_______________________________________________ _______________ _______________________________________________ _______________ ___________________________________________ __ _ _ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ ___ _____ _________________________________________ ____ __ _____ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ _______ __ ___________________________________________ __ ____ ___ DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 14 Number 8 Aug 2009 ISSN 1473-3862 DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ Join DRS now via e-payment http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS o Design Studies o Calls o Announcements o The Design Research Society: information o Digital Services of the DRS o Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN o Contributing to DRN ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ DESIGN STUDIES Contents of Volume 30, Issue 4 (July 2009) http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X The ontology of Gero's FBS model of designing Per Galle Pages 321-339 Design knowledge recycling using precedent-based analysis and synthesis models Buthayna Hasan Eilouti Pages 340-368 Optimising design objectives using the Balanced Scorecard approach Franky W.H. Wong, Patrick T.I. Lam, Edwin H.W. Chan Pages 369-392 An affordance-based approach to architectural theory, design, and practice Jonathan R.A. Maier, Georges M. Fadel, Dina G. Battisto Pages 393-414 Assessing perceived credibility of traditional and computer generated architectural representations Nada Bates-Brkljac Pages 415-437 Cultural patterns in product design ideas: comparisons between Australian and Iranian student concepts Mohammad Razzaghi, Mariano Ramirez Jr., Robert Zehner Pages 438-461 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ CALLS SPECIAL ISSUES OF THE JOURNAL OF DESIGN HISTORY The Journal invites collaboration in the development of the subject through thematic Special Issues. It invites both the proposal of promising themes (and guest editors) and the contribution of individual articles to themes under development. Please send initial proposals and abstracts to [log in to unmask] Papers should be submitted according to the Instructions to Authors which can be found at: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/design/for_authors/index.html. Papers for special issues will be subject to the usual refereeing and selection procedures of the Journal of Design History At the present time the Journal particularly invites proposals and contributions relating to the following themes: - History of design education - The re-appropriation of tradition in design - History of design for sustainability - Design and material culture before 1800 - Design and the re-shaping of regions - Uniforms in design historical perspective Uniforms are complex clothing series of great variety, designed for uses spanning religious, military, professional, educational, and recreational activities. Uniforms may be designed to control, but at the same time they invite subversion; they may be loathed as well as admired; their wearer may be feared, but also envied. The significance of uniforms in everyday life should not be underestimated; they are important material markers of culture. Papers for this Special Issue may address the design of uniforms and their significance from various disciplinary, geographical and cultural perspectives, and explore the relationship between uniforms and: - changes in the relations of design and manufacture - the shaping of modern identities in private and/or public institutions - the evolution of discipline, self-expression, and subjectivity - the history of occupations or leisure activities - the history of design in fashion, film or theatre. Please send abstracts of 300-400 words relating to this Special Issue by 25 September 2009 to [log in to unmask] ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for the new journal of CRAFT RESEARCH Editors Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton, UK email: [log in to unmask] Dr Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent University email: [log in to unmask] 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 portray and build the crafts 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. Call for Papers Craft Research aims to actively promote and strengthen this future-oriented role of the crafts. In order to do so, it recognises inter and cross disciplinary practices, and encourages diverse approaches to research arising from practice, theory and philosophy. It welcomes contributions from new and established researchers, scholars, and professionals around the world who wish to make a contribution to advancing the crafts. Contributions may include research into materials, technology, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetics and philosophy, etc. in any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including craft education. Craft Research welcomes a number of different types of contributions as set out below. Contributions Full Research Papers (4000-6000 words) They will describe completed research projects, including research problem, questions, methods, outcomes, and findings. They should include original work of a research and/or developmental nature and/or propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly presented and argued. Short Research Papers / Position Papers (2000-3000 words) - Short Research Papers may describe smaller research projects or research in progress including research problem, questions, methods, (expected) outcomes and findings. They are an opportunity to new researchers/practitioners to get into publishing. - Position papers may put forward and debate a position on a particular (current) issue (e.g. new technology, material, theoretical, social or educational issue). Both should include original work of a research or developmental nature and/or propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly presented and argued. Both should include original work of a research and/or developmental nature and/or propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly presented and argued. They are an opportunity for new researchers/practitioners to have their research/work published. Craft & Industry Reports (1500-3000 words) Reports of Investigative Practice from Craft & Industry should present an advance in and for the field, including collaborations and new developments of work, processes, methods, ideas etc. by practitioners and industry in the crafts. Review Section. We invite reviews of the following: - The Portrait Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature the work of an individual (crafts person, artist, designer, maker, researcher) within the field whose creative work stands out for its developmental / research qualities and contribution to the crafts. - The Exhibition Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature scholarly reviews of exhibitions that are of particular developmental / research significance for the field for the technical, conceptual, aesthetic, social etc. quality of the work or for the curation. - The Publication Review (1000-2000 words) Will feature reviews of publications in print and new media. - The Conference Section (1000-2000 words) Will feature reviews of any relevant conferences/symposia/etc. in the field. Calendar of Exhibitions & Conferences We invite notifications of important and relevant forthcoming craft exhibitions and craft conferences/research events. Remarkable Image Section We invite the submission of images of outstanding quality for their novelty, beauty, complexity, simplicity, challenging nature, humour, humanity, etc. that are representative of contemporary crafts developments and research. The final date for submissions for the first issue is Friday 15 January 2010. For guidance notes, for submissions, or further information please contact the editors. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=172/ 20-29 August 2010: ISEA2010 RUHR The submission platform of ISEA2010 RUHR is now open. ISEA2010 RUHR is the 16th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a major conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, in the German Ruhr region (Dortmund, Essen, Duisburg, a. o.). We invite proposals for conference papers, artist presentations, exhibition projects, live performances, and art projects in public space. Visual artists, musicians, dancers, designers, engineers, software artists, researchers, theorists, media activists, and hybrids of these, working with recent technologies and exploring the artistic, creative and critical potentials of digital and electronic media, should submit their projects or papers online by 15 September 2009. All submissions will be evaluated by an international jury. The results of the jury process and invitations for ISEA2010 RUHR are expected by the end of 2009. Please note that all submitted information can be edited and completed until the submission deadline. Detailed information about the submission process can be found at: http://www.isea2010ruhr.org/submissions 21-23 April 2010: ARTECH 2010 - 5th Internacional Conference of Digital Arts, Guimaraes, Portugal http://www.artech-international.com/artech2010 Call for Submissions Artech 2010 is the fifth international conference held on the topic of Digital Arts. It aims at promoting contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the concept, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art. Artech 2010 aims at bringing the scientific, technological and artistic community together, while promoting the interest in the digital culture and its intersection with art and technology as an important research field, a common space for discussion and exchange of experiences, a forum for emerging digital artistsunderstanding and be delighted with new forms of digital expression. Main areas are related with sound, image, video, music, multimedia, architecture and other new media related topics, in the context of emerging practice of artistic creation. Although non exclusive, the main topics of the conference are: -Art and Science Theory -Audio-Visual and Multimedia Design -Creativity Theory -Digital Fabrication -Electronic Music -Generative and Algorithmic Art -Generative Computational Design -Immersive Art -Interactive Systems for Artistic Applications -Media Art history -Mobile Multimedia -Net Art and Digital Culture -New Experiences with Digital Media -Parametric Design -Tangible and Gesture Interfaces -Technology in Art Education Submissions Authors are invited to submit: -A full paper of six to ten pages for oral presentation -A short paper up to four pages for poster presentations or art installations proposals Submissions are accepted in the conference official languages: English, Portuguese, Galician and Castilian. Submission format All papers should be in A4 format and should be formatted in accordance with the norms and guidelines defined in the model available in the Artech site. All papers accepted for presentation will be published in a duly registered book (ISBN) and a selection of the best papers will be published in an appropriate scientific and technological academic journal. Full papers submission: 27 November 2009 Installations proposals and short papers submission: 04 December 2009 Full papers notice of acceptance: 15 January 2010 Installations proposal and Short notice of acceptance: 29 January 2010 Submission full paper final version: 25 February 2010 Early Registration Deadline: 22 March 2010 10-11 July 2010: FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN COMPUTING AND COGNITION - DCC'10 Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories to design research University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany preceded by Workshops CALL for SUBMISSIONS This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science and computational theories in design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing archive of design computing and cognition research. The conference will be preceded by a series of half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing and cognition. Attendees are invited to participate in the conference in the following ways: - Submit a full-length paper on completed research relating to design computing and cognition. - Submit a poster describing ongoing research; there will be time for oral presentations of posters. - Submit a proposal for a half-day workshop on a topic related to design computing and cognition. A set of research papers that have been refereed by an international board of reviewers will be presented and published as a book. Posters describing ongoing research will be presented. