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conference on Engineering design: ICED11
15 - 18 August 2011
The Technical University of Denmark
We are pleased to invite you to prepare and submit a paper to the 18th International Conference on Engineering Design: ICED11, which will be held at The Technical University of Denmark, on 15th-18th August 2011. We invite high-quality submissions for ICED11, on topics that cover substantial, original and previously unpublished research. Applied, theoretical and results-oriented papers from both academia and industry, based on rigorous analysis or argumentation, will all be considered for inclusion. Submissions should aim to fit into one of the nine conference themes, see ICED is a biannual conference, with a growing academic and industrial audience. The conference has its roots in engineering, but has radically broadened in scope, to a general understanding of designing as an activity, its human factors and knowledge aspects, its composed and multi-disciplinary nature, and its societal role and importance. Design has a central role in bringing engineering and technology to practical use. We have chosen, therefore, that ICED11 will focus on the balancing of the societal impact of engineering design. The schedule and deadlines for submission and registration to ICED11 are as follows: August 2010: Online submission open 14th January 2011: Submission of full papers 28th March 2011: Final acceptance of papers April 2011: Preliminary programme 11th April 2011: Camera-ready papers 10th June 2011: Early bird registration deadline June 2011: Final programme 15th-18th August 2011: Conference 19th August 2011: Technical Visits All papers, which must be submitted as full papers, will be subject to a double-blind reviewing process. Paper submissions are to be made through the ICED11 Conference Management System, where registered authors will have access to the evaluations of their papers, thus aiding them in preparing the final camera-ready version of their papers. For submission instructions, paper templates and a link to the conference management system, follow this
Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS9)
"Articulating Design Thinking"
18 - 20 April, 2012
School of Design, Northumbria University
Between the 18th and 20th April 2012, the School of Design at Northumbria University will host the ninth Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS9). The symposium entitled, “Articulating Design Thinking”, will be run along similar (but different) lines to the workshop-based events that we have seen in past DTRS and related events such as the “Delft Protocols” in 1994, the DTRS7 event “Analysing Design Meetings” in London in 2007, and the “Studying Professional Software Designers” workshop held at the University of California, Irvine in 2010. At these events, workshop delegates were asked to respond to a given common set of data (i.e. video recordings and transcripts).
DTRS9 at the School of Design, Northumbria University will, however, make a few changes to the workshop-based format and be run along the following lines:
· Delegates will be given a generic design brief (attached below), which nevertheless permits a variety of design and other disciplinary responses.
· Participants will make their own arrangements for tackling the brief, and can work either individually or as part of a larger team. The time you allocate to this activity and the “designed” outcome is unspecified.
· Once the design brief has been completed, each invited DTRS9 participant is requested to write up the design activity in an academic paper to be submitted for peer review.
· Participants are responsible for organising their own response to the design brief, arranging their design team, writing up their observations, analyses, interpretations and results in their paper.
· Each submitted paper is then double-blind peer reviewed and assessed for inclusion in the “Articulating Design Thinking” conference and planned book.
· DTRS9 is particularly keen to include novel and interesting papers that describe collaborations between industry (i.e. perhaps small SME-style enterprises, medium size companies or even global players), design students (i.e. undergraduate or postgraduate), academics and researchers from design disciplines and other relevant areas, and/or a combination of all of these.
The Papers
Invited DTRS9 participants should consider concentrating their paper on topical and relevant design research issues including, but not limited to, the following:
· Understanding and articulating the design process;
· Design communication;
· Design context;
· Design expertise;
· Design thinking;
· Design behaviour;
· Disciplinarity issues in design;
· Design knowledge;
· Language in design;
· Cross cultural issues in design;
· Co-designing;
· Socio-cultural issues in design;
· and others.
The Timetable
Launch of DTRS9 Call-for-Participation – November 2010
Online Expression of Interest – closes 7th March 2011
Submit Full Paper – 30th May 2011
Final Paper – 24th October 2011
DTRS9 Event – 18th, 19th and 20th April 2012
More information on DTRS9 where you can formally state your expression of interest in taking part can be found here:
More information on past DTRS events can be found here:
The Brief*
“Modern Age”
How can the design of products, spaces, and services make growing old seem more attractive and inviting?
11% of the world’s 6.9 billion people are over 60. By the year 2050 that figure will have doubled to 22%. If we are to support a growing number of older people we need to produce products, spaces, and services that allow them to stay healthy and well in and around their own home. You are asked to design a domestic product, living environment, or service for older people that surpasses conventional expectations. For the purpose of illustration only, the following would all be viable responses to the brief:
· a piece of furniture or furniture system
· a domestic tool, product or appliance
· an architectural intervention
· a decorative item or scheme
· an interior design or living environment
· an adapted bathroom, kitchen or workshop
· a new domestic service
· …and many others are possible.
*Brief written by Emily Campbell of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).