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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 15 Number 8 Aug 2010 ISSN 1473-3862
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CALLS
21-23 October 2010: space RE:solutions
Intervention and Research in Visual Culture.International
Conference hosted by the Visual Culture Programme Vienna
University of Technology
What has emerged over the last decade as one of the most
significant aspects of work in Visual Culture is a persistent
desire for both a critical sensitivity toward its theoretical
underpinnings and an experimental elasticity in its
methodological approaches.
This drive is giving rise to a plethora of new investigative
practices and multi-directional engagements, particularly
vis--vis matters of geopolitical urgency and their cultural and
spatial implications.
Marking ten years of Visual Culture studies at Vienna University
of Technology, this conference aims to bring together a diverse
group of researchers and practitioners interested in the dynamics
between emergent spatial phenomena and new modes of theoretical
inquiry.
Examining the blurring roles of intervention and research, the
conference seeks to debate how critical and creative work in
Visual Culture negotiates unexpected transitions and oscillations
between individual and collective, real and virtual, center and
periphery, and activism and academy.
We invite submission of papers that address the current
liminalities of theory and practice in Visual Culture.
Participation from graduate students and early career academics
is especially welcome. Topics may range from investigating the
intimate, indiscreet or collaborative architectures of
globalisation to discussing the genealogy of ideas, implemented
utopias or unperformed failures.
Current shifts in global politics and economy - financial crises,
protest movements, natural disasters, worldwide migrations of
people and concepts, new shadow economies - contain a myriad of
micro and macro processes whose contingent interactions may offer
new perspectives for an emerging culture of research as
intervention. How can we conceptualise the transformations in the
way we share space and the political regimes operative in these
spaces?
What kinds of strategies does this ambition require?
Where will the novel confluences of spatial realities and
practice based research lead Visual Culture as a field of
critical investigation?
Confirmed keynote speakers includeJorella Andrews(Goldsmiths,
University of London),Suzana Milevska(Cyril and Methodius
University of Skopje) andErica Robles(Steinhardt, NYU).
The conference will partly take place within the exhibition
setting of"2 or 3 Things we've learned Intersections of art,
pedagogy and protest"(IG Bildende Kunst, 14th Sep to 29th Oct
2010), which aims to produce a discursive space to address
processes, displacements and intervention through art in
education.
In order to be considered for the conference, please send a paper
proposal of 200-300 words (and an optional image) to the
conference organisers [log in to unmask] August
1st 2010.
Please also include a brief biographical sketch of the author(s)
of 100-150 words.
All abstracts will be reviewed by members of the conference
board. Participants will be notified of the acceptance of papers
by 1 September 2010.
Conference registration is free of charge. Participants are
encouraged to draw on their own resources for travel and
accommodation, although there might be some funding available to
support paper givers from CEE countries or from outside the EU.
Papers from the conference may form the basis for an edited
volume.
Please address all correspondence (including paper submissions,
registration and additional inquiries) to the conference email
address:
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DESIGN & CULTURE
Journal of the Design Studies Forum
Editor
Elizabeth Guffey, State University of New York at Purchase, USA
Associate Editors
Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA
Matt Soar, Concordia University, Canada
Sarah Teasley, Royal College of Art, UK
Design & Culture looks for rigorous and innovative critical
frameworks to explore design as a cultural phenomenon today.
Peer-reviewed and international, the journal analyzes
contemporary design, as well as its discourse and
representations. Covering a field that is increasingly
interdisciplinary, Design & Culture probes designs relation to
other academic disciplines, including marketing, management,
cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography,
visual culture and political economy. The journal is the official
publication of the Design Studies Forum (DSF). It enjoys an
attractive design and full-colour throughout.
To join DSF or to submit an article, please visit
http://www.bergjournals.com/designandculture
24-26 November 2010: call for paper: NODEM 2010 - From Place to
Presence. Copenhagen.
NODEM 2010 From Place to Presence. Digital media breaking
boundaries between inside, outside and virtual spaces in cultural
heritage institutions
One of the most striking features of digital media in museums
today is their potential for linking and integrating resources,
spaces and users in multiple and proactive ways. The topics of
this year's NODEM conference Inside, Outside and Virtual
explore how content can be shared and gain exposure across online
and onsite services and exhibitions. Special focus is on how
users can contribute to knowledge production on different
exhibition platforms.
The theme From Place to Presence devotes special attention
towards how digital media can be supporting tools for
experiences, reflection and knowledge inside AND outside the
museum as well as to discussing the concept of museums as
knowledge arenas.
Conference participants will exchange presentations and great
experiences from projects, case stories, workshops, reflections
and results from research while meeting with museum
professionals, designers and researchers working with digital
heritage communication. Conference participants will also be
invited to visit exhibitions and participate in other activities
at some of the most innovative Danish museums.
Among confirmed keynote speakers are Dr. Fiona Cameron, Centre
for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Pranav
Mistry, Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab, Nina Simon,
researcher, consultant, and moderator of Museum 2.0 blog and
author of the book The Participatory Museum 2010, and as a Nordic
keynote speaker, Kirsten Drotner, leader of the digital learning
research centre DREAM in Odense, Denmark.
NODEM 2010 also aims to offer a framework for active networking
through social events and venues for discussing more day-to-day
problems with digital media.
Conference themes
Topics of interest include but are not limited to three themes
that touch upon links between resources, spaces and users:
Inside. Exhibition spaces are filled with a diversity of digital
and interactive media. Access to museum archives and bases, which
formerly demanded a physical presence, is now expected to be
everywhere. This digital accessibility gradually forces us to
rethink the borders of the concepts of exhibition, communication,
visitor, authenticity and authority.
Outside. Cultural landscapes, heritage sites and buildings are
increasingly being mediated through Geoware and location-based
services. Even formerly inaccessible locations buried under water
or in the ground are now mapped and visualized. Mobile phones,
PDAs etc. make it possible to receive relevant information and
participate in appropriate discussion groups almost everywhere.
