Design Research News Volume 15 Number 2 Feb 2010 (Designophy

DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 15 Number 2 Feb 2010 ISSN 1473-3862 DRS Digital Newsletter

CONTENTS

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

CALLS

30 July - 2 August 2010: Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation.

How would you like to shape and take part in a conference where the main activity is to explore by listening, talking and questioning (conversing) rather than listen to, and give, prepared lectures; and where the aim is to move forward, taking next steps as a result of these conversations, rather than reporting on the already discovered? In other words, go to a conference where the intention is to move forward by conferring.

That is the central feature of our conference--a conference of conversation, of listening, talking, and questioning. Of open minds, and delight in the un-thought-of.

And what better way to make an interesting conversation than to bring together people whose backgrounds and interests are different, yet who want to learn by listening to others, to find what can be shared? In other words, to transcend boundaries.

So we bring together practitioners and theorists who wish to explore across boundaries, from 4 different subjects. But not just any 4 subjects. Subjects that already hold conversations together in pairs: cybernetics; art; design; mathematics. With all 4 together, we have a wider conversation, greater variety.

Our 4 subjects have a special quality in common. Each is used to comment, throw light on and inform other subjects. Perhaps mathematics is the most obvious case: a subject in its own right that is used everywhere to illuminate (and make operable) other subjects. But also a subject that can comment on itself: a subject which is a meta-subject, even to itself.

Our conference is surrounded by 3 other, related events. Look on the web site, chose what you like, and come and join us at the Experimental Media Performance Arts Centre at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from the evening of July 30 to late afternoon on August 2, with surrounding events on July 29 and 30, and August 3 to 5.
You can visit us at http://www.asc-cybernetics.org/2010/

Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics--A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation is a joint project of the American Society for Cybernetics, and the Experimental Media and Performance Arts Centre and Department of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Apologies for cross-posting.

29 November - 1 December 2010: ICDC 2010 (The First International Conference on Design Creativity) will be held at Kobe International Conference Center, Japan, from Nov. 29 (Mon) to Dec. 1 (Wed), 2010. ICDC is an official conference promoted by the Design Creativity Special Interest Group (SIG) of the Design Society. The first ICDC will provide a forum to discuss the nature and potential of design creativity from both theoretical and methodological viewpoints.

Submission Dates
Due date for full paper review: June 18, 2010 Due date for paper acceptance notifications: July 30, 2010 Due date for revised papers: September 1, 2010
http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/

2-4 June 2010: UCDA Design Education Summit Designing Designing: Examining how we do what we do.

Design educators and graduate students--you are invited and encouraged to participate in the sixth annual National UCDA Design Education Summit in Lawrence, Kansas June 2-4, 2010.

This national conference for design educators, chairs, and students will be hosted by the University of Kansas, and will include general session speakers, panel discussions, and paper and poster presentations selected from abstracts submitted through a peer-reviewed process.

This conference is open to UCDA members and non-members, design educators and practitioners, and students. More details and registration information will be posted soon.

Proposals regarding the conference theme Designing Designing: examining how we do what we do are especially welcome. However, we will also welcome proposals concerning other design education topics.

Deadline March 3, 2010

papers: http://ucda.com/call_for_papers_10.lasso posters: http://ucda.com/call_for_posters_10.lasso panel discussions: http://ucda.com/call_for_panel_10.lasso
http://ucda.com/educonf.lasso

Concrete Geometries: Spatial Form in Social and Aesthetic Processes

Call for Submissions
Deadline 12 April 2010

The 'Concrete Geometeries' Research Cluster at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London is seeking submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences and humanities that explore the relationship between spatial form and social or aesthetic processes.

http://www.concrete-geometries.net

The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design calls for design solutions in the face of the disaster in Haiti

Montreal (Canada) 23 January 2010 - In a global appeal following the devastation in Haiti, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) has launched a call to designers from all disciplines to unite in an open dialogue with international relief organisations to assess potential design-effective rehabilitation projects. In support of the UN's efforts to help the Haitian people overcome challenges in relation to the country's reconstruction plans, designers, academics and design students, as well as experienced developmental workers are encouraged to join the discussion and become a fan of the 'Uniting Designers in Disaster' page on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Uniting-Designers-in-Disaster/ 260831422646.

Designers have a strong desire to support the relief effort. This forum is intended to help identify tangible opportunities and empower the design community to contribute to the cause. "As an international non-governmental organisation with over 50 years experience implementing projects of global appeal, Icsid is poised with the strategic understanding of the processes required by NGOs to develop and implement result-driven and effective initiatives," stated Icsid President Dr. Mark Breitenberg and Provost of California College of the Arts. "What we aim to do with the forum is engage designers to exchange information about initiatives and opportunities where they may contribute their design and problem solving skills. In addition, we are hoping that the dialogue between the design community, development workers and representatives from international agencies will subsequently facilitate relief efforts, such as those currently being prepared by the UN to help the people of Haiti meet long-term stabilisation and reconstruction objectives."

