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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS  Volume 20 Number 2 Feb 2015 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter      http://www.designresearchsociety.org


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CONTENTS



o   Editorial

o   DRS Membership

o   IASDR 2015

o   EKSIG 2015

o   Calls

o   Announcements


o   The Design Research Society: information

o   Digital Services of the DRS

o   Subscribing and unsubscribing to DRN

o   Contributing to DRN







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EDITORIAL



The lead item this month is an article about recent growth in
membership of the Design Research Society (DRS) and the
importance of continuing efforts to build the design research
community worldwide. I encourage all DRN readers to
think about the benefits of DRS membership - you are most
welcome to join us.

DRS is a founder member of the International Association of
Societies of Design Research (IASDR) and we have a reminder of
the deadlines for proposals for papers, workshops etc for the
2015 conference which is to be held in Brisbane, Australia in
November. This will no doubt prove to be a most important
gathering for the global design research community.

It's also good to see a further DRS initiative going from
strength to strength. The Experiential Knowledge Special
Interest Group (EKSIG) organises a delightful biennial
conference, this year to be held in Denmark. The first
announcement and call for papers is below.

David Durling
Editor







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THE DESIGN RESEARCH SOCIETY: LATEST FIGURES REVEAL A GROWING
WORLDWIDE COMMUNITY

The membership of the Design Research Society is vital to the
ongoing discussions and debates that help form and promote the
field of Design Research.  Through conferences, special
interest groups, mail lists, the newsletter and the society's
journal, Design Studies, our aim is to further the discipline
of design research and, as membership secretary, it is my
pleasure to let you know that the DRS recently achieved a
small landmark.  We now have over 750 members worldwide.

The membership has grown considerably in recent years as the
result of a number of initiatives that include: offering
membership as part of the biennial DRS conference registration
fee, introducing a special rate for research students,
operating a DRS fellowship scheme, and offering research
student bursaries.  This has been a combined and sustained
effort by the DRS Council, the governing body of the society,
and we are proud of what we have achieved together.

The membership figure of 750 is, however, dwarfed by another
figure; the circulation of Design Research News under the
editorship of David Durling.  This now appears in the inboxes
of 9000 subscribers, and reveals the full extent of the
interest in Design Research and the wide impact the field has
on other disciplines.

The DRS was formed in 1966 so the recent growth in membership
and interest in the field helps us to build towards our 50th
Anniversary Conference in June 2016.  This will be held in
Brighton, in the UK following a successful conference in Umea,
Sweden last year.  The call for participation will be
announced shortly.

I encourage you to get engaged with the Society and help
further the field of Design Research.  Membership offers many
benefits but, above all, helps to develop the infrastructure
that allows us to continue to grow as a discipline.  Every
year we hold elections for council officers and we are
constantly looking for new faces to refresh and develop the
international outlook of the society.

So if you are thinking of joining, there is no better time to
get involved.

To subscribe or find out more please visit our website at:

http://www.designresearchsociety.org/

Peter Lloyd,
Membership Secretary for the DRS
On behalf of the DRS Council







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IASDR 2015 | INTERPLAY 
Brisbane, Australia
2-5 November 2015

Call for Participation

IASDR 2015 invites papers, posters, workshops, exhibitions and
doctoral colloquium submissions from any area of design research
that explores the interplay between design research, science,
technology and the arts. All submissions will be double blind
reviewed. Submissions must be in English and submitted through
the online submission system. All submissions should comply with
IASDR 2015 guidelines. IASDR 2015 will explore the interaction of
design research with science, technology and the arts. This
continual INTERPLAY provides opportunities to explore interaction
between cross-disciplinary knowledge and various design research
approaches. IASDR 2015 aims to establish trans-disciplinary
research platforms across diverse domains to foster new research
and education opportunities and stimulate innovation. Call for
Papers: We invite papers which offer original research and
application across all domains of design: architecture, planning,
industrial design, engineering design, software, interaction
design, fashion or media design. The papers should demonstrate
collaborative research and application with science or technology
or the arts. Papers should be 3000 - 5000 words excluding
abstracts and references and comply with IASDR 2015 guidelines.

Call for Posters: Posters should demonstrate original research in
progress. Poster size is one A4 sheet.

Call for Workshops: Workshop program will run on 2 November 2015.
Proposals are welcomed for full day and half day workshops.
Maximum length of proposal is four pages.

