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Swiss Design Network Symposium ‘09

>> call for papers

su segnalazione di Davide Rocchesso http://www.utc.fr/dppi09/

We are pleased to invite you to the 4th International Conference on
«Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces » that will be held in
Compiègne, France, from 13rd to 16th of October 2009.
The general theme is FuTURN Innovation, the ground for co-emergence of
experiences and technologies.
The scientific community taking part in this conference is a compilation
of research experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds, i.e., the
Industrial Design and Engineering Design as well as the Human Sciences.
Its focus is on the exploration of the innovation processes through an
experiential approach, inspired and ignited by the challenges of human
comprehension. The integration of their different approaches through a
common ground, design, is quintessential to its undertaking.
The call for papers addresses 10 topics to the following communities:
Engineering design, Product Design,and Human Sciences.
+ 1 : Aesthetics for intelligent product and system design
+ 2 : Narrative design
+ 3 : Pleasure of risk and risk of pleasure
+ 4 : Products and services co-designed by Customers
+ 5 : Sensory and innovative product
+ 6 : Enaction design for Human World Interaction (HWI)
+ 7 : Skilled Interaction: Making people better at being good.
+ 8 : Mastering emotional values in the early phase of the design
process
+ 9 : Product Usage Design in Virtual Development and Manufacture
+ 10 : Innovation centers
The conference welcomes scientific papers, prototypes demos, posters,
workshops and industrial exhibitions. Students contributions are
welcomed.
As in previous DPPI conferences, Pittsburgh, Eindhoven and Helsinki, we
challenge you to participate in an exhilarating week of listening, doing
research, designing, discussing, learning and having fun.
« Important dates »:
Call for papers : November, 2008
Deadline for Paper Submission : February 28, 2009
Peer review results sent to authors : May 30, 2009
Final paper uploading : July 15, 2009
Conference : October 13-16, 2009
Registration opens by the end of June 2009
Early Bird Registration will be open until July 15th 2009.

The organizing committee of DPPI in Compiègne
Anne Guénand, Benoît Eynard, Indira Thouvenin, Olivier Gapenne, Charles
Lenay.
Scientific committee being constituted.
Please find further details on the conference website
http://www.utc.fr/dppi09

Segnalo il seguente call for papers, che mi pare offra un consistente elenco di temi, di interesse per molti di noi, e forse in particolare per quanti fanno parte del gruppo di museologia.

Writing Design; Object, Process, Discourse, Translation
The Design History Society Annual Conference

call for papers

de Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire, 3-5 September, 2009.
Co-convenors: Dr Grace Lees-Maffei and Jessica Kelly

How do we find out about design, as both practice and object, including the processes of designing, crafting and manufacture, marketing and consumption? A variety of methods and sources ranging from observation, participation, interview and oral history, to object analysis and documentary and visual interpretation is used in order to understand the processes and products of design and material culture. In both researching design and preparing resultant outcomes, designers, design historians, practitioners of design studies, material culture studies, popular culture studies and literary studies use words, whether written or spoken, to describe visual and material processes and objects. Understanding design involves the use and translation of sources, both pictorial/material and written/verbal. As is fitting in the wake of the Design History Society’s 30th Anniversary and the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Design History, this conference encourages participants to reflect on their sources, historiography and methodology, research, dissemination and teaching processes to examine the issues mobilised by articulating design and material culture with language and the ways in which writing about objects has conditioned our understanding of design. This conference is inclusive in its interests. Indicative themes and questions are as follows (the list is in no particular order and is not intended to be prescriptive, exclusive or exhaustive):
- Translating Design: What is at stake in the translation of objects into words, whether written or spoken, for the purposes of research, communication and understanding?
- Writing as Object: How does the design of words and writing impact upon their interpretation, both within studies of typography and book design and more broadly?
- Writing the Haptic? How can the haptic and tacit knowledge be discussed and written about?
- Design Writing: What has been the value of designers’ writings? What conclusions can we draw about writing on design, from popular and specialist design journalism and trade journals to academic studies of design? How have design and designers been represented or used as motifs in literature and other narratives?
- Writing Personae: How have designers attempted to shape their personae/biographies?
- Design and the Public: How has design been represented in the mass media, including magazine and television?
- Design Advice: How have discourses of lifestyle expertise shaped taste and consumption?
- Design Historiography: How do we, as students and scholars of design, write ourselves and our work into an evolving history of design history?
- Designing the Archive: How have archival holdings, documentary sources and curatorial practices shaped our understanding of design?
- Designing the Visitor Experience: How have curators in design exhibitions, museums and galleries used selection and synthesis, labels and catalogues, objects, words and images to tell stories and histories about design?
- Design before Design? How do we understand design practice in a period when documentary and object analysis are the sole sources through which we know design, using probate records, diaries, broadsheets, designer’s archives etc.
- Writing Nation: What impact has an existing design historical bias towards Western industrialised nations had on the understanding of design?
- Talking Design: How have interview and oral history practices functioned to enlarge understanding of design?
- Teaching Design: What pedagogical issues are raised by learning about designed objects through lectures, seminars and written assignments?
- Degrees of Design: What is the role and value of the written assignment in design education?

