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Hi, Below is a summary of CFPs posted to http://designcalls.wordpress.com/ in May 2014. /fas \V/_ Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. Email: [log in to unmask] http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/ Emerging Practices: Design Research and Education Conf (Oct 2014, Shanghai China) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/emerging-practices-design-research-and-education-conf-oct-2014-shanghai-china/> MAY 29, 2014 Dates: 13 October 2014 Location: College of Design & Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China Contact: Davide FASSI ([log in to unmask]) Deadline for submission of proposals: 16 June 2014 Part of the Shanghai Design Week (October 10-17, 2014) In this new era, design must, and is currently being, redefined. Social and economic changes impel designers to “think bigger.” For the design discipline, the expanding roles and tools of design make it more possible than ever to connect and to integrate multi-disciplinary knowledge within the social and economic context, and to tackle real world problems. Moreover, during the course of blurring the boundaries between professions and developing new approaches, design explores the new frontier by dealing with matters that center around goodness, happiness, and wellbeing of the entire human community. Design is immersed in values that were not even recognized a couple of decades ago, and the legitimization of design will now be measured more on how it can enable us to survive on this planet. Such emerging design practices and thoughts raise the bar for design knowledge, in terms of its breadth, depth, and complexity. The areas where they start to grow, especially the intersections between design professions, approaches, and values, merit a closer examination. Based on the above observation, Tongji University’s College of Design and Innovation (Shanghai, China) hosted the first Design Research and Education Conference titled “Emerging Practices” in 2012. This conference, since its very beginning, is devoted to exploring the new practices, values, and approaches arising from, or influential to, design and design education. It is an arena in which these three concepts are explored by facilitating heated discussions respectively or in an integrative manner. We sincerely invite scholars, researchers, practitioners, educators, and design students, interested in the possibilities the wide spectrum of design offers, to participate and contribute their ideas. This conference has been developed into a regular unit of Tongji Design Week, during which a series of design research-and practice-based events are held in October every year. We are pleased to announce here that the third Emerging Practices: Design Research and Education Conference will be held on October 13th, 2014. This conference will be organized as an interactive form, providing discussions that will be able to facilitate participants to further develop their original ideas and proposals. Full papers will be completed after the conference and will be compiled into the conference proceedings with an ISBN number. Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/emerging-practices-design-research-and-education-conf-oct-2014-shanghai-china/#more-2040> FILED UNDER CONFERENCE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/conference/> TAGGED WITH EDUCATION <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/education/>, PRACTICE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/practice/>, RESEARCH <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/research/> Special Issue of The Design Journal: Visual Communication Design in the Balkans (July 2014) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/special-issue-of-the-design-journal-visual-communication-design-in-the-balkans-july-2014/> MAY 22, 2014 Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/the-design-journal Deadline for expression of interest: 31 July 2014 Editors: Dr. Jilly Traganou, Dr. Artemis Yagou We are working on a special issue on the role of visual communication in the Balkans to be published in December 2015. We invite papers that discuss contemporary visual communication practices across the Balkans or in its specific territories. Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/special-issue-of-the-design-journal-visual-communication-design-in-the-balkans-july-2014/#more-2038> FILED UNDER JOURNAL <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/journal/> TAGGED WITH VISUAL COMMUNICATION <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/visual-communication/> J Communication Design (July 2014) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/j-communication-design-july-2014/> MAY 21, 2014 Website: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/journal-of-communication-design/ Deadline to submit abstracts for 2015 publication: 1 July 2014 Editor-in-Chief: Teal Triggs, Royal College of Art, UK Bloomsbury Publishing is delighted to announce that from 2015 it will be the publisher of Journal of Communication Design: Interdisciplinary and Graphic Design Research, the official publication of Icograda (The International Council of Communication Design). Journal of Communication Design was originally launched by Icograda in 2009 as an online publication called Iridescent with the aim of providing a platform to share ideas and findings between scholars and researchers across different cultures and to facilitate collaboration between the members of the Icograda network. Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/21/j-communication-design-july-2014/#more-2036> FILED UNDER JOURNAL <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/journal/> TAGGED WITH COMMUNICATION DESIGN <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/communication-design/>, GRAPHIC DESIGN <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/graphic-design/> Volume 2 of the International Handbook of Internet Research (June 2014) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/volume-2-of-the-international-handbook-of-internet-research-june-2014/> MAY 20, 2014 Contact: [log in to unmask] Deadline for abstracts for chapters: 1 June 2014 Deadline for full chapters: 1 September 2015 Editors: Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen After the remarkable success of the first International Handbook of Internet Research (2010), Springer has contracted with its editors to produce a second volume. This new volume will be arranged in three sections, that address one of three different aspects of internet research: foundations, futures, and critiques. Each of these meta-themes will have its own section of the new handbook. Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/volume-2-of-the-international-handbook-of-internet-research-june-2014/#more-2034> FILED UNDER BOOK <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/book/> TAGGED WITH INTERNET <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/internet/>, RESEARCH <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/research/> 11th Intl Conf on Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability (Jan 2015, Copenhagen) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/11th-intl-conf-on-environmental-cultural-economic-and-social-sustainability-jan-2015-copenhagen/> MAY 20, 2014 Dates: 21-23 January 2015 Location: Scandic Copenhagen Hotel, Copenhagen, Denmark Website: http://onsustainability.com/the-conference/call-for-papers Deadline for submissions: 19 June 2014 Proposals for paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, focused discussions, or colloquia are invited, addressing sustainability through one of the following themes: • Environmental Sustainability • Sustainability in Economic, Social & Cultural Context • Sustainability Policy & Practice • Sustainability Education Presenters have the option to submit completed papers to one of The Sustainability Collection <http://onsustainability.com/publications/journal> of journals for possible publication. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, community membership includes the option to submit a video presentation, and/or submission to the journal for peer review and possible publication in one of The Sustainability Collection journals. We hope you will be able to join us in Copenhagen, Denmark for this important discussion, and we look forward toreceiving your proposal <http://onsustainability.com/submitting-your-work/conference-presentations>! The Sustainability Conference will be exploring the special focus, “Sustainability Dividends – Development Fault Lines.” Read more about the theme <http://onsustainability.com/the-conference/program-and-events/2015-special-theme> . FILED UNDER CONFERENCE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/conference/> TAGGED WITH SUSTAINABILITY <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/sustainability/> LA CITTA’ NUDA – THE NAKED CITY – PHOTO CONTEST 2014 <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/16/la-citta-nuda-the-naked-city-photo-contest-2014/> MAY 16, 2014 [image: 39a04b_29294a42377c4be2b0d837d5c84874b9.jpg_srz_p_324_459_75_22_0.50_1.20_0.00_jpg_srz] <http://designcalls.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/39a04b_29294a42377c4be2b0d837d5c84874b9_srz_p_324_459_75_22_0-50_1-20_0-00_jpg_srz.jpg> . Glimpses of architecture, instants, daily moments without filter: they all, in different ways, tell the story of the life of the buildings that make up a contemporary city. [...] In the early hours of the morning, the commuters are vulnerable, naked, and the pictures that I snap of them without being seen, reveal the raw and melancholic mosaic of a city that I’ve called my home for twenty years” Antonio Monda – Author – “Inside the Naked City” . This Photo contest aims at selecting pictures linked to the thematic relationship between the modern city and the people inhabiting it. Streets, squares, buildings and borders…. are a daily part of people’s lives, they become essential elements of who we are and of how we perceive a city. . The city is what represents us, what shows us for what we are, our mission is to portray it realistically, for what it actually is. We live her, we play with her, we leave her, we fall in love with her and then, day by day, we underestimate her. . Let’s try to prove our love with a photo, making her feel what we feel for her. Let’s undress her…leave her naked. . . COMPETITION The participation is free; every architect, student and professional or amateur photographer, without age limits can participate. It is possible to participate only as individual and not in a group. To participate send a mail to [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> with a maximum of five pictures. Specify the author’s name and the surname, the image’s title, the represented town’s name and a short description (ten lines maximum) about the picture and the photographic project. The jury will select the most representative pictures and the winner. Every selected picture will be expose to a public exhibit in October at MEM – Mediateca del Mediterraneo in Cagliari (Italy) and they can be published online. The author will print the pictures considered appropriate and send to an address that will be communicated at a later stage, while the promoters will print the winning picture. For further information please refer to the website: http://lacittanuda.wix.com/home FILED UNDER COMPETITION <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/competition/> TOURETTE_Journal#0: WideOpen Call for Calls (22 June 2014) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/tourette_journal0-wideopen-call-for-calls-22-june-2014/> MAY 13, 2014 [image: Call for Calls] <http://designcalls.