_______________________________________________ _______________ _______________________________________________ _______________ ___________________________________________ __ _ _ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ ___ _____ _________________________________________ ____ __ _____ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ _______ __ ___________________________________________ __ ____ ___ DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 20 Number 2 Feb 2015 ISSN 1473-3862 DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ Join DRS via e-payment http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS o Editorial o DRS Membership o IASDR 2015 o EKSIG 2015 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 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL The lead item this month is an article about recent growth in membership of the Design Research Society (DRS) and the importance of continuing efforts to build the design research community worldwide. I encourage all DRN readers to think about the benefits of DRS membership - you are most welcome to join us. DRS is a founder member of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) and we have a reminder of the deadlines for proposals for papers, workshops etc for the 2015 conference which is to be held in Brisbane, Australia in November. This will no doubt prove to be a most important gathering for the global design research community. It's also good to see a further DRS initiative going from strength to strength. The Experiential Knowledge Special Interest Group (EKSIG) organises a delightful biennial conference, this year to be held in Denmark. The first announcement and call for papers is below. David Durling Editor ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY: LATEST FIGURES REVEAL A GROWING WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY The membership of the Design Research Society is vital to the ongoing discussions and debates that help form and promote the field of Design Research. Through conferences, special interest groups, mail lists, the newsletter and the society's journal, Design Studies, our aim is to further the discipline of design research and, as membership secretary, it is my pleasure to let you know that the DRS recently achieved a small landmark. We now have over 750 members worldwide. The membership has grown considerably in recent years as the result of a number of initiatives that include: offering membership as part of the biennial DRS conference registration fee, introducing a special rate for research students, operating a DRS fellowship scheme, and offering research student bursaries. This has been a combined and sustained effort by the DRS Council, the governing body of the society, and we are proud of what we have achieved together. The membership figure of 750 is, however, dwarfed by another figure; the circulation of Design Research News under the editorship of David Durling. This now appears in the inboxes of 9000 subscribers, and reveals the full extent of the interest in Design Research and the wide impact the field has on other disciplines. The DRS was formed in 1966 so the recent growth in membership and interest in the field helps us to build towards our 50th Anniversary Conference in June 2016. This will be held in Brighton, in the UK following a successful conference in Umea, Sweden last year. The call for participation will be announced shortly. I encourage you to get engaged with the Society and help further the field of Design Research. Membership offers many benefits but, above all, helps to develop the infrastructure that allows us to continue to grow as a discipline. Every year we hold elections for council officers and we are constantly looking for new faces to refresh and develop the international outlook of the society. So if you are thinking of joining, there is no better time to get involved. To subscribe or find out more please visit our website at: http://www.designresearchsociety.org/ Peter Lloyd, Membership Secretary for the DRS On behalf of the DRS Council ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ IASDR 2015 | INTERPLAY Brisbane, Australia 2-5 November 2015 Call for Participation IASDR 2015 invites papers, posters, workshops, exhibitions and doctoral colloquium submissions from any area of design research that explores the interplay between design research, science, technology and the arts. All submissions will be double blind reviewed. Submissions must be in English and submitted through the online submission system. All submissions should comply with IASDR 2015 guidelines. IASDR 2015 will explore the interaction of design research with science, technology and the arts. This continual INTERPLAY provides opportunities to explore interaction between cross-disciplinary knowledge and various design research approaches. IASDR 2015 aims to establish trans-disciplinary research platforms across diverse domains to foster new research and education opportunities and stimulate innovation. Call for Papers: We invite papers which offer original research and application across all domains of design: architecture, planning, industrial design, engineering design, software, interaction design, fashion or media design. The papers should demonstrate collaborative research and application with science or technology or the arts. Papers should be 3000 - 5000 words excluding abstracts and references and comply