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D R S _ N E W S
The electronic newsletter of the Design Research Society
Volume 3, Number 9
September 1998
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CONTENTS
o Editor's space
o Reminder - Quantum Leap Conference
o Doctoral Design Conference, Ohio
o Design Studies - Special Issue
o Announcements & Calls for Papers
o Questions, questions
o Cyber News
o The Design Research Society: details of membership
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to DRS_NEWS
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EDITOR'S SPACE
After announcing the DRS website and giving the wrong URL,
perhaps I had better start this month's edition by restating it
here (correctly):
http://www.drs.org.uk
I have just returned from another interesting IDATER conference
with, for the second year, a DRS session. This year there was a
considerable increase in the number of applications for paper
presentations. Paul Pankhurst of PDD Ltd. gave the DRS keynote,
discussing his group's work in relation to changes in technology
and practices and the opportunities these changes offer. It was
so good to see design researchers from many different countries,
but also to put a face to several more readers of this newsletter
from South Africa, Brazil, Turkey, Australia, USA etc.
Proceedings are published and are available now - see the IDATER
website
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/cd/Docs_DandT/idater/
index.html>
or email <[log in to unmask]> for details.
We have already decided to work again with IDATER next year, and
there will shortly be a call for papers for a newly defined DRS
thread for 1999 - watch this space!
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REMINDER
Quantum Leap - Managing New Product Innovation 8-10 September
1998
A reminder that this exciting DRS sponsored conference is filling
fast - late bookings should to directed to: Bob Jerrard (email:
[log in to unmask]) or Myfanwy Trueman (email:
[log in to unmask])
The OGM of the DRS will be held following the conference.
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DOCTORAL DESIGN CONFERENCE
At The Ohio State University
Sponsored by The Ohio State University and Carnegie Mellon
University
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
THURSDAY EVENING - October 8, 1998
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Registration and reception at the Holiday Inn
on Lane Avenue, Columbus, Ohio.
FRIDAY - October 9, 1998
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration at the Wexner Center
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome by Susan Roth
9:05 - 9:10 Welcome by Dean Judith Koroscik
9:10 - 9:15 Welcome by Graduate Dean Susan Huntington
9:15 - 10:00 Introduction by Lorraine Justice,
Keynote by Richard Buchanan
10:00 -10:15 Overview of existing doctoral design programs by
Dennis Doordan
10:30 to 12:00 Doctoral education in the national context
Meredith Davis (United States): The case for interdisciplinary
research in design
Alpay Er (Turkey): A Ph.D. in Design in the periphery
Pekka Korvenma (Finland): Doctoral education in design: The
Finnish experience
Guilherme Cunha Lima and Rafael Cardoso Denis (Brazil): Doctoral
education in design: The Brazilian experience
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch at the Wexner Center
1:00 - 3:00 The question of design knowledge (panel)
Clive Dilnot (Hong Kong): Contribution of design to knowledge
Alain Findeli (Canada): Design knowledge and project-led research
Sharon Poggenpohl (United States): The codification of design
knowledge for research use
3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:00 What is doctoral education?
Chair: Victor Margolin (United States)
Break up into groups then come back to report findings.
5:00 -6:00 Free time
6:00 - 7:00 Cash bar at the Faculty Club
7:00 - 10:00 Dinner and guest speaker
SATURDAY - October 10, 1998
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome by Lorraine Justice
9:10 - 11:00 Models of doctoral experience
Geoffrey Caban (Australia): Work-based learning programs
Sid Newton (Australia): Mix of written thesis and related
exhibition or project
Barbara Martinson (United States): Dissertation-based program
David Durling (United Kingdom): Fostering a research culture
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 1:00 Employment opportunities for design doctorates
Dennis Doordan (United States) : Design doctorate leadership for
institutional change
Liz Sanders and Peter Kwok Chan (United States): Research in
design practice
Roberta Feldman (United States): The case of architecture
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch at the Wexner Center
2:00 - 3:30 Content of doctoral education
Suzette Worden (United Kingdom) - Doctoral research and digital
media
Enzio Manzini and Silvia Pizzocaro (Italy) - Theory of
innovation as a key subject of research
Ken Friedman (Norway): design management
Victor Margolin (United States) - The role of design studies in
doctoral education
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee Break
3:45 - 5:00 Individual perspectives and institutional
arrangements- personal context
Lorraine Justice (United States): Doctorate degrees for specific
areas of design
Cal Swann (Australia): Let there be light
Cumulus (European consortium): An update
5:00 - 6:00 Free time
6:00 - 7:00 Cash bar
7:00 - 9:00 Dinner and guest speaker at the OSU Faculty Club
SUNDAY - October 11, 1998
9:00 to 9:15 Opening remarks - Victor Margolin (United States)
9:15 - 9:30 Assessment of last two days - Dennis Doordan (United
States)
9:30 - 11:30 Concurrent sessions on perspective
SESSION I
Panel Chair: Susan Roth (United States)
Jan Vanwijnen (Finland): Everyday life experience and design
aesthetics
Patrick Reinmoeller (Japan): Doctoral education as a
condition for disciplinary knowledge creation- design and
engineering education in Japan
Lou Taylor (United Kingdom): An
assessment of the current state of development of doctoral
research into the history of, and contemporary practice of,
dress and textile design
Zoe Strickler (United States):
Interdisciplinary collaboration as a means for developing
doctoral-level, experimental research in visual communication
design
Nigan Bayazit (Turkey): Doctoral education in design in
Turkey: Why and how?
