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Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century
Bangalore, India, 29th of September - 1st of October 2010
Deadline for abstract submission 30th of April 2010
Get more info and register on-line at www.lensconference.polimi.it
The Sustainability in Design: Now! conference is a platform for sharing the latest knowledge and experiences in product, service and system design, to promote sustainable systems thinking in design education, research and practice communities. The conference approach is to look at various stakeholders in this arena - designers, design educators and design researchers - as a unique learning community. The objective is the creation of a new ethos, within such a community, enabling all possible synergies and fruitful processes of knowledge and know-how osmosis and cross-fertilisation.
This conference is promoted and organized as the conclusive event of the LeNS - Learning Network on Sustainability - project, funded by EU under the Asia-link program, that aims at the development and diffusion of design for sustainability in design. institutions.
The conference proceedings will be published (with ISBN)

Call for papers
Participants are invited to submit papers in the areas related to the conference sub-themes outlined below. The conference is structured around three main themes that include:

1. Design Research for Sustainability (DRfS)
2. Design Education for Sustainability (DEfS)
3. Design Practice for Sustainability (DPfS)

Note : Please click here to register and submit your paper.

Deadlines for Abstract for Papers 30^th April 2010
Notification of Acceptance 15^th May 2010
Full Paper Submission 15^th July 2010
Announcement of Paper Presenters 31^st July 2010
Sustainability in Design NOW Conference 29^th September - 1^st October

General Guidelines for Abstract and Paper Submissions
Contributions should provide an original contribution to the field of inquiry of Design for Sustainability. They are expected to be based on identification of an issue worthy of investigation based on the paradigms of the Conference themes and sub-theme.

Submissions should be original and unpublished.

The conference language is English, and abstract and papers should be submitted in English.

Abstract submission guidelines
Abstracts have to be uploaded to conference website after registering as “Author”.

A free lay out can be used by Authors: However the Abstract should have the following details:-

> Author (name, title, position, institution, address, telephone, fax and e-mail)
> Title of the paper
> Text (max 500 words)

Paper submission guidelines
Full paper submissions are required to be done online on the conference website (details will be available by May 7, 2010).

Note: In instances where there are more than one author for a abstract / paper all authors should register, but only one should upload the abstract / paper; so forth it is advised that before uploading one members of every team agree on who of them will upload the abstract/ paper so that duplication can be avoided. In other terms a team need to upload only one paper (jointly aothored).

Please Note: There is no conference fee.
For more information on the conference please visit www.lensconference.polimi.it or contact lens.conference@polimi.it
For information on the LeNS project please visit www.lens.polimi.it or contact lens@polimi.it
Looking forward to meeting you in Bangalore!

The LeNS partners