Call for Exhibitions: Proposals should demonstrate application of
research to product, systems services and artifacts. Maximum
length of proposal is four pages.

Call for Doctoral Colloquium: Submissions must include a research
proposals maximum two pages.

Important dates for all submissions:

Full paper submission: 6 April 2015
Poster submission: 4 May 2015
Workshop proposals: 30 June 2015
Exhibition proposals: 30 June 2015
Doctoral Colloquium: 31 July 2015

IASDR (The International Association of Societies of Design
Research) was established on November 1, 2005. The purpose of the
Association is to promote research and study into the activity of
design in all its many fields of application, through encouraging
collaboration on an international level between independent
societies of design research. The Association will promote,
amongst other activities, the organisation of biennial
International Congresses of Design Research, at appropriate
venues around the world. Congresses have been organised in Taiwan
(2005), Hong Kong (2007), South Korea (2009), The Netherlands
(2011) and Japan (2013). The 6th IASDR Congress is in Brisbane
(Australia) in 2015.

http://www.iasdr2015.com







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22-26 November 2015: TANGIBLE MEANS - experiential knowledge 
through materials

International Conference 2015 of the DRS Special Interest
Group on Experiential Knowledge at Design School Kolding and
University of Southern Denmark.

Call for papers // EKSIG 2015

With the theme "TANGIBLE MEANS: Experiential Knowledge through
Materials", the conference aims to provide a forum for debate
about materials as a means for knowledge generation by
professionals and academic researchers, exploring the role and
relationship of generating and evaluating new and existing
knowledge in the creative disciplines and beyond.

In recent years many creative disciplines have shifted focus
from what is produced to why it is produced and how it is
used. This includes a growing interest for combining craft
traditions with design and other related issues such as
sustainability. As early as 1983 Schoen defined designing "as
a conversation with the materials of a situation" (Schoen
1983: 78) and the designer as a maker of things even though it
is acknowledged that the concept of design can be broader than
'making things'. Also in the 1980s Manzini (1989: 17) pointed
out a need for further development of cognitive tools and
cultural references in order to catch up with the technical
and scientific development of materials. Recently Karana et
al. (2014) have expressed a need to study not only the
functional but also the experiential side of materials. Thus,
material knowledge is not only about 'scientific' facts such
as functional and technical properties. It also encompasses
personal, experiential, cultural, emotional, environmental and
social aspects. In many disciplines, materials pervade all
parts of practice, from the processes to the creation of
artefacts and/or other kinds of physical manifestations and
the interpretation through other professionals, such as
curators, critics, historians etc.

This conference welcomes contributions exploring and
discussing materials in relation to sensuous qualities,
objects, context, strategy, service, space, time, place,
techniques, discipline, domain, production, sustainability,
interaction, use, metaphors, imaginations, associations,
reflective thinking, etc. We interpret materials here in the
widest possible sense to include any kind of creative outputs
in whatever formats. With this conference, we wish to explore
different ways in which experiential knowledge through
materials can be given more appropriate consideration within
the framework of research. This may include for example
investigations into the nature, aims, validity, evaluation
and/or necessity of different modes of communication and
exchange.

Questions of interest are for example:

What do we mean when we say 'material knowledge'?

What are the current understandings of material as a knowledge
generator?

Why might materials be important for any research conduct?

How can materials be utilised within the framework of
research?

How can we articulate material knowledge, which might be tacit
and embodied within the process of research?

What frameworks are there to guide the communication of
material knowledge?

What differences are there between the pure sensing of
materials and sensing of materials in a context?

What means and methods can be utilised to transfer and
replicate material knowledge?

How can knowledge about materials be integrated and used
within the framework of research?

How can we articulate and/or communicate material knowledge
within the process of research?

What contribution can the use of creative practices make to
the understanding and communication of material knowledge in
research?

What means and methods do we have to transfer and iterate
material knowledge?

What and how can we know from materials through research
regarding the aspects of personal, experiential, cultural,
emotional environmental and social issues?

Attendees:

We wish to bring together engaged professionals and scholars
from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge
production and methodological approaches to explore these
issues. We invite contributions from creative subjects and
other disciplines, e.g. design, craft, architecture,
engineering, media, performance, music, fine art, curation,
museology, archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management,
education, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned with
materials and tangible means in research and in creative and
professional practice.

