DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 15 Number 11 Nov 2010 ISSN 1473-3862 DRS Digital Newsletter
CONTENTS
o Editorial
o DRS SYMPOSIUM '2050 and all that...'
o Design Studies
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
EDITORIAL
This edition In case you missed DRN last month, there wasn't an October edition. Therefore please note that some of the announcements below have short dates. In heavily revising content for this month's edition I may have missed some announcements - if so please let me know and I will add to the December edition of DRN which will be published first week of the month.
DRS AGM Also please note that the DRS AGM will be held in the morning of 10 December 2010. All DRS members should have been notified by now. The AGM is of course open only to DRS members.
DRS Annual Symposium In the afternoon of 10 December 2010 we are running the Annual Symposium with the title "2050 and all that'. The announcement is below, and full details are now on the DRS website http://www.designresearchsociety.org
We are very fortunate in having secured John Thackara as the keynote speaker, as well as several other experts in sustainable designing including Tracey Bhamra (Loughborough) and Emma Dewberry (OU).
If you can make it, I look forward to meeting you there. I imagine this will prove a popular event, and there is limited space, so please book soon.
DRS Website Those of you who are used to browsing the DRS website may have noticed some access problems over the past few weeks, and that some content has disappeared. The reason is simply that it is an entirely new site running an updated content management system that allows us to do some things not previously possible. New content and new services will be rolled out as they become available over the next weeks and months.
-- David Durling
DRS SYMPOSIUM 2010
The DRS Annual Symposium '2050 and all that...' on design opportunities for a sustainable future will be held
12:00 - 17:15 on Friday 10 December 2010 at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham UK and will include a buffet lunch.
2050 has been established in the public mind, rightly or wrongly, as a pivotal year. Many studies have focused on challenges and opportunities arising in the period leading to 2050 and the promise of a sustainable future. On the other hand, some believe that the world will end.
If humankind is to survive, we face considerable changes to our lifestyles over the next forty or so years. With population growth and depletion of natural resources etc. coinciding in 2050, there are threats to national economies, food and water security, and potential for social unrest. Cradle to cradle approaches to design force us to radically rethink our approaches to the built environment, the currently wasteful nature of production, and the ways in which we design and promote designed environments, products and services.
Our future can sound very gloomy. We certainly face some big challenges, but the lead up to 2050 also offers great opportunities for designers to change things for the better. We have created the desires that drive present consumption, and we have the capacity to change those desires for the better.
This symposium will gaze at the future and how we - designers - might shape it. The event brings together a small number of speakers with diverse perspectives who are optimistically seeking new approaches. There will be plenty of time for discussion.
The event will be led by John Thackara, who is a leading thinker in this area - perhaps best known for creating the Doors of Perception conferences, John speaks regularly and publishes on designing sustainably and, instead of pointing the finger at designers as culprits, he is a friendly advocate for designers and their ability to change things for the better.
The symposium is open to all, but a place must be booked in advance.
DRS member delegate fee is GBP30.00 for fully paid up members of the Design Research Society. This includes attendance, lunch and other refreshments. Please login to book using the 'Symposium - DRS members' menu item
Full delegate fee - for those who are not members of the Design Research Society - is GBP60.00. This includes attendance, lunch and other refreshments.
It is possible to join the DRS in order to claim the symposium discount, thus having the addition of a year's membership of the Society.
There are a limited number of seats for this event, so early registration is advised.
There are a small number of free places for postgraduate research students who are paid up student members of the DRS. Please contact Ms Linda Marshall at admin@designresearchsociety.org
Please note that the last date for bookings is Friday 3 December. No further bookings will be accepted after this date.
http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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DESIGN STUDIES
Volume 31, Number 6
The November 2010 issue of Design Studies is a Special Issue on Studying Professional Software Design, with selected papers from a NSF Workshop held in February 2010 at the University of California, Irvine, USA. The workshop was based on analyses of common data sets of three recorded examples of professional software designers responding to a set task.
Guest Editors: Andre van der Hoek, Marian Petre and Alex Baker
Contents
Introduction Andre van der Hoek, Marian Petre and Alex Baker
Representing structure in a software system design Michael Jackson
Design requirements, epistemic uncertainty and solution development strategies in software design Linden J. Ball, Balder Onarheim and Bo T. Christensen
Ideas, subjects, and cycles as lenses for understanding the software design process Alex Baker and Andre van der Hoek
What makes software design effective? Antony Tang, Aldeida Aleti, Janet Burge and Hans van Vliet
Accessing decision-making in software design Henri Christiaans and Rita Assoreira Almendra
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/destud http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/0142694X
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CALLS
22-25 June 2011: DPPI-11: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (Jun 2011, Milano)
How Can Design Research serve Industry? Design visions, tools and knowledge for industry
Deadline for submission: 30 January 2011
In these days a mantra for companies and institutions seems to be, almost mandatorily, the need to become design-oriented, in order to increase their capability to build value, generate innovation and increase market shares as well as profits. This mantra, more often than not, comes with another one: design innovation is putting the user at the center of the project. Research on pleasurable products and interfaces is playing an important role in this debate elaborating and formalizing new knowledge on people (end users, value co-producers, etc.) and their needs, expectations, beliefs, values, desires; and suggesting the possibility to exploit user centered design in sectors and markets that are not commonly thought as being inherent its field of research. This has produced a significant amount of knowledge, mainly through vast experimentation, whereas less has been said on how to integrate this knowledge in industry. Apparently there is a disconnection between research on user centered design and pleasurability, and design practices inside industry, especially in SMEs contexts. Given these premises, it would be very interesting to investigate how this research can be integrated into industry, and to discuss it in relation to other approaches to design innovation.
TRACKS - Participants are encouraged to submit proposals that focus on
1.Innovative ways to explore,
2. Industries engaging users in design,
3.Modes and aesthetics of interaction,
4.Design culture and thinking in industry,
5.Organizing design in industry,
6.Service Design and interactions.
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM - Invites participants to work through aesthetic issues in their on-going doctoral work. Participants are expected to write a short position paper about their research, and prepare a 15-minute presentation, focusing on explaining their research, how aesthetics figures in their thinking and how they plan to work with aesthetics.
For further information please visit: http://www.dppi11.polimi.it
18-19 July 2011: WELL-BEING 2011
First Call for Papers: Deadline 26 November 2010
The First International Conference Exploring the Multi-dimensions of Well-being, 18-19 July 2011, Birmingham, U.K.
The pursuit of high levels of well-being is a key goal of society, yet well-being is a complex multi-dimensional issue, difficult to define and even more difficult to measure. Well-being is more than issues about health; it involves our expectations, needs, aspirations, the ways that we interact with the environment, our encounters with others and our routine activities.
To further our understanding of well-being and how it can be achieved Birmingham City University in collaboration with The Royal Institute of British Architects invite abstracts of 300 words (or poster abstracts of 150 words) in relation to:
- Cross disciplinary exploration of the wider notions of well-being (theory and practice)
- Well-being and sustainability - Developing and designing supportive natural, home and working environments - Modelling well-being and the relationships between individuals and their environment - Measuring and assessing the impact of interventions - Supporting the individual - art based, performative and other innovative practices - Community and salutogenic health
Papers are subject to an international peer review panel with opportunities for publication in selected journals, on the web and by Earthscan.
Queries and abstract submissions to Zoe Millman: zk.millman@bcu.ac.uk
School of Architecture BIAD, Birmingham City University Corporation Street Gosta Green Birmingham B4 7DX UK
http://www.biad.bcu.ac.uk/research/wellbeing2011
16-18 July 2011: Making Modern Consumers: Rationalization, Mechanization, and Digitization in the Twentieth Century
Workshop at the GHI
Conveners: Gary Cross (Penn State University), Angelika Epple (University of Bielefeld), Uwe Spiekermann (GHI Washington)
Call for Papers
The historiography of twentieth-century consumption usually either analyzes processes of production or centers on narratives of actors. Consumption is presented as an active process, grounded in the changing patterns of needs and wants driven by firms, consumers, or both. While these narratives underline our understanding of rationalization as a process of acceleration, the rapidly developing spheres of consumption and production emerge as more or less autonomous, clearly separated from each other. Our conference will question this perspective.
