________________________________________________ ________________ ________________________________________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ __ _ _ _ __ __________________________________________ ___ __ ___ ___ _ __________________________________________ ____ __ ____ ___ _ __________________________________________ ___ __ ____ ___ _ ____________________________________________ __ ____ ___ _ DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 25, December 2020 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS o Editorial o Calls o Announcements o DRN search o Contributing to DRN ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// EDITORIAL This is the 25th year of publishing Design Research News, and it has proven perhaps the oddest year of all. Many events were cancelled, sometimes at the last moment, and there seemed a mad scramble to go online, with occasional mixed results. Strange times. Let us hope that the post-vaccination new normal is more settled. As we move into the 26th year of publication of DRN, may I take this opportunity to thank all those of you who have kindly sent information, and to wish you all a happy and safer new year. warm wishes David ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CALLS 28 June- 2 July 2021 - Media Architecture Biennale MEDIA ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE (MAB20) Amsterdam & Utrecht CALL FOR PAPERS deadline Jan 25th, 2021 The conference proceedings will be published through the ACM Digital Library. MAB20 would like to invite papers from academics, students, and industry practitioners that align with the theme Futures Implied and the sub-themes, Playful & Artistic Civic Engagement, More-Than-Human Cities , Restorative Cities, just to mention a few. The paper contributions should address current practices, discuss theoretical approaches, or present novel research that explores and further develop our understanding of media architecture through relevant case studies, design processes, and community and industry examples. The papers should have a minimum of six and a maximum of ten pages in length, in ACM format, and the submission deadline is 25 January 2021. All papers should be submitted via https://easychair.org/cfp/mab20 You can find more details about the themes and the submission on MAB Call for Papers https://mab20.mediaarchitecture.org/calls/call-for-papers DISCERN, International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship It is said that mighty oaks from little acorns grow... We would like to share with you the inaugural issue of 'DISCERN, International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship'. https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J The deadline for submissions for the next issue is 1st February 2021. If you wish to become a reviewer for DISCERN, please visit the above link and register with the journal as a 'reviewer'. Call for Case Studies for EnGendering Design Seeking critical case studies for my latest book, EnGendering Design that will interrogate and challenge gender norms in graphic design education, professional practice, and self-directed work. Case studies may include typographic projects, culture jams, information design, packaging design, data visualizations, brand design, social design, social activist or advocacy projects, speculative and experimental work, design for digital and immersive environments, or environmental design for the built environment. Case studies may examine notions of gendered identities, seek to question or subvert normative assumptions about gender, challenge gender stereotypes, detail specific gender inequities, speculate on or pose solutions addressing gender inequality through design. Case studies that interrogate the means by which design itself establishes and reinforces notions of gender and historical analysis of these will also be considered. Work directed at contemporary issues and events are also of particular interest. Case studies are sought from design educators who emphasize international perspectives in design research challenging artificial divides that appear natural and apparently intractable and who integrate research into the studio classroom to produce scholarship of teaching and develop new pedagogies of design. Peter Claver Fine [log in to unmask] https://www.bloomsbury.com/author/peter-fine/ HRI 2021 Late Breaking Reports / Videos / Demos: Deadline Dec 14 The 16th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction gathers researchers from across the world to present their best work on the theory, technology, and science furthering the state-of-the-art in human-robot interaction. The theme of the conference this year is "Bolder Human-Robot Interaction." We invite submission of Late-Breaking Reports (LBRs), Videos and Demos related to all aspects of Human-Robot Interaction: LBRs (4 pages): The Late-Breaking Reports venue at HRI provides authors with the opportunity to present early stage results and new ideas over exciting cutting-edge and experimental research. LBRs are an excellent opportunity for researchers new to the field to participate in the conference. Videos (2 pages): We invite videos related to all aspects of HRI. The videos must be self-explanatory for the audience, of scientific relevance, and fun to watch. Besides the importance of the lessons learned, impact of content and the novelty of the situation, the entertainment value will be judged as part of the peer-review criteria. Demos (2 pages): We offer the opportunity to demonstrate innovative