Date: 29-30 November, 2018
Location: UBI, Covilhã, Portugal
Website: Designa 2018
Deadline for submission of abstracts (extended): 15 July 2018
Design not only interacts with Territory, but it can also be one of the latter’s crucial transformation agents, due to the sizable and significant part it plays in the appreciation of local resources and contribution to identify and reveal the history, culture and predicates of communities where several of the products and services it projects are, in fact, generated. Regardless, Design’s role understandably pivots around the conceptual innovation and renovation of products, production procedures, communication strategies and overall services associated with general goods. Thus, its focus could actually be quite efficient when altering the perception which distinct agents from a certain value chain may nurture about the potential of very diverse territories, particularly through its ability to integrate different scopes of human activity, from agriculture to tourism, craftsmanship to science, gastronomy to the industry.
Contemporary Design and the myriad of knowledge and values it encompasses may easily facilitate the dialogue, as well as integrate and explore multiple dimensions from historically underestimated individuals and communities, both locally and within more cosmopolitan spheres. Design changes people’s lives, alters routines, shifts expectations, opens markets and, most of all, has the ability to - through the thought and projectual action that defines its practices - connect production’s several dimensions with the ones from distribution and fruition, as much in a local as in a global scale, bestowing them with a cultural purport.
Also, it is in concrete territories that transformation opportunities are created, through the development of actions and projects that are able to answer, from bottom up and in a participated manner, to the complex issues and restraints emerging from the operative social-economical models with an increasingly hegemonic propensity. Design can undoubtedly contribute to build alternatives there. On the other hand, the duo Design / Territory summons the topics from DESIGNA’s previous editions, particularly the ones concerned with Projectual Hope, un/Sustainability and Identity, although multimedia interfaces and the overall components from desire and lapse can also be easily reflected and detected in it.
Location: UBI, Covilhã, Portugal
Website: Designa 2018
Deadline for submission of abstracts (extended): 15 July 2018
DESIGN + TERRITORY
DESIGNA celebrates its 7th edition in 2018, choosing to promote the debate and provide visibility to the ongoing research regarding the connection between Design and Territory, as well as its multiple and complex dimensions. Design not only interacts with Territory, but it can also be one of the latter’s crucial transformation agents, due to the sizable and significant part it plays in the appreciation of local resources and contribution to identify and reveal the history, culture and predicates of communities where several of the products and services it projects are, in fact, generated. Regardless, Design’s role understandably pivots around the conceptual innovation and renovation of products, production procedures, communication strategies and overall services associated with general goods. Thus, its focus could actually be quite efficient when altering the perception which distinct agents from a certain value chain may nurture about the potential of very diverse territories, particularly through its ability to integrate different scopes of human activity, from agriculture to tourism, craftsmanship to science, gastronomy to the industry.
Contemporary Design and the myriad of knowledge and values it encompasses may easily facilitate the dialogue, as well as integrate and explore multiple dimensions from historically underestimated individuals and communities, both locally and within more cosmopolitan spheres. Design changes people’s lives, alters routines, shifts expectations, opens markets and, most of all, has the ability to - through the thought and projectual action that defines its practices - connect production’s several dimensions with the ones from distribution and fruition, as much in a local as in a global scale, bestowing them with a cultural purport.
Also, it is in concrete territories that transformation opportunities are created, through the development of actions and projects that are able to answer, from bottom up and in a participated manner, to the complex issues and restraints emerging from the operative social-economical models with an increasingly hegemonic propensity. Design can undoubtedly contribute to build alternatives there. On the other hand, the duo Design / Territory summons the topics from DESIGNA’s previous editions, particularly the ones concerned with Projectual Hope, un/Sustainability and Identity, although multimedia interfaces and the overall components from desire and lapse can also be easily reflected and detected in it.
Call for Papers / Projects
DESIGNA 2018 invites for the submission of original communication or projects proposals, with seminal propensity, on the relationship between Design and Territory, to be framed in 6 thematic panels:
P1 - Theory and Methodology
P2 - History and Education
P3 - Fashion and Textiles
P4 - Multimedia and Interface
P5 - Industrial and Product
P6 - Communication and Services
Abstract (.rtf, .doc or .odt)
The abstract must not exceed 2 000 characters. It can be submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish, and is expected to include a title and state the intended thematic and its relevance, the hypothesis or main issue the author(s) aims to explore, conceptual and methodological framework, predicted results (when applied) and up to five keywords.
Submission of Abstract until July 15
The abstract must be submitted electronically, until July 15, 2018, through the submissions platform of the DESIGNA website (www.designa.ubi.pt), which will automatically assign an identification code to be distributed to three reviewers under the guarantee of anonymity.
Review
The review committee will review the abstracts as part of a blind review process, selecting those that demonstrate relevance, originality and appropriateness to the theme and purpose of the conference. It shall exclude tenders which do not meet these criteria.
P1 - Theory and Methodology
P2 - History and Education
P3 - Fashion and Textiles
P4 - Multimedia and Interface
P5 - Industrial and Product
P6 - Communication and Services
Abstract (.rtf, .doc or .odt)
The abstract must not exceed 2 000 characters. It can be submitted in Portuguese, English or Spanish, and is expected to include a title and state the intended thematic and its relevance, the hypothesis or main issue the author(s) aims to explore, conceptual and methodological framework, predicted results (when applied) and up to five keywords.
Submission of Abstract until July 15
The abstract must be submitted electronically, until July 15, 2018, through the submissions platform of the DESIGNA website (www.designa.ubi.pt), which will automatically assign an identification code to be distributed to three reviewers under the guarantee of anonymity.
Review
The review committee will review the abstracts as part of a blind review process, selecting those that demonstrate relevance, originality and appropriateness to the theme and purpose of the conference. It shall exclude tenders which do not meet these criteria.
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