RESEARCH AND PRACTICE

Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection

2009-09-27T19:09:00.000+02:00

Professors Michael Spence and Amartya Sen join leading ICT (Information-Communication Technology) experts Yochai Benkler and Clotilde Fonseca in a public discussion of the role of communication and ICTs in human development, growth and poverty reduction. Michael Best will moderate the discussion. What has changed, been learned, not been learned, needs to be learned, needs to be done most urgently?

This talk was organized by the International Development Research Center, and hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University on September 23, 2009. See notes from Ethan Zuckerman's liveblog here: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/20

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Lee Dirks on Transforming Scholarly Communication

2009-09-27T19:03:00.001+02:00

Lee Dirks, Director of Education & Scholarly Communications in Microsofts External Research division proposes a vision for the future of research and the need for semantic-oriented computing by exploring eResearch projects that have successfully applied relevant technologies. He suggests that a software + service model with scientific services delivered from the cloud will become an increasingly accepted model for research.

This event was co-sponsored by the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Harvard Business School Knowledge and Library Services, Harvard Law School Library, and the Office for Scholarly Communication.

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End the University as We Know It

2009-09-27T13:09:00.001+02:00

By MARK C. TAYLOR
Published: April 26, 2009 New York Times

GRADUATE education is the Detroit of higher learning. Most graduate programs in American universities produce a product for which there is no market (candidates for teaching positions that do not exist) and develop skills for which there is diminishing demand (research in subfields within subfields and publication in journals read by no one other than a few like-minded colleagues), all at a rapidly rising cost (sometimes well over $100,000 in student loans).

Widespread hiring freezes and layoffs have brought these problems into sharp relief now. But our graduate system has been in crisis for decades, and the seeds of this crisis go as far back as the formation of modern universities. Kant, in his 1798 work “The Conflict of the Faculties,” wrote that universities should “handle the entire content of learning by mass production, so to speak, by a division of labor, so that for every branch of the sciences there would be a public teacher or professor appointed as its trustee.”

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Fleshspirit - Theorizing Art or Artifying Theory.

2009-05-04T14:30:00.001+02:00

Lecture by Andreas Nobel at Midsommargården, May 8th, 1-3 pm.

Konstfack, Stockholm.

Friday May 8, 13-15 AT MIDSOMMARGÅRDEN (at Telefonplan) Lecture: Fleshspirit - Theorizing art or artifying theory Reflections on relationships between theory and practise Lecturer: Andreas Nobel, Ph.D. candidate, Konstfack The lecture will be an introduction to my research starting with a presentation of my educational and professional background. After this follows an introduction to the subject of my research: The relationship between theory and practise in a craft-based design process. I will then present one example of my research method (so far), which involves a deliberate mix-up between theory and practise. While reasoning about these issues the inevitable question is: Why artistic research? One way of treating this question is to formulate in what ways artistic research differs from other fields of research as well as from art and design itself. The fairly new field of artistic research can be justified only if we think that it can provide new and other kind of knowledge and/ or experience than the established scientific traditions and the contemporary art scene can provide. Andreas Nobel is an interior designer. He teaches at BI, konstfack. He is a former member of Uglycute and the former chief editor of RUM, a magazine for architecture, interior and design.

Artists' Writings, 1850-present

2009-05-04T11:31:00.001+02:00

Location: United Kingdom
Conference Date: 2009-06-04
Date Submitted: 2009-04-09
Announcement ID: 168068
Artists' Writings, 1850-present
The Courtauld Institute of Art

Thursday 4 June - Saturday 6 June, 2009
** Student discount available**

Despite Matisse’s warning that ‘he who wants to dedicate himself to painting should start by cutting out his tongue’, artists in the modern period have frequently expressed themselves in writing (whether memoir, fiction or theory). This conference will ask what motivates artists to write, how they view the relation between their visual and textual practice, and how they use writing to manipulate or challenge the public reception and critical interpretation of their work. Challenging the myth of the visual artist as an intuitive anti-intellectual, it will demonstrate the extent and diversity of artists’ contributions to modern literature and criticism in various languages. It will also investigate how scholars interpret these texts: are they works of art in themselves or simply evidence about the artist’s life and craft? Do they conceal as much as they reveal? How has the role and perception of artists’ writings changed over time?

Speaker(s): Bridget Alsdorf (Princeton University), Kenneth Bendiner (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Grace Brockington (University of Bristol), Nicholas Chare (University of Reading), Julie F. Codell (Arizona State University), Peter Cooke (University of Manchester), Ann Compton (University of Glasgow), Julia K. Dabbs (University of Minnesota, Morris), James Faure Walker (artist; Camberwell College of Arts), Richard Hobbs (University of Bristol), John House (Courtauld Institute of Art), Sylvia Karastathi (University of Cambridge), Emma Kimberley (University of Leicester), Yvonne Kyriakides (artist), Michelle Letowska (artist), Anna Lovatt (University of Nottingham), Peter Maber (University of Cambridge), Nina Parish (University of Bath), Dina Ramadan (Columbia University), Christina Rosenberger (Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard University Art Museum), Deborah Schultz (University of Sussex), Dave Smith (artist), Rachel Sloan (independent art historian), Lisa Tickner (Courtauld Institute of Art), Aurélie Verdier (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Duncan White (Central St Martins)

**Booking now open**
Registration information and event details available online at http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/2008/artistswritings (scroll down the page for Artists' Writings).

Dr Linda Goddard
Courtauld Institute of Art
Somerset House
Strand
London WC2R 0RN
Email: linda.goddard@courtauld.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/2008/artistswritings

CFP: THE ART OF RESEARCH

2009-04-28T14:35:00.001+02:00

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

Processes, Results and Contributions

24-25 November 2009
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland

Over the last two decades, a lively discussion has developed about the
relationship between art and research. The roles of the professional
artist and the professional researcher have in many ways come closer to
one another and often merged in fruitful ways. At the university level,
the criteria for various forms of research related to art and design
have emerged. With some variation, the suggested minimum criteria
include: a clearly articulated epistemic interest, a systematic and
sustained approach, explicit and articulated means for communicating and
evaluating the results, and established practices for publishing the
results.

This new institutional connection between research and art/design has
promoted much discussion concerning the dialogue between theory and
practice, or ‘reflecting’ and ‘making’, the emphasis often being on the
question of how they might be combined in a productive way. This time
the conference explores the different ways to turn processes into
results guided by following questions:

- To what extent is it productive to demarcate the practices of
art/design from theories of art and design? Do these distinctions just
serve the narration of the dialogues between theories and practices or
do they have relevance beyond that?

- How to conceive of the relationship between the art/design processes
and the research results from case to case?

- How to document art and design processes for research purposes?

- How to communicate non-verbal research results?

- What do we mean by contribution in terms of art and design research?

- What is the relationship between saying and showing, or argument and
demonstration?

These questions might also stimulate other relevant questions.

The conference will go beyond conventional paper presentation, as each
conference session space will be designed to enable oral presentations
to interact with exhibited works of art and design. The aim of the event
is to continue and update the discussions concerning the relationship
between art and design practices and research, in terms of both content
and modes of presentation.

We invite papers (5000 words max) by doctoral students, post-doctoral
researchers and academics dealing with following themes:

1) Explorative art/design projects. This type of papers must be
submitted together with creative works and must contribute to
understanding how the visual and the verbal are unified in artistic and
design research. Each submission should also include a separate brief
description (80 words max) of the creative work and visual material such
as photographs or video (digital formats only, totally 10M max.).

2) Methodological and theoretical questions related to the conference
theme.

All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To facilitate
double-blind peer review process, authors should make efforts to ensure
that information about the authors’ identities do not appear anywhere in
the paper. If an author is cited, “Author” and year should be used in
the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author’s name, paper title,
etc.

The conference is hosted by School of Design in co-operation with Design
Connection Doctoral School at the University of Art and Design Helsinki.
Since the first event in 2005 in Helsinkihas been organized annually, altering between two locations: University
of Art and Design Helsinki and Chelsea College of Art and Design in
London.

The paper and exhibition proposals should be sent to the conference
secretary Johanna Rauhaniemi (Johanna.Rauhaniemi@taik.fi). For the paper
template and other practical details, see the conference web site at
http://www.taik.fi/designresearch/AOR2009. Conference fee 150€/100€ for
students, includes conference attendance and refreshments.

KEYDATES:

9 April 2009 First call for papers

10 August 2009 Deadline for papers
1 September – 6 November 2009 Registration and payment
28 September 2009 Review notice and referee
feedback
30 October 2009 Submission for final
papers
10 November 2009 Arrival of exhibits.
24-25 November 2009 Conference

For further information, please contact:
Maarit Mäkelä
DA, coordinator / Design Connections Doctoral School
School of Design / University of Art and Design Helsinki
Hämeentie 135 C / FIN-00560 Helsinki
+ 358 9 7563 0640
maarit.makela@taik.fi

CREATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN ART AND DESIGN RESEARCH

2009-02-05T14:16:00.001+01:00

Conference 1-2 July 2009, De Montfort University & Loughborough University. Interrogations: CREATIVE INTERDISCIPLINARITY IN ART AND DESIGN RESEARCH The conference addresses various aspects of interdisciplinary approaches in Art & Design research, as well as practical and theoretical methods for interlinking with other disciplines. The objective is to explore interdisciplinarity as a new trend that brings together different disciplines, forging new connections and contributions to collective knowledge. Ultimately, the aim is to promote and encourage interdisciplinarity as a way to enhance creativity in research. This conference aims to address the challenges and trends of interdisciplinary research that contributes to art and design. We are inviting performance proposals as part of the conference programme, as well as formal presentations (deadline 16th of January). It is hoped that the performance event will embrace an eclectic mix of works communicated through a variety of forms: any visual, sound, spoken word, music, short plays, dance, design, film, multi media, digital projects and other performance medium or methods of expression involving interdisciplinarity as a way of transferring ideas and stimulating creativity across disciplines. The event will take place on the first day of the conference, after the sessions. Limited sound equipment as well as video and slide projectors are available. Artists are responsible for installing and removing their performance materials on the day of the performance. Each performance running time will be 25 minutes. If you would like to be considered, please send a proposal, one page maximum description of your idea, including your contact information, a brief description of the performance, special equipment or space needed. The proposal should detail the project, its production, how it engages participants and any technical requirements. Please be as specific as possible. You may submit your proposal via email or digitally on Compact Disk or DVD by 28th February 2009. Send materials or enquiries to: Basia Sliwinska Loughborough University School of Art & Design Epinal Way Loughborough Leicestershire United Kingdom LE11 3TU

RIGOR AND RELEVANCE IN DESIGN

2009-02-05T14:15:00.001+01:00

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009): RIGOR AND RELEVANCE IN DESIGN, 19-22 October 2009, IASDR 2009, Seoul, South Korea. This is a large, international design research conference with an intensive and high quality program. This venue will bring together top design researchers and practitioners to build and advance knowledge in the field of Design. We encourage your enthusiastic participation for this exciting opportunity. Design has been evolved into a unique but highly influencing discipline in this rapidly changing society. But it has also struggled to find its own rigor and relevance as a disciplined field as its own. In this conference, we invite various perspectives and research outcomes that may address the issues of establishing our own rigor and relevance of design research and practice in the field of Design, as well as discussions and research activities related to all the important design subjects as follows: 1. Design Theory and Methodology; 2. Design Philosophy, Ethics, Values, and Issues; 3. Design Education; 4. Design Management and Strategy; 5. Sustainability, Culture, History, and Society in Design; 6. Human Behaviors, Perception, and Emotion; 7. Semantics, Aesthetics and Experience in Design; 8. Interaction and Interface Design; 9. Design Tools and New Media; 10. Universal Design/Inclusive Design; 11. Design Creativity; 12. Design Project Cases. -- Abstract deadline: February 28, 2009. More information:

Art in the Knowledge-based Polis

2009-02-03T21:44:00.001+01:00

by Tom Holert

Lately, the concept of “knowledge production” has drawn new attention and prompted strong criticism within art discourse. One reason for the current conflictual status of this concept is the way it can be linked to the ideologies and practices of neoliberal educational policies. In an open letter entitled “To the Knowledge Producers,” a student from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has eloquently criticized the way education and knowledge are being “commodified, industrialized, economized and being made subject to free trade.”1

In a similar fashion, critic Simon Sheikh has addressed the issue by stating that “the notion of knowledge production implies a certain placement of thinking, of ideas, within the present knowledge economy, i.e. the dematerialized production of current post-Fordist capitalism”; the repercussions of such a placement within art and art education can be described as an increase in “standardization,” “measurability,” and “the molding of artistic work into the formats of learning and research.”2 Objections of this kind become even more pertinent when one considers the suggestive rhetoric of the major European art educational network ELIA (European League of Institutes of the Arts), which, in a strategy paper published in May 2008, linked “artistic research” to the EU policy of the generation of “’New Knowledge’ in a Creative Europe.”

