The “2011 Tsinghua–DMI International Design Management Symposium, Hong Kong” is jointly organized by the Tsinghua University and DMI (Design Management Institute). This Symposium will be held from 3-5 December 2011, and is tailored for business and design professionals as well as higher education academics.
Swinburne University of Technology Faculty of Design is planning to appoint a senior academic in communication design. The appointment will be at Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor level.
Design Museum, University of California, Davis. October 10 – December 5, 2010. Showcasing wearable textiles and ornaments, this exhibition displays the life, culture, and continuing loss of adornment skills of the minority people who live in Southwest China.
Visit the D-Crit Department at the School of Visual Arts for an afternoon of presentations and informal discussion about this exciting two-year graduate program.
You are invited to join us in the D-Crit department at the School of Visual Arts on Tuesday for the next talk in the Fall 2010 Design Criticism Lecture Series. We look forward to hosting Mark Lamster, veteran writer and editor, who will explain the art of authoring a book.
The next generation of decorative arts and design historians, curators, and authors will receive their education from this prestigious two-year program, which confers an MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Design.
The main topic of the symposium will be the architectural schools of the 19th and 20th centuries at polytechnics, colleges and universities.
We encourage papers, workshops, and intensives that are concerned broadly with aspects of the relationship between built and natural environments and human experience.
Pilar Viladas, design editor of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, will discuss her work as a magazine editor and writer, and how doing both involves constantly alternating between two different mindsets.
This year’s conference will be held in Venice, Italy alongside the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
In 2010/11 Sustain will host a series of debates with leading thinkers and doers from across the art and design disciplines.
On November 19th and 20th, an international panel of scholars discuss the impact of American participation in global trade from the 1780s to the 1850s on all aspects of visual art production including architecture, painting, sculpture, furniture, ceramics, fabrics and clothing.
Scholars pursuing interdisciplinary work are invited to apply for a semester-long Quadrant Fellowship at the University of Minnesota to be held in academic year 2011-2012. Application due date: November 19, 2010.
Tenure Track, Assistant Professor of Design Research
University of North Texas
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware invites submissions for papers to be given at the Ninth Annual Material Culture Symposium for Emerging Scholars.
This is a call for the organization of a panel on Visual Cultures of Science at the 19th Annual Conference of SHARP, devoted this year to the theme The Book in Art & Science, and taking place in Washington D.C.
The RCA/V&A MA Course in the History of Design invites applications for 2011/12.
PDC has a full and varied program of workshops, tutorials and a single track of 15 research papers enriched by sessions of exploratory papers, industry case studies, panels, related art events and keynote speakers.
Lecturer on Industrial Design at the University of Johannesburg.
ISEA2011 Istanbul is the international festival of new media, electronic and digital arts. The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, is scheduled for September 14 to 21, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lost in Space is a one and a half day interdisciplinary workshop for PhD students working on topics of space.
The School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons will consider proposals for new courses to be taught during the 2011-12 academic year in the following areas from now until Friday December 3rd, 2010.
London College of Fashion will host a two-day international symposium on December 6 & 7th, in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition, GSK Contemporary – Aware: Art Fashion Identity.
The Institute of Art and Visual History at the Humboldt-University of Berlin is seeking to appoint an experienced scholar in the history of architecture and urbanism.
We hope you can join us in the D-Crit department at the School of Visual Arts on Tuesday for the last talk in the Fall 2010 Design Criticism Lecture Series. Our final guest will be Victoria Milne, Director of Creative Services at NYC’s Department of Design and Construction (DDC).
Call for papers on fashion, style, appearance, consumption and design for conference April 20-23, 2011. Deadline for papers is December 15, 2011.
The Material Culture Area of PCA/ACA (Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for the 2011 National Conference, to be held in San Antonio, Texas, April 20- April 23.
The European Architectural History Network (EAHN) is organizing its Second pan-European meeting in Brussels in 2012.
The symposium will detail notions of heritage, design, place-making, museum and university connections.
The Wolfsonian’s fellowship program is intended to support research on the museum’s collection, generally for periods of three to four weeks. The program is open to holders of master’s or doctoral degrees, Ph.D. candidates, and others who have a significant record of professional achievement in relevant fields. Applications for the 2011–12 academic year must be postmarked by December 31, 2010.
The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture seeks an experienced historian to teach architectural and urban history to undergraduate and graduate students.
We are seeking an innovative and dynamic faculty member to work with us as we advance the interior design program and encourage excellence in design students.
Swinburne University of Technology Faculty of Design seeks a Lecturer in Interior Design.
The Journal of Design History welcomes contributions that introduce and explore aspects of a design archive, collection, or exhibition as a resource for design historical research.
