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________________________________________________ ________________ ________________________________________________ ________________ ____________________________________________ __ _ _ _ __ __________________________________________ ___ __ ___ ___ _ __________________________________________ ____ __ ____ ___ _ __________________________________________ ___ __ ____ ___ _ ____________________________________________ __ ____ ___ _ DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS/ Volume 24/ Number 2/ Mar2019/ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CONTENTS o Editor o Calls - Journals o Calls - Conferences o Announcements o DRN search o Contributing to DRN ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Editor Please note the short dates on some announcements below. My apologies to those who notified me of events whose dates unfortuntely expired before this issue could be put togeher and sent. A slight change of format this month, but same curated content, same focus on the global design research community with calls for journals and conferences, and other topical announcements. - David Durling ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 2-5 September 2019 - REMINDER - IASDR2019: DESIGN REVOLUTIONS - Manchester International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2019 DESIGN REVOLUTIONS Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK We are proud to invite you to participate in the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) Conference 2019 hosted by Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK on 02-05 September 2019. The conference theme DESIGN REVOLUTIONS will explore how design drives and responds to revolutionary thinking through questioning the norm, probing the now and embracing the new. There are 10 tracks to explore the conference theme: Change, Learning, Living, Making, People, Technology, Thinking, Value, Voices and Open. Full track details are provided below. There are four ways to participate in the conference: - Full Paper(4000-5000 words) to be presented at the conference. Selected paper will be published in the conference proceedings. Deadline 03 April 2019 - Short Papers(2000-2500 words) to be presented either as a short oral presentations or poster display at the conference. Deadline 12 April 2019 - Workshops(90 minutes or 3 hours) proposals (1000 words). Deadline 12 April 2019 - Paper reviewer: Please e-mail us at [log in to unmask] if you would like to become a paper reviewer TRACKS IASDR 2019 is organised under 10 parallel tracks that reflect the breadth and opportunities of the norm, the now and the new of design research: - Change Design continually evolves as it responds to the context in which it operates. It spans boundaries and is shaped by disruptions be they political, ideological or conceptual. What forms of change should design embrace and who are the thought leaders that are instigating change? What new business models and modes of operation should design support? How should design transition from the now to the new? - Learning Design is inherently a learning process that supports creativity to transform current situations to preferred ones. While creativity is considered critical in education, is design being eclipsed by STEM subjects? How should we respond to the current challenges presented in education? What ways can design enhance learning experiences? How should design nurture creativity towards new ways of learning? - Living Design surrounds us by shaping way we live through our consumption of products, the services we use and the cities we inhabit. It impacts the environment, health and wellbeing of all. What vision of living should design suggest? How should design be used to enhance our lives and the environment? How should design improve the way we approach sustainability and the circular economy? How can design enhance the urban environment? - Making Design and making are intrinsically linked, be it through the use of the hand or the machine. The creative possibilities of materials and processes have long been harnessed by designers to innovate. What models of production, fabrication and modification are going to shape the future? How are materials shaping design and how are designers shaping materials? Is the democratisation of making a positive of negative issue for design? - People Understanding human behaviour, and just as importantly misbehaviour, provides opportunities to design collaboratively for, and with, people. By enabling social and cultural dimensions to be considered, design can connect to the needs of citizens today and in the future. Why are people important to design? How will co-design and co-production models evolve in the next decade? What social dimensions in society can design embrace and why? - Technology From digital automation to machine learning and artificial intelligence to the Internet of Things, the technology landscape that design needs to engage with is become increasingly complex. Long gone are the days when design was able to humanising technology without engaging with other disciplines. How can design support the 4th industrial revolution? What is the role of design in discovering new technology? How should design connect technology and humans? How can design and creativity unlock the potential of digital technologies? - Thinking The concept of design thinking has become ubiquitous within the design, business and innovation fields. While designers are able to consider complex and often competing demands, the nature of how they think when doing so is less understood. What are the relationships between thinking and doing in design? Can thinking by, for or through design address societal challenges and unlock innovation?? Has design thinking passed its sell by date or is it still a valuable proposition? - Value Communicating the relationship between design and business has long been a challenge for design. While design is recognised as a driver for innovation, design has long been seen as a cost rather than an investment. How can design be effectively managed to maximise its economic value? What evidence is needed to justify the place of design at the board level? How will new models of design shape innovation thinking? - Voices Design is global and multicultural yet debates have for a long time biased particular mindsets, ideologies and philosophies. While there are voices that claim that design is inclusive, realities have tended to support existing notions of power and hierarchal socio-political systems. How can design become more inclusive, ethical and sustainable? Has the time come for the decolonisation of design? What are the ethical challenges that design must address and how should they address it? - Open Design Revolutions is about the novel and the new so we encourage out of the box thinking, so challenge conventions and probe the norm. What are the critical debates in design research? How should design research engage with other disciplines and what new forms of inter- and multi-disciplinarity will emerge? Who are the key thinkers and doers in design and why? What is revolutionary thinking in design research? https://iasdr2019.org/ ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 23-24 September 2019 - Third Call For Paper: EKSIG2019, 23-24 September 2019, Tallinn, Estonia EKSIG 2019: KNOWING TOGETHER EXPERIENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND COLLABORATION International Conference of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge at Estonian Academy of Arts, 2019 EKSIG 2019 will address the theme of Knowing Together experiential knowledge and collaboration We are pleased to announce our first keynote speaker, Prof. Ron Wakkary, Everyday Design Studio, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. With the theme Knowing Together experiential knowledge and collaboration the conference aims to provide a forum for debate about knowledge generation in collaboration by professionals and academic researchers in the creative disciplines and beyond. Creative practice has transformed from one based on the production of material artefacts to one that engages expertise and knowledge from multiple disciplines. Recent research in the creative disciplines has revolved around the changing territorial context of making and has increasingly involved professionals and academic researchers working collaboratively to explore an interdisciplinary inquiry. Collaboration in such research has therefore become vital. A research team may comprise different disciplinary experts, such as scientists, technologists, artists, designers, architects, psychologists, business strategists and policy makers, working across academic, commercial and public sectors. They may work with materials and/or non-materials. Examples include research the fields of New Materials, Smart Textiles, Virtual Materiality, Material Innovation, Embodied Ideation, and Participatory Practices in Business in which various partners are in dialogue with one another, developing, consolidating and enhancing knowledge while generating new opportunities for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange. EKSIG 2019 aims to examine collaboration within research and commercial teams that comprise creative professionals/researchers (such as designers, artists, architects, etc.) and members with other diverse disciplinary expertise. This is to understand how individual experiential knowledge, or knowledge gained by practice, is shared, how collective experiential knowledge is accumulated and communicated in and through collaboration, and how it is embodied in the outputs and may be traced back to the origin of the practice. The conference also aims to illuminate making as the action of change in which matter and materials are transformed through collaboration, interaction or negotiation between the collaborative team and their material and non-material environments. This conference welcomes contributions exploring and discussing experiential knowledge generated when researchers and practitioners collaborate with experts in other fields. We interpret collaboration here in the widest possible sense to include any kind of working together. We are interested in building a rich collection of case studies that illuminate the relationships built within the collaboration, the approaches used and the new knowledge gained and transferred within the team. This is expected to contribute to a more systematic approach for studying and integrating experiential knowledge into collaborative practice and research. Questions of interest are for example: - What are the current understandings of collaboration and interdisciplinary research? - How can collaboration be utilised within the framework of research? - How can a researchers disciplinary expertise benefit collaborative research and practice? - How can we articulate material (and immaterial) knowledge which are tacit and embodied within the process of research? - How can skills and embodied knowledge in different professional disciplines be shared and/or applicable to one another in a collaborative practice? - How can we gain and communicate individual and collective experiential knowledge in and through collaboration, and how is it embodied in the outputs and may be traced back to the origin of the practice? - What means and methods can be utilised to transfer and replicate tacit knowledge accumulated in collaborative practice? 