In our view, historical analysis of consumption and consumerism in the twentieth century must include the structural economic and technological changes that are normally analyzed only in reference to a supposedly independent sphere of production. Depersonalized, anonymous structures shaped not only the way consumer goods were manufactured, but also reconfigured the sphere of consumption as well as the subject-formations and self-definitions of the individuals involved. Rationalization, mechanization, and digitization caused acceleration on all social levels. They shaped and were shaped by all aspects of twentieth-century consumption, from modern retailing, product design, advertising, and supposedly personal forms of communication to the perceptions and choices of all actors involved, including entrepreneurs, marketing specialists, and consumers.
To determine the extent and significance of these interactions among anonymous structures, the twentieth-century history of consumption, and the process of acceleration, the conference will focus on three major topics:
First, we will present and analyze basic structural innovations that served to rationalize, mechanize, and digitize consumption. We will provide insight into both the actors behind these processes and the new demands that these processes placed on individuals, particularly on consumers. Examples include the emergence of the first automatic restaurants, self-service shops and restaurants, vending machines and vending machine streets, ATMs, bar codes and labeling, as well as GPS and RFID. All these innovations were accompanied by new challenges for consumers, who, from now on, were spoilt for choice and constantly had to control their desires to consume. This part of the conference will not only analyze consumer goods and other elements of the production process, but it will also investigate the interactions between consuming subjects and anonymous determinants of consumption.
Second, these structural changes not only influenced the relationship between production, consumption, and consumers. They also shaped how the spheres were mediated, that is, they triggered new aesthetics in selling goods and attracting consumers. Consumers were forced to develop new economies of attention and new techniques of defense or resistance. Therefore, we will focus on how these anonymous structures led to the reconfiguring of services, consumer goods, and packaging<as well as of shops and other spaces of consumption. We will also examine shifts in the communicative presentation of services, changes in advertising and marketing, and redefinitions of salespersons, service staff, and consuming subjects.
Third, we will focus on acceleration processes caused by the rationalization, mechanization, and digitization of production and consumption. At the same time, we will also examine opposing moments or slowdowns. Where or when did self-service fail? Who was excluded from accelerating processes or access to technical innovations? Who was outside the range of rationalization, mechanization, and digitizing? Who resisted becoming a modern consumer ?
The conference will not only compare American and European developments and examples. It will also investigate their interactions and mutual interferences. Special attention will be given to papers that include developments in non-Western societies.
Paper proposals (one page preferred, two pages maximum) are welcome for all topics from both young and established scholars of different countries and disciplines. Proposals should include an abstract in English and a curriculum vitae. These materials should be submitted via email (preferably in pdf format) by October 15, 2010 to Baerbel Thomas <b.thomas@ghi-dc.org> .
If you have any questions, please contact Uwe Spiekermann (spiekermann@ghi-dc.org).
http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article& id=1102&Ite mid=973
30 June 2011 - 2 July 2011: AESTHETICS AND TECHNIQUES OF LINES BETWEEN DRAWING AND WRITING
Call for Papers
International Conference (CIHA Colloquium) Florence
Lines and lineaments are fundamental concerns in many cultures. They can be constitutive elements of pictorial and scriptural systems, as well as of a combination of both. Lines can separate or intersect, they can connect or link. Drawn, inscribed, incised or woven into a surface they create or articulate space, denote orientation or movement, they present or represent, they signify or carry out meaning, they cancel or cross out. Lines are, geometrically spoken, one-dimensional, but in scripture and drawing they are material as is the ground on or in which they appear. In this sense one can speak of techniques of "making lines" which condition the aesthetics of lineaments as much as the latter contribute to the invention and transformation of such techniques. Under these premises, the conference will discuss the differences, similarities and open borders between writing and drawing, their techniques and aesthetics, especially in European, Islamic and East Asian cultures. Given that lines play an important but not exclusive role in this relationship, papers could also discuss the limits of linear systems or explore alternative models as for example the transition between line, brush stroke, mark or spot. The major aim of the conference is to envisage a dialogue among specialists of different cultures and academic fields, questioning the role of lines in an intercultural perspective, from an historical as well as theoretical point of view.
The following list of arguments which could be addressed in the conference is far from being exhaustive, it rather wants to invite to further thoughts and critical considerations:
- Visualizing language, picturing texts, iconic letters and words, texts as icons, writing in pictures, scriptural drawings, signatures, profiles etc. - Pictograms and graphic signs - Techniques of drawing and writing in relation to various supports (papyrus, parchment, paper, walls etc.) - Scribbling, sketching, etc. - Modes of correcting and reworking - The art of calligraphy and the aesthetics of writing in a comparative perspective - Ornament between scripture, decorative lineaments and figurative elements - Techniques and aesthetics of reproduction for written text and images - Delineating the past (and the future): pictorial and scriptural memories - Delineating Nature: writing and drawing between art and science - Modes and media of intra- und intercultural transmission - Self-reflection of writers, draftsmen and visual artists - Ontologies and theologies of the line, in relation to scripture and image - Non-linear concepts of writing and imaging.
The conference, organized by Gerhard Wolf and Marzia Faietti, will be hosted by the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut and the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi.
Scholars interested in participating in the conference are invited to send a proposal of 250 words, their CV and a list of publications to the following address by 15 December 2010: dirwolf@khi.fi.it
The conference languages will be: Italian, German, English and French.
Contact Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wolf Via Giuseppe Giusti 44 50121 Florence ITALY
15-18 August 2011: "ICED'11 Conference"
CALL FOR PAPERS
We are pleased to invite you to prepare and submit a paper to the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design: ICED11, which will be held at The Technical University of Denmark, on 15th-18th August 2011. We invite high-quality submissions for ICED11, on topics that cover substantial, original and previously unpublished research. Applied, theoretical and results-oriented papers from both academia and industry, based on rigorous analysis or argumentation, will all be considered for inclusion. Submissions should aim to fit into one of the nine conference themes, see www.iced11.org.
ICED is a biannual conference, with a growing academic and industrial audience. The conference has its roots in engineering, but has radically broadened in scope, to a general understanding of designing as an activity, its human factors and knowledge aspects, its composed and multi-disciplinary nature, and its societal role and importance. Design has a central role in bringing engineering and technology to practical use. We have chosen, therefore, that ICED11 will focus on the balancing of the societal impact of engineering design.
All papers, which must be submitted as full papers, will be subject to a double-blind reviewing process. Paper submissions are to be made through the ICED11 Conference Management System, where registered authors will have access to the evaluations of their papers, thus aiding them in preparing the final camera-ready version of their papers.
http://www.iced11.org
Craft Research (1.1)
Intellect is delighted to announce the first issue of our latest Visual Arts journal, Craft Research (http://bit.ly/CraftResearch).
Aims and scope
The aim of Craft Research is to advocate and promote current and emerging craft research, including research into materials, processes, methods, concepts, aesthetic and style. This may be in any discipline area of the applied arts and crafts, including craft education.
The journal will portray and build the crafts as a vital and viable modern discipline that has a vision for the future. It is distinct from mainstream journals in that it is dedicated to presenting and reporting on research, in the widest sense, in order to advance the knowledge in the field. Making this knowledge, in whatever form, available to the community will help build and advance the field, and present it - in all its diversity - as a strong and essential force that cannot be overlooked.
In addition to an enthralling editorial feature and a thorough reviews section, the inaugural issue includes articles 'Surface and substance: A call for the fusion of skill and ideas in contemporary enamel jewellery' by Jessica Turrell and 'Exploring net political craft: From collective to connective' by Otto Von Busch.
To download these articles for FREE please visit the Journal's page on our website: http://bit.ly/CraftResearch
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Title information ISSN: 20404689|Online ISSN: 20404697 | 1 issues per volume
Editors Kristina Niedderer: k.niedderer@wlv.ac.uk University of Wolverhampton, UK
Katherine Townsend: katherine.townsend@ntu.ac.uk Nottingham Trent University, UK
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20-23 April 2011: Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association's Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design Area is seeking paper proposals for the annual conference.
