tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893782253626992922024-03-01T20:07:37.518-05:00The Trouble with Normal...is it always gets worse. <i>-Bruce Cockburn</i>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.comBlogger689125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-31589878454805664592021-12-05T16:24:00.002-05:002021-12-05T16:24:34.591-05:00Design Calls is ending<p>I've decided to stop posting designerly CFPs.</p><p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_X0dYkIBNQV2P2o9ds3Qq9NEAHyxmtgA5EnNEBZ8kYOUurfTT6gkBDIfhSCm33CffDz-OfPR9TYZKMXd03mlMXL3KwTuwNz8iqGJ-ng8Iv9rNPJVS9M21KECoS3lO9x4M0TVMfKKPHOXUjwxs_CNgL0uq7em6CwAtrQksmwAq6Zk1VFOG7NGgCDLj=s640" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_X0dYkIBNQV2P2o9ds3Qq9NEAHyxmtgA5EnNEBZ8kYOUurfTT6gkBDIfhSCm33CffDz-OfPR9TYZKMXd03mlMXL3KwTuwNz8iqGJ-ng8Iv9rNPJVS9M21KECoS3lO9x4M0TVMfKKPHOXUjwxs_CNgL0uq7em6CwAtrQksmwAq6Zk1VFOG7NGgCDLj=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image from <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/v_WLk_vNYRA" target="_blank">Unsplash</a>.</td></tr></tbody></table>I've been posting CFPs to design-related conferences and journals since October 2009. My original plan had been to promote participation by researchers in conferences and journals, and also to try to build a small community of like-minded people, who could afford a little time to post CFPs with me.</p><p>A lot has changed since 2009, both with me personally and with the way information is disseminated on the web. </p><p>As I start approaching retirement, I need to trim back on some activities for the sake of focusing on my teaching and on preparing some kind of corpus of my non-published material that I can leave behind. Not that I think I'm all that special, of course. I just would like to think that all the stuff I've done might someday be useful to someone else.</p><p>Sources of information have changed a lot in the last 12 years too. It's much easier today to find out about conferences and journals, so I must wonder just how much impact this blog has any more. Furthermore, the emergence of predatory journals and conferences has significantly lowered the signal-to-noise ratio, and it's getting harder and harder for me to tell legitimate venues from those rather disgusting knock-offs.</p><p>And the small community of like-minded people never really did materialize. I myself have posted virtually every CFP here. I deeply appreciate the efforts of those who did post here and I don't mean to diminish their contributions - but it's less of a response than I was hoping for.</p><p>Put all that together, and I can't see any reasonable alternative to ending this part of my online existence.</p><p>I will leave this blog up as long as I can - for "archival purposes". But there will be no new posts.</p><p>Thanks for your readership through the years.</p>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-87335225864136606782021-11-27T13:59:00.000-05:002021-11-27T13:59:13.650-05:00Futurescan 5: Conscious Communities (Sep 2022, Leeds, UK)Dates: 7-8 September 2022<br />Location: University of Leeds, UK<div>Website: <a href="https://ftc-online.org.uk/conferences/" target="_blank">FTC</a></div><div>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 17 January 2022<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizAU4MxPHiDnc6egy4jeln9jkSQa4bfUYbFmuEcG1sjgORXcWgmJF78dMQuPHF5gnmTlj9fsFSYiWcJIkN_nLpIzD__tRmmmyGJqa786-uV4ysUvllFRhq_V7zy-HUkJ8ZHCe2RmP3fM/s2750/ftc.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="2750" height="85" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiizAU4MxPHiDnc6egy4jeln9jkSQa4bfUYbFmuEcG1sjgORXcWgmJF78dMQuPHF5gnmTlj9fsFSYiWcJIkN_nLpIzD__tRmmmyGJqa786-uV4ysUvllFRhq_V7zy-HUkJ8ZHCe2RmP3fM/s320/ftc.png" width="320" /></a></div>The challenges of recent years have brought about significant change to fashion and textiles education, research and industry practices. Environmental, societal, ethical, cultural and political change, technological and material innovations, decolonisation, diversity and inclusivity have proliferated thinking, making and production. In addition, the devaluing of creative subjects in schools, further education and higher education changes and funding cuts continue to impact. Industry requires and values skills from specialist fashion and textiles training, however, there is scope to increase visibility of the breadth of career opportunities for graduates. Evidencing the value of fashion and textiles education beyond the higher education sector and engaging wider society have become key agendas. Working collectively and collaboratively brings new opportunities for investigation surrounding fashion and textiles.<br /><br />Futurescan 5: Conscious Communities, the next Association of Fashion & Textile Courses (FTC) conference invites submissions from established and early career researchers, postgraduates, practitioners, makers, designers and educators regarding completed projects or work in progress. The conference provides a forum for the dissemination of research, creative practice and pedagogy surrounding fashion and textiles. Submissions are encouraged that discuss, challenge and provoke debate in connection to one or more of the following themes:<br /><br />ENVIRONMENTAL + RESILIENT COMMUNITIES<br />Disruption, climate emergency, sustainability, responses to the pandemic, health and wellbeing.<br /><br />SOCIETAL + POLITICAL COMMUNITIES<br />Intersectionality, decolonisation, identity, morality, marginalisation, activism and social design.<br /><br />CULTURAL + ETHICAL COMMUNITIES<br />Heritage, museums and archives, engagement, inclusivity, diversity and ethical production.<br /><br />TECHNOLOGICAL + MATERIAL COMMUNITIES<br />Digital visions and innovations, immateriality versus materiality, handcraft, haptic and tactile.<br /><br />COLLABORATIVE + PARTICIPATORY COMMUNITIES<br />Cooperation, co-creation, co-design, making spaces, interdisciplinarity or cross-disciplinary.<br /><br />Submissions<br />Contributors can choose from the submission formats:<br />Full Paper: 20-minute conference presentation<br />Short Paper: 10-minute conference presentation<br />Poster: Digital file<br />Exhibit: Physical or digital examples of practice-based work<br /><br />SUBMISSION UPLOAD: <a href="https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/2668/submitter">https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/2668/submitter</a><br /><br />Associated Journals<br />We are delighted to announce that articles formed from conference presentations can be submitted to the associated conference journals for consideration:<br /><br />International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education<br />Manuscript submissions are before the conference - 31 June 2022<br /><br />Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice<br />Manuscript submissions are after the conference - 15 November 2022<br /><br />Articles for journal submission will be subject to journal peer review processes and must comply with the relevant journal publication guidelines.<br /><br />FTC Post-Conference Publication<br />Selected papers, posters and exhibits will be made available online by the FTC after the conference. Submissions are required by 13 December 2022.<br />Full Paper: 3000-5000 words<br />Short Paper: 1500-3000 words<br />Poster: PDF file<br />Exhibit: Overview of practice-based work, 500-1000 words and minimum 3 images<br /><br />Key Dates<br />Call for Papers / Call for Makers issued - October 2021<br />Closing date for abstracts - 17 January 2022<br />Acceptance and feedback - 18 April 2022<br />Journal article submission (optional) - 31 June 2022<br />Virtual exhibit upload - 22 August 2022<br />Presentation upload - 1 September 2022<br />Physical exhibit onsite installation - 6 September 2022<br />Futurescan 5 Conference - 7- 8 September 2022<br />Journal article submission (optional) - 15 November 2022<br />Post-conference publication submission (optional) - 13 December 2022<br /><br />Further Information<br /><a href="mailto:research@ftc-online.org.uk">research@ftc-online.org.uk</a><br /><a href="https://ftc-online.org.uk/conferences/">https://ftc-online.org.uk/conferences/</a><br />@FTCorg #futurescan5</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0Woodhouse, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK53.8066815 -1.555032825.496447663821158 -36.7112828 82.116915336178849 33.6012172tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-86621582981403017982021-11-23T20:10:00.000-05:002021-11-23T20:10:13.315-05:00PDC 2022: Participatory Design Conference - Exploratory Papers (Aug 2022, HYBRID / Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK)Dates: 19 Aug - 2 Sep 2022<div>Location: VIRTUAL & Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK</div><div>Website: PDC 2022</div><div>Deadline for submissions of Exploratory Papers: 7 February 2022<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLZAjEXk_UkKXlPPT6zE8WdAGFd8pA2smqzZLv0tOseOxMYw05e5BuL6PCdZ5JtTdssv0i0M1e8cyVOBwlX0DNxa6Zk5MVd8jpgCIbFiRsib-Mx6qL3Xbw_iGFYUVQfOV3me4bqJwVME/s2110/pdc2022ep.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="2110" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLZAjEXk_UkKXlPPT6zE8WdAGFd8pA2smqzZLv0tOseOxMYw05e5BuL6PCdZ5JtTdssv0i0M1e8cyVOBwlX0DNxa6Zk5MVd8jpgCIbFiRsib-Mx6qL3Xbw_iGFYUVQfOV3me4bqJwVME/s320/pdc2022ep.png" width="320" /></a></div>Submissions are solicited for PDC 2022 <a href="https://pdc2022.org/exploratory-papers/" target="_blank">Exploratory Papers</a>.<br /><br />Exploratory Papers present original, unpublished ideas and research that explore, advance or reflects on PD’s potential future developments. PDC Exploratory Papers benefit from making one, clear contribution. Authors are encouraged to present a focused reflection or a meaningful empirical case study. A focused reflection will be expected to explore or advance existing ideas/concepts or propose new ones at a theoretical level, even coming from nearby disciplines to build an interdisciplinary dialogue. A case study will be expected to present applications of PD that are empirically fascinating even without strong theoretical grounding.<br /><br />If you are new to PDC or want to discuss your ideas for papers please join us for online sessions with the wider community (see below for information).<br /><br />Important dates:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>29th November 2022 - Let’s explore paper ideas (Book online Session <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-explore-paper-ideas-for-participatory-design-conference-2022-tickets-204410947647" target="_blank">9:00-10.30 am UTC</a>, or <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lets-explore-paper-ideas-for-participatory-design-conference-2022-tickets-204413705897?aff=erelpanelorg" target="_blank">17:00-18.30 pm UTC</a>.</li><li>7th February 2022 – Submission deadline for Exploratory Papers – submit via <a href="https://www.conftool.org/pdc2022/index.php" target="_blank">ConfTool</a>.</li><li>23rd April 2022 – Notification to authors (Accept or Reject)</li><li>30th May 2022 – Camera ready papers deadline for accepted submissions</li></ul>Note that all deadlines are for the end of the day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anywhere_on_Earth" target="_blank">Anywhere on Earth</a>.<br /><br />PDC Exploratory Papers can be submitted on any topic or issue of relevance to participatory design theory, practice or methods – however, we are especially interested in soliciting submissions that relate to the specific themes of the 2022 conference:<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design</h4>Democratic and socially just practices of design have always foregrounded people as agents of socio-political change. In more recent years a growing recognition of other forms of participation beyond the human have emerged. These include participation not only from technological entities, such as AI and algorithms, but also participation with biophysical, ecological, and spiritual worlds. How we design equitably with these prescient entities is increasingly of concern for many participatory designers and researchers seeking to have meaningful impact.<br /><br />Through invoking a hopeful design of social justice that responds to multiplicity and relational interdependence, PDC 2022 will explore what it means to embrace cosmological approaches to participatory design. This means valuing different kinds of participatory alliances that span micro-organisms to eco-systems, micro-finance to global supply chains and circular economies, algorithmic data justice for individuals and distributed communities.<br /><br />We especially encourage submissions that respond to the conference themes, including:<br /><br /><b>Designing between (biophysical, spiritual, material and digital) worlds:</b> How do we learn to listen differently and expand our perceptions of different worlds? How can we be attentive and respond to the invisible? How do we draw and blur boundaries around what is included and excluded in design if everything is so interrelated? How do we define what kinds of knowledge are worthy of exploration and what is not, and what are the problematics associated with this? Who and what can speak in and for design?