We invite you to DeSForM 2010, the 6th International Workshop on Design Semantics of Form and Movement.

The event takes place November, 3-5 at the Lucerne School of Art and Design, Switzerland.

The programme includes keynotes by:

- Sevil Peach, SPGA London/ UK
- Johan Redstroem, Interactive Institute, Kista/ Sweden
- Stuart Walker, Imagination Lancaster, Lancaster University/ UK

Excursions include visiting the Net’n'Nest Office at Vitra, Weil am Rhein, and the Designers’ Saturday in Langenthal.

Further information: http://www.desform.org/2010

Online Registration: http://blog.hslu.ch/desform2010/enrollment-desform-2010/

4-7 May 2011: THE ENDLESS END. The 9th International Conference of the European Academy of Design Porto, Portugal

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DEADLINE EXTENDED

Abstract submission until SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Submit abstracts by email to: endlessend2011@gmail.com

Due to various requests, the deadline for abstract submission for EAD2011 has been extended: September 20, 2010.

The European Academy of Design, the University of Porto and ID+, Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture, invite you to the 9th EAD International Design Conference: The Endless End.

The conference offers a forum for design academics, researchers, practitioners, thinkers and industry representatives to meet, exchange ideas and share new knowledge and insights across the fields of design. The conference includes keynote lectures, papers, posters and an exhibition of practice-based design research. The language of the conference is English. All documentation and related media will be in English.

There is a sense of vertigo permeating contemporary culture as a whole, and design in particular. So much so, that we often find ourselves wondering if design as we have known it still matters.

Design seems to have lost its universe of focus, branching exponentially into a multitude of concerns and activities formerly situated well beyond its scope. Likewise, design seems to be the new interest of so many professionals situated outside its area of expertise; not long ago it seemed like design was being courted, and maybe even actively cultivating, a territorial ambiguity that has kept its professionals worried, to say the least. Design now speaks of street culture and cutting-edge technology, museums and iPhone apps, just as it has spoken of campaign posters, haute couture, heavy industries, exercises in kitsch and typography.

This dissipation of a discernible territory of practice could seem like a loss at first, until we gradually came to understand that Design is, after all and despite the contextual noise, a deeply human activity, and, as such, any circumscription of ist potential would, in itself, be an artifice, an operational and transitory device; and that, rather than being devalued by this apparent dilution of its area of expert operation, Design suddenly has the opportunity to expand and mature as far as ist context, content and purpose are concerned. (more…)

2011, School of Art and Design, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

http://designresearch.fi/nordes2011/ / http://nordes.org/

Making Design Matter!

Opening keynote: Professor Andrea Branzi, Politecnico di Milano

The challenges affecting society today require fresh approaches

– how can we continue to make design matter? Nordes 2011 invites designers and design researchers to explore and discuss: What matters are at stake for designers today? What kinds of perspectives and alternatives are needed? In which ways can we develop the discipline and practice? How does design research matter?

Nordes 2011 invites contributions that share: (more…)

Optional pre-conference workshops, October 4, 2010

Hosted by the IIT Institute of Design at the Spertus Institute, Chicago

http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/

You may now view the Design & Emotion Conference schedule online at http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/des+emo-programs_workshops.html.

html.  (If you already have the conference site up, you may need to refresh the page.)  Select from over 120 speakers presenting

on topics such as

- experience design methods

- children and emotion

- sensory effects

- experience modeling

- reflective conjecturing (more…)

Entwerfe für uns die Werbekampagne 2011!

KanalK und Kulturdünger lancieren einen Wettbewerb für junge Künstler, die das Werbematerial für das Jahr 2011 kreieren. Die Beste Idee wird produziert und intensiv in die ganze Region Aargau gestreut.
Wir suchen ein Sujet, welches die Jugendkultur und deren Förderung in irgendeiner Form zum Thema macht.

Über Kulturdünger:
Kulturdünger fördert junge Kultur im Aargau. Unterstützt werden Projekte aus den Sparten Musik, Film, Tanz, Theater, Literatur, bildende Kunst, Fotografie und Events von Aargauer Jugendlichen bis maximal 25 Jahre.
Welche Projekte einen finanziellen Beitrag erhalten, entscheidet eine selbst kulturell aktive siebenköpfige Fachgruppe.

Preis: (more…)

Design Preis Schweiz Exhibition

Shanghai Swiss Pavillon, Expo 2010, August 23 to September 4, 2010

http://www.designpreis.ch/de/exhibition.html

Chicago Crown Hall, College of Architecture, August 30 to September 7, 2010

http://www.designpreis.ch/de/exhibition-chicago.html

Next Stops

Shanghai University of Tongji, September 7 to October 8, 2010

Washington American Institute of Architecture, September 21 to November 14, 2010

Oslo DogA, Norwegisches Design- und Architekturzentrum, October 14 to 24, 2010

Tokio Spiral Wacoal Art Center, November 12 to 28, 2010

Miami Design Miami, VITRA, 4141 Design, December 1 to 4, 2010

Peking Tsingua University, December 8 to 22, 2010

Mit heiteren Grüssen von unterwegs

Design Preis Schweiz

Heidi Wegener

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WCONSULT

Rauchgässli 31

8706 Meilen

heidi.wegener (at) wconsult.ch

Tel. +41 44 923 53 42

Mobile +41 79 758 12 50

Festival 01

Tec Art Eco in-teractive progress

CONFERENCE-PANELS-PERFORMANCES-WORKSHOPS

Lugano 6-7-8 October 2010 www.tecarteco.net

CONFERENCE_PANELS_PERFORMANCE

Wednesday, October 6/ 14.00-19.30

Palazzo dei Congressi sala B1 / Lugano

Daito Manabe (Tokyo-JP)

Massimo Banzi (Thinker-Arduino Project- Milan-ITA)

Massimo Botta (SUPSI-Lugano- CH)

Dominik Landwehr (Migros/Pop-New Media/ Digital Brainstorming-Zuerich- CH)

Alessandro Perini (Conservatorio G.Verdi – Como-ITA)

Marco Brini (ENVEVE-Lugano- CH)

Fabio Alvino-Ludving Parentela ([ON]iride Milan-Turin-ITA)

Marco Mancuso (Digicult-Milan-ITA)

Serena Cangiano (Tec Art Eco art res-Lugano- CH)

Stefano Lazzari (2Lifecast-Milano-ITA)

Maria Grazia Mattei (Meet The Media Guru-Milan-ITA)

Luca Congedo – Roberto Mucchiut (Hyperion-Lugano- CH)

Paolo Rigamonti (Limite a Zero-Milan-ITA)

Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano- CH)

NABA/Extended lab ( Milan-ITA) (more…)