PINC 2011
Participatory Innovation Conference
14th - 16th January 2011 in Sønderborg, Denmark
Submission deadline: September 27th
http://pinc.sdu.dk/

Participatory Innovation gathers theories and methods across academic fields that describe how people outside an organisation can contribute to its innovation.
Industry and public agencies increasingly adopt user-driven and open innovation, as they realise that innovation cannot come solely from within an organisation. Innovation happens in the ‘breaking of the waves’ between people outside and people inside – because they have different stakes and perspectives.

In academia, new breakthrough contributions to understanding innovation – and supporting it – will also emerge in the borderlands between disciplines that traditionally do not collaborate: between languages and design, and between management and anthropology for instance.

PINC 2011 is a forum where participants from different disciplines and organisations can meet and challenge each other to develop the field of participatory innovation.
PINC 2011 is organised by the Danish strategic research centre SPIRE

For futher informations please visit:
http://pinc.sdu.dk/

Multi: The Journal of Diversity and Plurality in Design is the first multidisciplinary journal dedicated to all that affects design and its attendant and related disciplines. Multi provides a venue though which truly forward-looking, practical matters pertinent to design can be discussed and shared amongst design professionals with colleagues from those academic disciplines influenced and affected by advances in design and design technology.

The international editorial board of Multi seeks original, unpublished contributions for upcoming issues which aim to nurture an inclusive intellectual environment that both stimulates and supports the discourse anchored by multiplicity in design. Multi endeavors to include as many perspectives and as many voices as possible, while maintaining rigorous editorial standards. Multi is one vehicle which will help to foster a renewed energy and responsibility amongst not all design professionals, and all those whose lives are touched in some way through design.

The following thematic issues have been announced for upcoming issues:

Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2011): Special Issue: Design and Change: the impact of innovation on the design profession, design pedagogy, and the future practice of design.

Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall 2011): The Branded Environment: issues of consumer culture and branding are changing the manner by which citizens interact with one another.

In addition to papers, subject matter experts who may wish to contribute in an editorial capacity are invited to respond.

To submit a paper, please register at
http://library.rit.edu/oajournals/index.php/Multi/
The submission deadline is ongoing, though authors are encouraged to submit early. All papers will be blind reviewed by at a minimum of two reviewers.

Contact:
Alex Bitterman, PhD | Associate Professor | School of Design | Rochester Institute of Technology
Editor-in-Chief

SCHWÄRME(N) FÜR NACHHALTIGKEIT
Ein Dialog über das Design der Zukunft

Wann: 30. August, 17 Uhr
Wo: ecodesign/Akademie für Gestaltung, Vogelsanger Str. 250, 50825 Köln

Warum lassen sich Fußgänger an einer roten Ampel davon beeinflußen, wie sich die Menschen neben ihnen verhalten? Wie gelangt ein Vogelschwarm von Berlin nach Südafrika, auch wenn viele Jungtiere des Schwarms vorher noch nie dorthin geflogen sind? Was bedeutet Schwarm-Intelligenz, was ist Gruppen-Klugheit - und was können wir daraus fürs Design lernen?

Zu diesem Thema findet am 30. August um 17 Uhr in Köln ein Podiumsgespräch statt mit:

Jens Krause, Schwarmforscher || Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Stefan Krause, Informatiker || Fachhochschule Lübeck

Harald Welzer, Kulturwissenschaftler und Sozialpsychologe || Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen
Johannes Weyer, Techniksoziologe || Technische Universität Dortmund, Lehrstuhl für Techniksoziologie

Peter Wippermann, Trendforscher und Kommunikationsdesigner || Trendbüro Hamburg

Uwe Schneidewind, Nachhaltigkeits- und Transformationsforscher || Präsident des Wuppertal Instituts

Moderation: René Spitz, Designkritiker und Designtheoretiker

Das Gespräch ist Bestandteil der 2. Sustainable Summer School (einer Kooperation des Wuppertal Instituts, der Bergischen Universität Wuppertal, der ecosign Akademie für Gestaltung, der Hochschule Luzern, der Folkwang Universität der Künste und des CSCP Wuppertal).