<br /><br /><b>Sentipensar (feeling-thinking):</b> How can we enact and represent design practice that is difficult to describe but is heartfelt and passionate? How can we practice careful design that values emotional intelligence and poetics in response to people, land and other species? How can we create opportunities for generative design practice that integrates emotions, rationality and forms of spirituality? How can we better attune to different forms of expression in a socially just way?<br /><br /><b>Relational commons:</b> What is included and excluded from the commons and who gets to decide? How can we embrace and nurture local knowledges yet speak and connect across boundaries, cultures and nations and traditions? Does the relational commons look the same from anywhere? How do we work through the impacts of colonialism and recognise the significance of specific geography and territories on relational commons? How do we respect and attune to experiences of relational commons when we are working remotely or digitally?<br /><br /><b>Activating protest against injustice:</b> What skills can participatory designers bring to acts of protest and civil disobedience? How do designers work through the moral and ethical complexities of social justice work in meaningful ways? How do we design to allow for healing and grief as quiet acts of solidarity and co-operation as protest? How can we find creative, artful and productive forms of participatory design and protest that challenge perceptions of activism? How can PD work improve understandings between and bring oppositely positioned groups closer together in contexts where right and wrong is in the eye of the beholder? How can we encourage multiple voices and qualities of protest to embrace different technical systems or species and forms of participation?<br /><br />If you’d like to submit an Exploratory Paper, please find more information about how to submit your paper on the <a href="http://pdc2022.org/exploratory-papers/" target="_blank">PDC 2022 website</a>. And also look on the website to find out about the emerging plans for the <a href="http://pdc2022.org/places/" target="_blank">hybrid, global format for PDC 2022</a>.<br /><br />There will be calls for participation for other submission formats (Exploratory Papers, Workshops and Situated Actions and more) later in 2021.<br /><br />PDC Exploratory Papers Chairs:<br /><br />Zoy Anastassakis (Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil),<br />Christopher Frauenberger (University of Salzburg, Austria), Melisa<br />Duque Hurtado (Monash University, Australia)<br /><br />Contact: <a href="mailto:exploratorypaperschairs@pdc2022.org">exploratorypaperschairs@pdc2022.org</a></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-61975443698248093922021-11-19T20:17:00.000-05:002021-11-19T20:17:00.465-05:00Special Issue of She Ji: Design and Public Health (Jan 2022)Website: <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/call-for-papers/design-and-public-health" target="_blank">She Ji</a><div>Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2022<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSn54idabDayBB2hmUMzwvtrO_OLL0zk6i_1a_qOAuQoCAzLNAkT-ASUwe4D9G8fWM9SHMwKh-_-6eORmYoGI5Dlpqwl4fII_NolNs8xH9-UAQat43sqHLbtqPltYB5HBCqtfvXFZcmFk/s768/sheji.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="549" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSn54idabDayBB2hmUMzwvtrO_OLL0zk6i_1a_qOAuQoCAzLNAkT-ASUwe4D9G8fWM9SHMwKh-_-6eORmYoGI5Dlpqwl4fII_NolNs8xH9-UAQat43sqHLbtqPltYB5HBCqtfvXFZcmFk/s320/sheji.jpeg" width="229" /></a></div>Introducing a theme issue on "Design and Public Health" in the journal She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation.<br /><br />Over the last century, public health and design evolved, each with its own path, in response to technological, social, and economic transformational changes. The discipline of public health had tremendous success based on science and the rigorous use of data to inform medical practice and policy. Design, on the other hand, developed new frameworks and methods that helped organizations gain a competitive market advantage by creating attractive and successful products, services, communications, and environments for their users, usually acting in the interest of a client. Both fields addressed different aspects of well-being; one focused on physical and mental health and the other on creating offerings that helped people live, work, learn, and play.</div><div><br />Today, global climate change, economic disparity, and unregulated media are three interconnected forces disrupting the conventions of both fields. Public health leaders recognize they have to embrace ways of dealing with the behavioral side of health and integrate different forms of evidence if the field is to succeed at solving seemingly intractable problems sparked by these forces. For example, accelerated biodiversity loss increasing chances for virus transmission from wild animals to humans or the rise of climate-induced social displacements are more tied to behavior than medicine. Likewise, experienced designers recognize that the meta forces are changing the context of how their clients plan and operate.<br /><br />As demonstrated by the current COVID-19 pandemic, the interconnected nature of contemporary challenges is complex and requires new approaches that deal with systems and behavior change if we want to create a fast-impact at a scale that improves the well-being of us all. Both fields can make a difference by once again extending how they work, but this time leveraging each other to reconcile their differences towards a common good. Rather than reinforcing traditional disciplinary or practice silos, this issue invites diverse contributions to explore how design and public health can complement each other in enabling the well-being of people, organizations, and the natural environment.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">About the She Ji Journal</h4>She Ji is a peer-reviewed, trans-disciplinary design journal that provides a unique forum to create new knowledge at the intersection of different fields. The journal focuses on design, economics, and innovation in today's complex socio-technical environment to further design innovation in industry, business, non-profit services, and government through economic and social value creation.<br />Open Access and No Fees<br /><br />The journal is open access under a Creative Commons license. Authors retain the copyright to their articles. Because Tongji University subsidizes the publication, there are no article fees to authors or readers. Nevertheless, your experience in the Elsevier website can be confusing because the platform requests authors must agree to pay the publication fee, but Tongji University will make the payment.<br />Preparing and Submitting your Manuscript<br /><br />Interested authors should prepare their contributions based on the She Ji paper template, Guide for Authors, and guidelines of Principles of Referencing (see complementary files). For further guidance on preparing manuscripts, please read the <a href="https://www.elsevier.com/journals/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/2405-8726?generatepdf=true" target="_blank">Author Information Pack</a>.</div><div><br />When preparing your contribution, please note that, unlike most journals that worry about the number and cost of working with illustrations, She Ji has no limit on the number of illustrations, colored work, or number of pages you may use. On the contrary, the guest editors welcome figures, diagrams, and illustrations in full color or in black and white.<br /><br />Authors should submit their contribution via <a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/she-ji-the-journal-of-design-economics-and-innovation/" target="_blank">She Ji’s homepage</a>.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Proposed Timeline</h4>Open Call - June 22, 2021<br />Deadline for Manuscript Submissions - January 31, 2022<br />Authors Notification, First Round of Peer Reviews - April 15, 2022<br />Deadline for Revised Manuscript Submissions - May 31, 2022<br />Authors Notification, Second Round of Peer Reviews - June 15, 2022<br />Deadline for Revised Manuscript Submissions - July 31, 2022<br />Publication Date (Tentative date) - September 2022<br />Additional Information<br /><br />For further information, or to discuss ideas for contributions, please contact the guest editor Andre Nogueira, Ph.D., <a href="mailto:anogueira@hsph.harvard.edu">anogueira@hsph.harvard.edu</a>.</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-49426426011860001562021-11-11T20:52:00.006-05:002021-11-11T20:52:49.931-05:00Zealos: Studies in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts & Design (Dec 2021)<div>Website: <a href="https://zealosshss.site/index.html" target="_blank">Zealos</a></div><div>Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2021</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPYLk9TkxFGDTmyv-hph520jt4BXknbHUH7JmN0lRnfrGGMTNXC__DqUSVG34ozCGNm4O7_d3iGsJsKwNJfxl3gpvCZi4Xl7AQ9OEG8MzXAr0kELsChVFYqwBf3GTLswcS8MBMLju9lw/s1580/zealos.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="348" data-original-width="1580" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmPYLk9TkxFGDTmyv-hph520jt4BXknbHUH7JmN0lRnfrGGMTNXC__DqUSVG34ozCGNm4O7_d3iGsJsKwNJfxl3gpvCZi4Xl7AQ9OEG8MzXAr0kELsChVFYqwBf3GTLswcS8MBMLju9lw/s320/zealos.png" width="320" /></a></div>An annual peer-reviewed and open-access journal published by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Nicosia (UNIC), Cyprus.<div><br />We are now accepting contributions for the inaugural volume of Zealos due to be published in Summer 2022. Zealos welcomes original and previously unpublished articles that fall within the scope of the journal and follow internationally sanctioned scientific standards. Submissions are free of charge. We welcome contributions in Greek or English.</div><div><br />Zealos is a fully open access journal issued annually. Each volume is published electronically as a PDF file. All papers are available on the Internet to all users immediately upon publication and free of charge, according to the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Under this license, authors agree that others can copy and distribute the article for free as long as appropriate credit is given and the article is not modified and not used for commercial purposes.</div><div><h3 style="text-align: left;">Aims and Scope</h3>The journal’s aim is to showcase empirical, theoretical and practice-based research work by scholars and practitioners in the humanities, social sciences, arts and design. Zealos intends to leave its mark on these fields through the publication of research papers, essays and creative work, conference and book reviews. By taking a multi-disciplinary perspective, we hope to contribute to both local and international literature and showcase some of the work conducted by academics and practitioners. The journal particularly welcomes submissions on issues related to Cyprus. Special Issues focusing on a specific theme acting as a connecting point between the various disciplines are also planned. Papers in English and Greek will be accepted. All manuscripts will be double-blind peer-reviewed by two experts in the area of the submission.<br />Where to submit <a href="mailto:shss.zealosubmissions@unic.ac.cy">shss.zealosubmissions@unic.ac.cy</a><br />For more information <a href="mailto:shss.zealos@unic.ac.cy">shss.zealos@unic.ac.cy</a><br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-62620975588804619632021-11-07T12:31:00.006-05:002021-11-07T12:31:55.899-05:00Teaching Complexity - Education between Environments, Big Data, and Utopia (Apr 2022, VIRTUAL)<div aria-disabled="true" class="b-l b-Dp-l b-l-Sp b-l-ct" style="cursor: default; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow: hidden;" tabindex="0"><div class="b-l-Im-tr"><div class="b-l-Im" contenteditable="false" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-modify: read-only !important; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px solid transparent; cursor: text; float: none; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; min-height: 17px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; transition-duration: 0.218s; transition-property: min-height, padding; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dates: 20-22 April 2022</div><div class="b-l-Im" contenteditable="false" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-modify: read-only !important; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px solid transparent; cursor: text; float: none; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; min-height: 17px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; transition-duration: 0.218s; transition-property: min-height, padding; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location: Virtual</div><div class="b-l-Im" contenteditable="false" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-modify: read-only !important; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px solid transparent; cursor: text; float: none; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; min-height: 17px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; transition-duration: 0.218s; transition-property: min-height, padding; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;">Website: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/kassel/" target="_blank">Kassel</a></div><div class="b-l-Im" contenteditable="false" spellcheck="false" style="-webkit-user-modify: read-only !important; border-radius: 3px; border: 0px solid transparent; cursor: text; float: none; line-height: 1.0625rem; margin-top: 0px; max-width: none; min-height: 17px; min-width: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; transition-duration: 0.218s; transition-property: min-height, padding; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; white-space: pre-wrap;">Deadline for submission of abstracts: 05 December 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2rUbERguTYA5Y9mbWY4CJKQhuqGd3IxUiSAN__R6B91yLwrpYC23O1I4-2Bwa14i8QO86HGUrP7xN7fhHeLf-4ZDZQzp4Jn_-7DOc1t7RMiXnmhdyqbr3I1pJ6G1mAlt3jEVn-T0ZmQs/s632/focusOnPedagogy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="632" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2rUbERguTYA5Y9mbWY4CJKQhuqGd3IxUiSAN__R6B91yLwrpYC23O1I4-2Bwa14i8QO86HGUrP7xN7fhHeLf-4ZDZQzp4Jn_-7DOc1t7RMiXnmhdyqbr3I1pJ6G1mAlt3jEVn-T0ZmQs/s320/focusOnPedagogy.