Please join us in San Antonio, April 20-23, 2011 for the National Conference. We will be meeting with the Southwest/Texas regional at both the Marriott Rivercenter and Riverwalk hotels. We expect about 3,000 participants; it should be an exciting conference with papers on an enormous variety of subjects. The deadline for proposing papers will be December 15, 2010.
Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design
Fashion, Style, Appearance,Consumption & Design is concerned with all areas and aspects of style, fashion, clothing, design, and related trends, as well as appearances and consumption using and/or including: historical sources, manufacturing, aesthetics, marketing, branding, merchandising, retailing, psychological/ sociological aspects of dress, body image, and cultural identities, in addition to any areas relating to purchasing, shopping, and the methods consumers construct identity.
Papers from all methods and disciplines are welcome! Innovative and new research, scholarship and creative works in the areas of fashion, design, the body and consumerism are encouraged!
Please email a short 50-word bio with contact information and an abstract of no more than 250 words of your proposal paper by December 15, 2010 to:
Joseph H. Hancock, PhD at joseph.h.hancock@drexel.edu or Alphonso McClendon at alphonso.d.mcclendon@drexel.edu
Joseph H. Hancock, II, PhD. Mr. Alphonso McClendon Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design 3141 Chestnut Street Nesbitt Hall Suite 600 33rd and Market Streets Philadelphia , PA. 19104 Phone: 215-895-6993
Dr. Joseph H. Hancock, II Associate Professor & Fashion Scholar Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts and Design Philadelphia, PA. 19104 Cell: 610-564-6200 http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/about/faculty/?id=104
http://www.pcaaca.org
20-21 April 2011: 2nd International Conference of Professional Doctorates John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh
CALL FOR PAPERS
You are cordially invited to submit a paper to the 2nd International Conference on Professional Doctorates, which will take place at John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland on 20th & 21st April 2011. The Conference themes and topics for submitted papers will cover all aspects of Professional and Practice-based Doctorates - including:
- International perspectives on developments in the Professional Doctorate in North America, Australia and Europe - Employer/community expectations of the Professional Doctorate - Philosophical and educational developments in the pedagogy of the Professional and Practice-based Doctorates - Approaches to doctoral training & professional development - Practical experience in the delivery of Professional Doctorates - Special issues relating to Practice-based Doctorates - Sustainability issues of different models of Professional Doctorate - Comparison of Professional Doctorates in various professional arenas - Strategies for effective formal and informal assessment - Critical reflective practice and the accreditation of experiential learning - Quality assurance and quality enhancement issues - Validation issues and audit practices - Ongoing or completed case studies of research projects / theses of Doctoral Students
Papers are invited for presentation in one or more of the following formats:
- Lecture - Round Table Discussion - Workshop - Poster - Poster (with short Introduction)
The submission deadline for Preliminary Abstracts (ca 300 words) is 22nd November 2010. Full details, including key dates and an online form for submitting Preliminary Abstracts, can be found on the Conference web pages: http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs
ICPD-2 will feature Plenary Speakers internationally renowned for their work in doctoral education. The Plenary Speakers will present papers on the following overall themes:
Professor Bridget O'Connor, New York University, USA Professional Doctorate Education and USA perspectives
Dr Andreas Frijdal, European University Institute, Florence, Italy European Perspectives on the Doctorate
Professor Tom Maxwell, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia The Professional Doctorate - Generational Change
Professor Chris Park, Higher Education Academy, York, UK (TBC) Doctorateness and the Professional Doctorate
The Conference themes covering all aspects of Professional and Practice-based Doctorates can be found at: http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs
Edinburgh's new John McIntyre Centre on the Pollock Halls campus is set in the beautiful ambience of Holyrood Park. Located within walking distance of the City and a full range of restaurants, pubs and local attractions, the area has a wide range of residential accommodation, from Guest Houses to Hotels.
http://www.ukcge.ac.uk/profdocs
3-6 November 2011: 8th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C 2011) and related art program, tutorials, workshops, and graduate student symposium.
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Submission deadline (for all kinds of submissions): March 25, 2011.
We welcome contributions from researchers and practitioners, from artists and scientists, from designers, educators and decision makers. Please send all inquiries to (acmcc2011@gmail.com).
C&C 2011 Conference
The broad theme of C&C 2011 is Creativity and Technology. Topics of interest include:
- Creativity in arts, music, story telling, poetry, design, science, etc. - Everyday creativity - Individual, collaborative and collective creativity - Participatory creativity, organizational creativity and creative communities - Democratizing creativity, do-it-yourself and folk creativity - Education and training in creativity - Creativity in education and training - Embodiment, sensations, perceptions, emotions and behaviors in creativity - Visual and perceptual representations in creativity - New materials and processes for creativity - Emerging technologies and media in creativity - Digital media and technologies for creativity including graphics, visualization, virtual reality, augmented reality and tangible computing - Social computing and media in creativity - Interactive arts, theatre, music, games, story telling, design, science, etc. - Empirical evaluations by quantitative and qualitative methods - Case studies and ethnographic analyses - Reflective accounts of individual and collaborative practice - Cognitive and cognitive neuroscience models of creativity - Information-processing and computational models of creativity - Creative systems, tools and applications - Social and cultural studies of creativity - Transdisciplinary metaphors, methods, models
All submissions will be reviewed by an international program committee. The conference proceedings will be published by ACM.
C&C 2011 Artworks Chair: Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
We are interested in computational media art performances, screenings, and demonstrations. We are seeking a wide variety of artworks related to the conference theme of creativity and technology. The exhibition of these works will be juried and presentation of works will be integrated into the conference program. Selected artists will be requested to take part in artist panels to discuss the works in light of conference themes. Performances or screenings should involve interaction with the audience and some time for discussion of the work. Fully realized works will be prioritized over demos, however submission of proposals to present significantly developed demos is encouraged as well. Proposals (200-300 words) should include the title and a short description of the work (including any links to your material), a plan for presentation, technology requirements, and a short (50 words) bio for each participant. A small number of installation works may also be accepted for exhibition. However priority will be given to performances, screenings, and demos that can be presented in the main conference auditorium.
C&C 2011 Tutorials Chair: Yukari Nagai, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Creativity and Cognition 2011 is looking for significant Tutorials developing research and education methods related to the conference theme of creativity and technology. A half day plan (3 hours) or a full day plan (6 hours) is available. Submit your tutorial plan 4-8 pages proposal in A4 format by March 25th, 2011.
The proposals should include the title and an introduction, aims, a framework of your main idea, a plan for Tutorial (please select half day or full day), and a short (50-100 words) bio for each instructor, tutor, and lecturer with references (URL, etc).
Additionally, the tutorial proposal submissions must include:
- Explanation how the tutorial will be conducted (e.g., lecture, demonstration, etc.) and provide representative samples or some idea of the materials that will be included in the course notes. - The technology requirements list that includes materials and conditions needed to run the tutorial. It should include any supplies required for each participant, restrictions or conditions on offering the tutorial such as an attendance limit, technology support needed to run the tutorial.
Proposals will be evaluated by review committee on the basis of their value in offering opportunities to conference attendees to learn more about the work done by others interested in the various themes and topics of the conference.
C&C 2011 Workshops Chair: Chien-Sing Lee, Multimedia University, Malaysia.
New developments often benefit from being presented, discussed, demonstrated, speculated upon, and generally questioned in more informal settings. The workshop portion of the conference provides just such a rich channel for the dynamic exchange of new ideas, creations, and discoveries.
We invite proposals for full-day and half-day workshops focused on specific topics and questions related to the conference's broader themes. We invite proposals for full-day and half-day workshops focused on specific topics and questions related to the C&C 2011 conference's broader themes. We are particularly interested in topics likely to bridge the conference's many communities around the theme of Creativity and Technology.
Proposals should be submitted in the conference publications format (up to four pages), and include: A 2-page extended abstract, the objectives and expected outcome of the workshop, the planned activities, the background of the organizer(s), the anticipated number of participants, and the means for soliciting and selecting participants.