Moreover, (unlimited) access to the Internet gives rise to the
connection of museum information with tourist information and
urban communication (city map, hotels, traffic). This digital
accessibility forces us to rethink the borders of the voice of
the museum and other voices as well as the physicality and
materiality of the museum.
Virtual. Information and knowledge are being spread and shared
more and more intensively on the Internet and in other networks.
Museums, archives and libraries are syndicated in joint
interfaces and portals, and used in many different ways with or
without our control. From the perspective of the user, inside
distinctions between e.g. different practices and discourses in
domains of museums, archives and libraries just do not matter.
From the perspective of the institutions, the virtual world is an
opportunity to meet users and non-users where they are (Facebook,
Twitter, Flickr etc.). This digital accessibility forces us to
rethink
http://www.nodem.dk
29 November - 3 December 2010: The 11th Participatory Design
Conference - PDC 2010. Sydney, Australia.
August 13 is the final submission date for exploratory papers,
industry cases, the industry pitchfest, panels, posters, doctoral
consortium and applications to be a student workshops and
tutorials.
Submission details are available from the conference website
www.pdc2010.org. Submissions should follow the PDC Submission
template but only exploratory papers need to be anonymous
Exploratory papers: (short paper - maximum 4 pages) Exploratory
papers should present ideas that could benefit from discussion
with members of the Participatory Design community. These papers
may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective
practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches.
Each submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by at least 3
reviewers. Please make sure submissions are anonymous. If you
have any questions, please contact [log in to unmask]
Industry Day Presentations: (1-2 page proposals) There are two
types of submissions for this new, special one day Industry Day
Track:
Industry Cases - that report on the use of participatory design
(PD) methods, tools, and/or practices within commercial,
non-profit and governmental organisations, and, PDC Pitch Fest
Presentations - where representatives from not-for-profit and
academic sectors "pitch" design ideas in a short, lively format.
This is an opportunity to present participatory design research,
concepts and ideas to a panel of 'industry' representatives.
Submissions for Industry Day do not require academic reviewing
and will be reviewed instead by an industry panel. If you have
any questions, please contact [log in to unmask]
Artefacts, posters, products, interactive demonstrations: (2 page
proposal) Works may include projects, techniques, and products
developed with a commitment to the principles and philosophy of
Participatory Design and they may incorporate any forms or genres
of information/communication technologies or digital media (e.g.,
sound, still/moving images, touch, space, text, etc.). Successful
proposals will be presented during a session where participants
can interact with presenters and artefacts. The proposal should
include title, goals, technique, relevance to Participatory
Design and a sketch or design, as appropriate. Please describe
your plan for audience participation. If you have any questions,
please contact [log in to unmask]
Doctoral consortium: (2 page proposal) Full day session. The
doctoral consortium is intended for PhD students working within
the field of Participatory Design. It will provide students with
an opportunity to present issues of concern to them in their
doctoral studies and receive extensive feedback from the session
co-chairs and student participants. Enrolment is limited and
selection will been based on application submissions. The
proposal should give an overview of the PhD project, including
research question, method, how the PhD work is related to
Participatory Design, the status of current work, major findings
and plans for further research. Accepted applicants will be asked
to provide a revised and elaborated proposal a few months before
the conference. If you have any questions, please contact
[log in to unmask]
http://www.pdc2010.org
Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing Company
The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700 - 1950
Series Editor: Michael Yonan University of Missouri
The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 17001950,
provides a forum for the broad study of object acquisition and
collecting practices in their global dimensions from the
eighteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. The series seeks
to illuminate the intersections between material culture studies,
art history, and the history of collecting. HMCC takes as its
starting point the idea that objects both contributed to the
formation of knowledge in the past and likewise contribute to our
understanding of the past today. The human relationship to
objects has proven a rich field of scholarly inquiry, with much
recent scholarship either anthropological or sociological rather
than art historical in perspective. Underpinning this series is
the idea that the physical nature of objects contributes
substantially to their social meanings, and therefore that the
visual, tactile, and sensual dimensions of objects are critical
to their interpretation. HMCC therefore seeks to bridge
anthropology and art history, sociology and aesthetics. It
encompasses the following areas of concern:
1. Material culture in its broadest dimension, including the high
arts of painting and sculpture, the decorative arts (furniture,
ceramics, metalwork, etc.), and everyday objects of all kinds.
2. Collecting practices, be they institutionalized activities
associated with museums, governmental authorities, and religious
entities, or collecting done by individuals and social groups.
3. The role of objects in defining self, community, and
difference in an increasingly international and globalized world,
with cross-cultural exchange and travel the central modes of
object transfer.
4. Objects as constitutive of historical narratives, be they
devised by historical figures seeking to understand their past or
in the form of modern scholarly narratives.
The series publishes interdisciplinary and comparative research
on objects that addresses one or more of these perspectives and
includes monographs, thematic studies, and edited volumes of
essays.
Proposals should take the form of either:
1. a preliminary letter of inquiry, briefly describing the
project; or 2. a formal prospectus including: abstract, brief
statement of your critical methodology, table of contents, sample
chapter, estimated word count, estimate of the number and type of
illustrations to be included, and a c.v.
Please send a copy of either type of proposal to the series
editor and to the publisher:
Professor Michael Yonan, [log in to unmask] Meredith Norwich,
Commissioning Editor, [log in to unmask]
17 October 2010: Second Call for Papers for the International
Workshop on Observing the Mobile User Experience (OMUE 2010) In
Conjunction with NordiCHI 2010 - Reykjavik, Iceland
Workshop Theme and Goals
Nowadays the number of sold smart phones as well as the number of
features of those devices is steadily increasing. Mobile
applications are one of the major driving factors, as they can
easily be distributed through dedicated mobile application
distribution platforms, e.g. Apple's App Store, Google's Android
Market. Additionally many smart phones have a lot of sensors
integrated, which makes them more and more aware of the situation
a user is in.
At the same time the usage of mobile devices is rapidly becoming
an integrated part of everyday life. This means that in order to
understand the user experience and the usability of a product it
is in general not enough to perform studies in the laboratory.