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Agents in design - Artificial intelligence in design - Biologically-inspired design - Collaborative design - Cognitive theories applied to design - Computational theories applied to design - Creative design - Design in practice - Digital media in design - Evolutionary approaches in design - Games and design - Human cognition in design - Learning from human designers - Machine learning in design - Multi-modal design - Situated computing in design - Virtual environments in design - Visual and spatial reasoning in design Researchers from all fields employing computation and or cognition in design are invited to participate. SUBMISSION DATES - Paper abstracts due, electronic submission in PDF and RTF formats only: 18 December 2009 - Papers for review due, electronic submission in PDF and RTF formats only: 29 January 2010 - Workshop proposals due: 22 February 2010 - Poster abstracts due: 5 February 2010 http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc10/ THE POSTER The Poster is a new peer-reviewed journal published by Intellect. Lead by Simon Downs ([log in to unmask]) at Loughborough University, the journal draws on an editorial team from Loughborough, the Universidade De Aveiro, the University of Guadalajara and the University of New South Wales. The Poster provides a forum for debate about the ways in which visual devices are used to form opinion, sway, persuade, provoke, unite and divide us. Scholars and practitioners of visual culture, visual ethnography, critical studies, cybernetics and the social sciences are invited to join in the discussion about the ethics, aesthetics, effect and operation of visual rhetoric in the public sphere. Submissions can be practical, theoretical or philosophical in nature, from essays on industrial practice (e.g. successful campaigns, analysis of trends and methods) to artefacts from practitioners in the field of visual communication (e.g. graphics, illustration, curation, experience design, photography, etc). http://tinyurl.com/theposterjournal 19-22 May 2010: VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE FORUM Call for Papers for VAF 2010 Annual Meeting "Housing Washington" in Washington, D.C. The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Papers may address vernacular and everyday buildings, sites, or cultural landscapes worldwide. Submissions are encouraged to explore topics related to the conference theme of residential development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including planned communities, suburban living, apartment housing, urban renewal, and racial and ethnic neighborhoods. Papers should be twenty-minutes in length, although proposals for complete sessions, roundtable discussions, or other innovative means that facilitate scholarly discourse are also welcome. Proposals must be one-page, fewer than 400 words, and include paper title, author's name, and email address. Please state clearly the argument of the paper and explain the methodology and content. Papers should be theoretical or analytical in nature, rather than descriptive. Attach a one-page CV to your proposal submission. The deadline for proposals is September 10, 2009. Presenters must deliver their papers in person and be VAF members at the time of the conference. Speakers who do not register for the conference and submit their papers to their session chair by April 1, 2010, will be withdrawn. Please do not submit an abstract if you are not committed to attending the papers session on May 22. Presenter Fellowships to offset registration costs are available to students and recent graduates. For more information on Presenter Fellowships see http://www.vafweb.org/awards/presenter.html. Electronic submissions of proposals and CVs in Word format are preferred. Please send email proposals to or hard copies to Cynthia Falk, VAF c/o Cooperstown Graduate Program, P.O. Box 800, Cooperstown, NY 13326. For general information about the Washington, D.C. VAF Meeting, contact Lisa Davidson at or 202-354-2179. 2-6 February 2010: DESIGNING FOR CHILDREN - With focus on 'Play + Learn' at IDC, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India The international conference 'Designing for Children' with focus on 'Play + Learn' is scheduled to be held at Mumbai, India in Feb 2010 and is being hosted by the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai. This international event is aimed at deliberations and discussions concerning design issues related to children. The event is expected to throw light on the role of designing for children as related to design of objects, media and environment with focus on 'play and learn'. The events are centered around the interests of students, educationists, practicing designers and children related interest groups. The event has been designed to be lively, interactive and thought provoking and will provide great opportunity to interact with thought leaders, listen to visions by researchers and for networking. Themes for the conference on 'Designing for Children with focus on Play + Learn': We invite interesting experimentation, different perspectives, innovative design applications, in-depth case studies, research outcomes and position papers centered on the theme of the conference. The following are the suggested main themes for submission of papers: - Products for children - School for children - Children's environment - Children and media - Interactive environments for children - Children with special needs - Development issues of children http://www.designingforchildren.net 24-27 August 2009: ICED'09: August 24-27 2009, Stanford, California, USA The Design Society Special Interest Group (SIG) Workshops will be held during ICED'09. Design Creativity SIG The Design Creativity SIG is a new SIG within the DS, aimed at elucidating the nature of design creativity through study of issues such as the cognitive processes underlying design creativity, computational models of design creativity and practical processes to incorporate the human and social dimensions. The SIG will be holding a Workshop during ICED'09 on 25 August from 9.00 to 12.30. The Workshop will aim to present a forum to discuss the nature and potential of design creativity from theoretical and methodological viewpoints. In addition the workshop aims to discuss the direction of research in design creativity. In particular the workshop intends to establish a framework for themes and research directions for design creativity. Position Papers are invited for presentation at the Workshop, due 8 August 2009. Attendees are requested to submit position papers (4 page limit, A4 size, no specified format) on the workshop theme to the SIG Secretariat ([log in to unmask]). The position papers will be handed out at the workshop in a stapled format. The Agenda for the meeting will be: 1. Introduction of SIG Design Creativity (Opening, self-introduction by the attendees, status of the SIG, and report of the workshop in DCC (Yan Jin)) 2. Presentations. Keynote speech -Speaker: Barbara Tversky (Stanford University). Title: Studying Creativity is Impossible and Some Ways to Do It -Paper presentation from accepted papers for the conference: 3. Panel and Open Discussions. Theme: Directions for Design Creativity Research. Panelists: John Gero, Amaresh Chakrabarti, Yong Se Kim, Yan Jin, Yukari Nagai and Toshiharu Taura. http://www.jaist.ac.jp/ks/labs/nagai/DesignCreativityW/ 17-20 May 2010: DESIGN 2010. The 11th INTERNATIONAL DESIGN CONFERENCE will be held May 17-20, 2010, in Cavtat near DUBROVNIK, Croatia. The Conference aims to create opportunities for participants to discuss their existing research, develop new research questions and develop awareness and understanding of engineering design by sharing and exchanging knowledge with fellow researchers and practitioners. The main topics of the Conference are: - Design Theory and Research - Design Organisation and Management - Design Processes - Design Methods - Design Support Tools - Design Information and Knowledge - Human Behaviour and Design - Engineering Design Practice The Conference will also include a number of DS SIG Workshops. Please note that contributions have to be submitted exclusively through the conference web site. For any questions please contact Organising Secretariat at [log in to unmask] KEY DATES: Online submission opened on June 1, 2009. The full paper submission deadline is December 14, 2009. Abstracts are NOT REQUIRED! http://www.designconference.org 24-25 November 2009: THE ART OF RESEARCH Processes, Results and Contributions THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS & CONFIRMED KEYNOTES University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland Over the last two decades, a lively discussion has developed about the relationship between art and research. The roles of the professional artist and the professional researcher have in many ways come closer to one another and often merged in fruitful ways. At the university level, the criteria for various forms of research related to art and design have emerged. With some variation, the suggested minimum criteria include: a clearly articulated epistemic interest, a systematic and sustained approach, explicit and articulated means for communicating and evaluating the results, and established practices for publishing the results. This new institutional connection between research and art/design has promoted much discussion concerning the dialogue between theory and practice, or 'reflecting' and 'making', the emphasis often being on the question of how they might be combined in a productive way. This time the conference explores the different ways to turn processes into results guided by following questions: To what extent is it productive to demarcate the practices of art/design from theories of art and design? Do these distinctions just serve the narration of the dialogues between theories and practices or do they have relevance beyond that? - How to conceive of the relationship between the art/design processes and the research results from case to case? - How to document art and design processes for research purposes? - How to communicate non-verbal research results? - What do we mean by contribution in terms of art and design research? - What is the relationship between saying and showing, or argument and demonstration? These questions might also stimulate other relevant questions. The conference will go beyond conventional paper presentation, as each conference session space will be designed to enable oral presentations to interact with exhibited works of art and design. The aim of the event is to continue and update the discussions concerning the relationship between art and design practices and research, in terms of both content and modes of presentation. We invite papers (5000 words max) by doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and academics dealing with following themes: (1) Explorative art/design projects. This type of papers must be