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/call-for-calls-image.jpg> Call for Calls Website: tourette-journal.tumblr.com Deadline: 22 June 2014 Eligibility: Anybody is eligible. Authors may have a non-architectural background, but the call must fuel innovative debate within contemporary architectural discourse. Group submissions are allowed. *TOURETTE_journal* looks at architecture as a loose and ever-changing discipline, dealing with everything spatial directly and by way of digital culture, shifting institutional ground, political and sociological issues, representational modes, drones and gorillas. Tourette recognizes the power of architectural discourse in the shaping of the discipline and the profession, and wishes to provide an open platform for the proliferating of ideas, debate and disagreement on issues related to the project of architecture in contemporary culture. *CALL: *WIDEOPEN: Call for Calls offers winning applicants the opportunity to curate one issue of the journal and contribute to the all-too-contemporary quest for relevancy within architectural discourse. At a time of collective and disciplinary crisis, in which architecture is looking outside of itself in order to redefine its boundaries, WIDEOPEN looks for intriguing questions rather than easy answers, challenging doubts rather than soothing certainties. WIDEOPEN challenges issues of authoriality within the discipline by soliciting a collective effort and foregrounding participation. The first issue of the journal, gathering the collection of accepted calls, will read as a crowd sourced manifesto of contemporary architecture. The whole structure of the journal will revolve around this first issue, expanding it and implementing its scope. FILED UNDER JOURNAL <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/journal/>, UNCATEGORIZED <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/> TAGGED WITH ARCHITECTURE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/architecture/>, DESIGN <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/design/>, RESEARCH <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/research/>, THEORY <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/theory/> Intl Conf on Robotics & Biomimetics (Dec 2014, Hanoi Vietnam) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/intl-conf-on-robotics-biomimetics-dec-2014-hanoi-vietnam/> MAY 12, 2014 Dates: 5-10 December 2014 Location: Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam Website: http://www.robio2014.org Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2014 The theme of Robio 2014 is “Robots that serve people”, reflecting the ever growing interests in research, development and applications in the dynamic and exciting areas of robotics and biomimetics. Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is located on the bank of the Red River in the northern section of the country. Hanoi has been inhabited since 3000 B.C. The city is nicknamed the “city of lakes”. Halong Bay, the World Unessco Heritage Site, is one of the most popular attractions and only 150km away from Hanoi. In 2012, the New 7 Wonders Foundation officially named Halong Bay as one of new seven natural wonders of the world. Robio 2014 promises to be a great event for all participants, with excellent technical and social programs. Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/intl-conf-on-robotics-biomimetics-dec-2014-hanoi-vietnam/#more-2013> FILED UNDER CONFERENCE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/conference/> TAGGED WITH BIOMIMETICS <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/biomimetics/>, ROBOTICS <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/robotics/> Annual conference of the Universities Arts Association of Canada (October 2014, Toronto) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/annual-conference-of-the-universities-arts-association-of-canada-october-2014-toronto/> MAY 10, 2014 Dates: 23-26 October 2014 Location: OCAD University, Toronto Website: http://www.uaac-aauc.com/en/conference Deadline for submissions: 18 June 2014 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] FILED UNDER CONFERENCE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/conference/> TAGGED WITH AESTHETICS <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/aesthetics/>, ARTS <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/arts/>, SUSTAINABILITY <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/sustainability/> Research Through Design conference (March 2015, Cambridge UK) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/research-through-design-conference-march-2015-cambridge-uk/> MAY 10, 2014 Dates: 25-27 March 2015 Location: Cambridge, UK Website: http://researchthroughdesign.org Deadline for submission of abstracts: 4 July 2014 We are excited to invite submissions for the second bi-annual Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD supports the dissemination of practice-based research through a novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated exhibition of design research accompanied by round-table discussions in “Rooms of Interest.” The exhibition will be used as a platform for presenting and demonstrating research processes and outputs, and for generating debate about the role of the design practitioner and their work in a research context. Building on the success of inaugural RTD conference held in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2013, the second conference, RTD 2015, is to be hosted at Microsoft Research’s new European lab in the centre of Cambridge, which promises to be an exciting venue for exploring what design practice means in the early-21st Century. RTD 2015 aims to foreground the materiality of design research, placing its artefacts, processes, and practices centre stage. We invite submissions from researcher-practitioners documenting research through design projects, including descriptions of methods, processes and insights emerging from a design inquiry and offering a departure point for rich discussion. Criteria for selection are based on the authors¹ presentation of artefacts (constituting research process or outcomes) as central to their submission; the artefacts will be included in the curated exhibition, and papers should accompany the exhibited artefact in a presentation of ‘research through design’ at the conference. Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/10/research-through-design-conference-march-2015-cambridge-uk/#more-2009> FILED UNDER CONFERENCE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/conference/> TAGGED WITH ARCHITECTURE <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/architecture/>, ARTS <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/arts/>, HCI <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/hci/>, PRODUCT <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/product/>, RESEARCH THROUGH DESIGN <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/research-through-design/> ‘Good Things/ Bad Things’ workshop – DRS2014, Umea – 2pm-5pm 15th June: programme <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/08/2005/> MAY 8, 2014 The workshop programme is now ready and is (briefly) as follows: 1400 – 1430Introduction to Workshop – Gamman and Fisher1430 – 1450Tiphaine Kazi-Tani, *Rogue Designs – Atelier Van Lieshout*1450 – 1510Mahmoud Keshavarz, *Regularising Things – Passports*1510 – 1530Discussion 11530 – 1550Annamaria Andrea Vitali, *Good Games of Chance – Gambling*1550 – 1610Adam Thorpe, *Fighting for Peace – Fashioning Things for Good*1610 – 1700Discussion 2 – resume of 2 ‘good things’ events (2013 and 2014) – next steps1700Close and adjourn to opening ceremony Hoping you can join us. Information about the DRS2014 workshops can be found here: http://www.drs2014.org/en/programme/workshops/ The full programme including abstracts is here: 6.5.14 workshop programme <http://designcalls.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/6-5-14-workshop-programme.docx> FILED UNDER UNCATEGORIZED <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/> Journal of Engineering Design: Special Issue on Interaction and Experience Design (July 2014) <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/journal-of-engineering-design-special-issue-on-interaction-and-experience-design-july-2014/> MAY 3, 2014 Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/cjencfp.pdf Deadline for notification of intent to submit: July 2014 Even in the development of the most technologically complex products, systems and environments, it is now accepted that the role of the user must remain firmly in focus. It is not enough to fulfil functional requirements such as safety and performance, or to achieve technical excellence in manufacture. The emergence of user-centred design has been critical in shifting focus towards human needs in the design and development process. Inclusive design in particular has set out the importance of universal usability in the design of products, and this fundamental requirement has been addressed in a previous special issue of JED. Broader user-based issues, however, require deeper consideration of the emotional reaction of individuals. The delivery of more personalized usage scenarios encompasses aspects of interaction design, psychology, culture and human factors to achieve satisfying, engaging and meaningful user experiences. The aim of this special issue is therefore to address the emotional needs of users and their experiences in using products, processes and systems. What indicators can be monitored to best understand response during product use? Do requirements change through the ageing process with respect to motivation, learning and dexterity? How can tasks and activities be designed and sequenced to form compelling narratives of use? How can factors such as culture, personality, experience be considered in interface design? And can the tensions between tailored individual requirements and product universality be resolved in unifying design principles? Read more of this post <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/2014/05/03/journal-of-engineering-design-special-issue-on-interaction-and-experience-design-july-2014/#more-2000> FILED UNDER JOURNAL <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/category/journal/> TAGGED WITH ENGINEERING <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/engineering/>, EXPERIENCE DESIGN <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/experience-design/>, INTERACTION DESIGN <http://designcalls.wordpress.com/tag/interaction-design/> ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------