Instead the mobile context needs to be taken into account
explicitly, and one needs to be able to study users and usage "in
the wild". The challenge of understanding a mobile user
experience is a rapidly evolving field, and it is the purpose of
this workshop to bring together people from industry and academia
in order to exchange methods and experiences related to
understanding the mobile user and the mobile usage.
In this workshop we want to discuss the most important factors,
parameters, and research questions about how to study and involve
users in a truly mobile setting. The goal of the workshop is to
provide an overview of available methods and techniques, but also
to produce a set of guidelines for studying and interacting with
users in a mobile setting. The workshop will focus on the process
and methodologies and will not go into deeper technical details
(e.g. algorithms for activity recognition).
Topics
Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
- Observing and interacting with a user on the move
- Unsupervised data gathering
- The mobile device as a platform for user studies
- Specific situations and key parameters
- Mixed methods in a mobile setting
- Ethical considerations
- Safety and security of study participants
Submission details
Anyone interested in participating is invited to submit a
position paper or an industrial case study to the workshop
organizers. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present
their work at the workshop by giving a 10-15 minutes
presentation.
Submissions of papers covering the topics of the workshop should
be submitted by 27th of August 2010. Position papers (2 to 4
pages) and industrial case studies (1 to 2 pages) should be
submitted in NordiCHI ACM format.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out 10th of September
2010. At least one author from each accepted submission is
expected to attend the workshop. Accepted submission will be
compiled in the workshop proceedings which will also contain the
guidelines resulting from the workshop activity. The proceedings
will be made available at the workshop website.
Submissions or other queries should be mailed to Benjamin
Poppinga <[log in to unmask]>
Schedule
August 27, 2010 - Submission Deadline
September 10, 2010 - Notification of Acceptance
October 1, 2010 - Camera Ready Deadline
October 17, 2010 - Workshop Date
http://omue10.offis.de/
22nd-26th Nov 2010: OzCHI 2010 CFP - SHORT PAPERS / CASE STUDIES
/ DEMOS - DUE AUGUST 27th
OzCHI 2010 Design - Interaction - Participation
OZCHI 2010 IS NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSION OF...
Short Papers / Demonstrations / Case Studies / Doctoral
Consortium applications
DUE: Friday 27th August 2010.
OzCHI 2010 is held at Queensland University of Technology
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
OzCHI
Theme: Design-Interaction-Participation
OZCHI is Australia's leading forum for research on the design and
study of Human-Computer Interaction and CHISIG's (www.chisig.org)
annual non-profit conference. OZCHI attracts an international
community of practitioners, researchers, academics and students.
The 2010 conference theme is Design Interaction Participation. It
reflects the challenges of designing human interaction with and
through digital technologies in ways that support diverse
participation.
SHORT PAPERS
Short papers, 4 pages in length, provide the opportunity to
describe new work or work that is still in progress that could
benefit from discussion with members of the HCI community. They
may include experiences of reflective practitioners, preliminary
work, work in progress and first drafts of novel concepts and
approaches. Short papers will be subject to a double blind review
process by at least three peer reviewers and evaluated on the
basis of their significance, originality, and clarity of writing.
This review will be based on the full text of the submitted
paper. Short and long papers will be included in the USB
proceedings and archived in the ACM digital library.
MORE ABOUT OzCHI RESEARCH
Human computer interaction is changing rapidly with notable
growth and advancing research in the areas of:
Mobile devices;
Social and collaboration technologies;
Open-source software, mashups and end-user programming;
Embodied interaction and tangible computing;
Ubiquitous computing and sensor networks;
Visualization, mixed reality and game technologies;
Machine intelligence and smart services;
Data mining and e-research;
Consideration of affective, emotional and motivational aspects;
Design and social research methods;
Use of ICT in expanding cultural contexts;
Use of ICT in all aspects of home, work, play and life.
Aspects of participation, collaboration, access, trust, privacy
and context of use remain pivotal in framing interaction that is
mediated by technologies.
We invite original contributions on all topics related to
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) including design, practical,
technical, methodological, empirical, theoretical and
participatory aspects.
http://www.ozchi.org
Call for papers: The use of researcher practice in the
design-based PhD
Dr Mark Evans Design Practice Research Group Loughborough Design
School Loughborough University, UK
Further to discussions on the PhD-Design JISC Forum and a review
of published material, there is a need for a resource that
presents documented examples of completed PhDs that include
visually creative researcher practice in the design-based PhD. An
opportunity exists for the design research community to generate
a resource (with lots of images of the researchers design
practice) that will be of benefit to new researchers,
supervisors, and demonstrate the value of design-based researcher
practice to the wider academy.
The focus of this call is for PhD case studies that demonstrate
researcher practice in the form-giving disciplines that have a
presence in design schools, professions and publications; such as
(but not limited to) fashion, silversmith and jewellery,
textiles, ceramics, furniture, interior, graphic,
industrial/product, and architecture . The highly visual nature
of researcher practice in these disciplines means that, in
addition to descriptions of the research methodology and data
collection methods, the publication will contain colour images of
the creative activities associated with the design process (e.g.
sketches, renderings) and/or outcomes (e.g. proposals,
artifacts).
As the extent to which PhD researchers have recently engaged in
design practice as a method of data collection is largely
unknown, it is hoped that members of the design research
community will be able to support the creation of a resource that
contains case study examples of best practice. The review process
is currently being managed by the Design Practice Research Group
at Loughborough Design School and discussions are taking place
with a major publisher. However, in the unlikely event of the
publishers not wishing to proceed with this venture, the
publication of the resource as either a book or web-based
resource will be underwritten by the Design Practice Research
Group of Loughborough Design School (subject to contributions
being of sufficient quality).
If you would like to submit a summary of a completed PhD, please
use the pro-forma below and email it as a pdf to
[log in to unmask] by 19 August 2010.