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Thanks to Michelle Gratacós Arill for this reference.

Parkour

2008-12-07T12:31:00.000+01:00

Blane.

HOW TO ENCOURAGE NEW HERESIES

2008-11-17T12:17:00.002+01:00

By MARCIA BARTUSIAK

Review of:

DISCOVERING
By Robert Scott Root-Bernstein.
Illustrated. 501 pp. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press. $35.

As the legend goes, a stray penicillium mold lands on a bacteria-filled petri dish in Fleming's laboratory. About to discard the dish, Fleming suddenly notices that the mold has dissolved the bacterial colonies. Voila! Antibiotics. But Imp deduces from circumstantial evidence that Fleming merely noticed at first the errant mold's mild antiseptic properties; only after deliberately culturing the mold did he clinch that the bacteria were being wiped out. ''Fleming clearly experimented with anything he could lay his hands on, wherever he found it,'' Imp points out. ''That was part of his research style. Playing.'' Good scientists seem to design experiments that will yield surprises; they foster the conditions. Examinations of a host of notable achievers in science show them to be broadly educated, with more than a passing interest in art, music, poetry and literature. Often making their mark in previously unfashionable or neglected areas of research, they retain a childlike curiosity about the world.

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AGENCY: 5th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association

2008-06-16T09:52:00.002+02:00

AGENCY, the 5th International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, asks for a more active relationship between the humanities, the
architectural profession, and society. The conference will attempt to energise these relationships by addressing issues of agency, and will specifically address the role of
architectural humanities research as an agency of transformation.

While the potential of agency is most frequently taken to be the power and freedom to act for oneself, for the architectural and architectural research community this also involves the power and responsibility to act as intermediaries on behalf of others. There are a number of factors that affect how well this potential can be realised.

AGENCY accepts that the conditions for effective action are both contingent on individual circumstances and constantly changing. Nevertheless, the conference sets
out to explore how humanities research can better contribute towards understanding current architectural needs, possibilities and capacities for action. It will explore what is meant by ‘action’ in this context, what kinds of activities and conditions are relevant, what prevents the effective exercise of agency, and how the consideration of
such prevention might indicate effective points of, and tactics for, alternative action.

Research in the architectural humanities has tended to be too inward looking, avoiding these kinds of questions and leaving important aspects of architecture’s role
dramatically under-theorised. AGENCY will investigate active and outward looking approaches to humanities research, attempting to connect to a number of key political and social issues. The conference thus moves away from a concentration on the immediate objects and processes of architectural production towards an investigation of their wider context and possibilities.

It is proposed to focus the conference on two key areas where questions concerning the relationships between architecture and agency are particularly significant: the
particular possibilities of ARCHITECTURAL PRAXIS, and the big social and political questions of our age concerning the SURVIVAL OF THE ENVIRONMENT. In each case the intention is that such questions will be addressed through humanities research approaches, allowing our field of research to invigorate these neglected areas.

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ARCHITECTURE AND AUTHORSHIP (review)

2008-06-05T10:20:00.001+02:00

Edited by Tim Anstey, Katja Grillner and Rolf Hughes. London: Black Dog Publishing. 2007

We have by now become accustomed to the fact that Richard Rogers and Frank Gehry enjoy celebrity status as household names, while every great modern building is, by necessity, attributed to the hand of an identifiable ‘master’ or office. The status of the architect, and the authority of their role, relies in no small part on this cult of personality whose influence can be seen as a symptom of the absence, for better or worse, of commonly held architectural values and principles. Of course this state of affairs is not a prerequisite to the creation of worthwhile architecture. From the sphinx to the Parthenon, the authorship of the vast majority of the monuments of the ancient world was not celebrated by their respective societies and remains unknown to us. In the twentieth century, a number of architectural theorists attempted to refocus the attention of the architectural profession and society at large away from individual authorship, most notably through Bernard Rudofsky’s study of ‘architecture without architects’ (first published in 1964), Leslie Martin’s work on the universal logic of specific forms, and Colin Rowe’s emphasis on the role of collage and the work of multiple hands.

In this engaging book, the editors attempt to answer the key question as to how the developing concept of authorship has shaped the modern architectural profession. Comprising 16 essays on such diverse case studies as the Renaissance theorist Leon Battista Alberti’s definition of rhetoric and its lasting influence on the latter-day architect’s role, to the notion of architectural creativity in Lewis Carroll’s writing, the book examines both novel and familiar material from a fresh perspective. Indeed, although Andrew Saint in his book of 1983 studied the architectural profession’s evolving status and public image from the eighteenth century to the present, this remains a neglected yet vital topic. The advent of digital media has once again called into question the role of the architect in the production of buildings and spaces, with the emergence of industrial-style construction processes which resemble car manufacture whose designers are largely unknown. Whether or not this will lead to the death of the celebrity architect and even a new era of architectural anonymity only time will tell.
VAUGHAN HART

Dilbert "The Consultant"

2008-06-05T09:25:00.000+02:00

Here the traditional sophist's argument for buying lessons in rhetoric ("You should buy my lessons so that you can evaluate my argument that you should buy my lessons") is reworked, revealing the infinite regress implicit in recursive consultation (and reasoning – see Witgenstein).

Creative Practice/Creative Research: Materiality/Process/Performativity

2008-05-18T20:19:00.000+02:00

Symposium July 10-12 2008
York St John University

In Artforum in April 1970, sculptor Robert Morris noted with regret that creative process held little sway for the meanings imbibed for ‘art’ by contemporary criticism and the histories of art. His insistence on the imperatives of what he named ‘the submerged side of the iceberg’ came on the cusp of the ‘New Art History.’ The advent of post-modern theory and the social history of art located the material production of art at an intersection of history and the social. Practice was thus liberated from the (psycho)biographical expressivity and mastery of the gesture. Hitherto these had been the only means by which making had been thought. And yet the object of critical and historical discourse has remained profoundly visual. Situated in the gallery like so many dead objects ’art’s’ materiality, the trace of a means to an ends, has remained caught between formalism and semiotics. It is that to which theory has been applied and by which history is index after the fact.

Creative Practice/Creative Research seeks to elucidate and participate in the generation of a body of scholarship written by both critics and practictioners that has begun to transform the theoretical and historical frameworks through which art’s making can signify.

To insist upon the work of art as a ‘co-poiësis’ (Ettinger, 1997) of ‘poiëtic revealing’ (Bolt, 2007) is to read art production beyond the locus of a discrete subject bound solely to the paradigms of ‘representation.’ Rather such a shift foreground the ‘dialogical’ and ‘per formative’ means through which art’s work may lead research. The emergence of this practice led intervention thus transforms the territories by which ‘work’ and materiality may be encountered by maker and viewer.

This international symposium seeks to creatively draw from emerging and established voices in the practice, criticism, history, and curation of the creative arts. It seeks to explore the particular logic, diversity and implications of the work of art both for its own sake and for the history of art and art criticism, cultural theory, curatorial practice and the pedagogies of art.

Speakers

Steve Baker, UCLAN, UK
Estelle Barrette, Deakin University, AUS
Rosemary Betterton, Lancaster University, UK
Barb Bolt, University of Melbourne, AUS
Vanessa Corby, York St John University, UK
Bracha Ettinger, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee
Pam Longobardi, Georgia State University, USA
Roddy Hunter, York St John University, UK
Linda Weintraub, Independent Scholar, USA
Elizabeth Watkins, Bristol University, UK

Proposed Panels

Material Thinking: Practice Led Interventions in the History of Art
Bodies of Knowledge: Genders, ethnicity, sexuality, class
Eco-Logical Practice
Unruly Objects: Materiality/Process/Performativity
Dance and the Document: Tracking Performativity
Processing Memory/Psychic Mechanisms
Pedagogy & Practice Led Research

Website

Abstracts for papers may be submitted via email by 6th June 2008

James Alexander, Senior Administrative Assistant-Project & Outreach

J.Alexander@yorksj.ac.uk

Faculty of Arts
York St John University
Lord Mayors Walk
York
YO31 7EX

How dream of reading someone's mind may soon become a reality

2008-03-07T09:24:00.001+01:00

By Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent
Thursday, 6 March 2008

The ability to read someone's mind and even to visualise their dreams has come a step closer with a study showing that it is possible to predict accurately what someone is seeing by analysing their brain activity with a medical scanner.

Scientists have built a computer that can "decode" the brain activity signals from a scanner and match them to photographs of what a person has seen. In the future, they believe the technology will be able to reconstruct scenes being visualised in a person's head – whether real or imaginary. Tests of the decoder show that it can predict which photograph someone is looking at with an accuracy of up to 90 per cent, although the success rate falls as the total number of photographs being assessed increases.

The scientists believe that it might be possible in the near future to adopt the same approach in making a device that can read someone's thoughts, although they warn against doing this surreptitiously or against someone's will.

"It is possible that decoding brain activity could have serious ethical and privacy implications downstream in, say, the 30 to 50-year time frame. It is something I do care about," said Professor Jack Gallant of the University of California, Berkeley, who led the study published in the journal Nature.

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Paradoxes of Appearance

2008-03-04T11:48:00.001+01:00

Research Symposium: June 9 - 11, 2008 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Organized by the Danish Doctoral Schools of Architecture & Design
Programme

Confirmed speakers:
Professor Renaud Barbaras, Université Paris- 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Professor Andrew Benjamin, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Artist Olafur Eliasson, Studio Olafur Eliasson, Germany and Denmark
Professor Sanford Kwinter, Rice University, USA
Professor David Leatherbarrow, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Professor Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Germany
Professor David Summers, University of Virginia, USA

Paradoxes of Appearance
When spectators confront and designers invent works of art and architecture vital questions regarding their appearance arise. These are not simply questions about what appears, also what does not, i.e. what withdraws when works are experienced and created. How do we cope with this withdrawal, with latencies that escape concretization? What are the productive paradoxes associated hereto and how do they influence the processes of making? Based on multiple discourses on these subjects, contemporary positions in art, architecture and philosophy draw up new challenges, especially with regard to the creative practices. Within and between these positions emerge potentials for modes of thinking and doing with a new sensitivity.