submitted together with creative works and must contribute to understanding how the visual and the verbal are unified in artistic and design research. Each submission should also include a separate brief description (80 words max) of the creative work and visual material such as photographs or video (digital formats only, totally 10M max.). (2) Methodological and theoretical questions related to the conference theme. All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To facilitate double-blind peer review process, authors should make efforts to ensure that information about the authors' identities do not appear anywhere in the paper. If an author is cited, "Author" and year should be used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc. The conference is hosted by School of Design in co-operation with Design Connection Doctoral School at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. Since the first event in 2005 in Helsinki, "The Art of Resear ch" event has been organized annually, altering between twoof Art and Design Helsinki and Chelsea College of Art and Design in London. The paper and exhibition proposals should be sent to the conference secretary Johanna Rauhaniemi ([log in to unmask]). For the paper template and other practical details, see the conference web site at http://www.taik.fi/designresearch/AOR2009. Conference fee 150Euros/100Euros for students, includes conference attendance and refreshments. The invited keynote presentations will be given by Pirkko Anttila and Janis Jefferies: Pirkko Anttila is Professor Emeritus of Craft and Design Science at University of Helsinki. She has held several different professional positions as a designer, teacher, counsellor and executive director from 1950 until today. She has written several books about design theory and design research methodology. Her interest lies in the development of practice-based and evaluative research methodology in art, craft and design processes, and in conceptualizing visual creative activities. At the present time she lectures and supervises in several universities. In 2008 the Minister of Culture awarded her with Finland Prize in appreciation of the establishment and development the Craft Science. Janis Jefferies is Professor of Visual Arts and Artistic Director of Goldsmiths Digital Studios at Goldsmiths College. She is an artist, writer and curator. During the last 25 years she has made significant contributions to the practice and theory of contemporary textile art within the field of visual and material culture through many solo and group exhibitions. She has also curate numbers of exhibitions, written numerous publications and edited two books. At the present time she is an associate researcher at Hexagram (Institute for Research Creation in Media Arts and Technologies), Concordia University, Montreal on electronic textiles and new forms of media communication in cloth. She also convened the only PhD practice led programme in Arts and Computational technology within the University of London. KEYDATES: 9 April 2009 First call for papers 17 August 2009 Extended deadline for papers 1 September - 6 November 2009 Registration and payment 28 September 2009 Review notice and referee feedback 30 October 2009 Submission for final papers 10 November 2009 Arrival of exhibits 24-25 November 2009 Conference http://www.taik.fi/designresearch/AOR2009 JOURNAL OF RESEARCH PRACTICE It is time to mention this high quality journal once more, and encourage submissions. Journal of Research Practice (JRP) seeks to develop our understanding of research as a type of practice, so as to extend and enhance that practice in the future. The Journal aims to highlight the dynamics of research practice, as it unfolds in the life of a researcher, in the growth and decline of a field, and in relation to a changing social and institutional environment. The Journal welcomes deliberation on the basic issues and challenges encountered by researchers in any specific domain. The Journal aims to explore why and how different activities, criteria, methods, and languages become part of research practice in any domain. This is expected to trigger interdisciplinary dialogue, mutual learning, facilitate research education, and promote innovations in different fields. The Journal's scope is not defined in terms of academic disciplines. It cuts across disciplines and fields by drawing out the living dimensions of research unfolding through history, culture, research communities, professions, and of course the lives of individual researchers. The Journal seeks to study the evolving patterns of thinking and practice that underlie open inquiry in any domain. The scope also includes topics such as research training, research design, research utilisation, research policy, and innovative forms of research. The Journal targets all researchers, scholars, research-inclined professionals, and research students, irrespective of their disciplinary background. It seeks to attract reflective articles on the dynamics and challenges of research practice in context, as well as articles presenting experiences and learning from research carried out in an innovative way. In order to promote wider participation in these deliberations, JRP is published electronically in the open access mode. http://jrp.icaap.org/index.php/jrp/about/editorialPolicies 3-4 December 2009: URBAN DESIGN RESEARCH: METHOD AND APPLICATION Birmingham, UK. CALL FOR PAPER CLOSES: 14 September 2009 The conference discusses questions related to contemporary urban design research and its application. It encourages trans-disciplinary approaches from disciplines such as urban design and planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and urban history. The conference invites papers on the following three subject areas: 1- Exploration of contemporary methods of urban design research and their influence on perception and understanding of the city, 2- Methods of