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**Do not reply to this email – all enquiries to [log in to unmask] ** 2nd Call for Papers NOW OPEN – Deadline Friday 8th March 2013 WELL-BEING 2013: Designs on Well-being, exploring responses to the well-being agenda Hosted by Birmingham City University, Wednesday 24th-Thursday 25th July 2013 Confirmed keynote speakers include: • Prof. Jane Barlow (Professor of Public Health in the Early Years, University of Warwick) • Dr. Wendy Keay-Bright (Inclusive Design, Cardiff School of Art & Design) and Dilys Price (OBE) (Director and Founder of Touch Trust) • Dr. Helen Chatterjee (Deputy Director of UCL Museums & Collections) • Macmillan Cancer Support and Jeremy Parker (Director of Fira Landscape) • Dr. William Bird (Intelligent Health) Confirmed interactive workshop sessions include: • Amy Twigger-Holroyd (Birmingham Institute of Art & Design / Director of Keep and Share) • Jackie Calderwood (Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University) and Wendy Sullivan (Director of Clean Change) • Dr. Mohsen Keiany (Birmingham Institute of Art & Design / International artist) This year the conference has a particular focus on examining how professions, practitioners, communities and individuals are reacting to the well-being agenda. Well-being 2013 will be asking a range of key questions - can we actually design for well-being – how do we experience personal well-being, how do existing approaches inform the overall agenda and is it possible to embed well-being as an overarching aim? Well-being 2013 aims to bring a diverse group of delegates together to debate and discuss current understanding, new ideas, novel practice and underpinning theories. Designs on well-being explores the notion that we all have experiences and responsibilities that impact on the well-being agenda; how we design goods, services and environments will influence personal well-being. Well-being 2013 will explore the need to be ‘self-aware’, learning from the approaches of other disciplines, assessing the underpinning well-being parameters, outcomes and impacts of a wide range of interventions. New to 2013 and unique to the well-being debate is the inclusion of a series of sessions designed to encourage the individual to explore and reflect on ‘self and personal well-being’ through direct experience, involving designed interactive events with opportunity to feed back to the wider conference community. Key Themes: • Designing for well-being (e.g. objects, products, services, programmes) • Personal and group well-being narratives and cultural conversations on well-being • Well-being and the environment • Supporting well-being through practice, health, healing, legal frameworks • Methodologies and co-design for well-being • Assessing and measuring the impact of interventions ABSTRACTS ARE INVITED FOR: • Posters - abstracts for posters should be a maximum of 150 words in length. The poster format size is A1. Poster abstracts will be included in the conference proceedings. • Conference papers – abstracts should be a maximum of 200 words. As a conference paper presenter you will deliver a presentation and also write a summary paper of up to 1,500 words for inclusion in the conference proceedings. • Full papers –abstracts should be a maximum of 200 words. As a full paper presenter you will deliver a presentation, produce a 1,500 word summary for inclusion in the conference proceedings and produce a full paper of up to 5,000 words. Full papers will be reviewed by an international group for consideration for inclusion in a special issue of the Article Press. Abstracts should be submitted via email to the conference team at [log in to unmask] and include author details, contact address and a brief outline of the paper. Papers may be exploratory in nature or consider the findings of existing studies drawn from academia or practice. They need to address issues relating to well-being where we are particularly interested to consider new and innovative work irrespective of its origins. Authors should identify • The theme that their paper falls under • Context • Methodology • Outcomes Abstract Deadline: Friday 8th March 2013 The two day conference includes: • Keynote speakers drawn from a range of disciplines • Conference poet • Interactive well-being workshop sessions • Poster presentations • Conference papers • Peer reviewed full papers • Parallel themed sessions • Plenary sessions • Conference Dinner (Optional) For all queries contact: [log in to unmask] For information and registration visit http://www.bcu.ac.uk/well-being-2013