Venue
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture
Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 53, Auditorium 6

The Futures of Space Exploration

2008-03-02T18:11:00.000+01:00

LESS REMOTE, The Futures of Space Exploration An Arts & Humanities Symposium at the International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow 2008, 30 September - 1 October 2008. Abstract Submission Deadline: 11 March 2008 (approx. 300 words and short bio). This symposium will offer a forum in which specialists from many disciplines will be invited to consider the future of space exploration in the context of our current understanding of social, economic and technological imperatives. One of the aims of the symposium is to foster a dialogue and exchange between the cultural and space communities. Speakers from the arts & humanities and space science & engineering communities will present keynote lectures on space exploration and its possible futures. Papers are also invited from the broad constituency of interest among artists, cultural analysts and historians that has examined the wider implications of the scientific exploration of space for the better part of a century. More information:

NEO : LEO

2008-03-02T18:03:00.001+01:00

http://artslab.unm.edu/leo40

New Leonardos engaged in the Burning Issues of our Times

Will be held at University of New Mexico Albuquerque March 18-21 2009

The Leonardo 40th anniversary event will adress key issues for the next decade that require interaction between the arts, humanities, and sciences or between arts,humanities and new technologies.

A) New Leonardos: Showcasing the Best of a New Generation.
B) Climate Change: Arts and Hard Humanities on the front line of cultural change.
C) Designing the World: from Nano Science to the Space Option.
D) Limits to Understanding: New Methods for Burning Issues.

Co Organised by the ARTS LAB UNM (artslab.unm.edu ) and Leonardo/ISAST( www.leonardo.info )

To be kept informed about the conference sign up for the information list at:

https://list.unm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=leo40-l&A=1

Contact : leo40@unm.edu

Beyond Representation: New Work in Literature and Science

2008-03-02T18:01:00.000+01:00

Please see the CFP, below, for a session at the 2008 MLA in San Francisco sponsored by the Division on Literature and Science. Abstracts for 20-minute papers or 10-minute roundtable statements welcome by March 25th to henry.turner@rutgers.edu.

Beyond Representation: New Work in Literature and Science

To what degree is the notion of "representation" inadequate to describe problems of form, interpretation, information, communication, system, etc. encountered in science studies? At a moment when much literary criticism remains stuck in an implicitly linguistic or textualist paradigm and when emergent fields such as Visual Studies, Performance Studies, or New Media are all, in different ways, evolving in response to the limitations of traditional notions of representation, can we find in scientific practice resources for thinking "beyond representation"? What do we really do when we "close read" and what is the analogue or the equivalent operation in a laboratory, where information-rich materials are "handled," translated, or given form according to a variety of techniques, where the relationship between evidence and argument is often very open-ended and provisional, where the problem of "meaning" or of "artifice" and even "fiction" arises in provocative ways?

ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online)

2008-01-15T16:51:00.000+01:00

The Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce the relaunching of the ECHO (Exploring and Collecting History Online) website at http://echo.gmu.edu. ECHO is a portal to over 5,000 websites concerning the history of science, technology, and industry. In addition to better helping researchers find the exact information they need and granting curious browsers a forum for exploration, the new site also provides access to the latest in blogging on the topics of digital history and histories of science, technology and industry.

The project is based at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu). ECHO has been funded by two generous grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Event Energy Adapt blog

2008-01-11T09:32:00.000+01:00

Thanks to Ramia, aided by some of our students, we now have a new blog documenting our Masters Colloquium Event Energy Adapt within the course Research through Practice:

http://eventenergyadapt.blogspot.com/

Research Training Sessions 2008

2008-01-07T12:07:00.000+01:00

Introduction
A new PhD degree (in architecture) has been established in Flanders. Designing will be the core of the research activities at Sint-Lucas School of Architecture. A methodology and framework for this research still has to be developed. The spring conference ‘the Unthinkable Doctorate’ (April 2005), organised by Sint-Lucas and NETHCA discussed doctorates in Architecture in an international context. A critical overview of the wide range of viewpoints and directions internationally available at the different universities was made. It is clear that more and more universities develop PhD programmes trying to validate the specific type of knowledge in and from practice. Designing processes as well as implicit and Mode 2 knowledge are made more explicit by research activities involved.

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ARCHITECTURE AND AUTHORSHIP SYMPOSIUM, February 7-8 2008.

2008-01-07T12:05:00.000+01:00

The symposium Architecture and Authorship is a follow-up event to the book published in June 2007 by Black Dog Publishing. It explores issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture, and examines how individual architects and movements, from the fifteenth century onwards, have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory, the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style. The event is organised by the editors of the book. The symposium will be structured in accordance with the sections of the book - mapping a 'force field' in which issues of authorship in architecture are played out. The contributors to each section in the book are listed below:
Affirmation: Tim Anstey, Caroline Dionne, Carola Ebert, Naomi Stead
Dislocation: Katja Grillner, Charles Rice, Jonathan Hill
Translation: Louise Pelletier, Wallis Miller, Renée Tobe, Penelope Haralambidou
Dissolution: Rolf Hughes, Stanley Mathews, Gernot Weckherlin, Sean Keller, Hélène Lipstadt
This event is organized by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, through Katja Grillner, Tim Anstey, and Rolf Hughes
Contact and registration: Katja Grillner, Associate professor,
Venue: KTH Main Library, Osquars backe 31, Stockholm.
Program info: www.auctor.se Please register before January 15

8th Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics

2007-12-14T19:20:00.000+01:00

This is the Call for Papers for the Eighth Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics, to be held on June 23-28, 2008 at the University of the Aegean (Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering) on the island of Syros in Greece.

Biosemiotics is an interdisciplinary research agenda investigating the myriad forms of communication and signification found in and between living systems. It is thus the study of representation, meaning, sense, and the biological significance of codes and sign processes, from genetic code sequences to intercellular signaling processes to animal display behavior to human semiotic artifacts.

Such sign processes appear ubiquitously in the literature on biological systems. Up until very recently, however, it had been implicitly assumed that the use of such terms as “message” “signal” “code” and “sign” was ultimately metaphoric, and that such terms could someday effectively be reduced to the mere chemical and physical interactions underlying such processes. As the prospects for such a reduction become increasingly untenable, even in theory, the interdisciplinary research project of biosemiotics is attempting to re- open the dialogue across the life sciences (including the humanities) regarding what, exactly, such a things as “meaning” or “significance” might refer to in the context of living, complex adaptive systems.

The Scientific Advisory Committee of the Eighth Annual Gatherings in Biosemiotics welcomes paper proposals from researchers in any academic discipline who are investigating the real-world use of sign processes among or within living organisms.

Architecture and Authorship Symposium

2007-12-11T12:42:00.000+01:00

7-8 February 2008 KTH Stockholm

The symposium Architecture and Authorship, to be held in Stockholm on Feb 7-8th in 2008, is a follow-up event to the book published in June 2007 by Black Dog Publishing. It explores issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture, and examines how individual architects and movements, from the fifteenth century onwards, have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory, the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style. The event is organised by the editors of the book. The symposium will be structured in accordance with the sections of the book - mapping a 'force field' in which issues of authorship in architecture are played out.

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This event is organized by the KTH School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, through Katja Grillner, Tim Anstey, and Rolf Hughes
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Contact and registration: Katja Grillner, info@auctor.se
Venue: KTH Main Library, Osquars backe 31, Stockholm.
Program info: www.auctor.se
Please register before January 15!

Research into Practice 2008 conference

2007-12-09T17:47:00.000+01:00

This a reminder that the first call for papers for the Research into Practice 2008 conference has been issued. The conference will be held on 31 October 2008 at the Royal Society of Arts, London, and will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts. Selected papers will be published after the conference in the international peer-reviewed journal "Working Papers in Art and Design". This is an open-access e-journal at http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/index.html

To contribute to the conference please send a 1000-word abstract which clearly address the theme of the conference. The deadline for submission is 1 May. Details of the theme may be found online at http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/theme1.html

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THE MAIN CONFERENCE WEBSITE AT
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/confhome.html

Research into Practice is the leading international forum for scholarship on so-called practice-based research in the visual and performing arts, hosted by the University of Hertfordshire, UK.

ANDREW BARRY, POLITICAL MACHINES (2001)

2007-11-30T11:55:00.001+01:00

Välkommen till höstens näst sista seminarium i serien KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR,
TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP

Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"

Tid: Torsdag 6 december 2007, kl. 14-16
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och
kommunikation, KTH

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LITTERATURSEMINARIUM OM ANDREW BARRY, POLITICAL MACHINES (2001)

Abstract

Teknik- och vetenskapsstudier (STS) har utvecklats under de senaste
trettio åren med ett fokus särskilt på aktörerna i innovationsprocesser
och de politiska frågor som väcks i samband med dessa. Ofta har teknologin
och det politiska kommit att skiljas åt, men det är mycket som talar för
att analyser bör utvecklas där de studeras tillsammans: teknologi och
politik bör ses som integrerade i varandra. I sin bok Political Machines:
Governing a Technological Society (2001), argumenterar den brittiske
kulturgeografen och sociologen Andrew Barry för detta men även för att den
politiska analysen inte bara skall äga rum i anslutning till politiska
institutioner och identiteter, utan också i anslutning till den nya
tekniken. Han fokuserar på en mängd olika saker som är "inskrivna" i
teknologin, t ex nätverkande, nya medier, interaktivitet, standardisering,
teknologiska risker, etc. genom att kombinera olika forskningsfält som
kulturgeografi, politisk sociologi och antropologiska studier av teknik
har Barry initierat ett nytt och viktigt fält inom forskningen där det
analytiska objektet är teknik/politik i dess integrerade form.

Per-Anders Forstorp, docent och lektor i kommunikation på CSC kommer att
inleda diskussionen framförallt kring det första kapitlet i boken.

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Skriv ett mail om du vill få våra löpande inbjudningar.
Mer information om höstens seminarier finns på:
http://www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/k-sem/k-sem-aktuell/

Design Research Society 2008 Conference

2007-11-28T14:03:00.001+01:00

This just in from Ramia Mazé:

DRS 2008 Call For Papers

Design Research Society 2008 Conference
16-19 July 2008 in Sheffield, UK.

We invite you to present your research at this internationally refereed conference.

Electronic Text and Textiles

2007-11-28T12:04:00.000+01:00

e-text+textiles (e-t+t) is an interdisciplinary platform facilitating artistic investigation and production in the fields of literature, language, textiles, and material culture, promoting expression at the intersections of print, cloth, and electronic technologies.

e-t+t examines the position of text and textiles within the constantly shifting technological reality through theoretical and practice-based enquiry. It hosts creative makers, writers, researchers, and theoreticians in residence, initiates dialogue and organizes presentations and seminars. e-t+t offers professional development, networking possibilities and small-scale production facilities for visiting artists, designers, writers, and scholars from Europe and beyond.

More.

Research into Practice 2008

2007-11-28T09:35:00.000+01:00

Research into Practice 2008 will be held on 31 October 2008 at the Royal Society of Arts, London, and will explore the problem of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.

It is characteristic of research outputs, reports and theses in traditional disciplines that they are expressed in unambiguous language. One reason for this is to establish the grounds and argument from which the conclusions derive. Another reason is to be quite clear and explicit about what is being claimed as original by the author for the research. This characteristic has the effect of reinforcing the dominant knowledge models such as "the scientific method", "empirical methods", etc. However these models come from disciplines whose aims and objectives may differ from those in the arts and humanities. There has been much discussion about the suitability of such models for the visual and performing arts, which seem to rely on a more pluralistic approach to interpretation which values the fact that different generations and different cultures find their own value in the artefact.

Does this difference of explicitness between traditional disciplines and the arts mean that their research outputs cannot be compared? What is the status of the outcomes of research in the visual and performing arts in terms of what is known or discovered? Is research in these areas actually trying to achieve something quite different, and if so what? Is the value of research something constructed by the receiver, and if so what would that mean for knowledge-models in the arts? Are its outcomes more contingent than those in other disciplines because of this difference in the role of interpretation by the reader/viewer? Does the scientific method really result in unambiguous interpretation, or conversely is interpretation really so subjective in the arts?

The conference will focus on the theory of interpretation in research in traditional disciplines and on the emerging theory of interpretation in research in the visual and performing arts.