Panel Proposal, American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD
Call for art submissions
Two linked conferences- FLOW 1 and FLOW 2- will address issues of the relationships between interiors and landscape.
Working with the Departments of Design and Sociology you will contribute to a project on the co-design of energy demand reduction technologies and communities of practice.
The organizers of “Grid + Flow” invite proposals for papers in the environmental humanities addressing aspects of Philadelphia’s relationship with non-human nature.
San Francisco State University is currently recruiting for a FT Tenure-Track faculty position which should be of interest to Product/Industrial Designers.
The Visual Arts Department of the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, seeks an accomplished interaction designer specializing in dynamic, screen-based formats.
The Visiting Scholars Program encourages and supports innovative research in the history, theory, and criticism of architecture in the broadest sense.
Feminist HCI is a cross-disciplinary area of research that combines feminist thinking with the concerns of human computer interaction.
This workshop will investigate how descriptions and theories of everyday practice can be employed in order to critically and creatively re-think how HCI approaches research and design issues of sustainability.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery invite applications for research fellowships in art and visual culture of the United States. Fellowships are residential and support full-time independent and dissertation research. Applications are due January 15, 2011.
We invite papers that will explore the workshops and presses, the bookbinders and booksellers, the readers, bibliophiles, and librarians who have made, traded in, and treasured books in New England and beyond.
This special issue of Boom: A Journal of California focuses on the state of design in California as California design impacts the state and the state of the world. Articles, graphic work, images, interviews, testimony, and reviews will focus on traditional and emergent design disciplines from fashion to interaction design, industrial design and architecture to synthetic biology. We are particularly interested in contributions that reveal the changing nature of the design disciplines in our time, as well as in contributions that challenge traditional paradigms of both design and culture.
Herron School of Art and Design is seeking an experienced leader to fill the Chair position in the Department of Visual Communication Design.
Join us in Hong Kong for a conference organized by the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Faculty of Design of Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne).
Tenure Track, Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Art Direction
University of North Texas
The University of North Texas is seeking a Tenure Track, Assistant Professor of Design research.
The Material Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association wishes to encourage participation in the 2011 Annual meeting: “Imagination, Reparation, Transformation,” October 20-23, 2011, Baltimore, Maryland.
Dynamic program is seeking an exceptional digital fine artist to contribute to the undergraduate and graduate programs.
The 2011 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS 2011) is targeted “to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in collaboration enterprises, their modeling and simulation, design and use, applications, and their impact.”
The Faculty of Design at Swinburne University of Technology is adding several new positions this year to meet the needs of a growing student body and our increasing research intensity. We are now adding one position each in communication design, interior design, and digital media design, and two positions in film and television.
We are seeking an innovative and dynamic faculty member to work with us as we advance the interior design program and encourage excellence in design students.
New Mexico State University is seeking an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design.
The Real & The Fake, the theme of the 2011 symposium, is inspired in part by the concurrent new media exhibition, The Aesthetics of the Fake, which will be on view in the University Library Gallery from March 31 to June 4, 2011.
The aim of this Special Issue of CoDesign is to interrogate “Design which takes as its primary driver social issues, its main consideration social impact and its main objective social change
The Department of Art + Design at Columbia College Chicago is seeking applications for a tenure-track faculty position in modern and/or contemporary design history, to begin August 15, 2011.
This symposium will be held on the occasion of the exhibition Johan Thorn Prikker. Beyond Art Nouveau in 2011 on show in Rotterdam and Düsseldorf.
Purchase College, SUNY, is seeking a Graphic Designer-Artist with an innovative approach to telling stories and communicating through the tools and methodologies of graphic design. Though the deadline for applications is January 31, candidate files will be evaluated as they are submitted.
The aim is to examine the interaction of technology and consumer behavior in a historical perspective, with a primary focus on factors steering consumption and how consumers by their choices have influenced technological development.
The School of Art and Design History and Theory is looking to develop and expand its academic strengths at graduate level in design studies with particular interest in design ethics, design futures and design activism.
OCAD University is Canada’s largest university for art and design. Established in 1876, the University has unusual depth and breadth in visual arts and design programs for schools of its kind and across the university system, and has experienced a 60% growth in enrollment over the past seven years.
Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri is accepting applications for a full-time faculty position in the Art and Design Program (College of Arts and Sciences) to begin Fall of 2011.
Design Philosophy Papers is calling for papers that reflect critically upon the relationship between design and the communities that are being designed for and/or with.
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
The goal of the Aalto University School of Art and Design is to be a dynamic, international school that promotes the development of creative fields, the regeneration of Finnish culture and artistic education and furthers innovation-based business that supports sustainable development.
