CFP: Design Activism and Social Change

Conferência que terá lugar em Barcelona entre os dias 8 e 10 de Setembro. O prazo limite para envio de resumos é a 31 de Janeiro.

"Design activism has emerged in recent years as a term to denote creative practices that invoke social, political and environmental agency. Typically, it distances itself from commercial or mainstream public policy-driven approaches. Instead, it embraces marginal, non-profit or politically engaged design theories, articulations and actions.

Arguably, ´design activism´ is a response to particular contemporary conditions of geo-political change, social conditions, economic practices and environmental challenges. It nonetheless inherits a rich history that goes back as long as design itself. A number of questions therefore arise. For example, what is distinctive about design activism today as opposed to its expression in the late 1960s and 1970s, the period of pioneer modernism of the 1920s or the intentions of William Morris? Are there or have there been different qualities of design activism in different locations, according to various issues such as scale, mode of intervention, contexts of governance, and so on? How have designers attempted to reconcile ambitions toward social change with economic imperatives? What is to be learnt from the design histories of non-Western countries with respect to activism and social change?

This conference offers an important opportunity for design students, academics and practitioners to participate in the development of historical enquiry into design activism. It welcomes the presentation of original research that helps deepen and widen our understanding of its practices and theories, contexts and discourses. The types of design expression that this conference includes, but are not limited to, are professional and non-professional industrial, graphic, craft, textile, fashion, urban, spatial, interior, digital and service design."

Mais informações aqui.

Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2011

Nova edição da Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces.
A data limite para o envio de papers é a 30 de Janeiro de 2011:

"The general theme for this edition is:

How can Design Research serve Industry?

Design Visions, Tools and Knowledge for Industry.


The call for papers addresses 6 topics:

1. Innovative ways to explore UCD (on new approaches)

2. Industries engaging users in design (on industry cases)

3. Aesthetics of interaction models (on interactions)

4. Design culture and thinking in industry (on design culture)

5. Organizing design in industry (on design management and processes)

6. Service Design and interactions (on services)


It is opened to different design communities and people from industry in a multidisciplinary vision and it tries to stimulate the discussion on user driven design towards other design approaches calling industries to have an active role in this discussion.


Important dates:

15th September 2010 - Call opens
30th January 2011 - Call closes
22nd June 2011- Conference starts
25th June 2011 - Conference ends

For further information please contact us at: dppi11@polimi.it"

Actualização: "The Endless End"

Há uns tempos atrás anunciámos aqui a conferência "The Endless End", que será realizada no Porto entre os dias 4 e 7 de Maio de 2011.
Agora temos novidades.
- Já nos foi dado (agradecemos ao comentador anónimo a informação) o endereço online da conferência, que é este.
- A data limite para envio de resumos foi adiada para dia 20 deste mês (Setembro). São aceites resumos com o máximo de 500 palavras, que devem ser enviados para:
endlessend2011@gmail.com

CFP: Vision Plus 2010

"We gladly announce Vision Plus 2010, the 14th installment in a series of
internationally recognized conferences - and the first of its kind in India,
to be held at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, as part of our
Golden Jubilee Celebrations from December 13 to 15 in 2010.

http://vp2010.iidi.in/


Developments in Communities, Healthcare, and Mobility pose not only compelling
challenges but also provide governments, NGOs, and industries with
extraordinary opportunities for betterment.
These are issues which affect the everyday life of all of us.

Vision Plus 2010 aims to identify the needs and constraints of concerned
people by presenting use-cases from various local contexts. Emphasising the
impact of the information-, interaction- and interface-factors in successful
design solutions we will show, examine, and develop directions for sustainable
design strategies.


You are invited to actively participate by

suggesting people, topics, and projects.
http://vp2010.iidi.in/involvement-suggestion

submitting abstracts of papers/posters
http://vp2010.iidi.in/involvement-abstract

registering early
http://vp2010.iidi.in/involvement-preRegistration


Important Dates
Submission of Abstract due: July 31
Notification of Acceptance: August 14
Final Submission of Presentation: October 30"

CFP: "The Endless End. 9th International Conference of the European Academy of Design"

The 9th International Conference of the European Academy of Design Porto, Portugal 4 - 7 May 2011

Deadline for submissions: 1st September 2010


The European Academy of Design, the University of Porto and ID+, Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture invite you to the 9th EAD International Design Conference: The Endless End.

The conference offers a forum for design academics, researchers, practitioners, thinkers and industry representatives to meet, exchange ideas and share new knowledge and insights across the fields of design. The conference includes keynote lectures, papers, posters and an exhibition of practice-based design research. The language of the conference is English. All documentation and related media will be in English. There is a sense of vertigo permeating contemporary culture as a whole, and design in particular. So much so, that we often find ourselves wondering if design as we have known it still matters. Design seems to have lost its universe of focus, branching exponentially into a multitude of concerns and activities formerly situated well beyond its scope. Likewise, design seems to be the new interest of so many professionals situated outside its area of expertise; not long ago it seemed like design was being courted, and maybe even actively cultivating, a territorial ambiguity that has kept its professionals worried, to say the least. Design now speaks of street culture and cutting-edge technology, museums and iPhone apps, just as it has spoken of campaign posters, haute couture, heavy industries, exercises in kitsch and typography. This dissipation of a discernible territory of practice could seem like a loss at first, until we gradually came to understand that Design is, after all and despite the contextual noise, a deeply human activity, and, as such, any circumscription of its potential would, in itself, be an artifice, an operational and transitory device; and that, rather than being devalued by this apparent dilution of its area of expert operation, Design suddenly has the opportunity to expand and mature as far as its context, content and purpose are concerned.