References

Karana, E., Pedgley, O., & Rognoli, V. (2014) (eds.).
Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design.
Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.

Manzini, E. (1989). The Material of Invention: Material and
Design. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Schoen, D. (1983).The
Reflective Practitioner. How Professionals Think in Action.
London: Ashgate.

Key Dates:

Full Paper Deadline: 1 June 2015
Full papers will be between 4,000 and 5,000 words, plus
references.
Full Paper Notification: 28 August 2015
Final Submission: 25 September

http://www.experientialknowledge.org.uk/conference.html







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CALLS



CALL FOR PAPERS: ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW, vol. 20, no. 2
To be published August 2015

Special Issue: Corruption
Editor: Adam Jasper

The New York City 1916 Zoning Resolution was designed in order
to ensure light reached the streets of Manhattan. It dictated
massing at certain heights in a way that shaped the signature
New York skyscraper up until the Second World War. In 1961,
the successful example of the 1958 Seagram Plaza lead city
authorities to rewrite the laws to encourage developers to
create public places in exchange for extra height, and the
form of the skyscraper changed again. Inside the building, the
appearance and materials of office furniture also transformed
in response to accelerations in tax depreciation. The
privately owned public spaces that Seagram Plaza engendered
include Zuccotti Park, that--thanks to ambiguities regarding
police responsibilities--became the site of the 2011 Occupy
Wall Street protests. According to the New York Times, in 2012
the Seagram Building had the lowest energy star rating of any
structure in New York (at three out of a hundred), making it
now illegal to build. Rules, whether adhered to or
circumvented, shape cities.

The stories told about architecture rarely revolve around
legislation, planning laws, tax rules, price fixing cartels or
safety restrictions; but these forces form our designs no less
than culture, landscape or style. We are interested in the way
in which such restrictions both compromise the autonomy of
architecture and act as a creative stimulus.

Corruption goes far beyond stories of crooked developers
(although they are worth pursuing). We are interested in all
perversions of due process, from the distortions of
architectural competitions through to subtle conflicts of
interest. As the competing demands of developers, governing
bodies and insurers encroach ever further on architecture's
autonomy, pragmatists move from the manipulation of form to
the manipulation of institutions, or, to use a formulation by
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, the architecture of genius becomes
the architecture of bureaucracy.

We are interested in the choreography of regulators,
speculators and conspirators, and the subversive
prestidigitation of invisible hands. We want to understand
enterprise at the margins of the law. Most importantly, we
want to understand how practice embodies theory, and how
theory accommodates to practice.

Architectural Theory Review, founded at the University of
Sydney in 1996 and now in its twentieth year, is the
pre-eminent journal of architectural theory in the
Australasian region. Published by Taylor & Francis in print
and online, the journal is an international forum for
generating, exchanging, and reflecting on theory in and of
architecture. All texts are subject to a rigorous process of
blind peer review.

Enquiries about this special issue theme, and possible papers,
are welcome, please email the editor, Adam Jasper:
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The deadline for the submission of completed manuscripts is
Monday, 30 March 2015. Please submit manuscripts via the
journal's website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ratr

When uploading your manuscript please indicate that you are
applying for this special issue, for example: vol. 20.2 -
Corruption.

Manuscript submission guidelines can be found at:
www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=ratr20
&page=instructions

http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/pgas/atr-cfp-corruption







REMINDER: OPEN CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD DESIGN

This is to remind those of you involved in research related to
Food Design, that the call for papers for the International
Journal of Food Design is open.

More info on the journal, and CALL FOR PAPERS below:

Follow this link for a quick introductory video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Net4-X6poCU

Click here for the Journal webpage:
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=246/

The International Journal of Food Design (IJFD) is the first
academic journal entirely dedicated to Food Design research
and practice. We aim at creating a platform for researchers
operating in the various disciplines that contribute to the
understanding of Food Design.

Although the journal is open towards different background
disciplines, knowledge and expertise, it only focuses on
collecting any Food Design-related research outcome: research
that somehow combines food and Design. We define Food Design
as simplythe discipline that connects food and Design: Design
applied to food and eating, or food and eating investigated
from a Design perspective. In other words, among all knowledge
on food and eating, we look at research where Design has an
important role, and among all knowledge on Design, we look at
research that focuses on aspects of food or eating.

