Tecnologia apropriada e escala local

Projecto de barraquinha desmontável, fruto do protocolo entre o DsF e a Camara Municipal de Arouca. Recorre a tecnologia simples e materiais correntes. Estes postos de venda, construídos localmente permitiram a realização da primeira feira do Agricultor em Arouca. Este certame de periodicidade quinzenal visa promover a venda directa do produtor ao consumidor dos produtos da agricultura da região e foi considerado um enorme sucesso pela população. (Nora técnica: A estrutura não foi optimizada pelo método dos elementos finitos, mas sim a olho - eh eh. Para a segunda série já se identificaram vários pontos que irão ser sujeitos a melhorias de detalhe)

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"

Design & Intervention Workshops at Aldeias do Xisto Portugal

"Introduction:

Summer 2009 was the beginning of a Design & Intervention program aimed at supporting ADXTUR (the Agency for the Development & Tourism in Aldeias do Xisto) by the creation of a platform in which, through creativity & design, ideas and possibilities for the sustainable development of inland Portugal could be explored and discussed.

Taking then the form of interdisciplinary design workshops, the platform created a meeting point between the local population and several international designers.

A meeting point through which knowledge that had survived in the people, objects, architecture and landscape of the region was mapped and with which insights into sustainable design processes and into some of the challenges involved in local development were gathered.

Design & Intervention Summer Workshops 2010:

This upcoming August, with the direction of the designers Daniela Pais and David Luxembourg, the Design & Intervention platform will take the shape of a Design Laboratory which will explore and investigate ways of supporting the efforts of local municipalities in central Portugal against the human desertification, oblivion and abandonment of traditionally built stone villages.

Around this Design Lab, in 3 periods of 1 week each, a series of interdisciplinary design workshops will take place. The program for these workshops is a combination between creative thinking and creative making, and is aimed at offering and developing new insights into the design process and challenges involved in the creation of new and innovative concepts about crafts, nature, sustainability, social design & local development.

The project is a collaboration with the Portuguese project Schist Villages Network ‘Aldeias do Xisto’. This is a sustainable development project of a regional scope and context that is promoted by ADXTUR -Agency for the Development & Tourism of Aldeias do Xisto, in a partnership with 16 counties in the Central Region of Portugal and over 70 operators & businesses on this territory.

Participation in these workshops is open for designers, design students and other creative professionals who are interested in sustainable design within the contexts of rural living & local development.

The Design Laboratory:

As mentioned already above, the Design & Intervention platform will take the shape of a Design Laboratory, as a part of a continued program, integrating the main objectives of the Design & Intervention platform (to see what these are click here) and following/focusing on a different themes as the design and intervention program develops.

The first Design Lab. theme will be focused on the idea of survival: survival of knowledge, of heritage, of values, of resources and of the participants of the LAB & Workshop themselves.

Around this theme the Design Lab. will promote a continuity of the design & intervention program in the villages through specific projects during the year and as well as through residences for designers and the summer workshops.

Workshop 2010 Program:

TO FEEL > TO ANALYZE > TO RECOGNIZE > TO VALUE

As mentioned before the program for these workshops is a combination between a ‘Hands on’ approach and a ‘Minds on’ approach, involving the local community its resources and its artisans with national and international designers & design students while keeping the focus on the regional intervention program, its aims and its needs. A briefing will be given in the beginning of each workshop as to what these are and as to the communities, artisans and crafts that are involved.

The participants to the summer workshops can expect to be busy with hand-on design regarding sustainability and the reinvention of everyday luxuries (including cooking) & technologies in a rural environment (also in order to reduce their footprint during their stay at the villages). They can also expect to get involved with local communities while scouting and collecting knowledge and information about their environment, data that will be transformed into proposals or acts of intervention as each workshop progresses. Bellow you will find a week-by-week themes and planning:

Period I - 02.08 till 08.08
Hands on: Making the basics for living / survival tools
Minds on: Researching & developing initial proposals for interventions according to LAB assignment by Scouting; mapping; analyzing; pointing out proposals/ directions.

Period II - 09.08 till 15.08
Hands on: Making of design essentials / sustainable & local technologies
Minds on: following on the previously LAB assignment directions, Research and development taking a more specific and direct approach into providing solutions and detailed proposals.