CONFERENCE THEMES

locality: the role of design in specific social and cultural environments (case studies), localisation of design and production liquidity: design´s redefined and expanding territories nomadism: design actively searching for new areas and tools of expertise involvement: design as a catalyst for change and progress vertigo: envisioning what´s ahead, calibrating past inheritances education: how can design be taught in an era of multiplicity, prosumers and open creativity?

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conference invites the submission of abstracts related to the conference theme (500 words maximum). Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit papers up to 2,500 words in length that report significant and original design-related research. Accepted papers will be refereed and published in the conference proceedings.

CALL FOR POSTERS

The conference invites the submission of abstracts related to the conference theme (500 words maximum). Abstracts may be accompanied by up to 3 illustrations. The posters are intended to provide a snapshot view of ongoing or recently completed design related research. The posters should include the title, objectives, methodology and current or expected outcomes of the research. The posters will be reproduced as PDF images and incorporated into the published proceedings.

CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS

The conference invites the submission of proposals (500 words maximum) for the exhibition of practice-based design related research. The proposal should describe the work being exhibited, giving precise dimensions. For each exhibited artefact authors will be asked to provide a concise written explanation describing the related research. Early Stage Researchers The European Academy of Design wishes to be supportive of early stage researchers. This includes researchers who may have had limited experience of submitting and presenting papers at an international level or doctoral students. Therefore submissions under this category will receive a sympathetic review and additional feedback may be given. If you are an early stage researcher and wish your abstract to be considered under this category, please indicate when submitting your abstract by checking the appropriate field on the conference web site.

IMPORTANT DATES

30th June 2010 - Online submission of abstracts open 1st September 2010 - Deadline for submission of abstracts/poster abstracts/exhibition proposals 1st October 2010 - Notification of acceptance of abstracts/ proposals 1st December 2010 - Deadline for submission of full papers 5th February 2011 - Notification of acceptance of full papers 4 - 7 May 2011 - Conference takes place

Contact conference organizers at: endlessend2011@gmail.com

DesignEd Asia Conference 2010

"DesignEd Asia Conference 2010, part of the very successful Business of Design Week (BODW Hong Kong) is calling for Abstract submissions until Jul 31 2010. Design Ed Asia is jointly co-organized by School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Design Institute & Hong Kong Design Centre.

The conference is in its 6th year, exclusively dedicated to Design Education is a forum where practitioners, academics and governmental bodes meet to exchange ideas and knowledge on Design Education.

For more information and submissions please visit our website.

Design Education has the chance to preserve world cultures, and the skills of those cultures, through digital, fashion, graphic, interior and product design. Do you have an important story to tell about design and culture? Are the artefacts that your students design steeped in the culture of their region or are they made for a nondescript global market? Please share your insights with us this December at DesignEd Asia Conference.

We invite papers in the following topic areas:

- Successful cultural content integration into the curriculum

- Regional cultural design projects

- Sustainability and cultural designs

- Entrepreneurial local cultural designs

- Designing for other cultures

- or a topic of your choice that relates to the theme"

Website da conferência.

Call for papers: The use of researcher practice in the design-based PhD

Call for papers anunciada pelo professor Mark Evans, da Loughborough Design School:

"Further to recent discussions on this forum and a review of published material, there is a need for a
resource that presents documented examples of completed PhD’s that include visually creative
researcher practice in the design-based PhD. An opportunity exists for the design research community to
generate a resource (with lots of images) that will be of benefit to new researchers, supervisors, and
demonstrate the value of design-based researcher practice to the wider academy.

The focus of this call is for PhD case studies that demonstrate researcher practice in the form-giving
disciplines that have a presence in design schools, professions and publications; such as (but not
limited to) fashion, silversmith and jewellery, textiles, ceramics, furniture, interior, graphic,
industrial/product, and architecture . The highly visual nature of researcher practice in these
disciplines means that, in addition to descriptions of the research methodology, the publication will
contain colour images of the design process and/or outcomes.

As the extent to which PhD researchers have recently engaged in design practice as a method of data
collection is unknown, it is hoped that the 1700 members of this forum and their wider network will be able
to support the creation of a resource that contains case study examples of best practice. The viability of
creating this will ultimately depend on the number and quality of contributions received and the degree
of uncertainty in the project means that book/journal publishers have not yet been contacted. This will
be undertaken when contributions have been received and the review process, managed by the Design
Practice Research Group at Loughborough Design School, is complete. However, in the unlikely event of
publishers not wishing to collaborate in this venture, the publication of the resource as either a book or
web-based resource will be underwritten by the Design Practice Research Group of Loughborough Design
School (subject to contributions being of sufficient quality).

As the call requires the submission of PhD’s that have already been completed, the first deadline is
relatively tight which supports the aim of publishing the material as soon as possible. The deadlines are
as follows:

- 30 May 2010, call launched
- 25 June 2010, deadline for receipt of outline proposals using pro-forma (below)
- 16 July 2010, short-listed contributors contacted with request for full papers
- 13 August 2010, deadline for full papers

If you would like to submit a summary of a completed PhD, please use the pro-forma below and email it as a pdf to
M.A.Evans lboro.ac.uk by 25 June 2010.

Dr Mark Evans
Loughborough Design School"