Connecting food and Design of course means connecting any
aspect of food with any aspect of Design. For this reason, the
International Journal of Food Design is interested in pushing
the boundaries of research that connect aspects from Culinary
Arts, Hospitality, Food Science, Food Culture, and any other
food discipline, with aspects from Design Theory, Design
Education, Industrial Design, Design History, and any other
Design discipline.

Connecting Food and Design can also mean looking at how Design
is or can be used in all aspects of the eating experience. The
eating experience is the process that transforms stimuli of an
eating situation into emotions, knowledge and ultimately
memories. The stimuli are many, and analysing them is a
complex issue. Here we are interested in looking at how Design
can be applied to the control of such stimuli, and therefore,
to the control of the different aspects influencing the eating
experience. The aspects influencing the eating experience can
be grouped into those related to food itself, those related to
the eating environment, those related to the relationship
between people eating together, those related to the
atmosphere, and those related to management, marketing,
distribution and manufacturing. We look at how Design is
applied to the control of such stimuli surrounding any type of
food: food eaten at a restaurant, in a coffee shop, or at the
cinema, food that comes in a packaging or on a plate, food
eaten during physical exercise, food eaten in a space station,
food connected to religion, culture or celebrations, etc.

How is Design used to influence or modify any of the aspects
influencing the eating experience? What Design methods,
processes or theories apply to the design of food or of the
eating situation? How should we teach Design methods, process
of theories applied to the design of food or eating situation?
And more: is there a scope for a sub-discipline called Food
Design History? Is there a space worth exploring between Food
History and Design History? Between Food Culture and Design
Culture? Is there a scope for a sub-discipline called Food
Design Thinking? Is there a scope for Design methods and
process particularly designed for Food Design? These are some
of the questions that the articles collected by the IJFD aim
to answer.

THE CALL FOR PAPERS IS NOW OPEN:

The International Journal of Food Design, because of the very
nature of the discipline it brings light to, is
interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary: we welcome articles
relating to more than one area of knowledge, articles that
create bridges between disciplines, and articles that result
from research teams made of scientists with unique expertise
all contributing to the same research endeavour.

The journal welcomes research articles. Articles can be about
theory, practice, or the intersection of the two. We value
rigorous articles that show particular attention to data
collection and data analysis, a strong collocation in the
literature, and an original contribution to knowledge.
Articles with 6000-8000 words (including references) are
appropriate.

The journal also welcomes case studies, which are also
peer-reviewed but should be 3000-4000 words long including
references. The intention of case studies is to showcase and
give value to original on-going projects, and practice-based
or practice-led design projects, that show originality and
potentials.

Finally the journal also welcomes literature review articles,
interviews and reviews.

The journal welcomes contributions from, but is not limited
to, the following areas of knowledge:

Design For Food
Design With Food
Food Product Design
Food Packaging
Interior Design For Food
Food Events Design
Food and Sensory Design
Emotional Food Design
Food System Design
Food Service/Management
Food Design History
Food Design Theory
Food Design Education

The journal also welcomes contributions from Food Science,
Food Styling, Culinary Arts and Hospitality, as long as the
topic presented is connected to Design too. For example:
Design Thinking applied to Culinary Arts, and Design principle
or processes applied to any Hospitality issue. Similarly, the
journal welcomes contributions from any Design field, as long
as the topic presented or the outcome of the design process
relates to food or eating. The International Journal of Food
Design is pursuing advance, originality, ingenuity,
innovation, as well as thoroughness and rigour.

http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=246/







7-11 September 2015: OFF THE LIP:
Transdisciplinary Approaches to  Cognitive Innovation
Workshop and Conference: Preliminary notice and call for
participation

Workshops: 7-8 September,
Conference: 9-11 September

University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK

Short papers, posters and workshop proposals are invited for a
conference to be held at the University of Plymouth, UK
between 7-11 September 2015.

Confirmed Plenary Speakers:

Amy Ione,
Director of the Diatrope Institute, Berkeley, California, USA

Roger Malina,
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Technology, Professor of
Physics, University of Texas at Dallas, USA

Sundar Sarukkai,
Professor and Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy
and Humanities, Manipal, India

The promise of cognitive innovation as a collaborative project
in the sciences, arts and humanities is that we can approach
creativity as a bootstrapping cognitive process in which the
energies that shape the poem are necessarily indistinguishable
from those that shape the poet. For the purposes of this
conference the exploration of the idea of cognitive innovation
concerns an understanding of creativity that is not
exclusively concerned with conscious human thought and action
but also as intrinsic to our cognitive development. As a
consequence, we see the possibility for cognitive innovation
to provide a theoretical and practical platform from which to
address disciplinary differences in ways that offer new topics
and concerns for research in the sciences and the humanities.