Among its key mission statements, Icsid strives to provide an international platform for the design community to be heard as a powerful voice. Although active participation and contributions will continue on the Facebook page, in an effort to take immediate action, all information posted via the forum by 27 January 2010 will be actively reviewed in order to select opportunities for immediate international activities.

"This is a call to think in order to act," stated Breitenberg. "Our immediate goal is to gain a better understanding of the relief efforts needed in order to facilitate the development of design-led solutions that impact Haiti's quality of life."

For more information, please contact:
Andrea Springer <aspringer@icsid.org>

8-10 October 2010: Fashion In Fiction - The Dark Side

Call for Papers
Drexel University, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Philadelphia, PA.

Roland Barthes proposed that fashion was not a just an industry, but also a set of fictions. Barthes did not wish to ignore the economic function of fashion, but rather underline fashion's mythic dimension and suggest that fashion is a language in itself. Fashion and fiction have long existed in close proximity; writers have been driven by their experience of fashion and fashion has been developed through and by literary tropes. What makes dress and fashion such a fascinating subject for writers? How are fashion's mythologies constructed and disseminated through fictional texts? How does fashion relate to art, popular culture, business, the body, consumer studies, and those who might read it as a form of text?

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to investigate the role that fashion has played in our culture. These "mini-narratives" can include fiction, non-fiction, cultural and historical studies, and other types of comparative, descriptive and/or empirical research. In particular, it will examine the dark side of fashion discourse, assessing the role, function, and purpose of clothes, fashion movements, style, and image in creating narratives within narratives. The dark side of fashion can include such obvious topics as gothic, punk, the color black, and vampires. Other topics that have traditionally been viewed as "dark" include polyester fabric, couture knock-offs, deviant fashion advertising, sweatshops, and child labor. Authors are also encouraged to define their own meaning of "dark".

Papers fitting the conference theme are sought from those engaged in the fields of fashion studies, social sciences, humanities, creative writing, media, cultural studies, design, philosophy, and business.

Papers, work-in-progress and workshop proposals are invited.

Possible topics may include but not limited to:
- gothic - feminist versus feminized discourses in fashion and display - animated texts - fashion in crime fiction - graphic novels - the semiotics of fashion - historical fiction - queer readings of fashion - mystery - textiles - the color black - marketing - the body/body image - consumer studies - new media - script and cinematic texts - metaphor/metaphorical fiction - subcultural style

Abstract Deadline: June 1, 2010

Submission Process: Those interested should send an abstracts of no more than 500 words. Everyone will be notified of acceptance by July 1, 2010.

Peer Review: All abstracts will be peer-reviewed. Those abstracts accepted for presentations will be published online as well as in the conference proceedings.

Paper Submission for Possible Publication: Those interested in having their papers published may submit the entire manuscript for possible book publication.

For more details, please see our website at http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/events/fashioninfiction/ or email Dr. Joseph H. Hancock, II at jhh33@drexel.edu.

4-7 October 2010: 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion, Chicago Hosted by IIT Institute of Design

The 7th International Conference on Design & Emotion in Chicago, October 4-7, 2010 calls for your participation. This Conference is a forum held every other year where practitioners, researchers and industry leaders meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and emotion. The conference calls for your contribution to this exciting international forum of research and practice representing academic, design and business communities.

Full Papers, Short Papers (Posters) and Design Cases

D&E Conference invites practitioners and researchers to submit research papers and design cases. Submissions addressing issues of Design & Emotion are invited from extended communities beyond design studies, such as computer science, HCI, psychology, cognitive science, social science, humanities, engineering, health sciences, marketing and business. Detailed guidelines for proposal authoring are available on the conference website.

Full Papers are expected to contribute widely applicable long-lasting knowledge to the discipline. Accepted papers will be presented in the conference program and published in the proceedings. The paper length is a maximum of 12 pages (approximately 4,000-5,000 words plus figures and tables) in the specified format.

Short Papers (Posters) are expected to describe research that is more appropriate for the interactive poster session. The paper length should be a maximum of 5 pages (approximately 2,000 words plus figures and tables) and an additional page containing a full-page image of the poster in the specified format for the publication in the conference proceedings. The first submission requires a short paper manuscript without the poster page.

Design cases are invited for submission to present design projects that address issues and insights in design and emotion, communicate and discuss your approach to enhance emotional effects. Design case submissions must include a summary description in a maximum of 5 pages (approximately 2,000 words) in the specified format and a maximum of 30 slides illustrating the design, design process and use.

Call for Special Topic Sessions: Topics and Papers

Special Topic Sessions focus on specific emerging areas of research and practical interest concerning Design and Emotion. The topic proposal deadline for special topic sessions is February 15, 2010. The deadline for submission of full paper and design cases is March 15, 2001. (See the detail on the conference website.)

Call for workshops

Researchers, educators and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops. Workshops will be held on October 4, 2010 prior to the main program of the conference. The purpose is to provide a platform for presenting and discussing novel ideas and emerging issues in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conference itself. The format of each workshop is to be determined by the organizers, but each workshop is expected to include ample time for general discussion.