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>DISCIPLINES:<br /><br />Environmental Design, Architecture, Urban Planning, Building Science, Landscape Design, Environmental Science<br /><br />CALL SUMMARY:<br /><br />This call is concerned with design, planning and ubiquitous data collection in the context of teaching and expanded definitions of work, specifically in relation to complex issues such as climate change, architecture and urban planning.<br /><br />If we take the example of these disciplines, the creation and management of our built environment involves ever more guidelines, laws and participants, all of which increase the complexity of modern planning and design. This coincides with the application of a flood of new technological methods and tools that generate an ever growing data set about every aspect of our lives in the built environment.<br /><br />In dealing with this flood of data, how do we know what knowledge and what data is important? How do we select, interpret and use this data correctly as professionals? Do we really need this data, or do we need new ways of thinking? Does data limit creativity and utopias or does it lead to more creative and better solutions? How should we reflect all this in teaching design and planning?<br /><br />This conference strand seeks to explore whether the increased complexity of the problems we seek to solve, and the increased data we use to do that, leads to better solutions. More specifically, it asks how teaching can support this inquiry and goal. It is our premise that in order to do their jobs effectively educators, and their students, will have to increasingly learn how filter what they really need form the plethora of data and information available to them in relation to questions such as planning, sustainability and performance standards. As we leave the pandemic behind we will have to readdress an issue that had been building long before its arrival - the increasing need to learn to filter, analyse and use ever more information to inform in our professional practice.<br /><br />Part of the event and publication series: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/focus-pedagogy/" target="_blank">A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY: TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE MODERN ACADEMY</a> <br /></div></div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div class="b-Dp-ar" style="margin-top: 4px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="b-Dp-dt" style="background-color: #fafaf9; color: #999999; float: left; font-family: "system-ui", -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, clean, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; opacity: 1; transition-duration: 0.218s; transition-property: opacity; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out;"></div></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-30017676737300212532021-11-03T13:11:00.002-04:002021-11-03T13:11:51.388-04:00Special Issue: J Enabling Technologies: Designing Enabling Technologies for Marginalized Groups (Dec 2021)Website: <a href="https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jet/designing-enabling-technologies-marginalised-groups" target="_blank">J Enabling Tech</a><div>Deadline for submissions: 1 December 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiSrLFpQK-FJoa6I7e7N6_HXwEVe9YPmXO46g_YfqGgDmybFbqqfKTPsEzegKPGmXpcQbB7qumXANSVkjEC-3XoRJNKzuL7vKNJxx39MwpqKLQk424uBCLKmH8zuqKOIazywHglJ4fw4/s320/etech.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNiSrLFpQK-FJoa6I7e7N6_HXwEVe9YPmXO46g_YfqGgDmybFbqqfKTPsEzegKPGmXpcQbB7qumXANSVkjEC-3XoRJNKzuL7vKNJxx39MwpqKLQk424uBCLKmH8zuqKOIazywHglJ4fw4/s0/etech.png" width="240" /></a></div>Guest Editors: Dr Marc Fabri and Dr Nigel Newbutt<br /><br />This special issue of the Journal of Enabling Technologies focuses on the design of technologies to remove barriers and improve outcomes for marginalised groups. By marginalised groups, we refer to people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, people with mental health difficulties, minorities, socially or economically disadvantaged people, and refugees, to name a few. This special issue spans a number of disciplines, notably inclusiveness, co-design and the use of innovative technologies therein.<br /><br />We are pleased to invite peer-reviewed article types, but also case studies, opinion pieces, and technology reviews that help us understand the role of enabling technology design with, and for, marginalised groups. We particularly encourage work that includes marginalised groups as authors or co-authors in addition to work that reports lived experiences of marginalised groups and their immediate stakeholders.<br /><br />Topics covered include (but are not limited to):<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Technology design and development</li><li>Innovative new forms of technology (AR, VR, XR, etc…)</li><li>Application of technologies in situ settings</li><li>Ways of bringing the voices of marginalised groups to the fore in design-based work</li><li>Co-designing remotely in times of social distancing</li><li>Applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other forms of innovation to support technology application</li><li>Technology that supports routes to improved outcomes in areas such as: education; services; employment; independent living scenarios; etc….</li><li>Ethics and responsible research involving all users</li><li>Evaluation of enabling technologies that include the voices of marginalised users</li><li>Research that is fully embedded in the settings where marginalised users are most likely to use them</li><li>Work that bridges issues of technology uptake in practical setting (i.e. the home, schools, workplace)</li></ul>For full details, including deadlines and submission instructions, please refer to <a href="https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jet/designing-enabling-technologies-marginalised-groups">https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jet/designing-enabling-technologies-marginalised-groups</a><br /><br />We recommend that you contact the Special Issue guest editors to discuss your paper before submitting it.</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-9939966318542144812021-10-24T19:09:00.004-04:002021-10-24T19:09:54.930-04:00Journal of Design Thinking (Nov 2021)Website: <a href="https://jdt.ut.ac.ir/" target="_blank">JDT</a><div>Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2021.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhglpZ5mhbipZDjPIqgn7HWpbzGSn7sJd1AWUZi8lqn7-6iEIjCmBz44Jz008jXBxTfkBwhJ-NQh7LxWE1nzIZmSvAFglFqqVWffkdaqKRPXKIk5Gn9o-a6QrTgWlG8ksPX7NnneWnJ8rs/s457/jdt.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="457" data-original-width="390" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhglpZ5mhbipZDjPIqgn7HWpbzGSn7sJd1AWUZi8lqn7-6iEIjCmBz44Jz008jXBxTfkBwhJ-NQh7LxWE1nzIZmSvAFglFqqVWffkdaqKRPXKIk5Gn9o-a6QrTgWlG8ksPX7NnneWnJ8rs/s320/jdt.jpeg" width="273" /></a></div>ISSN 2645-3304 (PRINT), 2717-1183 (ONLINE) - DOI: 10.22059/JDT<br /><br />JOURNAL OF DESIGN THINKING (JDT) is an open access, peer-reviewed and refereed international journal published by University of Tehran, Kish International Campus. The main objective of JDT is to provide an intellectual platform for the international scholars. JDT aims to promote studies in different fields of Design, Design Cognition, Creativity and Design Thinking and become the leading journal in Design. JDT publishes original research, applied, and educational papers in different areas of Design.<br /><br />JDT IS INVITING PAPERS FOR NEXT ISSUE WHICH IS SCHEDULED TO BE PUBLISHED ON DECEMBER 31, 2021. LAST DATE OF SUBMISSION: NOVEMBER 30, 2021.<br />However, an early submission will get preference in case of review and publication process.<br /><br />We kindly request the authors, researchers, and designers to submit their papers in the related topics of the journal. It is an honor for the journal to share your intellectual achievements in the fields of Design.<br /><br />For more information, please visit the official website of the journal <a href="https://jdt.ut.ac.ir/">https://jdt.ut.ac.ir/</a>.</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-3696696459962812382021-10-20T13:52:00.003-04:002021-10-20T13:52:25.449-04:00Cross- Multi- Inter- and Transdisciplinary Pedagogy in Art & Design (Apr 2022, Virtual)<p>Dates: 20-22 April 2022<br />Location: Virtual<br />Website: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/beaconhouse/" target="_blank">Pedagogy in Art & Design</a><br />Deadline for submission of abstracts: 5 December 2021</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIKICSDENxf1iUJfPK_qiSWr7guAEJusrz9yXcQjC5GhUgMJjK-PkbnEH6OoKvJaxcft0-CTYVE-F3LOSXlgZfba6TOs77IHeg83xRM8z8vGmVtwivHt7AyvhWcVJf34kGB7OllredFM/s632/focusOnPedagogy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="632" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyIKICSDENxf1iUJfPK_qiSWr7guAEJusrz9yXcQjC5GhUgMJjK-PkbnEH6OoKvJaxcft0-CTYVE-F3LOSXlgZfba6TOs77IHeg83xRM8z8vGmVtwivHt7AyvhWcVJf34kGB7OllredFM/s320/focusOnPedagogy.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>The pandemic has changed teaching in many ways in recent times. While a lot as been said about distance learning and the use of new technologies for example, less focus has been placed on what it has meant for Cross/Multi/Inter/Trans-disciplinary teaching and research practices. While collaborative works in the past have led to the establishment of experimental interdisciplinary teaching methods the recent restrictions on working practices imposed by the pandemic have revealed multiple short comings in our modes of cross disciplinary teaching. That said, the recent crisis has also created opportunities in the fields of interdisciplinary practice and spurred us on to new innovations.<p></p><p>In this complex and contradictory setting this conference strand seeks to look forward and explores how academics and professionals can, and will, continue to embrace the dynamic futures of integrated Cross/Multi/Inter/Trans-disciplinary practices. We seek to examine current social and industrial challenges in interdisciplinary work an attempt to foresee some emergent futures. We will explore how artists, designers, and architects operate across disciplines, and how they can become agents of change in multiple professional environments. We want to explore how our teaching and research reflects this, and how these approaches can support academic and professional practices.</p><p>Within this overarching framework, we also welcome papers on pedagogical methodologies across disciplines; problem-based projects across boundaries; and the role of technology in advancing teaching, research, and work that spans sectors. Furthermore, we are interested in universal and specific educational and research infrastructures; global academic experiments and initiatives on emerging modes of practice and alternative pedagogical approaches in classroom, studio, lab, or field. Our particular fields of interest are in the arts, architectural, graphic, industrial design and those disciplines that collaborate with these areas.</p><p>Part of the conference and book series: A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY: TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE MODERN ACADEMY</p>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-27805981276498073612021-10-16T11:01:00.005-04:002021-10-16T11:01:51.230-04:00A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Research in the Modern Academy (Apr 2022, VIRTUAL)Dates: 20-22 April 2022<br />Location: Virtual<br />Website: AMPS Pedagogy<br />Deadline for submission of abstracts: 5 December 2021 (Round 1)<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTLM-enRFfjOzsIceytBubyw-JdEnaZ80qhHwAAZPwJPhTCKbGJihXEh0xjKJNlJuCE8H9frd8xYRgldD5BZOWtj-KRTpPbCWFgYXR_ZXxG2i5eT42_EoPPhKZtJmNbItLIGlAPNLn7c/s632/focusOnPedagogy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="632" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTLM-enRFfjOzsIceytBubyw-JdEnaZ80qhHwAAZPwJPhTCKbGJihXEh0xjKJNlJuCE8H9frd8xYRgldD5BZOWtj-KRTpPbCWFgYXR_ZXxG2i5eT42_EoPPhKZtJmNbItLIGlAPNLn7c/s320/focusOnPedagogy.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div>Today the education sector is going through what most commentators see as an unprecedented period of change. The assumption is that in the wake of COVID-19, many standard modes of teaching and learning have changed forever. While that is undoubtedly true and of fundamental importance, many aspects of what we do remains the same. Our need to publish, bring in research funding, and get positive student assessments have not gone away. The knowledge we need to impart, and the mindsets we seek to loosen or develop, remain as engrained as ever. Similarly, long established research areas are still to be explored. Whether it be the environment, learning psychology, social networks, creative practice or design thinking, what we research remains relevant and pressing.