_______________________________________________ _______________ _______________________________________________ _______________ ___________________________________________ __ _ _ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ ___ _____ _________________________________________ ____ __ _____ ___ _________________________________________ ___ __ _______ __ ___________________________________________ __ ____ ___ DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 23 Number 12, Dec2018 ISSN 1473-3862 http://www.designresearchsociety.org ________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS o LearnXDesign Conference o MinD Conference o Design Studies o IASDR2019 conference o Calls o Announcements o DRN search o Digital Services o Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN o Contributing to DRN ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 9-12 July 2019 - DRS LEARN X DESIGN 2019 5th International Conference for Design Education Researchers METU, Ankara http://drslxd19.id.metu.edu.tr/ drslxd19 (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter) CALL FOR PAPERS Extended deadline for full paper submission: 30 December 2018, Sunday Download full description of the conference tracks: http://drslxd19.id.metu.edu.tr/files/2018/12/DRS-LXD_2019_Call-for- Papers.pdf Download full paper template: http://blog.metu.edu.tr/drslxd19/files/2018/12/DRSLXD19_Paper_Template. docx Submit your full paper: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/DRSLXD2019/ CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Deadline for workshop proposals: 18 February 2019, Monday Download workshop submission template: http://blog.metu.edu.tr/drslxd19/files/2018/12/ DRSLXD19_Workshop_Template.docx Submit your workshop proposals to: [log in to unmask] The LearnXdesign is a conference series by DRS Special Interest Group in Design Pedagogy (PedSIG), cultivating symbiotic exchanges between design education and design research. The first symposium in the series was held in Paris in 2011 and covered a small number of invited presentations mainly by British and continental European researchers. The Oslo 2013 and Chicago 2015 conferences were embraced by the design education research community at large and involved an impressive number of contributions across design disciplines and educational levels representing diverse traditions in research and education. And finally, the fourth conference was hosted by Ravensbourne University London in 2017. The Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers will be hosted by Middle East Technical University (METU) Department of Industrial Design between 9-12 July 2019. We are truly excited to invite you all to our Ankara campus characterized by its unique natural and built environment as well as by its egalitarian culture and open intellectual milieu. Despite Turkeys becoming an uneasy passage from multiple conflict zones to tightened EU borders, our department will have quite a few occasions to celebrate in the coming year. The year 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the first course on industrial design offered in Turkey, at METU Faculty of Architecture by the American industrial designer David K. Munro. The same year we will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of the establishment of our department as a separate academic unit at METU. We feel that design education matters more than ever! The theme for the DRS Learn X Design 2019 is Insider Knowledge. The conference has 18 tracks, fifteen of which are chaired and three are open. We invite the local and international design education research community to contribute to the tracks outlined below. CONFERENCE TRACKS THEME I: LEARNING SPACES Track 01. Alternative Studios Co-chairs: Derek Jones and Nicole Lotz Track 02. Virtual Mobility and Democratization of Research and Teaching Practices Co-chairs: Aysen Savas and Felix Sattler Track 03. Open Track for Learning Spaces This track is open to topics related to learning spaces such as learning in situ, learning through collections, etc. THEME II: LEARNING CULTURES Track 04. Rethinking Design Basics as Translation Co-chairs: Giovanni Baule, Elena Caratti and Michael Renner Track 05. More-Than-Human Prototyping as Pedagogical Impugnation Co-chairs: Stan Ruecker, Pablo Hermansen and Martn Tironi Track 06. Computational Design Thinking Co-chairs: Sule Tasli Pektas and Henri Achten Track 07. Intercultural Collaboration in Design Education Co-chairs: Yasuko Takayama and A. Can Ozcan Track 08. Insider Out: Knowledge Transfer in Alternative Design Practices Co-chairs: Dilek Akbulut, Gulay Hasdogan and Engin Kapkin Track 09. Open Track for Learning Cultures This track is open to topics related to learning cultures such as hidden curriculum in design, the project, tutors and critiques, teamwork, etc. THEME III: EVOLVING SKILL SETS AND MIND SETS Track 10. Learning for Autonomous Design Co-chairs: Cigdem Kaya Pazarbasi, Anne-Marie Willis and Julia Keyte Track 11. Designing for Social Inclusion and Public Engagement Co-chairs: Wyn Griffiths and Lindsay Keith Track 12. Integrating Socially and Critically Oriented Approaches to Design Education Co-chairs: Harun Kaygan, Selin Gurdere, Asa Stahl and Guy Julier Track 13. Systemic Design Approach for Transdisciplinarity Co-chairs: Pier Paolo Peruccio, Paola Menzardi, Alessandra Savina and Maurizio Vrenna Track 14. Learning from Prototypes Co-chairs: Gerry Derksen and Zhabiz Shafieyoun Track 15. Bringing User Experience (Ux) Agenda into Design Education Co-chairs: Asli Gunay, Sedef Suner and Gulsen Tore Yargin Track 16. Design Education for Sustainability: New Directions and Dimensions through Innovative Methods and Research Co-chairs: Cagla Dogan, Senem Turhan, Yekta Bakirlioglu and Dilruba Ogur Track 17. Design Materialization Co-chairs: Owain Pedgley, Elvin Karana and Valentina Rognoli Track 18. Open Track for Evolving Skill Sets and Mind Sets This track is open to topics related to evolving skill sets and mind sets such as design education and intellectual property, etc. http://drslxd19.id.metu.edu.tr/ ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ 19-20 September 2019 - MinD 2019 Designing with and for People with Dementia: Wellbeing, Empowerment and Happiness The conference submission system for MinD 2019 is now open and we now have a wonderful set of keynote speakers. International Conference 2019 of the MinD consortium, the DRS Special Interest Group on Behaviour Change and the DRS Special Interest Group on Wellbeing and Happiness Venue: TU Dresden, Germany Conference organisers: Dr Christian Wlfel, Prof Kristina Niedderer, Dr Rebecca Cain, Dr Geke Ludden Keynote speakers: Dr Natalie Marchant, Alzheimers Society Senior Research Fellow, University College London, UK Dr. Ir. Helma van den Berg-van Rijn, service designer at Muzus, The Netherlands A member of the European Working Group of People with dementia - details tbc Conference Theme MinD invites papers and design contributions for the first international MinD conference 2019 on Designing for People with Dementia. The conference will provide a trans-disciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, end-users and policy makers from the design and health care professions to exchange and discuss new findings, approaches and methods for using design to improve dementia care and to support people with dementia and their carers. With ca. 10.9 million people affected by dementia in Europe, with numbers set to double by 2050 (Prince, Guerchet and Prina 2013), with 20 million carers, and with no cure in sight, research into care to improve the quality of life of people with dementia is essential, to encourage and enable them to engage in activities that are in line with their interests and experiences (Alcove 2013; Alzheimers Society 2013). Characterised by progressive memory and cognitive degeneration, people who are affected by Alzheimers disease or other dementias often face cognitive, behavioural and psychosocial difficulties, including impairment and degeneration of memory and of perceptions of identity (Alcove 2013). As a result, many have reduced physical activities or social engagement, or are unable to work. Emotionally, this can lead to uncertainty, anxiety and depression and a loss of sense of purpose. In this light, it is becoming increasingly apparent that it is not just care that is required but support for how to live well with dementia, whether in the own home or in residential care. This includes managing ones own care and every day tasks, as well as leisure activities, social engagement. Even small things such as whether and when to go out or what to wear can have important effects on peoples sense of self and wellbeing, contentment and happiness. Key to this is having choices and the ability to decide. Acknowledging the agency of people with dementia and understanding what can be done to support this is therefore a key question. Design-based non-pharmacological interventions are increasingly recognised as having great potential to help. Design can offer novel ways of complementing care and independent living to empower people with dementia in everyday situations because of its ubiquitous nature and its affordances. Much focus has so far been on physical and cognitive tasks and on safe-keeping and reducing risks. For example, design can help accomplish physical tasks and offer guidance or reminders, e.g. for time or orientation, or alert to behavioural changes. While there are some approaches towards emotional and social aspects of living with dementia, more could and should be done to focus on enabling people with dementia and acknowledging their agency. Design can help to support social, leisure, creative activities. It can help empower people with dementia offering choices and aiding decision-making. Design can support the individual person, or change the environment. This can take the form of a product, of systems or services, of the built or natural environment. The importance is to use design to help reduce stigma and exclusion, and instead to improve well-being and social inclusion to create happiness. While the aims may be clear, the way to achieve them still raises many questions about the best approaches, ways and methods to achieve such aims. This conference therefore seeks to explore the manifold areas and approaches. This may include novel theoretical approaches, novel methods in design development or in working with and including end-users, or novel products, environments, services or systems. Or it may include novel ways of working, collaboration and co-operation. The key aim is to bring together and explore how we might impact positively and sustainably on the personal, social, cultural and economic factors within our communities to improve living with dementia. To this end, we welcome a broad engagement with the field and invite submissions from a diverse range of researchers and practitioners from the various design and health disciplines, including product and interior design, craft, information and communication technologies, architecture and the built environment, psychiatry, psychology, geriatrics and others who make a relevant to the field. Themes may include, for example: - Design approaches for the wellbeing/empowerment/happiness of elderly people - Design approaches for the wellbeing/empowerment/happiness of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia - New design frameworks and approaches for wellbeing/empowerment/happiness - Mindful design approaches for wellbeing/empowerment/happiness - Collaboration between designers, technologists, health professionals and people with lived experience - Data collection with and by people with MCI/dementia - Co-design & co-creation with people with MCI/dementia - Evaluation of design with people with lived experience - Evaluation of the impact of design on people with lived experience Key Dates 1 February 2019: Final date for full paper submissions: 1 February 2019: Final date for Design proposal submissions: 1 April 2019: Delegate registration opens: 1 May 2019: Paper decision notifications: 1 June 2019: Early bird registration closes: 15 June 2019: Camera ready papers submission 15 August 2019: Late registration closes: 19-20 September 2019: Conference Contributions & Submission Information MinD 2019 welcomes contributions in two formats: 1) Full Papers We invite the submission of full papers (3000-4000 words) by 1 February 2019. Papers are expected to offer new or challenging views on the subject, novel approaches, working methods or design interventions or ideas, or similar. Papers will be selected subject to a double blind review process by an international review team. Paper will be reviewed for relevance/significance, novelty/originality, quality/rigour and clarity. 