Submission and Review Process
Submission and review processes will be handled by our conference system. All submissions will have a blind review process with at least two reviewers. All submissions accepted in the second review will be asked to submit the final manuscripts in the camera-ready format. The detailed authoring guideline is available at the conference website.

Topics
Design & Emotion is the overarching theme of the conference. This year, the conference adds a particular focus on Design & Emotion in emerging societal issues of our lives and living environments. Another focus is on strategic roles of Design & Emotion in business. The areas of these foci include fundamental research into Design & Emotion that further enhances our intellectual foundation as well as the emotional aspects of the following topic areas:

Design for Wellbeing
- Healthcare - Elderly Living - Food, Health and Culture - Universal/ Inclusive Design
Design for Environments
- Sustainable Lifestyle - Product and System Life Cycle
Interaction and Context-sensitivity
- Human-Robot Interaction - Product Adaptation - User Learning
Service Design
- Modeling Experiences - Retail Design
Strategic Design and Business
- Decision-Making - Business Models - Branding
Foundation for Design and Emotion

- Temporality, Uncertainty and Polarity of Emotion - Affordance, Semiotics, Value and Emotion - Research Methodologies - Design Methodologies - Theoretical Foundations - Philosophical Foundations and Implications to Design
http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

Special Topic Sessions
Call for Topics

Special Topic Sessions focus on specific emerging areas of research and practical interest concerning Design and Emotion. Proposals should be no more than 150 words. If your proposal is accepted, you will be expected to contribute a full paper or design cases. The topic proposal deadline for special topic sessions is February 15, 2010. The announcement and call for paper entries for the accepted special topic session will be made within a week after receiving the proposal. The deadline for submission of full paper and design cases is March 15, 2001.

Call for Papers and Design Cases for Special Topic Sessions
If full paper or design case authors wish to be considered for presenting the paper in a relevant special topic session, they must select a special session topic at the time of submission. The topic list is in the special topic session section of the submission site. All paper submissions for special topic sessions must first be accepted through the regular reviewing process.

Topic 1: Craft and Emotion
Kristina Niedderer, University of Wolverhampton, UK. k.niedderer@wlv.ac.uk
Katherine Townsend, Nottingham Trent University, UK. katherine.townsend@ntu.ac.uk

This Special Session is organized by the editors of Craft Research - the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to developing and advancing contemporary craft practice and theory through research. Craft Research is concerned with the crafts as a vital and viable discipline that offers a vision for the future through its ability to explore and challenge technology, to question and develop cultural and social practices, and to interrogate and affirm philosophical and human values. We are calling for papers that are concerned with ideas and research relating craft and emotion. Craft is, and has long been a discipline for which emotion has been of particular importance in many ways. Craft may represent the emotional journey and experience of the maker and is often perceived as intimate and sensuous. The practice of making is often informed by emotional responses to particular materials, textures, memories. As fashion or jewelry, emotion/it may communicate or play with interpersonal relationships and stimulate interaction. Reflection on the practice of making is also informed by emotion.

Topics may include, for example:
- Affordances, semiotics and value - Emotional experience, memory and journey - Affection and attachment - Intimacy and sensuousness - Play, interpersonal relationships and interaction
Topic 2: Product-Service Systems Design and User Experience
Yong Se Kim, Creative Design Institute, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. yskim@skku.edu

The integrated design capability for people-centered value is essential in industry competitiveness as well as in people' s daily lives. Here, integrated design stands for systematically integrated planning, concept design and realization design reflecting diverse viewpoints. Recently, the value creation paradigm in industry is shifting toward value creation through Product-Service Systems (PSS). In PSS, product and service elements should be tightly integrated in order to deliver seamless services and facilitate the generation of desirable user experience. Ideally, service issues should lead product issues, since solutions for value provision function may have many different forms of realization with alternative products and services elements.

While many PSS alternatives can be conceptualized in connection with economic, ecological and strategic business issues, experiential values including motivational, emotional, and cultural factors are crucial for initial consumer acceptance and sustainable user satisfaction and should be properly addressed for successful PSS. Thus PSS design involves heavily interdisciplinary efforts. Orchestrating activities of these diverse stakeholders and developing PSS functions and structures require systematic design methodologies and tools as well as creative thinking and representation capabilities. This special session will provide a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to exchange findings and visions and to establish collaborative efforts in PSS design.

http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

IJDesign Call for Papers Special Issue on Designing for Aesthetics of Interaction
Full Paper Due: 1 March 2010

Call for Papers
Now that the world of HCI has united with the world of product design, and computers are no longer merely a means for doing our jobs but also an integral part of our lives, one might question the appropriateness of functionality and efficiency as the main guiding principles for design. The spectrum of efficiency, productivity and, in general, "getting things done" has been enriched by other values, such as those represented by curiosity, playfulness, intimacy and creativity. User experience and the aesthetics of that experience are becoming increasingly paramount.