Conference topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted to:
are unambiguous research outputs in the arts possible or desirable?
are the problems of interpretation in the arts different from other disciplines?
do the interpretational problems in arts stem from its media or from its aims?
can anything be learned from studies in interpretation in other humanities subjects?
in the historical past were issues of interpretation viewed differently?
do the arts have special advantages that compensate for any perceived disadvantages with respect to interpretation of outcomes?
how does the author/reader problem affect research?

More.

Design Interactions

2007-11-23T15:24:00.000+01:00

The Design Interactions department at the Royal College of Art explores new roles, contexts and approaches for design in relation to the social, cultural and ethical impact of existing and emerging technologies. Projects, which are often speculative and critical, aim to inspire debate about the human consequences of different technological futures both positive and negative. Students work closely with people outside the College, designing for the complex, troubled people we are, rather than the easily satisfied consumers and users we are supposed to be. Project outcomes are expressed through a variety of media including prototypes, simulations, video and photography. Students have backgrounds in art and design, computer science, engineering and psychology.
If you are interested in finding out more please join us for our Open Day on Friday 7 December 2007. Visitors can meet and talk with students in the studio between 2.00 pm and 6.00 pm. Professor Anthony Dunne, Head of Department, will give presentations about the course at 2.00 pm and 4.00 pm.

Please visit the course website.

Figurations of Knowledge

2007-11-15T15:40:00.000+01:00

European Conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin (ZfL)
June 03 - 07, 2008

Conference details.

Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts

2007-11-15T15:34:00.000+01:00

The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA) welcomes colleagues in the sciences, engineering, technology, computer science, medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, the arts, and independent scholars and artists. SLSA members share an interest in problems of science and representation, and in the cultural and social dimensions of science, technology, and medicine.

SLSA publishes the professional journal Configurations through Johns Hopkins University Press. The web site http://sls.press.jhu.edu contains information on membership and subscription rates, publications, and a directory of membership. (The membership directory is available only to current members.)

SLSA

Fringe

2007-11-09T10:51:00.000+01:00

We would like to invite you to the launch of Fringe - a gathering for new media artists and the like in Stockholm.

Fringe will be held at Weld, on Thursday 15th November at 19:00. Presentations and performances will be followed by music and a bar.

For more information about Fringe gatherings please visit http://www.fringe.nu

For more information about Weld: http://www.weld.se

Weld is located at Norrtullsgatan 7, T-bana Odenplan.

(For a map, see http://tinyurl.com/yqswqo )

The Fringe is an initiative by the Interactive Institute.

FUTURE ANTERIOR

2007-11-09T10:46:00.001+01:00

FUTURE ANTERIOR is a peer reviewed (refereed) journal published by the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS. It approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. CALL FOR PAPERS: FUTURE ANTERIOR seeks contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. We welcome articles on all topics relevant to historic preservation. Submissions for the Winter 2008 issue must be received no later than January 7, 2008. Articles should be no more than 5000 words, with up to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically, on a CD or disk, accompanied by three hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8by 9print size. Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text. FUTURE ANTERIOR also welcomes shorter articles of less than 2500 words and five illustrations for publication outside of the peer review process. The same submission requirements apply to these articles. Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors. Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned. Please mail all submissions to: FUTURE ANTERIOR, 400 Avery Hall, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Questions about submissions can be mailed to: futureanterior@columbia.edu

ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES

2007-11-09T10:45:00.001+01:00

ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES. THEORIES, METHODS AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY NORDIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH /Teorier, metoder och strategier i nutida nordisk arkitekturforskning/ NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE April 24-26, 2008, in Göteborg, Sweden, arranged by The Nordic Association of Architectural Research, The Nordic Architectural Academy, The Swedish Research Council Formas, The Association of Swedish Architects and Chalmers Architecture. Architectural research, including landscape architecture, urban design & development and interior architecture, is an expanding field with high relevance for urgent issues in contemporary society and environment. We invite Nordic and Baltic architectural researchers and PhD-students to discuss theories, methods and strategies in contemporary architectural research through the six interconnecting themes listed below. Conference language will be English as well as Nordic languages. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, maximum 300 words, on the following themes: 1. Lack of theory or new theoretical frameworks 2. History and historiography: Is there a Nordic architectural research? 3. Practice relevance versus peer-review publications 4. Integrating design-based methodology 5. New technologies: impact on research problems and methodology 6. Urban research between social sciences and design. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2007 Conference e-mail: a-inquiries@chalmers.se Conference website: in progress. Links: www.arkitekturforskning.net or www.chalmers.se/arch/SV Questions: dyrssen@chalmers.se, caldenby@chalmers.se, fredrik@chalmers.se, lena@arch.kth.se Arranged by: Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg

Forthcoming events (architecture + acoustics)

2007-11-09T10:43:00.002+01:00

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SENSORY URBANISM An Interdisciplinary Two Day Conference: Departments of Architecture & Building Science / DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 8th - Wednesday 9th January 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers for the SENSORY URBANISM, organised by the Multimodal Representation of Urban Space research group, a Design for the 21st Century initiative supported by the AHRC and EPSRC. Space - more than the surrounding objects or buildings - seems to demand to be represented not only visually, as it is not only determined by the visible surrounding objects, but also by sound and smell which are literally "in the air", and by an integrated multi-modal body experience which is related to the space itself. Nevertheless, spaces, especially urban spaces in planning processes, are today usually only represented in a visual manner. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and accompanied by a brief biography ofthe author(s). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail raymond.lucas@strath.ac.uk no later than Friday 16th November 2007.
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DESCRIPTIO URBIS i Rom 27-29 mars 2008. Konferensen hoppas på att få fler nordiska forskare med på sessionen Models for a Contemporary City Atlas in the Nordic context eller på någon annan del i konferensen. Abstract senast den 20 november. För vidare information se:
http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis/contenuti.asp?page=Home
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Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS: 'WIDENING HORIZONS IN ACOUSTICS RESEARCH', 10 - 11 April 2008, University of Reading in Salford. In this session we seek to open up a dialogue about soundscapes with the wider acoustics community and to acknowledge the diverse work taking place on soundscapes within a multitude of disciplines across the UK. We invite proposals for papers that present research falling with the broad theme of soundscapes. Theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome from a quantitative, qualitative, scientific or artistic perspective. Papers arising from interdisciplinary projects are especially welcome as are those from a broad range of academic disciplines, practitioners, policy experts, the public sector, architects, planner etc. We encourage papers from researchers at all levels (undergraduate, MSc, PhD, IoA Diploma etc.) and young members in both full and part-time employment are particularly welcome. Short abstracts of approx 100 words should be sent by email to Dr Mags Adams at by 7th December 2007.

Swedish Colour Centre Foundation

2007-11-09T10:43:00.001+01:00

The Swedish Colour Centre Foundation invites you to the AIC 2008 Interim Meeting on COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS to be held at Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Sweden on June 15-18, 2008. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the effects of using colour in interior and exterior design and how colours affect us. The meeting will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange the latest information on the developments in colour science, colour design, and colour psychology. Different aspects of the effect of using colour in interior and exterior design like change of colour impressions depending on distance, light sources, colour combinations and interaction of colours etc. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be submitted via the online form on the web site www.aic2008.org or by e-mail info@aic2008.org at a maximum of two A4-sized pages and a minimum of 500 words. Deadline for submission of abstract: November 15, 2007

The Orpheus Myth in Modern Culture

2007-11-09T10:39:00.000+01:00

CentreCATH at Leeds

The Opera North Centre, Friday 23 November - Sunday 25 November

Over three afternoons, leading speakers from the arts and academic worlds explore the enduring potency of the Orpheus Myth – from Monteverdi’s opera to American tv series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

As well as the discussions the conference will also feature film screenings (including Jean Cocteau’s Orphee and Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus), poetry readings and live performance.

More information

Forthcoming events (cont'd)

2007-10-30T16:32:00.000+01:00

Thanks to Ramia Mazé for passing on the following:

Extrainsatt föreläsning - Mejan Labs

Imorgon onsdag kommer Paula Gaetano (Argentina), Paul Granjon (Frankrike)
och Andy Gracie (Storbritannien) som deltar i utställningen Frankenstein's
Monster att berätta om sina arbeten.

Tid: 31 oktober kl 18.00
Plats: Kungliga Konsthögskolans nya lokaler på Jakobsgatan 27C, våning 4
(IASPIS gamla lokaler i akademibyggnaden).

Vernissage på utställningen Frankenstein's Monster på Mejan Labs,
Akademigränd 3, torsdagen 1 november 17-20.00.

Se mer på www.mejanlabs.se

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From Sara Ljungblad (an ex-colleague of mine)

Welcome to a seminar on my thesis draft "Experience centred Innovation" on the 5th of November, 13.00 at DSV in KIsta, Stockholm. Professor Jonas Löwgren will act as "opponent". I will start the seminar with a brief introduction (20 min), before Jonas Löwgren discusses the draft. After this, everyone will have a chance to provide helpful comments.

Abstract:
How can experiences be used as a resource for innovation in HCI (Human Computer Interaction)? This thesis presents the design philosophy "Experience Centred Innovation" which attempts to capture qualities of experiences and transfer these into innovative designs and forms of interaction for digital artefacts. Innovation is approached in the design process by matching "the design material" with qualities of experiences, studied in a human practice. The practice is referred to as a marginal practice, and is chosen to be relevant for the intended design outcome instead of representing potential users. This is different from a user-centred design process within HCI that focus on intended users as a basis for design. The research is design driven, and builds on several empirical design cases. Experience Centred Innovation contributes with (1) the concept or transferable qualities as a resource for innovation (2) novel design outcomes, and (3) transfer scenarios - design method for capturing and transferring qualities of experiences.

The thesis consist of several articles held together by an introduction (kappa). The "kappa" and six papers are found here:

http://www.viktoria.se/~saral/kappa.html

And...
If you want to come, but don't want to read the whole thing... I would recommend reading the Kappa "Experience Centred Innovation" and Chapter 11 that describes the design method, or chapter 8 that describes how the Lomographic practice informed context photography.

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17-19 December 2007: Emergent Objects: Performing Design
University of Leeds

Call for participants

Emergent Objects: Performing Design will comprise performative
events/installations, workshops and presentations and a
colloquium with academic and practitioner experts in the fields
of interaction design, experience design, product design,
fashion and clothing, robotics, digital and media art,
engineering, architecture and computing.

http://www.emergentobjects.co.uk/

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Call for Abstracts for a Special Issue of Children, Youth and
Environments

Children in Technological Environments: Interaction,
Development, and Design

Children are coming of age in increasingly sophisticated and
pervasive technological environments. They're immersed, for
example, in video gaming, web browsing, and instant messaging.
Many have cell phones and laptop computers. Their avatars
represent them in virtual spaces. They care for digital pets in
a virtual world, and play with embodied robot pets, which move
autonomously through the physical world. These technological
environments have come a long way, fast. It's not just TV
anymore. On the immediate horizon are responsive computational
devices that mimic a social other, such as navigational devices
in cars that speak with a human voice. "Smart homes" of the
future will have interfaces that speak to us and respond to our
actions and conversation. Humanoid robots may well become
nannies for our children, and their tutors and playmates, and -
if we're not careful - their slaves. It seems likely, too, that
inequities will persist in children's access to technology.

http://www.colorado.edu/journals/cye/

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International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2008

2007-10-30T16:24:00.000+01:00

ISEA on Leonardo Electronic Almanac: http://leoalmanac.org/resources/sprojects/ISEA08/
ISEA website: http://isea2008.org/
Submission Link: http://isea2008.org/openconf/openconf.php

Dear friends

This is a gentle reminder that the submission deadline for ISEA2008 call for papers, artists and panel presentations will close on 14 Nov 2007.