ideas and advances in HRI. We invite demonstration proposals for cutting-edge systems that make interaction with robots more intuitive, seamless, and pleasant, or otherwise illustrate some aspect of HRI in an exciting and engaging way. Demonstration proposals will be peer-reviewed based on these criteria. The deadline for submitting a Late Breaking Report, Video, or Demo is December 14, 2020. LBRs should be 4 pages long, excluding references. Video and Demo proposals should be 2 pages long, excluding references. These submissions should conform to the ACM SIG proceedings specifications as the full HRI papers. For the video and demo categories, a video must be submitted as well. Accepted abstracts will be archived in the companion proceedings of the conference, which will appear in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. LBRs, Videos and Demos will be presented as videos through the HRI2021 platform. Important: Due to a tight publication deadline with the publisher, all submitted Late Breaking Reports, Video reports, and Demos should be "camera-ready" at the time of submission (i.e., proofread, spell-checked, etc.). Non-conforming submissions are candidates for instant rejection. Website Information for LBRs The Late-Breaking Reports (LBR) venue at HRI provides authors with the opportunity to present early stage results and new ideas over exciting cutting-edge and experimental research. LBRs are an excellent opportunity for researchers new to the field to participate in the conference. All LBR submissions will undergo blind peer-review and will be published in the companion proceedings of the conference. These proceedings will appear in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. LBRs will be presented during the main conference. The final format for the presentation will be communicated in January 2021. Important Dates 14 December 2020: Submission deadline 08 January 2021: Notification of acceptance 18 January 2021: Final camera-ready deadline Submission Instructions Authors must submit their Late Breaking Reports as a 4-page article, excluding references (which do not count towards submission length). Papers should conform to the ACM SIG proceedings specification. Authors should use the sample-sigconf.tex or interim_layout.docx template files. In connection with SIGCHI's efforts to improve conference accessibility, HRI is moving towards generating accessible PDFs for all accepted papers. This year, we encourage all authors to add accessibility features to their PDF submissions. Please see the CHI 2021 guidelines for information on how to prepare an accessible PDF. Publications should be fully anonymized at the time of submission. For additional information, authors may refer to the main conference anonymization guidelines. Due to a tight publication deadline with the publisher, all submitted Late Breaking Reports should be "camera-ready" at the time of submission (i.e., proofread, spell-checked, etc.). Non-conforming submissions are candidates for instant rejection. Peer Review Process Late Breaking Reports will be reviewed using a mutual blind peer review process. To ensure that all authors receive feedback on their work and to help invigorate the HRI community, at least one author of each LBR submission must agree to review two other LBRs. Reviews will consist of a brief questionnaire regarding the quality and relevance of the work submitted. DESIGN CULTURE(S)|Cumulus Roma Conference: UPDATES Design Culture(s) is still accepting contributions for the special track called "NEW NORMAL", revolving around the keywords HEALTHCARE | EDUCATION | WORK/PLAY. https://lnkd.in/dYCeddP KEY DATES for NEW CALL FOR PAPERS | DESIGN CULTURE (OF) NEW NORMAL Deadline for Full Paper Submission: 14 December 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 28 February 2021 Deadline for Camera-ready Paper Submission: 31 March 2021 Additionally, please note that Early Bird registration for both in-person and virtual participation are available until January at: https://lnkd.in/dJqQJRR OTHER KEY DATES Early Bird Registration until 31-01-2021 (Virtual Participation available soon) Regular Registration from 01-02-2021 to 15-05-2021 Late Registration from 16-05-2021 DESIGN CULTURE(S)|Cumulus Roma Conference will take place from 8 TO 11 JUNE 2021 at Sapienza University of Rome. cumulusroma2020.org NORDES 2021 - 2nd Call for Papers Matters of Scale The 9th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) conference hosted at Design School Kolding and University of Southern Denmark - Kolding. 15-18 Aug 2021 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS Full call is at http://conference2021nordes.org/ Matters of scale Scale is ubiquitous in the world of design, but its implications mostly go unnoticed. Terms that are easy to use, like the global or human-scale, have widespread allure and even impact, yet they also hide and confuse. Although scale is a fundamental feature of all systems, artefacts and organisms, it is surprisingly rarely reflected upon in design. In the abstract, scale points to mathematical features but it is, above all, inherently relational and comparative. To think about scale nearly always involves thinking about another context of activity or reception that is either inside, outside or beyond the immediate field of practice. Design research may be pivotal in how matters of scale are understood and acted on. In these times of urgent troubles, problems appear to be large-scale and designers are often invited to 'scale up' their efforts to solve them, or