2) Design-based submissions We invite the submission of designs in analogue or digital format, including e.g. physical artefacts, digital artefacts, films/video. Contributions are expected to offer new or challenging ideas, novel approaches, working methods or design interventions, or similar. Submissions will be exhibited during and as part of the conference. In the first instance proposals should be submitted by 1 February 2019, including an image or visualisation and a verbal description of the design, and a 300 word statement of the underpinning research detailing its originality, significance and rigour. Design submissions will be selected subject to a double blind review process by an international review team. Submissions will be reviewed for relevance/significance, novelty/originality, and quality. If selected, submissions are expected to arrive by the organisers by 15 August 2019, free of charge. Insurance is the responsibility of the author/designer. Submission information: All contributions must be submitted by 1 February 2019 at the latest through the conference submission system, which you can access from the conference pages. Publication of conference submissions: Paper submissions will in the first instance be published as online proceedings, archived in an open access repository with a DOI number, and also available as an abstract / programme booklet and memory stick with the proceedings. In a second step, paper authors will be invited to submit their extended papers (6000-8000 words) for inclusion in a journal special issue. Available journals will be publicised on the conference website as soon as the are confirmed. Design submissions will be included in the abstract booklet and published in an online-based catalogue accompanying the exhibition. http://designingfordementia.eu/news/mind-events/mind-conference-2019 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ Design Studies Contents of Volume 59, November 2018 Special Issue: Participatory Design Edited by Rachael Luck Available online https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/design-studies/vol/59/ Editorial: What is it that makes participation in design participatory design? Rachael Luck https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X18300681 Participatory design for sustainable social change Rachel Charlotte Smith, Ole Sejer Iversen https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X18300425 Examining situated design practices: Nurses' transformations towards genuine participation Kija Lin stergaard, Jesper Simonsen, Helena Karasti https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X17300947 Valuing implicit decision-making in participatory design: A relational approach in design with people with dementia Niels Hendriks, Liesbeth Huybrechts, Karin Slegers, Andrea Wilkinson https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X18300449 Design project failures: Outcomes and gains of participation in design Sofia Lundmark https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X17300492 Dismantle, change, build: Designing abolition at the intersections of local, large-scale, and imagined infrastructures Shana Agid https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X18300437 Speculative prototyping, frictions and counter-participation: A civic intervention with homeless individuals Martn Tironi https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X18300401 Participatory design in architectural practice: Changing practices in future making in uncertain times Rachael Luck https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X18300693 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ IASDR 2019 CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT We are proud to announce that the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) 2019 Conference will be hosted by Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK on 02-05 September 2019. The conference theme DESIGN REVOLUTIONS will explore how design drives and responds to revolutionary thinking through questioning the norm, probing the now and embracing the new. For the first time IASDR will be held in the UK and will foster new thinking towards a compelling, meaningful and radical dialogue regarding the role that design plays in addressing societal and organisational issues. The biannual conference enables academics, practitioners and students join together to explore contemporary agendas, emerging directions and future challenges that are at the forefront of design research. IASDR 2019 will provide opportunities for the presentation and publication of a collection of high-quality peer reviewed research papers alongside the space to discuss and debate the evolution and revolution of design. Conference website: www.iasdr2019.org TRACKS IASDR 2019 is organised under 10 parallel tracks that reflect the breadth and opportunities of the norm, the now and the new of design research: - Change revolution and evolution of design as it responds to the context in which it operates - Learning design as a part of the learning process that supports creativity within the current education system - Living design shaping the way we live through our consumption of products, the services we use and the cities we inhabit impacting the environment, health and wellbeing of all - Making harnessing of the creative possibilities of materials and processes by design and making, - People social and cultural connection with design for, and with, people to meet the needs of citizens today and in the future - Technology from digital automation to machine learning and artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things, the engagement of design in an increasingly complex technology landscape - Value management of design to maximise the economic value and communicate the relationship between design and business effectively - Voices diversity in design voices to break the boundary of power and hierarchal socio-political systems - Open other critical debate in design research with out of the box thinking, challenging conventions and probe the norm KEY DATES 15 October 2018 - Call for Papers 15 November 2018 - Full paper submission opens 15 February 2019 - Final deadline for full paper submission 01 April 2019 - Delegate registration opens 30 April 2019 - Announcement of paper decisions 31 May 2019 - Early bird registration closes 15 June 2019 - Camera ready paper submission 15 August 2019 - Late registration closes 02 September 2019 IASDR 2019 Conference SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Full papers should be 4000-5000 words in length excluding abstract and references. Authors should directly address one of the conference track themes demonstrating a high-degree of academic scholarship, clearly articulate their research focus, provide a concise synthesis of the research context, describe the methods used to undertake the research, present the findings of the research and summarise the key contribution to the field. Papers will be selected through a blind review process conducted by international review panel based on the quality, significance, novelty and rigour of the research. Accepted papers will be published once at least one author registers for the conference. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE Professor Martyn Evans (Manchester Metropolitan University, Chair) Professor Rachel Cooper (Lancaster University, Co-Chair) Professor Steve Gill (Cardiff Metropolitan University, Co-Chair) Professor James Moultrie (University of Cambridge, Co-Chair) Dr Annie Shaw (Manchester Metropolitan University, Co-Chair) ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ CALLS 18 June 2019 - ADIM Collective Research Development Workshop Academy for Design Innovation Management International Conference 2019 London Research Perspectives in the Era of Transformations Hosted by Loughborough University London, United Kingdom ADIM 2019 Conference Dates: 19-21 June 2019 Calls and Deadlines for - Case Study Abstracts | Tuesday 15 January 2019 - Posters | Tuesday 5 February 2019 - Bursaries Applications | Tuesday 5 February 2019 - Workshop Proposals | Wednesday 20 February 2019 - Full Papers | Tuesday 29 January 2019 Call for Case Study Abstracts | Tuesday 15 January 2019 The Academy for Design Innovation Management invites an international community of scholars and practitioners to share their stories from the innovation frontlines. - The information and the full call can be accessed on this link https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/casestudies/ Call for Posters: ADIM Collective 2019 Research Development Workshop | Tuesday 5 February 2019 Call to Participate in the ADIM Collective 2019 Research Development Workshop. One of the goals of the ADIM is to provide a support for early career design researchers. An active intensive seminar in form of poster session involving early researchers and experts from different countries. The poster session will aim to facilitate active dialogue and networking amongst the ADIM Collective 2019 Research Development Workshop participants. - The information the Call for Posters available at this link https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/collective/ Call for Bursaries Application | Tuesday 5 February 2019 We have several ADIM 2019 Full Bursaries and Complementary Places available for Early Career Researchers from Global South countries who are planning to present papers at the upcoming Academy for Design Innovation Management conference| 2019 London. ThinkPlace is kindly supporting for one of the ADIM 2019 Full Bursaries. - The information about the Bursaries Application and Complementary Places available at this link https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/bursaries/ Call for Workshop Proposals | Wednesday 20 February 2019 The Academy for Design Innovation Management conference invites proposals for workshops that will engage and reflect upon the conference theme Research Perspectives In the era of Transformations. The workshop proposals are due by Wednesday 20 February 2019. - The information and the full call can be accessed on this link https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/workshops/ Call for Full Papers | Tuesday 29 January 2019 The Academy for Design Innovation Management invites the international community of scholars to submit research papers. The FULL Paper submissions are due by Tuesday 29 January 