Papers should consider cognitive aspects of creativity,
including but are not confined to:

- Poetics, language and cognition
- The dynamics and performativity of imagination
- Affect and named emotions
- Affective artefacts (artefacts as scaffolding device for
  mind)
- Creativity as a 'self corrective process'
- Cognition as creativity
- Memory, metaphor, and media literacy
- Archives, identity and emotionality
- Art, mental health and consciousness
- Networking and Network Studies
- Creativity and mental imagery
- Creativity and innovation in development
- Social creativity
- Neuroscience of creativity
- Creativity as an iterative process
- Simulating and modelling creativity

Workshops

The workshops will engage participants in the contributions
made by past and current research in the Humanities in the
understanding of cognition as a creative interaction with
daily life. We are especially interested in case-studies and
examples that will suggest how to build bridges between
current trends in the cognitive sciences and established
bodies of knowledge.

We are inviting proposals for workshops of 90-120 minutes
comprising small panels, structured discussions and practical
explorations. Small grants are available to support workshop
logistics.

Conference papers

Proposals are invited for papers dealing with responses to the
research challenge of cognitive innovation from the sciences
and humanities. We are particularly interested in offering
opportunities for reporting on recent and emerging work in all
disciplines and will give special attention to speculative
approaches that involve more than one discipline.

Papers (20 minutes) will be delivered in 30 minute slots to
allow good time for discussion. Papers may also be presented
as posters in the interactive poster+ session.

Poster+

We encourage non-traditional forms of research presentations
in the context of the familiar conference poster event.

CogSlam

Propose 6-minute cognition-related artworks including
screenings, mini-lectures and performances to be interleaved
with spontaneous contributions from delegates reflecting on
the day's discussions and exchanges.

To submit a paper,poster or CogSlam please send a title and
abstract of no more than 300 words together with a brief bio
to Dr. Martha Blassnigg:

[log in to unmask]
(Deadline 15th May 2015)

If you would like to propose a workshop, please send a
workshop title and brief abstract of 300-500 words and an
outline of expected costs to Prof. Michael Punt:
[log in to unmask]
(Deadline 28th February 2015)

There are no conference registration fees for students and a
nominal fee of [euro] 50 for all other participants to cover
lunches and coffee, with an additional [euro] 30 for those
delegates wishing to attend the conference dinner.  The
conference administrator can assist with bookings for
accommodation.

Off the Lip is a collaboration between CogNovo (cognovo.eu) 
and Transtechnology Research (trans-techresearch.net),  at the
Cognition Institute, University of Plymouth.







Call for Papers: Networking Knowledge, Journal of the MeCCSA
Postgraduate network
"Make, Mistake, Journey: Practice-led Research and Ways of
Learning"

Guest Editors:

Alice Clough, Nottingham Trent University,
[log in to unmask]

Anna Piper, Nottingham Trent University,
[log in to unmask]

Practice-led research has become particularly pertinent in
art, design and the social sciences in recent years, alongside
a more general blooming of interest in the relationship
between the mind, body and external world. Studies
increasingly acknowledge or embrace the presence of the
researcher or use the body as the means of doing research. In
practice-led research bodily movement is simultaneously the
mode of knowledge production and reception (Sklar 2000: 71).

But while the practice-led methodology has promoted new ways
of knowing through doing, it has also highlighted a number of
epistemological questions:

How can theory and practice be integrated and used together
holistically?
How can practice-led methods, with a focus on emergent
methodologies, fit into a structured or target-driven academic
framework?
How can practice-led research overcome the primacy or value
attached to the written word?
What are the limits of practice-led research?

Practice-led research is particularly relevant to art, design,
and the social sciences, however the relationship between
theory and practice will resonate across all disciplines. This
volume of Networking Knowledge therefore invites contributions
from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, exploring (but
not limited to):

Personal experiences of practice-led research, or projects
that unite theory and practice
Discussions relating to the text-orientated requirements of
funding bids and thesis/journal submissions
Experimental research methodologies and alternative approaches
to what constitutes research outputs
Multimedia and visual essays, as well as film and image based
supplementary materials to accompany papers are encouraged.
Authors are required to provide proof of permission for use of
images etc.