International Symposium on Electronic Arts 2008 -ISEA2008 - is seeking both peer- reviewed individual papers and panel presentations. This year we are also encouraging artists who wish to share their works with a broader audience of their peers to submit artist presentations where they can speak about the specific aesthetic, conceptual and technological aspects of their works.

We welcome contributions from creative practitioners and researchers from a variety of disciplines and institutional contexts as media arts benefits from and exemplifies the interdisciplinary linkages between contemporary art, science, technology and their related philosophies, pedagogies and institutional practices. The submissions must address or be of relevance to at least one of the themes of ISEA2008 in order to be considered for inclusion in the conference.
The conference will be of interest to those working in but not limited to the following areas: media art, contemporary art, design, art history and theory, film and media studies, gaming, toy design, human-computer interaction, cultural studies, literary studies, musicology, sound studies, theatre, dance and performance studies, science, technology and society studies, history of science and history of technology, philosophy, history, gender studies, political science, anthropology, sociology and geography.

For more information on the themes and for the submission link, please log on www.isea2008.org

Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine

2007-10-28T11:48:00.000+01:00

Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine conference Wednesday, April 23 to Friday, April 25, 2008 at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine in Iowa City. I am writing to share the 2008 call for presentations. Potential presenters may submit up to two proposals here:

https://survey.uiowa.edu/wsb.dll/37/call-for-presentation-2008.htm

Proposals are due by Monday, December 3, 2007.
Keynote presenters confirmed to date are poet Marvin Bell, MFA and novelist Daniel Mason, MD. Registration, housing, and CME information will be posted soon.

Margaret LeMay-Lewis, MFA
Writing Program Coordinator
Office of Student Affairs and Curriculum
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
1193 MERF
Iowa City, IA 52242
margaret-lemay-lewis@uiowa.edu
319 335 8051

Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture

2007-10-28T11:29:00.000+01:00

Telling Places

Research Spaces IV, 4/5 December, 2007
Bartlett/Slade Annual PhD Conference

Woburn Studios, University College London, UK

The annual PhD research conference Research Spaces, has been running since 2004, affording post-graduates at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and the Slade School of Fine Art, the opportunity to examine research activities across disciplines. The event has continued to be a success, attracting contributions from the UK, Europe and North America, from practicing architects and artists, academics and research students.

The 2007 Research Spaces Conference – Telling Places: Narrative and Identity in Art and Architecture asks for contributions on new practices, theories and critiques of narrative and identity.

In a globalised context, conditioned by mass migrations of peoples – across national and ethnic boundaries, and from dispersed rural environments to dense urban centres – the idea that art and architecture can convey stable representations and values has come undone. At the same time, practices of place making are no longer considered the domain of the professional, nor as an inherent/given act, but as an ongoing, repeated, negotiated and contested process.

If the ‘place’ of art and architecture is already filled, and by competing stories, what else is to be told? What new responsibilities does this telling imply?

Over two days, the Telling Places conference will consider place as a space loaded with ‘familiar’ significance, whether this be personal or collective. We are interested in the objects, the artifacts, the means, the processes that narrate the creation of such places, as well as those that challenge, question or negate such places.

A selection of full papers will be published in the new interdisciplinary design journal Multi: The Journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design

Papers are invited that respond to, challenge and extend the following questions:

1) Places that Tell:
How do buildings, artefacts, models, or stories, contribute to the formation of cultural identity?
To what extent can culturally and ethnically specific representations be considered political?
To what extent are the limits of such representations set by the work (the object, the site), or set by the audience?
How, and what, does the non-representational object, or building, narrate?

2) Meeting Places:
Has a new ‘narrative of place’, challenged the boundaries between art and architecture?
What are the implications, for the relationship between art and architecture, of such narratives?

3) Telling of Places:
If narrative cannot be treated as ‘neutral’, what is its role in the examination of the history of art and design?
To what extent, and in what ways, does the historian, or critic, contribute to the construction/production of place?
In what ways does narrative affect ownership of the work?

4) Hidden Places:
To what degree can the artist or designer reveal the process of production, in the work itself?
Can practice be considered an act of identification?
To what extent is practice an ‘uncovering’, ‘unmasking’, ‘revealing’, or a ‘making known’, that which had been ‘guessed’, ‘assumed’, ‘hidden’, or even ‘secret’?
What models, technologies, procedures, and dialogues have been developed to ‘reveal’, and how are these limited (do they ‘hide’ as well?)?
What are the aesthetics, and ethics, of the ‘disguised’ work?

Guidelines for submission of paper abstracts: 
Deadline 22nd October, 2007 – all respondents will here from the organising committee by 29th October 2007.

Abstracts 500 words for
10 page papers (approximately 20 minute presentations) 
Abstracts must include title, but no author  

All Proposals to include a cover letter with:  
1)    title
2)    name and address 
3)    phone number
4)    email address 
5)    college affiliation (if any)

To:
info@tellingplaces.co.uk or ucftnbe@ucl.ac.uk

Telling Places
c/o Nick Beech
Wates House, 
22 Gordon Street,
London WC1H 0QB

Telling Places regrets that it cannot contribute towards the cost of travel or accommodation, please state if you require any information regarding these matters.

Pavilion Politics

2007-10-26T07:30:00.001+02:00

Park Nights at the Serpentine together with Curating Architecture:

Pavilion Politics
Friday 2 November
7-9 pm
An evening discussion on the multiple and contradictory roles pavilions
play at the intersection of art and architecture. This event will
investigate the ways in which such temporary spaces orchestrate current
politics of value and event culture, experimentation, philanthropy and
institutional profiling.

Speakers:
Momoyo Kaijima (architect, Atelier Bow Wow)
Nikolaus Hirsch (architect, European Kunsthalle, unitednationsplaza)
Celine Condorelli (architect, Support Structure)

Chair:
Andrea Phillips (Director, Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths)

www.gold.ac.uk/visual-arts/curating-architecture

TANKENS TEKNOLOGISERING – HEIDEGGER OM TECHNE

2007-10-22T20:07:00.000+02:00

Välkommen till höstens åttonde seminarium i serien KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR,
TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP

Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"

Tid: Torsdag 25 oktober 2007, kl. 12-14 (Obs tiden!)
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och
kommunikation, KTH

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Föredragshållare: Hans Ruin (Filosofi, Södertörns högskola)

Titel: TANKENS TEKNOLOGISERING – HEIDEGGER OM TECHNE

Skriv ett mail om du vill få våra löpande inbjudningar.
Mer information om höstens seminarier finns på:
http://www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/k-sem/k-sem-aktuell/

Footprint: a new academic journal published by the Delft School of Design

2007-10-22T19:58:00.000+02:00

Footprint is a new academic journal published by the Delft School of Design presenting research regarding architecture and the urban. Architecture and urbanism are the points of departure and the core interests of the journal. From this perspective, the journal encourages the study of architecture and the urban environment as a means of comprehending culture and society, and as a tool for relating them to shifting ideological doctrines and philosophical ideas. The journal promotes the creation and development – or revision - of conceptual frameworks and methods of inquiry. It is engaged in creating a body of critical and reflexive texts with a breadth and depth of thought which would enrich the architecture discipline and produce new knowledge, conceptual methodologies and original understandings.

The inaugural issue of Footprint aims at understanding today’s architecture culture as a negotiation between two antithetical definitions of architecture’s identity. The belief in the disciplinary singularity of architectural objects, irreducible to the conditions of their production, is confronted - in discourse and design - with the perception of architecture as an interdisciplinary mediation between multiple political, economic, social, technological and cultural factors. With the concept of trans-disciplinarity, the negotiation between these two positions is investigated here as an engine of the ‘tradition of the present’ of contemporary architecture - the discourses and designs which emerged in the 1960s and defined orientation points for today’s architectural thought and practice. The issue includes articles by Wouter Davidts, K. Michael Hays, Patrick Healy, Mark Jarzombek, Ákos Moravánszky and Jean-Louis Violeau.

Footprint offers online free PDF downloads [pending –free- registration] or the purchase of hard-copies. It is also a submission-based journal, so please check regularly our calls for papers. For downloading PDFs, for purchasing hard-copies and for calls for papers, please see our website www.footprintjournal.org

Autumn research activities/KTH and elsewhere

2007-10-18T16:53:00.000+02:00

SEMINARIER/ SEMINARIES
KOMMUNIKATION: KULTUR, TEKNOLOGI, VETENSKAP
Temat för HT 2007 är "Kulturteknologier och teknikkulturer"
Tid: torsdagen den 18 oktober 2007, kl. 14-16
Plats: Torget, Lindstedtsvägen 5, plan 6, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation, KTH
Föredragshållare: Pelle Snickars (Statens ljud- och bildarkiv)

Titel: DET KONVERGERANDE ARKIVET
Abstract: Det har hävdats att den mediearkivariska rörelsen från analogt till digitalt fundamentalt kommer att förändra förståelsen av "arkivet", det vill säga den instans som reglerar vad samhället väljer att minnas. I det digitala arkivet är bevarande inte längre en självklar arkivarisk grundprincip, lika gärna kan man tala om överföring som en metafor för arkivverksamheten. Därtill håller skillnaderna mellan de olika medieformerna på att försvinna; begreppet mediespecificitet börjar bli musealt. På webben är alla medier grå, eller rättare sagt, på webben finns vid närmare betraktande inga medier alls, bara filer med matematiskt kodad information. I takt med att 1900-talets specifika medieformer konvergerar ersätts de av yteffekter av algoritmer, det vill säga av olika slags programmerat innehåll bestående av text, ljud och (rörlig) bild. I allt detta befinner sig ett antal kulturarvsinstitutioner som varken vet ut eller in. Om detta, det nya digitala kulturarvet, och den konvergerande ABM-sektorn handlar Pelle Snickars föredrag.
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ESRC Research Seminary on Friday 19th October 2007. RETHINKING THE URBAN EXPERIENCE: the sensory production of place Seminar Three: SENSES AND INFRASTRUCTURE The Smells, Sights, Sounds, Textures and Tastes of Socio- Technical Transitions: An Exploratory Workshop. The third seminar in the series focuses on the relations between senses and the socio-technical infrastructure of everyday life. What if we re-designed infrastructure for all of our senses? Given the pressure to develop systemic transitions in the social and technical organisation of energy, water, waste, and transport infrastructures in response to climate change and resource constraint there is a need to raise the "visibility" of networks to users. Suppose for a moment that taste, sound, touch, and odour were treated as the equals of sight. What would our infrastructure be like if sensory response, sentiment, and memory were critical design factors, the equals of structure and function? There are still a number of places available for the third seminar 'Senses and Infrastructure' in the ESRC funded research seminar series 'Rethinking the urban experience: the sensory production of place'. Further details can be found at http://www.sensescapes.co.uk/ or download a booking form http://www.surf.salford.ac.uk/documents/SenseCity/Booking_Form_Sense.pdf
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Tidskriften i&m och Mångkulturellt centrum inbjuder till ett heldagsseminarium: MITT HEM MIN BORG, seminarium 24 oktober kl 9.00-16.00 på Fittja gård, En dag om boende, stadsplanering och delaktighet. Miljonprogrammens nödvändiga upprustning öppnar möjligheter - tar vi dem tillvara? Hur långt bär stadsplanerares och arkitekters visioner och erfarenheter och är de boende delaktiga på allvar? Handlar det bara om förorterna eller behövs det en helt ny syn på staden som helhet? Arkitekter, forskare, samhällsplanerare och politiker diskuterar de möjligheter som miljonprogrammens nödvändiga upprustning ger. Utgångspunkten är bland annat erfarenheter från storstadsarbete och områdesutveckling landet runt. Seminariet tar upp såväl teori som praktik och för debatten vidare. Anmälan senast den 19 oktober på www.iochm.com eller på www.mkc.botkyrka.se eller per telefon på 08-531 757 60.
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ARCHITECTURE & DOCUMENTARY PRACTICE: WRITING, IMAGING AND PERFORMANCE. Tuesday, 27th November 2007, 10-6 PM, the Bartlett School of Architecture, RSVP to: Architectural.Research@ucl.ac.uk ARCHITECTURE &: is a termly interdisciplinary seminar initierad by Prof. Jane Rendell providing opportunities for researchers within the Bartlett School of Architecture to initiate reseach conversations at various interdisciplinary crossings. In the third of the series we bring together editors, architects, artists and theorists of architecture and performance studies to discuss current issues in the field of documentary practice.