The Indiana University Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design is seeking a highly qualified lecturer for the Fashion Design Certificate program.
The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design has openings for six faculty in the fields of design.
This conference seeks to present new research on advertising in North America before the rise of the modern advertising agency (late 1870s).
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking dynamic and creative candidates for a tenure track position in the Interior Design Program.
The Design Conference is a place to explore the meaning and purpose of ‘design’, as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes.
Bard Graduate Center is requesting papers on the “material network” for a conference May 6, 2011.
Philbrook Museum of Art Features American Streamlined Design Exhibition- February 6-May 15
The 4th International Conference on Advanced Design and Manufacturing (ADM2011) will take place in Kunming, China, 21th -23rd September 2011. All papers included in ADM2011 conference proceedings will be indexed in EI Compendex and other major abstract media, and the papers presented at the conference will be offered the opportunity for post-conference publications.
UNIDCOM / IADE’s 6th International Conference’s Senses & Sensibility in Lisbon: Advertising, Design, Fashion, Marketing, Photography and Visual Culture in the right place will take place between 6–8th of October 2011, in Lisbon.
The University of Toledo invites applications for a tenure-track position, Assistant Professor of New Media Design Practices, beginning August 15, 2011.
Scholars and artists are invited to apply for travel fellowships and grants, which the Bakken Library and Museum in Minneapolis offers to encourage research in its collection of books, journals, manuscripts, prints, and instruments.
The 2011 AHRA Queen’s Belfast ‘Peripheries’ conference will invite discussion via papers and short films on the multiple aspects periphery represents — temporal, spatial, intellectual, technological, cultural, pedagogical and political
Tucker Viemeister is lab chief at Rockwell Group. The Lab experiments with interactive digital technology in objects, environments and stories—blurring the line between the physical and virtual.
The Department of Interior Design invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor at University of Manitoba.
Due to large number of submissions that continue to come in towards the last few days before the closing deadline, it was decided to keep the submissions open until the 17th of February 2011.
DTU is pleased to announce the 7th annual Student Interaction Design Research Conference (SIDeR).SIDeR is a chance for students to use their own design projects and reflections on design thinking from coursework in theory and the practice of design as a basis for an academic paper.
The Conservancy invites proposals for papers responding to the theme, “Art, Craft, Modernism, and Frank Lloyd Wright on the East Coast.”
The goal of the DiGRA conference is to advance the study of games and playfulness. DiGRA 2011 seeks to connect game research to the creative industries and society by fostering the development of an integrated practice of game research, design, engineering, entrepreneurship and play.
We invite papers dealing with what things are made of. How is meaning resident in materials? We especially seek papers that explore the uses of engineered materials or the dialectic of the natural and the artificial.
On Thursday 23rd June 2011 the CREATE Conference will host a one-day symposium in Shoreditch House, London.
The special issue aims at presenting new ways of writing the history of technology, between technological theories and social practices.
The goal of the Aalto University School of Art and Design is to be a dynamic, international school that promotes the development of creative fields, the regeneration of Finnish culture and artistic education and furthers innovation-based business that supports sustainable development.
The Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Quinnipiac University seeks candidates for a full-time tenure track position at the rank of the assistant professor in game design and development.
A special issue of the Journal of Research Practice (JRP) will focus on artistic research practice, drawing attention to the process of expressing, performing, creating, inventing, in short, reflecting and making, in the process of art and research.
The Technion is the leading university of science and engineering education in Israel. The Graduate Program in industrial design in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning is the only program in Israel that has been accredited by the Council for Higher Education to grant M.Sc. in industrial design.
DTU is pleased to announce the 7th annual Student Interaction Design Research Conference (SIDeR)
Parsons The New School for Design, a division of The New School, seeks applicants for two post-doctoral fellow positions in Design Studies within the School of Art & Design History and Theory.
The School of Art and Design History and Theory is looking to develop and expand its academic strengths at graduate level in design studies with particular interest in design ethics, design futures and design activism.
Columbus College of Art & Design invites applications for a full-time faculty appointment in Visual Communications.
The Department of Art & Art History at Michigan State University seeks a dynamic and creative colleague whose research and teaching focuses primarily on Interactive Media/ Graphic Design.
The Design Research Innovation Lab at Victoria University of Wellington’s (NZ) School of Design is pleased to announce we are currently accepting applications for students interested in pursuing a PhD in Design. The application deadline is 1 March 2011.
Michael Bierut has worked as a designer, writer, editor, blogger, and teacher. He will describe the pleasures and perils of working for 30 years with an intentionally confusing job description.