<br /><br />In addition, despite the ‘strangeness’ of the change around us, some disciplines find themselves in unexpectedly familiar domains. The digital arts, media and communication studies are operating on platforms many see as natural. The proponents of distance learning are employing techniques they had been honing for years. Acolytes of educational technologies are perfecting platforms they have been developing for decades. The effect of the pandemic on our teaching and research then, is far from uniform or wholly negative.<br /><br />Set in this context, this conference reminds us that, in addition to the pandemic, there are other issues at play for educators and researchers today. Asking us to take a step back from the flux we have been in recently, it invites us to discuss both the radical realignments that have been necessary in recent times, and those aspects of our pedagogy that have continued unaffected by remote teaching. Bringing both sides of this coin together, the intention is to better grasp the tenor of teaching and research in today’s changing, and increasingly hybrid, academy.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">DISCIPLINES </h4>This conference seeks to explore the current state of teaching and research across a set of cognate fields:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Art and Design: Art practice, graphic design, digital art, spatial design, architecture</li><li>Social Sciences: Sociology, cultural studies, media, film, communication studies</li><li>Environmental Sciences: urban design, sustainability, engineering, technology</li></ul>Strands will be set up in each area, with a book in the Routledge Focus on Pedagogy series proposed for each.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">THEMES</h4>The themes in each conference session will be drawn from submissions. Several are being developed now and are informed by the research interests of the university partners behind the event. Examples include:<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Sites, settings, location and context in teaching and practice: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/ball-state/">Ball State University</a></li><li>Dealing with data and complexity in teaching and practice: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/kassel/">University of Kassel</a></li><li>Interdisciplinary learning, research and practice: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/beaconhouse/">Beaconhouse National University</a></li><li>Socially engaged teaching and learning: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/pretoria/">University of Pretoria</a></li></ul>Other themes include:<br /><br />Case studies of studio projects in art and design; Physical spaces, material practices and hands-on making; Technologies in teaching and learning; Problem based learning and work focused teaching.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">FORMATS</h4>The conference welcomes case studies, design proposals, research projects, investigative papers and theoretical considerations in various formats allowing people to write a paper, present virtually in real time or present via film and have their presentation permanently available via the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfWS4KkYSauAaTV2pjrQlQ">AMPS Youtube channel</a>.<br /><br />Zoom Presentations [15-20 minutes] | <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyfWS4KkYSauAaTV2pjrQlQ">Pre-recorded video</a> [15-20 minutes] | Lightning Talks [5 mins] | Written Papers [3,000 words] *<br /><br />* After review selected authors will be invited to extend their initial 3000 words paper to full book chapter or journal article length.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">PUBLICATIONS</h4>Delegates are given the option to present their work at conference either with or without an accompanying full written paper. If written papers are submitted they should be 3000 word length. Formatting instructions will be available at the time of the conference. All papers are double blind peer reviewed and will be include in the AMPS Conference Proceedings Series, ISSN 2398-9467.<br /><br />Publishers working with AMPS include:<br />Routledge Taylor & Francis | UCL Press | Intellect Books | Cambridge Scholars Publishing | Vernon Press | Libri Publishing.<br /><br />After review for proceedings, selected authors will be invited to develop longer versions of their papers for inclusion in either a Special Issue publication of the academic journal Architecture_MPS ISSN 2020-9006, or in a specially produced conference book.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">KEY DATES</h4>30 June 2021: Abstracts (Early)<div>30 July 2021: Feedback</div><div>05 December: Abstracts (Round 1)</div><div>20 December 2021: Feedback</div><div>05 March 2022: Abstracts (Round 2)</div><div>15 March 2022: Feedback</div><div>05 April 2022: Registration Closes<br /><br />Conference: 20-22nd April, 2022<br /><br />30 May 2022: Full Paper Submissions (where applicable)</div><div>30 August 2022: Feedback for publication</div><div>15 October 2022: Full Paper re-submission</div><div>January 2023: Publication<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">SUBMISSION AND REGISTRATION</h4>Delegate Fee: $350 USD | Audience Fee: $180 USD<br /><br />Download: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Name_Surname_Summary-Title_Abstract_Pedagogy.docx">Abstract Submission Form</a><br /><br />Please send this fully completed document as a Microsoft Word attachment. Subject line for emails: Abstract Submission Pedagogy. File name for attachment: Name_Surname_Summary Title_Pedagogy. Example file name: <a href="http://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Charlie_Smith_Yet-Another-Apartment-Block_Abstract_Pedagogy.docx">Charlie_Smith_Yet-Another-Apartment-Block_Abstract_Pedagogy</a><br /><br />Submit forms to: <a href="mailto:research@architecturemps.com">research@architecturemps.com</a>.<br /></div></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-29405639864821140452021-10-06T11:12:00.003-04:002021-10-06T11:12:46.161-04:00(In)tangible Heritage(s) (Jun 2022, Canterbury, UK)Dates: 15-17 June 2022<div>Location: University of Kent, Canterbury, UK</div><div>Website: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/canterbury-2022/" target="_blank">Canterbury 2022</a><br />Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 November 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9LP1TUCuUN0OkpAkZoDj8kyqYo2D8zX9WXQpfHN_U7z96Lu71cWCe2HocWzrOurKenBdfhTomfEeUk1m9AxCAaNa5Vl_l5uSxXvAvaLxd-jMEL6ousiCp5zw1MndITcOiD7AStu53jY/s1160/IntangibleHeritages.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="877" data-original-width="1160" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB9LP1TUCuUN0OkpAkZoDj8kyqYo2D8zX9WXQpfHN_U7z96Lu71cWCe2HocWzrOurKenBdfhTomfEeUk1m9AxCAaNa5Vl_l5uSxXvAvaLxd-jMEL6ousiCp5zw1MndITcOiD7AStu53jY/s320/IntangibleHeritages.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>A conference on design, culture and technology – past, present, and future</div><div><br />The buildings, towns and cities we inhabit are physical entities created in the past, experienced in the present, and projected to inform the future. The same can be said of the artefacts we use daily: designed furniture in the home, the mobile devices in our hands, the vehicles we see on our streets. However, each of these places, buildings and products had, at their inception, social and cultural roles beyond their ‘object’ status. They continue to have them today. What we understand a designed object to be then, is a complex question of material and social import, and an intricate play of the tangible and intangible identities. Increasingly, it is also a question of hybrid experiences and overlaid histories. This conference addresses the range of issues connected to this scenario from various perspectives including art history, cultural studies, architecture, interior design, media studies, product and urban design.<br /> <br />For more information, see the website.</div><div><br />Submit an abstract <a href="https://architecturemps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Name_Surname_Summary-Title_Abstract_Canterbury-2022-1.docx" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-8527678106989757173mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed !important; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 25px 18px;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0Giles Ln, Canterbury CT2 7NZ, UK51.2967395 1.06300422.986505663821156 -34.093246 79.606973336178839 36.219254tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-80386219732844904402021-10-02T13:43:00.003-04:002021-10-11T07:58:57.704-04:00DCC 22: 10th Intl Conf on Design Computing and Cognition (Jul 2022, Glasgow, Scotland)Dates: 2-6 July 2022<br />Location: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland UK<br />Website: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/dcc22/">DCC 22</a><br />Deadline for submissions: 17 December 2021<br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAq1-wNRZdFqscP7mX61BgV1k_DhCb8n-aEJabdJsj2EjlRJfvfj9NdTWTZ5Uwgwx5R5gkCcg3wGkDRfkjEVt5n-be5z-FBCWie-kG57P1WhGsMdvn65rLE16qBUT9LswgRmqA150hXs/s600/james_weir_600x400.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="600" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkAq1-wNRZdFqscP7mX61BgV1k_DhCb8n-aEJabdJsj2EjlRJfvfj9NdTWTZ5Uwgwx5R5gkCcg3wGkDRfkjEVt5n-be5z-FBCWie-kG57P1WhGsMdvn65rLE16qBUT9LswgRmqA150hXs/s320/james_weir_600x400.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><b>As of 2 October, the organizers have not determined if the conference will be in situ, hybrid, or virtual.<br /></b><div><br />This biennial conference series provides an international forum for the presentation and discussion of state-of-the-art and cutting-edge design research with a focus on artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience and computational theories in design. The conference proceedings will form a continuing archive of design computing and cognition research. The conference will be preceded by a series of state-of-the-art half-day workshops on specialist topics in design computing, cognition and neurocognition.<br /><br />Research papers covering all areas of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience and computational theories in design are being sought. Posters describing ongoing research will be introduced both as podium and floor presentations.<br /><br />A set of research papers that have been refereed by an international board of reviewers will be presented and published as a book by Springer Nature.<br /><br />Due Dates<br />Full papers for review....December 17, 2021<br />Poster abstracts............February 25, 2022<br />Workshop proposals.....February 25, 2022<br /><br />Conference Chair: John Gero<br />Local Chairs: Phil Cash and Jaap Daalhuizen<br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com016 Richmond St, Glasgow G1 1XQ, UK55.862111 -4.242392735.694511609132604 -39.398642699999996 76.0297103908674 30.9138573tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-36386491895879694362021-09-22T11:28:00.000-04:002021-09-22T11:28:03.879-04:00Teaching Complexity: Education between Environments, Big-Data and Utopia (Apr 2022, VIRTUAL)Dates: 20-22 April 2022<div>Location: Virtual</div><div>Website: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/kassel/" target="_blank">Teaching Complexity</a></div><div>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 5 December 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVXPEeNH_OWihxwil7L-UIKfyaOE34jrmPDUeEaBrVPJk22vTAUkQ3siXEh1RxND_2RrJ_SJueoPg54zzSyHtPtf_e2-AcLZ8ojLYu3RguCAmQ7q0ci5wQNJEFGO7nXaEYmLVmuE3SIs/s632/kassel.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="448" data-original-width="632" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVXPEeNH_OWihxwil7L-UIKfyaOE34jrmPDUeEaBrVPJk22vTAUkQ3siXEh1RxND_2RrJ_SJueoPg54zzSyHtPtf_e2-AcLZ8ojLYu3RguCAmQ7q0ci5wQNJEFGO7nXaEYmLVmuE3SIs/s320/kassel.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>DISCIPLINES: Environmental Design, Architecture, Urban Planning, Building Science, Landscape Design, Environmental Science<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">CALL SUMMARY</h4>This call is concerned with design, planning and ubiquitous data collection in the context of teaching and expanded definitions of work, specifically in relation to complex issues such as climate change, architecture and urban planning.<br /><br />If we take the example of these disciplines, the creation and management of our built environment involves ever more guidelines, laws and participants, all of which increase the complexity of modern planning and design. This coincides with the application of a flood of new technological methods and tools that generate an ever growing data set about every aspect of our lives in the built environment.<br />In dealing with this flood of data, how do we know what knowledge and what data is important? How do we select, interpret and use this data correctly as professionals? Do we really need this data, or do we need new ways of thinking? Does data limit creativity and utopias or does it lead to more creative and better solutions? How should we reflect all this in teaching design and planning?