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Sustainability Research by Designers: An Anthology

Published on January 20, 2012 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

As a special offer, all orders placed by 29 February 2012 receive the introductory price of US$20 (RRP US$30). You can order online here.

Sustainability Research by Designers: An Anthology is an interdisciplinary volume featuring written sustainability research by accomplished design practitioners, researchers, and educators selected from the recognized peer-reviewed scholarly journals Design Principles & Practices: An International Journal; The International Journal of the Arts Society; The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability; The International Journal the Humanities; and The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society.

 Sustainability or green design is an area of growing concern many design researchers from a wide range of experiences and disciplines, including graphic designers, architects, design theorists, environmental designers, artists, students and educators. These researchers are exploring the topic of sustainability through discourse, studies, and reflection — defining what sustainable design currently means and potentially means as a new, interdisciplinary design profession.

Lisa M. Graham, MFA, LEED AP, is an award-winning visual communicator, author, and an Associate Professor of Visual Communication at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Announcing the Winner of the International Award for Excellence

Published on January 14, 2012 in Headline, Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Congratulations to Ian Gwilt and Jennifer Williams the winner’s of the International Award for Excellence in the area of design principles and practices with their paper Framing Futures for Visual Communication Design Research.

Abstract: This paper posits opportunities to explore a critical space for visual communication design research. Through current education strategies being explored and tested we re-apply the typologies of the discipline through the lens of a critical practice in two distinct areas: first, as independent design investigation, process and research outcomes in its own right; and secondly, as meta-practice, enabling knowledge transfer and the facilitation of outcomes in trans-disciplinary research fields. We challenge assumptions of next-iteration practice as merely that of ‘collaboration’ and ‘service’. The paper documents two case studies that have recently been implemented through teaching, learning and research strategies of the UTS Visual Communication Design degree in a university context.

 

The Design Journal presents an annual International Award for Excellence in the area of design principles and practices. All papers submitted for publication in the Design Journal are entered into consideration for this award.

The review committee for the award is the International Advisory Board for the Journal and the Conference, who select the winning paper from the ten highest-ranked papers emerging from the referee process and according to the selection criteria outlined in the referee guidelines.

Call for Journal Editor

Published on August 30, 2011 in Headline, Journal and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal seeks an editor, or team of editors, for a one-year term. This is an opportunity to make a significant contribution to one of the leading journals in its field, the journal’s associated conference and, more broadly, the knowledge-community which the journal and conference seek to serve.

The roles of the editor are to:

  • write an introduction for the Journal volume which would be included in the first issue for the year, and possibly on the website, the newsletter and other appropriate places or for the purposes of marketing and promotion.
  • collate papers addressing a theme of the editor’s choosing into a book, to be launched at the conference at the completion of the editor’s term. The chapters may be drawn from submissions to the journal during this or recent years, and other material as considered appropriate.
  • actively solicit manuscripts for the Journal from well-known and notable members of the community—these would could be refereed if the author wished, or regarded as ‘invited papers’.
  • assist the Commissioning Editor with suggestions of supplementary peer reviewers for specific papers (and this will never be burdensome – note that the Commissioning Editor of the Journal finalizes a majority of the peer reviewer requirements based on thematic matching and ‘mutual obligation’ principles in which all author requested to review up to three other papers).
  • promote the journal throughout their network and other associated networks.
  • maintain regular communications with the community via periodical blog posts to the community website (which feeds automatically to our email newsletter, Facebook and Twitter).

The editor will be offered a complimentary electronic subscription to the Journal, free copies of the book which they edit, an electronic subscription to the book series as well as complimentary registrations to attend the conferences at the beginning and end of their term

Qualifications

The Editor of the Journal must possess the following attributes:

  • They will have successfully obtained higher degree, and have academic teaching and scholarly research experience in an area related to the subject matter of the Journal.
  • They will have published in this or other comparable scholarly journals.

Applicants are asked to send:

  1. a cover letter outlining their interest and relevant experience, and the ways in which you would propose to enhance the profile of the journal
  2. a curriculum vitae
  3. a special theme outline: a title with paragraph explanation.

Please send applications and supporting documentation to journals@designprinciplesandpractices.com

The deadline for applications is 26 September 2011.

Sustainability Research by Designers

Published on August 17, 2011 in Book, Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Sustainability Research by Designers: An Anthology edited by Lisa Graham is now available as part of the On Design series.

Sustainability or green design is an area of growing concern for many design researchers from a wide range of experiences and disciplines, including graphic designers, architects, design theorists, environmental designers, artists, students and educators. These researchers are exploring the topic of sustainability through discourse, studies, and reflection—defining what sustainable design currently means and potentially means as a new, interdisciplinary design profession.

Sustainability Research by Designers: An Anthology is an interdisciplinary volume featuring written sustainability research by accomplished design practitioners, researchers, and educators selected from the recognized peer-reviewed scholarly journalsDesign Principles & Practices: An International Journal; The International Journal of the Arts in Society; The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability; The International Journal of the Humanities; and The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge & Society.