Title of thesis:
Academic supervisor(s):
Name PhD researcher:
University/college:
Year PhD awarded:
Summary of researchers design qualifications/professional
experience prior to PhD (one paragraph):
Abstract:
Diagram of research methodology for PhD (only if readily
available):
Please include four to six images that capture the essence of the
design process and/or design outcome(s) with brief descriptors
for each:
Image 1:
Image 2:
Image 3:
Image 4:
Image 5:
Image 6:
Outline submitted by:
Email address:
4-7 May 2011: THE ENDLESS END The 9th International Conference of
the European Academy of Design Porto, Portugal
Deadline for abstract submissions: 1st September 2010
The European Academy of Design, the University of Porto and ID+,
Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, invite you
to the 9th EAD International Design Conference: The Endless End.
The conference offers a forum for design academics, researchers,
practitioners, thinkers and industry representatives to meet,
exchange ideas and share new knowledge and insights across the
fields of design. The conference includes keynote lectures,
papers, posters and an exhibition of practice-based design
research. The language of the conference is English. All
documentation and related media will be in English.
There is a sense of vertigo permeating contemporary culture as a
whole, and design in particular. So much so, that we often find
ourselves wondering if design as we have known it still matters.
Design seems to have lost its universe of focus, branching
exponentially into a multitude of concerns and activities
formerly situated well beyond its scope. Likewise, design seems
to be the new interest of so many professionals situated outside
its area of expertise; not long ago it seemed like design was
being courted, and maybe even actively cultivating, a territorial
ambiguity that has kept its professionals worried, to say the
least. Design now speaks of street culture and cutting-edge
technology, museums and iPhone apps, just as it has spoken of
campaign posters, haute couture, heavy industries, exercises in
kitsch and typography.
This dissipation of a discernible territory of practice could
seem like a loss at first, until we gradually came to understand
that Design is, after all and despite the contextual noise, a
deeply human activity, and, as such, any circumscription of its
potential would, in itself, be an artifice, an operational and
transitory device; and that, rather than being devalued by this
apparent dilution of its area of expert operation, Design
suddenly has the opportunity to expand and mature as far as its
context, content and purpose are concerned.
CONFERENCE THEMES
locality: the role of design in specific social and cultural
environments (case studies), localisation of design and
production
liquidity: designs redefined and expanding territories
nomadism: design actively searching for new areas and tools of
expertise
involvement: design as a catalyst for change and progress
vertigo: envisioning whats ahead, calibrating past inheritances
education: how can design be taught in an era of multiplicity,
prosumers and open creativity?
Contact conference organizers at:
[log in to unmask]
8-10 October 2010: AIGA Design Educators Conference New Contexts
/ New Practices at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
JOIN US
Please join us at the upcoming AIGA Design Educators Conference,
"New Contexts / New Practices," to be held October 810, 2010 in
Raleigh, North Carolina at NC State University. "New Contexts/New
Practices" will generate and publish ideas about how design
education will address the defining trends of contemporary
practice and culture. This authoring conference will build
consensus and action plans for where we should be heading if
graphic design is to remain relevant in the 21st century and if
we are to achieve the competencies outlined inAIGA Defining the
Designer of 2015.
PEER-REVIEW SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES
Please note for our two peer-reviewed submission opportunities:
"Co-authoring" and "Forum presentations." For details, guidelines
and submission deadlines, visit our dedicated conference
website:http://www.ncsu.edu/graphicdesign/newcontexts/and see
sections: "How You can Become a Co-Author" and "How You can
Become a Forum Presenter," respectively. By request, the deadline
for Co-Author submissions has been extended to August 15th.
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
A pre-conference workshop on "Designing Flexible Curricula" will
be held on the afternoon of October 8, immediately before the
opening of the conference. The workshop will address the design
of curricular structures that respond to shifting conditions for
the field; structures that are agile and that consider
pedagogical approaches within rapidly changing social, economic,
and technological imperatives. Registration for the
pre-conference workshop is limited to conference attendees only
(100 seats available) and requires a separate, additional fee
($15).
REGISTRATION
Registration is now open. For details visit our dedicated
conference website:
http://www.ncsu.edu/graphicdesign/newcontexts/
25 March 2011: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Pervasive
Computing Design
A workshop held in conjunction with PerCom 2011
Call for Papers
In pervasive computing, computing and sensing elements are
seamlessly integrated with everyday objects. Ideally, the
products are so seamlessly integrated into the environment that
they disappear, both physically and cognitively; there are no
"interfaces" for the devices in the room but instead they
proactively adapt to the needs and intentions of the users.
But achieving this ideal of seamless integration requires more
than engineering a technology problem. The devices must also be
culturally acceptable, economically viable, and aesthetically
pleasing. Consequently, successful pervasive computing products
require a balance of computing, design, and business expertise
throughout their development phases. Without this collection of
expertise, the product will likely fall short in a critical
technical, functional, or market requirement. Engineers develop
the computer hardware and software of the product. Industrial
designers integrate this technology into usable, appealing
products, characteristics critical to functionality and
acceptance. Marketers identify opportunities for innovative
products, develop intelligence about target market needs and
perceptions that inform the design and implementation of products
and create a viable business model for the products to insure
that they will be adopted.
This workshop will bring together a body of practitioners,
researchers and educators who are making inroads into
interdisciplinary pervasive computing design. Papers representing
high quality original research are invited in the following
areas:
- Case studies of pervasive computing design teams and/or courses
that combine multiple disciplinary perspectives
- Examples of interdisciplinary team projects, within academia,
within industry, or in partnerships between academia and industry
- Types of cross-training needed for practitioners from different
disciplines to work together
- Pedagogical tools and activities that support pervasive
computing product development
- Design models and tools that contribute to successful pervasive
computing design
- Studio-based approaches to pervasive computing design and/or
education.
- Challenges related to interdisciplinary design
- Technical issues encountered in interdisciplinary
collaborations on pervasive computing design
Submitted papers should be at most 6 pages. Additional guidelines
for preparing the manuscript will be provided on the workshop web
site. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not under
consideration elsewhere for publication. Authors of the accepted
papers will be expected to present the paper at the workshop.
Important dates:
Paper submission deadline: October 30, 2010
Authors notified: December 21, 2010
Camera ready papers due: January 28, 2011
http://www.ece.vt.edu/perdesign/
Journal V!
