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The fifth Nordic Design Research Conference, Nordes '13: Experiments in Design Research: Expressions, Knowledge, Critique takes place in Copenhagen/Malmö in 2013 June 9th - 12th. Hosted by The Royal Danish School of Design and Malmö University. For further info and questions please contact the conference committee. See call: http://nordes.org/nordes2013/
 

Call for participation:

Experiments in Design Research: Expressions, Knowledge, Critique
Design is closely affiliated with the experimental, which is as an exploratory and probing undertaking. What does this mean in the context of design research? Today, design research relies on various and divergent notions of design experimentation and ideas about their value and uses. In one corner, experimentation is conceived of as designerly exploration into, for instance, materials, technologies, and expressions. In another corner, design experimentation is shaped according to hypothetical-deductive models of knowledge production inherited from science and engineering. Yet, in a third corner, design experiments are explored as a means for promoting social change or as a critique of political and ethical values. For instance, this can take the form of critique through fiction and utopias.

This raises a set of central questions for design research: How is design experimentation similar and different from experimentation in other research fields and areas? What is the role of exploration vis-à-vis experimentation in design research? How is it possible to provide a consistent account of research methods underlying experimental design research? Is it possible to stage design experiments other than as highly idealized probing situations? Can design experiments act as part of a critical aesthetic practice?

Nordes 2013 invites designers and design researchers to explore the many aspects of design research as experimental practice.
Possible themes include, but are not limited to:

Objects of design experiments
Experimental expressions
Design experiments as critique
Experiments in design research versus in science and art
Methods of experiments in design research
Staging experiments
Places of design experiments
Experiments in design education

Important dates:
Submission deadline extended to January 10th, 2013
Author notification: March 20th, 2013
Submission of final version: April 20th, 2013 

Full Papers
The Nordes 2013 conference invites original papers on various forms of experimentation within design and design research. Full papers must be of the highest international standard and contribute significantly to research and practice within design. Nordes 2013 aims to be a multidisciplinary forum for emergent and current research areas influencing the various design disciplines. Full papers should be 10 pages including illustrations, figures, and references. Papers will undergo double blind peer-reviews and accepted papers will be presented in the conference programme and published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be available as an open access online database during and after the conference.

Exploratory Papers

We invite the submission of exploratory papers that include design cases, position papers, work in progress, and emerging new research areas which may yet lack solid theoretical foundations, but point towards exciting new directions for design research. Exploratory papers should be 4 pages, including illustrations and references. Exploratory papers will undergo double blind peer-reviews and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

To facilitate the double blind review process, authors should make an effort to ensure that their identity is not revealed by information contained in the submission. For example, please replace references to the author’s proper name by the term “Author,” including any bibliographic data.

Design Exhibition
We are very excited to invite you to send proposals for Nordes 2013 Design Research Exhibition that aims to allow more opportunities that takes us beyond textual ways of staging research enquires in design conferences. We invite submissions of artifacts, installations, performances, and other materialities that relates to the theme of conference - Experiments in Design Research. Artists, designers, and researchers will be able to present their work to the conference attendees in dedicated exhibition sessions: http://nordes.org/nordes2013/?page_id=136

Workshops
We especially invite proposals where the format encourages active participation by the workshop attendees or which demonstrates new ways of how experiments can be explored in a workshop setting. A workshop can, for instance, take the form of on-site enactments, excursions, tutorials, studios, discussion sessions, etc. A workshop proposal should be maximum 2-3 pages and state its purpose, a tentative programme for the day (or half a day), how attendees are accepted for participating in the workshop (e.g. through artifacts or position papers, or just by signing up), requirements for to physical setting (see Venue) and materials (see Practical issues): http://nordes.org/nordes2013/?page_id=219

Doctoral consortium
The doctoral consortium will take place immediately before the formal opening of the conference. Participants will be chosen based on the quality of their submissions. Submissions should be 4 pages and can be published in the proceedings: http://nordes.org/nordes2013/?page_id=138


We hope many of you will consider NORDES 2013 as a venue for your work.


Thomas Markussen


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Thomas Markussen
Associate Professor, PhD & MA
Head of PhD Research & Education

Program Chair for the Nordes 2013 Conference
(http://nordes.org/nordes2013)
 
Department of Communication Design
Kolding School of Design
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