Announcement and call for submissions:
Nordic Design Research Conference
NORDES ´09 Engaging Artefacts
www.nordes.org
Oslo, Norway, 30 August -1 September 2009
Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in which we
understand – and do – design. The conference invites contributions from
researchers in universities, design schools and industry who share an
interest in understanding and developing design as a trans-disciplinary
practice that is always in the making. The scope of the conference
reaches beyond the traditional design disciplines and includes other
research areas with mutual interest in design research and engaging
artefacts. NORDES ‘09 directs its interest towards the diversity,
challenges and emerging practices and understandings of design. The
conference theme reflects a range of issues that characterize design and
design research today.
Confronted with the increasingly complex problems of our times, design
should engage in new ways of thinking. Design objects are characterized
by their form, aesthetics, functionality, materials as well as social,
political and cultural codings. How do and might designers, and
educators and researchers of design respond to these different
perspectives in design? How can designers respond to the life cycle of
artefacts? How can designers be better at designing artefacts for
performability and sustainability? How do designers and researchers
develop ways of researching knowledges, skills, theories, methods,
intuition and passion in design practices?
In addressing these many issues, the Engaging Artefacts conference
includes the following themes:
- Consumption: critical perspectives on the increasing number and
diversity of artefacts and their creative design but also use and abuse
in global economy
- Production: critical perspectives on the complexity, interrelations
and consequences of production
- Technology: new forms given by new materials – and new materials
developed to enable new forms
- Interactivity: performance and system oriented thinking regarding the
interaction between artefacts, material systems, environments and users
- Politics: the role of artefacts in shaping alternative futures
especially addressing accessibility, sustainability, poverty and democracy
So as to fully take up the theme Engaging Artefacts, we invite a range
of contributions:
- Research papers (full paper - maximum 10 pages)
- Exploratory papers (maximum 4 pages)
- Doctoral consortium (maximum 4 pages proposal)
- Design cases (maximum 2 pages proposals)
- Artefacts for exhibition (maximum 2 page proposals)
- Tutorials (maximum 2 page proposals)
- Workshops (maximum 2 page proposals)
Submitted contributions are subject to an anonymous peer-review process.
Accepted contributions will be published electronically on the
conference website prior to the conference and in the conference
proceedings.
Important dates:
1 February 2009: Deadline for all papers (including design cases,
artefacts, tutorials, workshops)
2 April 2009: Feedback to authors and organisers with suggestions for
revision
1 June 2009: Final paper submissions uploaded to website
30 August – 1 September 2009: Conference in Oslo
Nordic Design Research Conference is a biannual conference circulated in
the Nordic countries. The NORDES ´09 conference will be hosted by The
Oslo School of Architecture and Design, AHO, in collaboration with
University of Oslo.
General Conference Co-Chairs:
Tone Bratteteig, Dept. of Informatics, U. of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Birger Sevaldson, Inst. of Industrial Design, Oslo School of
Architecture and design, Norway
Programme Co-chairs:
- papers
Eva Brandt, Danish Centre for Design Research, Danish School of Design,
Denmark
Tuuli Mattelmäki, University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Finland
Andrew Morrison, InterMedia, U of Oslo / Oslo School of Architecture and
design (AHO), Norway
Programme Co-chairs:
- exhibition
Ole Smørdal, InterMedia, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Maziar Raein, Oslo Art School, Norway
Programme Co-chairs
- design cases
Trond Are Øritsland, Interaction Design. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Turkka Keinonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Programme Chair:
- tutorials and workshops
Christina Mörtberg, Dept of Informatics, U of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs:
Dag Svanæs, Dept of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Ben Matthews, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Håkan Edeholt, School of Art, Culture and Communication, Malmö
University, Sweden
Conference website:
www.nordes.org
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