On behalf of the Editorial Board of the journal V! RUS, edited by
the research group Nomads.usp, University of So Paulo, Brazil.
We would like to invite you to submit contributions to the number
FOUR which theme is DESENHANDO Coexistncia | DESIGNING
Coexistence, More information and deadlines you can find at:
http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus03/nextissue/layout.php?item=
1 and click on next issue.
We would also like to invite you to know the number THREE,
already online, on the subject SISTEMA | SYSTEM at:
http://www.nomads.usp.br/virus/virus03/
14-16 January 2011: PINC 2011 - Participatory Innovation
Conference - 14th - 16th January 2011
Conference announcement
&
Call for pre-conference participation
Welcome to PINC 2011
Participatory Innovation Conference in Sonderborg, Denmark
Participatory Innovation gathers theories and methods across
academic fields that describe how people outside an organisation
can contribute to its innovation. Join this conference to help
identify ways for industry and the public sector to expand
innovation through the participation of users, employees,
suppliers, customers etc. - both on a strategic level, in
concrete methods, and in the day-to-day interactions.
PINC 2011 is held under the auspices of the SPIRE Research Centre
Industry and public agencies increasingly adopt user-driven and
open innovation, as they realise that innovation cannot come
solely from within an organisation. Innovation happens in the
'breaking of the waves' between people outside and people inside
- because they have different stakes and perspectives.
In academia, new breakthrough contributions to understanding
innovation - and supporting it - will also emerge in the
borderlands between disciplines that traditionally do not
collaborate: between languages and design, and between management
and anthropology for instance.
PINC 2011 is a forum where participants from different
disciplines and organisations can meet and challenge each other
to develop the field of participatory innovation.
The conference presents an exciting programme of five tracks
For further details please visit the PINC 2011 website
http://pinc.sdu.dk
ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for the SECOND ISSUE of CRAFT RESEARCH
Editors
Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton, UK
email: [log in to unmask]
Dr Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent University
email: [log in to unmask]
Submission
The final date for submission of full papers for the second issue
is Monday 1 November 2010.
For guidance notes, for further information or to submit a paper,
please contact the editors.
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 portray and build the crafts 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.
Call for Papers
Craft Research aims to actively promote and strengthen this
future-oriented role of the crafts. In order to do so, it
recognises inter and cross disciplinary practices, and encourages
diverse approaches to research arising from practice, theory and
philosophy. It welcomes contributions from new and established
researchers, scholars, and professionals around the world who
wish to make a contribution to advancing the crafts.
Contributions may include research into materials, technology,
processes, methods, concepts, aesthetics and philosophy, etc. in
any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including
craft education. Craft Research welcomes a number of different
types of contributions as set out below.
Contributions
Full Research Papers (4000-6000 words) They will describe
completed research projects, including research problem,
questions, methods, outcomes, and findings. They should include
original work of a research and/or developmental nature and/or
propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly
presented and argued.
Short Research Papers / Position Papers (2000-3000 words)
- Short Research Papers may describe smaller research projects
or research in progress including research problem, questions,
methods, (expected) outcomes and findings. They are an
opportunity to new researchers/practitioners to get into
publishing.
- Position papers may put forward and debate a position on a
particular (current) issue (e.g. new technology, material,
theoretical, social or educational issue). Both should include
original work of a research or developmental nature and/or
propose new methods or ideas that are clearly and thoroughly
presented and argued.
Both should include original work of a research and/or
developmental nature and/or propose new methods or ideas that are
clearly and thoroughly presented and argued. They are an
opportunity for new researchers/practitioners to have their
research/work published.
Craft & Industry Reports (1500-3000 words)
Reports of Investigative Practice from Craft & Industry should
present an advance in and for the field, including collaborations
and new developments of work, processes, methods, ideas etc. by
practitioners and industry in the crafts.
Review Section. We invite reviews of the following:
- The Portrait Section (1000-2000 words)
Will feature the work of an individual (crafts person, artist,
designer, maker, researcher) within the field whose creative work
stands out for its developmental / research qualities and
contribution to the crafts.
- The Exhibition Section (1000-2000 words)
Will feature scholarly reviews of exhibitions that are of
particular developmental / research significance for the field
for the technical, conceptual, aesthetic, social etc. quality of
the work or for the curation.
- The Publication Review (1000-2000 words)
Will feature reviews of publications in print and new media.
- The Conference Section (1000-2000 words)
Will feature reviews of any relevant conferences/symposia/etc. in
the field.
Calendar of Exhibitions & Conferences
We invite notifications of important and relevant forthcoming
craft exhibitions and craft conferences/research events.
Remarkable Image Section
We invite the submission of images of outstanding quality for
their novelty, beauty, complexity, simplicity, challenging
nature, humour, humanity, etc. that are representative of
contemporary crafts developments and research.
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=172/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
30 November - 1 December 2010: DesignEd Asia Conference 2010
DesignEd Asia Conference 2010 is part of the very successful
Business of Design Week (BODW Hong Kong). Design Ed Asia is jointly
co-organized by School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University; Hong Kong Design Institute & Hong Kong Design Centre.
The conference is in its 6th year, exclusively dedicated to
Design Education is a forum where practitioners, academics and
governmental bodes meet to exchange ideas and knowledge on Design
Education.
Design Education has the chance to preserve world cultures, and
the skills of those cultures, through digital, fashion, graphic,
interior and product design.
http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2010/index.php
27-30 September 2010: PhD Course (5 ETCS): Framing Screens:
Knowledge, Interaction and Practice. IT University of Copenhagen,
Denmark
Lecturers: Lucy Suchman (Lancaster University), Helen Verran,
(University of Melbourne), Christopher Gad (IT University of
Copenhagen)
Hosted by Technologies in Practice Faculty Group (f.k.a. Design
of Organizational IT), IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
This PhD course aims to unfold empirically and analytically how
computer screens and other displays help 'project' or otherwise
perform knowledge, interaction and practice. Screens are
increasingly ubiquitous, for example as part of personal
computers, televisions, cameras, surveillance equipment,
ticketing equipment, mobile phones and other handheld devices.
