October 8, 2009 • 4:39 PM 2
Welcome to DesignCalls, a blog for posting announcements of calls for papers for design-oriented journals and conferences. I’m still not sure how this blog’s functionality will evolve over time. Hopefully, its layout and design will improve in response to how it’s used.
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February 7, 2010 • 4:04 AM 0
Full Paper Due: 1 March 2010
Now that the world of HCI has united with the world of product design, and computers are no longer merely a means for doing our jobs but also an integral part of our lives, one might question the appropriateness of functionality and efficiency as the main guiding principles for design. The spectrum of efficiency, productivity and, in general, “getting things done” has been enriched by other values, such as those represented by curiosity, playfulness, intimacy and creativity. User experience and the aesthetics of that experience are becoming increasingly paramount.
Filed under: Journal , aesthetics, interaction
• 3:41 AM 0
I’ve changed the theme for this blog. The biggest problem was that the tag cloud was getting too big to render nicely in the relatively small box assigned to it. Also, I was quite limited in the number of widgets I could display. I hope the new theme is a little better that way.
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February 5, 2010 • 1:27 PM 0
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, 24 – 25 June 2010.
Call for Student Papers; deadline 28 Feb 2010.
The ’spatial turn’ in the history of art has had a significant impact on the understanding of artistic practice and the built environment, and the formal and political complexities of space in a broader sense. This symposium explores the role of architectural theory and practice within multiple art histories, working across theoretical and aesthetic categories to redefine notions of space and form. From Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, to the spatial environments of LeCorbusier and Robert Morris, this interrelationship has challenged and reconfigured canonic divisions between architecture, ornament, sculpture and performance. Within a global perspective, the ‘architectural object’ can be traced throughout many histories of cultural production, demonstrated within the sculpted interiors of temples and mosques, the conceptual forms of the stupa or reliquary, or the use of decorative ‘architectura’ within ornamental schemes.
Filed under: Conference , architecture, history
January 25, 2010 • 5:45 PM 2
Politics of Design – International Workshop, 24-25 June 2010, Manchester, UK.
Organised by the Manchester Architecture Research Centre
http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/research/marc/
In the last decade numerous STS trained scholars engaged in a venture of unpacking design practices. Yet, to study the practical course of design means to be simultaneously involved in the subject of politics and in the particular sort of politics that is centred on objects (Latour & Weibel, Making Things Public). Recent studies in political philosophy and STS have argued that politics is not limited anymore to citizens, elections, votes, petitions, ideologies and particular institutionalised conflicts (DeVries, What is Political in Sub-politics?), and have reformulated the question of politics into one of cosmopolitics (Stengers, Cosmopolitics; Latour, Politics of Nature) and ontological politics (Mol, Actor Network Theory and After). The “political” is not defined as a way of codifying particular forms of contestation but as opening up new sites and objects of contestation (Barry, Political Machines).
Filed under: Workshop , architecture, politics
• 3:04 PM 0
Cybernetics: Art, Design, Mathematics – A Meta-Disciplinary Conversation.
First deadline: 29-Mar-2010 abstracts submitted through the web site.
How would you like to shape and take part in a conference where the main activity is to explore by listening, talking and questioning (conversing) rather than listen to, and give, prepared lectures; and where the aim is to move forward, taking next steps as a result of these conversations, rather than reporting on the already discovered? In other words, go to a conference where the intention is to move forward by conferring.
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January 14, 2010 • 1:27 AM 0
It gives me a great pleasure to invite you to the 8 th IPD Workshop that will be held from September 15th to 17th, 2010, in Magdeburg. The topics of the 8th Workshop are
Filed under: Workshop , engineering, product
January 13, 2010 • 2:58 AM 0
We invite you to submit an abstract to the track Speculation, Design, Public and Participatory Technoscience: Possibilities and Critical Perspectives at EASST 2010 in Trento, Italy, 2-4 September 2010.
Over the past decade there has been an increasing engagement between design and STS. One emerging and novel area of exchange is concerned with exploring the ways in which practices of ’speculative design’ and STS concerns of publics, participation, politics as well as expectations come together to inform one another, to critique one another, and to collaborate in developing new modes of co-production of contemporary technoscience. Although such associations are promising, they are nascent and in need of articulation and critical examination.
