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MAPS

Rosan — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:44:24 +0100

MAPS is a tool for design project planning developed based on the Jonasian Toolbox. You are very welcome to try the tool and give us feedbacks.

www.design-research-lab/MAPS

DRNetwork Newsletter 09/08

Rosan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:52:30 +0200

Dear DRNetworkers;

New Entries
I was very encouraged to see some new entries in September. Thank you! If you have not visited DRNetwork for a while; I will encourage you to participate in the discussions.

‘Questions & Hypotheses’
Registration is full; preliminary program is online; graphic designers are at work… we are counting down toward the conference days.

Birkhaeuser DRNetwork Prize
Goes to Christian Woelfel for his continuous contributions in facilitating debates and in developing the DRNetwork.

Regards;
Rosan Chow; Project Manager
www.designresearchnetwork.org

Bruno Latour @ Design History Conference 2008 in Falmouth

Rosan — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:51:27 +0200

Bruno Latour gave the first Keynote for the Design History Conference ‘Network of Design’ on Wednesday (03.09.2008). It was a full house…expectedly, might I say. The title of his talk was unclear (he apparently changed his topic) but you can find it here
(http://www.bruno-latour.fr/articles/article/112-DESIGN-CORNWALL.pdf.
Although I was not used to speaker reading from lecture notes without any visual aids, Bruno kept my attention for an hour. It was very enjoyable to listen to his thoughts.

The main point of his talk, (I hope I got it right), was that Design is everything but ‘Modern’. Modern is concerned with ‘matter of fact’ and Design is about judging ‘good or bad’, it has therefore to do with ‘matter of concern’. The more Design, the less Modern.

According to Latour, Design has some modesty (we after all attend to daily object), Design attends to details and has skills. Design is always redesign. In these senses, Design is reactionary and not revolutionary, unlike the Modern. Also, Design is a sign to be interpreted. It is therefore not a ‘matter of fact’, unlike the modernist baby (my words).

Like other contemporary design theorists, Latour also sees Design as normative, having both the material and moral dimensions. (I think) he suggests expanding design to politics. Or so Design expands itself (we design nature: climate for example). Latour cited the German philosopher Sloterdijk often in the talk. After the lecture, he told us (people who were talking to him) that Sloterdijk is a famous philosopher of design and I felt uneasy that I did not know him.

Anyway, at the end of the talk, Bruno ‘challenged’ the audience to ‘visualize matter of concern’ for the public. He asked why Design has not produced the equivalence of the Modernist Isotype. He suggested that we need to ‘represent, assemble, drawing together’ ‘matter of concern’ and to map controversy.

DRNetwork Newsletter 08/08

Rosan — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:43:07 +0200

Dear DRNetworkers;

‘Questions & Hypotheses’
All the abstracts submitted to the DRNetwork Conference ‘Questions & Hypotheses’ and the reviews are now online. You are invited to give your comments and opinions.

https://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/category/category/questions-%2...

Do not miss Registration
There will be 16 presentations and 14 posters at the conference. Besides, Alain Findeli, Mike Press, Keith Russel, Susan Vihma, Khaldoun Zreik will serve as commentators and respondents. Admission to the conference is free! The registration for the conference is open and limited places are still available. Do not miss it!

http://www.questions-hypotheses.org/registration.html

Regards;
Rosan Chow; Project Manager
www.designresearchnetwork.org

DRNetwork Newsletter 07/08

Rosan — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:31:18 +0200

Dear DRNetworkers;

Questionnaire
Thank you to those who have completed the questionnaire to improve DRNetwork. Kathrin Vent, the student who designed and developed the questionnaire will soon analyze the responses and will make recommendation to us. We plan to implement her recommendations the best that circumstances allow in the near future.

