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CALL FOR PROPOSALS AND PAPERS: The Edge of Our Thinking: Research in Art and Design, ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART, LONDON, UK

Event:
November 18, 2011 - November 19, 2011

International Conference on Research in Art and Design at the Royal College of Art
Call for proposals and papers, deadline for submissions: 22.July 2011 [more...]

SPECIAL ISSUE: LEARNING BY DESIGN

Just published at
http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/7/issue7_3.asp

E-LEARNING AND DIGITAL MEDIA
Volume 7 Number 3 2010 _ ISSN 2042-7530

SPECIAL ISSUE [more...]

⌧ GLOBAL OPEN SYSTEM

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⌧ GLOBAL OPEN SYSTEM
☞ Global cross-industry cultivation of ecological best-quality
☞ Accessibility and transparency and support, theoretically and practically
☞ Global mass-produced cross-industry product range [more...]

Conference Review: Sustainability in Design NOW!

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Recently Stefan and I attended the Sustainability in Design: NOW! Conference in Bangalore/India. [more...]

Architecture Firm Research Blog - LS3P Knowledge Center

I hold a position as a full time researcher within a design firm, and we've recently started a blog oriented towards out clients that summarizes new/classic research and discusses the implications of the findings. [more...]

Coolhunting and design research in Small Companies (spanish)

Conferece at the Entrepreneur day at Barcelona´s Trade Fair. Trend research and case analysis.

Conferencia dictada en la Fira de Barcelona durante el Dia del Emprendedor 2010.Investigación de tendencias, analisis del consumidor e innovación para empresas pequeñas.
analisis de casos:

Miniworkshops Barcelona,
Miworld Johanesburgo
Izarzugaza Carnes Euskadi [more...]

Graham Pullin - Design meets Disability - Talk at Design Research Lab (T-Labs)

*** Research Colloquium Usability ***

Date: 09.08.2010
Time: 14.15 – 15:30
Location: Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Auditorium 1 (20th floor), Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587 Berlin [more...]

Research Colloquium Design: Benedict Singleton

Event:
February 22, 2010

ROOM CHANGE!!
22.02.2010, 14:00h
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 11. Etage, 1118
10587 Berlin

On Services: Culture Engines, Habit Traps and Fields of Flesh

Service design is more talked about than practiced, and the talk is a mixture of hands-on savvy with big-hearted polemics: methodological ‘toolkits’ and ruminations on ‘design thinking’ converge with - rather sketchy - promises of ‘community’, ‘sustainability’, and ‘wellbeing’. [more...]

stake your claim!

design research is an open field of information concerning design relevant facts, details or gossips. the wholeness of any information would create a global view to the design world. [more...]

Ten years of Critical Design!

 
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It is now ten years since Anthony Dunne published the "Hertzian Tales". We might count it as the official birthday of Critical Design. I would like to take this anniversary as an opportunity to look back: What has happened to design practice and theory during the last decade due to the book, and the projects? What have we learned? What do we miss? Where does the critique lead us? How does it help? Does it help? [more...]

Design research for children

 

I'm looking for possibilities of design research for children in Germany or elsewhere, especially in the fields of exhibition design, learning experience, new media, interaction design.

Any tips? [more...]

The poverty of design theory and the antagonism towards marxist method.

 

Marxist method and theoretical practice still offers the most fruitful and enduring base for the integration of design research with the main strands of philosophy and intellectual history. Sharing in the rationalisation of change and transformation in both it’s social and technical dimensions. Marxism and design are both products of capitalist social relations with the potential of rising beyond their origins in a human future. [more...]

CFP – for a forthcoming conference on writign in art.media.design

ART.MEDIA.DESIGN |WRITING INTERSECTIONS
Melbourne, Australia Conference
Swinburne University of Technology
November 18-19, 2009 [more...]

Research Colloquium: Pelle Ehn

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Event:
February 23, 2009

Pelle Ehn: A Thing formerly known as PD
23 February 2009, 14:00h
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, 20th floor
Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, Berlin

Pelle Ehn, one of the fathers of Participatory Design in Scandinavia, will come to the T-Labs to talk about his work. So if you are interested in the development of PD since its beginnings until today, don't miss it! [more...]