Period III - 16.08 till 22.08
Hands on: Making of communication materials exploring local resources and using the technologies previously developed at workshop 2.
Minds on: Finalizing proposals and solutions on a micro level, dealing with execution details and scenarios of implementation of proposals provided by previous workshops.

Criteria for participation:

Participation in these workshops is open for designers, design students and other creative professionals who are interested in sustainable design within the contexts of rural living & local development.

You can ask for an application form for the workshops - either via info@danielapais.com or through hello@yoad.info

Please note:
- Per workshop/period there are only 8 places available. We recommend people who are interested in participating in the workshops, to contact us directly and register/reserve their place(s) ASAP.
- You can participate in 1, 2, or 3 workshops (see listing of period below).

- You must be 20 years old or older.
- In order that we will have a better understanding of who you are and how you work, we ask each participant to write us/send us a short C.V. or Bio (max 1 A4 long) with some details about themselves their work, study, education etc.

+ Also (this part is not compulsory) if you have any website or a small portfolio that we could look in please let us know where it is (URL) or simply send it to our emails.

* As a platform the design & intervention program is open to involvement of all interested and interesting parties, therefore the possibility is given to creative professionals & design students with a special interest or project to combine their studies with this program and to continue and explore their ideas and concept within the workshops. If you have a special interest or an ongoing project you would like to continue and explore during the workshop, please attach a short power point presentation or PDF about it when sending back your application form.

Participation costs:

*Important notice* Together with the local municipalities we are working on ways to reduce the participation fee to an ideal cost of 300 Euros/week. Prices bellow may change in the future. *Important notice*

Per week – 500 Euros
(Period I - 02.08 till 08.08, Period II - 09.08 till 15.08, or Period III - 16.08 till 22.08)
For 2 weeks (10% discount) – 900 Euros
(Periods I & II - 02.08 till 15.08)
For 3 weeks (20% discount) – 1200 Euros
(Periods I, II and III - 02.08 till 22.08)

Prices are per person and include: Accommodation (in a shared room / camping), Meals (full board) and Materials.


Deadline: All application must be submitted and received before the 10th July 2010."

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Bicicletas

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

AAATE Workshop

Ah, e, claro, a AAATE vai também realizar um workshop chamado "AT technology transfer", que vai ter lugar em Sheffield entre os dias 4 e 5 de Outubro deste ano. O tema é: "The Social Model for Assistive Technology - Technology Transfer".
Ver mais aqui.

AAATE 2011

O site ainda não tem nada, mas já foi anunciada a próxima conferência da Association for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, que se vai realizar entre os dias 31 de Agosto e 2 de Setembro em Maastricht.

Optimization of the mold to the corners of front bumper

The thickness of the mold walls was increased and rays of agreement (3mm) were added to the edges to give greater strength and avoid problems of lamination in these areas.
It was removed material in flat faces to reduce costs, because it isn't necessary for the manufacturing of the bumper corners.

Soon, will be ready to be sent to ENP.

INNOWIZ

E esta? O INNOWIZ é uma ferramenta disponível na internet e desenvolvida por investigadores do Industrial Design Center da Howest University, em Kortrijk, Bélgica (a propósito: esta é uma das cidades que participa do Innovation Festival, juntamente com Barcelona, Milão, Lisboa, Vilnius e Tallin).
A ferramenta serve para a implementação de objectos/sistemas inovadores e é completíssima, estando disponíveis ao longo da exploração da ferramenta uma série de processos para cada uma das fases que integram o processo de inovação: Problem Definition, Idea Generation, Idea Selection e Idea Communication.
Acho que vale a pena ver aqui.

IGUAIS?

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.

The Living Principles

The Living Principles for Design aim to guide purposeful action, celebrating and popularizing the efforts of those who use design thinking to create positive cultural change.

Drawing from decades of collective wisdom, theory and results, the Living Principles framework weaves environmental, social, economic, and cultural sustainability into an actionable, integrated approach that can be consistently communicated to designers, business leaders, educators and the public.

These principles are truly living: our collective success is dependent on the active involvement of partners, ambassadors, educators, studios and curious individuals who come together to move the conversation—and the industry—forward.

The Living Principles website is the place where we co-create, share and showcase best practices, tools, stories and ideas for enabling sustainable action across all design disciplines.

It’s creative action for collective good.

Via Core77.

