the Value
Had - Practice. Making. Praxis.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design is pleased to
announce the new issue of Cubic Journal is published.
Editor(s): Daniel Keith Elkin & James Stevens
With contributions from: David Schafer, Sara Codarin, Lee Y.H. Brian, Dr.
Guan Lee, Daniel Widrig, Philippe Casens, Nathalie Bruyere, Kuo Jze Yi,
Eddie Chan, Fernando Bales, Elise DeChard & Daniel Echeverri.
This issue of Cubic Journal concerns making, and the value-structures
connected to the premise, before and after execution. Fifteen authors and
constituent research teams present their work in manifested design research
here. In this work, physical, semi-physical, and transitionally physical
embodiments of objects, spaces, and prototypical design conjectures are
part and parcel of the researchers' progress. Embodiment neither preempts,
nor follows their work, but is essentially the substance of research itself
within these manuscripts. The editors collected this work as status-taking
for a broad range of creative and scholarly enterprises in several regions
of the world. European, Southeast Asian, and American authors in
architectural and product design fields provide perspectives on
making-centric design research, across manual, digital, post-digital, and
post-consumer spectra of fabrication. But as an assemblage, these works are
more than a catalogue. They prompt retrospective thought on the values
held, and the value given, by these authors' conjectural experiments in
material form.
Now available online and at JapSam Books
https://www.japsambooks.nl/search?q=cubic
Cubic Journal:
https://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/en/news-and-events/news#cubic-journal
(Virtual) Dementia Lab Conference 2021 at Emily Carr
Register now for Dementia Lab 2021 - Virtual, January 18 - 28, 2021 (PST)
Dementia Lab 2021 is the 5th instalment of the international Dementia Lab
Conference.
This year's event is a virtual conference, hosted January 18th to 28th,
2021 by the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University of Art + Design,
Canada. Designers, academics, caregivers, healthcare workers and people
with dementia are invited to join us virtually to engage in conversations
and workshops about design and dementia.
The event will highlight issues and innovations surrounding ability and
disability, reflecting on how design and research efforts can lead the way
in uncovering, supporting and enhancing the abilities of people with
dementia and the community within which they live by involving them in the
conversation. Highlights:
13 talks by designers working in the field of dementia around the globe
17 interactive workshops
Keynote by Christina Harrington -- Moving Beyond Accessible: Considering
Design's Reach for Marginalized Aging Populations
Opening performance by The Imagination Network
http://www.dementialabconference.com
CoDesign, Volume 16, Issue 4 (2020) Special Issue: Experiential Knowledge
and Collaboration
Announcing that Special Issue: Experiential Knowledge and Collaboration has
been published.
CoDesign, Volume 16, Issue 4 (2020)
Special issue: Experiential Knowledge and Collaboration.
Guest editors: Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth, Julia Valle-Noronha and
Oscar Tomico
Editorial
Knowing together - experiential knowledge and collaboration
Nithikul Nimkulrat , Camilla Groth , Oscar Tomico & Julia Valle-Noronha
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1823995
Articles
Designing ultra-personalized product service systems
Troy Nachtigall , Svetlana Mironcika , Oscar Tomico & Loe Feijs
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1842454
Material-aesthetic collaborations: making-with the ecosystem
Miranda Smitheram & Frances Joseph
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1841796
A transdisciplinary collaborative journey leading to sensorial clothing
Kristi Kuusk , Ana Tajadura-Jimenez & Aleksander Vaeljamaee
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1833934
Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative research
across the sciences and creative practice
Camilla Groth , Margherita Pevere , Kirsi Niinimaeki & Pirjo Kaeaeriaeinen
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1821713 ...
Education and Illustration: Models Methods Paradigms, 11th Illustration
Research Symposium
Thursday 11 February - Friday 12 February 2021
To celebrate the publishing of the landmark book Illustration Research
Methods (Gannon and Fauchon, 2021) this year's symposium calls education
into focus.
As the traditional position of the illustrator ‘for hire' diminishes and
Illustration practices become ever more chimera-like, the current high
demand for illustration courses raises important questions around how we
educate a future generation of illustrators and make known their value to
employers, collaborators and commissioners, outside of the ‘bubble' of
academic study. The case for criticality in the subject is urgent.
As educators our role is to be at the forefront of championing the
development and understanding of our disciplines. What are the tools that
educators and students of illustration need to understand the subject with
both criticality and professionalism? What are the key questions those
teaching the subject need to ask to facilitate illustrators to better
understand their cultural agency and have the means to work ethically and
effectively? How can we best consecrate links between innovative or
exploratory educational practices and professional applications? The
symposia will incorporate presentations from academics, professional
practitioners and recent graduates. The conference will also include a
virtual poster forum and an exhibition showcase.
educationandillustration.info
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