Dates: 23-27 September 2021
Location: Shandong University of Art & Design, Jinan, China
Website: LEARNxDESIGN2021
Deadline for submissions: 23 March 2021
- Track 01 | Design Thinking to Improve Creative Problem-solving
- Track 02 | Empowering Critical Design Literacy
- Track 03 | Alternative Problem Framing in Design Education
- Track 04 | Collaboration in Design Education
- Track 05 | Co-creation of Interdisciplinary Design Educations
- Track 06 | Learning Through Materiality and Making
- Track 07 | Sketching & Drawing Education and Knowledge
- Track 08 | Educating Data-driven Design Innovation
- Track 09| Design Learning Environments
- Track 10 | Futures of Design Education
- Track 11 | Design Educators as Change Agents
Call for Contributions
You can always get in touch by emailing us on lxd2021@learnxdesign.net.
Track 01 | Design Thinking to Improve Creative Problem-solving: From Kindergarten to Higher Education
In this track we are interested in better understanding the impact incorporation of the approach on students’ learning experiences and development of their skills and knowledge.
Track 02 | Empowering Critical Design Literacy: Exploring Practices, Discourses and Implications In and Across Design Education from Kindergarten to PhD
The core concern of this track is the exploration of current educational practices, academic discourses and implications of design education empowering for critical design literacy.
Track 03 | Alternative Problem Framing in Design Education: Moving Beyond ‘Pain-Points’
How might we move design education away from problems, pain and othering towards positive models of framing challenges such as joy, desires, utopia and other positive or alternative re-frames?
Track 04 | Collaboration in Design Education: Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks for Learning Through and From Partnerships
This track would like to explore the benefits and challenges of collaboration in design education, through theoretical and methodological frameworks displaying how various stages of the collaboration are managed, how communication between partners is maintained and how commitment of parties to design education is sustained.
Track 05 | Co-creation of Interdisciplinary Design Educations
We are interested in exploring challenges related to co-creation practices when disciplinary world views ‘crash’ and what the implications of these are for design education.
Track 06 | Learning Through Materiality and Making
In this track, the interest is directed towards children’s and young people’s opportunity to process materials in order to gain experience, knowledge and learning that can be useful at different stages of life, in study, professional and leisure activities. We welcome research presentations that look at materiality and making in both formal and informal learning environments.
Track 07 | Sketching & Drawing Education and Knowledge
We call for visual or written papers, case studies, or workshops focused on research that reveals insights into how and why sketching and visual knowledge is reflected in education.
Track 08 | Educating Data-driven Design Innovation
This track focuses on exploring tools, techniques, and training for educating data-driven design innovations.
Track 09| Design Learning Environments: Exploring the Role of Physical, Virtual, and Hybrid Spaces for Design Education
This track is exploring how the physical and digital spatial environments of educational institutions can be designed in order to better facilitate learning.
Track 10 | Futures of Design Education: Beyond Time & Space
In this track, we encourage scholars to venture beyond the ‘studio’ to explore possibilities of new design education models conscious of members’ social dynamics, identities, communities, and their role in enabling new education models. We aim to explore possible extreme and disruptive models where design education is more inclusive, personalised, and sustainable, extending as far as future utopias and dystopias in future design education.
Track 11 | Design Educators as Change Agents
In this track we are interested in exploring a broad theme of design educators as change agents of design education.
Four Types of Contributions
You can submit four types of contributions for the upcoming 2021 LearnxDesign: 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers. Regardless of the submission category you will select, all the contributions will be double blind reviewed.
- Full Research Papers
- Case Studies
- Workshops
- Visual Papers
Template to Format your Blind Copy Contribution
LxD.2021 Word Document Template to format a blind Paper, Case Study, Workshop or Visual-Paper contribution
Although this contribution formatting template is a publicly available and you are welcome to use it beyond this event, please let us know by email lxd2021@learnxdesign.net about your event.
If you require the paper template saved in a previous version of the Microsoft Word Document file format, please contact us via lxd2021@learnxdesign.net.
Author names should NOT be identified in the abstract or the body of the submitted paper. The contributions must be previously unpublished.
If you are single author, then you can submit only ONE contribution. If a paper is co-authored, then you can submit as many contributions as you have the co-authors. A lead presented will need to change for each of the different contribution. For example, an Author Adam co-written a paper titled “Paper Adam & Bob” has been accepted as well as the Author Adam’s single authored case study titled “Case Study Adam”. Then Author Bob will lead the presentation on a paper titled “Paper Adam & Bob” and the Author Adam will present paper titled “Paper Adam”.
The Key Dates LxD.2021
Submission Deadline
:: Full Research Papers
:: Full Visual Papers
:: Full Case-studies
:: Workshop Proposals Tuesday 23 March 2021
Review Outcomes Notification Tuesday 11 May 2021
Deadline for Full Papers with corrections Tuesday 8 June 2021
Review Outcomes Notification for Papers
requiring Major Revision Tuesday 13 July 2021
Registration of author(s)
early bird Tuesday 3 August 2021
Learn×Design.2021 will take place on the following dates
PhD Pit Stop Thursday 23 September 2021
Presentation of the Accepted
:: Research Papers
:: Visual Paper
:: Case-study
:: Workshop 24–26 September 2021
Excursions Monday 27 September 2021
Registration Fees
The LxD.2021 conference Early Bird Rate fees are:
For delegates from the Global South 3500 Renminbi (RMB) and from the rest of the world 3900 RMB.
For students from the Global South 2500 RMB and from the rest of the world 2700 RMB.
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