University Creative Arts

MA Sustainable Product Design
1 year full-time, 2 years part-time at UCA Farnham

Martin Charter

http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=23973

This course provides a conceptual process and context for the development of creative and innovative products, which includes the study of socio-cultural and economic issues; new technologies; and creative visual language in relation to your practice.

You undertake individual research projects using an integrated product design process. You develop and communicate sustainable design solutions that also meet other relevant design criteria and respond to broader issues such as lifestyles, markets or the information economy.

There are also seminar sessions with visiting professional product designers, who provide critical feedback to advance your design concepts to prototype stage, ready for final exhibition and commercial manufacture.

Stage 1
You study units that include an exploratory project where you investigate the application of product design skills and knowledge alongside contextual perspectives.

Stage 2
Continue to formulate and develop your ideas, understanding the relationship of your project to professional practice and considering your practice in respect of further contextual perspectives.

Stage 3
Your final project represents the culmination of your studies and forms an exposition of the central ideas and concepts developed throughout the course. You have the option to resolve your project as practice-based work or a dissertation or a combination of both.

How this course is taught
You are taught through a mixture of seminars, lectures and specialist subject activities, initially to form your objectives and study plan, identifying design activities and possible commercial partners.

How this course is assessed
You are assessed on your major project thesis which includes product development work in collaboration with an industry partner. Your thesis could take a number of formats, including: essays, presentations and research papers; conceptual development in models and drawings; and prototyping work in innovation and consumer products.

PARSONS School of design strategies

http://www.newschool.edu/parsons/design-strategies-school-sds/

Design for sustainability at Stantford

Design for Sustainability

ME222

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Course Description

Lecture/lab. Role of design in building a sustainable world. How to include sustainability in the design process considering environmental, cultural, and social impacts. Focus is on a proactive design approach, and the tools and techniques needed to translate theory into artifact.

http://me222.wordpress.com/about/

CataCAMP

The invention of the concept of “intermediate technology” in the 1960s marked the start of a growing movement to use technology to relieve impoverished communities. The trend intensified within the last decade with the introduction of innovative finance models, the recognized success of social ventures, the social responsibility movement, and the growing number of student classes oriented towards technology development for the poor.  So much so that there is now a wide variety of terms and methodologies, including: social impact design, BoP design, design for extreme affordability, design for the 90%, appropriate technology, etc.

While the definitions and methodologies vary, the common goal can be broadly described as a quest to best meet the needs of the poor through accessible technologies or service offerings without compromising the resources of the future. It requires input from a variety of industries, including energy, farming, appropriate technology, business, manufacturing, industrial design, anthropology … the list goes on.

Each of these industries has a unique perspective and methodology they bring to the table. A designer’s toolbox is strengthened not just by being exposed to these methodologies, but by doing, trying, failing and succeeding at them for themselves. This is how we get beyond broad definitions and discussion, by applying our beliefs to our design process.  The ultimate goal of CataCAMP is just that, to strengthen our designers by arming them with experience that enables them to define a methodology for themselves.

http://catapultdesign.org/projects/catacamp

Fashion Design at Bath Spa Universit

[Pedido de divulgação]

Dear Sir

Please see below a flyer advertising the MA Investigating Fashion Design at Bath Spa University. This is a fashion history and theory course, run collaboratively with the world renown Fashion Museum,Bath. Whist undertaking this MA, students will have access and gain work experience at the Museum, develop fashion history and theory projects and develop teaching and learning skills suitable for a career in higher education. To date our students have undertaken projects in the UK and overseas on subjects as diverse as ‘Couture during the Belle Epoch’ and ‘Northern Soul and Dress Performativity’.

I would be delighted if you could circulate these course details (below) and my contact details (j.turney@bathspa.ac.uk) to any interested parties as we are now recruiting for our second year.

Many thanks for your time and consideration.

Dr Jo Turney

Course Leader, MA Investigating Fashion Design

Key features

– You will have access to a world renowned collection of

fashionable dress;

– You will be able to conduct and present original research to

a wide audience;

– Publish your research project

– Understand key issues relating to teaching in a higher

education environment and working in a museum

Application

Application forms are available from the Admissions Office

Manager, Bath Spa University, Newton St Loe, Bath BA2 9BN.

