EKSIG 2009: Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology
International Conference 2009 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential
Knowledge
The EKSIG International Conference 2009 will address the theme of “Experiential
Knowledge, Method and Methodology”. It will be convened by the DRS Special Interest
Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by London Metropolitan University.
Date: Friday 19 June 2009
Organisers: Linden Reilly, Chris Smith, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Venue: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
For EKSIG 2009, we invite submissions for the theme “Experiential Knowledge, Method
and Methodology”. With this theme we aim to provide a forum for debate about
methodology and methods for the inclusion and communication of knowledge in research
and practice in the creative disciplines.
The need to be more explicit about research methods, frameworks, and methodologies
has arisen from the increasing use of creative and professional practices as part of the
practice of research in recent years. While research guidelines and regulations have been
either generic enough, or were adjusted, to accommodate the use of some creative and
professional practices under certain conditions, the debate about the nature, aims,
validity, evaluation, and necessity of such research has continued.
While all research has a method, and disciplines are characteristically driven by debates
about the best methods for achieving their aims, that which constitutes a research
method in design and related disciplines is still a matter of debate. The debates about
research methods in design in many ways echo questions addressed in the design
methods movement of the 1960s and 1970s, such as: 'What are design methods?' Now
framed in terms of design research, questions address the conditions under which design
methods might be used as research methods as well as the nature of discipline specific
methodologies.
The developing understanding in this debate is that the inclusion of practice in the
research process or as a research outcome helps to integrate and/or communicate those
kinds or parts of knowledge that cannot easily be made explicit, such as the tacit part of
experiential and procedural knowledge, commonly known as tacit knowledge. With this
conference, we wish to explore the different ways in which tacit knowledge can be
integrated and communicated within the framework of research.
Questions of interest are, for example:
- What are design methods and what are design research methods?
- How is knowledge/knowing created within the process of research?
- What frameworks are there to guide discipline specific methodologies?
- How can we integrate and utilize tacit knowledge in the process of research?
- Why is the use of tacit knowledge important in research?
- What contribution can the use of practice make to the inclusion of tacit knowledge
in research?
- What contribution can the use of design practice make to the development of design
research?
- What methods are there for the communication of tacit knowledge within research?
- Can we talk about the communication of tacit knowledge, or should we talk about a
transfer?
- What means and methods do we have to transfer tacit knowledge?
We wish to bring together people from different fields and disciplines with different
approaches to address these issues. We invite contributions from the design disciplines
(design, engineering, craft, media etc), philosophy, education, health and knowledge
management that are concerned with methods and methodology in research and in
creative and professional practice; 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 means by which to develop and manage experiential/tacit knowledge
within research.
SUBMISSIONS
For EKSIG 2009, 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.
We invite the submission of abstracts of 700-800 words (excluding references) for
position papers by 1st December 2008. Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be
invited to submit full papers (4000-5000w) in early 2009.
TIMETABLE
8 September 2008 Submission of abstracts open
15 November 2008 Submission of abstracts ends
15 December 2008 Notification of accepted abstracts
1 March 2009 Submission of full papers
1 April 2009 Notification of acceptance of papers
1 May 2009 Submission of revised papers
19 June 2009 Conference
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