Filed under: Conference , science, speculation, technology
• 2:35 AM 0
The SMART Center Santa Fe was begun in the summer of 2009 by Jack Sprague, the former Communication Design program coordinator at The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, and four associates with extensive academic and professional experience in design, academic administration, the performing and visual arts, computer engineering and marketing. It exists to provide immersive, week-long learning experiences for university students and professionals who are studying or practicing one of these disciplines or one closely related to them, or, as is more and more likely the case today, working across several disciplines simultaneously.
Filed under: Workshop , creativity
• 2:30 AM 0
Once Upon a Place; Haunted Houses & Imaginary Cities – International Conference on Architecture and Fiction
Deadline for submissions: 2010-04-06
Once upon a Place haunted houses & imaginary cities is an international conference devoted to an emerging theme, taking place on the occasion of the Lisbon Triennial of Architecture 2010 and matching its official opening and exhibitions. Conference Venue – 10-14 October 2010 Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, Portugal.
Contact: onceuponaplace@gmail.com
URL: http://www.onceuponaplace.fa.utl.pt/
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• 1:46 AM 0
The Fifth International Conference on Comparing Design in Nature with Science and Engineering.
Organised By: Wessex Institute of Technology, UK
Sponsored By: International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics
View the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/design2010rem3.html
Design and Nature 2010 includes a Special Seminar on Constructal Law organised by Prof Adrian Bejan from Duke University, USA
Registration for Design and Nature 2010 is now open online via the conference website.
Participants who opt to have their paper permanently and openly accessible on the WIT Press eLibrary will receive a USB Flash Drive containing all the papers presented at previous conferences in the Urban Transport series.
Filed under: Conference , biodesign, engineering, science
January 5, 2010 • 1:06 AM 0
Does design create or embody joy, or does it merely create conditions for joy to emerge? Is there joy in the designed artifact or in the act of design? Is a designer’s joy the same as a user’s joy? What is the relationship between joy and play and how might design conjoin the two? What might a taxonomy of joy look like?
DesignInquiry is a non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues in-based gatherings. It brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new work and ideas around a single topic.
For more information, visit http://designinquiry.net.
Filed under: Conference , education, practise
January 2, 2010 • 10:48 PM 0
Detailed information is available at the Conference website. The deadline for the current round in the Call for Papers is 14 January 2010. Deadlines for future rounds will be posted at the website.
This Conference will address a range of critically important themes relating the design today. It is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes. The Conference is a cross-disciplinary forum which brings together researchers, teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism.
Filed under: Conference , general, practise, theory
December 29, 2009 • 2:20 AM 0
This is to inform you of two important items regarding the upcoming ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC&CIE 2010) which will take place August 15th – 18th, 2010 in Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
[1] Because this year’s Conference is in Canada attendees need to be aware of passport and visa requirements and need to plan accordingly. All attendees are strongly encouraged to visit the “Traveling to Canada” page for some important information to assist in your international travel plans.
[2] Paper submissions are due January 29, 2010.
Filed under: Conference , engineering
December 22, 2009 • 2:10 PM 0
Repositories have been successfully established — within and across institutions — as a major source of digital information in a variety of environments such as research, education and cultural heritage. In a world of increasingly dispersed and modularized digital services and content, it remains a grand challenge for the future to cross the borders between diverse poles:
Filed under: Conference , open access, research
• 2:02 PM 0
Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks – a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010
taking place at BarabásiLab – Center for Complex Network Research,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.
By means of keynotes, contributed talks and interdisciplinary discussion we will explore and identify important issues surrounding the convergence of arts, humanities and complex networks. On the one hand we will concentrate on network structure and dynamics in areas ranging from art history and archeology to music, film and image science. In the same time we are interested in the development and critique of network visualizations from medieval manuscripts to the latest tools, such as Cytoscape and Processing. Our dual focus is based on the opinion that the study of networks and the study of visualizations of these networks complement each other, much in the same way as archeology cannot live without self-reflective art history – studying the represented always presupposes the study of representation. Bringing together network scientists and specialists from the arts and humanities we strive for a better understanding of networks and their visualizations, resulting in better images of networks, and a better use of these images. Running parallel to the NetSci2010 conference, the symposium will also provide a unique opportunity to mingle with leading researchers and practitioners of complex network science, potentially sparking fruitful collaborations.