SYMPOSIER/ SYMPOSIA
The Arts Catalyst, the British Library and the Open University present POLAR: FIELDWORK & ARCHIVE FEVER. An interdisciplinary symposium on Monday 19 & Tuesday 20 November 2007, British Library Conference Centre, St Pancras, 96 Euston Road, London NW1. To register contact Kathryn Yusoff, Open University K.Yusoff@exeter.ac.uk. POLAR: FIELDWORK AND ARCHIVE FEVER is an interdisciplinary symposium focusing on the curation and production of climate change knowledge in the polar regions. It brings together scientists, writers, artists, historians and social scientists with interests in knowledge about the polar landscape and its broader implications for global climate and society. Polar regions are both exceptional to and considered representative of the developments in global climate change and climate change science. Given the important claims and policy decisions based on the polar archive, it is timely to consider the way in which our knowledge of this archive has been produced. Historically, control of polar archives and landscapes has gone hand in hand. Recent work suggests that this archive and the landscapes represented therein could be structured and interpreted in alternative ways. This might give rise to alternative visions and uses of polar landscapes and their connection to a wider global picture. The symposium is organised by the Open University in association with the British Library and The Arts Catalyst with international partners as part of a wider multi-disciplinary project exploring cultural and scientific issues surrounding climate change in the context of the International Polar Year (2007-08). Symposium web-site: http://www.artscatalyst.org/polararchives.html
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ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION NORDIC SYMPOSIUM in Stockholm October 16-17, 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS. Throughout the history, design competition has been deployed as a reliable and acquiescent system for assuring quality and as an efficient instrument for evaluation of the best design solutions. Nordic countries are enjoying over hundred years of tradition in organizing architectural competition for selection of the best design practices. Every year, about 100 architectural and urban design competitions take place in the Nordic countries. The competition system is a recognized endeavour in the Nordic countries to elevating qualities and minimizing uncertainties in architectural design. It is also used to give partaking opportunity to talented architects to express their visions, to demonstrate their professional skills and to be rewarded, admired and endorsed publicly. Competing in architecture has also gained new relevance in Europe through the EU's Directive 2004/18/EG. Nowadays, the competition appears as a means to acquire new ideas and good design solutions for the whole of Europe. Architectural competition is also becoming a promoting method of architectural services in European market. According to the EU Directive of 2004/18/EG, public organizers of competitions are obliged to announce their competitions in public. Structure: The Symposium will be held in Stockholm. It is organized in cooperation between NoEND, NA (Nordic Association of Architectural Research) and the architect unions in the Nordic Countries. Abstracts and Themes: You are welcome to submit your Abstract before December 1, 2007. Abstracts can be written in English, Danish, Norwegian or Swedish with maximum 400 words. The workshops cover the whole architect¬ural competition process; from programme, evaluation, selection, and ranking of the entries up to the appointment of the winner. For further information and early registration, please contact the Organizing Secretariat. Papers and Abstracts can be sent via e-mail attachment to Ms. Charlotte Svensson: charlottes@arch.kth.se
KONFERENSER/ CONFERENCES
INSTITUTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF SUFFERING - An international conference in Stockholm 8-11 november. A meeting between scholars and practitioners around the idea of social suffering and its institutional transformations. The Humanities and the Social sciences have a long tradition of dealing with human suffering, trying to understand how subjective experiences of individuals and collectives are connected with social conditions which cause or aggravate suffering. The aim of this conference is to deepen our understanding of social suffering by focusing on attitudes to suffering within different institutions and professional practices, such as medical care, psychiatry, migration politics and legal system. Keynote speakers: Professor Jeanne Gaaker, Dept of Law, Erasmus University, Professor Arthur Kleinman, Dept. of Social Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor Iain Wilkinson, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent at Canterbury. Participation in the conference is free. If you are interested, please mail before 27/10: jakob.nilsson@mail.film.su.se Further information about the conference including preliminary programme is availaible on the conference website: www.nada.kth.se/media/Research/Transformations_of_suffering
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The Swedish Colour Centre Foundation invites you to the AIC 2008 Interim Meeting on COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS to be held at Hasselbacken, Stockholm, Sweden on June 15-18, 2008. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the effects of using colour in interior and exterior design and how colours affect us. The meeting will bring together experts from all over the world to exchange the latest information on the developments in colour science, colour design, and colour psychology. The conference will cover a wide range of topics related to the theme COLOUR - EFFECTS & AFFECTS. Different aspects of the effect of using colour in interior and exterior design like change of colour impressions depending on distance, light sources, colour combinations and interaction of colours etc. Different aspects of how colours affect us like colour psychology, colour meaning, colour associations, and colour emotions. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be submitted via the online form on the web site www.aic2008.org or by e-mail info@aic2008.org at a maximum of two A4-sized pages and a minimum of 500 words. Deadline for submission of abstract: November 1, 2007
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SENSORY URBANISM An Interdisciplinary Two Day Conference: Departments of Architecture & Building Science / DMEM, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow on Tuesday 8th - Wednesday 9th January 2008 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite scholars and practitioners to submit papers for the SENSORY URBANISM, organised by the Multimodal Representation of Urban Space research group, a Design for the 21st Century initiative supported by the AHRC and EPSRC. Submitted papers will be reviewed by a committee comprising the research group and advisory board. Representing space is not only a long-standing challenge to the arts but is also a major task in the planning process for buildings, cities, and many other products. This particularly applies to the "Urban Renaissance" of our days with its emphasis on public places. Space - more than the surrounding objects or buildings - seems to demand to be represented not only visually, as it is not only determined by the visible surrounding objects, but also by sound and smell which are literally "in the air", and by an integrated multi-modal body experience which is related to the space itself. Nevertheless, spaces, especially urban spaces in planning processes, are today usually only represented in a visual manner. CALL FOR PAPERS: Abstracts should be no more than 300 words, and accompanied by a brief biography ofthe author(s). Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to Raymond Lucas no later than Friday 16th November 2007. For further information, please contact: raymond.lucas@strath.ac.uk
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DESCRIPTIO URBIS i Rom 27-29 mars 2008. Konferensen hoppas på att få fler nordiska forskare med på sessionen Models for a Contemporary City Atlas in the Nordic context eller på någon annan del i konferensen. Abstract senast den 20 november. För vidare information se:
http://host.uniroma3.it/centri/croma/descriptiourbis/contenuti.asp?page=Home
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ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES. THEORIES, METHODS AND STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY NORDIC ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH /Teorier, metoder och strategier i nutida nordisk arkitekturforskning/ NORDIC-BALTIC CONFERENCE April 24-26, 2008, in Göteborg, Sweden, arranged by The Nordic Association of Architectural Research, The Nordic Architectural Academy, The Swedish Research Council Formas, The Association of Swedish Architects and Chalmers Architecture. Architectural research, including landscape architecture, urban design & development and interior architecture, is an expanding field with high relevance for urgent issues in contemporary society and environment. At the same time it is fragmented into small research units and often transgresses conventional categorization for funding, which can be problematic. New design-based investigation methods merge with influences from other research areas and demonstrate large potentials but have difficulties to obtain scientific legitimacy. We invite Nordic and Baltic architectural researchers and PhD-students to discuss theories, methods and strategies in contemporary architectural research through the six interconnecting themes listed below. Conference language will be English as well as Nordic languages. CALL FOR ABSTRACTS, maximum 300 words, on the following themes: 1. Lack of theory or new theoretical frameworks 2. History and historiography: Is there a Nordic architectural research? 3. Practice relevance versus peer-review publications 4. Integrating design-based methodology 5. New technologies: impact on research problems and methodology 6. Urban research between social sciences and design. Deadline for abstracts: 10 December 2007.Conference e-mail: a-inquiries@chalmers.se Conference website: in progress. Links: www.arkitekturforskning.net or www.chalmers.se/arch/SV Questions: dyrssen@chalmers.se, caldenby@chalmers.se, fredrik@chalmers.se, lena@arch.kth.se Arranged by: Department of Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Göteborg

JOURNAL CONTRIBUTIONS
FUTURE ANTERIOR is a peer reviewed (refereed) journal published by the UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS. It approaches the field of historic preservation from a position of critical inquiry. A comparatively recent field of professional study, preservation often escapes direct academic challenges of its motives, goals, forms of practice and results. CALL FOR PAPERS: FUTURE ANTERIOR seeks contributions that ask these difficult questions from philosophical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. We welcome articles on all topics relevant to historic preservation. Submissions for the Winter 2008 issue must be received no later than January 7, 2008. Articles should be no more than 5000 words, with up to seven illustrations. Text must be formatted in accordance with the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th Edition. All articles must be submitted in English, and spelling should follow American convention. All submissions must be submitted electronically, on a CD or disk, accompanied by three hard copies of text and images. Text should be saved as Microsoft Word or RTF format, while accompanying images should be sent as TIFF files with a resolution of at least 300 dpi at 8by 9print size. Figures should be numbered clearly in the text. Image captions and credits must be included with submissions. It is the responsibility of the author to secure permissions for image use and pay any reproduction fees. A brief author biography (around 100 words) must accompany the text. FUTURE ANTERIOR also welcomes shorter articles of less than 2500 words and five illustrations for publication outside of the peer review process. The same submission requirements apply to these articles. Acceptance or rejection of submissions is at the discretion of the editors. Please do not send original materials, as submissions will not be returned. Please mail all submissions to: FUTURE ANTERIOR, 400 Avery Hall, Graduate Program in Historic Preservation, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. Questions about submissions can be mailed to: futureanterior@columbia.edu

DOKTORANDKURSER
Under läsåret planeras den obligatoriska kursen ARKITEKTURENS BEGREPP OCH TEORIER, 7,5 högskolepoäng, under förutsättning att det finns tillräckligt många doktorander för att skapa en seminariegrupp. Kursen består av orienteringar och nedslag i arkitekturens teorihistoria ur aktuella, tematiska och begreppsliga perspektiv. Den är obligatorisk för doktorander i arkitektur och arkitekturhistoria. Kursen omfattar ca tio seminarier, med ett inledande seminarium som åtföljs av ytterligare seminarier under hösten 07 och våren 08. Vid dessa diskuteras en eller flera gemensamt lästa texter. Dessutom ingår för varje deltagare en särskild redovisningsuppgift. Kursen ges av professor Johan Mårtelius, Arkitekturhistoria. Doktorander från arkitekturskolorna vid Chalmers och LTH samt från konstvetenskap och ev. angränsande ämnen är välkomna. Kontakta eller sänd en intresseanmälan till Lena Villner: 08-790 9167, lena@arch.kth.se Se medföljande PDF!
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KURS I FORSKNINGSMETODIK: Tanken är att kursen ska gå att läsa på distans. Den kommer innehålla introducerande moment i de olika forskningsmetodologiska traditioner som arkitekturforskningen lutar sig mot, samt ett individuellt fördjupningsarbete som redovisas i form av ett paper. Tanken är att detta paper ska jobbas fram för det symposium som Nordisk Arkitekturforskning anordnar i Göteborg den 24-27 april 2008. Undervisningsformen är en blandning av föreläsningar med workshop och seminariediskussion. Omfattningen är 7,5 högskolepoäng (dvs 5 'gamla' poäng)
Förslag på upplägg och datum:
- Kursstart 1 november 10-17 Vetenskaplig publiceringspraxis abstract, konferenspaper, artikel, sammanläggningsavhandling. Informationssökning/arkivbesök.(KG)
- Workshop kring abstract inför NA-symposium 29 November (inte KG!)
- Vecka 10 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag (5-6mars)
- Vecka 11 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag (12-13 mars)
- Vecka 12-13 egen skrivtid strukturerad handledning per distans eller genom gruppmöten med handledare och doktorandkolleger.
- Vecka 15 heldagsseminarium/workshop onsdag, torsdag presentation och genomgång av papers (9-10 april)
Kontakta eller sänd en intresseanmälan till Katja Grillner: 08-790 8769, katja@arch.kth.se Se medföljande PDF!