2019. - The list of conference Tracks and information about the submission process is available on this link https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/papers/ For any questions please contact the conference organisers via this email address: [log in to unmask] The registration fee information can be accessed at this link https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/registration/ 18-21 June 2019 - Academy for Design Innovation Management Conference 2019 London, United Kingdom FORESIGHT TRACK There is an opportunity to contribute research insights to a special foresight track at the Academy for Design Innovation Management (ADIM<https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/>) Conference 2019, which operates as a platform for knowledge creation, collaboration and advancement across a diverse range of Design Innovation and Design Management discipline areas. In Track 5g: "Design with Foresight: Strategic Anticipation in Design Research <https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/track-5-g/>", we invite research that explores design practice cases presenting significant integration or effective processes of strategic foresight in constructing a stakeholders perspective on capability development and the transformation of design, which is ever more extending its reach beyond the object into areas such as e.g. Design for Social Change, and Design Policy. Specifically, we will seek advanced cases and emerging practices demonstrating futures thinking and strategic foresight in Design and Innovation Management in handling environmental (macro-business) uncertainty, especially where deeper or longer-term anticipation has proven effective in radical or unexpected design-led innovation. This track seeks to address, but is not limited to the following questions: - What role can strategic foresight play in enhancing design decision-making? - Does strategic foresight in design boost innovation performance? And under which conditions? - What are cases that have transformed individual experiences, frameworks and perspectives into a shared, understandable, and transmittable area of insight into the future. - How to counteract cognitive barriers and enhance foresight capacities? - Can foresight yield the early discovery of radical innovations with future impact? The conference attracts speakers and attendees from across the globe, including recognised industry professionals, international scholars and emerging researchers operating in the creative, commercial and service industries. We also encourage you to share this invite to relevant researchers/practitioners with interests in this topic; please note the submission deadline is 29 January, 2019. https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/papers/ Call for papers - DESIGN & DEMOCRACY TRACK @Design Innovation Management Conference 2019 Call for Papers Submit relevant papers for double-blind peer-review by 29th January 2019 DESIGN AND DEMOCRACY TRACK Virginia Tassinari, Assistant Professor LUCA School of Arts, Belgium Ezio Manzini, ELISABA, Spain Liesbeth Huybrechts, University of Hasselt, Belgium Maurizio Teli, Aalborg University, Denmark DESIGN AND DEMOCRACY TRACK: THE BACKGROUND The issue of design and democracy is an urgent and rather controversial one. Democracy has always been a core theme in design research, but in the past years it has shifted in meaning. The current discourse in design research that has been working in a participatory way on common issues in given local contexts, has developed an enhanced focus on rethinking democracy. This is the topic of some recent design conferences, such PDC2018, Nordes2017 and DRS2018, and of the DESIS Philosophy Talk #6 Regenerating Democracy? (www.desis-philosophytalks.org<http://www.desis-philosophytalks.org>), from which this track originates. To reflect on the role and responsibility of designers in a time where democracy in its various forms is often put at risk seems an urgent matter to us. The concern for the ways in which the democratic discourse is put at risk in many different parts of the word is registered outside the design community (for instance by philosophers such as Noam Chomsky), as well as within (see for instance Manzinis and Margolins call Design Stand Up (http://www.democracy-design.org). Therefore, the need to articulate a discussion on this difficult matter, and to find a common vocabulary we can share to talk about it. One of the difficulties encountered for instance when discussing this issue, is that the word democracy is understood in different ways, in relation to the traditions and contexts in which it is framed. Philosophically speaking, there are diverse discourses on democracy that currently inspire design researchers and theorists, such as Arendt, Dewey, Negri and Hardt, Schmitt, Mouffe, Rancire, Agamben, Rawls, Habermas, Latour, Gramsci, whose positions on this topic are very diverse. How can these authors guide us to further articulate this discussion? In which ways can these philosophers support and enrich designs innovation discourses on design and democracy, and guide our thinking in addressing sensitive and yet timely questions, such as what design can do in what seems to be dark times for democracy, and whether design can possibly contribute to enrich the current democratic ecosystems, making them more strong and resilient? DATES Submit relevant papers for double-blind peer-review by 29th January 2019 Notification of accepted papers - 12th March Deadline for final versions - 16th April All papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed. Full papers should be between 5000 and 6000 words in length excluding abstract and references using the initial blind full paper template that can be downloaded below. Both British English and American English are accepted. We welcome any research approach or type of paper including conceptual, empirical and critical literature reviews. However, we expect high standards of scholarship in terms of establishing context, explicating the methods of inquiry, and reporting the results that may aid other researchers. If you are a single author, then you can submit only ONE paper. If a paper is co-authored, then you can submit as many papers as you have co-authors. The lead presenter will need to change for each of the different papers. For example, if Author A and B have co-written a paper titled Paper BA which has been accepted and Author A also has an accepted the single author paper titled Paper A, then Author B will present the paper titled Paper AB and Author A will present on the paper titled Paper A. It is important that both authors register for ADIM 2018. Please download the initial Paper Template for blind submission: https://designinnovationmanagement.com/pub/ADIM2019blind.docx If you require the paper template formatted in an earlier version of Microsoft Word, please contact us via email at this address: [log in to unmask] Author(s) names should NOT be identified in the abstract or the body of the submitted paper. The full papers must be previously unpublished. For any questions please contact the conference organisers via this email address: [log in to unmask] All full papers including abstracts will need to be submitted via our conference management system. At least one author of nay accepted papers must attend the conference and present their work. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE A Special Issue journal will be dedicated with select papers taken from the conference. These papers will be selected after a further double-blind review process. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS INDEXING The proceedings will be submitted for indexing on Google Scholar, CPCI and SCOPUS. 18-21 June 2019 - Exploring the Real World of Design in the Digital Economy: ADIM2019 London REAL WORLD DESIGN FUTURES TRACK #RealWorldDesign John Knight, Aalto University, Finland Chirryl-Lee Ryan, Idean, US Francesca Tassistro, Avanade,Italy Arne van Oosterom, Design Thinkers Group, Netherlands Joyce Yee, University of Northumbria, UK Daniel Fitton, University of Central Lancashire, UK Louise Valentine, University of Dundee, UK Satu Miettinen, University of Lapland, Finland Submit relevant papers for double-blind peer-review by 29th January 2019 EXPLORING THE REAL WORLD OF THE DESIGN IN THE DIGITAL ECONOMY This track explores current trends, collaborations, theories and practices in digital design both now and in the future. We welcome full paper submissions from practitioners and academics on the following topics: - Reflections on current industry practice, including real-world examples of applied design methods, methodologies, agile and lean ways of working and cross-disciplinarity between digital designers and other disciplines; - Understanding industrys needs in terms of current and future digital design skills, capabilities and competencies including the adoption, use and trajectory of digital tools; - Theoretical and practice-based accounts and challenges to existing digital practices in the broadest sense and specifically relating to user experience and service design; - Explorations on the role that design plays, within tactical and strategic end-to-end digital product and service production and consumption; and - Studies relating to the digital economy, with a specific focus on opportunities and threats to design theory and practice; and - Future oriented studies that provide insights into how digital data might transform practice, outcomes and methods within the digital economy. BACKGROUND The growing area of digital design is underpinned by the growth of the broader digital economy. This is where Design Thinking transmutes from intellectual possibility to social and economic capital and where traditional notions of design practice, applied to the consumption of immutable products and services is disrupted. The implications of these radical changes need the full focus from the design community in order to ensure that we align education, research and practice to the trajectory of the digital economy. As well as having relevance to the wider world, the digital context of design is also critical in shaping practice. This context goes far beyond accounting for the unique characteristics of digital materials and includes how, why, where and when design is done. For example, the tools and processes used to turn digital material into tangible products and services are distinctively different from traditional design domains. Understanding the present, will form the basis of defining the necessary foundations for developing solutions to the future. This future orientation includes how design education and industry practice might evolve and also align more productively than at present. To do this, examples, cases, reflections and explorations of pertinent theoretical and practice-based work is sought to help define, develop and explore. DATES AND INSTRUCTIONS Deadline to submit full papers - 29th January 2019 1] Download the Blind Paper Template: https://designinnovationmanagement.com//pub/ADIM2019blind.docx 2] Register on ConfTool: https://www.conftool.org/adim2019/ 3] Upload your final PDF and Word file onto ConfTool Notification of accepted papers - 12th March Deadline for final versions - 16th April SUBMISSION DETAILS Full papers should be between 5000 and 6000 words in length excluding abstract and references using the initial blind full paper template that can be downloaded below. Both British English and American English is accepted. We welcome any research approach or type of paper including conceptual, empirical and critical