Furthermore, when we look at the abundance of interactive products on the market, we can see a shift in aesthetic focus, moving from aesthetics of appearance to aesthetics of interaction. Can designers design products that not only look attractive at first sight, but are also beautiful to use? What makes for aesthetics of interaction, how can we design for such an interaction, and how can we model and study the interactive experiences that are central to such an approach? Some more specific questions might be: What is the role of embodiment and narratives in the interactive experience? Does aesthetics of interaction require a phenomenological point of view? Can one study aesthetics of interaction without using one's hands, that is, without actually designing and building experiential prototypes?

The field of Aesthetics of Interaction is indeed emerging, and emerging in many different directions, with different definitions, different models, different implementations. This special issue of the International Journal of Design aims to reflect on the status quo and to find new paths toward a maturity of this area of research. We are seeking high-quality, original papers that address conceptual, theoretical, methodological and practical issues of designing for aesthetics of interaction--papers that will serve to enhance the overall body of interaction design knowledge. Possible topics include:

- Theoretical approaches to aesthetics of interaction--foundational notions, theoretical frameworks, philosophical embedding, and links to existing theories that are relevant to interaction design
- Methods, tools and approaches for designing and evaluating aesthetics of interaction
- Design and evaluation cases, including experiential prototypes

Submission of Papers

Manuscripts should be prepared with the template file and guidelines found at the AuthorGuidelines page. Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. A double-blind review process will be employed for this special issue. Manuscripts should be sent through the online submission page. Authors should choose "Special Issue on Cultural Aspects of Interaction Design" as the Journal Section when submitting papers.

Special Issue Editors
Kees Overbeeke Caroline Hummels

Department of Industrial Design Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Tel: +31 40 2475964 E-mail: C.J.Overbeeke@tue.nl Department of Industrial Design Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Tel: +31 40 2475192 E-mail: C.C.M.Hummels@tue.nl

24-25 June 2010: Association of Art Historians Student Summer Symposium, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Call for Student Papers
Architectural Objects Discussing Spatial Form Across Art Histories

The 'spatial turn' in the history of art has had a significant impact on the understanding of artistic practice and the built environment, and the formal and political complexities of space in a broader sense. This symposium explores the role of architectural theory and practice within multiple art histories, working across theoretical and aesthetic categories to redefine notions of space and form. From Tatlin's Monument to the Third International, to the spatial environments of LeCorbusier and Robert Morris, this interrelationship has challenged and reconfigured canonic divisions between architecture, ornament, sculpture and performance. Within a global perspective, the 'architectural object' can be traced throughout many histories of cultural production, demonstrated within the sculpted interiors of temples and mosques, the conceptual forms of the stupa or reliquary, or the use of decorative 'architectura' within ornamental schemes.

Exploring the 'architectural object' as a recurring and ever-changing phenomenon, a two-day symposium will consider a diverse range of papers that discuss this theme across cultural and temporal divides. Topics might include but are not restricted to:

- Sculptural practice and architectural ornament
- Anthropological and cross-cultural studies of the architectural object
- Monumental buildings as public sculpture
- Performing architecture; the social production of space
- Interior design and sculpture; the structural/decorative divide
- The architectural maquette as art object; history of the conceptual model
- The church and the miniature; religious contexts

Keynote speakers include former Leverhulme Fellow Dr. Richard Checketts and former Henry Moore Foundation Fellow Dr. David Hulks. Architectural Objects is hosted in collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute's Hermann Obrist exhibition, marking the wide-ranging 'spatial' production of the prolific architect, sculptor and designer.

Deadline for Paper Proposals: extended to 28 February 2010
To submit a proposal for this session please send a paper abstract no longer than 300 words, along with CV to:

Session Conveners:
Lara Eggleton, University of Leeds: laraeve8@gmail.com Rosalind McKever, Kingston University: rosalind.mckever@gmail.com

18-20 October 2010: ISIDC 2010

Call for Papers:

The 2nd International Service Innovation Design Conference will be held at Future University Hakodate in Hakodate, Japan.

The mission of the conference is to promote interdisciplinary efforts, through information exchange and discussion of the related topics. We have two keynote speakers. Dr. James Spohrer of the IBM Almaden Research Center, is one of the advocates of service science. Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa, the director-general of Center for Research and Development Strategy, first proposed the field of Design Engineering, a study of design process itself.

Important Dates: Summary submission: 2010 Feb. 28 Notice of acceptance: 2010 Apr. 19 Camera ready full paper submission: 2010 Jul. 31

Submissions: Summary paper submissions should include 1. Title, 2. Author(s)'s email address, affiliation and other contact information, 3. Outline of paper (< 700 words).

After the evaluation of the summary paper, authors have the possible feedback from reviewers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their final papers.

Topics: Service Science is a new field that studies service itself. The concept was proposed in December 2004 at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness. Since then, existing research into service as well as studies and movements triggered by this proposal have drawn increasing interest, invigorating the entire field. Lectures on service science were launched in a number of countries, and academic societies and research institutions organized.

