Call for Workshop Proposals – Swiss Design Network Conference (Basel, 28 – 30 October, 2010)
Friday, May 28th, 2010Dear fellow design researchers,
We invite you to submit proposals for high quality workshops (approx. 90 min, in English only) in the field of design research to be held during the Swiss Design Network Conference (Basel, 28 – 30 October, 2010). While the conference addresses all current areas of design research, we especially encourage the submission of proposals that addresses the main conference theme of “negotiating futures. design fiction”. The proposal should be no more than 800 words and should include the workshop title, topic, objectives, structure, format, content, preferred number of participants, and a short bio of the organizers. The submission deadline for workshop proposals is July 30, 2010. You will receive a notification of acceptance by August 30, 2010. Please send your proposal and requests for further information to laurent.marti (at) fhnw.ch
Martin Wiedmer
President Swiss Design Network
http://www.swissdesignnetwork.org/
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The Sixth Annual Conference of the Swiss Design Network (www.sdn2010.ch) on October 28 – 30, 2010, in Basel,Switzerland, brings together scholars, professionals and students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in design and design research. The 2010 Conference theme addresses the topic of “negotiating futures. design fiction.“ It builds on the assumption, that designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference program therewith features a diverse selection of full papers, short papers and workshops exploring fields around the following question: how are fictions designed and how is the multiplicity of possible new futures negotiated and realized? Keynote speakers include James Auger, Julian Bleecker, Ruth Durrer, Marc Dusseiller, Franz Liebl and Alexandra Midal.