defend the wellbeing or the rights of a universal 'human'. Meanwhile viruses, for instance, wreak havoc in machines and bodies across different orders of scale, connecting and disconnecting in complicated ways. If size, temporal duration, scope, territory and impact work in scalar ways in design, whether noticed or not, how can we learn to take scale seriously? Nordes 2021 provides opportunities to explore the multiple roles, processes and impacts of scales across all areas of design and design research in all their manifestations. How does scale matter in the context of design, designs and designers? What kinds of scalar relationships does design involve and how does or might design research identify and problematise these? Full papers, exploratory papers, exhibition artifacts and workshops that, in design research, explicitly address the topic of 'Matters of Scale' are invited. The matters of scale Potential conference themes may include, but are not limited to: - Audit, measurement and ranking - Manufacture, modularity and making - Human-, non-human and other scales and calibrations - Queer scales - Communities, publics, diasporas, networks - Governance, design for policy and implementation - Downscaling, relocalising, resilience, resistance - Territories, borders, shrinkage, dead spaces - Economies of scale - Temporal regimes: routines and irregularities; sprints and hacks - Open, big and small data - Prototypes, toolkits, archetypes, blueprints, guidelines, models - Platforms and one-offs - Representations, reproductions, fakes Submission categories Full submissions to all categories are due to January 20, 2021 and will receive peer review. Full and exploratory papers are subject to a double-blind, peer review process, and accepted full and exploratory papers will be published in the online Nordes Digital Archive. Submission categories: - Full papers - Exploratory short papers - Exhibition artifacts - Workshops - Doctoral Consortium You can now find the submission template, and detailed descriptions of each of the submission categories: Full papers, Exploratory papers, Exhibition and Workshops. We are especially excited about the workshop and exhibition categories where the chairs are encouraging everyone to stretch and explore different formats and places for engagement. The Workshop Chairs Danielle Wilde & Susan Kozel introduce the call with: "Nordes Workshops in 2021 will provide the opportunity to translate Matters of Scale into practice. With the shattering of conventions and practices of all kinds occurring at present, Matters of Scale can be addressed with added urgency and vitality. The what, the how, and the scope of scale? Micro, macro, global, multi-species, relational, temporal, ephemeral? The inside, the outside, the beyond? We invite you to investigate Matters of Scale at the same time as posing the question of what it means to workshop, to make or to practice together in current circumstances? For Nordes 2021, the traditional workshop format can be stretched so that Matters of Scale are reconfigured, critiqued and re-performed. Formats can engender opportunities to meet, engage in in depth exchanges, discuss, reflect or provoke. They can take place in Kolding, in distributed locations, outside or online". Call for workshops: Matters of Scale in Practice The Exhibition Chairs Eva Knutz & Kathrina Dankl have moved the exhibition into urban space. They introduce the call with: "The exhibition format of Nordes 2021 will take participants outside the doors of the main conference venues and into the city of Kolding. Alongside a route through the city, spatial objects such as a bridge, flora such as trees and fauna such as ducks have been picked as starting points for site-specific design experiments that negotiate matters of scale. Scaling in this context, attempts to bring about temporary experiments that create a dialogue between different actors and relate to the term "scale" in various ways. These may be spatial investigations and interactions, dealing with light/ heavy, micro/macro, below/above the ground; they might discuss relations and context-specificity, for instance public places/private spaces/non-places or local/global scale/connecting with many/linking a few; design experiments may well negotiate cultural citizenship and communication among humans and non-humans in the city." Call for exhibition: Agency in the City of Kolding Key dates 20 Jan 2021 Deadline for submissions 1 April 2021 Notification to authors and contributors 3 May 2021 Final submission deadline 15-18 Aug 2021 Conference Jamer Hunt as keynote speaker at NORDES'21 The organizers of Nordes2021 proudly present Jamer Hunt as the first keynote speaker at the conference. Under the heading Powers of Eleven, Hunt will address how designers need scale as a conceptual framework for thinking through the present. To quote from Hunt's keynote abstract: "Digital dematerialization and network entanglements are deforming our perception and conception of scale and unsettling our capacity to link cause and effect -- or design with its outcomes. Cutting across disciplines and ranging across topics (from ants to traffic circles and from surveillance systems to COVID-19), this presentation will x-ray our current social predicaments and outline design strategies for navigating the complexity of our many "broken" systems." Hunt's talk is a further development of ideas found in his recently published book Not to scale - how the Small Becomes Large, the Large Becomes Unthinkable and the unthinkable becomes Possible, published on Grand Central Publishing. Jamer Hunt is Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives and Associate Professor of Transdisciplinary Design University, The New School, Parsons. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ANNOUNCEMENTS BLOCKCHAIN-CULTURAL Blockchain in the Cultural and Creative Sectors is a forum for debate and discussion of research and ideas about the implementation of this technology in these sectors http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/blockchain-cultural Intellect Books. CFP. Art and Design Book Series. The latest publication in the Intellect Books "Mediated Cities" series is available. Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life. Details below. The follows books on art, film and culture in cities. The next in the series is planned from the June 2021 online/in-person conference, Urban Assemblage. BOOK Narrating the City: Mediated Representations of Architecture, Urban Forms and Social Life. Eds. A. Akcay Kavako, T. Nihan Hacioemero, L. Landrum. Intellect Books, 2020 https://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city Quando e design / When is design / Quand c'est du design, Quando e design / When is design / Quand c'est du design ], in Ocula n. 24 (Michela Deni & Dario Mangano eds), is now available here: https://www.ocula.it/rivista.php?id=36 | Authors: Daniele Barbieri, Valeria Bucchetti, Michela Deni, Imma Forino, Francesco Galofaro, Beatrice Gisclard, Dario Mangano, Marine Royer, Yves Voglaire, Salvatore Zingale, Alessandro Zinna. 6 articles are in Italian, 4 in French and 1 in English. Table of contents : Michela Deni https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-DENI-La-cultura-del-progetto- introduzione.pdf | The Design Culture, when is Design (in Italian) When is design, we find those characteristics and values of "design culture" that regard design processes and methods, designers' skills and attitudes. When these necessary preconditions are fulfilled, in many cases it is design. In some other situations, it is just a matter of finding a strategy to light up night dinners under the starry sky. In the Introduction of Ocula 24 we investigate the conditions that favour the emergence of design processes typical of design and of its evolution, up to social design which, by overcoming incremental and inertial innovations, drives radical social innovations. Alessandro Zinna https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-ZINNA-Les-consquences-du-quand- archeologie-du-design.pdf | The consequences of "when". An archaeology of design: from prehistoric times to the Anthropocene (in French) The questioning of design by the "when" gives here the opportunity to reconstruct the guiding lines of an archaeology of the discipline in four steps: the prehistory, where the problems of cultural design are presented; the history, from the birth of the culture of design depending on its practice and research; the present, characterised by the opening to social innovation; and, finally, the future, which poses design in the face of climate change and the instabilities of the Anthropocene. This genealogy, by reconstructing the key concepts of design, shows that, at each stage, the answers to the question "when is design" change according to a process that opposes already stabilized solutions to the innovation of new inventions. This leads us today, facing the horizon of the Anthropocene, to replace the human-centred design aiming at improving the habitability of the world and the living conditions of a single species, by the future living-centred design aiming at the stability of the world and the permanence of the network of life. Salvatore Zingale https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-ZINGALE-Design-o-progettualita.pdf | Design or projectuality? The project as inventive transformation (in Italian) Design or projectuality? The project as inventive transformation - We are often led to think about the terms "design" and "project" as synonyms. But this is not entirely true. The English noun design also contains other meanings, which we can consider as the premises, or conditions, of every design action: drawing, shape, purpose, intention. The Semiotics that is interested in design faces a choice: either limiting itself to the analysis of artefacts, regarded as texts with which we interact in social and daily life; or choosing to investigate also and above all the processes underlying the project action. In the latter case, it is a question of following a path still barely explored, which will have to tend to develop, if possible, a real semiotic logic of projectuality. Imma Forino https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-FORINO-Il-governo-della-scrivania- design-come-dispositif.pdf | The government of the desk: Design as "dispositive" (in Italian) The desk has been a controversial symbol of the office work, a piece of furniture to manage the confusion of papers and to settle all the employees. Over the centuries its design was often instrumental in identifying the personal habitat and the time of work. In the Ford era, the desk is the first element to order the office environment - a strategic "dispositif" for regulating employees and the work flow -, while today its design satisfies the new desires of the organization of work: transparent and thin, the office desk becomes dematerialized into the logic of the "dynamic working" by contemporary Science Management, which involves its use in sharing, in rotation or its elimination. Francesco Galofaro