_______________________________________________ _______________ _______________________________________________ _______________ ___________________________________________ __ _ _ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ ___ _____ _________________________________________ ____ __ _____ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ _______ __ ___________________________________________ __ ____ ___ DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 17 Number 4 Jul 2012 ISSN 1473-3862 DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ Join DRS via e-payment http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS o DRS Administrator post o 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers 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 RESEARCH SOCIETY ADMINISTRATOR POST The longstanding DRS Administrator, Linda Marshall, is retiring at the end of this calendar year. This is a key post which Linda has fulfilled admirably for some years. The Society is therefore looking to recruit someone suitable to this part-time paid post. We are looking for someone to work on a contract/freelance basis with experience of administration, Higher Education project management, and ideally web content development and management. Deadline for applications is Friday 7 September 2012 by email to DRS admin email address: [log in to unmask] and applicants are encouraged to talk to the Chair (Seymour Roworth-Stokes), Vice Chair (Tracy Bhamra) or the current DRS Administrator, Linda Marshall, who can all be contacted via this email address, to express an interest in the role and have an informal discussion. Professor Seymour Roworth-Stokes DRS Chair ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 14-17 May 2013: DRS // CUMULUS Oslo 2013 The 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Oslo, Norway CALL FOR PAPERS Organised by -Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Technology, Art Design -DRS (Design Research Society) -CUMULUS (the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media). This international conference is a springboard for sharing ideas and concepts about contemporary design education research. Contributors are invited to submit research that deals with different facets of contemporary approaches to design education research. All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. This conference is open to research in any aspect and discipline of design education. Conference theme: DESIGN LEARNING FOR TOMORROW - DESIGN EDUCATION FROM KINDERGARTEN TO PhD Designed artefacts and solutions influence our lives and values, both from a personal and societal perspective. Designers, decision makers, investors and consumers hold different positions in the design process, but they all make choices that will influence our future visual and material culture. To promote sustainability and meet global challenges for the future, professional designers are dependent on critical consumers and a design literate general public. For this purpose design education is important for all. We propose that design education in general education represents both a foundation for professional design education and a vital requirement for developing the general public competence for informed decision making. We invite submissions along the following themes: - Philosophy of design education - Design curriculum - Design knowledge - Design education for non-designers - Research informed designed education - Design education informing research - Multidisciplinary design education - Challenges in design education methods - Assessment - eLearning - Internationalisation of design education We are also seeking expression of interest to conduct workshops and symposia. We especially welcome early career researchers, PhD candidates and Master students with work in progress. e-mail address: [log in to unmask] web address: http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Intention to submit a Paper Proposals for papers in English should contain the following: - Proposed paper title - Summary of proposed paper including a description of methodology used (200 words max) - Up to 4 bibliographical references (on top of the 200 word limit) - First and second choice conference theme for the proposed paper Intentions to submit will be submitted online at http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus. Paper proposals will not be reviewed, but brief feedback will be given. FULL PAPERS Full papers should be between 4000-6000 words. This is a general design education research conference and it is expected that a wide variety of work-in-progress or finalized research will be reported. However, irrespective of the range and stage of your research, the organizers expect the highest standards of scholarship in terms of establishing context, explicating the methods of inquiry, and reporting results that may aid other researchers and/or practitioners. To preserve anonymity, author names should NOT be identified in the body of the paper. Authors should be referred to in the text or notes in the third person only. Papers must be previously unpublished. Papers can be submitted online at http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus Proceedings from the conference will be published online. Please see the conference website http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus for detailed guidance about submitting a full paper. We are pleased to announce a partnership with the Scientific Journals: - FORMakademisk - Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education - TechneA - Design and Technology Education The journals will publish special issues with articles selected from papers and keynote lectures presented at the conference. Proposal for Workshop and Symposia, submission guidelines - Working title - Responsible person and for Workshop/Symposia also list contributors' names and affiliation - Aim and content (400 words) KEY DATES 24 July 2012 .............Intention to submit a Paper 2 October 2012 ...........Deadline for Workshop and Symposia proposals 30 October 2012 ..........Deadline for full Papers:: 18 December 2012 .........Paper accepted 5 February 2013 ..........Deadline for full Paper with corrections 26 February 2013 .........Deadline for early bird registration 19 March 2013 ............Deadline for author registration 14 May 2013 ..............Conference opens http://www.hioa.no/eng/content/download/17215/186423/file/ call_DRS_CUMULUS2013Oslo_May18.pdf http://www.hioa.no/DRScumulus ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ CALLS JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION SPECIAL ISSUE: Why have 'Sustainable Product-Service Systems' not been widely implemented? Meeting new design challenges to achieve societal sustainability In this special issue the editorial team has the aim to analyse