application of research outcomes in practice, and 3- Case studies: appraisal of applied research in practice. While the foundation of modern urban design goes back to the work of Cerda and Sitte, twentieth century designers such as Howard, Wright, and Le Corbusier broke with the past by developing unprecedented utopian urban visions representing the modern and industrialised society. In the 1950s, 'urban design' became a distinctive term, and by 1960, the introduction of analytical research methodologies in urban design challenged the prevailing top down approach of modernist urban planning. Researchers like Kevin Lynch, Gordon Cullen, M.R.G. Conzen, Amos Rapoport, and Bill Hillier developed powerful concepts and tools to analyse the city in terms of visual perception and cognition, human behaviour, morphology, and connectivity. The conference theme is therefore related to questions such as: what is urban design research and how is it carried out today? What do we need to know about the social, historical and cultural environment of the city and how does this knowledge inform urban design and architecture? Are research outcomes transferable or are they specific to each location? How have research methods been applied in urban design projects and how have they influenced urban design? Submissions: Proposals should relate to the questions outlined above. Contributions will be organised in thematic sessions, and published in form of conference proceedings. Abstracts should not be longer than 400 words, and sent by e-mail as Word (doc) or Adobe Acrobat (pdf) files to [log in to unmask] by 14 September 2009. Abstract proposals will be reviewed by the conference advisory board. The seminar language is English. Further conference information: http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/schools/architecture/ urbandesignresearch.htm Time Schedule: 30 July 2009 Call for Papers issued 14 September 2009 Abstracts due 28 September 2009 Notification of acceptance 24 November 2009 Full paper due 3-4 December 2009 Conference in Birmingham, UK CALL FOR BAGS ACM CREATIVITY & COGNITION 2009 The 7th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action DEADLINE: 24th August, 2009 Do you have conference bags that you never use? Are you ever tempted to throw them away? The 7th Creativity and Cognition conference is giving you the opportunity to: - Be good to the environment, - Generate some good karma, - Breathe new life into rubbish. Inspired by the theme of Everyday Creativity, we are asking you to post your old conference bag(s) to one of the addresses below so that we can recycle them into one-of-a-kind reusable conference bags. Each bag that you send us will be hand crafted and sculpted by up-and- coming British designer Sarah Atkinson. Unlike many consumer products that we buy today, each bag will come with its previous history attached. APPLICATIONS Applications of the CC09 bags after the conference could include: - A funky new bag to carry your shopping in, - A bling pet carrier, - A new piece of arm candy - your very own IT bag, - A storage bag for your junkmail, - A grow bag to plant a tree, - Or you could even frame it as an ever-lasting souvenir of the magical time you had at CC09. IMPORTANT DATE Submission of bags closes on: August 24, 2009. Please send your bags before this date. POSTAL INFORMATION Please note that cloth bags are preferred rather than plastic bags however, we will consider all bags that you have - not just previous conference bags! Please post your bag(s) to one of the addresses below: Nick Bryan-Kinns Department of Computer Science School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Queen Mary University of London Mile End London E1 4NS United Kingdom or Daniela Rosner School of Information University of California, Berkeley 102 South Hall Berkeley CA 94720-4600 USA ABOUT THE DESIGNER Sarah Atkinson is a young, London-based fashion and textiles designer who specialises in knit. Her work walked down the runway at the London and Russian Fashion Weeks 2009 and has been sold in Japan as well as being featured in a promotional video for a well-known candy brand. Sarah's influences include Psychobilly, 1950s Kitch, fast paced city life, Science Fiction and her veganism. Her work encompasses a wide variety of techniques and materials, and she has previously incorporated themes of reuse and recycling. Sarah holds a BA Hons in Textiles, Weave and Mixed Media from Middlesex University London. QUESTIONS If you have any questions, please contact us by email: [log in to unmask] SPONSORS Call for Bags is commissioned by BigDog Interactive Ltd. http://www.bigdoginteractive.com http://www.creativityandcognition09.org ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS MEXICO DESIGN POLICY It seems that in the development globally of national design policies, Mexico has recently approved a new Science, Technology and Innovation policy in which the subjects design, and innovation were incorporated and formally acknowledged by the goverment as important and vital elements to reshape Mexico's industry and economy. The actual agreement (in Spanish) is at http://www.dof.gob.mx/avisos/1903/SEP120609/SEP120609.htm and the 'Documento oficial ya aprobado (Diario Oficial de la Federacion de Mexico): Politica de Ciencia y Tecnologia 2009 has a Google (English) translation at: http://marciodupont.blogspot.com/ I further understand that design teachers at the Unistmo University influenced this policy. 