C&C 2011 Graduate Student Symposium Chair: Ellen Yi-Luen Do, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
The Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) provides a supportive setting for feedback on graduate students' current work and guidance on future directions. GSS participants will meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners in an informal and interactive setting. We welcome applications from graduate students in terminal degree programs, (i.e. doctoral programs in research fields and master programs in the arts) in any of the disciplines and approaches concerned with creativity and cognition.
Each application should provide a short written paper (no more than two pages in normal ACM SIGCHI archival format) and a brief letter of support from the student's principal adviser. The paper should describe ongoing work and summarize the student's thesis, or highlight a particular aspect. Advisor's letter of support should indicate that the work has reached the appropriate level of maturity for presentation in this venue. The letter of support should be submitted together with the paper on the conference submission site. Please note that GSC submission, unlike paper submission, is not anonymous.
Participants will be selected based on their anticipated contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual discussions of the symposium. Selected students will be expected to give a short presentation of their work, followed by discussion with the panel and the other student participants. In addition, each student is encouraged to present a poster describing his or her work to the full conference and a 30-second overview of their work as part of the "madness" session. We anticipate that financial support will be available for graduate students to attend the GSS and C&C conference.
Please send all inquiries to (acmcc2011@gmail.com)
http://dilab.gatech.edu/ccc/index.html
Call for Papers: The Right to the City
The Right to The City is an exhibition and publishing project exploring connections between architecture, art, philosophy and action; cosponsored by Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney and Architectural Theory Review. The Right to the City special issue will bring together papers that particularly consider architecture's potential for reimagining urban life (to be published as Volume 16, Number 3, November 2011).
The Right to the City takes as its starting point David Harvey s polemical article that asserted urban existence as a contested part of modern democracy: "The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights". Given widespread, acute anxiety regarding our environmental predicament, coupled with attention to the world s intensifying urbanisation, many artists, activists, planners and architects are seeking ways to "remake" the city in more socially connected and sustainable ways. These activities are often engaged with negotiating the increasing fragmentation and complexity of the contemporary city; developing critical spatial practices that engage in micro-political actions.
Architecture as a Social Catalyst
Recent decades have seen the emergence of a renewed sense of commitment by many architects to the idea of socially responsible architecture; what might be termed "engaged practice". This commitment is frequently directed toward small-scale approaches of direct engagement, where the focus is on collaboration with clients and users to create community resources. Although this emphasis on collaboration and participation is familiar from socially engaged movements of the past, the architects are often at pains to distance themselves from grand manifestos or utopian theories. Rather than model design solutions addressed at a unified social entity the projects (often temporary) are highly contingent and beholden to their specific contexts. A shift in attitude might be discerned, where a broad "utopian" agenda is set aside for provisional solutions in the here and now a commitment to a "radical pragmatism" attentive to the possibilities of addition, transformation and utilisation more than demolition, subtraction or replacement.
At the same time, this engaged turn in architecture frequently intersects with a contemporary convergence of site-specific, installation, community and public art, and political activism. Such practices given terms such as "context-specific", "site-oriented", "site-responsive" or "socially-engaged" often have a discernable emphasis on "microtopic" urban interventions. Adopting do-it-yourself (and design-it-yourself) approaches, temporary constructions, and the material organization of communicative situations, they overlap with engaged architectural practices in their concern for modeling alternative ways of communally inhabiting the city. They also share an emphasis on dialogical relationships through design processes that privilege working with others: interactive activities, collective action and participatory practices. Contingent, interactive, place specific, models of possible universes; they strive to imagine and invent positive social relations and better ways of dwelling in the world.
With these tendencies and convergences in mind, we invite papers that explore architecture s contemporary role and potential for urban intervention - its capacity for transformative action. With reference to the above, we are particularly keen to receive submissions that reflect on:
- Architecture's agency in the city; - Alternative or expanded models for architectural practice; - Intersections of architecture, art and activism; - The limits of participation and collaboration in engaged architectural practice.
Completed manuscripts should be submitted to Architectural Theory Review by the 3rd of May, 2011, via the journal's website:
Queries regarding the special issue or The Right to the City project should be directed to Lee Stickells: Lee.Stickells@sydney.edu.au
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13264826.asp
16 March 2011: type writing
call for papers
The relationship between author and printer is often apathetic, some- times vexed and occasionally inspired. Most writers know little about typography; for them it is not the printing but the getting into print that matters. on the other hand, some take a great interest in how their words are presented and work with the typographer to ensure that the quality of their text is reflected in the visual manner in which it is served to the reading public. Balzac, Blake, Graves, Huxley, shaw and Woolf all understood the inextricable link between type and writing.
This symposium will explore the link between the typographer and the writer of words, be they literary, commercial, instructional or inspira- tional; whether produced by a professional writer, graphic auteur or the casual passer-by who has simply given form to his thoughts.
We are inviting contributors to either talk or present posters to the theme of Type Writing. The topic may be interpreted either in an historical or contemporary context; discussed not only from a technical but also an empirical perspective; may be explored either from an applied or theo- retical standpoint; and the effects of the digital present can be considered and the unknown future predicated.
applicants
academics, practitioners or students can apply to take part in the sympo- sium. participants are sought from all areas of typography, type design, digital media, printing, lettering, calligraphy, advertising, publishing, literature, language, and the book arts.
how to apply
applicants should submit a 300-word proposal in Word format, together with a curriculum vitae, stating clearly whether they intend to talk or make a poster presentation. all applications and questions to caroline archer / caroline.archer@bcu.ac.uk / 0121 331 5871
closing date
1200-noon, 15 November 2010 Birmingham City University
21-24 June 2011: NOTHING LEFT TO THE IMAGINATION? at Sheffield Hallam University, England.
Call for Papers
The Department of Media Arts and Communication is hosting a cross-disciplinary conference which considers the implications for viewing, spectatorship and participation arising from recent technological developments in image production; developments which have the capacity to increase detail, precision and fidelity.
Nothing Left to the Imagination? encourages participants to explore the ways in which the tendency towards the production of immaculate image quality impacts on the experience of visual media. Does heightened visual experience enhance, compete, or co-exist, with the potential for cognitive pleasure, immersion and interactivity? The conference invites consideration of the possible tension between these two experiential qualities, in the context of current practice and recent technological development across a range of visual media. We also invite contributions that consider the pedagogic implications of such developments.
We invite proposals for 20 minute papers. Send abstracts of up to 350 words to: imagination@shu.ac.uk by Monday 13th December 2010. Please include your name, contact details and supply a short profile indicating your background, affiliations and research interests.
For further information, please consult our conference website at:
http://nothinglefttotheimagination.wordpress.com/
This conference will be complimented by industry led workshops and will launch a series of events which address emerging visual media technologies. The aim of these events is to establish a research network in order to exchange and disseminate ideas; bringing together academia, industry and any other relevant partners. A selection of papers will be published following the conference; details to follow later.
We also plan a one day fringe symposium for students. See conference web site for further details.
6-8 July 2011: Economy conference, to be held at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University.
The word 'economy' first described the management of a household. It comes from the Greek oikonomia /oikous (house) and nemein (manage) but its description of domestic frugality bears little relation to the contemporary 'economy' of governments and financial markets. Economies and capital are central to the dynamics of construction and urbanism, in ordering and disordering patterns of production and consumption. Given the collapse and mismanagement of the larger households of our societies, is it not vital to now evaluate the multiple meanings and potentials contained within this word? This international conference invites papers that investigate economy under the following themes:
- Dwelling and Economy - Economy and/of Means - Politics of Economy - Architecture and Capital - Defining Value
Deadline for abstracts: 7th January 2011
htpp://www.cardiff.ac.uk/archi/economy
29 May - 1 June 2011: Nordes invites you to the 4th Nordic Design Research Conference: Making Design Matter! School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Call for Participation
Opening keynote: Professor Andrea Branzi, Politecnico di Milano
The challenges affecting society today require fresh approaches -- how can we continue to make design matter? Nordes 2011 invites designers and design researchers to explore the possibilities.
Design touches human lives in a myriad of ways. Designers create products, systems and services that have become indispensible to the ways in which people work, live and communicate. Many designs merely feed consumerism, while others never impact the market. Whereas some design introduces formative changes within society, the majority falls into disuse or is simply forgotten. Designers create things that shape human life, but the value created and common good of design cannot be taken for granted.
