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
Research and Practice explores practice-based research in art, craft and design.
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- Hughes, Rolf. "Experience and Communication" in Reflections 7 (Brussels: Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, 2007)
- Hughes, Rolf. "The Art of Displacement: Designing Experiential Systems and Transverse Epistemologies as Conceptual Criticism." In Footprint Issue # 4, Spring 2009, Agency in Architecture: Reframing Criticality in Theory and Practice
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- Mazé, Ramia. Occupying Time: Design, Technology and the Form of Interaction. Stockholm: Axl Books, 2007.
- Mäkelä, Maarit and Routarinne, Sara, eds. The art of research : research practices in art and design. Helsinki, Finland: UIAH, 2006.
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- Shales, Ezra: “Technophilic Craft”, American Craft Magazine, April/May 2008.
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- Talkin' Loud and Sayin' Something (catalogue)
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Vannevar Bush, As we May Think (1945)
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...
But there are signs of a change as new and powerful instrumentalities come into use...
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- Writer & critic; Guest Professor in Theory and Practice-Based Research at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm; Senior Professor in Research Design at the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, Brussels & Ghent; Senior Researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture, Stockholm.
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