30 August - 1 September 2009: NORDES conference in OSLO. We invite you to participate in the third Nordic Design Research Conference, NORDES'09: Engaging Artefacts taking place in Oslo, Norway, from 30 August to 1 September 2009. The conference is hosted by The Oslo School of Architecture and Design in collaboration with The University of Oslo. We offer an interesting program over two and a half days. The keynote speakers are Lizbeth Goodman (SMARTlab, London), Mark Cameron Burry (SIAL at RMIT, Australia) and Lavrans Lovlie (LiveWork, Oslo/London). The programme includes paper presentations of 20 research papers and 13 exploratory papers, six workshops and one tutorial, five design cases and an exhibition of 13 artefacts and one performance, in addition to a doctoral consortium. We expect lively social gatherings and promise a reception at Oslo's New Opera and a conference dinner at Ekebergrestauranten, both very beautiful buildings with a spectacular view of The Oslo Fjord. Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in which we understand - and do - design. The scope of the conference reaches beyond traditional design disciplines and includes other research areas with mutual interest in design research and engaging artefacts. Some of these themes are: - Consumption: Critical perspectives on the increasing number and diversity of artefacts and their creative design but also use and abuse in a global economy - Production: diverse views on the complexity, interrelations and consequences of production - Technology: new forms given by new materials - and new materials developed to enable new forms - Interactivity: performance and system oriented thinking regarding the interaction between artefacts, material systems, environments and users - Politics: the role of artefacts in shaping alternative futures especially addressing accessibility, sustainability, poverty and democracy. The bi-annual Nordes Conferences provide a meeting point for the Nordic Design Research network. The network also arranges the Nordes Summer schools and other Nordes activities. Nordes promotes the dissemination of design research through the Nordes Digital Archive. The Nordes board includes design researchers from all Nordic countries, elected at each Nordes conference. http://www.nordes.org FURTHER PHD OPPORTUNITIES AT BIAD As a result of further funding success, we have several more studentships to offer. These are BIAD studentships for full-time PhD study and are available for October 2009 entry. The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is one of the leading UK providers of doctoral training across art, design and architecture. BIAD is recognised for its doctoral programme and research training, including the innovative Research Training Initiative (RTI). We are one of only a handful of post-1992 universities to hold an AHRC Block Grant Partnership for masters and doctoral studentships. We welcome proposals for any subject within our expertise to supervise. For a full list of subject areas and how to apply, please see: http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/pages/ studentships_studyarea.php THE LAUNCH OF INTELLECT'S NEW WEBSITE After a year of planning, implementing and designing the website was devised with the intention of being as user-friendly and interactive as possible. Through offering a range of new Web 2.0 facilities including comments areas, multimedia and interactive content, the focus was to make the Intellect website a virtual environment within which existing and potential authors and editors could interact, share ideas, and obtain useful resources both on publishing and related academic issues. New features allow our community of authors and editors to promote their academic activities beyond their relationship with Intellect. Users can directly update profiles, post links to blogs and social media groups, and their own comments and ideas published on the site. The new conference calendar is also a fantastic resource for the academic community, providing detailed information on all events related to creative practice and popular culture, to which users can contribute. http://www.intellectbooks.com PhD STUDENTSHIPS University College Falmouth is offering 16 full-time doctoral studentships for October enrolment: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/KH730/PhD_Studentships/ 30 August 2009: Critical Artefact Methods: a workshop at Nordes '09 by Simon Bowen. http://ocs.sfu.ca/nordes/index.php/nordes/2009/paper/view/216 PhD STUDENTSHIP WITH STIPEND IN INNOVATION AND INNOVATION POLICY Design and its inputs lead to innovation. Insufficient is known about the influence of these inputs, of the designs, of the designers, and of the different kinds of users and consumers on innovation, innovation policy and policy development. This three year project, funded by the US National Science Foundation, uses concepts from situated cognition to construct different classes of agents that form social interactions as a model of the systemic behavior of innovation, from which innovation policy may be learned. This is an opportunity for a student who wants to work in a multidisciplinary field at the graduate level. The PhD will be taken in the Department of Computational Social Science under the supervision of Professor John Gero. A background in design, computer science, information technology, cognitive science, sociology or a related field would be an advantage. The studentship covers tuition and the stipend provides funds both during semester and over summer. For further information contact John Gero, Research Professor, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, USA (http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/), at [log in to unmask] --- PhD STUDENTSHIP WITH STIPEND IN DESIGN COGNITION Designing is one of the most influential ways in which humans change their physical and virtual worlds. We design consumable artifacts, production facilities, drugs, food, research experiments, websites, computer games and educational systems, amongst everything that we design. Given its ubiquity it is surprising how little is known about the cognition of designing. This three year project, funded by the US National Science Foundation, uses protocol studies of engineering designers as the empirical data source from which to examine their cognitive behavior as they utilize different design methods. A