Submission Details

Abstracts of a maximum of 150 words are to be submitted by
email to the editors by 13th March 2015.

http://ojs.meccsa.org.uk/index.php/netknow/about







Drawing attention to this call for papers:
http://provocativeplastics.com/. 

Please circulate this to other people you think it may
interest. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 2nd
March.

http://www.aub.ac.uk







2-3 September 2015: Workshop: 4 September 2015
ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN DESIGN: DO THEY MATTER?

Design communities in 2015 are called on to respond to the
Millennial imperative "to do the right thing, to know the
truth of a situation, to have a job that means more than a pay
cheque and to live a life that matters" (Chester, cited in
Mind the Gap, Codrington and Grant-Marshall 2004:63). We, as
stakeholders and leaders in the design community take
responsibility to lead with integrity and commit ourselves to
the co-creation of a shared design ethos.

Aiming our intentions, efforts and influence toward 'that
which ought to be', DEFSA 2015 seeks to honour and grow an
emerging principle-driven, civic minded and human-centred
design culture that takes issues of the sustainability,
credibility, corporate social responsibility, professional
accountability and personal integrity to heart.  The typical
worldview rhetoric of what should be done is redirected
towards individuated responses and actions that foster
meaningful change.

Sub- themes

The individual: Ethics and accountability in Design
The institution: Ethics and accountability in Design
The industry:  Ethics and accountability in Design

Conference venue: Humanities Building, Midrand Graduate
Institute

http://www.defsa.org.za/







10-12 September 2015: CREATIVE PRACTICE CONFERENCE: MAKING
RESEARCH AND RESEARCHING MAKING (Aarhus, DK)
Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark

Deadline of Conference Call: 16 March 2015

Making Research and Researching Making is an international
conference for creative practice research, aimed at
practitioners undertaking research through the medium of
practice, and researchers interested in practice-based
research. The focus of this conference is to better understand
designed and/or contingent processes of how creative practice
research happens, understanding research as an embodied,
emplaced, material and social undertaking.


- How do you, as a practitioner, initiate research within
your work?

- How does research connect and intersect with the processes
of making within your practice?

- Where does making research take place?

- Who and what can be involved in the processes of making
research?

We invite contributions to the conference in the form of
exhibits of creative practice research, papers explicating
creative practice research, and workshops exploring processes
of making research and researching making.

The following four themes are offered as a catalyst to ideas:

Knowing How

We wish to foreground the actions, materials and techniques of
creative practice as a means to research. We recognise that
rather than preconceived ideas or clear research questions,
creative practice research often begins with generating
things, working with and responding to materials (Ingold
2010).

Experiment and Surprise

Latour and Yaneva's (2008) terming of the ways in which the
products and by-products of the design process astonish
their creators raises the question of control in creative
practice. What about surprises, mistakes or unforeseen
consequences?

Sites of Making Research

Nowotny (2010) points to an expansion over time in the sites
of creative practice and production, and a concomitant
changing role of the artist as worker and researcher. What is
particular about the sites of making research: studio,
academy, factory, building site, museum, city?

Contributions of Making Research

There is an ongoing debate about how the materials, works, and
artefacts practitioners make are counted as research;
how they contribute to research knowledge or other ways of
knowing (Kjarup 2006). We want to hear your experiences of,
and thoughts about, what your research does or will do, and
how it does this.

This event is initiated by the Architecture, Design and Art
Practice Training research (ADAPTr) Initial Training Network,
a four-year collaboration between seven creative practice
research institutions. ADAPTr aims to significantly increase
European research capacity through valuing practice and
creative processes. At its core is the development of a deep
understanding of the knowledge and the knowledge processes
which are embedded in a creative practice. ADAPTr ITN has
received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework
Programme FP7/2007-2013.

http://adapt-r.eu/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Making-
Research_Researching-Making _Call.pdf







CFP: A MANIFESTO FOR CYBORGS THIRTY-YEARS ON: GENDER,
TECHNOLOGY AND FEMINIST-TECHNOSCIENCE IN THE TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY

CALL FOR PAPERS
A Manifesto for Cyborgs thirty-years on: Gender, Technology
and Feminist-Technoscience in the twenty-first century
Platform: Journal of Media and Communication
An interdisciplinary journal for early career researchers and
graduate students