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, architecture, engineering, craft, media, HCI, performance, music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, health, cognitive science, gastronomy, oenology, sensory studies, etc., that are concerned with collaboration in research and in creative and professional practice. For EKSIG 2019, we invite submission of full papers (4000-5000 words) which offer new or challenging views on the subject. Papers will be selected subject to a double-blind peer-review process by an international review team. Please submit your full papers via EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eksig2019. Authors Guide for the EKSIG2019 can be found on the conference website http://www.eksig2019.com/calls/ KEY DATES Submission of full papers 5 April 2019 Notification of acceptance of papers 10 June 2019 Submission of final revised papers 19 July 2019 Conference 2324 September 2019 CONFERENCE ORGANISERS Kristi Kuusk, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia Nithikul Nimkulrat, OCAD University, Canada Julia Valle Noronha, Estonian Academy of Arts, Estonia / Aalto University, Finland Camilla Groth, University of Southeast Norway / Aalto University, Finland Oscar Tomico, ELISAVA | Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, Spain Kristina Niedderer, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ABOUT EKSIG EKSIG is part of a programme of Special Interest Groups set up by the Design Research Society (DRS) in 2007 to facilitate international exchange and advance in relevant areas of design. EKSIG is concerned with the understanding and management of experiential knowledge in research and professional practice in design in order to clarify fundamental principles and practices, with regard to both research degree regulations/requirements and research methodology. Please see http://experientialknowledge.org.uk for more information about the Special Interest Group and previous conferences. EKSIG 2019 will be convened as part of a regular programme of EKSIG conferences which serve to address specific themes by bringing together researchers and practitioners from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production and methodological approaches to engender challenging multi vocal debates around these themes and to facilitate exchange and cross fertilisation between the creative disciplines and other practice-led disciplines. We invite contributions from design, architecture, engineering, craft, media,performance, music, fine art, curation, museology, archaeology, philosophy, knowledge management, education, health, cognitive science, gastronomy, oenology and others that are concerned with expertise and connoisseurship of creative and professional practice and research. Papers selected for presentation at the conference will be published in the conference proceedings: an abstract booklet with an online publication of the full papers, the preferred format of the DRS. As in past years, the organisers will collaborate with an appropriate journal to publish selected papers from the conference as a special issue. INDICATIVE REFERENCES Frickel, S., Albert, M. & Prainsack, B. (eds.) (2016). Investigating Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Theory and Practice across Disciplines. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Ingold, T. (2013). Making: Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture. London, UK: Routledge. Plattner, H., Meinel, C. & Leifer, L. (eds.) (2018). Design Thinking Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. Sennett, R. (2008). The Craftsman. New Haven, London: Yale University Press. http://www.eksig2019.com ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CALL FOR SPECIAL CONVERSATION AND WORKSHOP SESSIONS International MinD Conference 2019 Designing with and for People with Dementia: Wellbeing, Empowerment and Happiness International Conference 2019 of the MinD Consortium, the DRS Special Interest Group on Behaviour Change and the DRS Special Interest Group on Wellbeing and Happiness, hosted by the Technische Universitt Dresden, in Dresden, Germany. The conference will provide a trans-disciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, end-users and policy makers from the design and health care professions to exchange and discuss new findings, approaches and methods for using design to improve dementia care and to support people with dementia and their carers. The two-day conference programme consists of three keynote speeches and two streams of mixed academic paper and design proposal presentations sessions. The special conversation and workshop sessions will complement the programme to explore opportunities and issues of designing with and for people with dementia. These sessions allow session organisers more freedom, space and time (90 minutes) to stage structured interactions and collaborative processes, and to use more unconventional and experimental session formats. We invite you to submit your proposal for a special conversation or workshop session. The proposal must be submitted by 31 March 2019 through the ConfTool website www.conftool.org/mind2019 The proposal must be submitted using the template provided on the conference website www.mind4dementia.eu and should cover: - Theme & Topic of the session: What are the practical or research problems/questions? Why is this relevant to the conference, to people and society? - Session approach & Format: What will be the proposed format of the session? How will the problem be dealt with? Which approach will be applied or developed? - Impact: What (kind of) results are expected? How will the contents and results of the session be documented and published? (There will be a simple form for documenting the session outcomes in order to publish them as part of the proceedings. However, we encourage session leads to consider and propose further ways of exploitation and dissemination of the session outcomes.) - People: Who will be leading the sessions, and who will be the contributors? Who else is invited to participate (prerequisites and maximum participant number)? We welcome a broad engagement with the field and invite submissions from a diverse range of researchers and practitioners from the various design and health disciplines, including product and interior design, craft, information and communication technologies, architecture and the built environment, psychiatry, psychology, geriatrics and others who make a relevant contribution to the field. Session topics may address, for example: - Design approaches for the wellbeing/empowerment/happiness of elderly people - Design approaches for the wellbeing/empowerment/happiness of people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or dementia - New design frameworks and approaches for wellbeing/empowerment/happiness - Mindful design approaches for wellbeing/empowerment/happiness - Collaboration between designers, technologists, health professionals and people with lived experience - Data collection with and by people with MCI/dementia - Co-design & co-creation with people with MCI/dementia - Evaluation of design with people with lived experience - Evaluation of the impact of design on people with lived experience ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CALLS - JOURNALS Journal of Arts and Communities SPECIAL EDITION: STITCHING TOGETHER This special edition of the Journal of Arts and Communities arises from the Stitching Together project, funded by an AHRC research networking grant. The Stitching Together project (stitchingtogether.net) brings together researchers, project commissioners, professional textile practitioners and enthusiast maker groups to open critical dialogue around research and practice using participatory textile making methods. The familiarity of textile making processes such as sewing and knitting means these activities are accessible to participants and researchers in varied contexts across a range of disciplines. Researchers using participatory textile making activities are gaining rich insights into questions of artistic, scientific, social, material and cultural value. The aim of this special edition is to provide a collection of reflective case study articles that both document and critically examine methods and approaches to using participatory textile making within diverse research contexts. The Call for Contributions is extended to researchers using participatory textile making practices in research areas including, but not confined to: - craft practice - sustainable development - healthcare and well-being - learning - activism - community - identity The special edition offers an opportunity to reflect on issues including the ethical dimensions of participatory making; the immaterial qualities of making together; possibilities for and challenges to cross-cultural understandings; the making and un-making of boundaries; and the challenges for researchers of documentation and data gathering. Submissions should not exceed 4,000 words and should discuss: - the research context - the making activities - advantages and disadvantages of the methods used - findings and reflections Contributors are encouraged to use visual supporting material; images and illustrations are welcome. The Journal of Arts and Communities is an international publication. Submissions should reflect this and clearly explain the research context with an international readership in mind. Deadline for submissions: 1st October 2019 Deadline for revised submissions: 5th January 2020 Expected publication of the Stitching Together special edition: March 2020 All submissions are to be made through the journals website (https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arts-communities). Enquiries about submissions may be addressed to the guest editors at: [log in to unmask] Guest editors will not review submissions previously discussed with authors; all submissions will be reviewed independently and anonymously following the journal guidelines. Principal Editor: Stephanie Knight Guest Editors: Emma Shercliff & Amy Twigger Holroyd Please refer to the publishers guidelines for author notes. https://stitchingtogether.net/call-for-contributions/ Call for papers: Staying with Speculation: Natures, Futures, Politics Global Discourse, volume 10, issue 3 Edited by Luke R. Moffat, Lancaster University ([log in to unmask]) Abstract In the past