with IASDR 2015 guidelines. Call for Posters: Posters should demonstrate original research in progress. Poster size is one A4 sheet. Call for Workshops: Workshop program will run on 2 November 2015. Proposals are welcomed for full day and half day workshops. Maximum length of proposal is four pages. Call for Exhibitions: Proposals should demonstrate application of research to product, systems services and artifacts. Maximum length of proposal is four pages. Call for Doctoral Colloquium: Submissions must include a research proposals maximum two pages. Important dates for all submissions: Full paper submission: 6 April 2015 Poster submission: 4 May 2015 Workshop proposals: 30 June 2015 Exhibition proposals: 30 June 2015 Doctoral Colloquium: 31 July 2015 IASDR (The International Association of Societies of Design Research) was established on November 1, 2005. The purpose of the Association is to promote research and study into the activity of design in all its many fields of application, through encouraging collaboration on an international level between independent societies of design research. The Association will promote, amongst other activities, the organisation of biennial International Congresses of Design Research, at appropriate venues around the world. Congresses have been organised in Taiwan (2005), Hong Kong (2007), South Korea (2009), The Netherlands (2011) and Japan (2013). The 6th IASDR Congress is in Brisbane (Australia) in 2015. http://www.iasdr2015.com ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 22-26 November 2015: TANGIBLE MEANS - experiential knowledge through materials International Conference 2015 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge at Design School Kolding and University of Southern Denmark. Call for papers // EKSIG 2015 With the theme "TANGIBLE MEANS: Experiential Knowledge through Materials", the conference aims to provide a forum for debate about materials as a means for knowledge generation by professionals and academic researchers, exploring the role and relationship of generating and evaluating new and existing knowledge in the creative disciplines and beyond. In recent years many creative disciplines have shifted focus from what is produced to why it is produced and how it is used. This includes a growing interest for combining craft traditions with design and other related issues such as sustainability. As early as 1983 Schoen defined designing "as a conversation with the materials of a situation" (Schoen 1983: 78) and the designer as a maker of things even though it is acknowledged that the concept of design can be broader than 'making things'. Also in the 1980s Manzini (1989: 17) pointed out a need for further development of cognitive tools and cultural references in order to catch up with the technical and scientific development of materials. Recently Karana et al. (2014) have expressed a need to study not only the functional but also the experiential side of materials. Thus, material knowledge is not only about 'scientific' facts such as functional and technical properties. It also encompasses personal, experiential, cultural, emotional, environmental and social aspects. In many disciplines, materials pervade all parts of practice, from the processes to the creation of artefacts and/or other kinds of physical manifestations and the interpretation through other professionals, such as curators, critics, historians etc. This conference welcomes contributions exploring and discussing materials in relation to sensuous qualities, objects, context, strategy, service, space, time, place, techniques, discipline, domain, production, sustainability, interaction, use, metaphors, imaginations, associations, reflective thinking, etc. We interpret materials here in the widest possible sense to include any kind of creative outputs in whatever formats. With this conference, we wish to explore different ways in which experiential knowledge through materials can be given more appropriate consideration within the framework of research. This may include for example investigations into the nature, aims, validity, evaluation and/or necessity of different modes of communication and exchange. Questions of interest are for example: What do we mean when we say 'material knowledge'? What are the current understandings of material as a knowledge generator? Why might materials be important for any research conduct? How can materials be utilised within the framework of research? How can we articulate material knowledge, which might be tacit and embodied within the process of research? What frameworks are there to guide the communication of material knowledge? What differences are there between the pure sensing of materials and sensing of materials in a context? What means and methods can be utilised to transfer and replicate material knowledge? How can knowledge about materials be integrated and used within the framework of research? How can we articulate and/or communicate material knowledge within the process of research? What contribution can the use of creative practices make to the understanding and communication of material knowledge in research? What means and methods do we have to transfer and iterate material knowledge? What and how can we know from materials through research regarding the aspects of personal, experiential, cultural, emotional environmental and social issues? Attendees: We wish to bring together engaged professionals and scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production and methodological approaches to explore these issues. We invite contributions from creative subjects and other disciplines, e.g. design, craft, architecture, engineering, media, performance, music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned with materials and tangible means in research and in creative and professional practice. References Karana, E., Pedgley, O., & Rognoli, V. (2014) (eds.). Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann. Manzini, E. (1989). The Material of Invention: Material and Design. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Schoen, D. (1983).The Reflective Practitioner. How Professionals Think in Action. London: Ashgate. Key Dates: Full Paper Deadline: 1 June 2015 Full papers will be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, plus references. Full Paper Notification: 28 August 2015 Final Submission: 25 September http://www.experientialknowledge.org.uk/conference.html ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ CALLS CALL FOR PAPERS: ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW, vol. 20, no. 2 To be published August 2015 Special Issue: Corruption Editor: Adam Jasper The New York City 1916 Zoning Resolution was designed in order to ensure light reached the streets of Manhattan. It dictated massing at certain heights in a way that shaped the signature New York skyscraper up until the Second World War. In 1961, the successful example of the 1958 Seagram Plaza lead city authorities to rewrite the laws to encourage developers to create public places in exchange for extra height, and the form of the skyscraper changed again. Inside the building, the appearance and materials of office furniture also transformed in response to accelerations in tax depreciation. The privately owned public spaces that Seagram Plaza engendered include Zuccotti Park, that--thanks to ambiguities regarding police responsibilities--became the site of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street protests. According to the New York Times, in 2012 the Seagram Building had the lowest energy star rating of any structure in New York (at three out of a hundred), making it now illegal to build. Rules, whether adhered to or circumvented, shape cities. The stories told about architecture rarely revolve around legislation, planning laws, tax rules, price fixing cartels or safety restrictions; but these forces form our designs no less than culture, landscape or style. We are interested in the way in which such restrictions both compromise the autonomy of architecture and act as a creative stimulus. Corruption goes far beyond stories of crooked developers (although they are worth pursuing). We are interested in all perversions of due process, from the distortions of architectural competitions through to subtle conflicts of interest. As the competing demands of developers, governing bodies and insurers encroach ever further on architecture's autonomy, pragmatists move from the manipulation of form to the manipulation of institutions, or, to use a formulation by Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the architecture of genius becomes the architecture of bureaucracy. We are interested in the choreography of regulators, speculators and conspirators, and the subversive prestidigitation of invisible hands. We want to understand enterprise at the margins of the law. Most importantly, we want to understand how practice embodies theory, and how theory accommodates to practice. Architectural Theory Review, founded at the University of Sydney in 1996 and now in its twentieth year, is the pre-eminent journal of architectural theory in the Australasian region. Published by Taylor & Francis in print and online, the journal is an international forum for generating, exchanging, and reflecting on theory in and of architecture. All texts are subject to a rigorous process of blind peer review. Enquiries about this special issue theme, and possible papers, are welcome, please email the editor, Adam Jasper: [log in to unmask] The deadline for the submission of completed manuscripts is Monday, 30 March 2015. Please submit manuscripts via the journal's website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ratr When uploading your manuscript please indicate that you are applying for this special issue, for example: vol. 20.2 - Corruption. Manuscript submission guidelines can be found at: www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ratr20 &page=instructions http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/atr-cfp-corruption REMINDER: OPEN CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD DESIGN This is to remind those of you involved in research related to Food Design, that the call for papers for the International Journal of Food Design is open. More info on the journal, and CALL FOR PAPERS below: Follow this link for a quick introductory video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Net4-X6poCU Click here for the Journal webpage: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=246/ The International Journal of Food Design (IJFD) is the first academic journal entirely dedicated to Food Design research and practice. We aim at creating a platform for researchers operating in the various disciplines that contribute to the understanding of Food Design. Although the journal is open towards different background disciplines, knowledge