literature reviews. However, we expect high standards of scholarship within the papers. In terms of establishing context, explicating the methods of inquiry, and reporting results that may aid other researchers. If you are single author, then you can submit only ONE paper. If a paper is co-authored, then you can submit as many papers as you have the co-authors. A lead presented will need to change for each of the different papers. For example, an Author A co-written a paper titled Paper AB has been accepted as well as the Author As single authored paper titled Paper A. Then Author B will lead the presentation on a paper titled Paper AB and the Author A will present paper titled Paper A. Author names should NOT be identified in the abstract or the body of the submitted paper. The full papers must be previously unpublished. At least one author of accepted papers must attend the conference and present their work. Special Journal Issue A Special Issue journal will be dedicated to selected papers from the conference. Papers will be selected after a further double-blind review process. Conference Proceedings Indexing The proceedings will be submitted for indexing on Google Scholar, CPCI and SCOPUS. [log in to unmask] 18-21 June 2019 - Call for papers: Re-Designing Health Track at the ADIM Conference, London Call for Papers: Design Innovation Management Conference Re-Designing Health: Transforming Systems, Practices and Care Submission deadline is January 29, 2019. Track 1b: Re-Designing Health: Transforming Systems, Practices and Care There is growing recognition of the increasing complexity faced by healthcare systems; critical issues and challenges include ageing populations, chronic diseases, growing drug ineffectiveness, and lack of access to comprehensive services (to name only a few examples). Concurrently design thinking, methods and practices are increasingly recognized as a means of addressing complex, multi-levelled and systemic problems. The Re-Designing Health: Transforming Systems, Practices and Care track session brings together academics that are working inand acrossareas of design, medicine and health. Employing design methods, practices, and thinking to address a range of healthcare challengesfrom individual product to large-scale policythis track provides a forum for researchers, practitioners, students, and designers to provide evidence for this relationship, document challenges and successes and to provide theoretical and practical models for healthcare and design to work collaboratively to address complex healthcare problems. We look to identify and build research capacity to help address the complex and significant challenges faced by society in the 21st century and to chart new opportunities for the discipline of design. This track looks for submissions that deal broadly with notions of design and health and document a variety of practices, proposals and ideas. https://designinnovationmanagement.com/adim2019/ 9-11 October 2019 - DeSForM 2019 | Beyond Intelligence 11th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston SCOPE AND BACKGROUND DeSForM | Beyond Intelligence is dedicated to presenting the latest research in the fields of design and technology. DeSForM (Design and Semantics of Form and Movement) seeks to present current research into the nature, character and behavior of emerging typologies of connected and intelligent objects within adaptive systems. In its 11th edition, we challenge design scholars to start thinking beyond designing for and with intelligence embedded into single artifacts, to broaden their focus and start addressing designing for distributed, hyperconnected, and complex intelligent ecosystems, and how their meaning, experience, and ethics can be approached in this new landscape. Submissions should be focused on one or more of the following themes. In addition to these topics, contributions addressing the general conference interests (i.e. designing meanings, semantics and aesthetics of smart, dynamic and interactive artifacts) are also accepted. - Experiencing Complexity - Interacting with New Intelligences - Societal Impacts + Design Ethics - Future Roles of Designers IMPORTANT DATES March 1, 2019 : Submission deadline May 1, 2019: Notification of acceptance May 31, 2019: Camera-ready version October 9-11, 2019: Conference at MIT, Boston SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit high-quality, previously unpublished, original contributions that explore one or more conference topics. Submitted papers (both full and short) will be assessed through a double-blind review process and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Contributions can fall into one of the following categories: - Full papers (Oral presentation) Full papers should be up to twelve pages (including references) and should present theoretical research, novel frameworks or research-through-design projects addressing the conference topics. Accepted papers will be given a 20-minute presentation slot at the conference. - Short papers (Demonstration + Poster) Short papers should be up to six pages (including references). Short papers should describe actual design or art projects, which will be presented through live demos and posters during the conference. Authors of short papers are also encouraged to provide in their papers a link to download media demonstrating their results, whether images, videos, or other media types. All content should be anonymized for double-blind review. MORE INFORMATION If you have further questions about DeSForM19, please contact [log in to unmask] https://desform19.org Call For Papers: Sustainable Fashion Journal Call For Papers: Sustainable Fashion The International Society For Sustainable Fashion invite ongoing submissions of articles and papers worldwide on all aspects of sustainable fashion to be published in the official peer reviewed journal. Articles are usually 3000-5000 words. Please use the Harvard referencing system and include a 60 word biography. Submit online- www.sustainable-fashion-society.org/journal.html or email [log in to unmask] If your university department or institution library would like a ongoing subscription to a sustainable fashion journal it is included in the ISSF membership price and is a cost effective price for institutions. https://www.sustainable-fashion-society.org/join.html www.sustainable-fashion-society.org Sustainability - Call for papers on The Future of Design for Sustainability, guest editors Prof Tracy Bhamra & Dr Garrath Wilson, Loughborough University, UK. Papers can be submitted up until 31st May 2019. Design for sustainability is not the panacea we hoped it would be when it was first introduced in the latter part of the 20th century. Today, the health of both our environment and our societies is at a critical state, at a breaking point, with piecemeal solutions offered as social-media-friendly rallying points, such as the recent European Parliament-approved ban on single-use plastics, whilst fundamental, and arguably less exciting, issues such as loss of biodiversity, overpopulation, and climate change are shuffled to the back. It can be argued that the awareness of the concept of sustainability and the need to reduce our negative impact upon the environment and society has grown significantly and, consequently, has moved up the global agenda. This is evidenced by the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference; however, it is clear that the role of design for sustainability within this agenda is not providing the solutions necessary to manifest the level of change required. Traditional approaches are not working. This Special Issue of Sustainability is seeking papers that push the frontier of what design for sustainability could beand possibly should beacross the broad spectrum of design disciplines, including product design, user experience design, service design, etc. In particular, we invite manuscripts that question and offer alternatives to the current thinking, strategies, and directions. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/ Design_for_Sustainability SED 2019 - Call 2019: Initiate, sustain, expand The value of socially engaged practices in social change Socially Engaged Design Conference (SED) is a two-day event that discusses how researchers and practitioners propose and implement solutions to tackle contemporary societal issues. SED 2 will explore the role of art and design in driving social change. Under the umbrella theme of socially engaged practices through the arts and design (current and future) the speakers will present and debate their stance on political theories, democracy, the actual impact of socially engaged practices, social cities and co-design. Submission of Abstracts: 11 January 2019 Themes 01 / Art, Design & Politics Art and design can be used, as political instruments in the form of activism or, as a medium to discuss possible or better futures. Politics itself can also be understood as a form of design, since it involves planning, decision-making and law-devising. What are the practices and issues related to public space, democracy, equality and participation and how can activist art and design influence the fields of democracy and participation? What is the role of socially engaged practices in times of political and cultural crisis? 02 / Socially Engaged Practices & Democracy Socially engaged practices encourage participation and changes within communities. Direct engagement is a true democratic model of tangibility and influence that yields change where it is needed most: the places where we live. What are the dynamics of socially engaged practices within the current societal challenges and needs? How can we advance democratic practice within a local level through socially engaged practices, and how, through these practices, can we affect democracy in our everyday lives ? Moreover, how can socially engaged practices themselves become a democratic practice, when we deal with issues of co-authorship and co-design? 03 / The future of Socially Engaged Practices Our design choices and practices were and are reflected in our society. Altering and morphing constantly upon the needs and wants of the ever-evolving cultures we build, maintain and grow. We participate, collaborate and act. We reconsider everything in search of social change. Terms such as innovation, future trends, prototyping, peer-to-peer learning and user-centric thinking constitute the foundation of the vocabulary associated with transforming systems. How can we create a system that allows us to tackle the tangible problems of our society before they become one more representation of the past? In which direction should socially engaged practices expand to allow for even more meaningful and sustainable transformation? How can this field start participating in decision and policy-making at the highest political and legislative level? Where do Universities, NGOs, startups and innovative businesses fit into the equation? In short, where to now for the socially engaged practices? 