Reminder: This blog has moved

Just a gentle reminder that this blog has moved to http://filsalustri.blogspot.com/search/label/cfp.

This WordPress blog remains for archival purposes only.

The new DesignCalls blog is live

The new version of this blog is at http://filsalustri.blogspot.com/.  There will be no further posts here.

The new blog includes posts on diverse (non-design) topics too.

• If you’re only interested in design-related CFP, use http://filsalustri.blogspot.com/search/label/cfp.
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• Authors on this blog will be disabled.  If you wish to contribute to the new blog, please see this link for detailed information.

Please feel free to email me (salustri@ryerson.ca) if you have questions or concerns.

I feel a change coming on…

I’m looking for input from you.

This is one of 4 blogs I keep.  It’s getting a bit challenging having 4 separate blogs.  So I’m thinking of merging this one with my other blogs.  There will be a separate stream for design CFPs, and there will be separate RSS feed too, so subscribers can just get the CFPs and not worry about the other stuff.

FYI, the new blog would be on Blogger (a Google product), not WordPress.

The one downside is that anyone currently enabled as an author will have to ask me again to be enabled as an author on the new blog.

I can probably merge the blog in a couple of days, so there wouldn’t be a significant interruption in service.

Does anyone have any serious reservations or concerns about this?

Haptic Narratives | Textural exploration in film (London, UK)

Dates: 14th, 21st and 28th May 2015 (over 3 weeks on Thursday evenings)
Location: University of Greenwich, UK
Website: http://timadi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/haptic_narratives_call.pdf
Deadline for submission of abstracts/descriptions: 17 April 2015

‘In haptic seeing, all our self rushes up to the surface to interact with another surface…’ L. U. Marks, Haptic Visuality: Touching with the Eyes

Call for Participation
films / short papers / view & talk sessions
This series of events will focus on exploring and engaging with haptic sensations through tactile cues on film and the environments associated with moving images. What the eye sees in a frame can encourage the viewer to feel sensations on the skin through filmic texture, contour, angle, lighting, saturation, sound, vibrations etc. In some cases, an image can urge the viewer to touch a surface through their mind’s eye or allow an embodied reaction to characters or actions seen on screen.

We are interested in submissions around the areas of:

• sensations that can be felt on/via skin, other body parts and mind as part of filmic experiences.
• other representations of the tactual, where vision becomes touch / touch becomes vision.
• how senses are manipulated in various genres and styles of film through material engagement.
• the body in motion; eating, sex, sweating, violence etc.
• materiality and texture of sound / sound-image relationships
• a multisensory approach to synesthesia and kinesthesia
• material fetishism
• real, unreal and the surreal

In the first instance, we would like to receive 300 word abstracts or descriptions, attaching any visual material necessary by Friday 17th April 2015. Please don’t attach files over 10 MB; instead include links to online material, or use file transfer websites.

Submissions should be sent to: calls@timadi.org with ‘Haptic Narratives’ in the subject line.

Accepted submissions will be divided into separate themes that will be explored over the three events.

This event series is sponsored by the ‘Time, Materiality and the Digital’ (TiMaDi) research group at the University of Greenwich, and organised by Matilda Mroz, Isil Onol, Stacey Pitsillides, and Rosamund Davies.

A reminder to all authors on this blog….

I’m VERY gratified to see others contributing to this blog, and I appreciate every contribution.

However, I’ve noticed that a number of contributions are not formatted according to the POSTING GUIDELINES.  These guidelines are designed to help ensure that anyone reading a post will get the most crucial information available “above the fold” and that this information will show on the blog’s front page.  This is important if you want readers to quickly understand whether or not they should read the rest of the entry.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to edit other people’s posts to correct these mistakes.  However, this is my blog and if I can’t ensure consistency of presentation, then I will start deleting entries that do not adhere to the guidelines.  The guidelines are short – less than 2 screens worth of information.  And they’re easy to follow. I go to a significant effort to ensure that everything I post follows those guidelines for the sake of the readers; I encourage everyone else to do likewise.

Thanks.

Call for submissions to upcoming graphic design book “Design to Renourish: Sustainable Design in Practice”

Have you or your design team produced graphic design projects with people, planet, profit in mind, particularly while employing a sustainable systems approach? If so, we want to hear from you!

We’re looking for international case studies of sustainably produced print, digital, signage, and comprehensive branding campaigns for the upcoming book Design to Renourish: Sustainable Graphic Design in Practice by Eric Benson & Yvette Perullo (Focal Press).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MARCH 2, 2015

About the Book

Design to Renourish is a book for graphic design professionals who want to integrate a sustainable ethos into their workflow. The book is about being ethical, empathetic, and effective as a design professional for clients and society. It addresses the real life challenges of working with the client to create sustainable work by detailing various approaches to successfully completed client project case studies that embrace a sustainable systems methodology. The designers interviewed for each case study will explain how they collaborated with clients to achieve the most sustainable—and successful—outcome.