PROVFÖRELÄSNINGAR
Föreläsningarna är öppna för alla intresserade förutom de övriga sökande till respektive utlysning (även de som inte kallats till provföreläsning). Information: brodersen@arch.kth.se
PROFESSUREN I ARKITEKTUR - GESTALTNINGSPROCESSEN
Tid: 22 oktober kl 8.00-10.40
Plats: Sal A5
Ämne: Om gestaltningsprocessen
Föredragshållare: kl 8.00 Ulrika Karlsson, kl 8.40 Tor Lindstrand, kl 9.20 Camilla Schlyter, kl 10.00 Anders Wilhelmson

PROFESSUREN I ARKITEKTUR - AVANCERAD GESTALTNING
Tid: 24 oktober kl 15.00-17.00
Plats: Sal A5
Ämne: On advanced architectural design
Föredragshållare: (turordning ej fastställd) Anders Wilhelmson, Johan Celsing, Helena Paver Njiric

STIPENDIER
Konstakademien utlyser följande stipendium: HJALMAR WICANDERS FOND sökes senast den 31 oktober. För "främjande av de bildande konsterna genom direkt beställning av eller genom bidrag till åstadkommande av verk av monumental eller dekorativ art i samband med någon staten icke tillhörande offentlig byggnad eller anläggning". För mer information se www.konstakademien.se
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STOCKHOLMS BYGGNADSFÖRENINGS STIFTELSE FÖR DOKTORANDSTIPENDIET skall inges till Stockholms Byggnadsförening senast 31 december. Föreningens kansli tillhandahåller ansökningsblanketter. Stiftelsen är bildad 1989 genom medel som tillskjutits av Stockholms Byggnadsförening och enskilda medlemmar. Ändamål: Stiftelsen skall ekonomiskt understödja forskning och utbildning som till allmänt gagn främjar utvecklingen inom byggnadsbranschen. Stipendier som utdelas ur stiftelsen skall bereda forskare - doktorander - vid Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), och då i första hand vid sektionerna S(Samhällsbyggnads), A(Arkitektur) möjlighet att under åtminstone ett halvt år bedriva forskning och studier vid annan europeisk högskola eller universitet. Ansökan skall åtföljas av uppgifter om sökandens namn, ålder och adress, nuvarande forskningsverksamhet och redogörelse med tidplan och budget för ändamålet med stipendiet ävensom eventuella referenser. Stipendiat skall vara medborgare i något av den ordiska länderna. För mer information se www.sthbyggnadsforening.se/stipendier/doktorand.html
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SVENSKA INSTITUTET I ROM-STIPENDIET är avsett för arkitekt som utexaminerats från teknisk högskola (eller med motsvarande kvalifikationer) och ämnar bedriva arkitektstudier i Rom. Studierna i Rom kan inriktas på arkitekturhistorisk, konstvetenskaplig eller restaurerings¬teknisk fördjupning, men också gälla aktuella byggnadsfrågor och miljöstudier. Vid utseende av stipendiat tillmäts särskild betydelse dels vilken relevans ett stipendium vid institutet har för den sökandes studier eller forskning, dels graden av relevanta förkunskaper. Stipendiebeloppet är på 70.000 kr för 6-8 månaders vistelse i Rom och ökas med 1000 kr för varje ytterligare vecka upp till högst 75.000 kr. Stipendiaten får under vistelsen i Rom disponera bostad på Institutet. Ansökan ställs till Institutets kontor i Stockholm, och skall vara inkommen i mitten av januari. Till ansökan skall bifogas styrkta kopior av merithandlingar, detaljerad forsknings- eller studieplan för stipendietiden, färdigställda delar av avhandling (ej arkitekt) och i förekommande fall intyg från handledaren. För mer information se www.isvroma.org/svenska/stipendier.html

FILMVISNINGAR
5 filmvisningar under hösten kommer att visas i Nedre Ateljén. Visningarna är en del av undervisningen i ÅK 3 men samtidigt öppet för hela skolan.
* Brazil av Terry Gilliam (The final cut), (1985)
Tid: 17:00 onsdag 2007-10-24
* Blade Runner av Ridley Scott (directors cut) (1991)
Tid: 17:00 torsdag 2007-11-01
* The Fifth element av Luc Besson (1997)
Tid: 17:00 fredag 2007-11-09

THURSDAY CLUB OPEN CALL

2007-06-07T14:22:00.000+02:00

OPEN CALL FOR PROJECTS & PROPOSALS

The Thursday Club is an open forum discussion group for anyone interested in the theories and practices of cross-disciplinarity, interactivity, technologies and philosophies of the state-of-the-art in today’s (and tomorrow’s) cultural landscape(s). The Club is supported by the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (GDS) and the Goldsmiths Graduate School.

Originally set up in October 2005 by GDS as a more informal setting for research discussions, it has grown to include over 150 members, artists, technologists, scientists, in fact, a growing diversity of people from different communities worldwide, that are now connected via a mailing list and online forum.

There are also regular meetings in ‘real' space at the Ben Pimlott site of Goldsmiths, University of London. Anyone can attend these events. By keeping these meetings free, informal and open to all, we provide a platform for diverse and open ended discourse, for people who perhaps would not have the opportunity to discuss ideas outside of their chosen discipline.

The Thursday Club brings together people from diverse fields and degrees of expertise, aiming to initiate discussion and debates among postgraduate students, researchers, academics, artists, theorists, and other cultural practitioners.

Since it focuses on interdisciplinary practices, the Club is interested to experiment with innovative formats of presentation that are appropriate to the nature of the subject. We particularly welcome the proposal of round table discussions, panels, screenings, 'hearings', live gigs and performance lectures as well as more traditional presentations. We are also interested to platform experimental work-in-progress, of both practical and theoretical nature.

Submission Materials

1. An A4 size page with your proposal (about 500 words); any relevant links; 1-2 pictures if relevant.

2. A 200 words CV

3. Your contact details: name, address, email and telephone number

4. Selected additional audiovisual information (e.g. audio and video files) preferably as a link.

Please send any submissions by email to Maria X at writing 'Thursday Club Submission' as a Subject.

The deadline for the submission of proposals is 29 JULY 2007. The submissions will be reviewed by the Thursday Club Board.

THURSDAY CLUB BOARD

Miguel Andres-Clavera
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Member of Social Technology and Cultural Interfaces Research Group.

Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka Maria X], Thursday Club Coordinator
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Sessional Lecturer Birkbeck FCE; Curator.

Bronac Ferran
Director of boundaryobject.org; Member of DCMS Research and KT taskgroup; Director of Interdisciplinary Arts at Arts Council England until March 2007.

Prof. Janis Jefferies, Thursday Club Convener
Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Computing, Goldsmiths;
Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Director Constance Howard Resource and Research Centre in Textiles; Curator; Artist.

Dr Sarah Kember
Reader in New Technologies of Communication, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths College; Writer.

Michela Magas
PhD Candidate Goldsmiths Digital Studios; Co-director Stromatolite Design Studio.

Prof. Carrie Paechter
Professor of Educational Studies, Goldsmiths College; Dean of the Goldsmiths Graduate School.

Prof. Robert Zimmer
Professor of Computing, Goldsmiths College; Co-director Goldsmiths Digital Studios.

Writing Purposefully in Art and Design

2007-06-04T15:49:00.000+02:00

Writing PAD Project (Writing Purposefully in Art and Design) led by Goldsmiths University of London with over 40 other UK A&D institutions. The project is now developing an international following with the launch of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, published by Intellect.

Writing PAD offers UK art and design institutions an arena in which to explore and develop the notion of ‘thinking through writing’ as a parallel to visual discourse in art and design practice. Writing PAD has not only brought together tutors from across the disciplines, but also from across roles: i.e. studio staff, theory staff, learning support, and learning and teaching (L&T) coordinators.

Check out: www.writing-pad.ac.uk and www.writing-pad.org

Learning from Experience

2007-05-10T09:47:00.000+02:00

Required reading for forthcoming workshop on practice-based research:

"Learning from Experience: approaches to the experiential component of
practice-based research" by Michael A R Biggs

Available here:

http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/tvad/mb/2004a.pdf

Rhetoric resources

2007-05-09T11:08:00.000+02:00

Virtual Salt: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm

Rhetoric and composition
http://rhetoric.eserver.org/

Silva rhetoricae
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm

Course reading list

2007-05-09T10:04:00.000+02:00

Reading list:

i) Highly recommended
Hill, Jonathan & Rendell, Jane Critical Architecture (London: Routledge, 2007)
Laurel, Brenda (ed.): Design Research: Methods and Perspectives (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003)
Nelson, Robert S. and Shiff, Richard (eds.) Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition (1996, 2003).
Sullivan, Graeme: Art Practice as Research. Inquiry in the Visual Arts. London: Sage, 2005
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: Philosophical Investigations tr. by G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995)
Zwicky, Jan Wisdom and Metaphor (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2003)

Web resources:
Course blogs:
Art and Design Research Methodologies: http://adrm.blogspot.com/
The End of Me (useful for discussions on ‘originality’): http://endofmeblog.blogspot.com/
Experience Design: http://www.interdisciplinaryresearch.blogspot.com/
Experience Design: www.designtime.se

Other:
Centre for Research into Practice (Faculty of Art and Design , University of Hertfordshire , UK):
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/cr2p/index.htm
AKAD (Academy for Practice-Based Research in Architecture and Design): http://www.akad.se/

ii) Recommended
Butler, Judith, ‘Giving an account of oneself’, Diacritics, Winter 2001, 31, 4, 22-40.
Diderot, Denis: Rameau’s Nephew (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books)
Dolar, Mladen: A Voice and Nothing More (Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, UK: MIT Press, 2006).
Frayling, Christopher. Research in art and design. Royal College of Art Research Papers. Vol.1. No.1. London: Royal College of Art, 1993.
Grillner, Katja et al (eds) 01.AKAD - Experimental research in architecture and design – Beginnings. (Stockholm: AKAD/AXL Books, 2005).
Göranzon, Bo, Hammarén, Maria and Ennals, Richard (eds) Dialogue, Skill and Tacit Knowledge (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, 2006)
Hughes, Francesca (ed.) The Architect Reconstructing Her Practice (Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998)
Hughes, Rolf and Monk, Jon (eds). Hybrid Thought (Milton Keynes: Department of Telematics, Faculty of Technology, Open University, 2003)
Klein, Julie Thompson Interdisciplinarity: History, Theory, Practice (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990).
Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark Metaphors We Live By (London and Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980).
Lyotard, Jean-Francois: The Postmodern Condition: a Report of Knowledge. Minneapolis 1993.
Margolin, Victor (ed.) Design Discourse: History, Theory, Criticism (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Nordenstam, Tore Exemplets makt (Stockholm: Dialoger, 2005). In Swedish only.
Schön, Donald The Reflective Practitioner (NY: Basic Books, 1983)
Tillberg, Peter (ed): Dialoger: om yrkeskunnande och teknologi (Stockholm: Dialoger, 2002). In Swedish only.
Wilde, Oscar: The Critic as Artist (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 2006)
Wittgenstein, Ludwig: On Certainty tr. by G. E. M. Anscombe (Oxford: Blackwell, 1979).
Zwicky, Jan Wisdom and Metaphor (Kentville: Gaspereau Press, 2003)

Research skills and writing essays in art and design

2007-04-09T11:10:00.000+02:00

Monash University has useful and extensive online resources for researching and, especially, essay writing in art and design:

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/writing/artdesign/index.xml

Challenges for Design Research

2006-12-02T12:56:00.000+01:00

Professionally our methods of transmitting and reviewing the results of research are generations old and by now are totally inadequate for their purpose. If the aggregate time spent in writing scholarly works and in reading them could be evaluated, the ratio between these amounts of time might well be startling. Those who conscientiously attempt to keep abreast of current thought, even in restricted fields, by close and continuous reading might well shy away from an examination calculated to show how much of the previous month's efforts could be produced on call. Mendel's concept of the laws of genetics was lost to the world for a generation because his publication did not reach the few who were capable of grasping and extending it; and this sort of catastrophe is undoubtedly being repeated all about us, as truly significant attainments become lost in the mass of the inconsequential.