and better understand the dynamics, mechanisms and factors impeding/driving the implementation of sustainable PSSs, and of the strategies, approaches and tools that can be adopted, at different levels, to design, manage, stimulate and monitor the widespread adoption of PSS concepts. At the same time we seek to increase our understanding of the way in which interwoven and convergent approaches, such as social innovations, distributed economies, sufficiency, cradle-to-cradle, etc., can be synergetic with the PSS concepts and approaches. TOPICAL AREAS We invite contributions (including comprehensive reviews, theoretical frameworks, empirical studies, case studies and applied studies) that focus on (but are not limited to) one or more of the following issues: - How do sustainable PSS innovations take place? What are the dynamics and factors that facilitate and hinder the process of introduction and scaling-up? What conceptual and analytical frameworks can describe these transition processes? How can firms organise and manage the shift towards a PSS-oriented business approach? What role(s) can be played by different stakeholders (governments, public institutions, NGOs, citizens, research centres, etc.) in stimulating these processes? What can be learned from failure and success cases? - What strategies, approaches and tools can be adopted to trigger the scaling up of sustainable PSSs? How can transition processes be designed and managed and to what extent? How can concepts such as socio-technical experiments, transition experiments, living labs, etc., trigger, guide and sustain these processes? What knowledge and capabilities are required to design, monitor and manage transition processes and their impacts? What kinds of design approaches, methods and tools can be used to improve the quality, breadth, depth and spread of the needed changes? - What are specific characteristics of transition processes in different contexts (industrialised, emerging and low-income)? What are the similarities & differences and the specific challenges & opportunities? What specific design strategies and approaches can be applied to support transition processes in the different contexts? - What synergies can be built with other promising models? The PSS concept seems to be a valuable and promising concept to tackle sustainability issues, but it does not represent a silver bullet. Synergies have to be built with other promising and interwoven concepts, for example the social innovation, distributed economies, sufficiency and cradle-to-cradle concepts. How can these concepts be combined to favour and to speed up radical changes for sustainability? Are there cases that document the synergistic benefits of using different combinations of approaches, concepts and tools? What can we learn from them that can help us to speed up the up-scaling processes? - How do/can final users influence the introduction and scaling up processes? Sustainable PSSs usually require fundamental changes in user behaviour, practices, and mental frameworks. What strategies and approaches can be adopted to stimulate people to accept new consumption models? What role(s) can the aesthetic of PSSs play in this? How can/should sustainable PSSs be designed to stimulate behavioural changes and to foster user acceptance and satisfaction? How can/do different socio-cultural conditions foster or hinder the acceptation of sustainable PSSs? What can we learn from them that can help us to speed up the upscaling processes? - How can changes in economic and legal frameworks foster and accelerate the implementation of sustainable PSS innovations? What governmental, regional and local policies can be adopted to specifically favour the introduction and scaling up of sustainable PSSs? - What are the challenges/opportunities for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to help to facilitate the necessary transitions? What knowledge and know-how should be provided to challenge students to become active within the transformation of our consumption and production patterns to truly sustainable patterns? What educational strategies and approaches should be put into practice? TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Contributors with proposals for papers are encouraged to communicate with the co-editors by e-mail. The following schedule will be applied: - Submission of extended abstracts of max 1000 words to the Special Issue (SI) Editorial team at e-mails: [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask], by September 15, 2012. - Invitations from the SI Editorial Team will be sent to all prospective authors of full papers by October 15, 2012. - Authors will submit their 'peer-review ready' documents to Elsevier via the EES system by February 15, 2013. - The first round of the peer review/paper revision process will be done from February to April 30, 2013. - When needed, the second and third rounds of the peer review/ paper revision process will be done from May 1 to July 15, 2013. - Submission of the final/nearly final versions of all revised papers will be done by September 15, 2013 - Authors will be informed of acceptance and/or about additional minor changes they are to make on their documents by October 15, 2013 - Deadline for revisions for the SI by November 1, 2013. - Submission of all documents for conversion to uncorrected proofs by November 15, 2013. - Authors return uncorrected proofs along with suggested corrections by December 1, 2013. - Publication of the SI January 2014. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/ S0959652612002855 NODEM Call for abstracts - Archiving and Visualization of Intangible Heritage Special Session 1: Archiving and Visualization of Intangible Heritage Call for participation A special session will be held as part of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong, organised by DIHA (Digital Intangible Heritage in Asia). The aim of this special session is to provide a platform for culture heritage researchers, museum curators, educators, digital media specialists, linguists, designers and others in these related industries to present the challenges in their respective fields with a view to promote opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. We believe that collaboration at this level will spark major breakthroughs in highlighting awareness of intangible heritage in Asia. Project abstracts are invited on all aspects from the following sub-fields including, but not limited to: - cultural research and inquiries in intangible heritage - enviromental and ecological issues and intangible heritage - the role of language and cultural knowledge repositories in the conservation of intangible heritage - curating intangible heritage in museums - interface and design of digital media for the exhibition of intangible heritage - meaning-making and the interpretation of