<br /><br />This conference strand seeks to explore whether the increased complexity of the problems we seek to solve, and the increased data we use to do that, leads to better solutions. More specifically, it asks how teaching can support this inquiry and goal. It is our premise that in order to do their jobs effectively educators, and their students, will have to increasingly learn how filter what they really need form the plethora of data and information available to them in relation to questions such as planning, sustainability and performance standards. As we leave the pandemic behind we will have to readdress an issue that had been building long before its arrival - the increasing need to learn to filter, analyse and use ever more information to inform in our professional practice.<br /><br />Part of the event and publication series:<br /><a href="https://architecturemps.com/focus-pedagogy/" target="_blank">A FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY: TEACHING, LEARNING AND RESEARCH IN THE MODERN ACADEMY</a> <br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-682322489930318992021-09-20T21:54:00.003-04:002021-09-20T21:54:33.976-04:00Connectivity in Design: A 'Joined-Up' Approach to Health and Wellbeing (Dec 2021, Virtual)Dates: 1-3 Dec 2021<div>Location: Virtual</div><div>Website: <a href="https://architecturemps.com/northumbria/" target="_blank">CONNECTIVITY</a></div><div>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 25 Oct 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZ6cBnRZjwTmTYqZn8B3Wl1HC8wB0XxGoqBA6QCy7XrPb5PVWRYgKV8-WtGrdeq7IbqGTb6DiuWFxPWh1PpDovKpNgJsUkZUNLt_evhTsSRDULtxfbVYpU4th16FV_aw-JPiAYdYxuqk/s840/Theme-IMage-Northumbria.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="840" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlZ6cBnRZjwTmTYqZn8B3Wl1HC8wB0XxGoqBA6QCy7XrPb5PVWRYgKV8-WtGrdeq7IbqGTb6DiuWFxPWh1PpDovKpNgJsUkZUNLt_evhTsSRDULtxfbVYpU4th16FV_aw-JPiAYdYxuqk/s320/Theme-IMage-Northumbria.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>The COVID-19 pandemic, and the social distancing and ‘lockdown’ measures that have been implemented in response, have refocused the attention of many on the importance of connections to human health. This includes not only the social connections which have been shown to prevent mental health problems (Hawkley & Cacioppo, 2010) but also connections to nature which have been shown to result in decreased physical discomfort (Lohr & Pearson-Mims, 2000) and improved mood (Shibata & Suzuki, 2004), and material connection and sensory stimulation from our environment (Heerwagen, 2012).</div><div><br />Furthermore, the levels of disruption we have experienced to the economy, to education, and to social and cultural activities, have demonstrated how human health and wellbeing is implicitly intertwined with many other aspects of our lives, and should not be treated as an isolated issue. In the goal to prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases, the built environment shares common origins with public health, that can be traced back centuries (Hu and Roberts, 2020).<br /><br />The important role that architecture can play in facilitating social connections, connections with nature, and relationships with the environment though sensory stimulation and variation are well established (Heerwagen, 2012). Meanwhile, at an urban scale, street network connectivity is associated with pedestrian movement and active commuting (Ozbil et al., 2011; Ozbil et al., 2020). Most recently, connectivity in the built environment has taken a digital turn, with the emergence of smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT) promising to render our built environment ever more efficient, sustainable, and responsive (Hamed S. Alavi et al. 2019).<br /><br />This theme invites papers examining the theme of connectivity across healthcare and the built environment. Papers may include, but are not limited to, studies of the health and wellbeing implications associated with:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>networks to facilitate active transport;</li><li>human-building interactions;</li><li>designing to facilitate social connections/connections with nature; </li><li>connections with other priority agendas in the built environment.</li></ul>Formats: Zoom, pre-recorded, lightning talks, written papers<br /><br />Run by SURFACE for more information visit: <a href="http://www.surface.salford.ac.uk/">http://www.surface.salford.ac.uk</a>.<br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-89757390457009271442021-09-08T12:29:00.003-04:002021-09-08T12:29:20.322-04:00Special Issue of Architecture: Contemporary Issues in Participatory Architecture (Dec 2021)Website: <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/architecture/special_issues/Contemporary_Issues_Participatory_Architecture" target="_blank">Architecture</a><div>Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg613R-wyZzt_p_wzlXV_9J_YjCpD5SuRFSgxmzG5_3FbHsTgqnaLMrU3iKXwSoSlIVrdg9zBNAlqThqLoHbGGsLhmvki-0gkV_kn7V-CjTZEAkbjs88VyfG9eAoQG-R8RfFfN9-GgyRFA/s1298/architecture-logo-png-650%25C3%2597140-.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="1298" height="68" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg613R-wyZzt_p_wzlXV_9J_YjCpD5SuRFSgxmzG5_3FbHsTgqnaLMrU3iKXwSoSlIVrdg9zBNAlqThqLoHbGGsLhmvki-0gkV_kn7V-CjTZEAkbjs88VyfG9eAoQG-R8RfFfN9-GgyRFA/s320/architecture-logo-png-650%25C3%2597140-.png" width="320" /></a></div>Special Issue theme: Contemporary Issues in Participatory Architecture<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">About the journal</h4>Architecture is an international peer-reviewed, open access journal published by MDPI. This journal is specifically addressed to scholars in architecture and provides a rare and unique opportunity for us to publish high-quality research in our own field, thus reinforcing a much awaited network of scientific publications specifically dedicated to architecture. In addition, the Special Issue focuses on participatory architecture, which is still an under-explored, but important and timely topic for architectural practice and research. As Architecture is a new journal, note that your submission (once peer-reviewed and accepted) will be completely free of charge if published before 30 April 2022. Moreover, the peer-review process will be rather short.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">About the Special Issue</h4>This Special Issue intends to shed light on recent innovation (research-driven or practice-driven) in participatory architecture. What are the contemporary issues in that regard? Are there any recently adapted, renewed tools, methods, environments and models of interaction and participation that have been developed and specifically tailored for the architectural field? How could theoretical, empirical, experimental initiatives (either from the architectural field or from any other discipline) help us to root participatory architecture into practice? Any research paper with strong theoretical, empirical, or experimental findings, prone to helping the architectural field to bridge the gap toward users’ active involvement is welcome, regardless of its epistemological or disciplinary position.<br /><br />Deadline for manuscript submission: 15 December 2021<br /><br />For further details and submission information, please visit the official <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/architecture/special_issues/Contemporary_Issues_Participatory_Architecture" target="_blank">webpage</a>.<br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-34777688371219474922021-09-06T20:51:00.006-04:002021-09-06T20:51:40.570-04:00Special Issue of Design and Culture: Design-Led Repair (Oct 2021)<p>Website: <a href="http://designandculture.org/" target="_blank">Design and Culture</a><br />Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 8 October 2021</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAc0P5wN0zbgRkdZ-hPBL9V0jNB9MWlXrUcN1jcGqTygQvLprm94b8TUaErlgyIAzJzvX9Amm3QSOqJu_Um9JJarL13UZNwoOfWvCsdyLr_iPA3ouIYrnXzyVLUQlovx_AwD4Ta0LrhA/s1310/design-and-culture.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1310" data-original-width="1308" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRAc0P5wN0zbgRkdZ-hPBL9V0jNB9MWlXrUcN1jcGqTygQvLprm94b8TUaErlgyIAzJzvX9Amm3QSOqJu_Um9JJarL13UZNwoOfWvCsdyLr_iPA3ouIYrnXzyVLUQlovx_AwD4Ta0LrhA/s320/design-and-culture.png" width="320" /></a></div>DESIGN-LED REPAIR: Expression of Interest for a special issue (Design and Culture) Designers, repairers, interdisciplinary practitioners and academics are invited to submit contributions relevant to the theme Design-Led Repair.<p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Provocation:</h4><p>Repair is increasingly recognised as part of design but this connection needs to be underscored by conditions of urgency. The climatic disasters we are currently facing and the ones to come require repair to be at the forefront as a first responder. Product longevity and durability, despite being recognised by design as properties to establish, have not deterred the rampant pace of consumerism. By exploring the agency of repair versus other practices of a circular economy (such as recycling and remanufacturing), this special issue aims to explore the role of design in repair but also how repair is changing the practice and ethos of design. It also aspires to address the significance of aesthetics in relation to the transformation of any product type, by any particular method, into something usable again.</p><p>In this context, a design-led repair approach might be driven by the symbolism of waste and what it provokes (Muniesa 2014) in terms of economic, technological, ecological, social, and materials innovation; the responsibility of designers and users to identify in waste the ecological consequences of everyday life; existing cultures of repair involving culturally diverse social, and creative practices of reuse and repair; and mindfully designing what will become waste as well as redirecting or ‘designing out’ waste. In spite of repair’s prevalent interpretation through an Eurocentric and technocentric lens, this approach acknowledges its strong connection to resilience as experienced by First Nations, migrant and eco-communities, and situated, intergenerational knowledges.</p><p>The proposed special issue seeks to expand the existing knowledge on design-led repair beyond the manufacturing and legislative milieu to reveal the yet to be identified spaces/communities of repair as lived experience. For this reason, it invites written, practical, and visual investigations of design-led repair as a practice that encompasses the aforementioned values and responds to the pressing need for design to repair its relationship with natural and social environments. Contributions could be: a case study of transformative repair; research into a community initiative redirecting repair practices locally or repairing communities via creative means and strategies; a critical analysis of design-led repair as a practice that redesigns everyday life and vice versa; an exploration of the aesthetic importance of repair; and a theoretical exploration of repair as an intersection between specialist training and lived experience/human practice. </p><p>We are interested in contributions that address the following questions:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>How do we capture and show repair value? How is repair a practice of value creation or co-creation? How do we demonstrate and share repair value?</li><li>How do we bring to the fore the significance of repair aesthetics? And how is this significance connected to the symbolic economy that drives designs and shortens product lifespans?</li><li>How can we rediscover repair as a human-scale practice? How can we unveil and amplify already existing repair and/or maintenance practices?</li><li>What would design-led repair look like?</li><li>What type of waste would we like/not like to design or design with?</li><li>How can we un-pacify waste?</li><li>What can design-led repair be acknowledged outside a Eurocentric/technocentric scope?</li><li>How could culturally diverse repair cultures lead design-led repair?</li></ul><p></p><p>Contributions for this issue could take one of the following forms: Design research papers, speculative design papers, visual essays, interviews/conversations, reflections on/reviews of projects/case studies, a statement of practice. </p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Expression Of Interest (EOI):</h4><p>Contributors are invited to express their interest by 8/10/2021 by emailing <a href="mailto:e.kalantidou@griffith.edu.au">e.kalantidou@griffith.edu.au</a>; <a href="mailto:g.keulemans@unsw.edu.au">g.keulemans@unsw.edu.au</a>.</p><p>The EOI should include a 250-word abstract, the contributor(s)’ email address, title, affiliation and location. It should also include visual evidence (for visual essays), and a brief statement indicating the connection to the special issue questions. The EOI will be reviewed by the editorial team as the intention for a full draft submission. Guidelines for a full submission will be provided after the completion of the EOI process.