Dear all, this might be of interest to some of you: call for papers for the design education conference in Hong Kong:

DesignEd Asia Conference 2011 – CALL FOR
ABSTRACTS

 

http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2011

 

29 and 30 November in Hong Kong

 

Jointly hosted by The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University

 

School of Design & Hong Kong Design
Institute

 

The 7th Annual DesignEd Asia Conference
will be held on 29 and 30 November 2011, Tuesday and Wednesday, at the Hong
Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Co-organized with
Hong Kong Design Centre, the conference is a concurrent event of the Business
of Design Week (BODW). It aims to provide a practical platform for
international design educators and professionals to share views, knowledge and
experiences on Design Education. Every year, it draws hundreds of international
design educators, design researchers, trend analysts, practicing designers,
design students, and design-related executives.

 

As part of the 2-day programme, design
researchers from international educational institutions will be presenting
papers at the Conference. For those who have been conducting design research,
this is a great opportunity to share pioneering views with other professionals
in the industry.

 

Call for Abstracts

 

Design is a professional discipline, which
is to say that design academia is linked to a family of design professions, and
needs to be sensitized to the norms, practices, values and trends of these
professions. Even while preparing students with the skills and knowledge to
perform as design professionals in this industry, design schools also must
imbue students with the curiosity, social and cultural awareness and critical
attitude to question and transform the conventions and assumptions of these
professions through their practice. DesignEd Asia plays an important role in
providing contexts for the testing of radical propositions, the gestation of
transformative strategies and the nurturing of speculative approaches that spur
and inform the continuing evolution of the professional practice of design.

 

We are seeking papers that propose
positions on the relationship between design academia and the design
professions, and demonstrate how these positions are actualized in actual
pedagogical practice and initiatives within schools of design. In the selection
of papers, we aim to achieve a cross-section of the ways in which positions and
approaches vary between different national or regional cultures, and between
design schools with different histories and pedagogical philosophies.

 

We invite papers addressing the following
areas:

 

- facilitating the transition between
academia and industry, including the incubation of student entrepreneurs and
support for commercialization, production and marketing of student projects and
ideas

 

- educating for change, including
curricular and pedagogical approaches that reflect and anticipate changes in
the parameters of the design professions, as well as approaches to providing
students with the skills and knowledge to pro-actively drive change in the
design professions

 

- design education beyond the design
professions, including the rationale, goals and challenges of teaching design
to students in non-design professions, as well as preparing design students to
enter into professional contexts outside of the traditional design disciplines

 

- dissemination and impact, including
examples of successful dialogues between design academia and the design
professions that have led to positive impact on some aspects of professional
practice

 

Review Process for Abstracts and Full
Papers

 

Submissions are invited on significant,
original, and previously unpublished cases and research in the above areas. The
abstract will be reviewed on a double blind basis. The accepted abstracts will
be invited to submit a full paper with maximum 4,000 words in length that will
be reviewed again for a final paper submission.

 

The accepted papers will be published in
the conference proceedings, and the authors will be invited to make a 25-minute
presentation including Q & A at the conference.

 

Submission of an Abstract

 

• Presenters’ names and affiliations (contact details,
organization, etc)

 

• An abstract limited
to 500 words and a bibliography

 

To make a submission, please sign up via
the online conference system: http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2011/openconf/

 

For updated information, please visit our
conference website:http://www.sd.polyu.edu.hk/designedconference2011

 

Contact Us

 

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Hope to see you in Hong Kong! ;) sylvia
Important Dates

Deadline for Abstract Submission: 31
July 2011 (Sun)