[LiU design] Några konferenser av intresse

[Stefan Holmlid]

Hej!

här är några konferenser som kan vara intressanta för er att skriva någonting till eller att delta i. Det är konferenser som är intresserade av både papers om utbildning/undervisning och om forskningsprojekt. Av den första sorten tror jag det finns ett antal av er som har intressanta papers att skriva.
Jag funderade på om det vore en bra idé att ha en serie med skrivstugor under 2015, framförallt inför konferenser 2016, där vi jobbar med peer-review av varandras paper. Hojta om ni tycker det är en bra idé!

Fyra konferenser:
Transvaluation, på Chalmers
Nordes2015 på Konstfack
IASDR 2015 i Brisbane
Cumulus 2015 i Milano

En bra plats att hålla utkik efter konferenser är Cumulus hemsida och på följande site http://designcalls.wordpress.com/

/Stefan


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Call for abstracts - Brief
In the current measurement- and indicator-driven knowledge culture, research in architecture, art and several disciplines within humanities and social sciences may succumb to economic or scientific models, or be separated from important contexts of invention, risking to reduce research largely to standardized reproduction. Responding to the current proliferation of evaluation systems and the dominant culture of measurement that comes with it, the Transvaluation international symposium, May 21-22 2015, searches for alternative, cooperative environments of knowledge, of creation and invention, of 'making and thinking', and ways to trans- and re-value research cultures from within.

The ambition is a high quality event with top level keynote speeches, small format seminars and collective forum discussions, with the intent to start a broad debate addressing fundamental strategic research questions across disciplinary borders, and to instigate possibilities for change.

Key note speakers are international experts in social, global anthropology, Arjun Appadurai; art researching practice and doctoral education, Andrea Phillips; and speculative realism and material objects, Graham Harman.

The symposium will focus two major themes, Poetics and Politics of Value, referring to the (re-)making of values, both in artistic and architectural practice and in human scientific research, and their related political and systemic aspects. These themes are examined through two conceptual lenses: Worlding (shaping the world, transforming matter) and U-topos (space for speculative thinking and making).

We search for ways in which architecture, art, philosophy, anthropology and other areas of research may challenge, together, the very concept and formation of knowledge, stretching and enriching it, hence "transvaluing" material and spiritual research cultures from within, disclosing alternative approaches and strengthening their logics of argumentation within the interdisciplinary frame, with potential to change its systemic conventions.

We now invite researchers, doctoral students and practitioners to submit abstracts for discussion at the symposium. Abstracts will be peer reviewed and, if selected, developed into short papers.

Keywords: transvaluation - poetics of value - worlding - architecture - artistic research

Deadline for abstracts: December 19, 2014. For more information on the call and the selection process, please see end of this document or conference website, www.chalmers.se/transvaluation<http://www.chalmers.se/transvaluation> .

Design Ecologies
Challenging anthropocentrism in the design of sustainable futures
Konstfack - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design. Stockholm, Sweden
Sunday 7 - Wednesday 10 June 2015

http://nordes.org/nordes2015


Call for Submissions

Design hinges a natural-artificial continuum through humans' natural capacity to produce what we call 'the artificial'. At a time when human activity is threatening biodiversity and causing severe climate change, it becomes obvious that natural and artificial systems can no longer be conceived in isolation but only in relation to each other - or indeed as one.
      The coupling of natural and artificial systems poses challenges due to its complexity and partly reveals the anthropocentrism that has traditionally characterised design. Several questions arise in this context. How can design practices embrace pluralism by recognising, in the manifestation of design itself, biological as well as cultural diversity? In other words, how do we in design, and beyond, move from the kind of ego-system we seem to be so trapped in towards the kind of eco-system everyone and everything can gain from? How are designers, educators and researchers of design currently engaging with these challenges, and how might or should they engage with them in the near future? Designers in Scandinavia have shaped and influenced many local human societies to an important extent through a legacy of democratic and user-centred values. How can these be extended to acknowledge and celebrate humans' cohabitation on a global scale to also include the myriad of all other existing species and systems at alternative scales in time and space? How can the various design practices be genuinely sensitive to ecological complexity? And how can they be understood, designed and studied in relation to each other - or indeed as a whole?


Interplay IASDR 2015, Brisbane, 2-5 nov

Call for papers

We invite papers which offer original research and application across all domains of design: architecture, planning, industrial design, engineering design, software, interaction design, fashion or media design. The papers should demonstrate collaborative research and application with science or technology or the arts. Papers should be 3000 - 5000 words excluding abstracts and references and comply with IASDR 2015 guidelines. Submissions must be in English and submitted through the online submission system.

Important Dates

6 April 2015: Full paper submission

1 - 15 June 2015: Notification of acceptance

13 July 2015: Paper corrections deadline

10 August 2015: Final paper submission

2 November 2015: IASDR 2015 starts


www.iasdr2015.com<http://www.iasdr2015.com>




CUMULUS Milan 2015 - The Virtuous Circle. Design Culture and Experimentation

Milano, Politecnico di Milano, June 3-7, 2015

Website: http://cumulusmilan2015.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/cumulusmilan2015



The conference aims to investigate how design comes out of the interaction between a practice, which seeks to change the state of things, and a culture, which makes sense of this change. The way this happens evolves with time: practices and cultures evolve and so do the ways they interact; and the attention that is paid at different moments to one or other of these interacting polarities also evolves. In the current period of turbulent transformation of society and the economy, it is important to go back and reflect on the cultural dimension of design, its capacity to produce not only solutions but also meanings, and its relations with pragmatic aspects. Good design does not limit itself to tackling functional and technological questions, but it also always adopts a specific cultural approach that emerges, takes shape and changes direction through a continuous circle of experimenting and reflecting. Because the dimension and complexity of the problems is growing, it is becoming evident that to overcome them it is, above all, necessary to bring new sense systems into play. This is ground on which design, by its very nature, can do much. Indeed, the ability to create a virtuous circle between culture and practical experimentation is, or should be, its main and distinctive characteristic. However, for this really to happen it is necessary to trigger new discussion and reflection about the nature and purpose of design practice and culture. We need to take a step back in history and look at what they were like in the past; then come back to the present and ask ourselves how they have changed and are changing in today's world in transition. This process could start with some questions, for example: how do the new design practices produce culture? Vice versa, how can this culture orientate and offer common horizons to the multiplicity of practices that take place in design activities? How does this emerging culture tie up with the design tradition of the last century? How can this add depth and consistence to the design culture of the 21st century?



In order to discuss these issues the conference will be organised into 7 tracks corresponding to 7 activities in which the virtuous design culture-experimentation circle can take place: Nurturing; Envisioning; Experimenting/Prototyping; Incubating/Scaling; Assessing; Disseminating/Communicating; Training/Educating.



Key dates:

Call For Papers Launch: Wed 23 July 2014

Submission of Full Papers: Mon 24 Nov 2014

Early Bird Conference Registration: Wed 3 Dec 2014 - Mon 16 Feb 2015

Final note of acceptance of the full paper: Thu 22 Jan 2015

Conference Registration Opens: Tue Feb 17 2015

Delivery of the final papers: Wed 15 Apr 2015

Conference: 3-7 June 2015

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