Innovation is a discontinuous and creative jump on the procedure. In our context, both innovative services and innovative design method for new services are called for. Therefore, the title of this conference should be read as service innovation and innovation in design process.

Design is used in its widest sense. It is not limited to the design of appearance or function of products, but also includes design of a process of usage of the products, i.e., services. Design of an innovative service that is realizable only thorough usage of advanced information technology, for instance, is a thrilling issue.

The conference themes include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

- Business support services - Childcare support services - Content services - Creativity - Design philosophy - Design support systems - Distribution and logistics services - Health and welfare services - Innovation process - Innovation support systems - Process design - Product service system - Service and manufacturing industry - Service and regional development - Service ethnography - Service evaluation - Service innovation - Service management - Service philosophy - Service process - Service scheme - Service science - Service strategy - Servicescape - Social impact of services - Tools and systems for service - Tourism and leisure services - User experience design - What is design

Submissions should report original researches, reflections on theoretical concerns, methodological advances, or other insights.
http://www.fun.ac.jp/isidc2010/

1-3 September 2010: Final Call for Papers - "The geography of creativity and its links to local development: issues and challenges" RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London

Special session proposal

The geography of creativity and its links to local development: issues and challenges http://ac2010.tumblr.com/post/266292514/the-geography-of- creativity-and-its-links-to-local

Research Group affiliation: Economic Geography Research Group

The past 10 years have seen an increasing attention both from the academic and policy world towards the importance of creativity in fostering economic development. This has been connected to the emergence of concepts such as creative economy, creative industries and the creative class. Academics' interest towards the 'geography of creativity' has spanned from UK to Europe, from USA to China and has become a key feature of economic geography research.

This special session aims to explore the role of creativity in local development. In particular, it addresses the geography of creativity (their location, migration and distribution) and its role in economic development. Creativity here is broadly conceptualised. As the recent literature in economic geography suggests, it is difficult to capture the value of the concept and its possible implications. It relates to knowledge and human capital in its broader understanding (such as in the concept of the 'creative class') but also to the industrial base behind the creative economy (such as concepts like creative industries) and to its consumption markets (experience economy and creative economy).

The main aim of the session is to foster a multi-disciplinary debate among researchers on the issues surrounding the location and development of creativity at local and regional level. Some of the key themes that will be addressed include:

The role of human capital and creative skills and their mobility;
Geographical differences in exploring the creative economy;
Dynamics of creative industries location in urban and regional economies; Policy frameworks and their impact on the geographies of creativity;
National and regional dynamics of interactions among creative industries and creative workers;
Research papers and papers addressing methodological issues in measuring and evaluating the impact of creativity in local development are welcome.

For information or to submit an abstract please use any of the contact details below
R.Comunian@soton.ac.uk A.Faggian@soton.ac.uk Charlotta.Mellander@ihh.hj.se

International Journal of Technoethics (IJT)

The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The following describes the mission, coverage, and guidelines for submission to IJT.

Mission

The mission of the International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) is to evolve technological relationships of humans with a focus on ethical implications for human life, social norms and values, education, work, politics, law, and ecological impact. This journal provides cutting-edge analysis of technological innovations, research, developments policies, theories, and methodologies related to ethical aspects of technology in society. IJT publishes empirical research, theoretical studies, innovative methodologies, practical applications, case studies, and book reviews. IJT encourages submissions from philosophers, researchers, social theorists, ethicists, historians, practitioners, and technologists from all areas of human activity affected by advancing technology.
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=34269

20-22 April 2010: RUC Sunrise Triple C Conference Climate Change Communication New Perspectives after the COP15

SUNRISE 2010 Conference Announcement:

The RUC Sunrise Triple C Conference: Climate Change Communication, will take place from the 20th-22nd of April, 2010 at Roskilde University in an attempt to address the various impacts of climate change on a regional, as well as global level after the COP15. The Sunrise conference combines outreach and academia by providing a space for scientists, academics, business people, NGOs and students to meet and share their ideas.

In light of December's COP15, the challenges of climate change are beginning to impact how we envision the future and what adjustments we can make now, in order to create a sustainable difference. Roskilde University would like to turn its attention to the pragmatic, as well as visionary options of addressing various climate change challenges, by looking at different types of research and action in communication, culture, and clean-technology.

Challenges to our cultures relationship with nature are beginning to demand a rethinking and restructuring of conventional notions of mobility, energy, agriculture, construction and consumption. Clean-Technology will help usher in new ways of how we organize society, helping to convert our fossil fuel economy to a low carbon future. Communication plays an essential role in climate change adaptation and mitigation, helping to bridge the gap between science and society, technology and culture.

The conference spans over three days. On day one, the conference will host a panel of distinguished keynote speakers, such as Mads Ovlisen, Member of the UN Global Compact

On day two participants will split up into three academic tracks: culture, communication and clean technology. Students will also present their own research on this day, namely in the form of posters.

