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I apologize for cross postings. Call for Papers for the UAAC/AAUC 2014 Conference hosted by OCAD University in Toronto October 23-26, 2014 Deadline for Submissions, June 18, 2014/ Date limite le 18 juin, 2014 Special Session on Design for Sustainability: THE TENSIONS AND SYNERGIES OF AESTHETICS OF DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY Paradoxically, while sustainability has become a keyword of contemporary reorientations of design practices and theories, most research endeavors have been devoted to improving efficiency or performance and few to understanding the influences of these injunctions on culture on the one hand, and design thinking on the other. How designers address the ever increasing environmental expectations or even, how they maintain a creative balance between ethics and aesthetics, remains largely unaddressed in recent design theory. This session is focused on the questions regarding the tensions between cultural and technical responses of design for sustainability that cross the main disciplines concerned with design thinking, be it at the scales of product, architecture, landscape, and urban design. Do designers go beyond current injunctions of environmental norms, certifications, and policies in order to maintain a creative balance between ethics and aesthetics in their projects? Is the aesthetic tension between form and content emerging as a new framework for designing more sustainable environments? Session Chair: Carmela Cucuzzella, PhD Affiliation: Graduate Program Director, Certificate in Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University Email address : [log in to unmask] Please submit abstract directly to [log in to unmask] Carmela Cucuzzella, PhD Graduate Program Director, Digital Technologies in Design Art Practice Assistant Professor, Design and Computation Arts Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia University EV- Engineering, Computer Science - Visual Arts Integrated Complex 1515 St. Catherine W., Montreal, Quebec, Canada http://design.concordia.ca/ Researcher, L.E.A.P (Laboratoire d'étude de l'architecture potentielle) http://leap.concordia.ca EV-6.785, 514-848-2424 ext. 4690 [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------------------------------- PhD-Design mailing list <[log in to unmask]> Discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design Subscribe or Unsubscribe at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/phd-design -----------------------------------------------------------------