12 January 2009
Deadline for receipt of proposals

Per informazioni:
http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/tvad/event030909.html

Ricorre nel 2008 il centenario della nascita di Piero Gazzola (Piacenza 1908 - Verona 1979), insigne esperto di restauro architettonico e conservazione a livello internazionale, veronese d’adozione: a Verona dedicò oltre un trentennio della sua attività professionale come soprintendente ai Monumenti.
Per ricordare l’opera dell’illustre architetto, finora conosciuto soprattutto in ambito specialistico, Comune e Regione del Veneto hanno programmato una serie di iniziative che prenderanno vita nei prossimi mesi. Evento centrale sarà il convegno dal titolo Piero Gazzola, una strategia per i beni architettonici nel secondo Novecento. Conoscenza, tutela e valorizzazione nel contesto italiano e internazionale, che si terrà a Verona il 28-29 novembre 2008.

Per maggiori informazioni:

http://www.centenario.gazzola.comune.verona.it

Call for papers:

Le proposte dovranno essere inviate entro e non oltre il 23 maggio 2008, attraverso l’invio di un abstract (una cartella di 2000 battute) all’indirizzo: centenario.gazzola@comune.verona.it

Informazioni e contatti:

Museo di Castelvecchio, Corso Castelvecchio 2

tel. 045 8062611

Dove:

Palazzo della Gran Guardia - Piazza Bra Verona

from my understanding just recently, an interesting initiative has emerged on the scene of postgraduate design research, the desgin research network. it is a discussion platform for design research activities, based in germany, with an international advisory board and supported by Deutsche Telekom Laboratories -associated institute of Technical University Berlin- and linked with the European Academy of Design (EAD) and the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF).

the description on the website reads:

Especially those who are actually writing a Design PhD need good debates with various partners about their own topic.

So it is a matter of particular concern to us, making you never feel lost with your PhD research questions by enhancing Design Research debates among Design Researchers on this Forum. So feel free to create your personal research space/account here to store and share your personal Design Research issues.

the following call for papers can be found also on the website after registration:

The call for Papers for the DRN Conference “Questions & Hypotheses” is out!

The student-centered Conference will take place in the humming capital Berlin
on the 25th and 26th of October, 2008

Registration is free!

All about the Why, Who and Where you will find on our website
www.designresearchnetwork.org in the category “Questions & Hypotheses” and the
attached papers.

http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/category/category/questions-%2526-hypotheses

An international conference on the role and potential of design research in the transition towards sustainability
Torino 10th - 11th - 12th July 2008In the framework of WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL TORINO 2008

The deadline for the reception of abstracts is February 18, 2008

The conference Changing the Change seeks to make a significant contribution to a necessary transformation that involves changing the direction of current changes toward a sustainable future.

It specifically intends to outline the state-of-the-art of design research in terms of visions, proposals and tools with which design can actively and positively take part in the wider social learning process that will have to take place.

At the heart of the conference design researchers will present concrete and documentable research results. This will be complemented by invited keynote speaker’s presentations that will help paint a clearer picture of the common ground from which the conference will take off.

info: changing the change

Swiss Design Network
Symposium 2008 Call for Papers

30–31 May 2008 in Bern, Switzerland
«Focused» – projects and methods of
current design research

The Symposium 2008 of the Swiss Design Network (SDN) puts the «daily practice» of design research on its agenda.

Real-world design research projects illustrate questions, processes, methods and activities, with which they have been planned, approached, executed and evaluated. Projects are connected to various design disciplines, ranging from product design to interface design, visual communication and service design. In other words: projects are related to products, services, interfaces, information, communication and environments, or they focus on integrated systems of products, services and customer experiences.

Special attention will be given to specific design research related procedures that aim at generating insights and design knowledge.

Project results should put in perspective a useful repertoire of tools that help plan and accomplish design research projects – from formulating research question up to evaluating research results.

Papers, disputes and workshops are the means by which the SDN symposium 2008 intends to contribute to the further development of design research.

Per informazioni e download si veda symposium-konkret-08.hslu.ch/

Call for papers, deadline: December 1st

“ANOTHER NAME FOR DESIGN: Words for Creation”

Sponsored by CSCD, the Center for the Study of Communication-Design, Osaka University

Key dates

July 1, 2007 Call for papers
December 1, 2007 Deadline for abstracts
January 1, 2008 Notification of acceptance
June 1, 2008 Full papers due
Guidelines for abstracts

We are asking proposals for papers for the content described in ‘Conference themes.’ The abstract should follow the following guidelines.