and expertise, it only focuses on collecting any Food Design-related research outcome: research that somehow combines food and Design. We define Food Design as simplythe discipline that connects food and Design: Design applied to food and eating, or food and eating investigated from a Design perspective. In other words, among all knowledge on food and eating, we look at research where Design has an important role, and among all knowledge on Design, we look at research that focuses on aspects of food or eating. Connecting food and Design of course means connecting any aspect of food with any aspect of Design. For this reason, the International Journal of Food Design is interested in pushing the boundaries of research that connect aspects from Culinary Arts, Hospitality, Food Science, Food Culture, and any other food discipline, with aspects from Design Theory, Design Education, Industrial Design, Design History, and any other Design discipline. Connecting Food and Design can also mean looking at how Design is or can be used in all aspects of the eating experience. The eating experience is the process that transforms stimuli of an eating situation into emotions, knowledge and ultimately memories. The stimuli are many, and analysing them is a complex issue. Here we are interested in looking at how Design can be applied to the control of such stimuli, and therefore, to the control of the different aspects influencing the eating experience. The aspects influencing the eating experience can be grouped into those related to food itself, those related to the eating environment, those related to the relationship between people eating together, those related to the atmosphere, and those related to management, marketing, distribution and manufacturing. We look at how Design is applied to the control of such stimuli surrounding any type of food: food eaten at a restaurant, in a coffee shop, or at the cinema, food that comes in a packaging or on a plate, food eaten during physical exercise, food eaten in a space station, food connected to religion, culture or celebrations, etc. How is Design used to influence or modify any of the aspects influencing the eating experience? What Design methods, processes or theories apply to the design of food or of the eating situation? How should we teach Design methods, process of theories applied to the design of food or eating situation? And more: is there a scope for a sub-discipline called Food Design History? Is there a space worth exploring between Food History and Design History? Between Food Culture and Design Culture? Is there a scope for a sub-discipline called Food Design Thinking? Is there a scope for Design methods and process particularly designed for Food Design? These are some of the questions that the articles collected by the IJFD aim to answer. THE CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN: The International Journal of Food Design, because of the very nature of the discipline it brings light to, is interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary: we welcome articles relating to more than one area of knowledge, articles that create bridges between disciplines, and articles that result from research teams made of scientists with unique expertise all contributing to the same research endeavour. The journal welcomes research articles. Articles can be about theory, practice, or the intersection of the two. We value rigorous articles that show particular attention to data collection and data analysis, a strong collocation in the literature, and an original contribution to knowledge. Articles with 6000-8000 words (including references) are appropriate. The journal also welcomes case studies, which are also peer-reviewed but should be 3000-4000 words long including references. The intention of case studies is to showcase and give value to original on-going projects, and practice-based or practice-led design projects, that show originality and potentials. Finally the journal also welcomes literature review articles, interviews and reviews. The journal welcomes contributions from, but is not limited to, the following areas of knowledge: Design For Food Design With Food Food Product Design Food Packaging Interior Design For Food Food Events Design Food and Sensory Design Emotional Food Design Food System Design Food Service/Management Food Design History Food Design Theory Food Design Education The journal also welcomes contributions from Food Science, Food Styling, Culinary Arts and Hospitality, as long as the topic presented is connected to Design too. For example: Design Thinking applied to Culinary Arts, and Design principle or processes applied to any Hospitality issue. Similarly, the journal welcomes contributions from any Design field, as long as the topic presented or the outcome of the design process relates to food or eating. The International Journal of Food Design is pursuing advance, originality, ingenuity, innovation, as well as thoroughness and rigour. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=246/ 7-11 September 2015: OFF THE LIP: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Cognitive Innovation Workshop and Conference: Preliminary notice and call for participation Workshops: 7-8 September, Conference: 9-11 September University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK Short papers, posters and workshop proposals are invited for a conference to be held at the University of Plymouth, UK between 7-11 September 2015. Confirmed Plenary Speakers: Amy Ione, Director of the Diatrope Institute, Berkeley, California, USA Roger Malina, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology, Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Sundar Sarukkai, Professor and Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal, India The promise of cognitive innovation as a collaborative project in the sciences, arts and humanities is that we can approach creativity as a bootstrapping cognitive process in which the energies that shape the poem are necessarily indistinguishable from those that shape the poet. For the purposes of this conference the exploration of the idea of cognitive innovation concerns an understanding of creativity that is not exclusively concerned with conscious human thought and action but also as intrinsic to our cognitive development. As a consequence, we see the possibility for cognitive innovation to provide a theoretical and practical platform from which to address disciplinary differences in ways that offer new topics and concerns for research in the sciences and the humanities. Papers should consider cognitive aspects of creativity, including but are not confined to: - Poetics, language and cognition - The dynamics and performativity of imagination - Affect and named emotions - Affective artefacts (artefacts as scaffolding device for mind) - Creativity as a 'self corrective process' - Cognition as creativity - Memory, metaphor, and media literacy - Archives, identity and emotionality - Art, mental health and consciousness - Networking and Network Studies - Creativity and mental imagery - Creativity and innovation in development - Social creativity - Neuroscience of creativity - Creativity as an iterative process - Simulating and modelling creativity Workshops The workshops will engage participants in the contributions made by past and current research in the Humanities in the understanding of cognition as a creative interaction with daily life. We are especially interested in case-studies and examples that will suggest how to build bridges between current trends in the cognitive sciences and established bodies of knowledge. We are inviting proposals for workshops of 90-120 minutes comprising small panels, structured discussions and practical explorations. Small grants are available to support workshop logistics. Conference papers Proposals are invited for papers dealing with responses to the research challenge of cognitive innovation from the sciences and humanities. We are particularly interested in offering opportunities for reporting on recent and emerging work in all disciplines and will give special attention to speculative approaches that involve more than one discipline. Papers (20 minutes) will be delivered in 30 minute slots to allow good time for discussion. Papers may also be presented as posters in the interactive poster+ session. Poster+ We encourage non-traditional forms of research presentations in the context of the familiar conference poster event. CogSlam Propose 6-minute cognition-related artworks including screenings, mini-lectures and performances to be interleaved with spontaneous contributions from delegates reflecting on the day's discussions and exchanges. To submit a paper,poster or CogSlam please send a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with a brief bio to Dr. Martha Blassnigg: [log in to unmask] (Deadline 15th May 2015) If you would like to propose a workshop, please send a workshop title and brief abstract of 300-500 words and an outline of expected costs to Prof. Michael Punt: [log in to unmask] (Deadline 28th February 2015) There are no conference registration fees for students and a nominal fee of [euro] 50 for all other participants to cover lunches and coffee, with an additional [euro] 30 for those delegates wishing to attend the conference dinner. The conference administrator can assist with bookings for accommodation. Off the Lip is a collaboration between CogNovo (cognovo.eu) and Transtechnology Research (trans-techresearch.net), at the Cognition Institute, University of Plymouth. Call for Papers: Networking Knowledge, Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate network "Make, Mistake, Journey: Practice-led Research and Ways of Learning" Guest Editors: Alice Clough, Nottingham Trent University, [log in to unmask] Anna Piper, Nottingham Trent University, [log in to unmask] Practice-led research has become particularly pertinent in art, design and the social sciences in recent years, alongside a more general blooming of interest in the relationship between the mind, body and external world. Studies increasingly acknowledge or embrace the presence of the researcher or use the body as the means of doing research. In practice-led research bodily movement is simultaneously the mode of knowledge production and reception (Sklar 2000: 71). But while the practice-led methodology has promoted new ways of knowing through doing, it has also highlighted a number of epistemological questions: How can theory and practice be integrated and used together holistically? How can practice-led methods, with a focus on emergent methodologies, fit into a structured or target-driven academic framework? How can practice-led research overcome the primacy or value attached to the written word? What are the limits of practice-led research? Practice-led research is particularly relevant to