Telephone 01225 875433

E-mail enquiries@bathspa.ac.uk

Enquiries

For informal enquiries about the programme please contact: Dr Jo Turney Tel: 01225 875552 E-mail j.turney@bathspa.ac.uk

Victoria's Design Festival - State of Design

Enfim, é muito longe e acontece já em Julho, pelo que, ainda por cima, está muito em cima da hora. Mas vale a pena dar uma olhadela a este site do Victoria's Design Festival para perceber que há muito para fazer, para mostrar, para aprender nas mais variadas áreas do design. O festival está dividido em 4 domínios principais: Design Capital, Design for Everyone, Design:Made:Trade e Premier's Design Awards.

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"

Fixation holders of the doors mechanism (evolution)

Design Forum

http://ww1.owenscorning.com/composites/appchallenge/

Projectos de Design contra a Pobreza e a Exclusão Social

Convocatória de Ideias para a criação de Projectos de Design contra a Pobreza e a Exclusão Social

Last Call – data-limite 10 Julho

  

No âmbito do Ano Europeu de Combate à Pobreza e à Exclusão Social e coincidindo com a II Bienal Ibero-Americana de Design, o Ministério da Cultura de Espanha apresenta a iniciativa “Design contra a Pobreza”. Este projecto é constituído por duas fases sucessivas: a Convocatória de Ideias e a Exposição que mostrará os projectos seleccionados no Museu de Nacional de Artes Decorativas (Madrid).

O objecto desta convocatória é colocar o design ao serviço da pobreza, mediante a selecção de propostas para os espaços e equipamentos dos lares transitórios destinados a pessoas em processo de inclusão social, com o objectivo de melhorar as actuais condições dos lares comunitários temporários.

As propostas apresentadas deverão enquadrar-se numa das três seguintes categorias: fomento da socialização (salas de estar, salas de jantar, quartos de jogos e trabalho comunitário), preservação da privacidade dos indivíduos (dormitórios, espaços de trabalho) y espaços e equipamentos privados socializados (higiene pessoal, cozinhas partilhadas, etc.); podendo optar-se por uma das modalidades dentro de cada categoria:

-        Organização, distribuição, decoração e ambientação de esses espaços.

-        Desenvolvimento de algum objecto ou equipamento dos mesmos.

Os projectos poderão ser uma nova criação ou bem como melhorias de outras existentes, sejam elas reais ou apresentadas em literatura de referência.

Poderão participar arquitectos e designers latino-americanos, espanhóis ou portugueses, individual ou colectivamente, independentemente do seu país de residência. O número de projectos a apresentar por concorrente e por categoria é ilimitado.

Dada a finalidade social e humanitária da convocatória, os melhores projectos entre os seleccionados poderão, neste caso, ser entregues às ONGs colaboradoras para a sua produção e execução, em parte ou na sua totalidade, com uma retribuição de 10.000€ pela cedência de direitos de autor, segundo o regulamento da convocatória.

info: www.ideascontralaexclusionsocial.com     

contacto: convocatoria@bid-dimad.org / convocatoria2@bid-dimad.org

Power to the Pedals

http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6456

Inside the zurich design museum collection

For centuries, Swiss design was synonymous with watches, army knives, sewing machines, and other precision utilitarian objects. Then came the rise of Swiss graphics and typography in the 20th century, when the grids and sans serifs of talents like Josef Müller-Brockmann and Jan Tschichold created a legacy that dominates the tiny country’s design reputation even today. But inside the 10,000-square-foot universe of the Museum Für Gestaltung Zurich’s collection archives — behind whose doors normally only curators and students are allowed — every chair, teapot, and cigarette lighter is either a product of or an influence on Switzerland’s industrial design history, which the museum strives to promote through the five to seven temporary exhibitions it produces each year.

When Sight Unseen was invited in April to tour and photograph the Design Collection, one of four housed in the archive building, it was the first time we’d seen a museum collection in storage, and it was quite an impressive sight. Containing more than 10,000 products and 20,000 examples of packaging — including prototypes, one-offs, and mass-produced items both anonymous and designer — it fills rows and rows of shelves stretching all the way to the ceiling, plus dozens that are compressed together on moveable tracks like library stacks. Started in 1987, it’s younger than the museum’s poster, graphics, and applied arts collections, and around 40-50 percent of the objects it comprises are Swiss. There are Sigg bottles, Freitag bags, and Swiss airline utensils, while in the chair room, rough, forgotten prototypes for a bakelite shell chair by Willy Guhl appear strikingly similar to the fiberglass versions Charles Eames was developing across the Atlantic at the exact same time.