Lev Manovich, University of California-San Diego, to speak at 2012 Design Conference, Los Angeles

Published on June 30, 2011 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Lev Manovich is a Professor in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California-San Diego, Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, and a Professor at the European Graduate School. He will present in a 30-minute plenary session and participate in a 60-minute garden session, or informal Q&A, at the Sixth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices.

Lev Manovich is the author of Software Takes Command (released under CC license, 2008), Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database (The MIT Press, 2005), and The Language of New Media (The MIT Press, 2001) which is described as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” More…

Loredana Di Lucchio, Research Prof at Sapienza University of Rome, to speak at Design Conference, LA

Published on June 25, 2011 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Loredana Di Lucchio will be presenting in a plenary session at the Sixth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, 20-22 January 2012 at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Loredana Di Lucchio, Ph.D. in Design, is Researcher Professor at “Sapienza” University of Roma.

Her research and teaching activities are focused on the relationship between production, communication and consumption in order to investigate and define the strategic role of Design as driver for consumption aware behaviours.

She is speaker for international conferences, coordinator of several Italian Research Boards, essayist for theoretical and design reviews, in particular she is member of the editorial board of the magazine ‘DIID – Disegno Industriale Industrial Design’, and of the web-magazine of Italian Design Research Network ‘SDI Review’. More…

Design Conference, LA–Architect and Assoc Prof at Carleton University, Lorenzo Imbesi, to speak

Published on June 14, 2011 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Lorenzo Imbesi is an architect and Associate Professor at Carleton University’s School of Industrial Design in Ottawa, Canada. He will be presenting a plenary presentation at the Sixth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, 20-22 January 2012 at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.

Lorenzo Imbesi is an architect, with a PhD in Environmental Design, and is Associate Professor at Carleton University, School of Industrial Design (Ottawa, Canada), and he has been teaching and researching at Sapienza University of Rome from 1997. He is a critic and essayist for many reviews, and is currently Co-Director of the magazine “DIID – Disegno Industriale” and speaker also as keynote and coordinator for international conferences and curator of design exhibitions and events. More…

Reserve Your Tickets–Design Conference Dinner at MACRO Museum

Published on December 31, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 1 Comment

The 2011 Design Conference delegates and plenary speakers will gather together for the conference dinner on Thursday, 3 February at the Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, or the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO).

The MACRO, designed by Odile Decq, is Rome’s museum of contemporary art, constructed on the site of a former brewery. The space houses exhibition spaces, artworks storage, conference rooms, a library, and event and restaurant space. The first phase of the conversion of the MACRO was completed in 1999 with the restoration of the old plant design of the Peroni brewery, built in the early twentieth century on via Reggio Emilia, which has recently been expanded by the leading French architect Odile Decq. The new wing of the building, with the entrance at the corner of via Nizza and via Cagliari, creates a dynamic balance, integrating the new structure into the district, putting the museum in dialogue with the city, offering the visitors and Roman citizens both the new exhibition and urban spaces, such as the large terrace, the parking, the library and the restaurant. The New MACRO joins the spaces of the MACRO Testaccio and the Pelanda, inside the former slaughterhouse in Testaccio, to make this multifaceted cultural centre a Roman institution that aims to promote the value of contemporary Italian and international art.

To reserve your place at the dinner, or for more information, please visit the Activities & Extras webpage.

From Somewhere, Sustainable London based fashion label–Plenary Speaker, Design Conference, Rome

Published on December 31, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Somewhere, an up-cycling, sustainable fashion label based of London, will be joining the 2011 Design Conference Plenary Speakers at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. From Somewhere will present on ‘Processes’ within the conference’s theme, Design: Useful & Futile, 2-4 February 2011.

From Somewhere, recycling since 1997, is a creative sustainable fashion label run by Orsola de Castro and Filippo Ricci. All womenswear collections are made with luxury design pre-consumer waste such as proofs, swatches, production off-cuts and end of rolls – up-cycling high-end fashion and textile surplus into beautiful clothes that take into account the balance between consumption and disposal.

Reproducible in large numbers while still retaining elements of the unique, each piece is individually cut from high quality reclaimed fabrics including knitwear, cashmere, cotton shirting, silks, jerseys, tweeds and wovens. More…

Gillian Crampton Smith, Interaction Design at IUAV University–Plenary Speaker, Design Conference, Rome

Published on December 30, 2010 in Headline and Newsletter. 0 Comments

Gillian Crampton Smith, Graduate Program of Interaction Design at IUAV University in Venice, Italy, will join the 2011 Design Conference Plenary Speakers at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She’ll be presenting on ‘Interactions’ under the conference’s theme, Design: Useful & Futile, 2-4 February 2011.

Having studied philosophy and history of art at Cambridge University, Gillian Crampton Smith spent the 1970s as a designer – first in book publishing, then on the Sunday Times and Times Literary Supplement. In 1981, she designed and implemented a page layout program to help her with magazine design – an early desktop publishing application. This experience convinced her that artists and designers have an important role to play in creating information technologies.  More…