Designers currently work to make design matter in many ways, such as:
- Impacting the public sector, as in urban and service design - Revisiting craft approaches to skill, aesthetics and production - Studying the historical and social shaping of material culture - Staging meaningful participatory and human-centered design processes - Involving design management to influence organizations and stakeholders - Stimulating changes in values through critical and artistic tactics
Nordes 2011 invites participants to explore and discuss:
What matters are at stake for designers today? What kinds of perspectives and alternatives are needed? In which ways can we develop the discipline and practice? How does design research matter?
Nordes 2011 invites contributions that share:
- Examples exploring the meaning and consequences of design - Explorations of the changing im/material objects of design - Experiments in design teaching, research and management - Analyses of design culture, methods and theories - Reflections on the limits of design, including ethics and politics
Submission categories and templates. Templates for papers, short papers, design case studies, and doctoral consortium will appear on the conference Web site on 15 September.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE for full papers: 10 January 2011
About Nordes. Previous Nordes conferences have been organized in Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Oslo. They have attracted 150-200 participants. Papers are online on nordes.org.
Conference organizers. Chairs and program chairs: Ilpo Koskinen and Tiina Haerkaesalmi (Aalto University), Ramia Maze (Interactive Institute) and Ben Matthews (University of Southern Denmark). Web master: Tatu Marttila (Aalto University).
http://designresearch.fi/nordes2011
http://nordes.org
6-8 July 2011: ELECTRONIC VISUALISATION AND THE ARTS EVA London 2011
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Visualising
ideas and concepts in culture, heritage the arts and sciences: digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, archaeology, architecture, social media for museums, heritage and fine art photography, medical visualization and more
OFFERS OF PAPERS, DEMONSTRATIONS AND WORKSHOPS by 15th January 2011
We invite proposals of papers, demonstrations or short performances, workshops or panel discussions. Demonstrations and performances will be an important part of this year's conference. Only a summary of the proposal on up to one page is required for selection. This must be submitted electronically according to the instructions on the EVA London <http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london> website.
Proposals may be on any aspect of EVA London's focus on visualisation for arts and culture, heritage and medical science, broadly interpreted. We especially invite papers or presentations on the newest and emerging technologies and applications. Papers are peer reviewed and may be edited for publication as hard copy and online. Other presentations may be published as summaries or as papers.
If your proposal is a case study, we will be looking for discussions of wider principles or applications using the case study as an example. A few bursaries for EVA London registration fees will again be available if you don't have access to grants.
EVA London's Conference themes will particularly include new and emerging technologies and applications, including but not limited to:
- Visualising ideas and concepts - Imaging and images in museums and galleries - Digital performance - Music, sound, film and animation - Medical humanities - Reconstructive archaeology and architecture - Digital and computational art and photography - Visualisation in museums, historic sites and buildings - Immersive environments - Technologies of digitization - 2D, 3D and high definition imaging - Virtual and augmented worlds - Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies in art and culture - Digital visualization of performance and music
http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london
4-8 July 2011: HCI 2011 - Health, Wealth and Happiness, Call for Papers
The 25th British Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI2011), Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
HCI 2011 will be held between the 4th of July and the 8th July, 2011, in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. The HCI Educators conference, Workshops and Tutorials will be held on 4th and 5th July, 2011 and a Doctorial Consortium on the 5th July. The main conference runs from the 6th-8th July, 2011. HCI 2011 is organised by the PaCT Lab (Northumbria University) in cooperation with the British Computer Society.
This year we will be looking for papers to put in our alt.hci sessions. So if you think your work doesn't usually make it into this conference then maybe this year is your year.
Accepted papers will be published by BCS in the annual conference proceedings, freely available online in BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) and will also be included in the ACM digital library.
Important Dates:
- Full Paper and Workshop submission: 21st January, 2011 - Conference: 4th July - 8th July, 2011
Conference Scope and Description
Human Computer Interaction is a key area of computing, This is the leading conference in the field of Human Computer Interaction in the UK. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for interacting with devices and services. HCI is now on its 25th conference and at this anniversary we ask you to reflect on our theme of Health, Wealth and Happiness. . Technology is posed to play a growing part in our health and maintaining well being into older age; wealth manifests itself in many ways, many of which we do not always recognise - relationships, richness of life experience, creativity and innovation, knowledge and qualities of character. Lastly is there a relationship between happiness and technology use, will more gadgets increase our well being? And as ever contributions in any aspect of HCI are welcome.
Suggested topics
We solicit original research and technical papers not published elsewhere including the following topics :
- Affective interaction - Aesthetic interaction - Art and interaction - Bodily interaction - Cyber-relationships, sex and eroticism - Design and Evaluation methods - Ethnographic and field studies - Ethics and HCI - Experience Design - Fun and Play - Health informatics and technology - Human values - Information visualization and presentation - Interaction Criticism - Moods, meditation and relaxation - Musical and audio interaction - Novel interaction techniques and devices - Privacy, Security and Trust - Social networking - Spirituality and Beliefs - Sustainability and HCI - Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction - Universal design - Usability studies - User Experience (UX) - Wearables and fashion - Wellbeing and technology
Paper Submission
Submissions must be in an electronic form as PDF format. All submissions should be formatted to the ACM standard, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates , and will appear on-line in the BCS EWiCS series and the ACM Digital Library. Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system, which will open for submissions in November and will be linked from the conference website http://www.hci2011.co.uk/ with detailed instructions. We have put together an international review panel. Submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 peer-reviewers, selected by the appropriate chairs. Additional guidelines can be found on the conference's website.
It is a condition of acceptance that at least one author must register for each accepted paper, no later than the early bird deadline of 4th May 2011.
12 February 2011: ARCHITECTURE IS ALL OVER
A Workshop Investigating Architecture in the Context of Cross-Disciplinary Spatial Practices February 12, 2011 OCAD University Toronto, Ontario
CALL FOR PAPERS AND DESIGN-BASED PROVOCATIONS
Building projects continue to proliferate at a global scale in spite of the economic climate. Architectural concepts are being incorporated by a variety of discourses. Ever-expanding arrays of spatial practices are able to be considered within the bounds of the discipline. Is architecture becoming ubiquitous?
Or think about the same circumstances a different way: Architects are constructing ephemeral environments, micro-scalar interventions and even invisible phenomena. Other fields are unremittingly appropriating architecture. The cleft between the discipline of architecture and its own professional practice is deepening. Is architecture evaporating? Either way, it is becoming more apparent that architecture needs to be re-conceptualized to address disciplinary conditions that are becoming harder to ignore. Where do we go from here?
This workshop is an opportunity for creative thinkers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to work through the paradoxical expansion and contraction of architecture as it both affects and is affected by a larger milieu, and as it is situated within a range of cross-disciplinary spatial practices. We seek innovative discussion papers, graphic provocations and design-based proposals from emerging practitioners and theorists that analyze, re-imagine or foment architecture in new ways.
Location
Gathering a series of international thinkers and practitioners from a range of fields in Toronto, Ontario, for a one-day public event, this workshop will take place at OCAD University on February, 12, 2011.
12 MAY 2011: 'Pairings: Conversations,Collaborations, Materials'
International Conference at Manchester School of Art, a part of Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
We are looking for high quality academic papers that explore subjects related to collaborative practice in a craft, design and art environment. These could include (but are not limited to) discussions of
- collaboration within and across disciplines - good practice of how to work between institutions and collaborate with outside partners - the impact of strategy - collaborative curating of exhibition - collaborative student projects - influence of collaborative strategies onlearning and teaching practice - collaborative manifestos
We invite the submission of abstracts of 500 words by 7th January 2011. Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit full papers (3000-5000 words) in February 2011. We are interested in both theoretical papers and ideas for discussion formats. Please indicate the nature of your submission within your abstract.
While we expect to publish all submissions in an ISBN publication, we are also currently in negotiation to develop a number of appropriate papers into a special issue of The Journal of Modern Craft.