Filed under: Conference , arts, complexity, humanities, networks
December 15, 2009 • 8:12 PM 0
Sheraton Miramar Hotel & Convention Center, Viña del Mar, Chile – October 5-7, 2010.
Website: http://cmc.ihmc.us
Contact: cmc2010@ihmc.us
The Fourth International Conference on Concept Mapping follows on the success of the first three Conferences held Pamplona, San José, and Tallinn/Helsinki in bringing together scholars and practitioners interested in concept mapping. It is being organized by the Universidad de Chile and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, USA.
The Conference is aimed at all persons interested in the use of concept maps (based on the work of Dr. Joseph Novak), including, but not limited to: facilitation of learning; eliciting, capturing, archiving, and using “expert” knowledge; planning instruction; assessment of “deep” understandings; research planning; collaborative knowledge modeling; creation of “knowledge portfolios”; and administrative and strategic planning and monitoring. We expect participants from a broad range of fields presenting a wide variety of research and applications of concept mapping. All presentations at the conference are expected to include time for questions, answers, and scholarly discussion.
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• 1:48 AM 0
The 6th International Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement
November 3 – 5, 2010, Lucerne, Switzerland
After four successful workshops in Europe and an inspiring excursion to Taiwan in 2009, DeSForM returns to Europe. The Lucerne School of Design and Art is looking forward to inviting you to DeSForM 2010, an international workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement, to be held on November 3 – 5, 2010 in Lucerne, a cultural vibrant city with a rich history in the centre of Switzerland.
Filed under: Conference , form, semantics
December 12, 2009 • 10:11 PM 0
November 29 – December 3, 2010, Sydney, NSW, Australia, www.pdc2010.org, twitter: @PDCSydney
Join us to celebrate the first PDC to be held in the southern hemisphere! The conference theme for this Participatory Design Conference, PDC 2010, is: Participation :: the challenge. Participation is the complex, contested, changing, creative and celebratory core of participatory design. We invite you to explore what participation can and needs to mean in the design contexts where we are working now and those we are likely to encounter soon. While current ‘best practice’ in many areas of interactive technology design now at least pays lip service to people’s participation, how is this participation being negotiated and defined, and by whom? And if Participatory Design methods developed some 20 years ago are claimed to have become standard design practice, how do we go about developing the methods that will define standard design practice 20 years from now?
Filed under: Conference , participatory design
• 9:56 PM 0
THCI website: http://thci.aisnet.org/
Deadline for submission: 31 May 2010.
This special issue of THCI calls for innovative design research where the innovative artifacts are information and communication technologies (ICT) for human use. Emphasis can be on both the human and the ICT sides of the interaction. On the human side, use design draws from the knowledge base of psychology, social sciences, and human factors. On the ICT side, interface and interaction design draws from the knowledge base of computer graphics, sensory peripheral devices, and other technical areas to build user interfaces that enable effective system use.
Filed under: Journal , HCI, interaction
• 9:40 PM 0
Conference to be held at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane
October 7 – 8, 2010
Deadline for Submission: 1 April 2010.
“Design” is a dynamic and multi-faceted term. Both verb and noun, it originates in the Latin designare, or, “to mark out.” Thus, design can be understood as both a mental activity that involves the study and transformation of our physical and intellectual surroundings; and as the products of such activity. “Health,” according to the World Health Organization, “…is not only the absence of infirmity and disease but also a state of physical, mental and social well-being.” Design and health have many areas of overlap. How do the designs of our environments, including such specific characteristics as light, color, material, and dimension; and more general characteristics such as proximity to nature, other human beings, and basic services, affect our health? Can good design contribute to good health, and if so, how can we study this relationship and facilitate the most healthful outcomes?
Filed under: Conference , health