04 / Social cities The future of our cities is at the core of discourses taking place on political, entrepreneurial, legal, academic and professional levels. Dream cities (resilient, inclusive, accessible, championing equality, environmentally, technologically and financially sustainable) are high on the political agenda. Although some urbanised clusters are perceived as successful social environments, others struggle to be friendly to their inhabitants and to offer a balanced social experience. Within this framework, can we as socially engaged practitioners propose fresh, imaginative, financially viable and inclusive objectives and processes to truly support a wholesome lifestyle and propel the quality of our livelihood? Solutions that, will include citizens in their making and, will not only allow the progression of a city (in historical, infrastructural or financial terms) but also respect the unexpected results of their originators? Can we fulfil these goals and still place emphasis on small-scale change, and preserve the idiosyncrasies of everyday life? Or are we at risk of weakening the distinctiveness of our cities, diminishing diversity and increasing the privatisation of public space in pursuit of all of the above? Important dates Submission of Abstracts: 11 January 2019 Reviews to authors: 12 April 2019 Submission of Workshop proposals: 3 May 2019 Notification to accepted Workshops: 26 July 2019 Camera Ready Short and Full Papers: 13 September 2019 Submission guidelines Papers will be selected through a double blind peer review process. Authors of accepted papers will need to attend and present their work at SED 2 Conference in Limassol, Cyprus. The selected papers may be published in the conference proceedings. Socially Engaged Design Conference (SED) does not make any financial commitment to the speaker, such as paying a fee or reimbursing travel and accommodation expenses. Authors of successful papers will be notified by the Organising Committee via email on 12 April 2019. Selection criteria Abstracts will be evaluated and selected based on their relevance to the conference thematics, quality, significance of contribution, originality and clarity. Abstracts: 500 words Full formal academic paper: 5000 words, including references Short research paper: 3000 words, including references. For any queries contact: The organising committee: [log in to unmask] 6 August 2019 - Design Culture & Somaesthetics Conference 2019 in Budapest The Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest and the Hungarian Forum of Somaesthetics warmly invites you to the Design Culture and Somaesthetics Conference 2019: Conference Venue: Moholy-Nagy University of Art&Design, Budapest Confirmed keynote speakers: Richard Shusterman, Professor of Philosophy and English, Dorothy F. Schmidt Eminent Scholar in the Humanities, and Director for Body, Mind and Culture at Florida Atlantic University. Initiatior of somaesthetic research. Guy Julier, Professor of Design Leadership at Aalto University, Helsinki. Former Principal Research Fellow in Contemporary Design and Professor of Design Culture at the University of Brighton/Victoria & Albert Museum. Author of founding books on design culture studies, editorial board member of the Journal of Visual Culture and Design and Culture. Patrick Devlieger, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at KU Leuven, anthropologist, leading international researcher of disability studies. DEADLINE OF SUBMISSION: 20.01.2019 Call For Participation: Design Culture and Somaesthetics 2019 Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields, In the recent past, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research has provided remarkable progress and development within the humanities and social sciences. The early phase of this development witnessed preliminary dialogues between separate disciplines and their representatives who have gathered to discuss common interests. The initial goal was to understand each other, to recognize common topics of research. This phase induced productive dialogues but did not lead to long lasting, organized post-disciplinary projects, let alone integrative conceptual frameworks. The latter only started in a second phase, when emerging post-disciplinary fields began to make suggestions for research platforms that were more defined and methodologically better founded. Somaesthetics, initiated by Richard Shusterman, and design culture studies, initiated by Guy Julier among others, are two among these most promising new post-disciplines. Design discourses, practices and products that are constituted in the synergy of all our senses are the protagonists of design culture studies that takes design culture as a flow of cultural products produced by social practices and reflected in cultural discourses. To Juliers mind, design culture as an object of study includes both the material and immaterial aspects of everyday life. At the same time, somaesthetics explores and reconceptualizes the focal point and ultimate reference of human environments, products, practices and discourses, namely, the embodied experience. Whereas somaesthetics reflects the pragmatist understanding of philosophy as a means of improving experience through a reflective art of living, it defines itself as a tool for designing good life. According to Shusterman, somaesthetics is the critical, meliorative study of the experience and the use of ones body as a locus of sensory-aesthetic appreciation and creative self-fashioning devoted to the knowledge, discourses and disciplines that structure such somatic care or can improve it. Both design culture studies and somaesthetics are interested in body-mind interactions and both include theory, methodology and practice alike within their action radius. The purpose of this conference is to take a step backward and address design theorists, philosophers, anthropologists, aestheticians, social scientists, healthcare professionals, technology experts, artists, designers and educators to discuss the parallel and complementary possibilities of these post-disciplinary approaches in the spirit of initial dialogue and pragmatic goodwill in order to create platforms of fulfilling and fruitful future collaborations. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Somaesthetic aspects of user experience Virtual reality, immersive technologies Posthumanism, Artificial intelligence and embodiedness Human-computer interaction Ambient experience design Atmospheres in human environments Social body and experience society Everyday aesthetics Object biography, material memory and material engagement We are expecting original and unpublished articles. A selection of the papers will be published in the forthcoming issues of the peer-reviewed, online, academic research journals /The Journal of Somaesthetics/ and /Pragmatism Today/ or in a volume on somaesthetics and design based on the conference and published in the Brill series /Studies in Somaesthetics/. Or submit your proposal(in no more than 300 words with 5 keywords) of a 20-30 minutes presentation to: [log in to unmask] https://doktori.mome.hu/conference-2019/?lang=en Call for Papers - Deep Learning for Design Deep Learning for Engineering Design A Thematic Collection in the Design Science Journal Overview Machine learning is generally concerned with the development of computational systems that can improve their performance of a task with experience (typically in the form of data). Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that seeks to improve performance and robustness of computational systems by imbuing them with the ability to construct internal representations of the data at varying degrees of abstraction. Deep neural networks are an increasingly common method within these broader categories. Over the last decade they have proven particularly useful for a variety of tasks including image recognition, sparking a variety of applications to related tasks in design. These have spanned architecture, mechanical design, product design, and game design. However, the relationship that these and other applications of deep learning have to the existing human stakeholders in design needs further exploration. In what way can deep learning augment or automate the behaviors of designers? In what way can it allow designers to better capture and respond to the needs, states, or behaviors of users and customers? How does deep learning connect to existing theoretical design frameworks? The aim of this thematic collection is to bring together leading edge research that focuses on the intersection of design and deep learning. Design Science is an archival publication venue that has a multidisciplinary readership. Since it is an online journal, papers in a Thematic Collection are published immediately upon acceptance. In keeping with open access principles, contributors are encouraged to make relevant software for their submission publicly accessible (e.g., as a GitHub repository or a Journal of Open-Source Software submission). The deadline for full submissions is 31 May 2019. Collection Theme Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following related to deep learning: - Automating evaluation, analysis of potential solutions - Enabling robust yet efficient simulations of complex systems - Creating rich virtual worlds - Automating the synthesis of novel solution concepts - Facilitating intelligent interactive systems via machine learning constructs - Engaging in human/machine co-creative design - Leveraging deep learning for improved agent-based systems - Generating unique design representations afforded by deep learning Guest Editors - Christopher McComb, Penn State University ([log in to unmask]) - Kazjon Grace, University of Sydney ([log in to unmask]) - Akin Kazakci, MINES ParisTech ([log in to unmask]) Committed Contributors - C. Tucker, Latent Space Exploration of Deep Generative Design Models - G. Williams C. McComb, From Form To Function and Back Again - Kazakci, M. Cherti, B. Kgl, Digits that are not: Generating new types through deep neural nets - N. Manajan, M. Li, J. Menold, C. McComb, Evaluating Human Trust in Deep Learning - S. Singaravel and P. Geyer, Interpretation of hidden layer representation for design decisions - W. Chen, Z. Boukouvalas, and M. Fuge, Learning Structured Design Space Representations: Unifying Generative Models of Design via Riemannian Geometry" About the Design Science Journal Thematic Collection The Design Science Journal Thematic Collection is a collection of articles around a particular theme that appear in the journal typically within a particular calendar year. Accepted articles submitted within the deadline go through production and are published online as usual (one at a time, so there is no delay), but they are are reviewed as usual, see http://www.designsciencejournal.org/authors/. The Publisher creates a separate listing and dissemination plan for the collection. Design Science aims to facilitate communication across diverse fields and to serve as a bridge across several communities, publishing original research but with a strong emphasis on accessibility by scholars from a diversity of disciplines. Design Science articles typically include comprehensive introductory materials to facilitate such accessibility. Design Science is a collaboration of The Design Society and Cambridge University Press. Dialectic Issue 6 (Sep 2019) Deadline for submissions: 4 January 2019 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic 2-4 September 2018 - ISIRC 2019: Social Innovation: Local Solutions to Global Challenges ISIRC is the worlds leading interdisciplinary social innovation research conference. The conference brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss social innovation from a variety of perspectives. ISIRC 2019 will be hosted by The Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University from Monday 2nd to Wednesday 4th September 2019. The conference will take place at 200SVS, in the heart of Glasgow City Centre. Call for papers is now open The conference organisers invite abstracts for papers and panel proposals in the following streams: - Social innovation & sustainable development - Social Innovation in Energy Transitions - Public service provision, co-production and co-creation - Social innovation & health and well-being - Communities and resilience - Public policy & social innovation - Hybrid models - Novel ways of measuring social impact - Growing and scaling social impact - Social investment and social finance - Social innovation education - Technology & social innovation - Critical perspectives - Design thinking - Regional and geographical aspects of social innovation - Ageing demographic - Social Innovation and Complexity - Alternative economic organising for social innovation: Ecologies of context and relations - Social Innovation, Employment and Migrants/Refugees and Asylum Seekers - Open stream The deadline for paper submissions is 28th February 2019. http://www.isircconference2019.com/ 1-2 November 2018 - 3rd NERD - Call for contributions BIRD, Birkhuser Board of International Research in Design, announces 3rd NERD - New Experimental Research in Design Venue: Institute Integrative Design, Academy of Art and Design Basel, Switzerland http://www.bird-international-research-in-design.org/nerd-conference- 2019 Call for Papers: International Journal of Food Design Special Issue: Materiality between food and design Full paper due: 1 June 2019 https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=246/view,page= 2/ Call for papers The cross-pollination between the worlds of food and design started when eating transformed from a purely biological necessity into a cultural phenomenon. In addition, innovation in the field of food may have a significant impact on social behaviour. The contribution of design to the food realm is multifaceted and goes from the material dimension to the most immaterial one. Design and food interact on several overlapping layers: material (product), immaterial (culture, experience, sensory) but also prospective (thought, speculation). In design circles, food has emerged as an inspiring area of exploration. One of the most prominent manifestations of designers new fascination with food is the way designers now consider foodstuffs as a material to shape along the project process. Food can be transformed into matter capable of allowing different and exciting relationships between human and artefact. Not only on the aesthetic level, but also facilitating new behaviors linked for example to waste reduction. Like wood, metals and plastics, food is something designers can explore in the workshop, and experiment with modelling its properties and qualities. This contemporary approach to matters is changing the fundamental rules of their development, and today almost everything can be considered a raw material from which to generate new experiences. This tendency towards experimentation and tinkering has also incorporated the food that numerous designers consider an appealing area to investigate the material world. This special issue wants to focus on the world of food in its relationship with the design of materials, inquiring both the role of materials in shaping the experience of food and vice versa, the food potential in generating meaningful material experiences. To give just a few examples of questions that we would like to address: Could food sources be introduced to the vast world of production materials? Is it possible for designers to consider the idea of the edible materials as a viable cultural model for the reduction of waste? Considering food as a raw material, can it lead to new solutions and the development of alternative and more sustainable materials? Could we take into consideration the food aesthetic as a creative element to design materials? How could it influence the languages and aesthetics of the materials we are used to? How should designers deal with the relationship with new and traditional technologies to transform food into materials (3d printing, growing, low tech forming processes, and so on)? How have materials influenced the culture of food (preparation, conservation, fruition) and how have they affected and modified people's behaviour? Could we consider materials as facilitators and tool makers (metal and silicone, for example) for cooking and preparing food? Can materials participate in the staging of food and how? How do the food and the objects materiality interact in different cultures (in the past, present, and future)? We welcome both empirical work and theoretically-informed design case studies since both are needed to creatively tackle the above and many other questions in this field, especially those that address the issue from a cultural and speculative perspective. Suggested Research Themes: Possible research themes in the domain of food and materials for design include, but are not limited to: - Food as material and material as food (edible materials) - Circular economies and food waste exploitation - Growing materials in the domain of food design - DIY-Materials from food waste - Cultural reflections and speculative thinking - New technologies in preparation and presentation, as 3D printing and augmented reality Journal background 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: Design applied to food and eating, or food and eating investigated from a Design perspective. See https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=246/view,page= 2/ Schedule: - Call for papers: December 2018 - Submission of full papers: 1 June 2019 - Notification of acceptance: 1 September 2019 - Final version of paper due: 1 October 2019 - Expected publication date: 1 February 2020 Submission of papers: A double-blind review process will be used for this special issue. Please check the Notes for Contributors on https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/IJFD/2018%20NfC% 20IJFD_3_1.pdf You can send your contribution to this Special Issue directly to one of the guest editors: dr. Valentina Rognoli Politecnico di Milano, design department, Italy valentina.rognol[log in to unmask] dr. Manuela Celi Politecnico di Milano, design department, [log in to unmask] 10-13 September 2019 - ECCE 2019 - 31st European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics Belfast, Northern Ireland http://ecce2019.eace.net Due date for all paper submissions: 22 February 2019 Registration is now open at http://ecce2019.eace.net KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED We are immensely pleased to confirm three world class keynote speakers for ECCE-2019 in Belfast: - John McCarthy, University College Cork, speaking on "Nurturing belonging in design" - Nadia Berthouze, University College London, speaking on "Look at my body ... what does it tell you?" - Alan Dix, Computational Foundry, Swansea University, speaking on "Cognition as Material: personality prostheses and other stories ECCE 2019 is the 31st annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE). This leading conference in human-computer interaction, human factors design and cognitive engineering offers an unparalleled opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a variety of domains. In addition to ACM proceedings, best papers will be published in the Behaviour & Information Technology Journal (Impact Factor =1.380). Our special theme for ECCE in 2019 is Designing for Cognition. Interacting with digital technologies, apps, wearables, Internet of Things can be cognitively and emotionally demanding in our everyday lives. Now more than ever, we need to consider how Designing for Cognition can help us engage in and enjoy seamless intuitive interactions. The theme also involves new ways to understand cognition when interacting in the wild and to research and evaluate our interactions across work, home and community, especially considering the rise of knowledge derived from user data analytics. ECCE 2019 seeks to encourage dialogue and discussion among participants about general topics as well as this years special theme. We invite various types of contributions from researchers and practitioners long and short papers which address the broad spectrum of challenges in cognitive ergonomics and in the analysis, design, and evaluation of digital technologies. SUBMISSION DETAILS Submissions should be made through the EasyChair Reviewing System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2019. See below (under Submission Categories) for more information about these submissions. The following topics are of interest to the conference (but is not limited to): Affective/emotional aspects of human interaction with IT artefacts Cognitively-orientated human factors Cognitive science Cognitive processes in design Cognitive task analysis and modeling Collaborative creativity and experience Collaboration in design teams Collaboration in end-users and design teams Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization Design methods, tools, and methodologies for supporting cognitive tasks Development of usability evaluation methods Ecological approaches to human cognition and human-technology interaction Human error and reliability Human Factors and simulation Human-technology interaction in the Internet of Things era Methods and tools for studying cognitive tasks Motivational/emotional aspects of human interaction with IT artefacts Motivation, engagement, goal sharing Resilience and diversity Trust and control in complex systems Situation awareness Usability and User Experience evaluation methods (e.g. in games) User research concepts, methods, and empirical studies Human Computer Interaction Virtual reality Conversational user interfaces / chatbots Web design Graphical user interfaces SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submissions should be written in English and authors should anonymise their papers. All submissions fulfilling the submission requirements will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available to conference attendees and published in the ACM digital library. Submissions must follow the SIGCHI Conference Proceedings formatting guidelines. Microsoft Word Templates will available for Windows and for Mac in Fall 2018. We will update this page with correct links once the new templates are available. Detailed formatting instructions, as well as more sample documents (including LaTeX files) are available on the 2017 ACM Master Article Template page: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template See to it that you use the SigConf proceedings template when preparing your manuscript. If you have any questions regarding the formatting of your paper, please contact the programme chairs, Maurice Mulvenna (md.mulvenna [at] ulster.ac.uk) and Raymond Bond (rb.bond [at] ulster.ac.uk). Proposals for panel sessions should be submitted to Maurice Mulvenna, programme chair: (md.mulvenna [at] ulster.ac.uk). SUBMISSION CATEGORIES Long and Short Papers The size of long papers can be 8 pages at most, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. The size of short papers can be 4 pages at most, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. The papers should be anonymised before submitted to EasyChair in PDF-format. Demonstrations Submissions can also be demonstrations, where the aim is to show work in a setting which facilitates open discussion. These sessions are suitable for authors who wish to present and demonstrate their work, smaller projects, systems or prototypes in a more interactive and informal setting during ECCE 2019. Demonstration papers should not exceed 2 pages (including references), explaining the work to be presented, how it will be presented, and the relevance of the presentation to conference attendees. Demonstration proposals should be submitted