intangible heritage exhibitions - visual media and memory and intangible heritage - innovative ways of accessing intangible heritage resources Submissions are welcome from researchers, developers, curators and exhibition designers. Please submit your abstract (300 words) to [log in to unmask] by 1 September 2012. Participants will be notified about the status of their submission by 15 September 2012. The participants of this special session also will be able to attend the entire program of NODEM 2012 Hong Kong. About DIHA DIHA is an interdisciplinary research cluster involving several researchers across Schools and Colleges in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) as well as external partners. DIHA captures the vibrant cultural and linguistic fusion of the Asia Pacific region through interdisciplinary lenses. Go to the DIHA website. DIHA Co-founders - Assoc Prof. Ng Bee Chin | School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies. Email: [log in to unmask] - Visiting Assoc. Prof. Halina Gottlieb | School of Humanities and Social Sciences / The Interactive Institute, Sweden. Email: [log in to unmask] 18-19 April 2013: Design Business and Service Conference, Rome Call for Contributions 2013 Design Business and Service Conference, Rome After having a successful conference in Milan, 2010 and a successful event in Barcelona 2011, (http://www.designforsocialbusinessconference.org, and http://www.designbusinessconference.com) We are calling for your contribution to the 2013 Design Business and Service Conference, which will take place in Rome April 18th & 19th, 2013. This year's guiding theme: Design(ing) Business and Services Over the past decade, several conferences and interactive workshops have focused on managing as designing, on design management, business design and on changing the decision-making paradigm within the management field. Design is taught to management students and management to design students. Managers now can be thought of as designers, although they may not even be conscious about the design practices and methods they employ. In the midst of this development, the design of services has emerged as an important issue in professional conferences, in academic environments, and in the business world. Overall, it seems that the boundaries between professional claims are getting more and more fuzzy: Marketing departments are claiming that they have been developing services for years. Similarly, design thinking is moving through university departments and through corporate offices with the speed of a fashion fad. The aim of this year's conference is to develop the necessary discourses around designing in the contexts of business, services and management, and to deepen our understanding around the following topics: Designing business as a service Design thinking in business and service design Designing policies, frameworks for services Design management in contrast to business design Designing business systems and service systems Limits of designing business, Limits of designing services Please submit a proposal for your contribution via the online form on our website by January 29th, 2013 (fixed deadline). We have a tradition of calling these contributions provocations. Please provide a title for the provocation, and select one of the above topic areas for presentation. Your provocation should be at least 500 but no more than 1500 words. Your provocation should contribute to the discussion and the chosen topic and it should have the potential to be developed into a full paper after the conference. Authors of accepted provocations are automatically accepted to participate at the conference. The conference has no general access, since it is a working conference. Author information should include your full name and e-mail address, a short biography (25-50 words) including your background, current position, key activities and projects. Provocations will be accepted pending review on an ongoing basis until the conference has filled up. This conference is limited to 90 participants. All provocations will be reviewed by the review board (Jurgen Faust, Sabine Junginger, Richard Boland). There is a conference fee of 550 Euros, which covers two full days of the conference. It includes access to all conference events, evening activities and networking events. The fee also includes a conference welcome kit with all necessary information including the book publication from the 2011 conference. The fee is due if your provocation has been accepted and you plan to attend the conference. There is a reduced fee for students and IED members (290 Euros). http://www.dbs-2013.com 26 June 2012: NordiCHI 2012 workshop: Design for Audience Engagement - Call for papers Background Engaging the audience has always been of fundamental importance to the creative sector (performing and visual arts, video games, film, interactive narrative etc). Media producers, publishers and content providers are starting to use interactive technologies to involve audiences in the creative process -- constructing audience journeys, and exploiting the potential of co-creation and crowd-sourced innovation. So design is central to engaging audiences. What are the best methods and processes for designing and evaluating audience engagement? This workshop adopts an interdisciplinary approach to identify design strategies for audience engagement. We are calling for position papers investigating, but not restricted to topics and questions such as: - What is audience engagement and what are its goals? - What design processes are appropriate for audience engagement? - What contextual, cultural and ethical parameters should we consider when designing for audience engagement? - Can audience engagement be evaluated and if so, which are the strategies that can be effectively employed? We welcome contributions in: - Original practical research and empirical studies - Critical essays that explore design for audience engagement - Models, methods and frameworks for designing and evaluating audience engagement - New technologies and platforms built for this purpose Outcomes of the workshop We will - identify design and evaluation strategies for audience engagement - connect empirical studies and theoretical research across interrelated fields - produce an online visual infographic document summarizing and interlinking the key points derived from the workshop's activities, incorporating participants' abstracts and/or papers and links to their work Structure of the workshop Accepted submissions will be circulated to the participants before the workshop. There will be an introduction by the organizers with a brief review of ongoing practical and theoretical work in the area of design for audience engagement -- including case studies. The main part of the workshop will involve presentations of the accepted papers