art, design, and the social sciences, however the relationship between theory and practice will resonate across all disciplines. This volume of Networking Knowledge therefore invites contributions from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, exploring (but not limited to): Personal experiences of practice-led research, or projects that unite theory and practice Discussions relating to the text-orientated requirements of funding bids and thesis/journal submissions Experimental research methodologies and alternative approaches to what constitutes research outputs Multimedia and visual essays, as well as film and image based supplementary materials to accompany papers are encouraged. Authors are required to provide proof of permission for use of images etc. Submission Details Abstracts of a maximum of 150 words are to be submitted by email to the editors by 13th March 2015. http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/about Drawing attention to this call for papers: http://provocativeplastics.com/. Please circulate this to other people you think it may interest. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 2nd March. http://www.aub.ac.uk 2-3 September 2015: Workshop: 4 September 2015 ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN DESIGN: DO THEY MATTER? Design communities in 2015 are called on to respond to the Millennial imperative "to do the right thing, to know the truth of a situation, to have a job that means more than a pay cheque and to live a life that matters" (Chester, cited in Mind the Gap, Codrington and Grant-Marshall 2004:63). We, as stakeholders and leaders in the design community take responsibility to lead with integrity and commit ourselves to the co-creation of a shared design ethos. Aiming our intentions, efforts and influence toward 'that which ought to be', DEFSA 2015 seeks to honour and grow an emerging principle-driven, civic minded and human-centred design culture that takes issues of the sustainability, credibility, corporate social responsibility, professional accountability and personal integrity to heart. The typical worldview rhetoric of what should be done is redirected towards individuated responses and actions that foster meaningful change. Sub- themes The individual: Ethics and accountability in Design The institution: Ethics and accountability in Design The industry: Ethics and accountability in Design Conference venue: Humanities Building, Midrand Graduate Institute http://www.defsa.org.za/ 10-12 September 2015: CREATIVE PRACTICE CONFERENCE: MAKING RESEARCH AND RESEARCHING MAKING (Aarhus, DK) Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark Deadline of Conference Call: 16 March 2015 Making Research and Researching Making is an international conference for creative practice research, aimed at practitioners undertaking research through the medium of practice, and researchers interested in practice-based research. The focus of this conference is to better understand designed and/or contingent processes of how creative practice research happens, understanding research as an embodied, emplaced, material and social undertaking. - How do you, as a practitioner, initiate research within your work? - How does research connect and intersect with the processes of making within your practice? - Where does making research take place? - Who and what can be involved in the processes of making research? We invite contributions to the conference in the form of exhibits of creative practice research, papers explicating creative practice research, and workshops exploring processes of making research and researching making. The following four themes are offered as a catalyst to ideas: Knowing How We wish to foreground the actions, materials and techniques of creative practice as a means to research. We recognise that rather than preconceived ideas or clear research questions, creative practice research often begins with generating things, working with and responding to materials (Ingold 2010). Experiment and Surprise Latour and Yaneva's (2008) terming of the ways in which the products and by-products of the design process astonish their creators raises the question of control in creative practice. What about surprises, mistakes or unforeseen consequences? Sites of Making Research Nowotny (2010) points to an expansion over time in the sites of creative practice and production, and a concomitant changing role of the artist as worker and researcher. What is particular about the sites of making research: studio, academy, factory, building site, museum, city? Contributions of Making Research There is an ongoing debate about how the materials, works, and artefacts practitioners make are counted as research; how they contribute to research knowledge or other ways of knowing (Kjarup 2006). We want to hear your experiences of, and thoughts about, what your research does or will do, and how it does this. This event is initiated by the Architecture, Design and Art Practice Training research (ADAPTr) Initial Training Network, a four-year collaboration between seven creative practice research institutions. ADAPTr aims to significantly increase European research capacity through valuing practice and creative processes. At its core is the development of a deep understanding of the knowledge and the knowledge processes which are embedded in a creative practice. ADAPTr ITN has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013. http://adapt-r.