This inaugural conference of the Interior Educators group seeks to bring together members and other interested parties to create a dynamic, national discourse within this diverse three-dimensional design discipline.
Between the 18th and 20th April 2012, the School of Design at Northumbria University will host the ninth Design Thinking Research Symposium (DTRS9).
Eastern Michigan University’s Art Department in cooperation with the Office of Academic Programs Abroad, is pleased to offer a 17-day study program at London College of Communication in London, England. The intent of the program is to provide students from EMU and other institutions an opportunity to learn more about British and European art and design.
A one-day symposium sponsored by the Grace Slack McNeil Program for Studies in American Art at Wellesley College and the Office of Academic Programs at Historic Deerfield.
Aalto University is a new university created from the merger of the Helsinki School of Economics, the University of Art and Design Helsinki and Helsinki University of Technology. The combination of three universities opens up new possibilities for strong multi-disciplinary education and research.
Imagination, central to art history, art theory, philosophy, artistic practice and research, has again become an important topic in a number of fields outside the arts, including medicine and the sciences. The transdisciplinary conference ‘Imagining Imagination’ investigates different conceptualizations of imagination, the capacities through which imagination can be imagined, and images of imagination that are being produced as part of research on the subject.
ADJ hopes to explore new Asian concepts each year through papers on multi-interdisciplinary topics, including culture, social science, literature, engineering, management, liberal arts and design, which deal with Asian culture and design.
Design Factory provides innovative programs in product development and entrepreneurship at Finland’s Aalto University. It embraces approaches to teaching, learning, and entrepreneurial action pioneered at Stanford University.
What is the impact of austerity on craft making and fashion design?
Dr. Linda King is a lecturer in Design History, Theory and Visual Communication at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin.
We are also pleased to announce a forthcoming special issue of Fashion Practice on the subject of Fashion Branding and the Practice of Fashion, for publication in Autumn 2013.
The 1st International Conference on Smart Design will take place in Nottingham, UK, from the 22nd to 24th November 2011. All papers included in the conference will be included in the conference proceedings and published by Springer, the conference papers will also be available as an e-book.
We invite you to submit a paper/abstract to The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2011.
“The Pleasures of the Internet” is about the delight—and anxiety—of digital existence. From YouTube to e-books to WikiLeaks, media critic Virginia Heffernan will address the specific ways that digital culture has already superseded analog, and how that’s both terrifying and exhilarating.
The Conservation Department, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich – is pleased to announce the subsequent event of our last year’s international conference FUTURE TALKS 009: FUTURE TALKS 011.
Everyone has their own method of buying wine—sometimes it just involves labels less than grapes or their origin. Wine labels are as diverse and individual as book jackets. The old adage says you can’t judge a book this way, and wine follows suit. What, then, can we learn from the label of a wine bottle?
This international conference will bring together historians of textiles and clothing, and of health, with scholars of social, medical, cultural, and economic history to examine the rich connections between textiles, human health and welfare, environmental issues, and self expression.
The EIGHTH ANNUAL DGTF CONFERENCE would like to combine and present contributions on the practice, theory and history of participatory design, and discuss them in reference to current design research. Within this context, projects from a research-based design practice are also especially welcome.
Valerie Steele, the founder and editor-in-chief of Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture, published by Berg, will discuss the origins and development of this influential, interdisciplinary journal and consider its contribution to the development of Fashion Studies as a field.
The Twentieth Annual Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on The Decorative Arts and Design
An International Conference on Sustainable Design in a Globalization Context
Artists, designers and theoreticians are invited to submit research and production proposals to become a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie.
The Computer History Museum Prize is awarded to the author of an outstanding book in the history of computing broadly conceived, published during the prior three years.
The History Department of Lang College and the New School for Social Research and the Culture of the Market Network of the University of Manchester are pleased to announce a conference on Power and the History of Capitalism, to be held April 15-16, 2011 at the New School in New York City.
The Real & The Fake, the theme of the 2011 symposium, is inspired in part by the concurrent new media exhibition, The Aesthetics of the Fake, which will be on view in the University Library Gallery from March 31 to June 4, 2011.
Fashion, Style, Appearance,Consumption & Design is concerned with all areas and aspects of style, fashion, clothing, design, and related trends, as well as appearances and consumption using and/or including: historical sources, manufacturing, aesthetics, marketing, branding, merchandising, retailing, psychological/ sociological aspects of dress, body image, and cultural identities, in addition to any areas relating to purchasing,
The goal of this poster session is to give graduate students a place to present their work and encourage them to engage with their colleagues in the professional art community.
Design Studies Forum is calling for proposals for a session theme for a proposed two-and-a-half-hour Design Studies Forum-sponsored panel at the February 2013 College Art Association annual conference.