in thematic sessions with discussion after each presentation. The day will continue with one design-led activity, involving an actual prototype as a practical focus for discussion on the issues raised in the workshop. The key points and outcomes of the discussions will be integrated into the infographic document. How to participate We welcome participants from all parts of HCI and related disciplines. We seek to attract an interdisciplinary group of researchers and practitioners in areas including HCI design (user experience, value-based design, design for affect, user-centred and user-driven design), interaction design, performing and visual arts, video games, film, interactive narrative, neuroscience, psychology and related fields with experience in the workshop theme. The workshop will accommodate between 10 and 25 participants selected on the basis of submitted position papers. We invite workshop papers up to 4 ACM pages long, reporting on recent projects, studies of the field and theoretical accounts. We also invite position papers up to 2 ACM pages stating the submitters' interest in the workshop's theme. (The ACM CHI publication format is available at http://www.nordichi2012.org/content/chi2012extendedabstracts.doc) Submit the position paper in PDF format by email to [log in to unmask] no later than 3rd August, 2012. http://ace.caad.ed.ac.uk/NordiCHIWorkshop/ 14 October 2012: Future Interactions: Using Critical Design Approaches to Explore Urban Data Transactions Workshop at NordiCHI 2012 ( http://nordichi2012.org/ ) This interaction design workshop, at NordiCHI 2012 in Copenhagen, will address the question of how we, as individuals, might gain value from the exchange of data on a near-future urban setting. Together with a rapid ethnographic study of data exchange, the workshop will adopt a critical design approach as a means to reveal and examine potential issues around the design for this new landscape. Critical design [1] presents design as a catalyst or provocation for thought. It is a strategy for exploring the space that lies tantalizingly beyond the current and the now through the creation of "design fictions" [2]. At the core of critical design is the attempt to challenge our assumptions and preconceptions about the role that products and services play in everyday life. Participation http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/submissions/ This is an active, interdisciplinary workshop encouraging dialogue between researchers, technologists and design practitioners who are interested in forming collaborative links. Through the generation of design scenarios, participants will focus on the possible human-level interactions that will occur during these activities. These interactions will be explored through the creation of lo-fi prototypes. Participants will consider and discuss the merits and potential uses of this kind of approach. It is hoped that new partnerships will be formed with the aim of producing tangible "speculative" or "critical" design outputs as means of exploring future-orientated interaction design scenarios. Design Methods: Rapid Ethnography and Critical Design http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/format/ The workshop will employ (very) rapid ethnography as a means of gathering rich visual data from the surrounding urban space. This will involve the participants using camera phones to record examples of how data is currently exchanged, and in particular the "close" interactions associated with these transactions. The subsequent digital scrapbook will become a stimulus for participants' discussion in the second phase of the workshop. In this next stage a "critical" or "speculative" design approach will be adopted. Context: The Data-Rich Urban Environment If the promise of research in the fields of Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, and the Internet of Things, are realized, then we are rapidly heading towards a world populated by sentient, interconnected objects. The workshop will address how this new landscape affect our human interactions with these near-future products and services? Furthermore, what will happen to the data we knowingly, or unknowingly, share in the course of our everyday living? Outcomes: concepts and collaborations The short-term outcomes of the workshop will be the early concepts developed as part of the day's activities. These will provide a tangible focus for new collaborations and partnerships. In the longer term, it is intended that this workshop will contribute to knowledge in the area of speculative and critical approaches to interaction design and human computer interaction (HCI), perhaps in the form of published outputs. It is also hoped that this workshop plays a part in community building within this area of interest. Important Dates August 17th, 2012 - Submission deadline of workshop papers August 24th, 2012 - Notification of acceptance October 14th, 2012 - Workshop at NordiCHI 2012 Michael Smyth http://www.michael-smyth.co.uk Ingi Helgason http://www.ingihelgason.co.uk/ Workshop Website: http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com For further information contact: [log in to unmask] http://futureurbaninteractions.wordpress.com/ 13-14 October 2012: NordiCHI 2012 Workshop: 'Crossing Boundaries: Exploring What Design Can Do' Call for papers: 'Crossing Boundaries: Exploring What Design Can Do' in conjunction with NordiCHI2012 Copenhagen, Denmark http://boundariescrossing.wordpress.com Due to increasing specialization in organizations and multidisciplinary teamwork, boundaries are becoming more explicit obstacles. Boundary objects are one proposed means for crossing these boundaries. This workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to share experiences and issues with crossing boundaries in multidisciplinary innovation projects. The current workshop focuses on how one can make a boundary object for use and aims to explore what the role of design can do making appropriate boundary objects. We want to improve the understanding of what works and what doesn't and be able to develop both practical and theoretical applications of such *by actually 'designing' boundary crossing solutions during the workshop including a research-through-design approach*. Participation: The intended audience is primarily designers and human-computer interaction researchers who are interested in the theme. The workshop should also be relevant for practitioners who have experiences with multidisciplinary design project and making/using objects to cross boundaries. Submission: We welcome contributions that focus on crossing organizational or disciplinary boundaries. This could include a reflective case study which can be a kind of (auto)ethnography or reflection-on-action from practitioners or researchers or those wishing to make theoretical contributions. In both