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Important deadlines/dates:</h4><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>EOI due: 8/10/2021</li><li>Contributors notified: 30/10/2021</li><li>Full draft for peer review due (late drafts will not be accepted): 1/2/2022</li><li>Notification of acceptance: March-April 2022</li><li>Deadline for revised articles: April-May 2022</li><li>Final articles including permissions and images due: May 2022</li></ul><p></p>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-55807023774566440862021-09-06T19:58:00.000-04:002021-09-06T19:58:41.664-04:00Annual Conf of the Design Research Society (Jun-Jul 2022, Bilbao, Spain)Dates: 25 June - 3 July 2022<div>Location: Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain</div><div>Website: <a href="https://www.drs2022.org/" target="_blank">DRS2022</a></div><div>Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVx5ZXzACYxIyVUwSNIXGhMnRDP5le_Qki32uGOKVP1LqF2R06DOp9KzqmrnQDxgCebzKCcdtREkRcuu_i1IeubKK9nARGKjC317umakrQYNjZF3gL973x5IsgWB1_9xEQ_bceAWNR1Y/s2048/bilbao.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1366" data-original-width="2048" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZVx5ZXzACYxIyVUwSNIXGhMnRDP5le_Qki32uGOKVP1LqF2R06DOp9KzqmrnQDxgCebzKCcdtREkRcuu_i1IeubKK9nARGKjC317umakrQYNjZF3gL973x5IsgWB1_9xEQ_bceAWNR1Y/s320/bilbao.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>We are living through extraordinary times where design in many forms is necessary to counter the enormous problems we face in the challenges of our coexistence.<br /><br />How has the discipline of design research responded? Can design and design research bring the insights and methods needed for transformation and collaboration?<br /><br />Join us at the Guggenheim in Bilbao for DRS2022, a hybrid conference with unique participation opportunities and a showcase for the best in design research. Whatever your orientation to design research we encourage you to participate, to show the true diversity and potential of our discipline.<br /><br />DRS2022 is hosted by the city of Bilbao, in Northwest Spain, in association with the University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) and the wider ecosystem of local academic and design institutions. In 2014 Bilbao became a member of the UNESCO City of Design network. As such, it hosts a permanent Design and Creativity Council with a mission to promote design-oriented urban policies and to integrate goals related to the cultural and creative industries into local development plans. Bilbao recently joined the Global Destination Sustainability Index with a commitment to meet specific guidelines for the development of more sustainable conferences.<br /><br />DRS2022 is also hosted online in a hybrid mode, with opportunities for new interactions between the place-based and online conferences. The extended conference format will give you the chance to experience the energy and creativity of Bilbao wherever you choose to participate from.<br /><br />CALL FOR PARTICIPATION<br />Participation for DRS2022 takes a number of different formats. Theme Tracks aim to capitalize on emerging and specialized research networks. Research Papers can be submitted to an open call or theme-track. Conversation Sessions provide an opportunity for structured discussion exploring emerging themes. Workshops provide practical experience of methods and research outcomes, and Labs offer an opportunity to conduct design research through engagement with local organisations. A PhD Researcher event will help develop the next generation of design researchers through building new capabilities and critical thinking.<br /><br />THEME TRACKS<br />To capitalize on emerging research networks we welcome proposals for theme-track sessions of full papers related to any area of design research not already covered by existing Special Interest Groups. These sessions will be managed individually by sub-chairs as part of the general paper submission, peer-review, and final programme. Sub-chairs will be responsible for suggesting and allocating reviewers and curating conference sessions.<br />Proposals should consist of a title, a proposed sub-chair for the session, a list of 2-3 key people who will oversee the review process for theme-track submissions, a theme context and outline (up to 250 words), and a small number of references to indicate theme scope.<br /><br />To allow us to publicise additional theme-tracks prior to the full-paper deadline, theme-track proposals should be submitted to the conference submission system by the deadline of July 26th 2021. <br />Theme-track proposals will be reviewed by the programme committee with sub-chairs informed of outcomes within two weeks of the deadline. Successful proposals will be publicised as part of the conference call.<br />Paper submissions for successful theme-tracks will take place via the online submission system alongside the open call for paper submissions.<br /><br />RESEARCH PAPERS<br />DRS2022 invites new paper submissions in an open call or theme-track. We embrace research looking at and using design in the widest possible sense, with interdisciplinary work particularly encouraged. Further details about theme-tracks will be announced in due course.<br />Submission is for full papers only up to 5000 words, including abstracts and references, and should adhere to the conference paper submission guidelines, available in August on the conference website. All submissions must be in the English language.<br />Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present their work at the conference, either physically or virtually according to the hybrid nature of the event. All accepted papers will be published in the DRS Digital Library and available to view approximately one month before the beginning of the conference.<br />Paper submission system will be open from 1st September 2021 and full papers must be submitted by 15th November 2021. <br /><br />DRS CONVERSATIONS<br />In past conferences the DRS Conversation format has proved a valuable and high quality format for structured discussions that advance emergent forms of design research and will form part of DRS2022. DRS Conversations provide an innovative venue for work that is not easily captured or conveyed by the scholarly paper. Proposals will be peer-reviewed with accepted Conversations becoming published in the DRS Digital Library Further details about the submission of proposals for Conversations will follow in the coming months with deadlines in February 2022.<br /><br />WORKSHOPS<br />DRS Workshops have become one of the most valued aspects of DRS conferences, providing a space for practical engagement and experimental sessions for conference participants to experience. Workshop proposals will be peer reviewed. Further details about the submission of proposals for Workshops and Experimental sessions will follow in the coming months with deadlines in February 2022.<br /><br />DRS LABS<br />A new format for DRS2022 is DRS Labs. With this format we would like to encourage design researchers to engage with local organisations in a defined project. In this way the conference can bring direct benefit to the local region and demonstrate the potential that design research can bring.<br />DRS labs can be projects of any size. Partner organisations will list potential projects at the beginning of 2022. These can range from architecture and planning to societal and sustainability problems, governance or product/service design. A number of longer term residences for more sustained local engagement will also be available.<br />Further details about the DRS Lab projects and residences will be available at the beginning of 2022.<br /><br />PHD RESEARCHER EVENT<br />DRS2022 will feature an innovative PhD Researcher event with the objective of vocalising and discussing theoretical and practice-based doctoral work through many of the topical issues of conducting a PhD in design research. The event activities will be designed to generate knowledge about cutting-edge practices and resources for doing a PhD, and will feature mentoring by research leaders. The event aims to provide a supportive and engaged environment in which to share practices, experiences, dilemmas, failures and doubts in order to contribute to the wider PhD design research community.<br /><br />TIMETABLE TO DRS2022<br />Deadline for theme-track session proposals: 26th July 2021<br />Deadline for full papers: 15th November 2021<br />Notification of accepted papers: February 2022<br />Deadline for Conversations, Workshops, Labs: February 2022<br />Conference Dates: 25th June - 3rd July 2022<br /><br />CONTACT<br />Any queries about the conference should be directed to: <a href="mailto:admin@drs2022.org">admin@drs2022.org</a><br />Conference website: <a href="https://www.drs2022.org/">https://www.drs2022.org</a> (not yet live!)<br />For regular updates follow us on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/drs2022">twitter.com/drs2022</a> (not yet live!)<br />The Design Research Society is a multi-disciplinary learned society for the design research community worldwide. DRS was founded in 1966, and since then has established a record of significant achievements in contributing to design knowledge.<br />You can visit the DRS website at: <a href="http://www.designresearchsociety.org/">http://www.designresearchsociety.org</a></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, 48009 Bilbo, Bizkaia, Spain43.2686712 -2.934011814.958437363821155 -38.0902618 71.578905036178838 32.2222382tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-72268860180319927722021-09-04T16:14:00.001-04:002021-09-04T16:14:21.579-04:00EuroGP 2022: 25th European Conf on Genetic Programming (Apr 2022, Location TBA)Dates: 20-22 April 2022<div>Location: TBA</div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.evostar.org/2022/eurogp/" target="_blank">EuroGP 2022</a></div><div>Deadline for submissions: 1 November 2021<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0UPnjl6G03ngKTQHxCMAL7hDLuj3IzB1av10M1_rjl5-B4bfOGjOzoNqGg9328MKa1lBvoOYe7fwLTY_zzUUPAYFUfhmBE6guOhKZ4UyLp0ImxnVZ8soxEWIK3F7I9YDThHKgCeXiN4c/s882/EuroGP.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="882" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0UPnjl6G03ngKTQHxCMAL7hDLuj3IzB1av10M1_rjl5-B4bfOGjOzoNqGg9328MKa1lBvoOYe7fwLTY_zzUUPAYFUfhmBE6guOhKZ4UyLp0ImxnVZ8soxEWIK3F7I9YDThHKgCeXiN4c/s320/EuroGP.png" width="320" /></a></div>Important dates</h4>Submission deadline: 1 November 2021<br />EvoStar Conference: 20-22 April, 2022<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">EuroGP</h4>EuroGP is the premier annual conference on Genetic Programming (GP), the oldest and the only meeting worldwide devoted specifically to this branch of evolutionary computation. It is always a high-quality, enjoyable, friendly event, attracting participants from all continents, and offering excellent opportunities for networking, informal contact, and exchange of ideas with fellow researchers. It will feature a mixture of oral presentations and poster sessions and invited keynote speakers.<br /><br />EuroGP is featured in the conference ranking database CORE (<a href="http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/481/">http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/481/</a>).<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">EvoStar</h4>EvoStar is a leading international event devoted to evolutionary computing, comprising four conferences, EuroGP, EvoApplications, EvoCOP, and EvoMUSART. The low-cost registration includes access to all of them, as well as daily lunch and the conference reception and banquet.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Topics<div><span style="font-weight: 400;">Topics to be covered include, but is not limited to:</span></div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Innovative applications of GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Theoretical developments</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">GP performance and behaviour</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fitness landscape analysis of GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Algorithms, representations and operators for GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Search-based software engineering</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Genetic improvement programming</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evolutionary design</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evolutionary robotics</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tree-based GP and Linear GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Graph-based GP and Grammar-based GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evolvable hardware</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Self-reproducing programs</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Multi-population GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Multi-objective GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Parallel GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Probabilistic GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Object-orientated GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hybrid architectures including GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Coevolution and modularity in GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Semantics in GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unconventional GP</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Automatic software maintenance</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evolutionary inductive programming</span></li><li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Evolution of automata or machines</span></li></ul></div></h4></div><div><h4 style="text-align: left;">the EvoML joint track</h4>Please visit: <a href="http://www.evostar.org/2022/eml/">http://www.evostar.org/2022/eml/</a><br /><br />This joint track on Evolutionary Machine Learning (EML) will provide a specialized forum of discussion and exchange of information for researchers interested in exploring approaches that combine nature and nurture, with the long-term goal of evolving Artificial Intelligence (AI).