https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-GALOFARO-Ethnosemiotics-and-design.pdf | Ethnosemiotics and Design. A Contribution to a Symptomatology of Design (in English) Ethnosemiotics, a term included in the Greimas and Courtes dictionary, has been applied to various objects of observation in recent years. Ethnosemiotics does not simply consist in the semiotic analysis of ethnographic material; its ambition is rather to investigate the conditions of possibility of observation. Learning a method to observe objects in the context of everyday life, becoming aware of the planned and unforeseen relationships that occur between the actors that populate it, understanding the consequences of the project in the context in which the design will operate: this is the ambition of ethnosemiotics applied to design. The intervention presents the potential of the method and some preliminary results. Valeria Bucchetti https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-BUCCHETTI--design-della-comunicazione. pdf | This is Communication Design (in Italian) The contribution intends to limit the field of reflection to Communication Design. We therefore propose to reformulate the question: "When is Communication Design"?When can we talk about Communication Design and what are the conditions and processes that allow us to support it? To take care of them means to refocus the different levels in which the field is articulated: from that of the communicative artefacts, in their prosthetic dimension, to that of the systems that organize them, starting from directorial logic, coming to trace implicitly the profile of the communication designer. Daniele Barbieri https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-BARBIERI-Soglie-e-ideologia-del- progetto.pdf | Thresholds and ideology of the project (in Italian) No idea of design exists before William Morris, in the second half of the nineteenth century, came to develop it and put it into practice. Before the Industrial Revolution there were arts and crafts, and certainly there were also designing activities (architects, for example, have been doing it for a long time), but the project in a modern sense, the design, was born from the idea that society itself can be changed, and predictably, through a project. In his action, Morris designs not only an object, but an activity of social relevance through an object. Before him, objects belonged to the material culture of the time, and were part of it in a traditional way: if they came to transform it, it was not an expected consequence. What should be considered an object is a complex question, however much it can have to be extended to virtual and intangible objects. In any case, a book is an object, even if we make reference only to its verbal or visual content. But a theater play, is it? One of the thresholds that decide when the projectual operation that produces it is design or not, depends on the decision on what is and what is not an object. Another threshold is more strictly pertinent to the precision with which the social consequences of one's action are designed. From this point of view, the domain of art is, for example, completely foreign to that of design, even though there may be objects that fall under both. Marine Royer https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-ROYER-Design-social-elments- constitutifs-projet-maintien-a-domicile.pdf | Social design. Components of a project on home support for the elderly and disabled people (in French) Social design, as an expanding business line, covers a variety of approaches, methods and actors. This article attempts to develop the conditions and stages of its deployment, by listing the necessary elements for its elaboration on the one hand and by considering more precisely both ends and means on the other hand. These contextual elements useful for its production are exemplified by a project on home care for the elderly and disabled, called the Resource of Autonomy. Beatrice Gisclard https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-GISCLARD-Lapport-du-design-social- gestion-des-risques.pdf | The contribution of social design to rench natural risk management policies. Towards a territorialized social innovation (in French) Protecting against hazards and organizing disaster management are constant concerns for all human societies. However, current environmental challenges require a rethinking of the division of responsibilities and roles of each individual, both managers and citizens. Starting from the case of France, our research aims to study the social design approach from the perspective of territorialized social innovation, in order to better involve inhabitants in the face of flood risk. We will question the place assigned by the law to the individual as the first actor in his or her security, and then we will detail the conditions for the implementation of a creative workshop. Based on the results obtained, we will study the contribution of design as a factor of individual and collective commitment, as well as its reception by the actors. Yves Voglaire https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-VOGLAIRE-Quand-cest-un-designer.pdf | When it's a designer (in French) What makes the specificity of design? What are the skills of a designer? In order to answer to these questions, we will be looking to design as it used to be practiced, and the goals it was assigned. We are going to look for commonalities that make the different design practices bear the same name. Design is able to make the