Please submit your abstract by 7th January 2011 to: h.felcey@mmu.ac.uk
17-18 November 2011: The Life of New Materials
Paper proposals are invited for a conference on Nov. 17 and 18, 2011 that will explore the lives of the new materials that have made possible many of the technological advances of our age. Whether based on plant, metal, chemical, or nano technologies, the development, use, re-use, and disposal of new materials is an embedded feature of our industrial society. The focus of this conference is to understand the relationships from which new materials emerge, and which they in turn often refashion. We are especially interested in proposals that focus on the life history of a new material: its biography, use cycle, place in supply chains, or features as material culture. We encourage papers to address the reasons and methods for development of a new material; its design, manufacture, testing, and subsequent incorporation into final products or already existing technologies; its reuse or disposal after completion of its primary purpose; and its impact - anticipated or not - on subsequent innovations. Exploration of the creation of new materials should situate those scientific and technological processes within the commercial, institutional, or social contexts that lead to their development. Papers should be historical and based on original research, and may consider any region of the world after 1900. Submissions should include a brief c.v. and an abstract for the proposed paper that is no more than 500 words in length. The deadline for proposals is April 1, 2011. Please go to http://www.pachs.net/newmaterials to submit a proposal. Travel support will be available for those presenting at the conference.
http://www.pachs.net/newmaterials
10-11 March 2011: Making visible the invisible: Data Visualisation in Art, Design and Science Collaborations University of Huddersfield, UK
1st Call for Abstracts, 300 word limit, Submission deadline: December 6th 2010
Keywords: data visualisation, multi-modal visualisation, sonification, interdisciplinary collaboration, sustainability, ecology
A two-day conversational conference on interdisciplinary collaboration in data visualisation.
In recent years numerous visualisations involving scientific data and scientific themes have emerged from interdisciplinary collaborations between artists, scientists and designers. Works reach across diverse media, ranging from applied screen-based applications to experimental physical installations. While some are intended to inform by making the complex and abstract clear and visual, others focus on the aesthetic quality of the experience. What many of the works have in common is being the outcome of collaboration across disciplines. This event seeks not only to contribute to the debate around data visualisation but also to a better understanding of what makes interdisciplinary collaborations successful. We wish to provide a platform for open dialogue and discussion across disciplinary cultures and seek a better understanding of the critical requirements for interdisciplinary collaboration. We ask what are the most fruitful conditions for interdisciplinary collaboration? How can trans-disciplinary understanding be best facilitated? We are seeking contributions that advance the state of data visualisation through interdisciplinary collaborations. In particular approaches which include:
- Sensual, aesthetic, poetic and conceptual approaches - The role of inter-, trans-, or meta-disciplinary collaboration - Methods, case studies or frameworks that facilitate dialogue and exchange across disciplines - Themes around sustainability, ecological literacy or climate change - Physical installations that transcend screen-based modalities - Sonic visualisation and sonification - Interactive and immersive visualisation, - Affective visualisation (real time representation of affective data) - Aesthetic and semantic investigation of data sets - Novel interfaces for navigation of data - Human statistical data (such as bio-signal, biological, birth-rates, energy consumption) - Astrophysical data (such as solar wind, cosmic radiation, planetary motions) - 'Displays' that make use of natural forces such as light, water, fog, wind etc. as outputs - Pollution and environmental data (weather, gravity, volcanoes, earthquakes) - Live data (local and remote) - Neuro-plastic applications - Open APIs, open platforms, open formats, open hardware
Other relevant works concerning the processes of interdisciplinary exchange and scientific data visualisation not directly included in the above categories are also welcome for submission.
Abstract submissions
Your abstract should not exceed 300 words and be in rtf format. Please provide up to six keywords and one figure. Please write so that everyone can understand. Reviewers will be from multiple disciplines.
Please submit your abstract via Easychair > ADS-VIS2011:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adsvis2011
Abstract submission deadline is December 6th, 2010, 24:00 h GMT All submissions will be reviewed and feedback given to the authors. Notice of acceptance will be given December 20th. Once accepted, final submission date of an up to 3000 word (short) paper is February 16th.
http://www.hohlwelt.com/en/conferences/visible.html
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
SERVICE DESIGN EVENTS
The service design community is scattered all over the world and has activities going on in several different places. here are some.
SDN Berlin: This is the big event of the SDN. A networking conference, leaning over towards a business, professional and dissemination kind of event."
http://www.service-design-network.org/content/welcome
ServDes.2010, Linkoeping, Sweden: This is a research conference, submissions are peer-reviewed in a double-blind process.
http://www.servdes.org/about
SDN Cambridge, MA: A get together for the US network of service design.
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2010/09/10/us-service-design- network-conference/
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ANNOUNCES THE PUBLICATION OF: MAKING FUTURES THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AGENDAS VOL 1. ISSN 2042-1664
AVAILABLE AT: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/journalvol1
The papers in this Volume represent the results of the first bi-annual Making Futures international research Conference held in September 2009 by Plymouth College of Art.
The purpose of the Making Futures Conference series is to improve understanding of the ways in which the contemporary crafts are practiced in relation to significant and new emerging agendas relating to global environmental and sustainability issues. The objectives include trying to understand whether these 'agendas' offer opportunities for the crafts to redefine themselves as less marginalised, more centrally productive forces in society, through new formulations and/or re-articulations of practices, identities, positions and markets, in ways that might engage more closely with contemporary social and cultural needs.
Thirty-nine presentations were selected for the first Conference programme following a process of double-blind abstract reviewing by a distinguished peer review panel. By far the overwhelming majority of presenters (thirty-five) responded positively to the post-Conference call to publish and all are included in this volume, accompanied by an introductory essay by Malcolm Ferris, the Conference Curator.
To ensure the widest possible dissemination Making Futures Volume 1 is published as an open-access academic resource.
PLYMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART ALSO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO ANNOUNCE:
MAKING FUTURES II THE CRAFTS IN THE CONTEXT OF EMERGING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY AGENDAS
THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL MAKING FUTURES CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY 15TH AND FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2011 AT DARTINGTON HALL ON THE DARTINGTON ESTATE, DEVON, UK.
Department of Design College of Arts + Sciences, The Ohio State University
Position title: Associate Professor, emphasis in Design Research. The Department of Design at The Ohio State University seeks a faculty member recognized as both a prolific academic researcher and an expert in user-centered design research processes in professional practice. Minimum qualifications would include a terminal master degree (MFA), though a Ph.D. is preferred. An established or clearly-emerging national and/or international reputation in the field is expected. Competitive candidates will possess an extensive academic teaching and research record, and a long history of involvement in applied design research in the field. Teaching responsibilities will be predominantly in the graduate program, and a significant level of graduate committee advising will be expected. Candidates may possess a professional/academic background related to one of our current design disciplines (Industrial, Interior, or Visual Communication Design), or they may come from an associated discipline, such as Architecture, Business, Engineering, or the Social Sciences.
Responsibilities: The appointed faculty member will be expected to actively pursue research opportunities, and teach undergraduate and graduate courses related to user-centered design research in a dynamic, interdisciplinary environment. The faculty member will be expected to participate in curriculum development, engage in academic and professional service, and work collaboratively with internal and external research partners, organizations and corporations. The faculty member will also be expected to actively pursue funded research opportunities in his or her area of interest, and provide service at the Department, College, and University levels.
Appointment: Regular nine-month tenure track appointment at Associate Professor level.
Salary: Negotiable and competitive, commensurate with experience.
Closing date: Applications will be considered beginning October 18, 2010 and continue until the position is filled.
Starting date: September, 2011.