<br /><br />In response to the growing interest in the area, and consequent advances of the state-of-the-art, the special session covers theoretical and practical advances on the combination of Evolutionary Computation (EC) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques.<br /><br />As a joint EuroGP+EvoAPPS track, authors should decide whether their paper will be treated within EvoApplications or EuroGP at the submission time.<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Paper submission</h4>High-quality submissions not exceeding 16 pages in Springer LNCS format are now solicited. Accepted papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The highest quality papers may also be invited to submit extensions for publication in a special issue of the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (GPEM).</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-72809528724673120792021-08-29T12:08:00.002-04:002021-08-29T12:08:17.577-04:00DESIGN 2022: 17th Intl Design Conf (May 2022, Dubrovnik, Croatia)Dates: May 23-26, 2022<br />Location: Hotel Croatia, Cavtat, CAVTAT - DUBROVNIK, Croatia<br />Website: <a href="https://www.designconference.org/" target="_blank">Design 2022</a><div>Deadline for submissions: 15 November 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-5zrRncGLXC42fC3pxERWgEV3knyfGnFKOiISg0xU4Ixd4YQJcjuLT7WNESNbr0v-V8DGmOg-S-8B3IJ1NynFQQ_kBNesvwUOW5gXiqOgqfzCjUYcwG_s8iJGO5Z3GArcwth5Q6rTs8/s1286/DESIGN-2022-DESIGN-Conference.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="1286" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN-5zrRncGLXC42fC3pxERWgEV3knyfGnFKOiISg0xU4Ixd4YQJcjuLT7WNESNbr0v-V8DGmOg-S-8B3IJ1NynFQQ_kBNesvwUOW5gXiqOgqfzCjUYcwG_s8iJGO5Z3GArcwth5Q6rTs8/s320/DESIGN-2022-DESIGN-Conference.png" width="320" /></a></div>The forthcoming DESIGN 2022 Conference will continue to be a great event founded on tradition and excellence. Although the pandemic amplified our networking capabilities and forced us to organise the previous conference online, we believe DESIGN 2022 conference will provide an invaluable opportunity to meet colleagues face-to-face, exchange new ideas, and build a personal network in direct contact.<br /><br />We invite high-quality submissions for DESIGN 2022 covering substantial, original, and previously unpublished research. Applied, theoretical, and results-oriented papers from academia and industry, based on thorough analysis or argumentation, will be considered for the conference programme.<br /><br />Submissions should fit into one of the proposed conference topics:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>DESIGN THEORY AND RESEARCH METHODS</li><li>DESIGN ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT</li><li>DESIGN INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE</li><li>DESIGN SUPPORT TOOLS AND METHODS</li><li>HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN DESIGN</li><li>DESIGN CREATIVITY</li><li>COLLABORATIVE DESIGN</li><li>DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY</li><li>DESIGN FOR HEALTHCARE</li><li>ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DATA-DRIVEN DESIGN</li><li>INDUSTRIAL DESIGN</li><li>SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND DESIGN</li><li>DESIGN EDUCATION</li><li>ENGINEERING DESIGN PRACTICE</li></ul>Detailed description of the topics is available at: <a href="https://www.designconference.org/topics">https://www.designconference.org/topics</a><br /><br />IMPORTANT DATES:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Online submission will open on July 1, 2021</li><li>Full paper submission deadline: November 15, 2021</li><li>Final acceptance of papers: February 1, 2022</li><li>Publish ready papers: February 25, 2022</li><li>Final conference program: April 2022</li></ul>PROGRAMME CHAIRS:<br />John Clarkson, University of Cambridge, GBR<br />Tim McAloone, Technical University of Denmark, DNK<br />Julie Stahl-Le Cardinal, CentraleSupelec, FRA<br />Sandro Wartzack, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DEU<br />Mario Storga, University of Zagreb, HRV<br />Dorian Marjanovic, University of Zagreb, HRV<br /><br />DESIGN 2022 is an endorsed event of The Design Society (<a href="http://www.designsociety.org/">www.designsociety.org</a>).<br /><br />DESIGN Conference papers are published online at Cambridge Core Journals pages as: Proceedings of the Design Society: DESIGN Conference. All papers are indexed in SCOPUS and WOS - CPCI and referenced in CrossRef with DOI identifier.<br /><br />Further information is available on the DESIGN 2022 web site: <a href="http://www.designconference.org/">www.designconference.org</a><br /><br />Organising Secretariat address:<br />DESIGN 2022 Secretariat<br />Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture<br />10000 Zagreb, I. Lucica 5, CROATIA<br />Phone: +385 1 6168 432<br />E-mail: <a href="mailto:design2022@fsb.hr">design2022@fsb.hr</a><br />Web: <a href="http://www.designconference.org/">www.designconference.org</a></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0Dubrovnik, Croatia42.650660599999988 18.094423814.340426763821142 -17.0618262 70.960894436178833 53.2506738tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-54883244573927326782021-08-25T13:22:00.004-04:002021-09-07T07:41:52.677-04:00Research & Education in Design Conference 2022 (May 2022, HYBRID - Lisbon, Portugal)Dates: 19-20 May 2022<div>Location: HYBRID / Lisbon School of Architecture, University of Lisbon, Portugal<br />Website: <a href="https://redesconference.fa.ulisboa.pt/" target="_blank">REDES 2022</a></div><div>Deadline for submissions: 9 November 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPi6ELtRhPRV7QW_qYMzGi-1Pgsjc8FIQGqg5L421EH-Xl7Ba2VzPQ8hxTVLeJ3LJHuB0NA4Z2Ev5FtdRe_nymbqNt5KVkoonlA2CGyH45eyMcx6E4mwQc9VMRoBmkBVTiMVi2sHLZQw4/s1186/redes2022.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1144" data-original-width="1186" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPi6ELtRhPRV7QW_qYMzGi-1Pgsjc8FIQGqg5L421EH-Xl7Ba2VzPQ8hxTVLeJ3LJHuB0NA4Z2Ev5FtdRe_nymbqNt5KVkoonlA2CGyH45eyMcx6E4mwQc9VMRoBmkBVTiMVi2sHLZQw4/s320/redes2022.png" width="320" /></a></div>Conference theme: REDEFINING PROXIMITY<br /><br />Papers will be selected after a double-blind review process.<br /><br />The Research & Education in Design (REDES) group invites research papers for submission to its 2022 international conference. The REDES2022 Conference aims to explore, analyse, and advance the connections between design research and design education; the conference themes are organised around the intersections of the main theme of Proximity with the four main sources of design knowledge: people, processes, products, and philosophy.<br /><br />Conference themes:<br /><br />1. Proximity & people<br />2. Proximity & Processes<br />3. Proximity & Products<br />4. Proximity & Philosophy<br /><br />Proximity, as the overarching theme, hopes to trigger a wide range of perspectives. We welcome the different lines of inquiry that educators and researchers may find in relation to their own practice, and how these may connect within and across the different topics.<br /><br /><a href="http://redesconference.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/themes">http://redesconference.fa.ulisboa.pt/index.php/themes</a><br /><br />The call is for full papers only; the maximum number of words is 4000 excluding abstract and references.<br /><br />Any questions please contact the conference organisers via the following email address <a href="mailto:redesconference@fa.ulisboa.pt">redesconference@fa.ulisboa.pt</a>.<br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-64995704539618637182021-08-23T11:12:00.002-04:002021-11-03T16:17:47.798-04:00EvoMUSART11: 11th Intl Conf on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art, and Design (Apr 2022)Dates: 20-22 April 2022<div>Location: TBD</div><div>Website: <a href="https://www.evostar.org/2022/evomusart/" target="_blank">EvoMUSART</a></div><div>Deadline for submissions: <span style="color: red;">UPDATED 24 November 2021</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5DjzAoAu8kUAU5opgxRLaWfE4S4_RrzvqYsBXHZabjBGNLePj3CvtpA0JjptDvKi58Woos6HBhY9eo0OMDeFAK_JaFkiIKzCrX01ngPkIVo3fnOHeRDep_fNG2jX3plN_zl8RSNcAyw/s1024/evo2022_conf_3-1024x512.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5DjzAoAu8kUAU5opgxRLaWfE4S4_RrzvqYsBXHZabjBGNLePj3CvtpA0JjptDvKi58Woos6HBhY9eo0OMDeFAK_JaFkiIKzCrX01ngPkIVo3fnOHeRDep_fNG2jX3plN_zl8RSNcAyw/s320/evo2022_conf_3-1024x512.png" width="320" /></a></div>EvoMUSART is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together researchers who are working on the application of Artificial Neural Networks, Evolutionary Computation, Swarm Intelligence, Cellular Automata, Alife, and other Artificial Intelligence techniques in creative and artist fields such as Visual Art, Music, Architecture, Video, Digital Games, Poetry, or Design. This conference gives researchers in the field the opportunity to promote, present and discuss ongoing work in the area.<br /><br />Submissions must be at most 16 pages long, in Springer LNCS format. Each submission must be anonymised for a double-blind review process.<br /><br />Accepted papers will be presented orally or as posters at the event and included in the EvoMUSART proceedings published by Springer Nature in a dedicated volume of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.<br /><br />Indicative topics include but are not limited to:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Systems that create drawings, images, animations, sculptures, poetry, text, designs, webpages, buildings, etc.;</li><li>Systems that create musical pieces, sounds, instruments, voices, sound effects, sound analysis, etc.;</li><li>Systems that create artefacts such as game content, architecture, furniture, based on aesthetic and/or functional criteria;</li><li>Systems that resort to artificial intelligence to perform the analysis of image, music, sound, sculpture, or some other types of artistic objects;</li><li>Systems in which artificial intelligence is used to promote the creativity of a human user;</li><li>Theories or models of computational aesthetics;</li><li>Computational models of emotional response, surprise, novelty;</li><li>Representation techniques for images, videos, music, etc.;</li><li>Surveys of the current state-of-the-art in the area;</li><li>New ways of integrating the user in the process (e.g. improvisation, co-creation, participation).</li></ul>More information on the submission process and the topics of EvoMUSART can be found at: <a href="http://www.evostar.org/2022/evomusart/">www.evostar.org/2022/evomusart/</a><br /><br />Papers published in EvoMUSART can be found at: <a href="https://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt/">https://evomusart-index.dei.uc.pt</a></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-79749172945956094422021-08-17T10:14:00.002-04:002021-08-17T10:14:48.090-04:00Dialectic 6 (Oct 2021)Website: <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/what-we-publish" target="_blank">Dialectic</a><div>Deadline for submissions: 22 October 2021<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGN_4CsMm089opApz7tAtnOX7gC-h-iDljfSbZvnK8K8AQsPOWlm023zNbcwgdONC052UNmCqKcYr2AOYk8jUoBQlp3OEYZOrgGcL4Af3tFuT2C3hyayvynXmFijtyEos9NMbnLwEX2Co/s420/dialectic.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="81" data-original-width="420" height="62" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGN_4CsMm089opApz7tAtnOX7gC-h-iDljfSbZvnK8K8AQsPOWlm023zNbcwgdONC052UNmCqKcYr2AOYk8jUoBQlp3OEYZOrgGcL4Af3tFuT2C3hyayvynXmFijtyEos9NMbnLwEX2Co/s320/dialectic.png" width="320" /></a></div>The sixth issue of Dialectic is slated to be published in the early spring of 2022 by University of Michigan Publishing and the AIGA DEC. This peer-reviewed, scholarly journal is now accepting submissions across all eight of the subject matter categories within which it publishes research, scholarship, and criticism in and around design education and practice and their intersections. To learn more about these categories, and how to effectively prepare a manuscript so that our editorial assessment team can review it, please visit the following URLs:<br /><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/what-we-publish">https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/what-we-publish</a><br />and<br /><a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/submit">https://quod.lib.umich.edu/d/dialectic/submit</a><br /><br />The deadline by which submissions must be uploaded to our online submissions portal is Friday, October 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm, CDT (U.S.). The URL of this portal is:<br /><a href="https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/dialectic/submissions/">https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/dialectic/submissions/</a><br /><br />Submissions for possible publication in Dialectic’s sixth issue can include written work or visual narratives/visual essays that are written to satisfy the specific theme articulated in the next paragraph, OR—that have not been written or designed to meet a specific set of themed parameters, but that do indeed meet the logistical parameters specified on a per-category basis in the web pages that are on offer at the first of the three URLs listed above.