The theme of this year’s event is The Language of Creativity. The CREATE committee want to encourage discussion around the issues of how creativity is interpreted and used in collaborative and interdisciplinary interaction design projects.
The Ethnography & Popular Culture area of the MPCA invites proposals (or abstracts) for papers on any aspect of the intersection of ethnography and popular culture.
Held in conjunction with BCS HCI 2011, CCID2 is a two-day symposium cultural approaches to HCI and interaction design, emphasizing the intersections between critical theory, the arts, creativity, aesthetics, and felt experience and computing.
This workshop will provide a forum to scrutinize the current understanding of “mobility” in human centred interaction research in order to identifycurrent and future challenges for design and evaluation practices, methodologies and theories.
The Right to The City is an exhibition and publishing project exploring connections between architecture, art, philosophy and action; cosponsored by Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney and Architectural Theory Review.
Reserve your seat at the second annual D-Crit conference—a fast-paced afternoon event at the SVA Theatre, featuring a keynote speaker, a panel of renowned critics, and 11 graduating students, whose topics range from the design of playgrounds to the use of sound in design and architecture and from a consideration of decay and impermanence in design to the regeneration of Detroit.
Design practice is at a crossroads. Notwithstanding the introduction of ‘sustainability’ in design education and in commerce, design dominantly still serves the unsustainable. To move toward ‘sustainment’ as project and process, radical and effective action is needed.
This panel invites proposals that take innovative approaches to both the art historical and museological issue of how to understand and represent labor and art, whether concerned with works two-dimensional or three-, fine art or design, colonial or contemporary.
This year we are proud to present the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2011). The symposium will be held on Oct 26, 2011 at Congress Center in Basel, Switzerland.
The conference will cover the relationships between art and education over a wide geographical and chronological spectrum.
This two-day conference seeks to make a significant contribution to expanding knowledge on collaborative practice in craft, design and art environments.
In our sessions, we would like to both create the opportunity for a sociological discussion of the meaning of Visual Activism and Social Justice, and at the same time endeavour to democratize the ways our knowledge and practices are produced and shared.
The tenure track is open to talented individuals who have excellent potential for a scientific career.
The conference explores the textile medium, technology, material and metaphor in the history and theory of architecture from antiquity to the present.
Join us in Hong Kong for a conference organized by the School of Design of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Faculty of Design of Swinburne University of Technology (Melbourne).
This conference will address production across a wide array of research and practice from art, design and craft to music, dance, philosophy, and cultural studies.
The conference ‘Fashion and Socialism: Between Utopia and Reality’ will be organized by World Handicrafts Organization in Vienna, Austria in cooperation with University of Applied Arts Vienna (Cultural and Intellectual History).
On the heels of the Visual Culture Caucus’s wonderful and stimulating session at the College Art Association conference in New York, it is time to begin planning the next set of VCC-sponsored sessions, both the special session for next year’s conference in Los Angeles, and the regular session for the 2013 meeting in New York.
The Vernacular Architecture Forum invites paper proposals for its Annual Meeting in Falmouth Jamaica May 31 – June 4, 2011.
The School of Communication Arts, University of Western Sydney (Australia) is seeking to appoint 2 people: an Associate Professor in Design, and a Lecturer in Design.
The Graduate History Association and the Department of History at Washington University in St. Louis are pleased to announce the inaugural Graduate Conference on the History of the Body, to be held October 20-21, 2011.
One year (nine-month) contract responsibilities include a teaching load of three studio courses each in the fall and spring terms and regular studio visits with the MFA students.
Inaugural meeting of the Canadian Colour Research Association, chapter of the AIC
The Design Archives at the University of Brighton hold the archives of three major design organisations – the Design Council, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID).
The symposium- Mediating Modesty: Fashioning Faithful Bodies brings together speakers from cultural studies, anthropology, fashion studies and religious studies to think about women’s modest self presentation in the context of new forms of commerce, commentary, and community.
The Department of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco is currently looking to hire part time faculty members to teach in the Design Program for the Fall 2011 semester.
The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Digital Cultures and Creativity, a new living/learning program for first- and second-year undergraduate students.
The two-day course will explore the pitfalls of privileging formal systems as a conceptual lens – not just in relation to understanding computer games, but also in terms of designing them.
If any of you are in or near Newcastle on 16th June 2011 then please come along to our Symposium on STUFF and the Private Review of REVEAL [our design graduates show]. Both events are totally free.
Applications are invited for a three year full-time collaborative doctoral studentship funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council led by Professor Cheryl Buckley (Northumbria University) in collaboration with the Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead.