decade, speculation has become an increasingly widespread concept in disciplines across the sciences, arts and humanities. Its applications are as diverse as designing urban futures, studying geological phenomena and imagining future participatory politics. That speculative methods and practices often place importance on unpredictability would seem to make the approach unattractive to planning and design. However, speculation is increasingly deployed in shaping environments, policies, cultures and products in direct ways. As a consequence, there is growing interest in disparate, but often overlapping, conceptual, theoretical and practical elements of speculative research methods. As this cross-disciplinary pool of research about speculation grows, questions emerge about its potential, as well as its concrete ramifications. Speculation and speculative methods are often seen as catalysts for change. Staying with Speculation brings together researchers and practitioners from a range of fields to examine the implications and applications of the approach in terms of dealing with core ethical, methodological and practical issues that we face in an era of volatile unpredictability. This is essential since, although there is discussion of speculation in design, sociological and philosophical literatures, exchange between researchers and practitioners is still quite rare. This special issue presents a chance for researchers to share knowledge and build a shared vocabulary across disciplinary boundaries. Issues to be examined include: - the ethical and political questions regarding the deployment of speculation both within and beyond academic contexts - the implication of speculation on disciplinary boundaries - the identify of those on whose behalf research practices speculate - the potential for speculation to be both an inclusive and exclusionary practice - and the potential for speculative practices to address global challenges such as climate change, urban futures and new political practices Submission instructions and deadlines Abstracts of 400 words: 1st April 2019 Articles (solicited on the basis of review of abstracts): 1st July 2019 Publication: September 2019 Instructions for authors Please submit by email all abstracts and articles to the Guest Editors Further details: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/global-discourse Editor contact details: Luke R. Moffat ([log in to unmask]) Journal Aims and Scope Global Discourse is an interdisciplinary, problem-oriented journal of applied contemporary thought operating at the intersection of politics, international relations, sociology and social policy. The journal's scope is broad, encouraging interrogation of current affairs with regard to core questions of distributive justice, wellbeing, cultural diversity, autonomy, sovereignty, security and recognition. All issues are themed and aimed at addressing pressing issues as they emerge. Rejecting the notion that publication is the final stage in the research process, Global Discourse seeks to foster discussion and debate between often artificially isolated disciplines and paradigms, with responses to articles encouraged and conversations continued across issues. The journal features a mix of full-length articles, each accompanied by one or more replies, policy papers commissioned by organizations and institutions and book review symposia, typically consisting of three reviews and a reply by the author/s. With an international advisory editorial board consisting of experienced, highly-cited academics, Global Discourse publishes themed issues on topics as they emerge. Authors are encouraged to explore the international dimensions and implications of their work. The journal publishes themed issues consisting of articles, replies and reviews. All submissions must be in response to a specific call for papers. All research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymized refereeing. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// CALLS - CONFERENCES 9-11 October 2019 - DeSForM19 conference EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SHORT PAPERS / DEMOS The deadline to submit short papers/demos to the DeSForM19 conference has been extended until April 5th. This DeSForM edition will be held at MIT (Boston, USA) on October 9-11, 2019. You still have time to submit your short paper (6 pages maximum) to the conference and showcase your work on the future of design and technology at MIT! DeSForM 2019 | Beyond Intelligence 11th International Conference on Design and Semantics of Form and Movement October 9-11, 2019 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston https://desform19.org SCOPE AND BACKGROUND DeSForM 2019 | Beyond Intelligence is dedicated to presenting the latest research in the fields of design and technology. DeSForM (Design and Semantics of Form and Movement) seeks to present current research into the nature, character and behavior of emerging typologies of connected and intelligent objects within adaptive systems. In its 11th edition, we challenge design scholars to start thinking beyond designing for and with intelligence embedded into single artifacts, to broaden their focus and start addressing designing for distributed, hyperconnected, and complex intelligent ecosystems, and how their meaning, experience, and ethics can be approached in this new landscape. Submissions should be focused on one or more of the following themes. In addition to these topics, contributions addressing the general conference interests (i.e. designing meanings, semantics and aesthetics of smart, dynamic and interactive artifacts) are also accepted. - Experiencing Complexity - Interacting with New Intelligences - Societal Impacts + Design Ethics - Future Roles of Designers IMPORTANT DATES April 5, 2019 (extended) : Submission deadline for short papers/demos May 1, 2019: Notification of acceptance May 31, 2019: Camera-ready version October 9-11, 2019: Conference at MIT, Boston SUBMISSIONS We invite authors to submit high-quality, previously unpublished, original contributions that explore one or more conference topics. Short papers will be assessed through a double-blind review process and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Short papers (Demonstration + Poster) Short papers should be up to six pages (including references). Short papers should describe actual design or art projects, which will be presented through live demos and posters during the conference. Authors of short papers are also encouraged to provide in their submissions a link to download media demonstrating their results, whether images, videos, or other media types. All content should be anonymized for double-blind review. MORE INFORMATION If you have further questions about DeSForM 2019, please contact [log in to unmask] https://desform19.org 7-8 December 2019 - Designing for children-IDC Call for Papers, Posters, Project Demos - International conference on Designing for children with focus on Play and Learn at IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay International conference on Designing for children with focus on Play and LearnSaturday 7th to Sunday 8th of December 2019 Venue: VMCC, IIT Bombay http://www.designingforchildren.net Aim:This international event is aimed at exchange of viewpoints, deliberations and discussions concerning design and research issues related to children. The event is expected to throw light on the role of designing for children as related to design of objects, media and environment with focus on play + learn.Participants:The events are centered around the interests of students, educationists, practicing designers and children related interest groups. The event has been designed to be lively, interactive and thought provoking and will provide great opportunity to interact with thought leaders, listen to visions by researchers and for networking. Call for papers: The call for papers for the International Conference on Designing for Children is open.The selection of paper abstract is through blind jury. Selected papers will need to be orally presented by the author/s during the conference. The time duration for each of the paper presentations is 15minutes followed by 5 minutes for discussion and Q and A. All the selected papers will be published during the time of the conference. The papers will also be made available online after the conference along with the ISBN number. For online Abstract Submission click here...........>>> Deadlines:Deadline for Paper Abstract Submission (500 words maximum): 1st of May 2019Acceptance of Paper Abstract: 1st of June 2019Deadline for Full Paper Submission (3000 words maximum): 1st September 2019 Call for posters: The call for posters for the International Conference on Designing for Children is open.The selection of poster abstract is through blind jury. Selected posters will need to be displayed and explained by the author(s) during the conference.Deadlines:Deadline for Poster Abstract Submission (500 words maximum): 1st of May 2019Acceptance of Poster Abstract: 1st of June 2019 Deadline for Full Poster Submission (A1 size posters - 1 no): 1st September 2019Poster Session:The Second and Third day afternoon on 7th and 8th of December 2019 sessions are dedicated to presentations through poster.You can submit a poster of dimension 2ft width x 3ft (A1 size) height in vertical format.Youll be provided with a 2ft width x 3ft height panels where your poster can be mounted. Call For Project Demos: The Second and Third day afternoon on 7th and 8th of December 2019 sessions are dedicated to demonstration of Projects.Youll be provided with a table/space of 2ft width x 3ft length where your project can be demonstrated.Dates for Project Demo submission:Deadline for Project Demo Abstract Submission (500 words maximum): 1st of August 2019Acceptance of Project Demo Abstract: 1st of September 2019 Themes for the conference on Designing for Children with focus on Play + Learn: We invite interesting experimentation, different perspectives, innovative design applications, in-depth case studies, research outcomes and position papers centered on the theme of the conference. The following are the suggested main themes and sub themes for submission of papers: Products for children with focus on Play + Learn Issues involved with design of products for children Toys, games and puzzles for children Design with sustainability issues for children Process, methods and theories on designing for children School for children with focus on Play + Learn Design as a subject in school curriculum Design as a methodology for learning other subjects Alternative methods of learning systems for children Learning and play theories Learning through play activities Design of school textbooks and other learning materials Children’s environment with focus on Play + Learn Design of play environment for children Design of living environment for children Design of parks, schools, hospitals, playgrounds, etc. for