Length: Max. One page A4
Language: English
Style: Single-spaced, 12pt Times Regular or Times New Roman
Type of file: RTF (Rich Text Format) or DOC (Microsoft Word Format)

Each entry should include the following information:
- Author’s full name(s)
- Gender: (M/F)
- Title, Position, and Affiliation
- Address for correspondence
- Telephone (Home or Office)
- Mobile Telephone (if possible)
- E-mail
- Title of the paper
- Choice of two ‘Conference themes (indicate the first and second priority)
The files should be named according to the last name of the author(s), for instance:
richardson.doc or richardson.rtf (if there are many authors, put the last name of the one reading the paper during the conference)

Send your abstracts by December 1, 2007, to:
icdhsabstract (@) gmail.com

Conference Themes

Theme 1: “Etymology of Design”
Though now used all over the world, the word “design” was a denizen, loan word, at least for most Asian people. In Asia, however, there are some historical equivalents for “design” which could be, if properly compared with some other European equivalents such as “disegno,” “diseño,” “dessin,” or “gestaltung,” interesting ideas for most design historians of the world. Papers on each culture’s various words which were/are equivalent or comparable with “design” are most welcome.

Theme 2: “Design Museum: Another Art Museum or a New Museum”
Is design museum another fine art museum or a totally new kind of museum? How are design museums/collections different from art museums/collections? What are the major challenges of design museums today? This strand invites papers analyzing histories and present situations of design museums/collections of the world, particularly those of less-known collections in various parts of the world or nearly unknown aspects of established art and design museums.

Theme 3: “Permanent and Transient: Past, Present, and Future”
It deals with the history-writing of architecture and design and their separation in different categories, although we are dealing by and large with the designed, constructed man-made world where the built environment and artifacts form a totality, a seamless web. It also deals with various significances of the recent past and the near future in design history, in comparison with the history of art and architecture in traditional meanings and different time spans.

Theme 4: “Decolonizing Design History: Modern/Postmodern for the Periphery”
How have the Modern and Postmodern behaved in the ‘peripheria’ and peripheral design? It will include an insight of the practices, the cultural and social conditions, and also the changes in the historical discourse. Though an important theme, it has been given a very little attention.

Theme 5: “Natural and Manmade: Medical Design and some other Design Frontiers”
Are your eyeglasses a tool or a part of your body, or face? Is your laptop almost a part of your body or life? Are green mountains surrounding Japan’s historical towns natural or artificial? Borders between natural and manmade are sometimes vague. However, many designs have been made in these borders. This is a forum for studies investigating these areas. It could be a good opportunity to exchange related ideas among design specialists of the world in Japan, a country where robot-technology is highly developed.

Theme 6: “Narrative Strategies in Design History”
Since Pevsner’s Pioneers of Modern Design was published in 1936, the issue of narrative strategy has been significant in design history. This panel proposes to explore the question of narrativity in design history by inviting papers on subjects that range from historiography - studies of earlier design histories and their narrative strategies - to examples of histories that have departed from the earlier norms - histories that address issues of geographic inclusivity, gender, other genres such as craft, particular national identity, ecology, or additional themes that expand our understanding of how histories of design might be written.

A special theme proposed by the CSCD, the Center for the Study of Communication-Design, Osaka University (Papers are expected both from visual and verbal as well as any other new/old communication research fields).

Theme 7: “Communication Design in Education, Research, and Practice”
Design for communication, a major 20th-century design theme, is even more important in the 21st century when various novel tools, techniques, and systems are, on one hand, helping our rapid/ubiquitous/global communication and, on the other, not solving real difficulties, or even causing new problems. This strand invites papers dealing with both local and international issues of communication design.

GRAZIE a Valentina Croci per la segnalazione
Deadline for submission: February 25 2008

The theme Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design, technology and the social sciences in the ‘networks’ of interactions within processes of knowledge formation. The interest in networks emerges from actor-network theory (ANT) and the work of, among others, the social theorist Bruno Latour who, along with the international designer and Droog collaborator Jurgen Bey, is a keynote speaker at the conference.

Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things. Within the wider context of post-modernism we are, it seems, experiencing a paradigm shift in design history and this conference offers an opportunity to address, explore and assess that shift, providing a platform for international debate and exchange.

Networks can include people, social groups, artefacts, devices, entities and ideas. Papers will be organised around five broad themes:

Networks of People including collectives and individuals
Networks of Texts including images, documents, databases
Networks of Technology including mechanical and virtual technologies
Networks of Things including material and technological artefacts
Networks of ideas including theories, disciplines and concepts (among them design history and ANT)

Proposals for papers are welcome from individuals and/or panels (of not more than three papers). Please visit the web site: www.networksofdesign.co.uk or email Fiona Hackney at fiona.hackney@falmouth.ac.uk or networksofdesign@falmouth.ac.uk.

Networks of Design 2008 Conference of the Design History Society
University College Falmouth
September 3rd – 6th 2008