Dear Anne,
Just wondering what proportion of the agenda are you proposing to allocate to engineering, informations science, computing, and construction design fields?
Best wishes,
Terry
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Dr. Terence Love
Curtin University
Dept of Design
Perth, Western Australia
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From: Design History Society
Sent: 2/06/2003 12:23 AM
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Subject: CFP: Collaboration in Design Studies
Below is a CFP titled Collaboration in Design Studies, a panel to be
presented at the 2004 College Art Association annual conference in Seattle Feb.18-21,
2004. The panel is sponsored by Design Forum, an affiliated society of CAA.
Contact info. is located at the end of the CFP.
Collaboration in Design Studies
Emphasizing a need to find common ground in a world of differing cultural and
social values and resources, members of the International Council of Graphic
Design Association drafted a comprehensive Design Education manifesto in 2000
in Seoul, Korea (See Design Issues vol. 18, no. 2 (Spring 2002). The authors
noted that design education programs "should foster strategies and methods for
communication and collaboration" through facilitating a self-reflective
attitude and ability. When the authors said that, "Eastern values foreground
community and social obligation in contrast to a Western concern with individuality
and freedom," they highlighted the need for developing flexible thinking.
Their important observations and mandate seem prescient in a post 9/11 world
where cultural value systems have been radically called into question. Design
Forum invites SHORT statements on projects, research, theory, or pedagogy of
400 words or less that consider this issue. Focus can be on any design
discipline. Suggestions include:
How do design education and design studies address the need for
collaboration: the necessity of collaborative projects, collaboration as an indispensable
component of critical thinking, and the implications of collaborative thinking
for changing social and political environments.
What benefits for design result when collaboration produces active exchange
of diversity and difference, when it generates new perspectives, insights, and
debate?
Statements may envision collaboration as the process of negotiating different
aesthetic languages, positions, and opinions.
What part does collaboration play in defining professional and research
practice?
Does collaboration foster holisitic human –centered attitudes toward design,
and thus ADD to what is more commonly understood today as human-centered in
design (green design, products for special- needs audiences, work for the
non-profit sector).
Five to ten of these statements will be chosen by a jury of DF members to be
presented at next year's special session. Panelists' prepared comments will be
limited to five minutes per person, and the remaining hour to hour-and-a-half
of the session will be used for discussion amongst the panelists and the
audience.
DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2003. Send proposal via email or USPS to: Prof. Ann
Schoenfeld, Art History Dept. Pratt Institute, 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn, NY
11205 OR [log in to unmask]