Eintritt frei

Am 24. und 25. September findet in Dresden das 4. Symposium Technisches Design statt. Die Beiträge der von der DGTF unterstützten Veranstaltung befassen sich in diesem Jahr schwerpunktmäßig mit Kosten- und Nutzenaspekten von und im Design.
Einblick in das Programm und Teilnahmeanmeldung sind ab sofort unter http://symposium.technischesdesign.org möglich.

CONFERENCE CALL
THE ENDLESS END
The 9th International Conference of the European Academy of Design
Porto, Portugal
4 - 7 May 2011

Deadline for abstract submissions:
1st September 2010
endlessend2011@gmail.com

The European Academy of Design, the University of Porto and ID+, Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, invite you to the 9th EAD International Design Conference: The Endless End.

The conference offers a forum for design academics, researchers, practitioners, thinkers and industry representatives to meet, exchange ideas and share new knowledge and insights across the fields of design. The conference includes keynote lectures, papers, posters and an exhibition of practice-based design research. The language of the conference is English. All documentation and related media will be in English.

There is a sense of vertigo permeating contemporary culture as a whole, and design in particular. So much so, that we often find ourselves wondering if design as we have known it still matters. Design seems to have lost its universe of focus, branching exponentially into a multitude of concerns and activities formerly situated well beyond its scope. Likewise, design seems to be the new interest of so many professionals situated outside its area of expertise; not long ago it seemed like design was being courted, and maybe even actively cultivating, a territorial ambiguity that has kept its professionals worried, to say the least. Design now speaks of street culture and cutting-edge technology, museums and iPhone apps, just as it has spoken of campaign posters, haute couture, heavy industries, exercises in kitsch and typography.

This dissipation of a discernible territory of practice could seem like a loss at first, until we gradually came to understand that Design is, after all and despite the contextual noise, a deeply human activity, and, as such, any circumscription of its potential would, in itself, be an artifice, an operational and transitory device; and that, rather than being devalued by this apparent dilution of its area of expert operation, Design suddenly has the opportunity to expand and mature as far as its context, content and purpose are concerned.


CONFERENCE THEMES

locality: the role of design in specific social and cultural environments (case studies), localisation of design and production
liquidity: design´s redefined and expanding territories
nomadism: design actively searching for new areas and tools of expertise
involvement: design as a catalyst for change and progress
vertigo: envisioning what´s ahead, calibrating past inheritances
education: how can design be taught in an era of multiplicity, prosumers and open creativity?

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Conference invites the submission of abstracts related to the conference theme (500 words maximum). Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit papers up to 2,500 words in length that report significant and original design-related research.
Accepted papers will be refereed and published in the conference proceedings.

CALL FOR POSTERS
The conference invites the submission of abstracts related to the conference theme (500 words maximum). Abstracts may be accompanied by up to 3 illustrations. The posters are intended to provide a snapshot view of ongoing or recently completed design related research. The posters should include the title, objectives, methodology and current or expected outcomes of the research. The posters will be reproduced as PDF images and incorporated into the published proceedings.

CALL FOR EXHIBITION PROPOSALS
The conference invites the submission of proposals (500 words maximum) for the exhibition of practice-based design related research. The proposal should describe the work being exhibited, giving precise dimensions. For each exhibited artefact authors will be asked to provide a concise written explanation describing the related research.

Early Stage Researchers
The European Academy of Design wishes to be supportive of early stage researchers. This includes researchers who may have had limited experience of submitting and presenting papers at an international level or doctoral students. Therefore submissions under this category will receive a sympathetic review and additional feedback may be given. If you are an early stage researcher and wish your abstract to be considered under this category, please indicate when submitting your abstract by checking the appropriate field on the conference web site.


IMPORTANT DATES
30th June 2010 - Online submission of abstracts open
1st September 2010 - Deadline for submission of abstracts/poster abstracts/exhibition proposals
1st October 2010 - Notification of acceptance of abstracts/ proposals
1st December 2010 - Deadline for submission of full papers
5th February 2011 - Notification of acceptance of full papers
4 - 7 May 2011 - Conference takes place


Contact conference organizers at:
endlessend2011@gmail.com