Announcements of calls for papers for design-oriented journals and conferences
April 25, 2013 1 Comment
Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2013
Website: http://www.designwithculture.co.uk/
A competition for creative, enthusiastic designers or design students from around the globe. Showcase your innovations and you could win a Nexus tablet.
See details at the website.
February 28, 2013 Leave a comment
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.
February 21, 2013 Leave a comment
Dates: 12-14 November 2013
Location: Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Website: http://sbds2013.wordpress.com/
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 15 May 2013
The Brazilian Symposium on Sustainable Design (SBDS) and the International Symposium on Sustainable Design (ISSD) have been held every two years, since 2007, and together are among the most important scientific events of South America in the area. The first event occurred in2007, in Curitiba; the second happened in 2009, in São Paulo; and the third, in 2011, in Recife.
The fourth edition, to be held in Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), from November 12th to 14th, 2013, proposes the overall theme “The Unbearable Lightness of Having”.
For details, refer to the website.
January 27, 2013 Leave a comment
Dates: 25-28 September 2013
Location: Valencia, Spain
Website: http://www.adm-global.org/ADM2013/Special%20Session%201.php
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 February 2013
ADM 2013 conference papers will be published in ‘Key Engineering Materials’ which will be indexed by SCOPUS, EI Compendex and other major abstract medias. The special session is organised by the consortium ‘Ecolights’, a project for market deployment of eco-lighting products, sponsored by the European commission CIP Eco-Innovation Programme.
January 22, 2013 Leave a comment
Dates: 8-12 July 2013
Location: ISCTE-IUL University Institute of Lisbon
Website: sttf2013.iscte-iul.pt
Deadline for Applications: 1 April 2013
STTF2013 invites you to apply for a one week intensive programme of social and technical methods, in a transdisciplinary environment that will engage participants in both conceptual and practical activities with all four pillars of sustainability as background.
STTF2013 is intended for Master and PhD students, researchers, and professionals from STS, Product and Service Design, Social Sciences and Humanities, Architecture and Engineering, Communication and Media, Environmental Studies, Economics and Management, Computer Sciences, and others.
December 3, 2012 Leave a comment
Dates: 24-26 September 2013
Location: University of Botswana, Africa
Website: http://www.gidec2013.com/
Deadline for submissions of abstracts: 7 January 2013
Design in developing countries or new emerging economies especially in Africa is not recognized as a driving force for developing alternative socio-economic opportunities. There are few universities and institutions of high learning that offer design related courses in Africa. What could be some of the contributing factors to this scenario if design has the potential to change the society’s lives? Therefore, the goal of the Gaborone International Design Conference (GIDEC) 2013 is to lay the groundwork to build a scholarly community and advance the state of the art in design, research, theory, and practice, and produce a significant contribution to the field through the paper presentations, and conference proceedings.
July 16, 2012 1 Comment
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN DESIGN
Location: University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Dates: 22-23 Nov 2012
Website: http://designa.ubi.pt/
Deadline for submissions: 30 Sep 2012
The word sustainability brings us echoes, arriving from the most diverse sources, from a contemporary speech centered in the desirable evolution of a simultaneously political, economical, environmental and, of course, cultural conscience regarding the impact of man’s changing presence and action in the world. Therefore, the concept emerges in association with an increasing insistence on practices that define – and are defined by – design.
July 14, 2012 Leave a comment
Special Issue: Why have ‘Sustainable Product-Service Systems’ not been widely implemented?
Journal of Cleaner Production
Website: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652612002855
Deadline for extended abstracts: 15 Sep 2012
Meeting new design challenges to achieve societal sustainability.
In this special issue the editorial team has the aim to analyse and better understand the dynamics, mechanisms and factors impeding/driving the implementation of sustainable PSSs, and of the strategies, approaches and tools that can be adopted, at different levels, to design, manage, stimulate and monitor the widespread adoption of PSS concepts. At the same time we seek to increase our understanding of the way in which interwoven and convergent approaches, such as social innovations, distributed economies, sufficiency, cradle-to-cradle, etc., can be synergetic with the PSS concepts and approaches.
July 1, 2012 Leave a comment
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Dates: 23-25 January 2013
Website: http://onsustainability.com/conference-2013/
Deadline for submission: 11 November 2012 (but 8 August 2012 is strongly preferred)
The International Advisory Board is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the Ninth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability and the call for submissions to the peer-reviewed International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. The Sustainability Conference will be held 23 – 25 January 2013 at the International Conference Center Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
May 13, 2012 Leave a comment
Dates: 27-29 May 2013
Location: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Website: http://www.cctc2013.ca/CallPapers/CallPapers.html
Deadline for submissions of proposals: 15 September 2012
The 3rd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2013) is a Canadian and international forum for the exchange of ideas for dealing with climate change. It is also an opportunity to keep abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change. The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) and ten of its member societies are organizing CCTC 2013, which will be held on the campus of Concordia University in Montreal.
The very success of our species has led to a situation in which this planet’s finite resources must be considered in all future planning. This conference is dedicated to the study and exposition of the status and prospects of engineering in support of a bright future for humanity in the midst of a rapidly changing and uncertain environment, both physical and sociological due to climate change.
Please see the website for all details.