novel, principled coding scheme will be used to code the behavior recorded on video. This is an opportunity for a student who wants to work in a multidisciplinary field at the graduate level. The PhD will be taken in the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Professor John Gero. A background in psychology, cognitive science, design science or a related field would be an advantage. The studentship covers tuition and the stipend provides funds both during semester and over summer. For further information contact John Gero, Research Professor, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University, USA (http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/), at [log in to unmask] 24-30 October 2009: ICOGRADA WORLD DESIGN CONGRESS 2009 The list of confirmed speakers for the International Conference is now available on the official Congress website. Profiles, portraits and select portfolio images are also online. There is a separate education conference. http://www.beijing2009.org 3-7 of November 2009: 'in a planet of our own' - a vision of sustainability from across six continents at IDC, IIT Bombay, India The event 'In a Planet of Our Own' is scheduled to be held at Mumbai, India from 3rd to 7th of November 2009 and is being hosted by the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai. This international event is aimed at creating design awareness on sustainability and simultaneously offers a platform for interaction for the design community. The events are centered around the interests of students, educationists, practicing professional designers and sustainability interest groups. The event has been designed to be lively, interactive and thought provoking and will provide great opportunity to converse with grandmasters of design, interact with thought leaders and listen to visions by outstanding speakers. The event is expected to throw light on the role of design in an interconnected global world within the context of sustainability. http://www.inaplanetofourown.net Have a whale of a time: http://www.wdcs.co.uk/media/flash/whalebanner/content_pub_en.html MAKING FUTURES THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AGENDAS KEYNOTE SPEAKER: PROFESSOR RICHARD SENNETT (USA) 'Making Futures' will be held on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th September 2009 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon, UK. DRAFT CONFERENCE PROGRAMME NOW AVAILABLE: The three calls for abstracts generated an excellent response and the quality was generally very high. We received a broad range of proposals that included both practice-based case studies and more historical and theoretical treatments. The final selection was made on the advice of the Peer Review Panel who double blind peer-reviewed each abstract. The draft programme gives a sense of the overall shape to the conference and will be detailed up once papers have been confirmed. We look set for what should be an important and enjoyable Conference. http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/ RE-PUBLIC ON-LINE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE on Innovative Service Design for All, July 2009 CONTENTS Walter Aprile, Henrik den Ouden Runshaug and Eyal Fried - Applicable culture: Towards future services for the city of Milan Mikael Runonen, Sakari Tamminen, and Petri Mannonen: Reflections on how service experiences arise Qin Han - Mind the gap: Theories and practices in managing stakeholders in the service design process Nicola Morelli - Beyond the experience: In search of an operative paradigm for the industrialisation of services Soumitri Varadarajan - Service design for India: The thinking behind the design of a local curriculum Saleh Ahmed - Inclusive governance strategy for urban services delivery Gioulina Kokkalia and Aristotelis Skamagkis - Secondary education for all: The case of specific learning difficulties (dyslexia) Georgia Bizios and Katie Wakeford - Learning and serving: Architecture students as community stewards Rodanthi Tzanelli: Ceremonial Olympism: Towards an art of democratic dialogue? Matthieu Lietaert - Cohousing: A new form of urban community-based network services http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=1316#more-1316 Registration for DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS 2009 (DRHA) at Queens University Belfast, is now open http://dho.ie/drha2009 AMERICAN VISUAL CULTURE Visual culture - art, advertising, architecture, cinema, television, cartography, video, the internet, and images of science - has shaped American national identity more than that of any other country. Covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present day, the book explores how visual culture has at once transformed and consolidated the image of the United States. American Visual Culture presents both an analysis of the diversity of American visual media and a critical introduction to the study and interpretation of visual culture. Thematic chapters - on American urban and rural landscapes, icons, popular culture, art and photography, as well as on crime, anxiety and sex - describe the cultural, intellectual and historical context. Throughout, these themes are discussed in conjunction with clear and concise explanations of key visual theories and methodologies. American Visual Culture By Mark Rawlinson PB 978 1 84520 217 0 GBP17.99/$29.95 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ SEARCHING DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Searching back issues of DRN is best done through the customisable JISC search engine at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/design-research Look under 'Search Archives' ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ SERVICES OF THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY o Design Research News is the digital newsletter of the Design Research Society. 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