About the Department: The Department of Design is located within the College of Arts + Sciences at The Ohio State University. It is a small and selective professional program with a respected reputation at the graduate and undergraduate levels, offering the advantages of a large and diverse research university. It is associated with the Advanced Center for Computing in the Arts and Design (ACCAD) at the graduate level, and offers opportunities for collaborative research and design activities with corporate partners, design firms, and other disciplines. For additional information about the Department, please visit our web site: http://design.osu.edu/
Application: Interested applicants should submit a letter of application; a statement of research interest and/or creative activity as it pertains to their view of the evolving map of design research and design practice; a curriculum vitae or resume; no more than 20 images representing examples of both professional and student work (prints and digital files on accessible media); design research case study reports and/or publications; along with self-addressed return postage to: Professor Scott Shim Search Committee Chair Department of Design The Ohio State University 380 Hopkins Hall , 128 North Oval Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1318 USA e-mail: shim.14@osu.edu
IxD Faculty Position - Carnegie Mellon
The School Carnegie Mellon's School of Design is one of the oldest design programs in the United States, offering undergraduate, masters and PhD degrees in design. Located in one of the premier research universities in the world, our School is noted for its core degrees in interaction design, communication design, and industrial design, as well as its transdisciplinary masters degrees with the departments of English (Communication, Planning and Information Design) and Engineering (Masters in Product Development) and BHA, BSA and BCSA undergraduate degree programs which enable students to design hybrid majors between Design and the humanities, natural sciences, and computer science.
We believe design is central to constructing a better future. In our teaching and research, we employ design methods that synthesize an understanding of people and technological innovation in order to envision products, services, systems, and environments that meet human needs and desires. In 2009 the School began a re-visioning process that places design for society and the environment at the heart of the program, educating designers as transdisciplinary problem-solvers, and as catalysts for positive change. The School will launch several new master's degree concentrations as well as executive and continuing education programs over the next two years, providing several opportunities to expand its visionary and collaborative faculty.
The Position We seek a dynamic individual with a balance of interaction design practice and scholarly design research experience to serve our Master's and PhD students. We will consider specialties including, but not limited to, the following:
- Industrial/Interaction design with a focus on physical and tangible computing, basic electronics, and formgiving - Information/Interaction design with a focus on designing for web and mobile, information architecture, and social and cloud computing - Service/Strategic design with expertise in design synthesis, diagramming and blueprinting, facilitation, and fundamental research in service design - New media/Interaction design with a focus on motion graphics, narrative and storytelling, and audio design - Strategic design and design planning - Design theory - Domain expertise such as healthcare, eldercare, public policy, or sustainability
A candidate with a strong interaction aesthetic, an orientation to research, and skills in problem framing is sought to teach and conduct research within and outside of the School of Design. We are looking for an individual who pushes current boundaries and explores new territories; thus the ability to forecast, identify and foster new areas of design research, experimentation and innovation is key. The position will involve collaboration with faculty at the School of Design as well as other departments across the University.
Qualifications We seek a versatile designer with a significant record of professional practice, teaching, research publication, and/or public exhibitions. Candidates should have a Master's or PhD and professional design practice experience. University-level teaching experience is desirable. Carnegie Mellon University is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunities employer committed to diversity.
Application to Include - Letter of application with design practice, research and teaching philosophies - Curriculum Vitae - Portfolio of work (see below) - Contact information, including phone numbers for 3 references (No recommendation letters are required at this time)
Work Samples Please provide a PDF containing up to 20 standard-size pages of visual and written documentation of your work. This PDF may also serve as a guide to additional online, interactive and/or video materials.
Provide the URL of your web site and your Twitter handle, if applicable. Sites will be viewed on Safari/Mac OSX with standard installations of Java and Flash. Include instructions for viewing select interactive projects, if applicable.
Up to 10 minutes of time-based work may be submitted on DVD-R, or in a web page with embedded video streams from e.g. Vimeo or YouTube.
Include samples of published research.
Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return of your materials.
Submit your application via email to: John Zimmerman, johnz@cs.cmu.edu
When sending email, please us the following subject: School of Design IxD Search
Or mail to: Attn: John Zimmerman IxD Faculty Search School of Design, MMCH-110 Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890
Application Deadline December 6, 2010, or until position is filled.
29 November - 3 December 2011: The 11th Participatory Design Conference. PDC 2010.
Sydney, Australia.
Register now to take advantage of Early Bird Registration to PDC 2010
http://www.pdc2010.org/registration/
PDC has a full and varied programme of workshops, tutorials and a single track of 15 research papers enriched by sessions of exploratory papers, industry case studies, panels, related art events and keynote speakers. All this plus a conference dinner right on Bondi Beach. Check it out at www.pdc2010.org/programme/
Follow us on twitter @PDCSydney. And join us to celebrate the first PDC to be held in the southern hemisphere!
Beyond Behaviour Change
I would like to inform you of an initiative, and invite you into a continued discussion with the Beyond Behaviour Change Research Group that is operating from within the Centre for Design at RMIT University.
The Beyond Behaviour Change (Beyond BC) research group is exploring opportunities to facilitate change that move beyond the current focus on individual resource consumption and behaviour to consider why and how people consume within a broader social, cultural, technical and institutional context. Our inter-disciplinary team of social scientists, material geographers, industrial designers, urban planners and engineers takes a unique approach to behaviour change research and evaluation by shifting emphasis away from individuals (and their drivers and barriers for change), and onto the social practices people participate in. The group builds on the recently completed Australian Research Council Linkage project 'Carbon Neutral Communities', which included an evaluation of 100 behaviour change programs.
Drawing on the theory of 'social practices', the group is engaged in projects and activities that seek to identify avenues for change that add new dimensions (and establish alternatives) to familiar economic and psychological approaches and theories dominating the resource and environmental sectors, such as rational action, consumer choice, information provision, demand management and market mechanisms. We see the potential to draw on practice theory to inform the design of our built world (from products, architecture and urban planning) to script outcomes for sustainability.
The team conducts applied research, undertakes inter-disciplinary projects, supports Higher Education by Research (HDR) candidates, and provides other collaborative opportunities to engage with the research agenda, such as through a social practice theory reading group.
For further information and contact details please visit our Beyond Behaviour Change web page:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/cfd/beyondbehaviour
17-19 November 2010: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE CONSTRUCTED ENVIRONMENT Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
This year's conference will be held in Venice, Italy alongside the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The Constructed Environment Conference is a place to explore the forms and functions of the constructed environment during a time of dramatic and at times disruptive change. The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum that brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the past character and future shape of the built environment. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism. In professional and disciplinary terms, the conference traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: architecture, anthropology, business, design, economics, education, engineering, environmental design, industrial design, interior design, landscape architecture, sociology, town and regional planning, and transportation.
The 12th International Architecture Exhibition, entitled People meet in architecture by Kazuyo Sejima, will be laid out in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni della Biennale (Giardini) and in the Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, with 48 participants: firms, architects, engineers and artists from around the world. On Wednesday, 17 November, conference participants may register for a guided tour of both the Arsenale and the Giardini Biennale exhibits. Additionally, participants may also register for a guided tour of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, including its library, archive, museum and exhibition space. To register for one or both of these tours, please see: http://constructedenvironment.com/conference-2010/activities-and- extras/
This year's conference features the following plenary speakers:
- Kathryn H. Anthony, University of Illinois School of Architecture, Urbana-Champaign, USA - Rene Davids, FAIA, University of California Berkeley School of Architecture, Berkeley, USA - David Mayernik, School of Architecture, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA - Cristiano Lippa, Kengo Kuma Laboratory, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
For more information about these speakers, please visit the conference website:
http://constructedenvironment.com/conference-2010/plenary- speakers
In addition to plenary presentations, the Constructed Environment Conference includes parallel presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may submit their written papers for publication in the refereed 'International Journal of the Constructed Environment'. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available, which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in the journal.