Simultaneously screens play an increasingly important role in a
wide range of human practices relating to work, play, travel,
care, learning, planning, monitoring, designing, coordinating,
modeling, policing and much else. At the same time screens are
curious entities. They may stretch human interactions nearby to
globally-distributed locations. They seem to multiply the world
around us while simultaneously constructing very specific fields
of vision. Thus, screens perform cuts between displayed worlds
and human knowledge about the world. Screens also mediate human
action in particular ways by actively participating in new
visions that define and situate action. With their capacity to
organize human attention elsewhere screens may enact viewer
displacement, as viewers becomes screened off. Thus boundaries
may shift between screens, the knowledge they present, the
interactions they facilitate and the practices they engender. For
these reasons, screens are objects of interest for contemporary
social scientific research into technologically mediated
environments, including anthropology, cultural/media studies,
design studies, and science and technology studies (STS). Drawing
on a range of theoretical traditions the course aims to frame
screens by exploring their implications for knowledge,
interaction and practice. This includes but is not limited to
analytical topics such as:
- Shifting 'screen' relationships between practice (e.g.
dwelling, working, travelling, playing, planning, controlling)
and viewer positions (e.g. onlooker, spectator, user, voyeur,
investigator)
- Variations between heterogeneous on- and off-screen
interactions
- Screens as organizers/disruptors/mediators of human knowledge,
experience, perspectives, etc.
- Space, place and temporalities of screens in
local/global/glocal/trans-local situations and fields
- Comparative or exploratory studies of recent 'hi-tech' displays
(e.g. HD, LCD, mega-screens, 3-D, touch) vs. 'traditional' ones
(e.g. theatres, windows, veils, frames)
- Ethnographies of screens including qualitative implications of
screen types, modes, juxtapositions, placements and proximities
in practice
- Philosophical investigations of screens including debates about
visible/invisible and presence/absence
- Screen' as a conceptual metaphor in social studies of
technology, in other words what human practices can be understood
as 'screening technology'?
http://itu.dk/en/Forskning/Phd-uddannelsen/PhD-Courses/Screens%20
-%20organizers%20of%20knowledge%20and%20interaction.aspx
17 August 2010: Informing the design of the future urban
landscape
Workshop :: DIS2010 :: Aarhus, Denmark http://www.dis2010.org
This workshop will identify emerging design themes by bringing
together practitioners and researchers from across disciplines.
Participants in the workshop will collaborate in a practical
exercise designed to reveal issues that will increasingly impact
upon the design of the products and services that will populate
the urban landscape in the near future. The outcome of this
workshop will be the identification of challenges that designers
and technologists will have to address as they shape the
media-rich urban landscape. It is hoped that this workshop would
form the basis of a new collaborative network with the aim of
taking this technological design research agenda further.
It is envisaged that the urban spaces of the future will be
saturated with both visible and hidden media that gather and
transmit information. How we as physical beings connect with,
interpret and shape the increase of data residing in our
environment will be a significant challenge. The forms in which
this data will be presented, and how we decide to conceptualise
it, is as yet unknown. Will the technologically enriched
environment adapt to accommodate human/city contact points, and,
in response, how will we choose to interact with and navigate
through, this information landscape?
The workshop organisers have already received an excellent mix of
high quality applications from several countries, and we are
looking forward to a very interesting and productive workshop.
There are a small number of places left, so please get in touch
soon if you would like to apply for the workshop.
http://informingurbanfutures.wordpress.com/about/
DataArt on BBC Backstage
The BBC and the University of Westminster are pleased to inform
you of the online launch of a major public data visualisation
project DataArt on BBC Backstage.
We believe that data is a vitally new reporting medium that tells
us stories about our lives. Often this data is difficult to
understand in its raw form of lists of numbers or text, but as we
are exposed to it on a daily basis interpretation skills and
access to information resources are increasingly important for us
all. Converting this data into explorable visualisations helps us
to comprehend it in ways that draw upon our innate capabilities
to read information as images and patterns. As both a visual
medium and a tool for reasoning, these visualisations straddle
the disciplines of art, design, science and statistics.
Who is DataArt for?
DataArt aims to reach people who know little about visualisation
but want to find out more, those looking at visualisation from an
educational perspective and the existing developer community
already engaged in producing their own work.
What are we providing?
DataArt provides public access to data visualizations of the BBCs
online resources be they news information from around the world,
web articles, music data or video and learning resources.
For our launch we have released 4 visualisations for people to
use immediately: Flared Music, 3d Documentary Explorer,
SearchWeb, and News Globe. In addition we provide a learning
resources section of the website giving further background
information to the subject of visualisation including its
histories and uses. This area will grow as the project develops
and we hope will provide a rich source of educational material.
For more advanced developers we have also provided some initial
access to tools, tutorials and computer code you can download and
modify. Over the coming months, more visualisations will be
released leading to a second phase of the project in November
2010, which sees the release of further source code using a
variety of different programming languages and software
libraries. All our visualisations are based on BBC data and use
sources that are already open to the public which you can use
immediately for your own projects. We will also be creating new
data sources and hope to provide access to BBC data not currently
available to the public.
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data_art/index.php
Some recently set up discussion lists that may be of interest...
RESEARCHFORSTYLINGMAKEUPANDHAIR
Academic research in the area of fashion styling, make up & hair
This is a list used by the Solent Stylist Research Collective to
make announcements to the further and higher education research
community about research projects, publications and
events.Research is conducted in the area of fashion styling, make
up and hair design and #construction of identity through image.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/researchforstylingmakeupandhair
CARFREE-RESEARCH
Carfree Research Network
The Carfree Research Network is a place for all researchers
involved in the study of carfree cities and carfree areas to
connect to share information and ideas, across national and
disciplinary boundaries.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/carfree-research
DESIGN4HEALTH
Announcement list for design4health 2011
This list is used by the organisers of the Design 4 Health
European conference 2011 to communicate with contributors and
participants. This conference is open to researchers and
practitioners in design and health.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/design4health
BSACLIMAGECHANGESTUDYGROUP
BSA Climate Change Study Group
The BSA climate change study group aims to promote sociological
lines of enquiry and modes of thought with respect to a range of
topics relating to the challenges of mitigating and adapting to
climate change. These include themes of energy, mobility, water
and waste and related issues of equity, justice, infrastructural
change and governance. The study group is convened by Elizabeth
Shove, Department of Sociology, Lancaster University
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http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/bsaclimagechangestudygroup
20-22 October 2010: Section "Information Technologies in Design"
of XII St. Petersburg International Conference "Regional
Informatics - 2010 (RI-2010)" will be held at St. Petersburg
University of Technologies and Design, St. Petersburg, Russian
Federation.