‘Questions & Hypotheses’
We are pleased to have received over 50 abstracts from around the world. The review process will soon end and we plan to notify the authors in early August. We will also post the reviews and abstracts on the DRNetwork to facilitate discussion and learning.

www.questions&hypotheses.org
http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/thought/441

Regards;
Rosan Chow; Project Manager
www.designresearchnetwork.org

DRNetwork Newsletter 06/08

Rosan — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:19:02 +0200

Dear DRNetworkers;

Questionnaire
With the goal to improve the usability and desirability of the DRNetwork; we invite you to complete a questionnaire. It will take only a few minutes. We thank you for your participation.

http://ventka.de/DRN/inquiry.html

The questionnaire is prepared by Kathrin Vent; in the context of her final Diploma examination. All results will be published in July.

‘Questions & Hypotheses’ Deadline Extended
Submission deadline for the DRNetwork learning conference is extended to 30.06.2008. Please see details here:

www.questions&hypotheses.org
http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/thought/441

Regards;
Rosan Chow; Project Manager
www.designresearchnetwork.org

Registration Open: Networks of Design, Design History Conference

Rosan — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:08:09 +0200

Registration open. See attachment for details.

DRNetwork Newsletter 05/08

Rosan — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:38:30 +0200

Dear DRNetworkers;

Questionnaire
In June, we will send you a questionnaire about DRNetwork with the goal to improve its usability and to fulfil your needs and wishes. The questionnaire is prepared by Kathrin Vent, in the context of her final Diploma examination. All results will be published in July.

It will take only a few minutes. We sincerely invite you to participate and co-design the DRNetwork.

Questions & Hypotheses
Submission deadline for the DRNetwork learning conference is 16.06.2008. Please see details here:

http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/thought/441

Regards;
Rosan Chow; Project Manager
www.designresearchnetwork.org

DRNetwork Newsletter 04/08

Rosan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:38:19 +0200

Dear DRNetworkers,

Role Models
I am pleased to see some good quality posts from our PhD students. They are the kind of posts that will build DRNetwork.

http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/thought/475
http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/thought/473

Questions & Hypotheses
The DRNetwork conference will open for submission on 05.05.2008. I encourage you to submit an abstract. Please see details here:

http://www.designresearchnetwork.org/drn/thought/441

No Birkhäuser Prize
No Birkhäuser Prize is awarded for March, 2008.

Regards;
Rosan Chow; Project Manager
www.designresearchnetwork.org

Call for Papers & Visual Essays

Rosan — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:34:15 +0200

Visual Communication
Call for Papers and Visual Essays

Special Issue: Information Environments
Volume 8 Number 3, June 2009
Edited by Teal Triggs
Designed by Phil Baines

We welcome submissions of papers and/or visual essays to be considered for inclusion in a forthcoming special issue of Visual Communication on the theme of ‘Information Environments’ to be published in June 2009.

Submissions are sought from a broad range of disciplines that explore the way in which information is conveyed within physical and/or virtual environments. This includes the ways in which we send, receive, mediate or understand information in:

the use of new forms of technologies and computing
communities of interest and social networking
architecture and the built environment
document design
display and design of information in broadcasting and media displays
signage systems
conventional printed forms (e.g. books, magazines)
typography
teaching and learning environments
fine art practice (e.g. digital arts, site specific installations)
advertising and communication design
popular culture as well as from cultural, historical and theoretical perspectives

Essays should be 5,000 words and must include an abstract of 150 words, 3 line author’s biography, institutional affiliation, contact details including email.

Visual essays may be an entirely visual piece or can combine image and writing. The length of these essays varies (usually between 6 and 12 pages).

For the format of the manuscript submissions, see further details:
http://vcj.sagepub.com/

Submission of papers/essays for Editorial Review: 15 November 2008
Notification of Papers/Essays selected: 15 January 2009
Final corrected submissions: 15 March 2009

If you would like to discuss a proposal for a visual essay/practitioner’s piece or possible essay, please contact Professor Teal Triggs: t.triggs@lcc.arts.ac.uk