We documented these and other finds in the slideshow at right to the best of our abilities, but we were unable to secure a follow-up interview to learn more about how and why the museum makes each new acquisition, as the museum’s curators were busily preparing their upcoming show —  “Make Up: Designing Surfaces,” which opens August 25. If you have questions about anything you see in this story, we encourage you to email the museum

Change in the mold to the corners of front bumper

Changes in the molds of the bodywork structure and the floor

Fill of the sill (floor)

The fill of the sill was not considered previously.

Design Journal & Conference Calls

Útil site que permite obter informação centralizada sobre conferencias de design e chamada de artigos.

 

Acessibilidade e design inclusivo

Rui Ribeiro, docente do Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, acaba de ser convidado a integrar a Comissão Técnica - CT 177(IPQ) - "Acessibilidades e Design Inclusivo". Trata-se do primeiro representante da Universidade do Porto a fazer parte desta comissão técnica desde a sua criação em Abril de 2008. 

Licenciado em Engenharia Física Tecnológica pelo IST - Instituto Superior Técnico e doutorado em Física da Radiação pela Universidade de Coimbra, Rui Ribeiro é também Senior Staff da divisão de Física Aplicada do CERN (Centro Europeu de Física de Partículas, Genebra). É colaborador do LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas, investigador do LOME-INEGI e professor na FEUP e na Universidade do Minho. A Física Aplicada à Medicina e a Biomecânica são as principais áreas de interesse do actual integrante da Comissão de Acessibilidade e Design Inclusivo. 

De carácter normativo e de aconselhamento, esta comissão técnica abrange a concepção, implementação e gestão do meio edificado, equipamentos, produtos e serviços, que permita assegurar uma igual oportunidade de uso, de uma forma directa, imediata, segura, permanente e o mais autónoma possível. 

A representação da FEUP terá, assim, como objectivo, transmitir à comissão o conhecimento da Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto na área da Acessibilidade e Design Inclusivo e receber informação da evolução que se opera neste domínio. 

"A Acessibilidade e o Design Inclusivo são áreas onde há muita falta de aplicação prática, ainda há muito a ideia que estes temas se resumem a colocar elevadores e rampas de acessibilidade", afirma Rui Ribeiro, destacando que "o conceito é muito mais vasto e passa, por exemplo, por levar as nossas vozes a serem ´ouvidas` por surdos e o que escrevemos a ser ´visto` por cegos. Felizmente a FEUP tem um pensamento bastante abrangente e muitos trabalhos têm sido desenvolvidos nesta temática, no entanto ainda há muito para fazer". 

Inserts of the supports for link to the chassis

Inserts of the floor

Novo edificio para o design em Stanford

Por aqui esperamos que o "C.Apr.I" - Centro de Aprendizagem Integrado da UP - dedicado ao Design e Desenvolvimento de Produto e ao Ensino Baseado em Projecto, seja em breve uma realidade.

International Design Festival Berlin 2010

Entrepeneurial Design for Extreme Affordability

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11 Designs for Disastrous Times

Alguns produtos já são conhecidos, outros se calhar nem por isso. São 11 produtos para "tempos de desastre", que podem ser vistos no site da Fast Company.

A conhecer

ver em http://www.bemadaboutdesign.com/

Palestra sobre Design

O Design Studio FEUP e a Silampos realizaram uma palestra sobre o tema integrada na semana do Design na Escola Arquitecto Oliveira Ferreira em Arcozelo. A participação em iniciativas deste tipo visa a divulgação dos valores projectuais do DsF e da sua prática.

DBattle

A Design Battle é uma conferência organizada pela Diverge, que vai acontecer no dia 24 de Setembro deste ano em Lisboa. O programa está dividido em 3 grandes temas: "Design for Community", "Design for Desire" e "Design for Market".
As inscrições podem ser feitas online e custam 250 euros até dia 15 de Julho. Depois disso é mais caro (ainda).
O programa alicia e pode ser visto aqui. Lista de oradores aqui (entre vários nomes nacionais e internacionais muito conhecidos, está o de Filipa Pias, a criadora do projecto Design é Preciso, de que já falámos aqui).