Section is the cross-disciplinary forum which brings together
researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and
future of information technologies and design for various
applications in social life of human society.
Please see Scientific Highlights
http://itd-ri.sutd.ru/a_Scientifichighlights.htm
Special attention is paid to engineering design and design of
technically complicated systems, technologies and software.
If you have interest in the area of design, information
technologies, you have examples of your own design we shall
greatly appreciated your participation in the work of
"Information Technologies in Design" Section or Conference, your
theses, reports and presentations.
http://itd-ri.sutd.ru/a_index.htm
JAR
A new peer reviewed journal for artistic research is under
development:
http://www.jar-online.net
DESIS is a network of schools of design and other schools,
institutions, companies and non-profit organizations interested
in promoting and supporting design for social innovation and
sustainability. It is a light, no-profit organization, conceived
as a network of partners collaborating in a peer-to-peer spirit.
It is articulated in several DESIS-Local (that are sub-networks
within a specified local area). DESIS-International is therefore
the framework where the different DESIS-Local coordinate
themselves and where some global initiatives are taken.
http://www.desis-network.org
Iridescent: Icograda Journal of Design Research is a
peer-reviewed online multidisciplinary research journal. Current
open themes: Defining the value of design, Sustainability and
Design education.
http://iridescent.icograda.org
4-5 November 2010: Theoretical Approaches for HCI, to be held at
USAB 2010: HCI in Work & Learning, Life & Leisure, Carinthia,
Austria.
Theoretical Approaches for HCI
The special thematic session addresses research on the novel
ideas and emerging issues from theoretical research of/for HCI.
The main aim of the session is to exchange knowledge and insights
from the cross-disciplinary field of HCI research and other
related research areas.
Researching and creating interactions between people and
computers has long been the core idea of Human-Computer
Interaction. The researchers of the Human Computer Interaction
community apply diverse methods and theories from different
disciplines in order to design, evaluate and implement
interactive computing systems. As the interactive computing
systems becoming pervasive and ubiquitous and therefore more
humane and societal day by day, researchers are needing to
broaden their theoretical orientations to HCI research. For
example, in order to see a broader picture of the needs of human
kind, it is necessary to discuss controversial, political, social
and other perspectives that are relevant to the integration of
technologies into everyday life.
http://usab2010.uni-klu.ac.at/
POSTS at BIAD
The Birmingham Institute of Art and Design is a large faculty of
Birmingham City University, and offers a number of design
teaching posts in the current round. This is an opportunity to
join one of the UK's most highly rated design research faculties,
with excellent support and facilities for staff and student
research. Among the facilities are a School of Art established in
1885, two highly regarded galleries, the largest School of
Jewellery in Europe with a dominant position in the industry, and
the Birmingham School of Architecture.
In RAE2008 some 30% of research was judged as world-leading, with
a large majority deemed to be of international significance.
Research submitted covered all the main art and design subjects
including architecture and history. The faculty hosts about 50
doctoral students, and has an excellent track record of
completions. It is one of the few faculties in art and design
holding an AHRC block grant for MA preparation and PhD studies.
BIAD has a significant knowledge exchange engagement with
industry through long established collaborations, and a very
successful KTP scheme which is the largest of its kind. BIAD
engages in a number of university research centres - for example
in digital technologies, low carbon design, and wellbeing, and
there are many international collaborations for teaching and
research throughout the world, increasingly with Asia.
The posts offered are as follows:
Deputy Director of Postgraduate Studies
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL596/deputy-director-of-postgraduate-
studies/
Postgraduate Tutor in Fashion & Textiles
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL589/postgraduate-tutor-in-fashion-
and-textiles/
Lecturer in Fashion Retail Management (2 posts)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL580/lecturer-in-fashion-retail-
management-2-posts/
Lecturer in Fashion
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL582/lecturer-in-fashion/
Lecturer in Pattern Cutting and Garment Construction (2 posts)
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL588/lecturer-in-pattern-cutting-and-
garment-construction-2-posts/
Lecturer in Fashion Styling
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL594/lecturer-in-fashion-styling/
Subject Leader - Design Studies - Interior/Product
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL585/subject-leader-design-studies-
interior-product/
Lecturer BA (Hons) Jewellery & Silversmithing
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABL591/lecturer-ba-hons-jewellery-and-
silversmithing/
I will be happy to take any questions about these posts in
respect of our research ambitions, or to refer applicants to an
appropriate head of school to discuss teaching and subject
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Please pass this information on to anyone you think may be
interested.
Note that the CLOSING DATE for applications is 9 August.
More about BIAD can be gleaned from the following websites:
http://www.bcu.ac.uk/about-us/faculties/birmingham-institute-of-
art-and-design http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/
http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/pages/home.php
http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/site/pages/centres.php
Global Universal Design Educator's Online News Spring/Summer2010
The full newsletter - well worth reading! - is available here:
http://www.ihcdstore.org/universaldesign-net/pdf/
GUDEON_Spring_2010_FINAL_7-10-10.pdf
Register for a free trial to Journal of Design History
Journal of Design History, the official journal of the Design
History Society, plays an active role in the development of
design history (including the history of the crafts and applied
arts), as well as contributing to the broader field of studies of
visual and material culture.
