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Research Through Design 2015 - Registrations now open
RTD 2015 - Cambridge, UK, 25th to 27th March 2015
Conference website: http://www.researchthroughdesign.org
Registration website: https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1654505
Early bird registration deadline: 30th January, 2015
Registrations are now open to attend the second biennial Research Through Design (RTD) conference, to be held in Cambridge, UK, between the 25th and 27th of March 2015. RTD is a new conference that supports the dissemination of practice-based design research through a novel and experimental conference format, comprising a curated exhibition accompanied by round-table discussions in ‘Rooms of Interest’. Building on the success of the inaugural RTD conference held at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in 2013, the 2015 conference is to be hosted at Microsoft Research’s new European lab in the centre of Cambridge. This promises to be an exciting venue for exploring what research through design means in the early 21st Century.
RTD 2015 will offer a diverse programme of peer-reviewed work and invited talks. As with the first conference, RTD 2015 aims to foreground the materiality of design research, placing its artefacts, processes, and practices centre stage. 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. From an initial submission of 223 abstracts, following two rounds of peer-review we have accepted a final set of 34 high quality submissions to be exhibited and presented at the conference (an overall acceptance rate of 15%). A preliminary programme of sessions at the conference can be found on our website: http://www.researchthroughdesign.org/programme/
RTD 2015 also includes an exciting programme of invited ‘Provocations’ – plenary talks that will take place throughout the conference for inspiring and provoking further discussion and debate around the conference themes. We are delighted to have thus far confirmed provocations from Nelly Ben Hayoun, Sir Christopher Frayling, David Gauntlett and Amy Twigger Holroyd.
We look forward to seeing you at RTD 2015 in March. To find out more about the conference, please visit our website: http://www.researchthroughdesign.org
To register the conference, please go straight to our RegOnline form here: https://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1654505
- Abigail Durrant and John Vines, General Chairs of RTD 2015