Abstracts due: Friday 27th of February, 2015
Volume Editor: Thao Phan

In her iconic essay A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science,
Technology and Socialist-Feminism in the 1980s, Donna Haraway
introduced the metaphor of the cyborg as an ironic
political myth to critique the so far troubling narratives
of the West. Published in the Socialist Review in 1985, it
brings together a broad spectrum of literacies from
socialist-feminism, to cybernetics and biopolitics to
proffer a cutting criticism of Enlightenment humanism, gender
essentialism, and military technoscience. Her provocations
created a useful framework to destabilise rigid boundaries and
make fluid the borderlines between human and animal, organism
and machine, natural and artificial, semiotic and material.
Today the Manifesto sits comfortably as part of the canon of
feminist-technoscience and postmodern theory. Although as an
oppositional figure the cyborg is bounded by a historical
specificity, it has certainly found new significance and
politics in the contemporary age of ubiquitous media.

To mark the 30th anniversary since its publication, Platform
invites authors whose work resonates or responds to themes
expounded in this seminal essay. With the benefit of thirty
years hindsight, what new observations or critical
assessments can be made in regards to the cyborg as a
feminist, tropic figure? Did the cyborg fulfill its promise of
an historical transformation? Is the figure of the
cyborg still as useful today, given contemporary technological
developments? Or, conversely, do we need myths like
Haraway's now more than ever? We encourage the submission of
theoretical or empirical work engaging with applications of,
or criticisms of, frameworks used by Haraway, and are
particularly interested in critical papers that provide novel
insights into the relation between gender and technoscience.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:

- Cyborg subjectivities in the 21st century
- Gendered tropes in technology
- Novel readings of gender and technoscience
- Trans/queer studies of technology
- Feminist science and/or feminist science and technology
  studies
- Posthuman subjectivities
- Postgender politics and subjectivities of ???affinity???
- Multiple or fractured readings of the cyborg
- Technologies of sex and gender
- Technologies of race and identity
- Critical studies of the body/embodiment
- Feminist histories/historiographies of media, technology
  or computation
- The informatics of domination
- Biotechnologies and Artificial Intelligence
- Feminism and accelerationist politics
- Feminism and new materialisms

In addition to this special section, we also welcome
submissions that more broadly deal with issues relating to the
areas of media, technology, and communication in theoretical
or critical terms.

Please send all enquiries and submissions to
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brief curriculum vitae and biographical note, and should not
exceed 350 words.

We recommend that prospective authors submit abstracts well
before the abstract deadline of the 27th of February 2015, in
order to allow for feedback and suggestions from the editors.
All submissions should be from early career researchers
(defined as being within a few years of completing their PhD)
or current graduate students undertaking their Masters, PhD,
or international equivalent.

All eligible submissions will be sent for double-blind
peer-review. Early submission is highly encouraged, as the
review process will commence on submission.

Platform: Journal of Media and Communication is a fully
refereed, open-access online graduate journal. Founded and
published by the School of Culture and Communication at the
University of Melbourne (Australia), Platform was launched in
November 2008. Platform is refereed by an international board
of established and emerging scholars working across diverse
fields in media and communication studies, and is edited by
graduate students at the University of Melbourne.

http://journals.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/platform/
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ANNOUNCEMENTS



FORMakademisk
Vol 7, No 5 (2014)

Table of Contents

Editorial

Editorial. Yes, Please - Both Crafts and Digital Tools  in
Basic Education 
Liv Merete Nielsen,  Janne Beate Reitan

Articles

Location tendencies for new secondary schools and arguments
put forward for city centre location
Else Margrethe Lefdal

Taswir - an introduction to a scholarly debate on figurative
representation in Sunni-Islam
Birte Brekketo

Before and after Lightfoot/Leon.  Using rich pictures to
illustrate an educational journey through the world of opera
and ballet
Laurence Habib, Elisabeth Juell

Developing a research community of art and design education.
Looking back at the early phase of the master's programme in
art and design education
Laila Belinda Fauske

Preparatory Knowledge: A Hub in Teacher Education in Arts and
Crafts
Marte Sorebo Gulliksen