On day three, participants will ride the klimaexpress, a bus tour which stops at various locations in Zealand in order to see what types of sustainable development initiatives are taking place at the local level.
http://sunrise.ruc.dk

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

2 March 2010: Free seminar on practice, the PhD and new forms of doctorate, London

ESRC seminar series on New Forms of Doctorate
I am very pleased to announce the latest seminar in the ESRC series New Forms of Doctorate. Previous seminars in the series have been highly praised and very popular, so please book your place early.

Venue London Knowledge Lab 23-29 Emerald Street London WC1N 3QS
Date and time 2 March 2010 coffee from 10:00; seminar begins 10:30; ends 3:30
How to secure a place Please email Richard Sheldrake at R.Sheldrake@ioe.ac.uk

About the seminar The new seminar on 2 March 2010 follows the pattern of our previous events in combining strategic overviews of key issues in the modern doctorate and case studies of particular forms of research practice. Again key themes will be the kinds of knowledge created by research and how they can best be represented. The selection of participants is designed to give insights across discipline boundaries.

We are very fortunate to have leading the speakers Prof. Chris Rust, co-author of the important AHRC Review of Practice-Led Research 2007, who is widely published on themes of tacit knowledge and the nature of design. Dr. Mine Dogantan-Dack will consider practice-as-research in music performance. An internationally respected musician, she has recently directed an AHRC project, Alchemy, rooted in rehearsal and performance with the Marmara Trio. Dr. Anna Milsom completed her PhD in translation at Middlesex University with a highly innovative multimedia approach to representing her research knowledge.

Dr. Catherine Hill continues our theme from a previous seminar, considering professional doctorates as well as the PhD. She has a particular interest in enquiry which occurs in and for advanced level practice and which has effective action rather than published output as its main aim. Dr. Kristina Niedderrer offers us a framework for the relationship between research methods, knowledge, and that so-tricky concept, rigour. Dr Nick Bryan-Kinns researches collaboration, engagement, and the design process. He has particular insights to offer in interdisciplinary studies, such as PhDs which veer towards the arts but which are located and examined in a science and engineering faculty, and is contributor to a major EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre.

The speakers

Prof. Chris Rust Professor of Design Director, Sheffield Institute of Arts Head of Art and Design Department Sheffield Hallam University

Dr. Mine Dogantan-Dack Research Fellow Chair of Music Research Group Music Department Middlesex University

Dr. Anna Milsom Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation London Metropolitan University

Dr. Kristina Niedderer Reader in Design and Applied Arts Chair of Material Design and Applied Art Research Group School of Art and Design University of Wolverhampton

Dr. Catherine Hill Programme leader, Professional Doctorate Centre for Health and Social Care Research Sheffield Hallam University

Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns Centre for Digital Music and IMC Research Group School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London

The series is led by Prof. Richard Andrews at the Institute of Education.

The London Knowledge Lab is a collaboration between the Institute of Education and Birkbeck.

http://newdoctorates.blogspot.com/

10 February 2010: Future World lecture, Lunar Society UK

There are a few seats left if you hurry...
Professor Mario Minichiello, Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications at BIAD, will examine both the methods of visual persuasion and the influences on them by world events.

This is a joint BIAD/Lunar Society event, and is a significant part of the behavioural change agenda for BIAD's low carbon design centre.

Bookings: info@lunarsociety.org.uk
http://www.lunarsociety.org.uk/

18-20 april 2011: Include 2011

The Royal Collage of Art Helen Hamlyn Centre is please to announce the sixth International conference on Inclusive Design; Include 2011 will take place at the Royal College of Art, London, UK on 18 - 20 April 2011.

The theme of Include 2011 will be:
Social Innovation Its organization, origins and outputs - and the role of inclusive design within it.

As a concept, social innovation has growing currency in society, government, academia and business. It manifests itself in many different ways in different contexts. Its meanings extend from public service and policy innovation to initiatives in assistive technology and age-friendly design, and to aspects of civic participation and creative entrepreneurship. Social innovation has people at its core and design plays a key role in delivering innovations of social value to communities and markets. The Include 2011 international conference at the Royal College of Art seeks papers on all aspects of social innovation, in particular:

- Organization - what tools, techniques, frameworks and networks support and enhance social innovation?

- Origins - how has social innovation emerged as a design construct and in what ways does it manifest itself?

- Outputs - research studies and design exemplars of social innovation, drawn from public space, health, transport and other key domains.

Include 2011 is particularly interested in papers that explore the relationship between social innovation and inclusive design.

Details on submission of Abstracts for paper and poster presentation to follow.
Include 2011 on behalf of The Royal College of Art Kinetix Events Ltd
http://www.kinetixevents.co.uk

11-14 March 2010: DesignInquiry Spring 2010: BeingHERE Marfa, TX

Our first 4-day Spring Inquiry is to be held in the high desert town of Marfa, in far west Texas. With mesquite, cacti, tumbleweed, and pristine mountain air, Marfa has a spare and sublime atmosphere that literally suggests a site-specific creativity. BeingHERE is an opportunity to explore an approach to design that is contemplative and reactive, a design that does not prescribe or impose formulas but responds to the conditions that surrounds it.

