Dear All,
At CEPHAD, Centre for Philosophy and Design, we are beginning to count down to the CEPHAD 2010 Conference. It will take place at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen in the last week of January (26th - 29th).
The conference aims at stimulating cross-fertilization between the various research disciplines of philosophy and design. We hope that the conference will generate many lasting contacts and relations of cooperation across discipline borders. To achieve that aim, the conference has been designed as an opportunity for presentation and discussion of tentative ideas, and work in progress with a potential for development - rather than as a showcase for finished and highly polished research that might as well have been published in an archival journal.
By now submission of contributions and booking for attendance has been closed, but there will be ample opportunity to follow and contribute to the conference in Cyberspace.
First of all, you may wish to check http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Projekter/CEPHAD/events/Cephad2010, where detailed and currently updated information is available. For example, abstracts and short papers for presentation are being posted to the web site for preview, and plenary sessions with distinguished invited speakers and panel discussions will be video recorded and web cast as soon as practically possible.
Furthermore, if you would like to engage in a debate on some of the contributions, you can read them on the web site (or watch the videos once they become available) and then comment on them via the CEPHAD discussion list. You may also have ideas of your own, pertaining to the conference theme; ideas that you would like to present briefly in a mail and invite others to comment on. If you have not already signed up for the CEPHAD list, you can do so via http://www.dkds.dk/Forskning/Projekter/CEPHAD/list.
During the conference itself, we have planned a number of "Ad-hoc sessions", where delegates will be encouraged, inter alia, to check the CEPHAD list for whatever input YOU might have to offer, and to respond to it. I hope fruitful debates will ensue that will last much longer than the conference itself. Feel free to read and think now; but to create the right atmosphere of concentrated energy, please hold your fire until the conference begins. - And please make it "friendly fire" in the CEPHAD sense of trying to inspire, encourage and constructively criticize your fellow "Cephadians" in precisely the way you would like them to inspire, encourage and constructively criticize you.
Best wishes,
Per Galle,
Director of CEPHAD.
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