SESSION II
Panel Chair: Kyung Won Chung (Korea)
Hartmut Ginnow: Exploring content
Hazel Clark (Hong Kong): Design(ing) doctorates in China
Keith Russell (Australia): Purpose and Practice - Higher degrees
in design
Troels Seidenfanden (Denmark): Opportunities for the
idiomatic development process
Jay Melican (United States): A cross-cultural survey of
motivations for pursuing a Ph.D. in design
11:30 - 12:00 Conference wrap-up - Lorraine Justice (United
States)
DETAILS FROM:
Doctoral Education Conference, Department of Design,
The Ohio State University, 380 Hopkins Hall, 128 North Oval
Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43210 USA
Please contact Lorraine Justice at [log in to unmask] or Susan
Roth at [log in to unmask]
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CALL FOR PAPERS
DESIGN STUDIES JOURNAL
"DISTRIBUTED WEB-BASED AI DESIGN TOOLS" SPECIAL ISSUE
Following the very successful AID'98 Workshop on "Distributed
Web-based AI Design Tools" in Lisbon, Portugal in July, 1998
(http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/aid98/) and after
discussions with the editor of Design Studies (Nigel Cross), we
are extending the Proposed Design Studies Special Issue
Call-For-Papers to a wider audience. The plan is to supplement
those papers we already have from the AID'98 workshop with other
work in the area.
Submissions are welcomed which describes work relevant, but not
limited, to the following topics:
management of distributed design knowledge and information;
distributed design - methods and case studies;
distributed AI - including user and organisational interface
issues;
web-based Computer-Supported-Collaborative-Working (CSCW).
The publication schedule for the Proposed Special Issue of
Design Studies is as follows:
9 November 1998 - Submission of full papers.
20 January 1999 - Notification of reviewers' comments.
19 March 1999 - Final papers due.
Late 1999 - Provisional publication date of Design Studies
Special Issue on "Distributed Web-based AI Design Tools".
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ANNOUNCEMENTS & CALLS FOR PAPERS
* 26-27 November 1998: CALL FOR PAPERS: International Workshop
on Similarity Methods, University of Stuttgart, Germany
A scientific and interdisciplinary international work- shop
for central questions of model building with - similarity, -
analogy, and - symmetry in mathematics, physics, engineering,
and related areas.
http://www.isd.uni-stuttgart.de/pigroup/similarity.html
REASONS
Besides practical successful engineering applications,
similarity analysis is also heavily used in the early
conceptual stages of almost any scientific model building.
The technique of dimensional analysis is used there as a
verification tool and in mathematics, physics, and
engineering, the method of group transformations has a fixed
place in the analytical treatment and the subsequent solution
process of differential equations.
The international workshop on similarity methods starts
exactly at this point and emphasises the interdisci- plinary
synergies and cross fertilisation capabilities of similarity
theory techniques.
The international workshop on similarity methods aims at
bringing together researchers interested and working in
similarity methods for a two day meeting with presentations
on all aspects of the topics of similarity, analogy, and
symmetry. It is intended that the intensive exchange of ideas
and discussions with other researchers will help to stimulate
and progress further research work.
INSTRUCTIONS:
http://www.isd.uni-stuttgart.de/pigroup/similarity.html
* CALL FOR PAPERS for a Special Issue on WEB-INTEGRATED
MANUFACTURING in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER INTEGRATED
MANUFACTURING
The Internet technology has evolved rapidly over the last
decade, due to its capability of accommodating multimedia
functions. Among the multifarious devices in Internet
technology, the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) is the most
popular and visible component. Indeed, the client-server
architecture in WWW also offers tremendous opportunities for
the sharing of information among project groups that possibly
vary in both time and space. Indeed, the Web has been
commonly employed in business, industry, government, and
academia. In the manufacturing sector, the application of
the Web is found in numerous areas, such as quotation and
order processing, customer requirement management, design for
manufacture and assembly, process and production planning,
production and inventory control, after-sales customer
services and feedback, and so on.