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Making- Research_Researching-Making _Call.pdf CFP: A MANIFESTO FOR CYBORGS THIRTY-YEARS ON: GENDER, TECHNOLOGY AND FEMINIST-TECHNOSCIENCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY CALL FOR PAPERS A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty-years on: Gender, Technology and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century Platform: Journal of Media and Communication An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and graduate students Abstracts due: Friday 27th of February, 2015 Volume Editor: Thao Phan In her iconic essay A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s, Donna Haraway introduced the metaphor of the cyborg as an ironic political myth to critique the so far troubling narratives of the West. Published in the Socialist Review in 1985, it brings together a broad spectrum of literacies from socialist-feminism, to cybernetics and biopolitics to proffer a cutting criticism of Enlightenment humanism, gender essentialism, and military technoscience. Her provocations created a useful framework to destabilise rigid boundaries and make fluid the borderlines between human and animal, organism and machine, natural and artificial, semiotic and material. Today the Manifesto sits comfortably as part of the canon of feminist-technoscience and postmodern theory. Although as an oppositional figure the cyborg is bounded by a historical specificity, it has certainly found new significance and politics in the contemporary age of ubiquitous media. To mark the 30th anniversary since its publication, Platform invites authors whose work resonates or responds to themes expounded in this seminal essay. With the benefit of thirty years hindsight, what new observations or critical assessments can be made in regards to the cyborg as a feminist, tropic figure? Did the cyborg fulfill its promise of an historical transformation? Is the figure of the cyborg still as useful today, given contemporary technological developments? Or, conversely, do we need myths like Haraway's now more than ever? We encourage the submission of theoretical or empirical work engaging with applications of, or criticisms of, frameworks used by Haraway, and are particularly interested in critical papers that provide novel insights into the relation between gender and technoscience. Potential topics may include, but are not limited to: - Cyborg subjectivities in the 21st century - Gendered tropes in technology - Novel readings of gender and technoscience - Trans/queer studies of technology - Feminist science and/or feminist science and technology studies - Posthuman subjectivities - Postgender politics and subjectivities of ???affinity??? - Multiple or fractured readings of the cyborg - Technologies of sex and gender - Technologies of race and identity - Critical studies of the body/embodiment - Feminist histories/historiographies of media, technology or computation - The informatics of domination - Biotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence - Feminism and accelerationist politics - Feminism and new materialisms In addition to this special section, we also welcome submissions that more broadly deal with issues relating to the areas of media, technology, and communication in theoretical or critical terms. Please send all enquiries and submissions to [log in to unmask] Abstracts must be accompanied by a brief curriculum vitae and biographical note, and should not exceed 350 words. We recommend that prospective authors submit abstracts well before the abstract deadline of the 27th of February 2015, in order to allow for feedback and suggestions from the editors. All submissions should be from early career researchers (defined as being within a few years of completing their PhD) or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, PhD, or international equivalent. All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged, as the review process will commence on submission. Platform: Journal of Media and Communication is a fully refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and published by the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne (Australia), Platform was launched in November 2008. Platform is refereed by an international board of established and emerging scholars working across diverse fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by graduate students at the University of Melbourne. http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/ call_papers.html ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS FORMakademisk Vol 7, No 5 (2014) Table of Contents Editorial Editorial. Yes, Please - Both Crafts and Digital Tools in Basic Education Liv Merete Nielsen, Janne Beate Reitan Articles Location tendencies for new secondary schools and arguments put forward for city centre location Else Margrethe Lefdal Taswir - an introduction to a scholarly debate on figurative representation in Sunni-Islam Birte Brekketo Before and after Lightfoot/Leon. Using rich pictures to illustrate an educational journey through the world of opera and ballet Laurence Habib, Elisabeth Juell Developing a research community of art and design education. Looking back at the early phase of the master's programme in art and design education Laila Belinda Fauske Preparatory Knowledge: A Hub in Teacher Education in Arts and Crafts Marte Sorebo Gulliksen Book reviews Book review. Smart