DesignInquiry is a non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues in-based gatherings. It brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new work and ideas around a single topic.

http://designinquiry.net

20-25 June 2010: DesignInquiry Summer 2010: JOY Vinalhaven Maine
"Surely joy is the condition of life." -- Henry David Thoreau, philosopher (1842)
"The absence of joy is the biggest threat to our society." -- Will Alsop, architect (2003)

Does design create or embody joy, or does it merely create conditions for joy to emerge? Is there joy in the designed artifact or in the act of design? Is a designer's joy the same as a user's joy? What is the relationship between joy and play and how might design conjoin the two? What might a taxonomy of joy look like?

DesignInquiry is a non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues in-based gatherings. It brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new work and ideas around a single topic.
http://designinquiry.net

MOBILE-SIG Mobile Special Interest Group

A forum for discussion of all aspects of mobile computing, including mobile websites, mobile application development and increasing access to services from mobile devices.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/mobile-sig

FOODDESIGN Food Design

This list is used by the Internatinal Food Design Society to make announcments about conference calls and to stimulate the research community to share knowledge and create a network of people interested in the emerging Food Design discipline.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/fooddesign

MECCSA-CCES MeCCSA Climate Change, Environment Sustainability Network

To strengthen the ability of MeCCSA and its members to respond to and lead the worldwide academic contribution to understanding media, communication and cultural studies where they meet issues of climate change, environment and sustainable development.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/meccsa-cces

6 March 2010: Look Back - Look Forward: HfG Ulm and Design Education in India Hotel Taj West End, Race Cource Road, Bangalore 560 001, India

Last date for registration: February 26, 2010

Organisers: National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad and Bangalore in collaboration with Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan (GI/MMB) Bangalore, HfG-Archive Ulm & IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany) Stuttgart

Background: The HfG Ulm, which started as a continuation of the Bauhaus experiments in design education under one of its former students Max Bill, soon veered from a foundation in art to a science and society focus under the leadership of Tomas Maldonado. The HfG Ulm faculty, all eminent teachers and thought leaders in their field, experimented with design education like never before and documented the results of teaching in a series of 21 journals published between 1958 and 1968. These ten years of intense research and theory building and sharing has had a lasting impact on the world of design education and the availability of these journals being one of the major factors for this durable influence. Selected papers from these volumes located in the NID Library were reproduced for a conference on design education in 1989 by Prof Kirti Trivedi at Industrial Design Centre, IIT, Powai and these have been a further source of inspiration for Indian design teachers over the years.

The school impacted the world of design through its direct professional action with industry, memorably with Braun and its successful range of products that hit the market in 1955 and continued with other product successes that can be called the Ulm style of meticulous detailing and clean functional form. Hans Gugelot was among the lead drivers along this track. Other teachers such as Otl Aicher influenced major corporations such as Herman Miller and Lufthansa with significant contributions in graphic design.

The closing down of the HfG Ulm in 1968 saw the scattering of its faculty and students across the world, each steeped in the Ulm ideology of public good with design theory and action, resulting in significant action on the ground in the form of new design education in Latin America by Gui Bonsiepe, in India by Sudhakar Nadkarni and H Kumar Vyas and in Japan by Kohei Suguira, besides the numerous other influences in Europe and the USA that continue to this day.

The Ulmer Museum/HfG-Archiv has brought together the various threads of the Ulm school in a unique exhibition called ulm: method and design/ulm: school of design 1953-1968 with archival objects, classroom assignments and multimedia exhibits never before seen in India. The exhibition is presented in India by the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, in collaboration with IfA (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Germany) Stuttgart and offers the opportunity to both "LOOK Back - LOOK Forward: HfG Ulm and Design Education in India", a title that aptly sums up the objective behind the intensive one-day conference/workshop on March 6, 2010 at Hotel Taj West End in Bangalore, India, as well as to draw inspiration from the path-breaking work at Ulm and reflect on the path forward here in India. An impressive catalogue published by Hatje Cantz (ISBN 3-7757-9142-6) provides rich background research content on the school and the exhibition.

Participants: Design teachers and teachers from other institutes interested in design pedagogy, including design research, design management and technology & design professionals interested in design education. Limited places available for design student observers sponsored by each participating school.

Shashikala Satyamurthy, Conference Coordinator National Institute of Design, R & D Campus, #12 HMT Link Road, Off Tumkur Road Bangalore 560 022 Tel: +91-080-23478939 (D) / 23373006 Fax: +91 80 23373086 conference email: hfgulm2010@nid.edu http://www.nid.edu

18-19 February 2010: Experimental Objects Venue: Storey Creative Industries Centre,Meeting House Lane, Lancaster LA1 1TH

Pre-programme 17th and 18th, please see http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/event/workshop4

Subject to human manipulation, objects can seem to be exposed to human curiosity and imagination, controlled through processes such as experimentation (Rheinberger 1997) and design (Latour 2008). But the purpose in both contexts is often to 'tickle' objects, to make matter 'speak' (Latour 2004). Experiments can reveal that, far from being mere things 'out there', indifferent to human attention until addressed, neatly bounded, predictable and knowable, objects are secretly lively: elusive or responsive, recalcitrant or changeable (Barad 2007). These aspects become palpable in different forms of experimental engagement, from child's play to art, from design to science (Bourriaud 2002, Suchman 1987, Pickstone 2000).