to Maurice Mulvenna, programme chair: (md.mulvenna [at] ulster.ac.uk). Workshop submissions We strongly encourage researchers to suggest topics for the workshops taking place on the 10th of September 2019. The suggested topics should be related to the themes mentioned above (at least to some extent) and sent to the programme chairs, Maurice Mulvenna (md.mulvenna [at] ulster.ac.uk) and Raymond Bond (rb.bond [at] ulster.ac.uk). Submissions to the Doctoral Consortium We encourage PhD students to submit to the doctoral consortium taking place on the 10th of September 2019. We have secured two leading experts to mentor PhD research students at the Doctoral Consortium. Professor John McCarthy, University College Cork and Dr Julie Doyle, Dundalk Institute of Technology are experts in experience design and interaction design, respectively. The submission deadline is the same as the main paper submission deadline (see above). Submissions should be sent to the Doctoral Consortium Chairs, Ana Caraban (ana.caraban [at] m-iti.org) and Sara Tranquada (sara.tranquada [at] m-iti.org). As soon as a student submits to the consortium he or she is eligible to apply for a limited number of scholarships covering the conference registration fee. The application for scholarship should be sent to the Doctoral Consortium Chairs, Ana Caraban (ana.caraban [at] m-iti.org) and Sara Tranquada (sara.tranquada [at] m-iti.org). Doctoral Consortium papers can be 4 pages at most, including all sections, references, and possible appendices. Submissions should provide a summary of the PhD students work (including aspects such as research context, achievements, future directions and issues experienced) and a 1-page CV. Submissions must be in PDF format. Gary Marsden Student Development Fund SIGCHI student members (or interested in becoming members) who are postgraduate students from, and currently based in, developing countries are eligible to apply to the SIGCHI Gary Marsden Student Development Fund (that may cover a maximum of 2500 USD, including travel (economy class flight tickets, ground transportation), accommodation (student housing if available), and meals during the conference can be covered by reimbursement), if they have an accepted contribution, or are accepted as doctoral consortium student, or volunteering of any kind (such as student volunteer) for the conference. See ECCE-2019 website for more information on how to apply. IMPORTANT DATES 22 February 2019, 5 pm (BST): Deadline for all Paper, Doctoral Consortium, Poster, Workshop and Demo submissions 03 May 2019: Author notification 31 May 2019, 5pm (BST): Camera-ready version of all accepted contributions 01 July 2019, 5pm (BST): Early registration deadline 10 September 2019: ECCE 2019 Doctoral Consortium and Workshops 11-13 September 2019: ECCE 2019 Conference Submissions should be made through the EasyChair Reviewing System: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecce2019 One author per accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to guarantee publication in the proceedings. LOCATION AND VENUE The conference will take place at Ulster Universitys Belfast Campus, in the heart of Belfast city centre, and will be hosted by Ulster University. The venue is in close proximity to many hotels, restaurants, and bars. Did you know, Game of Thrones is filmed in Northern Ireland why not take the tour (http://www.gameofthronestours.com/)? If youre interested in ship building, you can visit the worlds largest Titanic attraction (http://titanicbelfast.com). Belfast is well connected with 2 airports, and given the conference venue is located in the city centre, the attractions and facilities are within walking distance. See www.visitbelfast.com for more information. Visitors also commonly travel via Dublin Airport, where there is a regular direct shuttle to Belfast city centre. CONFERENCE OUTLINE AT A GLANCE Tuesday 10 September 2019: Doctoral Consortium & Workshops Wednesday-Friday 11-13 September 2019: Main conference http://ecce2019.eace.net 28-30 August 2019 - Special Session RGS-IBG 2019 "Creative Economies in Africa: new research and policy perspectives": CALL FOR PAPERS We would like to invite you to contribute to a special session on Creative Economies in Africa: new research and policy perspectives as part of the nextRGS-IBG Annual International Conferencein London (28- 30 August 2019). The detailed call for paper is here below. If you are interested in submitting a research paper or a policy case study, please email the following information(TITLE of paper, AUTHOR(S) and ABSTRACT)by the31st January [log in to unmask] For updates, please subscribe to our Jiscmail mailing list: Creative-Economy-Africa CALL FOR PAPERS In recent years there has been a growing interest in the role that cultural and creative industries (CCIs) play in the Global South- in terms of their economic contribution and connections to social change and cultural engagement (UNESCO, 2013). To contribute to this field and to support related policy agendas, this special session aims to bring together international researchers and policy makers engaged with understanding or developing creative economies in Africa. It aims to engage with the following research questions: what role can CCIs play in the development of African countries? What challenges and opportunities emerge with the development of CCIs in Africa? What role can policy (national and international) play in this context? The session (or sessions) will also feature a discussant to enable critical reflection on current research and policy initiatives. To explore these questions in greater detail, this session welcomes papers from diverseconceptual, empirical and geographical perspectives which engage with the following and related themes: - The role of education and career development opportunities for CCIs practitioners in Africa; - The interconnection between creative and social economies in Africa context; - The adoption and adaption of creative cities frameworks across African cities; - The role of geography and mobilities in the development of CCIs in Africa; - The emergence of co-working and networks to facilitate CCIs development; - The roles and functions of various intermediaries in supporting CCIs in Africa; - The role of policy (national and international) in supporting CCIs development; - Connections between cultural and creative industries and youth employment and work; - Connections between Africa and other countries in relation to CCIs via collaborations or policy transfer. The special session builds on the work of an AHRC funded research networkhttp://www.creative-economy-africa.org.uk. The session aims to contribute to a better understanding of the creative economies in African countries and to explore strategies to encourage and enable sustainable context-specific cultural, social and economic development. The papers and authors will be invited to share findings via the project blog and website or contribute to an edited book and policy report. Special Session organisers:Dr Roberta Comunian, Readerin Creative Economy, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, Kings College London.Dr. Brian J. Hracs, Lecturer in Human Geography, Geography and Environment, University of Southampton 18-19 July 2019 - TRACEY Drawing Research Network Conference Embodied Drawing Call for Papers Conveners: Drawing Research Group, Loughborough University The conference aims to explore the notion of embodied drawing. By embodied drawing we suggest that embodied could be synonymous with the act of drawing, that drawing is an act of embodiment. As such, the making of a mark expands to become an act of mediation. Yet if all bodies are mediat(ing)ed, they too mark the skins and surfaces of other bodies in the briefest immediacies in traces of gesture, events, at and through the borderline. A curious folding of/with materiality a drawing. And as drawing expands there come lines of flight and queer becomings: of further technological mediations, prostheses, computer augmented realities, boundary-making practices that offer up new forms of embodiment, of bodies yet to be named, without outline. And so we ask; what does it mean to have a body? What can they do? What can be drawn? The conference aims to provide a space for discussion, dissemination and the exchange of knowledge and suggests the following as starting points in the discussion, as possible themes, as prompts and as provocations: - How can a body situate sensation through/in drawing? - How can drawing be expanded to explore sound, movement, duration, and wider fields? - How can subjectivity and personal social/ethical commitment be produced through body-mediated drawing acts? - How can gender be enacted through the material-semiotic practices of drawing? - Can a computer be embodied/does an algorithm possess a body/ is it a prosthesis? The conveners would like to invite proposals for either a 20-minute presentation or a two-hour workshop from practitioners, theorists and practitioner-researchers, which aim to generate debate around the concept of embodied drawing. Please email your proposals to Tina Harvey [log in to unmask] including DRN 2019 Conference Abstract in the subject line. Deadline: Friday 1st February 2019 Please include the following information: Author(s) Institutional Affiliation (if appropriate) 50-word biography 250-word proposal 5 May 2019 - ACM CHI workshop Workshop Abstract: The HCI community is experiencing a resurgence of interest in the ethical, social, and political dimensions of HCI research and practice. Despite increased attention to these issues is not always clear that our community has the tools or training to adequately think through some of the complex issues that these commitments raise. In this workshop, we will explore the creative use of HCI methods and concepts such as design fiction or speculative design to help anticipate and reflect on the potential downsides of our technology design, research, and implementation. How can these tools help us to critique some of the assumptions, metaphors, and patterns that drive our field forward? Can we, by intentionally adopting the personas of would-be evil-doers, learn something about how better to accomplish HCI for Good? Details: This full-day workshop will take place Sunday May 5, 2019 in Glasgow Scotland as part of the 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems <https://chi2019.acm.org/>. Submission Guidelines: Potential participants should submit a 2-4 page interest statement in the ACM extended abstract format. Please email proposals to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> by February 12, 2019. We seek participants from a wide range of disciplinary and personal backgrounds, creativity encouraged! This statement should articulate a negative use or potential misuse of a technology; ideally focusing on technologies that are emerging now and that are relevant to the HCI community. You may present this statement using various forms including, but not limited to, design fictions, short stories, description of the authors experiences with the negative consequences of HCI technologies, or concept art with a supporting narrative. We would also accept statements that discuss methodologies for articulating and presenting negative impacts and uses of technology in provocative and pedagogical manners. In the workshop, feedback will be given on the affordances and limits of certain presentation styles including a collective review on how to make them most relevant to designers, technologists, and academics. Authors will be invited to participate in the workshop