cases we highly encourage bringing an artefact to bear during the workshop or at least pictures of such. All papers will be four pages or less in the ACM archival format http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates Important dates: Paper submission: August 1th Notification of acceptance: August 30th Organizers: Aaron Houssian, Philips Research Ingrid Mulder, Delft University of Technology & Rotterdam University of applied sciences Lillian Henze, Delft University of Technology After the workshop: Of course, with permission, position papers will be made publicly available on the workshop website, as well as a summary of the workshop results. We are currently in contact with key design/HCI journals about their willingness to produce a special issue on the workshop theme: crossing boundaries through design. http://boundariescrossing.wordpress.com For any further information on the workshop please contact us at [log in to unmask] 4-5 December 2012: DesignEd Asia Conference 2012 - Into Design Education: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong SAR CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Jointly organised by School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Design Institute (member of VTC Group) and Hong Kong Design Centre, the DesignEd Asia Conference has established to provide a practical platform for international design educators and professionals to share views, knowledge and experiences on Design Education. It has come to its eighth year in 2012. DesignEd Asia draws hundreds of international design educators, design researchers, practicing designers, design students, and design-related executives. They meet annually for a two-day program featuring presentations, panel discussion, workshops, paper presentations, on major topics of Design Education. The presentations and research papers will bring you inspirations in design education, and allow you to better prepare for the new challenges that lie ahead for design educators. Call for papers: "Into Design Education" Within different cultural and historical contexts, design has been conceived as an art, as a hard science, as a social science, as a political tool, as an economic sector, as a technical field, and any number of other ways of framing this complex and multidisciplinary realm of human endeavor. The way in which one chooses to frame design has broad implications for the pedagogical approaches that one applies to the teaching of design. The cognitive frameworks, teaching methodologies, research methodologies, vocabularies and value systems of different fields are thus absorbed into design education, and play a profound role in shaping students' views of the designer's way of engaging the world. The characteristics of each of these framings are also in constant flux, as sociological agendas for instance shift from patriarchal to participatory, and dominant technologies shift from mechanized mass production to peer-to-peer social networking. The evolution of design - and of design education - can be recounted in terms of different positions taken vis a vis other areas of human knowledge and activity. We are seeking papers that critically explore relevant contemporary practice in the appropriation of ideas and techniques from other fields of knowledge and action into design education, and which provide an understanding of these practices within their cultural and historical contexts. We invite submission of papers addressing the following five broad themes: - From the social sciences into design education - From the hard sciences into design education - From the arts and culture into design education - From business into design education - From production into design education While we expect that papers will be grounded in actual pedagogical practice, papers should also address theoretical issues of the impetus for adopting a given approach into design, the value and consequences brought to design education by such adoption, as well as the value and consequences for these other fields from which design is borrowing. Submission of an Abstract - Presenters' names and affiliations (contact details, organization, etc) - An abstract limited to 500 words and a bibliography. To make a submission, please sign up via the online conference system: http://www.designedasia.com/openconf/openconf.php For updated information, please visit our conference website: http://www.designedasia.com/ Contact Us Enquiries about Paper Submission: [log in to unmask] Deadline for Abstract Submission: 5 August 2012 (Sun) 19-22 November 2012: London International Conference on Education (LICE-2012) London, UK CALL FOR PAPERS The London International Conference on Education (LICE) is an international refereed conference dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practices in education. The LICE promotes collaborative excellence between academicians and professionals from Education. The aim of LICE is to provide an opportunity for academicians and professionals from various educational fields with cross-disciplinary interests to bridge the knowledge gap, promote research esteem and the evolution of pedagogy. The LICE-2012 invites research papers that encompass conceptual analysis, design implementation and performance evaluation. All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings and modified version of selected papers will be published in special issues peer reviewed journals. SUBMISSION: Please email your research paper to [log in to unmask] IMPORTANT DATES: Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Submission Date: August 31, 2012 Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Submission Date: August 15, 2012 Proposal for Workshops: August 31, 2012 Notification of Workshop Acceptance/Rejection: September 10, 2012 Notification of Extended Abstract (Work in Progress) Acceptance/Rejection: September 10, 2012 Notification of Research Paper, Student Paper, Case Study, Report Acceptance /Rejection: September 1, 2012 Camera Ready Paper Due: October 10, 2012 Participant(s) Registration (Open): May 25, 2012 Early Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): August 01 to September 16, 2012 Late Bird Registration Deadline (Authors only): September 17 to October 30, 2012 Conference Dates: November 19-22, 2012 http://www.liceducation.org Italian Design - call for contributions We are working on a special issue of the Italian-based magazine "Progetto Grafico", which will be focused on 'Graphic Design, History, Italy'. The magazine will be released in 2013, and will be available in both Italian and English. Besides looking into the development of Italian graphic design historiography, we are interested in mapping studies and research that have been conducted in the recent years - or are still being conducted - on the topic: Theses, papers, publications that deal with