children Children and media with focus on Play + Learn Design of storytelling methods for children TV and film programs for children Illustration, comics, animation for children Design of children’s publications Communication design for children Typeface and readability issues for children Interactive environments for children with focus on Play + Learn: Design of interactive systems and technologies for children Social networks for children Design with new technologies for collaborative activities Usability issues and human factors as related to children Design of virtual environments for children Children with special needs with focus on Play + Learn: Design for children with special needs Development issues of children with focus on Play + Learn: Children’s behaviors, perception, and emotion Development of sensorial skills in children Issues connected with innovative and creative potentials in children Registration: The registration for the International Conference on Designing for Children will start from 1st June 2019 onwards. An early registration before 1st October 2019 includes an early rate. Please do forward this invitation to others interested [log in to unmask] http://www.designingforchildren.net/ 17-19 October 2019 - Systems Change for Governance: Design + Networks + Activation RSD8 Eight Symposium of Relating Systems Thinking and Design http://rsd8.org IIT - Institute of Design, Chicago, Illinois, USA There is an emerging concern to address the pragmatics of large-scale social system change across all contexts. Organizations can no longer go it alone if they want to achieve scaled and sustainable impact. Building, activating, and amplifying capacity to co-design and co-produce with real stakeholders has always been a challenging commitment. Successful system change models are still emerging across different sectors, and their results are simultaneously challenged by massive global trends. Achieving systems-level transformation requires activating, cultivating and galvanizing networks-technological, infrastructural, and social-that support new collaborative activities, processes, and mindsets. The role of systemic design in informing equitable and sustainable choices increasingly demands that designers re-orient toward "design and...". Together, we'll explore real-world contexts where organizational behavior, entrepreneurship, policymaking, and design are already colliding, as well as new tools and methodologies to evolve our individual and collective points of view about leadership and the transformative practices-and challenges-of large-scale collaboration. Our thematic questions include the following: - How can organizations engage and activate networks for reimagining livelihoods and the platforms for supporting them? - What is the role of leaders-including designers-in designing sustainable solutions that reimagine the interconnectivity of social, technical and ecological infrastructures? - How can socially-focused entrepreneurs prototype large-scale transformations that weave together new technological developments and more equitable and inclusive solutions? - Where might we learn from alternative or emerging models of developing and scaling access, inclusion, and equity in large-scale transformation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders? - What ethical and ecological principles - such as social justice, regenerativity, transparency, and "fit"- should inform how we enable systemic change in action? AREAS OF FOCUS The conference theme encompasses many areas of Systemic Design, exploring the opportunities for systems and design thinking in different interdisciplinary and complementary domains. We welcome works addressing this wide theme from different perspectives, fostering special reflections on the relevant topics proposed below. 1. Systemic Design and Organizations, Business Practices, and New Economies 2. Systemic Design and Emerging Technological Infrastructures 3. Systemic Design and Access, Inclusion, and Equity 4. Systemic Design Models and Processes for Sustainment 5. Systemic Design and Governance: Policymaking and Decision Making 6. Open track CONFERENCE STRUCTURE Discussion Groups Participants submit abstracts that will be clustered around thematic areas, and they give brief presentations about their work. These presentations will be followed by loosely structured conversations between 15-20 people led by a facilitator, who afterwards will be responsible for providing a short summary of the discussion and its insights. Both the discussion summary and the submitted abstracts will be published in the conference proceedings. Activity Groups Organizers submit proposals for leading a session that addresses a specific system change challenge for large-scale transformation. Activity groups are knowledge sharing and benchmarking discussions focusing on emerging Systemic Design practices and applications in public, private, and social sectors. Facilitators will be responsible for documenting and summarizing the results of the activity. Accepted activity groups submission and results will be published in the conference proceedings. Workshops Workshops are half or full day sessions that provide an opportunity for participants to engage with the latest tools and methods of systemic design. Organizers submit proposals for leading hands-on activities sharing their tools, methods, and strategies for large-scale transformation and re-inventing systems of governance. Workshops allow facilitators to test and prototype ideas and co-create new knowledge collaboratively with participants. Workshop proposals should include no fewer than 3 registered facilitators. Proposals should be in the region of but no more than 1000 words and provide an overall description of the theme, details of the proposed activities and format of the session, workshop goals and expected outcomes, as well as detailing any technical or space requirements. Charles Owen Tribute Charles Owen is a pioneer in connecting design and systems thinking. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Design, where he conducted research and taught until 2010 in the Master's and PhD Design graduate programs. For participating in this session, participants submit proposals for presenting a review and re-evaluation of Charles Owen's theories and/or projects through the lenses of contemporary systems theory and design challenges. Prof. Owen's biography, publications, and projects can be found at the Institute of Design website https://id.iit.edu/people/charles-l-owen/ . Accepted participant submissions will be published in the conference proceedings. SUBMISSION PROCESS Call for abstracts/proposals for Discussion Groups, Activity Groups, Workshops, and Charles Owen Tribute "Reinventing Systems of Governance: Design + Networks + Activation" is an interdisciplinary conference aiming to represent the state of the art of systems thinking application in design towards sustainability and stimulate an international debate among academics and professionals on the topic. We ask everyone who wishes to present their work at RSD8 to submit a long abstract of maximum 1000 words (title, keywords and references excluded). The abstract should be submitted by May 3, 2019 through EasyChair as linked here<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rsd8>. You should upload the abstract in text form as well as in a PDF file including any images and the conference topics to which your work relates. The abstract submission form will guide you through the process but we recommend you download and read the call for abstracts for more detailed information. Your abstract will undergo a peer review process by independent referees. We will notify the authors of abstracts selected to be presented at RSD8 within the deadline given on the home page. If you have received an email telling you that your abstract has been selected, you should register for the conference and present your work during the RSD8 symposium (October 17-19, 2019). After the conference, you will be asked to prepare a working paper that will be included in the RSD8 proceedings: you may consider the feedback gathered during your presentation discussion. All the working papers will be included in the official RSD8 proceedings, published in Open Access by Systemic Design Association. Then, authors desiring to fully develop a research article from the paper will be given the opportunity to submit them for peer-reviewed publication in leading design/scientific journals. Key Dates 03 May 2019 - Deadline for abstract submission 31 May 2019 - Announcement of acceptance decisions 17-19 October 2019 - RSD8 Symposium at IIT-Institute of Design, Chicago 14-15 November 2019 - Research & Education in Design Conference 2019 The Research & Education in Design Conference website is now open for submission. Please find the paper template and instructions for submission at http://redesconference.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/11-call-for-papers We are also delighted to reveal that Professor Barbara Tversky will deliver a keynote talk during the conference. We will reveal more keynote speakers soon, you can find more information here: http://redesconference.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/13-keynotes Call for Papers: Research & Education in Design Conference 2019 | Lisbon People & Processes & Products & Philosophy: mapping the territories of design knowledge Hosted by the Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon Full papers submission deadline: Tuesday 2 April 2019 Details for submission available from: http://redesconference.