based on the originality and quality of their statements and their potential to contribute to a productive discussion. Workshop organizers will coordinate pre-workshop peer commentary, such that each participant will receive detailed feedback from at least two other participants on their own submission during the workshop. Questions? More details at: http://chi4evil.wordpress.com Contact Robert Soden: [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCEMENTS [this may be of primary interest to UK academics - ed.] Research England publishes first KEF documents ahead of consultation Research England has published three documents that will help higher education institutions (HEIs) prepare for the upcoming consultation on the future Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF). The first report,Summary of KEF call for evidence responses, summarises the key points that have emerged from evidence submitted to Research England on suitable approaches to and data to use in the KEF. This call for evidence, issued in December 2017, sought suggestions on how to make sure the KEF compares HEIs in a fair and meaningful way, what data could be used to inform the KEF, and how KEF metrics should be visualised in an accessible and useful way. The second report,KEF Cluster Analysis Report, includes an initial cluster analysis of English HEIs that will inform the development of KEF metrics. Research England will further develop this analysis, including manually assigning some universities to different clusters ahead of the consultation, particularly where a cluster contains a small number of HEIs. Finally, a technical note,KEF Technical Note, describes the role of other sources of UK Research and Innovation data in the development of the KEF. Research Englands Director of Knowledge Exchange, Alice Frost, said: There has been a great deal of work going on behind the scenes at Research England and in collaboration with our stakeholders, including groups chaired by Professor Richard Jones of the University of Sheffield and Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, Professor Trevor McMillan, to develop the KEF since the call for evidence in December 2017. Its essential we get a broad range of views to ensure the KEF is a useful tool for universities and users. We hope this information will give an indication of the direction of travel and help HEIs prepare for the consultation. The consultation on the KEF will open towards the end of 2018 and close in early 2019. At the same time as the consultation launch, Research England will publish David Sweeneys advice to the Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation on the development of the KEF, together with the ministers response. A technical advisory group for the KEF, chaired by Professor Richard Jones of the University of Sheffield, advised David Sweeney on the development of the KEF metrics approach. Research England is working with various other organisations to develop the KEF, including the Office for Students, universities, learned societies,PraxisAuril, theNational Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB), the devolved funding councils and executive bodies, and other UKRI councils. Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice 23rd 24th January 2019 University of Bolton, UK REGISTRATION OPEN Fashion and textiles practice intersects traditional processes and innovative technologies. Tacit knowledge acquired through hand skills, making, utilising equipment and working with processes is fundamental to developing understanding. Although practical learning is valued, the teaching of creative and making subjects is under threat in formal education. Within the fashion and textile industries there are skills shortages. Heritage crafts risk being lost as digital technologies and automation impact upon future generations. The Association of Fashion & Textile Courses (FTC) forthcoming conference Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice, provides an international forum for the dissemination of research, creative practice and pedagogy surrounding fashion and textiles. Contributions from established and early career researchers, postgraduates, practitioners, makers and educators will be presented under the following topics: Valuing Artisan Skills, Drawing and Making Learning from History, Tradition and Industry Collaborating and Cross-disciplinary Working Integrating and Connecting Digital Technologies Designing Responsibly and Working Sustainably Promoting Diversity, Employability and Community Investigating Creative Processes and Pedagogy The conference will include keynote speaker presentations, full papers (20-minute presentations), short papers (10-minute presentations) and an exhibition of practice-based work. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Karen Nicol Textile Designer/Artist, Honorary Fellow Royal College of Art, Artist in Residence De Montfort University Lou Dalton Menswear Designer, Founder Creative Director of Lou Dalton Anne Boddington Professor Design Innovation, Pro Vice Chancellor Research, Business & Innovation, Kingston University; REF2021 Sub Panel Chair for Art & Design: History, Practice & Theory http://www.ftc-online.org.uk/futurescan-4-conference/ Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition: Symposium Now Available online Just to let you know we have now archived all two days of our recent symposium on Climate Futures, Design and the Just Transition. You can watch the full symposium here at your leisure: https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/climate-futures-design- and-the-just-transition/ You can read the position paper here: https://www.academia.edu/37740641/ Just_Transitions_and_design_for_transitions_Rethinking_Ecosocialist_Desi gn_Imaginaries_Damian_White Introducing the DESIGN PHILOSOPHY READER The Design Philosophy Reader Edited by Anne-Marie Wills Order your inspection copy today What is Design Philosophy, why is it needed, what can it do and where is it going? Assembling key classic and contemporary writings in one volume, The Design Philosophy Reader answers these vital questions and offers insights that can potentially change the way you think and practice design. The reader comprises eight thematic sections, each featuring a short introduction and an annotated bibliography. It considers social, graphic, product and industrial design, and presents the writings of such leading design thinkers and philosophers as Deleuze and Heidegger, Aristotle and Plato. With texts ranging from philosophically informed writing on design and culture, to ancient and contemporary philosophy which addresses the concept of design, this is a pioneering work that interrogates the meaning, role and future of Design Philosophy. Anne-Marie Willis is Visiting Professor of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Adelaide, Australia and editor of Design Philosophy Papers at The Studio at the Edge of the World. Read the intro http://email.bloomsburynews.com/c/110nYSUdF84LjiovDNwHj7ykkD Request inspection copy http://email.bloomsburynews.com/c/110nYWTz0yO6OgnfPF65EQwWqe If you have any questions or comments please contact us [log in to unmask] http://email.bloomsburynews.com/c/110nYKVwYgC4jmr1g4nUBFB69r Subject: In Pursuit of Luxury, Release of the Special Issue Journal of the Design, Business & Society We are pleased to announce the release of the In Pursuit of Luxury, Special Issue Journal of the Design, Business & Society and we are delighted that Chris Berry wrote the foreword for the journal. After the great success of the 2018 In Pursuit of Luxury Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, we will be announcing the call for papers for the 2020 In Pursuit of Luxury conference soon. If you would like more information on the 4th conference in this series, then please do get in touch. https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=3641/ 13-15 February 2019 - Designing Out Crime iDOC2019, Perth Are you interested in using Design to reduce crime and terrorism? Do you know that designs that facilitate crime or implicitly encourage crime can result in financial and legal liabilities for designers and sponsors? (Similar to liabilities for health and safety risks) Are you interested in using design to support privacy of individuals and control over their own lives? Professional use of Design Out Crime and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) methods is rapidly becoming a significant factor in design, and for reducing liability from crime risks due to design. With the rapid uptake of intelligent devices, Smart Cities, the increasingly digital nature of life, transition to 24 hour cities, the use of real-time big data, advanced transport and communication systems (including autonomous vehicles), and the design of environments to counter-terrorism, the methods employed in Design Out Crime and CPTED are rapidly evolving. If you are not up to date with the evolution of Design Out Crime and CPTED approaches we suggest you attend the iDOC2019 International Design Out Crime and CPTED conference. The iDOC2019 International Design Out Crime and CPTED conference, 13-15 Feb 2019, Perth, Western Australia provides: - Expert information on current CPTED practices for designers in all realms. - New directions in CPTED - Expert guidance on using CPTED in night-time economy environments - New criminological research, Machine Learning and Big Data analyses linking crime and Design - Planning and designing the environment for counter-terrorism - Planning and Landscape design for event environment - Training and workshops on Design Out Crime and CPTED topics. iDOC2019 is the major regional International CPTED Society conference for 2019. Who should attend? - Everyone in all fields of Design and Design Research who an interest in improving the essential inclusion of crime prevention into design practices and outcomes. - All those in Design interested in minimizing their legal and financial liabilities due to crime risks associated design decisions. iDOC2019 is jointly organized by the Edith Cowan University Sellenger Centre, the International CPTED Association and the Design Out Crime and CPTED Centre. The iDOC2019 conference will be held in Perth which is delightfully warm and close to Indian ocean beaches and to many easily accessible areas of outstanding natural beauty including whale watching and swimming with the Ningaloo Whale Sharks. It is also close to large night life area, historic Fremantle, wine regions of Margaret River and good surfing. I would be very grateful if you would forward this email to your colleagues who may be interested in attending and or presenting. And, if you have useful experience in using CPTED and Design Out Crime that you can share with others, we welcome submission of presentations. https://idoc2019.org International Journal of Islamic Architecture 8.1 is now available Intellect is happy to announce that the International Journal of Islamic Architecture 8.1 is now available. https://bit.ly/2PxfRE9 ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ SEARCHING DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Searching back issues of DRN is best done through the customisable JISC search engine at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/design-research Look under 'Search Archives' ________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________ SERVICES o Design Research News communicates news about design research throughout the world. It is emailed approximately monthly and is free of charge. 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