Oxford Journals is pleased to invite you to try a free online
trial to the journal. For free access to with no obligation to
purchase in the future, please follow this link:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3838/15. You will have free
online access to the content of Journal of Design History from
1996 to present until 31 October, 2010.
Colour: Design & Creativity Issue 5 (AIC Special Issue) - new
content published
Issue 5 is a special issue published in association with the
International Colour Association (AIC). A number of other
articles are also in production and once these are available
online, an e-cast will be issued to all subscribers.
http://www.colour-journal.org
8 October 2010: International Perspectives in Art and Design
Pedagogy Conference
Leeds College of Art is pleased to open registration for the
upcoming International Perspectives in Art and Design Pedagogy
Conference (IPC) to be held in Leeds, UK.
With two keynote speakers and a further 18 scholars and
practitioners reporting on research undertaken in South East
Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East, Central
Europe and the UK this event will ask important questions as to
where we are now, and where we are going in art, design and media
pedagogy in its international context.
Advocating dialogue and collaboration, panels addressing
international agency, trans-national teaching and collaboration,
cultural cartography, immaterial pedagogies and recruitment will
offer a broad spectrum of opportunities for delegates to engage
with and participate in cutting edge research that gets to the
heart of matter of current perspectives on art and design
pedagogy.
IPC welcomes delegates to join Leeds College of Art in launching
Light Night 2010 in its civic launch at the conclusion of the
conference. Light Night, a city wide multi-artform festival
hosted in around 50 venues around the city welcomes visitors to
explore and engage with the city of Leeds though its visual and
media cultures.
For further details and a booking form, please visit our
conference website:
http://portal.leeds-art.ac.uk/ipc/
Digital Creativity
New Issue Now Available
A new issue of Digital Creativity (Volume 21, Issue 2) is now
available online.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/ndcr
Senior Lecturer/ Lecturer (2 positions)
Graphic Communication Design
Chulalongkorn University- BA Communication Design (International
Programme)
CommDe or the International Programme in Communication Design at
Chulalongkorn University is currently seeking two full-time
faculties.
Both will collaborate as CommDe's 2nd-year studio teaching team.
The Senior Lecturer will also act as CommDe's 2nd-year leader.
Their task is to provide our 2nd-year students with a firm basis
of graphic communication design. They therefore must have deep
understandings in this subject, both in terms of theories and
practice. S/he must be able to guide our students to explore and
experiment with concepts of graphic communication design and lead
collaborative projects with our part-time lecturers in other
subjects, such as typography or 'materials and process in
communication design'. Suitable candidates should hold graduate
or higher degrees in Visual Communication Design, Communication
Arts or other related fields. Those who are interested in working
with us as part-time instructors or workshop leaders are also
very welcomed to apply. At CommDe, we believe that communication
design is immensely significant in our contemporary lives. Our
curriculum aims to nurture creativity within our students and to
integrate their intellectual abilities with their practical
skills so that our graduates will be able to play vital roles
within international communities through their communication
design practices.
Further Information please contact Assistant Prof. Dr Juthamas
Tangsantikul (Programme)
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DOORS OF PERCEPTION NEWSLETTER
This free monthly newsletter starts conversations on issues to do
with design for resilience, and announces Doors of Perception
events.
The latest edition 'From doomers, to do-ers' is available from:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/mailinglist/archives.php
You can also get this fascinating newsletter from:
http://www.doorsofperception.com/mailinglist/
7-9 September 2010: Vital Signs 2: Registration now open
Vital Signs 2: Engaging Research Imaginations
University of Manchester
Vital Signs 2 is an international, interdisciplinary conference
organised by Realities, part of the ESRC National Centre for
Research Methods, based at the University of Manchester.
How can we engage our research imaginations and rise to the
challenge of generating knowledge that is vital and resonates
with complex and multi-dimensional lived realities? Vital Signs 2
will provide a major forum for lively and engaged discussion of
these issues.
Keynote speakers:
- David Inglis (Cultural Sociology, University of Aberdeen)
- Nigel Rapport (Anthropology/Philosophy, St Andrews University)
- Gillian Rose (Geography/Visual Culture, Open University)
- Jennifer Mason (Sociology, University of Manchester)
To view full programme and register, please visit our website
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/realities/events/vitalsigns/
The Design History Reader
Berg Publishers is kindly offering list members a 20% discount on
The Design History Reader - information and contents are on the
book's webpage http://www.bergpublishers.com/?tabid=7813 - simply
enter the code 20Promo1VJ via the Berg website, where lecturers
considering course adoption of the book can also request a free
inspection copy.
27 August 2010: Creativity and Innovation in Glass
University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
Full symposium programme available now: Registration ends 13
August!
Organisers: Prof Keith Cummings, Dr Kristina Niedderer, Stuart
Garfoot
Venue: University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
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This one-day symposium will explore the special nature of glass
in craft and industry. It will focus on the development of
innovative approaches and creative opportunities for glass. It
will bring together a number of high profile keynote speakers and
glass professionals, such as Dr David Bricknell, Dr Vanessa
Cutler, and Prof Kevin Petrie who work with new technologies or
use traditional processes in new ways to expand creative
vocabularies and technical possibilities.
The symposium seeks to explore similarities & differences across
the differing attitudes to the special nature of the material
'glass'. We have invited papers from a wide spectrum that reaches
from the position of individual craft practitioners when faced
with the new formal vocabulary inherent in a new manufacturing or
making process, to that of a glass technologist seeking to
develop a new type of glass product.
Keynote speakers include:
Dr David Bricknell - The Float Process: An invention working with
nature.
Dr Vanessa Cutler - Combining Industrial Technology and Craft
Prof Kevin Petrie - Glass and Print: Blending approaches for
innovation in creative glass
Speakers selected from open call include:
Teresa Almeida - Luminescent Glass-Art Works
Heike Brachlow - Shaping Colour: Density, light and form in solid
glass sculpture
Jessamy Kelly - The Hot State Combination of Glass and Ceramics
Tavs Jorgensen - Universal Tooling for Kiln Forming Sheet Glass
http://www.wlv.ac.uk/artanddesign/glassbiennale
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