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/11-call-for-papers Papers will be selected after a double-blind review process. The Research & Education in Design (REDES) group invites research papers for submission to its 2019 international conference. The REDES2019 conference aims to explore, analyse, and advance the connections between design research and design education; the conference themes are organised around the intersections of the four main sources of design knowledge: people, processes, products, and philosophy. Conference themes: 1. People & Processes 2. People & Products 3. Processes & Philosophy 4. People & Philosophy 5. Philosophy & Products 6. Processes & Products The call is for full papers only; the maximum number of words is 4000 excluding abstract and references. Any questions please contact the conference organisers via the following email address [log in to unmask] 21-22 October 2019 - Dementia Lab Conference The fourth edition of the Dementia Lab Conference will be held in Eindhoven (The Netherlands). This edition focuses on research and design happening in direct engagement with people living with dementia, and their wider social and care networks. The Dementia Lab Conference has been known for engaging not only designers and researchers, but also care practitioners in the debate on design and dementia. Find more details below on how to participate or go to www.dementialabconference.com We are looking forward to meet you at the Dementia Lab conference 2019, taking place on 21 and 22 October 2019 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands , hosted by the University of Technology Eindhoven. The Dementia Lab is a growing community, established in 2016, that builds forward on a legacy of work done for and with people living with dementia and their surrounding context. In the Dementia Lab community this is approached from an inclusive, participatory and person-centered perspective. Where in other venues it might be challenging to convey the experience of working with people with dementia, or the urgency of working in this field, the Dementia Lab allows for a focused discussion around this topic with like-minded designers, researchers, carers and other professionals operating in the same area. Design is important in the wider dementia context. For Dementia Lab 2019, we welcome submissions from a variety of disciplines, including research, design, care, and more, and in the following formats, ranging from full research papers, to posters, exhibition-demos and (personal) stories around, or related to, design and dementia. The theme for the Dementia Lab 2019 is Making design work: Engaging with dementia in context. This theme focuses on research and design happening in direct engagement with people living with dementia, and their wider social and care networks. This call for participation welcomes especially contributions that reflects on how design and research efforts unfold in the context of living, working and caring for/with people with dementia. Making design work zooms in on what works or does not work in terms of design, technologies, services, environments or design methods in these contexts of living, caring and working. Questions that can be tackled by a contribution that focuses amongst others on the relational character (of, for example, the designer or researcher with the contexts, carers, family and/or persons with dementia), challenges of materiality (what visual, tactile, olfactory, or other materials work for and with people with dementia in context) or temporality (what engagement in time is needed to let design or research work and have a sustainable impact on people with dementia). In Dementia Lab we avoid to see people with dementia as the physical or cognitive characteristics of the syndrome, or as a collective, but rather focus on their personal and lived experiences. In doing so, we are considerate to the identity of and role people with dementia themselves can play. Contributions to Dementia Lab 2019 We welcome everyone to contribute to the conference from their professional and/or personal experiences. To facilitate this, we offer different forms of contributions for Dementia Lab 2019. We allow the submission of full academic research papers, poster presentations, demo exhibitions and personal stories. Each of these options offer a different way to share contributions at the event: Full academic paper Approximately 6 - 10 page paper Taylor & Francis article template. To ensure academic contributions, we facilitate a double-blind peer review process with people experienced in this domain. With a selection of papers we aim for a special issue in a relevant journal. Demo exhibition & Poster presentation 2-4 page Taylor & Francis article submission + demonstrator and/or poster. Personal Story , 2-4 page submission, free format + oral presentation. These can be shared with: [log in to unmask] or EasyChair The main language of the event is English, but for reasons of inclusivity, the Dementia Lab will also hosts a track in Dutch. Submissions for posters, demos or personal stories can therefore be made both in Dutch and English. For all contributions, apart from the personal stories, we use the Taylor & Francis article template https://authorservices.taylorandfrancis.com/formatting-and-templates/ All submissions will be reviewed by experts in the field. Submissions Please submit your contributions via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dl19 or for Personal Story, submit to [log in to unmask] The submission deadline is 18th of May 2019 Notification of acceptance will follow 1st of July 2019. The Alzheimer Europe conference 2019 will take place in the Netherlands, the Hague, on 24 and 25 October, and we partner with them to share selected submissions and tracks, follow our website for more info http://www.dementialabconference.com Digitally Engaged Learning 2019 - Teaching Futures http://www.digitallyengagedlearning.net/2019/submission-guidelines/ for DEL 2019: Teaching Futures. DEL 2019 will be hosted by Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Submission deadline: April 1, 2019 Teaching Futures: Exploring this year's theme 2019 marks the centennial of the Bauhaus movement. Foundational to many of our institutions of art and design, what will these next 100 years hold for the teaching and learning we make? Education is a speculation on the future, based on the past and producing the present. What is known meeting what is unknown. Innovations in technology are built on speculations of the future enacted in the present. In the creative disciplines we design, question and imagine digital futures and the future of digital through making and teaching. Finding synthesis in these futures can impact our conceptions of curriculum, impact our teaching, and transform our creative practices. We seek proposals from teachers, technicians, instructional designers, artists, makers, researchers, art historians, digital humanities scholars, and others across all creative disciplines addressing these Teaching Futures that may align with one of the following tracks: - The early years (Weimar): experimentation. Proposals may include a variety of experiments and innovations in curriculum, pedagogy, teaching, and learning. What do we learn through experiments? How are our classrooms in fact labs of experimentation? What methods (scientific?) do we use to establish our hypothesis and yield findings? - The second phase (Dessau): art/design and industry/technology. Where are the intersections between these terms? How does the academy host industry? Wherein lie the opportunities and challenges for the industry inside learning spaces? What role does technology have in these teaching futures? - The third phase (Berlin): expansion to the world. The individual, their community, their systems, the world how does teaching and learning happen at each and between these scales? Does reimagining the next 100 years in art/design education necessitate a global framework of imagination? - Any other teaching futures you would like to explore. Submission formats There are a number of submission formats, designed to accommodate participants at different stages and places in their digitally engaged teaching and learning journeys. You can propose any of the following: Workshops Workshops provide an opportunity for hands-on exploration and/or problem solving. They can be organized around a core challenge that participants come together to work on, or around a tool, platform, or concept. Workshops are scheduled for 90 minutes and should be highly participatory. Presentation of scholarship (creative practice, teaching, research) Presentations of scholarship give presenters a chance to speak for 10 minutes on their scholarship, or a subject relevant to the conference themes. Presentations will be followed by 20 minutes of discussion. We understand the term scholarship to incorporate creative practice, teaching practice and research. You may wish to present a teaching case study, research paper, documentation of a creative practice project, or similar. Please note - the focus here is on fostering interaction, conversation and dialogue. Panel discussion (2 presenters minimum) Panels should have a minimum of two participants or presenters. You can either propose a panel discussion, or present a group project in the form of a panel discussion Panels are scheduled for 45 minutes including Q&A time. The emphasis again is on fostering interaction, conversation and dialogue. Micro teach/micro make This format is an opportunity to take a playful, creative approach to teaching, making or demonstrating something in 5 minutes. You can use an object, image, text or other materials. Surprise us! Complete the submission form to submit your proposal http://www.digitallyengagedlearning.net/2019/submit/ For questions about DEL, please contact Claudia Roeschmann [log in to unmask] 18 October 2019 - REDS conference 2019 REDS conference 2019 is open for registration and abstract submission. This year, the theme is: Identity, Agency, and Choice personal approaches to researcher development The 2019 conference will be held at Kings College London on the 18th October, 2019. Keynote Speakers: Dr. Sally Hancock, University of York, who will draw on her ongoing research into the employment outcomes of doctoral graduates in the UK, and her published work using the principles of game theory to examine the career strategies of doctoral scientists. Dr. Julia Yates, City, University of London, will speak about Career Identities and Future Possible Selves. Who should attend? Researcher development colleagues, careers consultants, staff developers, academic researchers in higher education disciplines, and HE policy makers. There are 12 speaker places available. Deadline for submissions is Friday 21st June. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected by Friday 19th July. We welcome presentations of: Research outcomes of existing researcher development activity in terms of impact and efficacy of practice. Research in to new pedagogies, theories or programme concepts for the development of researchers. Opinion pieces founded in existing research outputs that: project future pedagogical needs and programme concepts for the development of researchers; or, identify key gaps in the current published research in respect of the development of researchers. NEW! Delegates have the opportunity to submit abstracts for a blog post that will contribute towards a special edition of a REDS blog series that will be launched at REDS conference 2019. We encourage all those who have research they feel is suitable to present at the conference to submit for an oral presentation; however, those who are unable to attend the conference in October, or have research that they feel more suited to a blog post, should consider submitting for this new format. For examples of the style, presentation, and detail expected, see this example. The abstract submission form is the same for both formats. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/rs/ecr/events/reds2019 10-11 December 2019 - Millennial Masculinities: Queers, Pimp Daddies and Lumbersexuals Massey University, Wellington New Zealand CALL FOR PAPERS Keynote Speakers Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts Shaun Cole, Winchester School of Art, University of Southhampton Andrew Reilly, University of Hawaii Convenor Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand In the age under the shadow of accused sexual predator Harvey Weinstein, Vladimir Putins hypermasculinity and conservative politician Donald Trump, the question of masculine identity looms as exigently as ever. While it is proper to identity construction of all kinds to question and deliberate upon what is constituted as desirable, it is now the sheer multiplicity of masculine identities, coupled with the reassertion of some of the less desirable, that makes this area of inquiry so rich, and so necessary. Looking at the present inevitably involves combing the past: stylish types appeared in the West during the 19th century, such as the dandy or the restless bohemian, or postwar masculinities such as the beatnik hipster, the rebel, the hippie, or the playboy. The social and political upheavals of the 1960s (which includes Stonewall Riots in 1969) and beyond precipitated the so-called crisis in masculinity in which recourse to the age-old models of bold, straight, breadwinner was no longer the default model of what men ought to be. Gay and lesbian liberation, civil rights and the womens movement placed normative masculinities on shaky ground. A confluence of a number of factors that had destabilised traditional, white middle-class, masculinity and gave rise to the mens movement which contained branches that were masculine and pro-feminist. The emergence of the New Man which was aided by the rise the retail sector and the style press, targeted affluent young male consumers and produced new kinds of images of men and their bodies in many cases reflective of by gay pornography. By the 90s, this mediated New Man had virtually disappeared and was replaced by the loutish New Lad. Labels come and go, and the beginning of the new millennium heralded the metrosexual, a consumer of luxury goods and cosmetics commensurate with any woman. In the new millennium, the effects of climate change and global warming, along with the sustainability and slow food movement, has produced new mediated masculinities, the repackaged urban hipster and his modern huntsman brother, the lumbersexual who has retreated back to nature. Masculinities are temporarily and spatially contingent and are embedded in culture, language and representation. Yet the history of mens fashion has tended to be the history of mens fashion in the West. A history that prioritises European, rather than indigenous or non-western dress practices. Little attention has also been paid to the ways in which dress and appearance construct masculinities and connections with traditions in settler or colonised societies. This can be said of the Congos Sapeurs and the Death Metal Cowboys of Botswana where the dialectics between colonised/coloniser are complicated. Millennial Masculinities is a two day interdisciplinary conference that explores the expression of masculinities through constructions of fashion, identity, style and appearance across the Arts and Humanities. Its areas of inquiry include cultural and gender theory, art history, fashion studies, film studies, literature, philosophy and sociology amongst others. There will be the opportunity for papers to be published in a special issue of Critical Studies in Mens Fashion, as well as the journals Film, Fashion and Consumption and the Journal of Asia Pacific Pop Culture. Suggested topics include: - Masculinities and cinema - Representations of masculinity - Masculinities and consumption - Subcultural style - Advertising men - Queer film - Men in uniforms - Fashion film - Celebrity men - Indigenous male identities - Fashion editorial - Fetish men - Hyper masculinities - Reigning men in royalty - Postcolonial masculinities - Men in history - Queer masculinities - Minority/subaltern masculinities - Drag kings/performativities of masculinities - Technologies and masculinities - Globalization and masculinities - Contested masculinities Submission Guidelines: E-mail a 150-word abstract with title and a list of keywords, your name and contact details, institution/department, and a brief 3-5 sentence bio in one word doc. Send paper abstracts with subject title Millennial Masculinities to Vicki Karaminas [log in to unmask] Important Dates: Deadline for Submission of proposals: August 30, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: 15 September, 2019. 25-27 september 2019 - MyData 2019 MyData conference is the leading international conference on human-centric personal data management, organised by MyData Global. This years conference is also an associated event of Finlands EU presidency. It takes place on 25-27 Sep 2019 in Helsinki, Finland. Design is a relevant and strategic area to foster ethical uses of personal data among organisations. For this reason we welcome contributions that address, or further extend, the following topics: How can design thinking support data-driven organisations to create solutions for handling personal data ethically? - Design principles, guidelines and best practices for MyData and data ethics - Case studies and lessons learned from trying to implement design thinking. How can MyData principles be turned into human-centred design solutions? What are relevant case studies and what can be learned from them? What dark patterns are effective and in practice right now, and how can we use their logic for good? - Design tools and patterns as well as methodologies for co-design Submission formats MyData 2019 supports different submission formats. The length of a format is indicative, and contributors are welcome to suggest a different time frame for your submission. Interactive & participatory - Fishbowl discussion (30min) - Strategic roundtable (1h 15min) - Hands-on workshop (3h) - Meetup (1h 15min or 3h) Short & inspiring input - Demo (10+5min) - Lightning talk (5min) - Fireside chat (20min) - Artistic installation / performance (propose your own timeframe) Traditional & insightful - Full session/panel (1h 15min) - Short (10+5min) or long (20+10min) presentation https://mydata.org/ 14-16 August 2019 - Experience Design conference, Australia Call for Papers The International Conference of Experience Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (XD2019GoldCoast) will be hosted by the Griffith Centre for Design and Innovation Research (CDAIR) at Griffiths Gold Coast campus. We welcome any paper types including: conceptual, empirical, methodological, professional papers, as well as critical literature reviews and case studies. We are also open to any research approaches and contexts as far as the paper has a clear research question to address and reports results that can make some significant contribution relevant to the conference theme of "Exploring and Enhancing Experience". You are invited to submit either a full paper (3,0005,000 words excluding abstract and references) or a short paper (1,5002,000 words excluding abstract and references). The deadline for all submissions is Friday 19 April 2019. https://www.griffith.edu.au/centre-design-innovation/XD2019GoldCoast 11-12 December 2019 - Design Research for Change Symposium Design Museum, London Context A quick search of the word design reveals hundreds of different definitions. Likewise, there are many different designers different disciplines, different attitudes, different goals, different agendas, different ways of working, different ways of doing research, different outputs, and different values. Perhaps, however, the connection between all of these diverse activities is the iterative development of products, services, systems, experiences, spaces, and other stuff in order to improve the human experience. In other words, using the power of human creativity to improve humanity. Today, with its application across a wide range of different disciplines and fields, design is being used to help address significant, complex, and global issues ranging from antimicrobial resistance to mobility, from healthy ageing to migration. And with its inherent agility and applicability, design helps shape the technological advances which are transforming the world around us. In recent years, design research has witnessed a social turn where researchers have looked to make change in social contexts as opposed to wholly commercial ends. This social turn has encompassed a range of activities and interventions that constitute a more socially-driven form of design, which suggests that researchers and practitioners from non-design disciplines are central to realising change in social situations. The Design Research for Change (DR4C) symposium will examine this social turn in design in detail and explore how design is increasingly involved in social, cultural, economic, environmental and political change. The DR4C Symposium will highlight the significant roles that design researchers play in some of the most challenging issues we face, both in the UK and globally, such as creating new products with reduced environmental impact, design research that enhances policy-making through greater citizen involvement, gaming interventions that prioritise the rights of girls and women to live a life free from violence, and design research that helps address recidivism by reframing prison industries as holistic creative hubs. Audience The audience for this symposium is wide and will not only include design researchers, design practitioners, and design academics BUT will be of significant interest to researchers in other areas including (but not limited to) education, healthcare, government, biotechnology, engineering, management, computing, and business. Given the reach and interdisciplinary nature of many forms of contemporary design research it is anticipated that this symposium will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in a wide range of disciplines. Themes The DR4C Symposium is a much-needed, timely, and significant one. The themes proposed (below) are intended to be inclusive (not exhaustive) and contributions are very welcome that challenge these areas and others. Design Research for Economic Change Design Research for Social Change Design Research for Health and Wellbeing Change Design Research for Environmental Change Design Research for Educational Change Design Research for Energy Change Design Research for Public Services Change Design Research for Behaviour Change Design Research for Care Change The DR4C Symposium aims to include a rich mix of design-led research papers, from authors across the world. This will include papers where design research traverses disciplinary, methodological, geographical and conceptual boundaries that highlights the wide-ranging social, cultural and economic impact of emerging forms of design research. We expect that collaboration will be a key factor in these Design Research for Change Symposium papers drawing on expertise, for example, in areas such as business, engineering, environmental science, health and wellbeing working alongside a wide range of design researchers. Questions We invite authors to submit high-quality, previously unpublished, original contributions that explore one or more of the DR4C Symposium themes. Submitted papers will be assessed through a double-blind review process and accepted papers will be published in a Design Research for Change book. We ask authors to consider and respond to one or more of the following questions in their DR4C paper: - What are we as design researchers with other researchers changing? Why? - What difference(s) is your design research actually making? - Who decides what to change? - Who decides/evaluates if this change is positive or good or enough? - What impact has your change delivered? At what cost? Also, we ask interested authors to consider how their design research project addresses one or more of the following: 1. Why is your design research concerned with change-making? 