Service Design and Innovation conference (9-11 April 2014)

Service Design and Innovation (ServDes) conference

Theme: Service Futures

9-11 April 2014, Lancaster, UK

http://www.servdes.org/

ServDes, The Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation, is the premier international research conference exploring service design and service innovation. Submitted contributions are subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Accepted contributions will be published electronically in the conference proceedings and selected best papers will be published within special issues on Service Design in The Design Journal (http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/the-design-journal/) or the Managing Service Quality journal (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=msq).

The Creative Exchange Interactive Conference: Academic Engagement with the Creative Sector (Sep 2013, Lancaster UK)

Dates: 26-27 September 2013
Location: Lancaster University, UK
Website: http://thecreativeexchange.org/The-KE-Conference
Submission Requirements: 13 May 2013

This interactive conference is aimed at exploring new mutually beneficial exchanges between academia and the creative industries. It will not be a traditional ‘sit and listen’ conference. There will be a high degree of both experimentation in the form of the conference and interaction throughout the conference. Proud is contributing to one of the 3 experimental sessions within the conference.

We are calling for contributions from
- Academics developing new understandings of the creative sector
- Creative sector professionals interested in undertaking research and collaborating with academic partners

Addressing subjects including
- New processes, tools or approaches that facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration
- Insights, case studies, results and evaluation of knowledge exchange in practice

Submission: We invite you to submit a 2,000 word paper. We strongly encourage a wide range of papers and approaches, but equally would encourage submissions to include an indication of the research question(s)/issues addressed in the paper, and the approach employed in addressing these. Please include a 200 word summary.

Design and the Law: Opportunity and Constraint (Feb 2014, Chicago USA)

Dates: 12-15 February 2014
Location: Chicago, USA
Website: http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/2014CallforParticipation.pdf
Deadline for submissions: 6 May 2013

Session chair: Carma Gorman, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, carmagorman@gmail.com.

Product designers, graphic designers, and fashion designers all work within the constraints of a constellation of state, national, and international laws and standards governing patents, trademarks, copyrights, copylefts, licensing, product configurations, color specifications, rules of origin, trade agreements, labor conditions, liability, accessibility, environmental protection, and so on. Although legal scholars have written extensively on these issues, relatively few humanistic scholars of design (among them Lawrence Busch, Howell John Harris, Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, Otakar Macel, Frederic J. Schwartz, and T’ai Smith) have examined how laws and standards have shaped manufacturers’, clients’, and designers’ decision-making and creative processes, and, in turn, how these groups’ practices have reshaped the law. This session therefore seeks papers that address the ways in which laws and standards have shaped or constrained the manufacture, configuration, or circulation of consumer products, graphics, and garments (or vice versa), either in the past or present. Both traditional scholarly analyses and first-person “constraint narratives” by designers are welcome.

6th Information Design Intl Conf (Sep 2013, Recife Brazil)

Dates: 10-13 September 2013
Location: Recife, Brazil
Website: http://www.sbdi.org.br/cidi2013/
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 15 April 2013

It is with great pleasure that we announce the call for papers for the 6th Information Design International Conference [CIDI], which is a joint event with the 5th Brazilian Conference of Information Design and the 6th Information Design Student Conference [CONGIC].

The former two are biannual scientific events promoted by the Brazilian Society of Information Design [SBDI], with the aim of bringing together professionals, researchers and students to discuss information design issues. The Information Design Student Conference [CONGIC], on the other hand, is a scientific event directed towards students and recently graduated professionals, who have developed research in this field.

Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (Oct 2013, Portland Oregon USA)

Dates: 3-5 October 2013
Location: Portland, Oregon, USA
Website: http://www.aacsnet.net
Deadline for submissions (1st call): 15 May 2013

This is a call for sessions and papers for the October 3-5 meetings of the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology in beautiful Portland, Oregon! Our theme, “Change the Process; Change the Outcome; Change the World! Real World Sociology for the 21st Century,” highlights our commitment to encouraging the use of sociological practice to effect beneficial social change.

