Membership renewal notice
Dear Design History JISC mailing list subscriber
If you are a member of the Design History Society, you should haver recieved
your membership renewal notices from Oxford University Press. Please do fill
them in and return them to OUP as soon as possible, so that you can receive
the next issues of the newsletter, journal and other correspondence from the
Society.
If you are not a member, please do consider joining. Attached to this email
is an application form which although for 2006, can be used for 2007.
(Membership runs fron January to December). Alternatively please visit our
website, www.designhistorysociety.org for further information. The benefits
of membership include the following:
• International forum for design history research and scholarship
• Quarterly international, peer-reviewed Journal of Design History,
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History articles and reviews
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Many thanks
Juliette Kristensen
Communications, Design History Society
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From: kristina niedderer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 9 November 2006 15:51:18 GMT
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Subject: Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007 - 2nd call
The Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007:
NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE CREATIVE DISCIPLINES
Date: Friday 29 June 2007
Host Institution: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
Collaborating Institution: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Further Support: Journal of Visual Arts Practice, NAFAE, Middlesex
University/DART: AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral training.
Conference team:
Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Hertfordshire
Rob Godman, University of Hertfordshire
Chris Smith, London Metropolitan University
Linden Reilly, London Metropolitan University
Contact: Dr Kristina Niedderer [log in to unmask]
Conference home page: http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
The first International Conference on Experiential Knowledge will be held on
29th of June 2007 at the University of Hertfordshire and address the theme
of “New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines”.
THE CONFERENCE
EKC 2007 will explore the theme of New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines
to examine what is understood and accepted as new knowledge in research and
in creative practice, and what their role and relationship might be.
EKC 2007 will be the first in a series of biennial conferences by the
University of Hertfordshire concerned with the issues and understanding of
knowledge in research and practice in the creative disciplines. The
experiential knowledge conferences will serve to address specific themes, to
bring together researchers and practitioners from different disciplines to
engender challenging multi-vocal debates around these themes, and to
facilitate exchange and cross-fertilisation between the creative disciplines
and other practice-led disciplines such as education, health, and knowledge
management.
EKC 2007 will take the format of a one-day single-track event - interspersed
with some breakout sessions and rounded off by a reception in the Art &
Design Gallery of the University and a delicious conference dinner - in
order to facilitate constructive and productive discussions. The aspiration
is to provide a high-profile conference that can push the debate forward
breaking new ground. The organizers aim to achieve this by combining a
number of keynote papers by eminent researchers in the field with a call for
position papers, which should propose challenging new views on the subject.
Papers selected for the conference proceedings will be published in a
Special Issue of the Journal for Visual Arts Practice in Autumn 2007, which
is available in both paper and electronic format.
THEME & INVITATION FOR PAPERS
The theme of the Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007 is New Knowledge in
the Creative Disciplines. However, the theme can be interpreted differently
with regard to research and to practice. Firstly, the concern for 'new
knowledge' arises because research is defined in terms of the original
contribution to knowledge or understanding. Secondly, through the creation
of new artefacts, products, services etc, creative practice can be
understood to create new realities and experiences, and thus new knowledge.
Through the contribution to knowledge, research aims to advance its field.
However, practice also is interested in an advance of its respective field
and claims to achieve this advance through its own processes and outcomes.
In the creative disciplines, the advance of the field is for example
associated with the creation of new artefacts, such as paintings, design
products, performances, compositions, films etc. This has raised questions
about the format of the contribution of knowledge in research and practice,
about its format, and about how new knowledge is created.
In order to address these issues, we wish to bring together people from
different fields and disciplines to discuss these problems as well as
different approaches to their solution. We invite contributions from the
creative disciplines (art & design, music, film & media etc), philosophy,
education and knowledge management that are concerned with the nature, role,
and management of knowledge within research; and with the role and use of
creative practice (both as process and outcome) as a medium by which to
include experiential knowledge within research.
Questions of interest are, for example:
- What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding) in the creative
disciplines?
- What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding) in research in the
creative disciplines?
- Are the two the same?
- What is the difference between knowledge and understanding?
- In which forms does knowledge (or understanding) appear?
- Where is knowledge situated or contained? (e.g. in the artwork or in the
explanation?)
- How is new knowledge (or understanding) communicated in research and in
practice?
- For whom is new knowledge or understanding relevant?
- (How) can knowledge management serve to manage, or negotiate between,
different kinds of knowledge?
- How can education deal with the communication of knowledge if part of the
knowledge is experiential?
- How does education promote the production and/or acquisition of new
knowledge or understanding?
SUBMISSIONS
For EKC 2007, we invite position papers, which offer challenging new views
on the subject. Position papers will be selected subject to a double blind
review process by an international review team. In the first instance we ask
for the submission of abstracts. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked
to submit full papers. Of those papers invited for the conference, a further
selection will be made for publication in the Journal of Visual Arts
Practice, Autumn 2007.
We invite the submission of abstracts of 700-800 words for position papers
by 6th January 2007.
Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit full
papers (3000-5000w) in April 2007.
For further information, please visit the Conference Website:
http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
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Subject: Digital imaging & design history - have your say!
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The Arts and Humanities Data Service (Visual Arts) is running a one-year
research project which aims to map advanced digital imaging technologies
to the needs of researchers in the visual arts. The project is called
The Hunt for Submarines in Classical Art. It is funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and based at the Farnham campus of
the University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom,
Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester.
You can have your say about art historians’ needs by filling in the
online questionnaire at http://www.vads.ahds.ac.uk/submarines-ah.html.
Whilst the benefits of digital imaging in the fields of conservation and
scientific analysis have been apparent for some time, the advantages
that digital imaging can bring to other forms of art-historical research
are less well-known. For many researchers, it is very difficult to find
out about the latest technologies, and how to secure access to them.
Equally, scientists may well develop technologies which could benefit
research, but be completely unaware of how researchers could exploit
them. The project aims to bridge this gap by producing a report and a
database which will make a series of connections between these two spheres.
If you are a researcher in art history or a related field (e.g. design
history, history of architecture, etc.), we would like to hear from you,
whether or not you use digital imaging technologies in your research,
and whether or not you think it might help you in your research in the
future - it will be just as important for us to know that there are no
art historical needs as it will be to know that there are many.
All the data we receive will be anonymous, unless you decide to tell us
your name and e-mail address so that we can send you news of the
project’s findings, or let you know if we come across any technologies
which we think might help you. We will not use the addresses we gather
for any other purpose, although we may use comments submitted in our
report and other material, where they will remain anonymous. We may also
share anonymous comments with the Methods Network,
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk, who are working on similar issues.
For more information about the project as a whole, please go to
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/visualarts/projects/submarines/.
Thank you for your time – we look forward to reading your thoughts!
Rupert Shepherd
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Dr Rupert Shepherd
Researcher, The Hunt for Submarines in Classical Art
AHDS Visual Arts
University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham
Falkner Road, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7DS, U.K.
T +44 (0)1252 892721 F +44 (0)1252 892725
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