Sustainable Architecture in Emerging Economies About Int|AR Established in 2009 as the first American academic publication focusing on Design and Adaptive Reuse, the Int|AR Journal and its web presence explore this inherently sustainable practice through multi-faceted investigations and paradigmatic examples.
CADRE is offering three PhD studentships commencing in October 2011 in the areas of:Digital Theory, Technology and Practice Communication and PedagogyCreative Processes in the Performing Arts. The deadline for applications is Friday 17th June.
“as art collapses into science, centralised control dissipates into networks, and culture migrates beyond man, the old models of explanation, classification and discussion are rendered obsolete.” -Virtual Futures, 1996
DesignInquiry 2011: MAKE/DO, will investigate the idea that all design in some sense requires improvisation, and that no design is really the work of a single author, even if it seems that way.
This special issue will look for multiple historical narratives of Olympic design.
EKSIG 2011 will address the theme of “SkinDeep – Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication”. It will be convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by the University of the Creative Arts, UK.
The theme of this year’s symposium is designed to encourage discussion around the issues of how creativity is interpreted and used in collaborative and interdisciplinary interaction design projects.
Proposals considering diverse aspects of early European colour printing in relief and intaglio from the middle ages to the turn of the eighteenth century are welcome, including those dealing with textiles and book illustrations.
http://www.idea-edu.com/Journal/2011/2011-IDEA-Journal
Graz University of Technology, Graz/Austria, November 11, 2011
Looking for proposals that investigate these specific ways of generation of fictional truths within all representational arts from scholars through out the humanities.
A three-day conference, workshop and discussion group addressing issues in the production and consumption of transnational clothing in the World Heritage City, Bath.
This panel invites papers that focus on the relationship between mass media and the modern French interior, broadly defined (mid-18th century to mid-20th century, private and public).
We are pleased to announce that the 9th International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies will be held in Paris, France, from July 2nd to 6th, 2012, hosted by Sorbonne Nouvelle University and UNESCO.
The Bard Graduate Center will host a four-week NEH Summer Institute on American Material Culture. The institute will focus on the material culture of nineteenth century and use New York as its case study because of its role as a national center for fashioning cultural commodities and promoting consumer tastes.
Craft Research (CRRE) is the first peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the development and advance of contemporary craft practice and theory through research. The aim of Craft Research is to elicit craft as a vital and viable modern discipline that offers a vision for the future and for the sustainable development of human social, economical and ecological issues.
We are pleased to hold the 2011 conference alongside the San Sebastian International Film Festival, founded in 1953 and acknowledged by the International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) as an A Category Festival.
This year’s annual Conference of SHARP Visual Cultures of Science will focus on the Book in Art & Science in Washington D.C., from July 15-17, 2011.
This issue of Preternature invites contributions that explore the relationship between objects, users and the preternatural world.
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9-day intensive experimental book workshop to be held at EMU’s beautiful Parsons Center in northern Michigan this summer.
If design and understanding of design in the Indian context is to benefit from this diversity and plurality, it seems most useful to continue in the spirited tradition of Samvad or dialogue. You are invited.
SCAD Savannah seeks candidates for a full-time faculty position in modern or contemporary art and design for Fall 2011. Qualified candidates will have a Ph.D. in art history or a related field.
The editors Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journal’s 2012 special issue SPECIAL EFFECTS: Technology and the Interior Experience. This issue will examine the impact of technology on the development of the interior and the accompanying human experience.
The editors Anne Massey (Kingston University) and John Turpin (Washington State University) invite contributions to the journal’s 2012 special issue SPECIAL EFFECTS: Technology and the Interior Experience. This issue will examine the impact of technology on the development of the interior and the accompanying human experience.
The Editors-in-Chief of ACM Interactions magazine invite authors to submit articles and other features for publication.
The American Fine and Decorative Arts Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art seeks a dynamic instructor to lead a course in the History of American Decorative Art, Colonial to 1850 for the fall semester in 2011.
Carnegie Mellon’s School of Design is one of the oldest design programs in the United States, offering undergraduate, masters and PhD degrees in design.
A PhD Research Fellowship in the field of Design History is available at the University of Oslo’s Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas. The position is to be part of the research project ‘Visioning Modern Design’ which is examining visions and visualizations of modern design.