The aim of collating this special issue is to provide a forum
for researchers and practitioners to review the past
development, and to identify possible directions for further
developments. Original contributions will be solicited to
further appreciate the Web technology and its relevance to
Computer Integrated Manufacturing, and emphasis will be on
the knowledge and insights accumulated so far, and also on
implications for the future.
Some possible topics for contributions to this special issue
are:
Market research and customer requirement management
Product development and design
Order processing and quotation
Virtual/Rapid prototyping
Supply chain management and logistics
Design for manufacture and assembly
Process planning, production planning, scheduling and control
Manufacturing system simulation, modelling and design
Customer and product services
Performance measurement, control and management (Quality
control, etc.)
Agile/Virtual/Lean manufacturing/enterprises
Overview (Literature review, Future directions, Applications
overview, etc.)
The list is not exhaustive, and any other interesting
suggestions for contributions are very much welcomed.
For details: http://147.8.86.5/SpecialIssue.html
* 30 November - 3 December 1998: CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
First International Online Conference on DESIGN COMPUTING ON
THE NET '98 (DCNet'98) University of Sydney, Australia
The International Journal of Design Computing (IJDC)
(http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/journal) invites original
contributions for the First International Online Conference
on Design Computing on the Net '98 (DCNet'98). IJDC is an
electronic journal whose objective is to promote research and
technology transfer in design computing through the
publication of interactive, multimedia journal articles
within the general topic of design computing. The aim of
DCNet'98 is to further the journal's objectives by providing
a focused forum on the future of design computing. The
material presented as part of the online conference will be
published in the current volume of the International Journal
of Design Computing.
DCNet'98 will run during the four days preceding the 30th
Anniversary celebration of the Key Centre of Design Computing
at the University of Sydney. The anniversary will be held in
the Faculty of Architecture on 4 December as a one-day
workshop. Speakers at the workshop include: John Gero, Nigel
Cross, Ernest Edmonds, William Mitchell, George Stiny, Tom
Maver, and Steve Fenves.
CONFERENCE STREAMS
DCNet'98 will reflect IJDC's themes and include presentations
in the following streams:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN DESIGN Program Chair: David
Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA, [log in to unmask]
COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION IN DESIGN Program Chair: Fay
Sudweeks, University of Sydney, Australia,
[log in to unmask]
DESIGN COMPUTING IN EDUCATION Program Chair: Tom Kvan,
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, [log in to unmask]
MULTIMEDIA IN DESIGN Program Chair: Gerhard Schmitt, ETH
Zurich, Switzerland, [log in to unmask]
CONFERENCE FORMAT
DCNet'98 will run synchronous sessions for 2 hours each day
over 4 days. The presentations will be available two weeks
prior to the synchronous sessions, each one with an
associated threaded discussion. The synchronous presentation
will be done using online conference software that allows
registrants to see and listen to the speaker's live
presentation, and participate in an online discussion.
PRESENTATIONS
The presentations and edited version of the threaded and
synchronous discussions will be published as part of the
current volume of the International Journal of Design
Computing. All published presentations will be peer reviewed
and archived in a way consistent with a scholarly journal.
Presentations that make use of visualisation techniques
rather than rely entirely on words are encouraged.
For details:
http://www.arch.usyd.edu.au/kcdc/conferences/dcnet or
[log in to unmask]
* 26th-27th October 1998: Towards Sustainable Product Design,
3rd international conference, London, UK
For information on the conference programme, costs and
booking form: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/tspd3.htm
* 29 October 1998: Environmental R&D in the UK electronics
industry: driving eco-innovation 29th October 1998, DTI
Conference Centre London, UK
Dr Kim Howells MP will launch a handbook on refurbishing IT
equipment at 'Environmental R&D in the UK electronics
industry: driving eco-innovation' on 29th October 1998 in
London, UK. The report will give practical advice to
companies who are considering donating IT equipment for
refurbishment and those who are interested in purchasing
refurbished IT equipment. The project is based on a
consultation exercise that is being completed during Summer
1998.