laering. Hvordan IKT og sosiale medier endrer laering (Smart learning. How ICT and social media are changing learning). Peter Haakonsen https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk/issue/view/ 159 TAYLOR & FRANCIS - FREE ACCESS Taylor & Francis is pleased to offer Open Access and Free Access options to the latest articles on Engineering, Computer Science and Technology. http://bit.ly/TF-EnginComScTech WIKIPEDIA - DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE Wikipedia page on Design for behaviour change published: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_behaviour_change http://www.behaviourchange.eu FOR INFORMATION The Design Society (https://www.designsociety.org/) runs a conference called the International Conference on Design Creativity. An organiser stated: Another conference with similar aims - and which might be confused with the Design Society event - is: http://www.waset.org/conference/2016/01/paris/ICDC WASET is listed in Beall's list of predatory publishers: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EDUCATION COLLABORATION (Participatory Design) for German design schools For the past 4 years, my colleague and I have been working as designer/researchers in the subject of Participatory Design(ing) together with people with dementia. Parallel to carrying out research and designing artefacts for individuals with dementia both in the home and in care facilities, we have shared this with our students (graphic design, digital design, photography, product design and game design) at the LUCA School of Arts from the University of Leuven in Genk, Belgium. In September of 2015, with funding provided by the Robert BOSCH Stiftung, we will take this educational module further afield, specifically to Germany where we will, over the course of two years share this process with 6 German design schools within (applied) universities. Additionally, we will be hosting two workshop events at a central location in Germany and will create a publication on the design process. Fully funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, our support teaching, including production costs for students as well as funding for schools to attend the project's events is covered in the funding. We are looking for design schools within universities in Germany who want to participate. To participate it is required that at least 1 or 2 enthusiastic design professors/lecturers participate along with their students, so that the knowledge gathered is also shared at an academic level. In addition, it is required that the professors/lecturers also share their student's work and experience with other lecturers at an annual event. Funding to attend this event is also included. This opportunity is open for German design schools within (applied) universities focusing on everything from graphic design to interface design to service design, to product design. Schools with a focus on technical design applications are also welcome. Please share this within your wider network. We've also placed this 'letter' on our project's future website: http://www.dementialab.eu which might be better for emailing colleagues you know in German design schools. If your school is interested or if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Andrea Wilkinson [log in to unmask] PHD SUMMER SCHOOL ON INTEGRATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT The University of Magdeburg (DE) and the University of Malta (MT) will be jointly running the 2015 PhD Summer School on Integrated Product Development. This Summer School is aimed at researchers interested in both understanding and researching the various interrelations between design, manufacturing and business aspects, as well as further aspects from the whole life cycle of a products/services. The aim of ipdISS15 is to thus provide a platform through which postgraduates working in IPD related fields can sharpen their understanding of current and emerging research issues in this interdisciplinay field. The hosts and leaders of the 2015 International Summer School on Integrated Product Development are: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandor Vajna, Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany Prof. Ing. Jonathan C. Borg, University of Malta, Malta Individuals interested in attending this summer school can find further information including testimonials from part participants at: http://www.eng.um.edu.mt/~dme/jcb/ipdss/ You may wish to kindly note that ipdISS15 is endorsed and supported by the Design Society. COMMUNITIESRESEARCHNETWORK Building Strong Communities Research Network Practitioner,academic, community member research and knowledge exchange network http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/communitiesresearchnetwork 23-27 February 2015: ARCINTEX'15 SYMPOSIUM Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK 'Narratives in An Internet of Soft Things' The event brings together the Arcintex research community in smart textiles, architecture and interaction design, with the UKRC research project An Internet of Soft Things, concerned with the development of co-design methodologies for mental wellbeing service communities. It will focus on the use of personal narratives in therapeutic practices, and the potential offered by environments augmented with smart textiles to enable new ways of creating, sharing and accessing stories. 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