We also invite you to subscribe to our free, monthly email newsletter, and to our Facebook, RSS or Twitter feeds at http://constructedenvironment.com/ .
http://www.ConstructedEnvironment.com/Conference
26 November 2010: What are the new roles of 21st Century Design Managers? BRIDGEWATER HALL MANCHESTER UK
GBP45 book at www.mdmn.eventbrite.com
Please find attached information on our second Metamorphosis of Design Management Workshop & Symposium. This will be exploring the new roles of 21st Century Design Managers through presentations from:
- Rachel Alsbury, Creative Director, Puma International - Lorna Wain, Design Adviser, Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust Foundation - William Sermon, Director Viadynamics, Vice President Design, Nokia Multimedia - Julian Thomson, Assistant Creative Director, Jaguar Cars - Professor Margaret Bruce, Manchester Business School - Professor Alex Williams, University of Salford
To book a place at the event please visit www.mdmn.eventbrite.com
Download the flyer
For more information on the Metamorphosis of Design Management Network please visit
http://www.mdmn.org
Issue 5 of Colour: Design & Creativity The final content in Issue 5 has now been published
Submit your work to the journal
All submissions to the journal undergo peer-review by experts in the field. Full author guidelines are available at: www.colour-journal.org/static/authors.htm. To submit a paper, please email: editorial@sdc.org.uk
http://www.colour-journal.org
29 November - 1 December 2010: The First International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC2010)
Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Hiroyuki Yoshikawa
Panel Discussions: Theme "Directions for Design Creativity Research" Panelists:
Dr. John Gero (USA) Dr. Mary Lou Maher (USA) Dr. Steven Smith (USA) Dr. Amaresh Chakrabarti (INDIA) Dr. Yong Se Kim (KOREA) Dr. Gabriela Goldschmidt (ISRAEL)
32 Podium presentations and 48 Short presentations & Poster viewing (submitted from 27 countries)
The conference program is now available on the ICDC 2010 homepage: http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/program1.html
ICDC2010 General Chair Toshiharu Taura (JAPAN) icdc2010@org.kobe-u.ac.jp
on behalf of International Program Committee of ICDC2010 Yukari Nagai
http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/
28 November 2010: Mediating Practices: Design, Politics and their Publics
GOLDSMITHS, University of London
The symposium is focused on design as a mediating practice; both in the narrowcast sense of how it contributes to the production of new forms of 'media', and, also, in the wider sense that design is itself a mediatory practice; conditioning the spaces and objects of our everyday practices and, in and through this, effecting the way we are, and mediating the very sense of ourselves, as individuals and communities. So the symposium is not only focused on the design of media and its objects (this as well, of course) but also on the way design shapes our ways of being and belonging more generally.
The symposium speakers will reflect on the political, social, technological and ecological implications of design interventions in media, and, also, in mediating the spaces, objects and practices of living - including its effect on selfhood, public life and social relations.
In what it addresses the symposium will not merely be focused on 'thin slicing' current media spaces and practices - to study, analyse and pronounce on contemporary trends and forms - but will also be concerned with appreciating and having critical purchase on future possibilities for design (as one of the key agencies through which our lives are mediated).
All speakers, to a larger or smaller extent, will be concerned with the possibilities and processes by which futures are gained - they will be concerned with unpicking the retentive and protentive dynamics at work in producing what is 'now' (our contemporary conditions) in order to project thoughts on the futures (or lack of futures) we are producing.
What is clear is that design is currently encysted within an unsustainable programme of human development in which future freedoms and freedoms to have particular futures are rendered impossible.
In light of this, the speakers will through their different positions and projects, tease out the ethical imperatives for design (as profession) and designers (as individuals) in the choices to be made in producing futures; the ethical imperatives in the changes that design can effect in setting course for these futures and in the changes that can (and should) be effected within design practice to carry through these transformations. The symposium has speakers from industry and academia, theorists and practitioners, nationally based and international, who will present ideas and projects that will address the concerns of design as a concourse of 'mediating practices'.
This symposium is one of a number that have been organized under the aegis of the Leverhulme sponsored Media Research Project based at Goldsmiths (now in the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre (GLMRC)).
This symposium is preceded and linked to a symposium on Saturday 28th November titled ,Mediatizing Public Space'
If interested you may register for either or both symposia. To register please contact:
e.baumann-meurer@gold.ac.uk
http://www.gold.ac.uk/media-research-centre/events/symposium2010/
The Designed World Images, Objects, Environments
Edited by Richard Buchanan, Dennis Doordan and Victor Margolin
The Designed World aims to break down the often rigid boundaries between history, theory and criticism.
It brings together key essays from the preeminent journal, Design Issues, structured to cover the life of a designed object from conception and fabrication to evaluation. The essays are grouped into themed sections, each separately introduced and concluded with further reading.
The reader will be an invaluable resource for students, scholars and practitioners across the field of design.
For more information on Berg titles or to request a review copy please contact: Noa Vazquez, Marketing Assistant, nvazquez@bergpublishers.com Berg Publishers, 1st Floor Angel Court, 81 St Clements Street, Oxford, OX4 1AW, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 245 104 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 791 165 www.bergpublishers.com
22-23 November 2010: IE2010: The 7th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand
The Fish of the Day: IE2010 will cover how PLAY can contribute to both major and minor challenges we are facing in these roaring times. What can we learn from being inventive and playful? And how can interactive entertainment contribute towards facilitating these changes? What do we need as designers, developers, critical thinkers and researchers to consider, bring in, promote when faced with these challenges? What is the role of play in future scenarios?
The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, in its seventh year, is a cross-disciplinary conference that brings together researchers from artificial intelligence, audio, cognitive science, cultural studies, drama, HCI, interactive media, media studies, psychology, computer graphics, as well as researchers from other disciplines working on new interactive entertainment specific technologies or providing critical analysis of games and interactive environments. The Institute of Communication Design, Massey University is hosting this exciting event for the first time in New Zealand. We see this as a unique opportunity to engage designers, programmer's theorists and artists at an area, where through play game and interactive design converge.
Our keynote speakers this year are Katie Salen Professor of Design and Technology at the Parsons the New School for Design, leading game theorist and researcher, and author of the "rules of Play". Locally we are joined by Joe Bleakley, Art Director for the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, and a leading creative force in the New Zealand film and television industry over the past 30 years.
http://ieconference.org/ie2010
12-13 November 2010: Annual Meeting of the German Society for Design Theory and Research
Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Designtheorie und -forschung (German Society for Design Theory and Research) at the HBK Braunschweig
The 7th Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Designtheorie und -forschung is dedicated to all the issues and questions of its members and interested parties focussing on networking and exchange of information. We have invited members, providing insight into current research projects, and thereby also address questions on organisation and implementation. To accompany, we offer workshops on funding opportunities and formats. In the section "Design promoviert" we present the upcoming generation of designers and discuss questions of promotion opportunities, institutions, and topics. The objectives of the conference are to strengthen the design community's exchange and to promote the various fields of design research.
Please find details for registration, program and further information on:
http://www.dgtf.de/tg-news
http://www.dgtf.de/code/dgtf/Programm_DGTF-Tagung2010.pdf
The conference will be held in German.
Conference announcement
The relationship between driver and passenger behaviour, vehicle and transport design
As the drain on the earth's resources becomes critical and our cities more congested and polluted there is a growing emphasis on the negative impact of vehicles and the need to change not only vehicle design but the behaviour and expectations of those using personal and public forms of transport as well. On the one hand new fuels, manufacturing techniques, lightweight materials and in vehicle telematics provide opportunities to transform vehicle design and make it more accessible to a wider range of the population. This is balanced, on the other, by an increased awareness of the needs and expectations of the transport user. Synthesizing these will create the vehicles of tomorrow.
This conference provides an opportunity for designers, researchers and other interested parties to show how their research or designs are addressing future needs and responding to changes to driver and passenger behaviour. In so doing it is hoped that new themes and concepts will emerge, which recognise the invaluable work of designers and ergonomists in this field.
This one day conference will provide an opportunity for delegates to demonstrate and discuss the issues they are considering in the design of future vehicles and transport systems, and how their designs might evolve to reflect the new transport agenda and greater awareness of driver/passenger issues.
Suggested themes include, but are not limited to:
- Interior and exterior packaging and styling to accommodate electric, hybrid and hfc technologies - Design challenges in relation to occupants/interface with other road users - Integrated transport and logistics - Ergonomics and driver behaviour - Vehicle displays, communications and controls - Inclusivity - Older drivers - Sustainability - The influence of transport services on user behaviour - Transport and emotion
Students posters illustrating concept cars and 'blue sky thinking' are welcomed. A prize will be awarded to the design which captures the spirit of what transport could mean in the future. Students from all HEIs and faculties are welcome to contribute.
Date of conference: Friday 4th March 2011 Venue: Coventry University Technocentre
A.Woodcock@coventry.ac.uk
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