lesser-known episodes and figures of the history and historiography of Italian graphic design, that provide new insight into already known stories, and disciplinary approaches and research methodologies. We invite scholars, researchers, graduates, and anybody who have conducted research, published original papers and contributions on the history and historiography of Italian graphic design, to fill the enclosed form and send it back to us at [log in to unmask]<[log in to unmask]> by October 30, 2012. We will also be happy to receive information on research studies and publications that deal in general with the history and historiography of Italian design, beyond 'graphic design'. Any suggestion on the topic will also be welcome. [log in to unmask] 9-10 October 2012: Design Research Conference, IIT, Chicago, Venue SIX10 This year's Design Research Conference seeks to expand the space design research plays in by looking beyond our current best practices. The strange and beautiful truth about the adjacent possible is that its boundaries grow as you explore them. Each new combination opens up the possibility of other new combinations. - Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From Register Now This year's Design Research Conference seeks to expand the space design research plays in by looking beyond our current best practices. Inspired by the notion of the adjacent possible, the conference will present research from a combination of design and decidedly non-design fields. In the ongoing search to better understand behavior, decision-making, and the evolving implications of data on it all, let's take inspiration from work in different disciplines. Call for submissions and suggestions-Ends July 30th DRC 2012 is interested in how tangential topics and discussion outside the typical realm of design may inform the future of design research. Help us make this conference relevant and exciting for you by filling out this form to suggest some presenters you'd love to see on the stage. Feel free to nominate yourself if you have something to share too! Registration We're delighted to announce that early registration is now open. Register early to guarantee your seat at the conference. Group rates and other discounts are available; for details, visit the payment page or send an inquiry to [log in to unmask] About IIT Institute of Design Since its founding as the New Bauhaus in 1937, IIT Institute of Design (ID) has grown into the largest full-time graduate-only design program in the US. At ID, our master's and PhD programs feature a curriculum focused on a methodological and human-centered approach to design and strategy. Jorge Angarita, John Shin, Stephanie Smith, and Janice Wong DRC 2012 Co-chairs | www.drc.id.iit.edu | @drctweets Follow @drctweets | drc.id.iit.edu | Forward to Friend ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS 24 August 2012: International Glass Symposium DEADLINE FOR BOOKINGS 3rd AUGUST 2012 The deadline for booking tickets for the International Glass Symposium is now Friday 3rd August 2012 If you would like to reserve places for this conference some tickets are still available 'Architecture and the Artistry of Glass' Venue: School of Art and Design, University of Wolverhampton As part of the 2012 International Festival of Glass this one-day symposium entitled 'Architecture and the Artistry of Glass' explores the relationship between glass and architectural forms whether in terms of building materials or the artist wedded to architecture. The symposium brings together artists and designers whose international profiles are distinguished: John Lewis, the Californian sculptor and architectural artist; Danny Lane whose furniture and sculpture ranges from the domestic to the monumental; Brent Richards, award winning architect in the field of glass technology; Tomasz Urbanowicz, the Polish architect and Architectural Glass artist creating large-scaled kiln-formed glass compositions; and Keith Cummings who has pioneered kiln forming over the past 45 years and has been active as a teacher and practitioner. Their work sits within the architectural environment as structure, membrane or object. These artist's notions of transparency and solidity exert a particularly seductive and tenacious hold on the imagination, and the relationship that is produced between glass and architecture is at its most sophisticated when their technical limitations are transcended. By their expression the invited speakers have produced work that have changed the way we view the world. The artists here know that these intangible things are at the heart of what they produce. The mastery of their medium combined with the intangible are what astounds us in their work. This symposium explores their thinking and delves into their methodology. Deadline for bookings Friday 3rd August 2012. Time: 10am - 5.00pm To book tickets please go to: www.wlv.ac.uk/sadstore and click on 'Read More'. Contact: Dr Max Stewart on [log in to unmask] http://www.wlv.ac.uk/artanddesign/glassbiennale 18-20 September 2012: ICDC 2012 The 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2012) will take place in Glasgow, Scotland on 18th-20th September 2012. ICDC 2012 will provide a forum to discuss the nature and potential of design creativity from theoretical, methodological and practical viewpoints and will include panel discussions on the 'directions for design creativity research'. ICDC is the Design Creativity Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Design Society's biannual conference. Scope The topics and themes of the conference include limited to: - Collaborative creative design - Cognition in creative design - Creative design processes, methods and techniques - Creative design styles and cultures - Design creativity support tools - Formal education in creative design - Global creativity and innovation - Measuring creativity and its impact - Social dimensions of creative design Speakers This is a high profile event that will bring together policy makers, academics and professionals from all over the world to share their experiences, perspectives, insights and the latest developments in the area. Highlights of this year's conference include keynote addresses and speeches from: - Colin Burns, Director of Stuff at Elmwood Brand and Design Consultancy - Andrew Dixon, Chief Executive of Creative Scotland - Peter Hughes, Chief Executive of Scottish Engineering - Fiona Hyslop, Scottish Government's Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs - Shona Kinloch, Sculptor - Will Mitchell, Design Director at 4C Design Conference location & social events ICDC 2012 will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland. Glasgow is a stunning Victorian city, the home of Charles Rennie Macintosh, and a gateway to Scottish highlands. For our conference social events we have organised a