This interdisciplinary workshop is the fourth workshop of the Experimentality programme, and is organised by the Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, in collaboration with the Storey Gallery, Lancaster, and the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester.

EXHIBITION AT STOREY GALLERY

In interaction with a new exhibition at the Storey Gallery, 'What happens if ... ?' (30 January -- 3 April 2010 - http://bit.ly/whathappensif <ttp://bit.ly/whathappensif">), workshop participants will explore object-becoming performed in and through experimentation in science and design.

PRESENTERS

The workshop will feature presentations by an international, interdisciplinary group of designers and historians and sociologists of science, who with the other participants will explore, formulate, shape and debate the possibilities and dangers of experimental objects:

- Gail Davies (Geography, University College London) - Dieter Daniels (Academy of Visual Arts (HGB), Leipzig) - Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (Tinker.it!, London) - Daria Loi (Intel Corporation, USA) - Ilana Lowy (Centre de Recherche Medicine, Science Sante et Societe, CNRS, Paris) - John Pickstone (CHSTM, University of Manchester) - Hans-Jorg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) - Bruno Strasser (History, Yale University) - Lucy Suchman (Sociology, Lancaster University) - Stuart Walker (Design, Lancaster University)

PRACTICALITIES

The workshop will start at lunchtime on 18 February, and end at 17.00 on 19 February.
Storey Creative Industries Centre http://www.thestorey.co.uk
Admittance to the workshop is by registration only, as space is limited.
The workshop is free to attend for Lancaster University staff and for full-time students.
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/experimentality/event/workshop4

10-11 June 2010: Prototype - Craft in the Future Tense Dundee, Scotland

Co-convened by the Victoria and Albert Museum and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, the international symposium, 'Prototype - craft in the future tense' will explore the radical and multiple ways that creative people are experimenting with ideas. The symposium looks to excite the mind and nurture unusual conversations by presenting a diverse range of perspectives concerned with innovation and ingenuity.

Prototyping is done in many industries - from cars to ceramics, medical equipment to publishing, architects to chefs - but the process, development and understanding for each is different. What can one discipline teach another about prototyping? What place does prototyping hold for scientists, artists, politicians, athletes or business managers? How can prototyping lead these and other disciplines to imagine and re-imagine the future?

This event aims to reduce barriers by generating trans-disciplinary conversations, thus setting the scene for the forging of new partnerships and fresh understandings for contemporary and future craftspeople. We hope to bring together representatives from academia, public and corporate sectors to discuss the history, theory and practice of prototyping, thereby creating a sustainable network of like-minded individuals and organisations that will continue to develop prototyping as a tool for change.

Invited speakers include:

- Michael Schrage, Business Innovator, MIT - Elizabeth Sanders, Participatory Designer, MakeTools - Stuart Brown, Biomedical Engineer, University of Dundee

- Norman Klein, Novelist & Cultural Critic, California Institute of the Arts - Simon Starling, Conceptual Artist - Pieter Jan Stappers, Design Theorist and Innovator, University of Delft - Hazel White, Interactive Jeweller, University of Dundee - Leonardo Bonanni, Architect, Designer, Artist, MIT Media Lab - Frederic Schwartz, Architectural Historian, University College London - Constance Adams, Space Travel Architect, Synthesis International - Rosan Chow, Designer, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories - Chicks on Speed, Musicians, Artists, Innovators

Prototype - Craft in the Future Tense will be acting as the central focus for Craft Festival Scotland, an ambitious series of nationwide events happening throughout the summer of 2010. "Future Craft", the theme for Dundee's contribution to the Festival, will portray the different faces of craft and the different voices it has as a creative practice. It will focus on reviving the way people see craft by initiating a range of public events comprising several major exhibitions, films and workshops which are set to challenge perceptions and profile debates around craft.

The University of Dundee has, for the past two years, been at the forefront of the V&A at Dundee Steering Group, with support from Abertay University, Dundee City Council, Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish government. The project, which aims to establish a presence for the Victoria & Albert Museum at the heart of the city's waterfront, took a massive step forward in August when Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution, announced the Scottish Government's significant commitment of support. An international architecture competition was launched in January of this year for the #47m centre, financial support for which is expected to come from the Scottish government, philanthropic and corporate sponsors via a charitable trust. As the first V&A base outside of London, V&A at Dundee would aim to provide space in which to showcase Scottish applied arts and design in an international context, act as a focus for debate and dialogue for the creative economy, enhance the creative environment for the benefit of the general public and creative education, and create a platform for partnership working in the cultural sector in Scotland.

We hope you will be able to join us for Prototype - Craft in the Future Tense, and Crafts Festival Scotland, in Dundee this June.

http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/prototyping.

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