familiar unfamiliar and the unfamiliar familiar. This sentence is the red thread that will help us to discover how the designer distinguish himself from the other participants to the co-creation, what differentiates expert design from diffuse design in Manzini's words. Dario Mangano https://www.ocula.it/files/OCULA-24-MANGANO-Post-it.pdf | Post-it (in Italian) The history of the invention of post-it, the famous small piece of yellow paper with a re-adherable strip of glue, help us see how designing can be a way of redesigning more than creation ex nihilo. A designer is who works on the meaning of things, focusing on the relations an artifact creates with human and non humans. Standing in front of an object then, the question changes: not what is design but when. Craft Research 11.2 is now available For more information about the issue and journal https://www.intellectbooks.com/craft-research Aims & Scope Craft Research is the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the development and advance of contemporary craft practice and theory through research. The aim of Craft Research is to elicit craft as a vital and viable modern discipline that offers a vision for the future and for the sustainable development of human social, economical and ecological issues. This role of craft is rooted in its flexible nature as a conduit from design at one end to art at the other. It gains its strength from its at times experimental, at times developmental nature, which enables craft to explore and challenge technology, to question and develop cultural and social practices, and to interrogate philosophical and human values. Issue 11.2 Editorial Crafting progress through research education and digital innovation KRISTINA NIEDDERER AND KATHERINE TOWNSEND Articles Mapping the methodologies of the craft sciences in Finland, Sweden and Norway SIRPA KOKKO, GUNNAR ALMEVIK, HARALD C. BENTZ HOGSETH AND PIRITA SEITAMAA-HAKKARAINEN Promoting significant learning in a cultural craft course TARJA KROeGER Translational craft: Handmade and gestural knowledge in analogue-digital material practice NITHIKUL NIMKULRAT Position Paper Online matters: Future visions of digital making and materiality in hobby crafting ANNA KOUHIA Craft and Industry Report Re-inscribing the value of craft in times of dictated obsolescence ABHISHEK CHATTERJEE AND HEITOR ALVELOS The Portrait Section Making as critical interrogation: An autobiographical reflection SIMON PENNY Exhibition Reviews Cultural Icons: The drawings and sketchbooks of Dr John Hewitt, British Ceramics Biennale 2019, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, 14 September-19 November 2019 IAN WHADCOCK Untitled, work by Fadi Yazigi, curated by Myriam Jackiche, atelier, Damascus, Syria, 1 January-1 December 2019 ROMA MADAN-SONI Publication Reviews Crafts: Today's Anthology for Tomorrow's Crafts, Fabien Petoit and Chloe Braunstein Kriegel (eds) (2018) JANIS JEFFERIES Polish Lace Makers: Gender, Heritage, and Identity, Anna Sznajder (2020) CAROL QUARINI Calendar of Events Exhibitions, conferences Remarkable Image Ancestral Figures: Mid Victorian Couple, 2016 JOHN HEWITT Keynotes and program for the Australian conference on computer-human interaction released We have released the keynote speakers and program for this year's Australian conference on computer-human interaction and interaction design (OzCHI). The highlights are: - Opening keynote by Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland) on Human-Centered AI: A Second Copernican Revolution - Industry keynote by Kate Freebairn (Google Home/Nest) on Designing for the Home - Closing keynote by Natasha Schuell (NYU) on her work on self-tracking technologies - 64 paper presentations - 18 late-breaking work presentations More info about the keynotes: http://www.ozchi.org/2020/keynotes.html The full program is available at: http://www.ozchi.org/2020/program.html All sessions will be delivered via Zoom this year. Registration is free for CHISIG, ACM and ACM SIGCHI members; and AUD 30 for non-members - info on how to register at: http://www.ozchi.org/2020/attending.html UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a brand new open access book: Fabricate 2020 Making Resilient Architecture Edited by Jane Burry, Jenny E. Sabin, Bob Sheil, and Marilena Skavara Fabricate 2020 is the fourth title in the FABRICATE series on the theme of digital fabrication and published in conjunction with a triennial conference (London, April 2020). The book features cutting-edge built projects and work-in-progress from both academia and practice. It brings together pioneers in design and making from across the fields of architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Fabricate 2020 includes 32 illustrated articles punctuated by four conversations between world-leading experts from design to engineering, discussing themes such as drawing-to-production, behavioural composites, robotic assembly, and digital craft. Download free: https://bit.ly/2Kjgl3D Cubic Journal #3 Design Making - The Values Had, The Object Made, the Value Had - Practice. Making. Praxis. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design is pleased to announce the new issue of Cubic Journal is published. Editor(s): Daniel Keith Elkin & James Stevens With contributions from: David Schafer, Sara Codarin, Lee Y.H. Brian, Dr. Guan Lee, Daniel Widrig, Philippe Casens, Nathalie Bruyere, Kuo Jze Yi, Eddie Chan, Fernando Bales, Elise DeChard & Daniel Echeverri. This issue of Cubic Journal concerns making, and the value-structures connected to the premise, before and after execution. Fifteen authors and constituent research teams present their work in manifested design research here. In this work, physical, semi-physical, and transitionally physical embodiments of objects, spaces, and prototypical design conjectures are part and parcel of the researchers' progress. Embodiment neither preempts, nor follows their work, but is essentially the substance of research itself within these manuscripts. The editors collected this work as status-taking for a broad range of creative and scholarly enterprises in several regions of the world. European, Southeast Asian, and American authors in architectural and product design fields provide perspectives on making-centric design research, across manual, digital, post-digital, and post-consumer spectra of fabrication. But as an assemblage, these works are more than a catalogue. They prompt retrospective thought on the values held, and the value given, by these authors' conjectural experiments in material form. Now available online and at JapSam Books https://www.japsambooks.nl/search?q=cubic Cubic Journal: https://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/en/news-and-events/news#cubic-journal (Virtual) Dementia Lab Conference 2021 at Emily Carr Register now for Dementia Lab 2021 - Virtual, January 18 - 28, 2021 (PST) Dementia Lab 2021 is the 5th instalment of the international Dementia Lab Conference. This year's event is a virtual conference, hosted January 18th to 28th, 2021 by the Health Design Lab at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Canada. Designers, academics, caregivers, healthcare workers and people with dementia are invited to join us virtually to engage in conversations and workshops about design and dementia. The event will highlight issues and innovations surrounding ability and disability, reflecting on how design and research efforts can lead the way in uncovering, supporting and enhancing the abilities of people with dementia and the community within which they live by involving them in the conversation. Highlights: 13 talks by designers working in the field of dementia around the globe 17 interactive workshops Keynote by Christina Harrington -- Moving Beyond Accessible: Considering Design's Reach for Marginalized Aging Populations Opening performance by The Imagination Network http://www.dementialabconference.com CoDesign, Volume 16, Issue 4 (2020) Special Issue: Experiential Knowledge and Collaboration Announcing that Special Issue: Experiential Knowledge and Collaboration has been published. CoDesign, Volume 16, Issue 4 (2020) Special issue: Experiential Knowledge and Collaboration. Guest editors: Nithikul Nimkulrat, Camilla Groth, Julia Valle-Noronha and Oscar Tomico Editorial Knowing together - experiential knowledge and collaboration Nithikul Nimkulrat , Camilla Groth , Oscar Tomico & Julia Valle-Noronha https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1823995 Articles Designing ultra-personalized product service systems Troy Nachtigall , Svetlana Mironcika , Oscar Tomico & Loe Feijs https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1842454 Material-aesthetic collaborations: making-with the ecosystem Miranda Smitheram & Frances Joseph https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1841796 A transdisciplinary collaborative journey leading to sensorial clothing Kristi Kuusk , Ana Tajadura-Jimenez & Aleksander Vaeljamaee https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1833934 Conditions for experiential knowledge exchange in collaborative research across the sciences and creative practice Camilla Groth , Margherita Pevere , Kirsi Niinimaeki & Pirjo Kaeaeriaeinen https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1821713 ... Education and Illustration: Models Methods Paradigms, 11th Illustration Research Symposium Thursday 11 February - Friday 12 February 2021 To celebrate the publishing of the landmark book Illustration Research Methods (Gannon and Fauchon, 2021) this year's symposium calls education into focus. As the traditional position of the illustrator ‘for hire' diminishes and Illustration practices become ever more chimera-like, the current high demand for illustration courses raises important questions around how we educate a future generation of illustrators and make known their value to employers, collaborators and commissioners, outside of the ‘bubble' of academic study. The case for criticality in the subject is urgent. As educators our role is to be at the forefront of championing the development and understanding of our disciplines. What are the tools that educators and students of illustration need to understand the subject with both criticality and professionalism? What are the key questions those teaching the subject need to ask to facilitate illustrators to better understand their cultural agency and have the means to work ethically and effectively? How can we best consecrate links between innovative or exploratory educational practices and professional applications? The symposia will incorporate presentations from academics, professional practitioners and recent graduates. The conference will also include a virtual poster forum and an exhibition showcase. educationandillustration.info ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 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' ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTRIBUTIONS Design Research News communicates news about design research globally. 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