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Multiple Ways to Design Research
Research cases that reshape the design discipline
12-13 November 2009 Lugano - Switzerland

THE PROGRAM IS NOW AVAILABLE at the website www.multipleways09.ch

UPDATE: the speech “METABOliCITY: how can design nurture amateur cultures of food production in the city?” by Rachel Wingfield has been moved to the afternoon sessions on 13th November. Instead of this contribution, on 12th November at 11.30, the program now schedules Kristian Kloeckl’s speech “Changing Connections - The Role of Connections in Products Between Traditional and New Technologies”.

The program schedules 17 speeches, 4 workshops, 3 panels held by researchers and professionals of international importance.
A special session will be dedicated to the new MA-programs of the Swiss Universities of Art and Design.

The symposium is featured by three keynote speeches:
•• Pelle Ehn Malmö University
DESIGN THINGS AND LIVING LABS. PARTICIPATORY DESIGN AND DESIGN AS INFRASTRUCTURING
•• Jürgen Schmidhuber University of Lugano and University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
ART & SCIENCE AS BY-PRODUCTS OF SEARCH FOR NOVEL PATTERNS, OR DATA COMPRESSIBLE IN UNKNOWN YET LEARNABLE WAYS
•• Giuseppe O. Longo University of Trieste
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL TURN: TECHNOLOGY, BRICOLAGE AND DESIGN

Registration is now open.
For the registration please fill the digital form available at the conference website (www.multipleways09.ch);
you will find there the details about the conference fees and payment modalities as well.
The deadline for registration is 26th October.

Please mind that:
each parallel session can be attended by a limited number of persons. It’s required, therefore, to select just one option for each day in order to guarantee a comfortable attendance to everybody (first come first served).

The organizing committee is glad to answer to all your information requests, looking forward to a constructive and enlightening conference.
Contact: info@multipleways09.ch

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•• Multiple Ways to Design Research
Research cases that reshape the design discipline

The Fifth Symposium of the Swiss Design Network wants to highlight
research cases informed by knowledge of other disciplines to understand their relevance for design theories, methods and practices.

The conference aims to present a multidisciplinary overview on research projects - from those ones originated within the design field to those ones originated within other fields - that produce design research outcomes useful to outline those theories, methods and practices which influence and reshape the design discipline.

The framework of the conference is based on the assumption that the evolution of sciences and technologies, and their impact on society, suggests new research questions that constantly tend to expand the ways to design research - in term of topics of interests, approaches and contaminations - research questions that can be relevant for the design knowledge, practice and education.

Delivering both overviews and deepening, the conference keynote speechs and the parallel project sessions are addressed to a wide range of attendees: senior researchers of academia and of corporate R&D departments, PhD and master students coming from different disciplines, industry exponents involved in the design development and production.

Questions of interest are …
•• How do theories, methods and practices from other knowledge domains inform the design research today? And, which kind of exchange exists between them?
•• How does design research evolve in contact with other disciplines or contexts?
•• How does design research informed by other knowledge suggest fundamental questions for the design discipline?
•• Which specific research experience and/or topic outlines relevant design research areas?
•• How does the context of technological innovation and industry drive design research methods and practices and vice versa?
•• Which scientific and artistic fields are producing research outcomes that could be a point of interest for design research and discipline?