Hello Aviaja,
I have personally chaired the last Design Principles and Practices
conference, which was held in Rome at Sapienza University and
furthermore I have been asked for acting as Keynote for next one in Los
Angeles.
Furthermore, I have been reviewing some of the paper proposals for a
couple of times. Having said that, Common Ground organizes scientific
conferences in a number of different fields and holds a journal where
are published a selection of the papers presented at their conferences.
I have personally published a couple of mine and had to go through a
review which is electronically blind.
At the same time, I personally don't recall any other conference where I
presented (Cumulus, ICSID, EAD, DesignED, ...), where I didn't have to
pay for registration and of course it is easily understandable that any
kind of organization has its costs..
On another level, it is true that its design perspective is quite
extensive, reaching interdisciplinary different kind of design, from
graphic to product, to interaction and so on. Then, if you are looking
for a very focused conference, this is not the case. At the same time,
it is true that it is very close to a general trend in the global design
community to match interdisciplinary topics in an olistic way.. On the
top of that, every conference is somehow also the result of the work of
the University which hosts it and then every time may be a different
experience..
I wish this may help,
/Lorenzo/
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Associate Professor
SID|School of Industrial Design
Carleton University
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Il 20/09/11 09.26, Aviaja Borup ha scritto:
> Hi list members,
> I write this post in relation to spamferences as I hope the large amount of expertise from all the members can perhaps help this landscape of conferences and journals to become more transparent.
>
> I am a danish PhD student who have been following and enjoying this list for the past year. I was about to write a paper for the Design Principles and Practices conference as I thought it looked interesting, but I am now a bit concerned for multiple reasons:
> - There is a spam report on the publishing company in the chronicle
> - The CEO of the company is presenting their business model at YouTube about paying for getting things published (as I understand it)
> - A person from the advisory board didn't even know of the conference
> - None of my colleagues have heard of the conference/journal before.
>
> I therefore turn to this list for your experience with the conference/journal. The advisory board looks like this:
>
> International Advisory Board
> Genevieve Bell Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, USA.
> Michael Biggs University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK.
> Thomas Binder Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
> Jeanette Blomberg IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, USA.
> Eva Brandt Danmark Designskole, Copenhagen, Denmark.
> Peter Burrows RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
> Monika Bόscher Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
> Bill Cope University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
> Patrick Dillon Exeter University, Exeter, UK.
> Michael Gibson University of North Texas, Denton, USA.
> Loredana Di Lucchio, Sapienza Universita di Roma, Rome, Italy.
> Judith Gregory IIT Institute of Design, Chicago, USA; University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
> Tracy S. Harris The American Institute of Architects, Washington, D.C., USA
> Clive Holtham City of London University, London, UK.
> Lorenzo Imbesi, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
> Hiroshi Ishii MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA.
> Gianni Jacucci University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
> Mary Kalantzis University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA.
> Klaus Krippendorff University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
> Terence Love Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
> Bill Lucas MAYA Fellow, MAYA Design, Inc., Pittsburgh, USA.
> Ezio Manzini Politecnico of Milano, Milan, Italy.
> Mario Minichiello, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK.
> Julian Orr Work Practice& Technology Associates, Pescadero, USA.
> Mahendra Patel Leaf Design, Mumbai, India.
> Toni Robertson University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
> Terry Rosenberg Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK.
> Keith Russell University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia.
> Liz Sanders Make Tools, USA.
> Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos University of Sγo Paulo, Sγo Paulo, Brazil.
> Lucy Suchman Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
> Ina Wagner Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
> Perhaps there are more people who where not aware of being in this board? Or maybe it is a good conference with this fine advisory board? Please help me out!
>
> Thank you,
> Aviaja Borup Lynggaard
>
>
> Aviaja Borup
> Phone: +45 3113 2618
> Work : +45 61 22 66 99
> Interaction / Industrial Designer
> Ph.d. student at Bang& Olufsen
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