Themes
CUMULUS Shanghai Conference 2010 will be held by College of Design & Innovation of Tongji University from Sep. 7th to Sep.10th during World EXPO 2010. The theme for CUMULUS Shanghai Conference 2010 is Young Creators for Better City and Better Life.

The conference aims to explore how the young generation of designers can improve our environment and life in creative ways. The emerging missions and visions of future design education, research and practice, together with its economic, political and social impacts of the era, will also be discussed during the conference.

Design educators, practitioners, and researchers are invited to join our cross-disciplinary conversation. Submitted work should relate to one or more of the sub-themes below:
- Sustainability & social innovation
- Local wisdom & globalization
- Socio-economics & design
- Old & young

Submission
All submissions will be peer reviewed. Authors will be notified about acceptance of their abstract by the beginning of March 2010. Those whose abstracts are accepted will be invited to submit the full paper by May 10, 2010. Notification of full paper acceptance will be given on July 1, 2010 and the final version is due on August 1, 2010.

Deadlines
Abstract deadline: Jan 15, 2010
Notification of abstract acceptance: March 1, 2010
Full paper deadline: May 10, 2010
Notification of full paper acceptance: July 1, 2010
Full paper submission deadline: August 1, 2010

Contact
Conference General Secretary: LOU Yongqi
Conference Co-General Secretary: Eija Salmi
Coordinator for papers: ZHU Xiaocun
Assistant of coordinator: YU XinAn

Email: cumulus2010@tongji.edu.cn

Address: College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University
1239. Siping Road, 200092 Shanghai
P.R.China