The goal of the event is to discuss real environmental R&D
needs/gaps/opportunities in the UK electronics industry with
a focus on:
innovative product design/eco-design
manufacturing
customer use
'end of life' management
education and training
information management
financial consideration
The event will see the launch of two new projects:
UK refurbishment initiative by Dr Kim Howells MP
Strategic CARE initiative (an environmental R&D network for
European electronics companies)
There will be presentations from DTI, CARE Vision 2000, ICL,
Sony, NPL, BT, CfSD, Lawrence Jones solicitors
The delegate fee is 10 uk pounds and will need to be paid
BEFORE the event--if you would like further information
please FAX to + 00 44 1252 892747
* 26-28 November 1998: DOORS OF PERCEPTION 5: 'PLAY',
Amsterdam http://www.doorsofperception.com
NEW SPEAKERS Alan Kay, Barbara Stafford, Will Wright, Charles
Hampden-Turner, Femke Wolting, Jez San.
PRINTED PROGRAMME For a printed copy of the programme
brochure, e-mail your postal address to
[log in to unmask]
GENERAL INFORMATION Phone: +31 20 420 1711 Fax: +31 20 626
5845 Email: [log in to unmask]
* Construction Education: You can now post email messages
directly by yourself on a permanent bulletin board at The
Construction Education Connection http://www.construction.st
just by joining the construction mailing list and sending an
email to [log in to unmask]
To view the bulletin board with some sample messages go to:
http://www.listbot.com/archive/blsims
The process to be able to post messages to this board is
listed at:
http://www.construction.st/discussion_group_and_messages.htm
* VADS User Needs Workshop Report Announcement. The Report
containing the results, analysis and recommendations of the
VADS User Needs Workshop, held in Edinburgh April 1998, are
now available at:
http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/wkshp1.html
The VADS User Needs Workshop (April 1998) was a key exercise
in determining the best way in which VADS can expand, develop
and tailor its services to the visual arts community,
including researchers, teachers and students of the visual
arts. As well as providing a snapshot of current practice
among the community, the Workshop was intended to facilitate
the setting up and development of the service in three
crucial respects: * to help us understand more about how
electronic resources are being used now by members of our
community * to help us target the services of VADS more
closely to the community's electronic information provision,
creation and management needs * to help us build up an
accurate picture of what digital resources have been already
created by the community; how they are being used; and what
we can do to help maximise the investment in these resources
From the conclusions of the Workshop, it is possible to
deduce that in order for digital resources to realise their
full potential within the academic community much work now
has to be done supporting and encouraging the visual arts
community in creating high quality resources suitable for
re-use. This can be achieved in a variety of ways including
training and support, with the promotion of subjects relevant
to their field of work, including copyright, cataloguing
standards and resource creation.
* 31 May - 2 June 1999: ADVANCED ENGINEERING DESIGN. A
Czech Republic - U.K. Conference, Prague. FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
AND CALL FOR PAPERS
This Conference, organised by an International Committee from
the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom, builds upon links
established in recent years between researchers, academics
and engineers in industry in the two countries.
The aim of the Conference is both to present results of
recent work and to explore new areas for future co-operation.
It is hoped that there will be participation and support from
those in Brussels who administer relevant EU Programmes. The
Conference is open to all from research institutes, higher
education and industry.
The chosen theme, Advanced Engineering Design, is important
in all branches of Engineering. Subjects to be considered
will include methodological topics of general importance,
such as how best to integrate the creative power of the human
designer with modern computational tools, how to design for
efficiency in production and for maintainability, how to use
computer networks for co- operative design projects involving
several partners and consideration of the aesthetic,
ergonomic and environmental aspects of design.
The programme will also include more specialised topics such
as the design of integrated systems, the role of artificial
intelligence in design, computer simulation tools in design,
computational mechanics, computational fluid dynamics methods
for design and parallel processing methods in a design
context.
Themes for some of the major sessions already planned
include:-
Design Methods
Computational Techniques for Design
Environmental Issues in Design
Experimentation and Prototyping in Design
Materials and Design
Education and Design
If you are interested in attending the Conference and wish to
be sent further details as they become available, details
from:
Dr. Ladislav Smrcek, Department of Aerospace Engineering,
University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland, U.K. e-mail
([log in to unmask])
* 22-24 September 1999: The 16th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS IN CONSTRUCTION is scheduled for
Madrid, Spain. For details and paper submission deadlines,
please check and bookmark for future reference the following
web site:
http://www.uc3m.es/uc3m/dpto/IN/dpin04/isarc99/call.html
* 13-17 September 1998: DQ2 Changing Energy into Form,
Isle of Wight, UK. details from Cris de Groot
<[log in to unmask]> or
<http://www.cdegroot.demon.co.uk>
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QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS
* Andreas Dieberger writes:
How to measure performance of creative people???