The conference invites all sorts of presentations, from the traditional to the experimental. Don’t be afraid to be creative! We heartily welcome innovative approaches to conference presentation. Projects with qualitative methods are encouraged!

Please visit our website at:   http://www.aacsnet.net      for all conference-related information, including the submission form.

This year’s conference program organizer is AACS Vice President, Sandra Jones. Please direct all program inquiries and submissions to her at:   jonessa@rowan.edu.

Cumulus Dublin Conference 2013: More for less – design in an age of austerity (Nov 2013, Dublin Ireland)

Dates: 7-9 November 2013
Location: National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland
Website: www.cumulusdublin.com
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 May 2013

Today’s global recession forces design practice, research and education to address a number of questions:

• Consumption – How can design find a balance between excess and austerity
• Growth – How can design stimulate sustainable economic growth?
• Research – Is design research and development a luxury we can still afford?
• Education – How can we change pedagogical content and delivery methods to become more efficient while maintaining standards?
• Environments – How can we use design to create places and spaces for renewal and growth?
• Wellbeing – How can design improve our wellbeing and welfare in the face of public sector cuts and financial hardship?
• Communities – How can design bring local communities together to work on projects that improve how we live, work and play?

We propose that in the deepest recession since the great depression of the 1930s we need to turn the modernist mantra ‘less is more’ on its head as the reduced budgets of governments, business and people demand ‘more for less’, and develop a ‘New Deal’ for design.

Emerging Contexts for Systemic Design (Oct 2013, Oslo Norway)

Dates: 9-11 October 2013
Location: Oslo School of Architecture & Design
Website: http://www.systemic-design.net
Deadline for submissions: 1 May 2013

Relating Systems Thinking and Design is a free and open symposium over two days with a preceeding full day with diverse workshops and a subsequent special issue in FORMakademisk. We encourage you to submit your abstracts and to concider joining the workshops. We are interrested in both work in progress and more developed contributions.
9th October: Workshops
1oth – 11th October: Symposium

3rd Intl Conf on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (Nov 2013, Magdeburg Germany)

Dates: 21-22 November 2013
Location: Herrenkrugpark, Magdeburg, Germany
Website: http://www.mmep2013.org
Deadline for submission of extended abstracts: 22 September 2013

The organisers would encourage researchers and colleagues from industry to submit papers within the following areas:

• Process modelling
• Multi-project and process management
• Process optimisation
• Key Performance Indicators
• Lean Product Development

You find more information on the conference website http://www.mmep2013.org. The function for paper submission and registration will be set up shortly.

Poetics and Praxis: Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2013 (Sep 2013, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Dates: 3-5 September 2013
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Website: http://www.praxisandpoetics.org/dppi
Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2013

We are excited to invite submissions for the 6th International conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces, hosted by Northumbria University at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK 3rd ­ 5th of September 2013. DPPI is a leading venue for designers, artists, psychologists, systems engineers, social scientists and many more to come together to debate and define future design research and practice. This year’s conference is hosted by Northumbria University (UK) and will be held on the riverbanks of the Tyne in the glorious BALTIC, Centre for Contemporary Art between the 3-5 of September 2013. DPPI 2013 will also be co-located with the first biannual Research Through Design conference http://www.praxisandpoetics.org/researchthroughdesign/.

Making Futures: Interfaces between craft knowledge and design: new opportunities for social innovation and sustainability (Sep 2013, Plymouth UK)

Dates: 26-27 September 2013
Location: Plymouth College of Art, Plymouth, UK
Website: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk
Deadline for submissions: 10 May 2013

The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is now open and the closing date for receipt is 10th May 2013. Making Futures invites submissions from artists, craftspeople, designers, curators, historians, theorists, campaigners, activists, and representatives from public and private institutions with an interest in the relationship between contemporary craft practice, sustainability and social issues.

Making Futures aims to investigate contemporary craft as a ’change agent’ within 21st century society – particularly in relation to global environmental and sustainability issues, social equity and social innovation practices. In doing so, it tries to explore whether these imperatives present opportunities for the crafts to redefine and reconstitute themselves as more centrally productive forces in society.