2. What have you tried to change through your design research? 3. Who has activated the change? And who has been affected by that change? 4. How have you delivered change though your design research? 5. What evidence do you have for the change that you claim? 6. When has your design research brought about positive change and when has it been detrimental? 7. Where else have you seen change happening? Further, more broadly and looking to the future: - What should design research change now? - Can design research really change anything? - What will you do to make change? - In what ways do you envision the impact of such change to be evaluated? Submission Details DR4C papers should be a maximum of 5,000 words (excluding references) and should include relevant images. Submissions should be anonymised for double-blind review. Accepted paper authors will be given a 30-minute single-track presentation slot at the Design Research for Change Symposium at the Design Museum, London on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 December 2019. Submissions should be in PDF format. - DR4C papers should be emailed to [log in to unmask] before 5 April 2019. Key Dates 5th February 2019 - Design Research for Change Symposium Call-for-Papers 5th April 2019 - Paper Submission Deadline (maximum 5,000 words) 3rd May 2019 Announcement of Paper Decisions 10th May 2019 - Design Research for Change Symposium Registration Open 3rd June 2019 - Final Paper Deadline 11th & 12th December 2019 - Design Research for Change Symposium Acknowledgements The Design Research for Change (DR4C) Symposium is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) under the AHRCs Design Priority Area Leadership Fellowship scheme (Award Ref: AH/P013619/1) and the Design Museum, London. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PDC2020 Manizales, Colombia The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) has a long history in bringing together research concerned with the direct involvement of people in co-design, development, implementation, and appropriation activities around technologies, spaces, artefacts, and services. The conference invites researchers and practitioners working on participatory design, as it is encountered and discussed in multiple fields. In 2020, the 18th Biennial Participatory Design Conference (PDC) will be held in Manizales, Colombia, for the first time in South America. The conference will be held in conjunction with the Festival de la Imagen 2020 ( www.festivaldelaimagen.com), one of the largest and most recognized design events in Colombia, which will bring a variety of unique possibilities and encounters for PDC and its community. PDC 2020s theme is Participation(s) otherwise Since Participatory Designs (PD) emergence as a research community, PD scholars have asserted that design is a practical, social and political endeavour. Main commitments include: offering alternative technologies, rendering design processes democratic, open and accessible to wide participation, and amenable to critical scrutiny and mutual learning. By proposing the theme of Participation(s) otherwise, we want to invite the PD community to think further on the diverse meanings and ontologies that participation and design can take on. Lets open up the understanding of participation beyond modernist narratives and theoretically universal cookie cutter solutions and account for diverse practices. What forms, conceptions and understandings of participation, collaboration, intervention, design and technology can we draw upon to contest essentialist views on participatory design? Are current conceptions coherent with plural understandings and realities? What havent we realized before? From whom else are we / can we be learning? We welcome a variety of different contributions, such as theoretical elaborations, case study analysis, long term explorations and/or methodological reflections. Submissions may address one or more of the following anchor points. These should not be considered as mandatory, but rather indicative of things we believe require urgent action: Local/global - place/territory: Explorations of place, space, materiality, and temporality within participatory design and for technologies otherwise. Economies: Inquiries into the role and scope of participatory design in the critique, reinterpretation and construction of green, circular, open, commons and solidarity processes. This includes also provocative reflections on participatory design processes themselves, understood as a process of exchange. Representation, resistance and governance otherwise: The potential of participatory design practices to support (or undermine) forms of civic participation, power redistribution and conflict negotiation, to challenge authoritarianism, or explore horizontal ways of organising - including making alternative (or resistive) technologies, spaces, systems, processes or infrastructures. Design Research: Explorations of new forms of making otherwise and methodological innovations for design as participatory political praxis (including decolonial, feminist, and collective research and action approaches). Reflections on how those can transform scientific writing to be more representative of collaborative knowledge construction processes. Participation and interculturality: spaces and features of (and for) dialogue and design that avoid universalism and include critical perspectives towards collaboration, co-creation, and the role of technology in these processes. Categories and submission formats: - FULL PAPERS (in English) - EXPLORATORY PAPERS (in English) - PLURILINGUAL PD (ESP/PT) (in Spanish or Portuguese) - EXHIBITION/ SITUATED ACTIONS (in English) - CONVERSATIONS: (in English) - OUTSIDE ACADEMIA (in English) - INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS (in English) - DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM (in English) - STUDENT PROJECTS: (in English) - ARTFUL INTEGRATORS AWARD Keydates: 1st September 2019 Submission DL for Full papers + Plurilingual track 1st December 2019 Submission DL for Short papers, Interactive workshops and tutorials, Conversations, PhD colloquium, and Situated Actions/Exhibition 1st December 2019 Second round submission for Full and Plurilingual papers 15th February 2020 Notification to (all) authors 15th March 2020 Camera ready papers (all formats, except student projects) + Submission for Student projects 25 April 2020 Early bird registration deadline 15-19th of June 2020 PDC Conference and Festival de la Imagen www.pdc2020.org Call for Tutorial Proposals - RecSys'19, Sep 16-20, Copenhagen, Denmark RecSys 2019 is pleased to invite proposals for tutorials to be given in conjunction with the conference. The goal of the tutorials is to provide conference attendees, including early-career researchers and researchers crossing-over from related disciplines, with an opportunity to learn about recommender system concepts and techniques. Tutorials also serve as a venue to share presenters expertise with the global community of recommender system researchers and practitioners. Tutorials focus on specific topics including, but not limited to: - Introductions to recommender systems or to specific techniques (e.g., deep learning, feature engineering, tensorflow), - Evaluation of recommender systems (e.g., system-centric and user-centric evaluation, experimentation), - Context-aware (including location-based) recommender systems, - Designing user experiences and interactions (e.g., virtual assistants, chatbots, etc.), - Using different types of data (semantic web, graphs,) and media (text, images, video, speech) for building recommendations, - Ethical and legal aspects of recommender systems (e.g., privacy, fairness, accountability, transparency, and control of bias), - Recommender systems facing real-world challenges (e.g., large-scale recommender systems or stream-based recommendation), - Building and deploying recommender systems in specific domains (e.g., music, tourism, education, TV/video, jobs, enterprise, health, and/or fashion), - Recommender systems supporting decision making, - Recommendation for groups, tasks, or situations, including intent-aware recommender systems, - Eliciting and learning user preferences, - Recommender systems that take users emotional state, physical state, personality, trust, level-of-expertise, and/or cognitive readiness into account, - Sensors and recommender systems (including mobile recommender systems and wearables), - Intersections of recommender systems with other domains (e.g., information retrieval, machine learning, human computer interaction, or databases). - Recommender systems in new domains, such as e-government, smart cities and energy. The length of your proposed tutorial should be commensurate with the presented materials and the projected interest of the RecSys community in the tutorial topic. We may work with accepted tutorial presenters to adjust the length of the tutorial, considering that tutorials may use up to two 90-minute slots, i.e. the length of the tutorials will be either 90 or 180 minutes. We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals that target different levels of expertise and different interests. We also encourage the submission of hands-on tutorials, for instance through the use of notebooks that combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises. PROPOSAL FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The tutorial proposal should be a PDF document no more than 2 pages long, submitted by e-mail to [log in to unmask] and organized as follows: - Tutorial title. - Tutorial length. - Motivation for proposing this tutorial (why is it important for RecSys). - Name, email address, and affiliation of tutorial instructor(s). Each listed presenter must present in person at the conference. - Detailed bulleted outline of the tutorial (this point should take the most space). - Targeted audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills. - Importance of the topic for the RecSys community. - Teaching experiences and history of prior tutorials by the presenter(s). - List of relevant publications by the presenter(s). The following elements are not mandatory for the proposal, but encouraged: - A short explanation of relationship of the tutorial proposal to trends at past RecSys conferences. - A 2-minute video where the presenters introduce themselves and pitch their tutorial. - Statement that the materials (slides, readings, and/or code) used/mentioned in the tutorial will be publicly available after the tutorial. - Notebooks (e.g. iPython or Jupyter) or other interactive code that will be used during the course, if any. EVALUATION CRITERIA Tutorial proposals will be reviewed according to: ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of recommender system research, or to broadening the field to look at important new challenges and techniques, experience and skill of the presenter(s), and the value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community. IMPORTANT DATES - Tutorial proposal submission deadline: May 16th, 2019 - Tutorial proposal notification: June 1st, 2019 - Camera-ready tutorial summary deadline: July 22nd, 2019 Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59pm) in the AoE (Anywhere on Earth) time zone. TUTORIAL CHAIRS - Alejandro Bellogn, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain - Denis Parra, Pontificia Universidad Catlica, Chile https://recsys.acm.org/recsys19/call/tutorials 16-17 January 2020 - Experiential Design Rethinking relations between people, objects and environments ABSTRCTS: 20 June 2019 Place: Florida State University http://architecturemps.com/florida/ The World Health Organization considers questions like the global increase in dementia as issues that can be tackled, in part, through design. The National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research underlines how environments can actively exclude whole sections of society by design itself. The World Institute of Psychology identifies multiple links between mood, behavior and the objects we interact with daily. This conference and its publications are premised on the belief that health professionals, diverse user groups and psychologists need to collaborate more closely with the designers, architects and planners who create the products and spaces people need, whether that be: the streets of our cities, the interior environments of offices, hospitals and schools; or the products and furniture we employ for assistance or general use. On that basis it brings together people from this diverse range of fields into open dialogue. Health | Psychology | Occupational Therapy | Universal Design | Wellbeing | Furniture | Architectures | Urbanism | Landscape | Interiors | Products | PARTICIPATE: Pre-recorded video (via special YouTube Channel) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfWS4KkYSauAaTV2pjrQlQ Other formats: Skype | Conference Presentations | Written Papers PUBLISHERS: The conference forms part of PARADE (Publication and Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments) a collaboration between Routledge, Taylor & Francis, Intellect Books, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Vernon Press, Libri Publishing. ORGANISERS: Florida State University, PARADE, AMPS http://architecturemps.com/florida/ Education conferences This is information on two education conferences - Summer 2019, New York, and Winter 2020, Florida. Virtual presentations available if you cannot travel. Various publishers support publications including Routledge, UCL Press and Cambridge Scholars. - SUMMER 2019. 17-19 June 2019 - EDUCATION, DESIGN AND PRACTICE. UNDERSTANDING SKILLS IN A COMPLEX WORLD Stevens Institute of Technology. NEW YORK / NEW JERSEY. Abstracts Due: April 01, 2019 Theme: The Education of Spatial Designers http://architecturemps.com/newyork/ - WINTER 2020. FLORIDA. 16-17 January 2019 - EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN. RETHINKING RELATIONS BETWEEN PEOPLE, OBJECTS AND ENVIRONMENTS Florida State University. Abstracts Due: June 20, 2019 Theme: The Design of Spaces for Education and Wellbeing http://architecturemps.com/florida/ Disciplines: Education | Teaching & Learning | Instructional Technology | Organizational Psychology | Wellbeing | Spatial Design | Architecture Organisers: These two events are organised by the Stevens Institute of Technology, Florida State University, PARADE (Publication and Research in Art, Architectures, Design and Environments) in collaboration with the research organization AMPS and the scholarly journal Architecture_MPS. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ANNOUNCEMENTS The Spring 2019 issue of She Ji is now online at URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/she-ji-the-journal-of-design- economics-and-innovation/vol/5/issue/1 As always, all contents are accessible in open access format, available for reading online and available for download in .pdf format. The contents of this issue include: Global Concerns, Local Models (Editorial) by Ken Friedman DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.02.002 Design in the Age of Climate Change by Bonnie Nardi DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.01.001 Bioregioning: Pathways to Urban-Rural Reconnection by John Thackara DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.01.002 Problem Framing Expertise in Public and Social Innovation by Mieke van der Bijl-Brouwer DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.01.003 Embodied Design Thinking by Jerry Diethelm DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2019.02.001 Reviewing Practice-Based Design Research The Pursuit of a Disciplinary Destination by Susan M.Hagan and Deirdre H.Barron DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sheji.2018.12.001 4-5 April 2019 - Design Migrations: Circuits of Graphic Exchange between Switzerland, the US, and Beyond. The conference is free and open to the public. https://design.uic.edu/eventdetails/1101/1082 New notification from FormAkademisk - Research Journal of Design and Design Education An issue has been published. https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/formakademisk/issue/current UKCGE-SUPER-RECOGNITION-SCHEME UKCGE Research Supervisors Recognition Programme This list is for those supporting participants in the UKCGE's Research Supervisors Recognition Programme http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ukcge-super-recognition-scheme EAPAD English for Academic Purposes in Art and Design For tutors/lecturers in EAP (English for Academic Purposes) working in Arts & Design FE/HE contexts http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/eapad 10 April 2019 - EAD Workshop All You Can Eat Prototyping Speculative Food Futures Dundee This workshop is concerned with the relationship between food and global health, and in particular with the role that design can play as a futuring practice (Fry, 2008). Industrial food and food practices have contributed to both human and planetary ill-being. This has been captured well in UNs 17 Sustainable Development Goals, which are linked directly or indirectly to food. The proposed workshop will employ speculative design, to engage participants in developing a menu of provocative solutions that would help the design community identify and map possible direction for design research in the areas of food, design and global health. The workshop outcomes will include a visual workshop report to be published on the EAD website, an illustrated menu of provocative speculative design solutions that map future food/design directions and a Little Book of Speculative Design Food Futures. For more information and to register kindly visit: https://ead2019dundee.com/workshops/ 10 April 2019 - EAD workshop: Co-designing Improvements of Knowledge Exchange Tools We invite you to participate in the EAD workshop "Co-designing Improvements of Knowledge Exchange Tools" on the morning of Wednesday 10 April This workshop is concerned with designing better collaborative engagement approaches through the improvement of tools for knowledge exchange. The proposed workshop is designed to engage participants in an enjoyable and dynamic activity, where we will use creative facilitation to lead participants into a co-design process to improve tools. The workshop outcomes will include an illustrated report to be published on the EAD website, fresh insights into how to improve knowledge exchange practices, and a refined framework for improving tools. We invite people who work with groups of non-designers, and design researchers specialised in participatory approaches and tools to explore a new tool improvement practice. For more information and to register kindly visit: https://ead2019dundee.com/workshops/ 10-11 May 2019 - After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy Yale University, Department of the History of Art This two-day conference traces a history of graphic design pedagogy in the United States from the late 1950s to the mid 1990s. Its inception comes from Katherine McCoy, who notes graphic design moves from a professional practice to a discipline when design writes its own histories and theories. We will examine the historicity of this statement, particularly within the broader context of design today, ripe with Silicon Valley chatter that interpolates terms likeinterdisciplinarity and problem solving into everyday speech. The introduction of comparative literature, history, and the rhetoric of postmodernism into graphic design leads to the creation of a historically-specific design discourse: a disciplinary act of self-theorization. But what does this mean for our present moment in which seeminglyeveryoneis a designer, a time when all our choices and behaviors are curated, and when the notion design thinking is recruited to solve problems from across the economic and disciplinary spectrum? At a moment of design history when the call is for inter-, trans-, and multi-disciplinary strategies, we aim to slow these terms down, to parse them within a longer historical and conceptual scope. For if the language of graphic design has been generalized to those well outside the field, how should we think about the legacies and prospects of graphic design as a discipline? To follow Katherine McCoys logic: How do we write our histories? What are the theories that guide our approaches? Confirmed speakers: Janet Abrams Audrey Bennett Andrew Blauvelt Gui Bonsiepe Sheila de Bretteville Hugh Dubberly Silvia Fernandez Maria Gough Juliet Koss Deborah Littlejohn Katherine McCoy Sharon Poggenpohl Rick Poynor Fred Turner Sydney Skelton Simon Lorraine Wild We invite you to join us for After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy at Loria Center for the Arts at Yale University (190 York Street, New Haven CT 06511). 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