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call for papers deadline - 25th February 2005 design sites and histories research group convenes 'locating design' 7-9 september 2005 the design history society annual conference sir john cass department of art, media and design london metropolitan university Design: Sites and Histories Research Group at London Metropolitan University invite submissions for the annual, international Design History Society conference to be held 7-9 September 2005. 'locating design' is concerned with a consideration of design in/and place. It is also seeks to maintain an interdisciplinary approach to thinking about design and its place in cultural history. For, design and place are both material and imagined and both design and place are co-constitutive. The East End of London – where this conference is to be held – is instructive of these ideas, demonstrating the immense investment of design /material culture in the construction of place. Here in the East End, the vestigial material culture of 17th century immigrant Huguenots and 19th century East European Jews, or a forgotten furniture and rag industry continue to haunt East London through the sites and sounds of current day Bengali ‘Banglatown’, fused uneasily with recently relocated design studios and the vogueish strut of Hoxton/Shoreditch style. This East End site suggests that the confluence of ‘design’ and ‘place’ across local and global networks is as historically resonant as it is significant today. We invite participants to think of design as contingent upon place and of the networks and linkages between design in/and place as a complex that is affiliative and layered. This lends further meaning to the ‘social life of things’ as formulated by Arjun Appadurai. By design we ask that participants consider both object and process. And, by place we do not only mean ‘landscape’: we suggest that place in (post-colonial) global societies – or rather a global sense of place - is a complex interaction of the body, language/discourse, history and environment. 'locating design' will consider the place of design thinking at interdisciplinary intersections. Thus, papers are invited from design and architectural history, material culture studies, history, historical and cultural geography, visual culture studies, cultural studies, cultural history, art history, gender studies, film studies, philosophy or any other area of study or practice that engages with the inter-connection of design in/and place. locating design is particularly keen to invite papers from professional visual arts practitioners, and from postgraduate students. Participants are asked to consider: design as process and object, as material and as imagined in/and place as material, as imagined, as discourse Thus sub-themes might include design in/and: place as material: city, home, museum, body, landscape; place as imagined/space: urban, rural, suburban, national, local, global, imperial, post-colonial; place as language and as discourse: archive, image, language, history, inter-/ disciplinary methodologies. Papers that consider design in/and the East End of London are especially welcomed. Papers proposed may be single papers, or a whole panel of 3 papers. Proposals must follow strictly, all the guidelines given below. All proposals sent by email must be saved as a word document and by proposer’s name only. Proposal types: 1. proposal for a 25 minute paper: title, suggested theme, no more than 350 word abstract clearly communicating structure and argument, 50-100 word biography of proposer with full professional/institutional affiliation and contact email or address. 2. proposal for a full panel of 3 x 25 minute papers: include convener’s name, panel title, an abstract of no more than 150 words for the full panel clearly outlining its thematic interrogation, titles and 350 word abstracts for each paper clearly communicating structure and argument, and 50-100 word biography of each speaker with full professional/institutional affiliation and contact email or address. Do not exceed given word counts for abstracts: longer abstracts will be rejected. All session chairs will be arranged by conference conveners. All proposals must be received by 25th February, 2005 Please send all proposals to dipti bhagat at [log in to unmask] All attachments must be saved as a Word.doc, by proposer’s name and be formatted in 12 point Times font. Or post to Dipti Bhagat, Academic Convener, locating design, John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, London Metropolitan University, 41 Commercial Road London, E1 1LA. Or see http://locatingdesign2005.londonmet.ac.uk/