<br /><br />In addition to the open call for submissions that was just described, Dialectic’s sixth issue is ALSO seeking submissions that critically address and assess the types of strategic and tactical roles that decision-making in the arenas of design education, professional practice, research, scholarship, and criticism have had in a more focused thematic area. Specifically, we invite submissions that examine, interrogate and/or criticize how designers and their collaborators have affected one or more types or examples of disinformation or misinformation over the course of the past 10 years, or the past 10 months, or a span of time between these, in a particular setting or settings.<br /><br />The effects of intentionally concocting and spreading false information—disinformation—have become more acutely felt across the globe as diverse population groups have struggled to address a wide variety of specious, misleading, or erroneous narratives. These have worked to (for example) counter the need to increase vaccination rates to curb the spread of Covid-19, to oppose the operation of free and fair elections, and to counteract assessments of the effects of climate change (and what might be done to alter this, and why it is important to do so). The effects of spreading false information regardless of intent—misinformation—can and have led to small- and large-misperceptions that fuel thoughts and behaviors that are inappropriate, disproportionate, ill-suited to the situation at hand, or just plain wrong. Considering these circumstances, we invite designers, design educators and design researchers—and their collaborators—to look more closely, and perhaps more inwardly, at how and why we have agency in both exacerbating and suppressing these phenomena.</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-60495074505831776392021-08-13T19:22:00.005-04:002021-08-13T19:22:35.084-04:00Participatory Design Conference 2022 (Aug 2022, HYBRID)Dates: 30 Aug - 1 Sep 2022<br />Location: HYBRID (details below)<br />Website: <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#">PDC2022</a><br />Deadline for submission of full papers: 18 October 2021 <br /><br />The Participatory Design Conference (PDC) is a leading venue for research on the direct involvement of people in the design, development, implementation and appropriation of technologies, artefacts and services. PDC brings together a multidisciplinary and international group of researchers and practitioners encompassing a wide range of issues that emerge around participatory design, encountered and discussed in multiple fields and disciplines.<div><br />2022 will see the 17th edition of the PDC conference, which is being “hosted” by <a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/">Newcastle University</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newcastle_upon_Tyne">Newcastle upon Tyne</a> in the United Kingdom. However, with ongoing uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and with a desire to make PDC more inclusive while reducing its carbon footprint, the 2022 conference will have a radically different format. While PDC 2022 will run a conference event in Newcastle upon Tyne between 30th August and 1st September 2022 (COVID-19 permitting), it will interface with a number of international <a href="https://pdc2022.org/places/">PDC Places</a> – smaller in-person events and activities ran in different locations around the world – with each Place shaped and organised by local participatory design researchers and practitioners. Asynchronous and synchronous online activities will occur before the week of the conference (15th August- 29th August) and after the conference (2nd September-16th September) to connect PDC participants across Places.<br /><br />The theme for the 2022 conference is <a href="https://pdc2022.org/cfp/">Embracing Cosmologies: Expanding Worlds of Participatory Design</a>, building on the themes of the last editions of the conference that have drawn attention to the wider political, systemic and pluralistic qualities of participatory design research and practice.</div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-80637279377853833872021-08-09T14:22:00.003-04:002021-08-09T14:22:33.512-04:00Special Issue of Edinburgh Architecture Research: Moving onward: methodological explorations (Sep 2021)Website: <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ear-journal/" target="_blank">EAR37</a><div>Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 September 2021<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxdt8kp6qQTZa2ol5OhIJbF3PLSGjkxyche0QRByDNMucqU7sW9uIx_DI59ERVlPupuDzh7gFCJ13xOLoUGo8m_FwiVWaUQxX_rwFWkKJlK6oRoity3Wd8gYw0GciB889WDMgQzGXL_OU/s2645/EAR.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1189" data-original-width="2645" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxdt8kp6qQTZa2ol5OhIJbF3PLSGjkxyche0QRByDNMucqU7sW9uIx_DI59ERVlPupuDzh7gFCJ13xOLoUGo8m_FwiVWaUQxX_rwFWkKJlK6oRoity3Wd8gYw0GciB889WDMgQzGXL_OU/s320/EAR.png" width="320" /></a></div>The future is met with apprehension, the more so in the present period of pandemic and uncertainty. At the moment there is a real need to face the future, but how do we proceed and move onward? Sociologist John Law suggests in After Method: Mess in Social Science Research (2004) that methods do not only describe realities but create them. If so, what kind of methods, procedures and tools are we using now to move onward? What kind of realities are we creating? What challenges have we encountered? <br /><br />We are interested in papers that investigate the engagement of studies of the built environment with creative methodological explorations. Due to the overlap of the built environment with numerous fields of arts, humanities and social sciences, the methodologies adopted by architectural scholars have often been varied and interdisciplinary. With the increased availability of digital tools, further possibilities have emerged for architectural scholars to adopt and experiment with new tools and practices. On the other hand, those who engaged with ethnographic work or archival research have been facing challenges due to the recent pandemic, forcing new ways of undertaking studies ‘in the field’. In this issue, we are seeking papers which explore how methodological explorations, both as a result of limitations and potentials, might open up new roads of engagement, inquiry and research and the implications that emerge. Following up from the previous issue where we have explored ‘format’, as a fundamental tool of communication for architecture which transcends many fields of study and which navigates many interested parties, we are diving into ‘method’ in this issue to create a platform for a discussion across research and practices. <br /><br />This issue accepts contributions of up to 5000 words, in formats including articles, short essays, field reports (WIP) or book reviews. We are also hoping to make use of the online format and will be accepting abstracts in alternative forms– film, audio, photo essays, etc. on the following themes:<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Projects that use recent digital tools (e.g. 3D digital printing, Lidar, data science, GIS) </li><li>Methodological shifts and experiments due to the recent pandemic </li><li>Unexpected discoveries which have led to new lines of inquiry </li><li>Ethical explorations on particular inter/cross/transdisciplinary methods adopted by the author’s architectural work </li><li>Combining Methods </li><li>How have the notions of ‘archive’ and ‘field work’ been challenged, and what innovative methodological approaches have resulted? </li><li>Are we still moving onward to the same goal or have new ideas changed both our methods and our destination? </li></ul>To be considered for this issue, please submit an abstract of 300 words along with author name(s), institutional affiliations, and contact details by 30th of September 2021.<br />Provisional timeline:<br />September 30th, 2021: Abstract Submission<br />October 07th, 2021: Feedback<br />December 15th, 2021: Full Paper Submission for Review<br />February 21th, 2022: Revised/Final Paper Submission<br />March 21th, 2022: Publication of the Issue<br /><br />[Note that the dates are subject to change]<br />Submission instructions:<br /><br />Please send papers and abstracts with the subject “Your Name EAR Call37” to EAR.journal@ed.ac.uk<br /><br />Editorial Team: <br />Rory Lamb (PhD Architectural History, University of Edinburgh) <br />Hafsa Olcay (PhD Architecture, University of Edinburgh) <br />Estefania Pineiros (PhD Cultural Studies, University of Edinburgh) <br />Katherine Vyhmeister (PhD Architectural History, University of Edinburgh) <br /><br />For general enquiries about the call please contact <a href="mailto:EAR.journal@ed.ac.uk">EAR.journal@ed.ac.uk</a>.<br /><br />Visit the previous issues here: <a href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ear-journal/previous-issues/">https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/ear-journal/previous-issues/</a> </div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389378225362699292.post-89994787763006465802021-08-07T16:07:00.007-04:002021-08-07T16:07:57.739-04:00SoCPaR 2021: 13th Intl Conf on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (Dec 2021, Virtual)Dates: 15-17 December 2021<div>Location: Virtual</div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.org/socpar21/" target="_blank">SoCPaR21</a><br />Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2021</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxUoiv6pDYuct7Rr_yC6pviCnqqXE2_yWxZk53W4ZVwPMHvLcWknp0i7b9BVHZz-M_8OLH-e-GlxdheXjIJJZjRnztVSJVJE8p1YZnsQ6_nOPXWpej7_sHL6G-h8e3ka36837MiMKQKA/s1000/socpar21.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="110" data-original-width="1000" height="35" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcxUoiv6pDYuct7Rr_yC6pviCnqqXE2_yWxZk53W4ZVwPMHvLcWknp0i7b9BVHZz-M_8OLH-e-GlxdheXjIJJZjRnztVSJVJE8p1YZnsQ6_nOPXWpej7_sHL6G-h8e3ka36837MiMKQKA/s320/socpar21.gif" width="320" /></a></div>SoCPaR 2020 Proceedings:</div><div><a href="https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880">https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030736880</a><br /><br /></div><div>Indexed by: DBLP, EI Compendex, INSPEC, WTI Frankfurt eG, zbMATH, Japanese Science and Technology Agency (JST).<br /><br />Proceedings of SoCPaR'21 are expected to be published by Springer Verlag in one of the series. Details will be available soon.<br /><br />History of SoCPaR series: <a href="http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar20/previous.php">http://www.mirlabs.net/socpar20/previous.php</a><br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Important Dates</h4>Paper submission due: September 30, 2021<br />Notification of paper acceptance: October 31, 2021<br />Registration and Final manuscript due: November 15, 2021<br />Conference: December 15-17, 2020<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">About SoCPaR 2021</h4>After the success of the 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2020), SoCPaR 2021 is organized to bring together worldwide leading researchers and practitioners interested in advancing the state-of-the-art in Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers and practitioners will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines and gain inspiration to facilitate novel breakthroughs. The themes for this conference are thus focused on "Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and Intelligent Pattern Recognition".<br /><h4 style="text-align: left;">Topics (not limited to)</h4><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Soft Computing and Applications (but not limited to):</li><li>Evolutionary computing</li><li>Swarm intelligence</li><li>Artificial immune systems</li><li>Fuzzy Sets</li><li>Uncertainty analysis</li><li>Fractals</li><li>Rough Sets</li><li>Support vector machines</li><li>Artificial neural networks</li><li>Case Based Reasoning</li><li>Wavelets</li><li>Hybrid intelligent systems</li><li>Nature inspired computing techniques</li><li>Machine learning</li><li>Ambient intelligence</li><li>Hardware implementations</li></ul>Pattern Recognition and Applications (but not limited to):<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Information retrieval</li><li>Data Mining</li><li>Web Mining</li><li>Image Processing</li><li>Computer Vision</li><li>Bio-informatics</li><li>Information security</li><li>Network security</li><li>Steganography</li><li>Biometry</li><li>Remote sensing</li><li>Medical Informatics</li><li>E-commerce</li><li>Signal Processing</li><li>Control systems</li></ul><h4 style="text-align: left;">Submission Guidelines</h4>Submission of paper should be made through the submission page from the conference web page. Please refer to the conference website for guidelines to prepare your manuscript.<br /><br />Paper format templates:<br /><a href="http://www.springer.com/series/11156">http://www.springer.com/series/11156</a><br /><br />SoCPaR’21 Submission Link:<br /><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2021">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=socpar2021</a><br /></div>Fil Salustrihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15013108091674526603noreply@blogger.com0