tour through some of the most iconic buildings in Scotland. Our civic reception will be held at the Glasgow City Chambers, one of the city's most important and prestigious buildings. Our conference dinner will be held at the Barony Hall the University of Strathclyde's unique award-winning arena and will be followed by a traditional ceilidh dance. The closure of our conference will be followed by a Whisky tasting tour at Glengoyne reputed to be one of Scotland's most beautiful distilleries. ICDC 2012 App For more information about our conference and our social events download our conference app and follow us on twitter @ICDC2012. You can now download our conference application (available now on the Android Market and soon to be released on the Apple App store). Download the app and use it as your personal aide throughout the conference to: - Keep track of the conference schedule - Follow our conference twitter feed. - Find out more about the venue including how to get there and how to get around. The organisers look forward to welcoming you to Glasgow to what we hope you will find an excellent conference. http://www.icdc2012.org.uk Email: [log in to unmask] New issue-Design Philosophy Papers Announcing the latest issue of Design Philosophy Papers on maps, mapping and design. Design Philosophy Papers 2/2012 http://desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html Kaye Shumack, Editorial - Mapping: shifting ecologies of time and place Anne-Marie Willis, Ontological Designing and Mapping Susan C. Stewart, 'Fresh Thoughts on Mapping and GIS: cleanliness, temporality and sustainment' Abby Mellick Lopes and Kaye Shumack, 'Please Ask Us - Conversation Mapping as Design Research: social learning in a verge garden site' Clancy Wilmott, 'Living the Map: cartographies of mobile media environments' Sarah Barns, 'Retrieving the Spatial Imaginary of real-time cities' Peter Hall, 'Afterword: on Mapping and Maps' Lisa Norton, Reply to Yoko Akama's 'A way of being in design: Zen and the art of being a human centred practitioner' http://desphilosophy.com/dpp/dpp_journal/journal.html DEADLINES NEAR, SLOTS STILL REMAIN for DPU summerLab 2012 |Zurich|Rome| The current landscape of cities is that of contested processes, interdependencies and relations which are dominated to various degrees by diverse actors with contrasting voices and agendas. These complex relations emerge from historical and material dialectics of the territory, linking diverse activities with the environment in a time-based evolving process which simultaneously unfold both locally and globally. To appropriately engage in this arena, a critical re-appraisal is required concerning a new paradigmatic shift in the culture and discipline of Architecture and Urban Design. To this end the Bartlett Development Planning Unit has launched the summerLab 2012 series coordinated by Camillo Boano, William Hunter, Anna Schulenburg and Giorgio Talocci. The workshops dates are: Zurich | Liminal Contours | 6 - 11 August Rome | Occupation City | 10 - 15 September (app deadline 30 July) Drawing on the extensive resources of the DPU in collaboration with local partners in various host cities, DPU summerLab leverages the reality of the city as a laboratory for developing socially responsive design measures that provoke, stimulate, strategize, and reconsider the role of designers in promoting spatial justice. DPU summerLab is a unique rotating platform for in situ immersion and experimentation in urban environments where the boundaries of spatial agency are actively tested, hinging upon critical analysis and spatial knowledge development targeting undergraduate and graduate students as well as emerging professionals in design, architecture and planning. The workshops offer a vital testing ground for the resolution of spatial interventions with local socio-economic trends alongside embedded political contexts. For more information and to apply please visit http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/programmes/summerlab or contact Anna Schulenburg [log in to unmask] Design and Culture The Journal of the Design Studies Forum Volume 04, Issue 02 | July 2012 ARTICLES Rethinking Design Thinking: Part II | LUCY KIMBELL [FULL TEXT] http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/rethinking- design-thinking-part-2/ [pdf] http://www.designstudiesforum.org/dsf/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ kimbell2-berg.pdf The Object of Nightingales: Design Values for a Meaningful Material Culture | STUART WALKER [ABSTRACT] http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/the-object-of- nightingales-design-values-for-a-meaningful-material-culture/ Hey Babe - Take a Walk on the Wild Side!: Why Role-playing and Visualization of User and Abuser "Scripts" Offer Useful Tools to Effectively "Think Thief" and Build Empathy to Design Against Crime | LORRAINE GAMMAN, ADAM THORPE, MATT MALPASS, and EVA LIPAROVA [ABSTRACT] http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/hey-babe--- take-a-walk-on-the-wild-side-why-role-playing-and-visualization- of-user-and-abuser-"scripts"-offer-useful-tools-to-effectively-" think-thief"-and-bu/ Connecting Values: Teaching Sustainability to Communication Designers | ERIC BENSON and PAMELA NAPIER [ABSTRACT] http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal-articles/connecting- values-teaching-sustainability-to-communication-designers/ LOCATING DESIGN A "Little Journey" to Empathize with (and Complicate) the Factory | EZRA SHALES Rediscovering Value: The Second Lives of Secondhand Goods | PRASAD BORADKAR EXHIBITION REVIEWS Rodarte: States of Matter | NICOLE LaBOUFF Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry | MAGGIE TAFT BOOK REVIEWS Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identify, Discourse and Modernism | DIVYA RAO HEFFLEY A History of Design from the Victorian Era to the Present; The Industrialization of Design: A History from the Steam Age to Today | BRUCE N. WRIGHT Global Denim | BEVERLY GORDON LA Under the Influence: The Hidden Logic of Urban Property | OLE W. FISCHER The Story of Graphic Design | DENISE GONZALES CRISP American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture | KRISTINA WILSON 220* Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair | CARMA GORMAN Roger Excoffon et la Fonderie Olive | CRAIG ELIASON The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | ANGELA NORWOOD Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In | SARAH FROELICH Shaping Sustainable Fashion: Changing the Way We Make and Use Clothes | BEVERLY GORDON Into the Universe of Technical Images; Does Writing Have a Future?; Vilem Flusser: An Introduction | STUART KENDALL http://www.designstudiesforum.org/journal/ 23-24 August 2012: The HAID 2012 - The Seventh International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID) - Lund, Sweden. Call