Book reviews

Book review. Smart laering. Hvordan IKT og sosiale medier
endrer laering (Smart learning. How ICT and social media are
changing learning).
Peter Haakonsen

https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk/issue/view/
159







TAYLOR & FRANCIS - FREE ACCESS

Taylor & Francis is pleased to offer Open Access and Free
Access options to the latest articles on Engineering, Computer
Science and Technology.

http://bit.ly/TF-EnginComScTech







WIKIPEDIA - DESIGN FOR BEHAVIOUR CHANGE

Wikipedia page on Design for behaviour change published:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_for_behaviour_change

http://www.behaviourchange.eu







FOR INFORMATION

The Design Society (https://www.designsociety.org/) runs a
conference called the International Conference on Design
Creativity. An organiser stated:

Another conference with similar aims - and which might be
confused with the Design Society event - is:
http://www.waset.org/conference/2016/01/paris/ICDC

WASET is listed in Beall's list of predatory publishers:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers







INTERNATIONAL DESIGN EDUCATION COLLABORATION (Participatory
Design) for German design schools

For the past 4 years, my colleague and I have been working as
designer/researchers in the subject of Participatory
Design(ing) together with people with dementia. Parallel to
carrying out research and designing artefacts for individuals
with dementia both in the home and in care facilities, we have
shared this with our students (graphic design, digital design,
photography, product design and game design) at the LUCA
School of Arts from the University of Leuven in Genk, Belgium.

In September of 2015, with funding provided by the Robert
BOSCH Stiftung, we will take this educational module further
afield, specifically to Germany where we will, over the course
of two years share this process with 6 German design schools
within (applied) universities. Additionally, we will be
hosting two workshop events at a central location in Germany
and will create a publication on the design process.

Fully funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung, our support
teaching, including production costs for students as well as
funding for schools to attend the project's events is covered
in the funding.

We are looking for design schools within universities in
Germany who want to participate. To participate it is required
that at least 1 or 2 enthusiastic design professors/lecturers
participate along with their students, so that the knowledge
gathered is also shared at an academic level. In addition, it
is required that the professors/lecturers also share their
student's work and experience with other lecturers at an
annual event. Funding to attend this event is also included.

This opportunity is open for German design schools within
(applied) universities focusing on everything from graphic
design to interface design to service design, to product
design. Schools with a focus on technical design applications
are also welcome. Please share this within your wider network.

We've also placed this 'letter' on our project's future
website: http://www.dementialab.eu which might be better for
emailing colleagues you know in German design schools.

If your school is interested or if you have any questions,
please don't hesitate to contact us.

Andrea Wilkinson
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PHD SUMMER SCHOOL ON INTEGRATED PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The University of Magdeburg (DE) and the University of Malta
(MT) will be jointly running the 2015 PhD Summer School  on
Integrated Product Development. This Summer School is aimed
at researchers interested in both understanding and
researching the various interrelations between design,
manufacturing and business aspects, as well as further
aspects from the whole life cycle of a products/services.

The aim of ipdISS15 is to thus provide a platform through
which postgraduates working in IPD related fields can sharpen
their understanding of current and emerging research issues in
this interdisciplinay field. The hosts and leaders of the 2015
International Summer School on Integrated Product Development
are:

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandor Vajna, Otto-von-Guericke University,
Germany

Prof. Ing. Jonathan C. Borg, University of Malta, Malta

Individuals interested in attending this summer school can
find further information including testimonials from part
participants at: http://www.eng.um.edu.mt/~dme/jcb/ipdss/

You may wish to kindly note that  ipdISS15 is endorsed and
supported by the Design Society.







COMMUNITIESRESEARCHNETWORK

Building Strong Communities Research Network

Practitioner,academic, community member research and knowledge
exchange network

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/communitiesresearchnetwork







23-27 February 2015: ARCINTEX'15 SYMPOSIUM
Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

'Narratives in An Internet of Soft Things'

The event brings together the Arcintex research community in
smart textiles, architecture and interaction design, with the
UKRC research project  An Internet of Soft Things, concerned
with the development of co-design methodologies for mental
wellbeing service communities. It will focus on the use of
personal narratives in therapeutic practices, and the
potential offered by environments augmented with smart
textiles to enable new ways of creating, sharing and accessing
stories. It will ask delegates to think about the ethical as
well as technical dimensions involved in how we choose to
render, interpret, save or analyse such narratives, and what
this can mean for personal identity and growth.

http://arcintex.hb.se/conferences-workshops/







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