This subject line might sound a little odd...
Well here is the problem. I work in a group here at Emory
that does about everything from user interface design over
information design, web and graphics design, to real
multimedia work, but also supports existing sites and
multimedia products, sits in on boring committees and and.
Most of it is creative work, some of it is project based,
other work isn't.
Now they want from all groups in our division to come up with
"performance measures" (exactly: it's Dilbert time again!).
We tried for quite a while to come up with a reasonable way
to do that but so far we failed.
I just realized that other groups / people must have gone
through similar phases before and wondered if anybody could
give us hints and advice what worked for them and what
didn't.
We'd surely appreciate any help me might get in this.
Thank you very much,
Andreas Dieberger
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Andreas Dieberger, Emory University /Information Technology
Division, 540 Asbury Circle -- Atlanta, GA 30322.
[log in to unmask] (Contact by email preferred)
[log in to unmask] -- [log in to unmask]
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CYBER NEWS: snippets from the networks
* Note: The O2 Challenge International Design Workshop on
Sustainable Business Concepts Van Nelle Factory, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands, 5-7 November 1998 More information:
http://www.o2.org
* you may be interested in clicking on
http://www.epsilon-ltd.co.uk for free information on
'business and environment' information
* philosophy in art/manner http://dialectics.netone.com.br
* innovation... check out the web page www.teamset.com
* Virtual Science takes off on the web - a virtual science
web site based at the Open University's KMi has a series of
ShockWave simulations of the experiments made by the Wright
Brothers, plus a flight-sim of the original 1903 Flyer.
http://firstflight.open.ac.uk/
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DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
The Design Research Society was established in 1967, reflecting a
belief among academics and professionals from different design
communities that the essence of the activity called design was
common to many disciplines.
The Society has facilitated an international design research
network in 35 countries comprising members who maintain contact
through the publications and activities of the Society. Members
are drawn from diverse backgrounds, not only from the traditional
areas of design, ranging from fine art to engineering, but also
from subjects like psychology and computer science.
The goals of the Society are to:
o promote communication across the boundaries of all design
disciplines
o provide a forum to exchange and communicate ideas,
experience and research findings
o promote the improvement of practical design performance
in all its aspects
o contribute to the development of a coherent body of
scholarship and knowledge in design
Membership is open to individuals and costs only UK pounds 15 per
year. Members are entitled to the following:
o Newsletter of the Society
o Reduced rate subscription to the journal 'Design
Studies', published in association with the Society by
Elsevier- Butterworth-Heinemann
o Occasional mailings to members
o Invitations and reduced admission charges to seminars and
conferences organised by the Society
For further details and an application form, contact the
membership secretary:
Professor Robert Jerrard, School of Design Research, Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, University of Central England,
Corporation Street, Birmingham, UK B4 7DX
tel: +44 (0)121 331 7807 fax: +44 (0)121 333 5569
email <[log in to unmask]
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ELECTRONIC SERVICES OF THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY
The full range of services available are:
DRS ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTER
DRS_NEWS is the electronic newsletter of the Design Research
Society. It communicates news about research throughout the
world. It is mailed automatically at the beginning of each
month.
To have monthly copies of DRS_NEWS emailed to you automatically,
it is necessary to join the 'Design-Research' mailing list.
Send an email message to:
[log in to unmask]
(leave the 'subject' line blank ie. press 'return')
Type a message which reads:
JOIN DESIGN-RESEARCH yourFirstName yourLastName
Past copies of DRS_NEWS can also be found at
<http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-a-e/design-research listed
by month.
DRS DISCUSSION LIST
DRS is the discussion list now open for unmoderated discussion on
all matters related to design research.
To monitor and/or join discussions on design research emailed to
you automatically it is necessary to join the 'DRS' mailing list.
Send an email message to:
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(leave the 'subject' line blank ie. press 'return')
Type a message which reads:
JOIN DRS yourFirstName yourLastName
Archived copies of these discussions can also be found at
<http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists-a-e/drs listed by month.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Further information about the Design Research Society can be
found at: <http://www.drs.org.uk>
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CONTRIBUTIONS
...and finally - for inclusion in future DRS_NEWS please send any
contributions to the editor. Email is preferred. Send to
DRS_NEWS editor:
Dr. David Durling, Director of Research, School of Art & Design,
Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 2XN, UK.
Tel: +44(0)1782 294556 [direct, 24 hr.] Fax: +44(0)1782 294873
Email: <[log in to unmask]
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