Position Announcement at James Madison univerisity- Visiting Assistant Professor in Interactive Media/Graphic Design POSITION: One-year appointment in Interactive Media/Graphic Design at the rank of Assistant Professor PERIOD: Starting August 2011. RESPONSIBILITIES: Teach three undergraduate classes per semester with a primary focus in Web, Interactive, Time-based and Motion Graphics. The successful candidate will demonstrate a critical
Over the last twenty years, dress history has moved from the margins of academic debate to the centre of interdisciplinary analysis in the arts and humanities. Dress and its meanings are matters of significance for social and cultural historians; the circuits of clothing across the globe are used to explain patterns of globalisation; its exchange between people is essential to
understandings of consumer culture; everything we wear is understood as a crucial component identities and rituals.
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This two day conference will explore the use of painted cloths in religious ceremony, pageantry, domestic interiors and scenic art.
Swinburne University Faculty of Design in collaboration with SPIRE, University of Southern Denmark is proud to host the 2012 Participatory Innovation Conference. This is a forum where participants from different disciplines and organisations can meet and challenge each other to develop the field of participatory innovation. It will be held in Melbourne, Australia from 12-14 January 2012.
The issue number 06 of the V!RUS journal intends to discuss the processes of creation understood in a broad context of formulation, development, exploration and sharing of the creative experience.
Conference on the theme of “Listening” promoted by the American Society for Cybernetics
Are you tired of traditional accounts of science and technology? Discover alternative historical perspectives and methods in the midst of Canada’s largest collection in science, medicine and technology.
Research Outputs in Art and Design
FLOW 2, the second of the FLOW conferences will be hosted by the Landscape Architecture program, Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia, from the 8th to the 10th of February, 2012.
The seminar will begin with two keynote dialogues which will present a conceptual background to the idea of dialogues in general and within design, in specific.
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The editors of Photography and Culture invite submissions that explore the theoretical, historical and interdisciplinary dimensions of ecocriticism and photography.
Special Issue on: The influence of natural colorants in modern textile design and production
Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, 24-28 February 2012, New York, NY
ISEA2011 Istanbul is the international festival of new media, electronic and digital arts. The 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art, a leading world conference and exhibition event for art, media and technology, is scheduled for September 14 to 21, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey.
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting
We invite proposals from scholars in the humanities, social and natural sciences, visual and performing arts, engineering and technology for papers, panels, new media art and performance pieces that explore the intersections of gender, bodies and technology in contexts ranging from classrooms to workplaces to the internet.
This conference will address contemporary trends in the field of television studies and reconsider the historical currents that inform our understandings of the present and prospective future of the medium.
As last year we will have a number of students and graduates present who will give their input and perspectives throughout the day. The day is free and generously funded by the Design History Society.
Founded in 1956, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts makes project-based grants to individuals and organizations and produces public programs to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society.
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 21-25, 2011
We are currently recruiting for a Technical Digital Coordinator to assist with the technical aspects of design and production within classes, student projects, and faculty research in the Media Design Program.
This panel will examine the life of “things” in twentieth-century literature, particularly their power to produce ecstasy or existential nausea.
AJAS Call for Papers The Materials of American Studies, December 2012. Bill Brown observes that by the end of the nineteenth century, “the invention, production, distribution and consumption of things rather suddenly came to define a national culture” [Sense of Things 4]. This issue of the Australasian Journal of American Studies, “The Materials of American
A HISTORICAL VIEW ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUSTAINABLE CITY. STRATEGIES OF SUSTAINABILITY IN EUROPEAN URBAN DESIGN THEORY FROM THE 16TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY
C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists seeks paper and panel submissions to its second biennial conference, “Prospects: A New Century,” which will take place April 12-15, 2012 at the historic Berkeley City Club and at the beautiful University of California, Berkeley campus.
The Textile Society of America invites paper proposals for its upcoming symposium, Textiles & Politics, to be held in Washington, D.C. September 19-22, 2012.
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Applied ArtsUniversity of Wolverhampton – School of Art and Design
The College of Design is searching for a Department Head for Graphic Design and Industrial Design.
Join the conversation on the future of feminism in celebration of the 40th anniversary of* Ms.* magazine. Stanford University and *Ms.* magazine invite you to enter an essay contest.
History of Design and Material Culture Research Seminar Programme Victoria and Albert Museum / Royal College of Art, London Autumn 2011 Thursdays, 5 pm All those with a research interest in the field are welcome. 13 October European Circulation and Dissemination of Fashion in the Early Modern Period: Passports for Luxury Goods from Paris to Munich in
Symposium: Civil society reclaims public space. Cross perspectives based on research.
Brussels 15-16 March 2012
Visual rhetorics are by definition in the business of persuasion: in both private and public spheres, such rhetorics attempt to change the behaviours of both individuals and groups.
www.humancities.eu
http://www.ghi-dc.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=287&Itemid=62
The Velvet Light Trap editorial board would like to announce that the submission for issue #70 has been extended to October 15 (it was originally September 15).