The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day interests, but rather that publication has been extended far beyond our present ability to make real use of the record. The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, and the means we use for threading through the consequent maze to the momentarily important item is the same as was used in the days of square-rigged ships.

But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use...

Vannevar Bush, As we May Think (1945)

As We May Think

gatescherrywolmark web site

2006-11-22T16:34:00.000+01:00

"...as the boundries between practices and processes begin to break down, the work increasingly finds itself in an unfamiliar 'elsewhere' a 'placeless place' that is appropriately hybrid, plural and impure..."

gatescherrywolmark

San Francisco Art Institute

2006-11-20T13:48:00.000+01:00

An interdisciplinary and transnational approach to education in art and culture, students at SFAI are taught based on the fundamental understanding that the contexts in which we live, create, and work are intrinsically global and therefore inextricably linked.

SFAI

Minds, Bodies, Machines

2006-11-20T13:37:00.000+01:00

Call for Papers: Minds, Bodies, Machines

This interdisciplinary conference, convened by Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of London, in partnership with the Department of English, University of Melbourne, and software developers Constraint Technologies International (CTI), will take place on 6-7 July 2007 at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury.

The two-day conference will explore the relationship between minds, bodies and machines in the long nineteenth century. Recent research on the Enlightenment’s frontier technologies has established that era’s preoccupation with developing machinery that could simulate the cognitive and physiological processes of human beings. According to some critics, however, these Promethean ambitions were shelved during the nineteenth century, when the android as artefact was relocated to the realm of the imagination, where it became a threatening figure. According to this reading, the android as scientific project and a figure of possibility only re-emerges in our own era. The aim of this conference is to test this claim by exploring the continuities and discontinuities in the imagining of the human/machine interface in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.

The conference organisers – Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck), Deirdre Coleman (Melbourne) and Paul Hyland (CTI) – invite proposals for papers that examine the intersection of minds, bodies and machines during the long nineteenth century. Topics include: the virtual and the real; technologies of the sublime; evolution and machines; techniques of communication; technologies of travel; medical technology; miniaturisation; self-reproduction; and spiritualism.

The conference programme will include plenary addresses, seminars and workshops. Confirmed speakers include: Dr Caroline Arscott, Professor Jay Clayton, Professor Steven Connor, Professor Iain McCalman, Professor Peter Otto, Professor Kevin Warwick and Dr Elizabeth Wilson.

A selection of papers arising from this conference will be published in the online journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Abstracts for papers of 20 minutes, as well as details of expected audio-visual needs, should be submitted no later than 28 FEBRUARY 2007. Please send proposals by email to submissions@mindsbodiesmachines.org.

http://www.mindsbodiesmachines.org/conferences.html

Design Inquiries

2006-11-07T10:02:00.000+01:00

Nordic Design Research (NORDES) Call For Papers!
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2007

Design Inquiries

How can we understand the impact of design for people, companies and society?
How can we provide design practice with appropriate and inspiring knowledge?
How can we use critical design thinking to create new possibilities for the future?

The Nordic Design Research Conference 2007, Design Inquiries, invites contributions that present new critical, empirical and constructive knowledge about design processes and artefacts in use.

Design is understood as a family of practices creating new products, systems and environments. The family resemblance is based on the skilful handling of complex demands, restrictions and technologies to fit different cultural contexts by use of intuitive and heuristic methods as stepping-stones to innovative solutions.

The conference welcomes contributions from different kinds of inquiries as both papers and project presentations. The range includes, but is not restricted to:

Inquiries about Design - studies of design processes, artefacts and design as phenomena utilizing theories and methods from disciplines such as Sociology, History, Philosophy and Management.
Inquiries for Design - studies from within design for a more profound theoretical understanding of the processes, a better integration of different kinds of knowledge, more sophisticated evaluation methods and improved artistic means.
Inquiries by Design - studies that use design thinking and critical and creative methods to explore and develop potentials and possibilities in real-life situations to enhance considerations about the future.

Design Inquiries

“Criticality” and Its Discontents

2006-05-30T10:13:00.000+02:00

[...]

Today “criticality” is under attack, seen by its critics as obsolete, as irrelevant, and/or as inhibiting design creativity. What is more, the criticisms that are increasingly frequently being made come from an interesting diversity of sources. To start to make sense of this emergent situation, we might try to locate the beginnings of the evident shift of opinion against this once-so-dominant theoretical discourse in architecture. One interesting precursor of current comment was an outburst by Rem Koolhaas at one of the series of conferences organized by ANY magazine, this one at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1994: “The problem with the prevailing discourse of architectural criticism,” complained Koolhaas, “is [the] inability to recognize there is in the deepest motivations of architecture something that cannot be critical.”(2) But if Koolhaas' complaint was a harbinger of things to come, probably the first frontal challenge to criticality was a text published by Michael Speaks, the Director of Graduate Studies at Southern California Institute of Architecture, in the American magazine Architectural Record in 2002.(3) In a startlingly revisionist text, Speaks explicitly abandoned the “resistance” that he had learned from his own teacher, Fredric Jameson, in favor of a model of a new, alternative, and efficaciously integrated architecture that would take its cues from contemporary business management practices.

from “Criticality” and Its Discontents by George Baird

Available here.

In Chicago, Leonardo the Inventor and Decoder

2006-05-30T09:56:00.000+02:00

Thanks to Ron Jones for this (from the New York Times):

There are no albinos with red eyes and bleeding thighs stalking the galleries of the Museum of Science and Industry here. There are also no dead curators sprawled naked on the floor with pentagrams drawn on their chests in blood and scrambled Fibonacci series scrawled at their sides. But there is a "cryptex" on display: perhaps the only one ever constructed. It is a prop from the leaden movie of Dan Brown's best-selling roller-coaster ride "The Da Vinci Code": spell the right word on its dials (if you could only get at them), and the Holy Grail is yours.

Article

Winterhouse Writing Awards for Design Writing & Criticism

2006-05-23T08:56:00.000+02:00

AIGA Call For Entries
Deadline: June 30, 2006

Winterhouse Writing Awards for Design Writing & Criticism
The Winterhouse Writing Awards seek to increase the understanding and appreciation of design, both within the profession and throughout American life. A program of AIGA, these annual awards have been funded by William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand of the Winterhouse Institute to recognize excellence in design writing and to encourage the development of new voices in design writing, commentary and criticism.

The awards will be given for writing that demonstrates the greatest evidence of eloquence, analysis, perspective, insight and original thinking with regard to furthering a public understanding of design in contemporary culture. Writing that supports the visual expression of a design program or argument is also eligible. Submissions may address any design discipline or form, including, but not limited to, architectural, environmental, fashion, graphic, industrial, informational, interactive, product and strategic. This year’s jury includes Kurt Andersen, Jessica Helfand and Julie Lasky.

This awards program is part of a larger AIGA initiative to stimulate new levels of design awareness and critical thinking about design. The 2006 awards will be presented at the AIGA Design Legends Gala on October 25, 2006 in New York City.

Awards
A writing award of $5,000, for a body of work by a writer under the age of 40, is open to critics, designers, educators, historians, journalists and scholars.

An education award of $1,000 is open to design students (undergraduate or graduate) whose use of writing demonstrates extraordinary originality and promise.

Writing Awards

Winterhouse Studio/Design Observer

2006-05-23T08:24:00.000+02:00

Thanks to Laurie Haycock Makela for this:

WINTERHOUSE STUDIO
Design Observer

is the leading design weblog online. It provides a forum for discussions and critical writing about design and visual culture.

Winterhouse

Nordcode

2006-05-23T08:17:00.000+02:00

Nordic network for research on communicative product design:

Nordcode network gathers together active researchers and doctoral students who work on:

- the communicative aspects of artifacts,
- aesthetic qualities of physical products and objects, and
- design processes related to the above.

The network aims to support research based on theoretical approaches and developments within specific fields of design. These include areas such as design semiotics/semantics, form design, design syntactics, design aesthetics, design research methodology, design processes, tools and methods, identity aspects of product form, form perception, form experience and pleasure, cultural signification of design, and points of contact with visual arts.

Nordcode

Diaries and Fieldnotes in the Research Process

2006-05-10T17:05:00.000+02:00

It is common to hear people talk about 'writing up' research. Implicit in the phrase is the sense that writing is a stage that occurs principally when the research has finished and is a straightforward process of telling what was done and what conclusions can be drawn. However, the process of research involves many forms of writing, from letter writing and minute taking to academic papers and formal research reports.

The aim of this issue is to consider one form of research writing that has received relatively little attention, yet which is central to the research process, especially, but not exclusively, for those conducting qualitative or action research studies - the research diary. Research diaries are considered as part of a broad category alongside other methods of recording such as research logs and fieldnotes. Particular approaches to notetaking, the use of visual material in diary record keeping, as well as practical issues are discussed.

This issue also contains extracts from three separate research projects. The examples are not intended to be prescriptive, they are simply offered as working examples of research diaries from actual research projects.

Darren Newbury

Research Issues in Art, Design and Media

Michael Biggs, "The Rhetoric of Research"

2006-05-10T09:21:00.000+02:00

in: Durling D. & Shackleton J.(Eds.) Common Ground Proceedings of the Design Research Society International Conference at Brunel University, 111-118. Stoke-on Trent, UK: Staffordshire University Press, 2002.
ISBN 1-904133-11-8111-118

Online version.

Working Papers in Art and Design Research

2006-05-09T13:18:00.000+02:00

volume 3 the role of the artefact in art & design research

volume 2 the concept of knowledge in art & design

volume 1 the foundations of practice based research

Index

Centre for Research into Practice

2006-05-09T13:05:00.000+02:00

Recommended. The Centre aims to bring together practitioners, theorists, historians, critics, etc., who share its subject domains. Those domains are:

Fine Art
Design
Digital Media
Histories
Philosophies
Arts Therapies

Centre for Research into Practice

Royal College of Arts Research Methods

2006-05-09T12:56:00.000+02:00

Designing and Managing a Research Project

2006-05-09T12:10:00.000+02:00

Although there is a plethora of literature on research, not enough of it is specifically geared to the needs of higher degree students in art and design. In many instances research literature borrowed from other disciplines will prove appropriate to the particular project in hand (though of course it may not). For example, the commitment of art and design students to practical activity needs to be catered for by research training. A practice-based PhD necessitates a different approach to research, and a greater receptiveness to art and design specific research outcomes. Additionally, if the field of art and design is to develop its own distinctive intellectual coherence, then a reflection upon methodology is essential.

Research guide published by the Research Training Initiative (UK, 1996).