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Dear list members, *with apologies for cross posting* <http://www.drs2016.org/> ********** *DRS2016* ********** DESIGN + RESEARCH + SOCIETY | FUTURE – FOCUSED THINKING Design Research Society 50th Anniversary Conference 27-30 June 2016, Brighton UK http://www.drs2016.org/#drs2016 *Deadline for full papers: 9th November 2015* We are pleased to announce the following panel theme, now seeking paper submissions as part of the 2016 DRS conference in Brighton. **Design Research - History, Theory, Practice: histories for future-focused thinking** Design historians continually revise and reflect upon their preoccupations, omissions, emerging methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to design and research. Since design history’s emergence in the 1970s both as an academic discipline and as an intellectual practice concerning the past, present and future of design, this reflexive impulse has included several areas of critical discourse, including gender, material anthropologies, global narratives of design, histories of pedagogy, among others, with this panel’s added preoccupation with histories of design research. The Design Research Society 2016 conference offers an opportunity to examine overlapping constituencies and interests between design history, design research and current practice and asks, what has changed over the last 50 years in the field of design research? This panel takes the anniversary occasion of the DRS, the first multi- disciplinary society for the international design research community, as a starting point and extends the question to include geographies, histories, figures, practices and new models. What can historians contribute to the understanding of design research as a methodology of history, theory and practice? How do social, cultural frameworks influence design research methods? This theme aims to contribute to the formation of new knowledge about design research over the past 50 years in a global context. We invite contributions from a range of constituencies that take histories of future-focused design thinking as their remit. Proposals of interest include (but are not limited to): - Translation and shared vocabularies of design research (including geographic, disciplinary, theoretical and practice-led approaches to design and design language); - Experiments in and histories of design pedagogy; - Emergent constituencies of design research methodologies, agency and trans- national design; - Texts and contexts related to design research; - Gender in histories of design research and design practice. Information regarding submission, the conference and further themes available via the DRS2016 conference website: *http://www.drs2016.org/additional-themes/* <http://www.drs2016.org/additional-themes/> Or contact the sub-chairs: Livia Rezende <[log in to unmask]>, Royal College of Art, UK & Maya Oppenheimer <[log in to unmask]>, London College of Communication, UK *Maya Oppenheimer*, PhD *Teaching & Learning Officer*, Design History Society <http://www.designhistorysociety.org/> *Senior Lecturer & Support Coordinator* Contextual & Theoretical Studies School of Design, London College of Communication <http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/> Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB [log in to unmask] *Livia Rezende*, PhD *Treasurer*, Design History Society <http://www.designhistorysociety.org/> *Tutor in History of Design* *Lecturer and Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies * School of Humanities, Royal College of Art <http://www.rca.ac.uk> Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU [log in to unmask] -- Livia Rezende Tutor in History of Design & Critical and Historical Studies http://rca.academia.edu/LiviaRezende Royal College of Art History of Design Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU E: [log in to unmask] T: +44 (0)20 7590 4482 www.rca.ac.uk twitter.com/rcaevents <http://twitter.com/RCAevents> facebook.com/rca.london <http://facebook.com/RCA.London> ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------