The purpose of this working group is to consider plastic pollution from a variety of disciplines and catalyze collaboration.
www.desirenetwork.eu
New extended deadline
www.ijdesign.org
‘Visual Text’ aims to showcase cutting-edge research on the visual aspects of text in different media, whether handwritten, printed or digital, and is open to a variety of disciplinary approaches including literature, linguistics and cultural and translation studies, communication studies and graphic design.
http://fadf.ieu.edu.tr/agd2012
Rutgers University announces “Science and Method in the Humanities,” an interdisciplinary graduate symposium to be held on March 2, 2012, with keynote speakers Peter Dear (Cornell University) and Barbara Herrnstein Smith (Duke University, Brown University).
This symposium turns attention to the exhibitions of arts and industries in the regions outside the capitals and to the assumptions that lay behind them. Its main focus will be placed on their ambitions, originality, relationship to the “greater” exhibitions and, in particular, their engagement with visual culture.
Conventional art institutions such as museums and galleries have had problematic relationships with three-dimensional utilitarian objects since their inception.
http://sciencemethodhumanities.wordpress.com
This symposium will explore the different facets and forms of the serial production of artefacts from antiquity to the eighteenth century.
A special issue of the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia
www.2011conferences.org/icta
The Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (MNSAH) invites the submission of articles and books on the subject of Minnesota architectural history to the eighth David Stanley Gebhard Award, which honors the late Minnesota-born SAH president and nationally renowned writer, whose subjects included this state’s architectural history.
The conference will take place in The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and conclude with a keynote address in the Anatomy Theatre at King’s College London.
The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Architecture beginning fall of 2012.
The Midwest Conference on Utopian Studies at Valparaiso University is a regional conference dedicated to exploring the rich tradition of utopianism in all its forms.
www.pcaaca.org
This will be the sixteenth meeting of the Popular Culture Association Circuses and Circus Culture interest group.
This special issue of the Journal of Design History focuses on the work of colour practitioners, rather than on the colours themselves.
We invite proposals for an upcoming special issue on “Mobility and Media”. This special issue of Transfers, an Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, aims to provide a forum of discussion with regard to current approaches and perspectives on the history of mobility, focusing on the interaction between transportation and media, technologies and techniques.
From July 15 to 20, 2012 the Germanisches Nationalmuseum is hosting the 33rd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art in Nuremberg and invites art historians from all over the world to attend and discuss “The Challenge of the Object”.
The Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University seeks to make an appointment of an artist/designer working at the intersection of contemporary art and design at the tenured-track level of Associate Professor.
The call for papers for the Third International Forum of Design as a Process, Torino, Italy, 3-5 November 2011 has been issued. The topic of the third edition is “Innovation in Design Education”.
Linda Hall Library resident fellowships for 2012 are now available. Fellowships up to $3,000 per month will assist scholars to finance a research visit. Resident fellowships for the duration of a minimum of 1 month to a maximum
of 9 months are offered in support of research projects in science, engineering, and technology; in the history of science, engineering and technology; or in interdisciplinary topics that link science or technology to the broader culture.
http://www.theglobalstudio.com
Tel Aviv University, Art History Department, May 16 – 17, 2012, Deadline: Jan 10, 2012
http://DesignPrinciplesandPractices.com/Conference
EVERYDAY LIFE: THE TEXTURES AND POLITICS OF THE ORDINARY, PERSISTENT, AND REPEATED
The Design History Society (DHS) is pleased to announce a new Student Travel Grant.
Protest has a long and varied tradition in America. The conference will feature papers focusing on authors, publishers and readers of oppositional materials, in all arenas from politics to literature, from science to religion. Whether the dissent takes the form of a banned book by Henry Miller or documents from Wikileaks, conference presentations will help us to understand how dissent functions within print and digital cultures.
The Ephemera Society of America (ESA) holds an annual three-day conference in Old Greenwich, Ct. in March devoted to sharing and exploring various aspects of ephemera.
The conference aims to provide an outlet for international and interdisciplinary knowledge production within the Making Disciplines/Making Professions/Making Education.
This conference will offer an interdisciplinary look at the history of advertising in America through an examination of multiple industries, media forms, and historical periods.
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.
Between the 18th and 20th April 2012, the School of Design at Northumbria University will host the ninth Design Thinking Research Symposium [DTRS 2012].
The Oral History Association (OHA), the principal organization of practicing oral historians in the United States, is seeking a new home for its executive office and staff beginning in 2013.
This next issue of craft+design enquiry will focus on and highlight the role, contribution and potential of craft and design practices to the urban environment as well as the transformation of these practices – a world in making.