for participation - registration is open - the early bird rate is available until the 31st of July. The combination of haptic and audio for interaction design is a challenging research area, and we invite researchers and practitioners interested in these non-visual modalities to come to HAID to exchange designs and research findings. This year's HAID has a particular (but not exclusive) focus on the mobile setting - while on the move the haptic and audio combination has great (but sadly under-exploited) potential. More non-visual interaction designs will make applications and devices easier to user for everyone. We invite contributions on the appropriate use of haptics and audio in interaction design: how do we design effectively for mobile interaction? How can we design effective haptic, audio and multimodal interfaces? In what new application areas can we apply these techniques? Are there design methods that are useful? Or evaluation techniques that are particularly appropriate? We also welcome artistic exhibits and commercial design cases for our exhibition. HAID12 is a direct successor to the successful workshop series inaugurated in Glasgow in 2006, in Seoul in 2007, in Jyvaeskylae in 2008, Dresden in 2009, Copenhagen 2010 and Kyoto 2011. The aim of HAID12 is to bring together researchers and practitioners who share an interest in finding out how the haptic and audio modalities can be used together in human computer interaction. The research challenges in the area are best approached through user-centred design, empirical studies or the development of novel theoretical frameworks. We invite your papers, posters, demonstrations and exhibits/design cases on these topics, and look forward to seeing you in Lund in August 2012! Charlotte Magnusson Associate Professor Certec, Division of Rehabilitation Engineering Research Department of Design Sciences Lund University Lund Sweden tel +46 46 222 4097 fax +46 46 222 4431 http://www.haid.ws 6-7 September 2012: Practice makes Perfect Theorising Method in Visual Research Swansea Metropolitan University Early Bird Registration Now Open This two-day symposium brings together post-graduate, post-doctoral and independent researchers to present and debate the issue of methodology in practice-based and practice-led research. This is an opportunity to theorise methods within a methodological framework in order to generate dialogues and synthesise potential models that move the debate forward. Key note speaker confirmed; Dr Jac Saorsa Dr Jac Saorsa is a visual artist, writer and researcher in art practice and philosophy. She has exhibited her work and lectured internationally and is currently Programme Director of the MA/MFA Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University School of Art and Design where she lectures in the theory and practice of drawing. Recent publications include her second book; Narrating the Catastrophe: an artist's dialogue with Deleuze and Ricoeur, 2011, Intellect Books. http://www.smu.ac.uk/practicemakesperfect DRAWING RESEARCH NETWORK As a field drawing research is blossoming. In the art schools and studios, academies and laboratories, through creative practice and innovative theory, the drawing community is building novel partnerships across a range of disciplines. Through these networks, drawing research is revealing a new and powerful relevance as a tool for uncovering the traces of thought drawn on the world. In celebration of this outpouring of work the DRN Conference on Drawing Knowledge, a festival of diversity in drawing research, will be taking place at Loughborough University on September the 10th and 11th, 2012. The conference will host international delegates representing a range of research from the arts, design, sciences, performance, theory and practice. We are proud to confirm that along with a presentations from more than 40 researchers and practitioners in the field, together with a host of drawing performances, there will be a digital art exhibition curated by Sue Golliffer of Brighton University. The conference keynote speakers are: - Emma Robertson -Drawing practitioner and writer from the University of New South Wales? - David Dernie - Architect and drawing theorist from DeMontfort University - Jordan Mackenzie - Performance artist extraordinaire - Iain McCaig - Draughtsman, concept artist and visualizer for screen We would like to invite all colleagues in the world of drawing and drawing research to join us in Loughborough for the conference. Over the two days of the conference; at the talks, informal break-out sessions, performances, lectures and exhibitions; collaborations will be formed and for many new drawing research agenda will be discovered. We would like to see you there. The link below will take you to the conference web page, from where you can find out more and book a place with us. http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/ DRN_conference_location_accommodation.html 11-14 September 2012: 8th International Conference on Design and Emotion Registration is now open. This years conference theme is 'Out of Control' and is hosted by Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design University of the Arts London at our new home in Kings Cross London: http://www.dande2012.com/conference_venue The programme includes over 100 papers case studies and poster presentations from international authors. In addition to the programme there are a number of pre-conference workshops. Throughout the conference there will be exhibitions of work, instillations and demonstrations from a range of internationally recognised brands that have embraced the conference themes and opted to showcase ideas at the event. Our Keynote speakers come from both academia and industry, from fields of olfactive design, fashion, automotive design, psycology and consumer experience. - Dr. Michael Apter: Research Psychologist - Ron Dennis CBE: Chairman: Mclaren Group - Clive Grinyer: Director Of Customer Experience At Cisco IBSG - Bernardo Fleming: Olfactive Designer At Olfactive Design Studio, International Flavors And Fragrances - Cecilia Weckstroem: Head Of Consumer Experiences Senior Director, Lego Group - Hussein Chalayan MBE: Fashion Designer Creative Director Puma - Declan O'Carroll: Group Leader at Arup Associates Early bird registration closes on 31st July 2012. To register go to: http://www.dande2012.com/contact_and_registration A provisional programme can be found at: http://www.dande2012.com/downloads/Provisional%20programme% 20version%202%20 17-07-12.pdf Finally, just one small point to note: the conference coincides with the London design festival 14 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 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. It communicates news about research throughout the world. 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