DESIGN LATITUDES: An exhibition mapping the innovations, influences and future directions of design studies in the north

Dates: May 12 to June 6, 2015 (Reception: May 21, 7 to 10 pm)
Location: Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton (53.53° N), Canada
Deadline for proposals: 6 February 2015
Website: www.designlatitudes.ca

DESIGN LATITUDES: CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
An exhibition mapping the innovations, influences and future directions of design studies in the north

This exhibition is part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta.

The Design Latitudes exhibition explores shifts of ‘latitude’ and frontiers of ‘north’ in relation to our interdisciplinary Design Studies program at the University of Alberta, which connects design education to research, practice, industry and community engagement. ‘Latitude’ encompasses both geographical context as well as breadth of freedom of action or thought. ‘North’ is bordered geographically, framed in opposition, and conceptualized through a diversity of lenses, experiences and spaces. This exhibition will reflect on, articulate and critique aspects of design education by documenting our past, situating our present and envisioning our future possibilities. Beyond looking at the legacy and prospects of our own program, we hope that Design Latitudes will generate dialogue and debate on how to equip designers to meet the needs of communities in the north and beyond.

Five Years of DesignCalls

10 October 2014 marked the 5th anniversary of this blog.  In that time, over 650 CFPs have been posted. The blog has over 1200 followers and has had over 330,000 “hits.”

This is in very large part due to all the contributions that have been made.  I’m only the “stenographer.”  So I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank everyone who has contributed to this blog.  If it enjoys any success, it’s due to the fine contributions that have been made.

Thanks!

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: build it with your eyes closed (working title)

Contact: builditwithyoureyesclosed@gmail.com or jamesbenedictbrown@yahoo.co.uk
Deadline for submissions: 00:01GMT Thursday 4 September 2014

Describe, in no more than 350 words, the most successful first year undergraduate architecture design project that you have either given as a teacher or received as a student.

• Why was it successful?
• What happened?
• What was learned?
• What pedagogical theories or frameworks did it employ?
• How did it influence your subsequent teaching and learning? 

Submissions must comply with the following parameters:

• 350 words maximum
• unformatted text in MS Word format
• no illustrations, tables or figures
• bibliography provided (where appropriate) in Harvard format
• include your name, location and (where appropriate) institution

Submissions should be emailed as attachments to builditwithyoureyesclosed@gmail.com no later than 00:01GMT Thursday 4 September 2014.

Architectural educators, graduates and students are invited to critically reflect on what they regard as the most successful and/or influential design studio assignment within the first year of an architectural education. The project is inspired by (but has no relation to) ‘Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment’ (New York, NY: Paper Monument, ISBN 9780979757549), in which eighty-nine artists and fine art tutors critically reflect upon their experiences of the fine art assignment as students or tutors.

Following this call for submissions, ‘build it with your eyes closed’ will run as an open workshop for the duration of Living and Learning, the 2nd international conference of the of the association of architectural educators (aae) at the University of Sheffield, England, 3-5 September 2014. Living and Learning explores the notion of ‘liveness’, not just as experienced through live projects, but expanded to consider different forms of community participation and civic engagement, material and constructed interventions. This conference offers a platform for critical reflection on the most recent wave of ‘live’ innovations in design studio teaching and beyond. The conference is centred on architecture education, but invites contributions from any disciplinary context which might offer insight and spark critical debate. To read more about the aae conference, review the draft schedule, and to register, visit: http://aaeconference2014.wordpress.com/

Submissions received in response to this call for submissions will be anonymised and posted for conference delegates to read, comment and respond to. ‘Build it with your eyes closed’ will make the process of blind peer review visible, tangible and social at the heart of the conference.

The contributions to ‘build it with your eyes closed’ will be developed for publication as a standalone book in 2015.

For more information about the project, please contact the editor, Dr. James Benedict Brown (Norwich University of the Arts, England) jamesbenedictbrown@yahoo.co.uk 

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Call for Papers / Designs for the 2014 Fashion And Gender SYMPOSIUM May 1-2, 2015, St. Paul, Minnesota

This symposium is the fourth in a symposium series entitled “Fashion And … ” connecting fashion with other themes of importance in today’s world. Members attending the symposia of Fashion And… examine the interconnections and intersections of fashion in today’s world.

Crane (2000, p. 16) noted that “fashionable clothes are used to make statements about social class and social identity but their principle messages are about the ways in which men women and men perceive their gender roles or are expected to perceive them.” Thus, for our fourth symposium we focus on relationships between fashion and gender.