The Avery Review

The Avery Review—an online journal of critical essays dedicated to thinking about buildings, books, and other architectural media, broadly defined—is seeking submissions for the spring. We publish

Re . Asia : Architecture as Method

EXTENDED DEADLINE - 31 DECEMBER 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SPECIAL ISSUE OF

ARCHITECTURAL THEORY REVIEW AND THE SAH-ASIA 2ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

We are seeking to explore how the methodological discipline of Architecture can offer a

Call for Papers: Modernism Today

Modernism Today
10-13 August 2017, Amsterdam

What does Modernism mean to us today – to us as cultural consumers, as scholarly

Design for Health

Design for Health is an international refereed journal covering all aspects of design in the context of health and wellbeing. The Journal is published twice a year and provides a forum

Design History Conference 2017

Design History Society Annual Conference 2017, Making and Unmaking the Environment
University of Oslo, 7-9 September 2017

Design is both making and unmaking the environment. Conversely, it might be argued that the environment is both making and unmaking design. This conference seeks to explore how these processes unfold, across timescapes and landscapes, thus opening a new agenda for the field of design history.

In the anthropocene, we can no longer talk about design (and) culture without also talking about design (and) nature. The conference theme is intended to stimulate new directions in

The Things of Design Research

Workshop - The Things of Design Research: Diversity in Objects and Outcomes

7 May 2017
Denver, USA

Design research is a growing mode of research within the HCI community. At the same time, the role of the artifact in generating knowledge outcomes from research through

Architecture Connects: Strategies for the co-production of architectural knowledge

Architecture Connects: Strategies for the co-production of architectural knowledge

6-9 September 2017, Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, Oxford.

Hosted by Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, Oxford, UK in collaboration with the association of architectural educators, aae2017 is an International Peer Reviewed Conference on ‘strategies for the co-production of architectural knowledge’ which will run from 6 to 9 September 2017.

The conference will expand the communities of practice in architectural education that were established by previous aae conferences by developing the lively discourse that took place around the themes of social engagement, live projects and design research.

New books in the library - December 2016

We've seen more books than usual enter the library the last month or so. Below is a selection of some that may be relevant to design. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for the library collection.

Changes to the Swanston library over the summer break

As we prepare for the new Swanston Library in 2017 there’ll be some changes over

OASE Journal #99

OASE 99 - The Architecture (Museum) Effect 
Issue editors: Dr. Sergio M. Figueiredo and Dr. Hüsnü Yegenoglu

The aim of OASE 99 is establish a working understanding of architecture museums as institutions and nodes in architecture’s cultural apparatus. To engage critically with different perspectives and use

Inflection - Journal of the Melbourne School of Design

Inflection journal vol.4 invites submissions from students, academics and professionals to explore and unpack the complex inter-relationship between permanence / impermanence in architectural discourse.

We welcome both academic and practice-oriented written pieces (up to 3000 words), visual essays, interviews and fictional works that engage with the issue in relation to architecture, design and their related fields.

Please submit abstracts of maximum 300 words by Monday 19 December 2016.

Final submissions due at the end of March 2017.

More information at the Inflection website.

ITERATIONS Design Research and Practice Review

ITERATIONS Design Research and Practice Review is currently seeking submission for Issue 5, the review is especially keen to publish articles on:

• Emerging/ Non-traditional design disciplines

• Inter-disciplinary Design

• Experimental/ Speculative Design

We are particularly interested in articles and papers which reflect on the changing landscape of design and the cross-over with non-traditional design disciplines. Interviews

Educating Architects and Planners in the Twentieth Century

Call for Abstracts: “Educating Architects and Planners in the Twentieth Century”

8 September 2017

School of Architecture and Planning, The University of Auckland, New Zealand

On 8-9 September 2017, the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland celebrates its centenary. Events include a symposium on the Friday, followed that evening by a book launch and exhibition opening, with both projects addressing the history of the Auckland School. On the Saturday there will be a series of panel discussions bringing together groups of our alumni from different generations and, that evening, a gala dinner. 

Our current research on the history of the Auckland School is producing a survey of its formation, growth and development. We now seek papers that examine particular episodes, events and people associated with the Auckland School over its first 100 years, and also papers on the histories of architecture and planning education elsewhere.

Themes of interest to us include, but are not limited to:

New books in the library - November 2016

Some new books in the library are listed below - both print and e-books. Please send any

Library News: Snapshot of a Library

Library News: Snapshot of a Library: We've captured a snapshot of Library activity for January to June 2016. It provides an interesting picture of how you use the Library ...

Design and Displacement: The 26th Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design

Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on the History of Design

New York

6-7 April 2017

The challenges faced by vast numbers of migrants and refugees worldwide—uprooted by war, persecution, or ecological crises or relocating in search of economic opportunity—are giving rise to

Re: Research - 2017 IASDR Conference

University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Cincinnati, Ohio

1-3 November 2017

The University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) invites educators and practitioners to attend and participate in the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) conference to discuss the array of possibilities for

EXCLUSION: 2nd Biennial PARSE Conference

2nd Biennial PARSE Conference

Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 

15-17 November 2017

How does exclusion operate at a local, national and international level both within the arts, in education

Japan Foundation 2017-18 major grants round

The Japan Foundation 2017-18 Major Grants round is now open. 

The following programs are relevant to academics:

Communication Design: Interdisciplinary and Graphic Design Research

Call for Submissions: Communication Design - "Expanded Practices in Communication Design, Research and Education"

We have reached a paradigm shift in communication design. On the one hand, designers have returned to the basics of their craft in the form of letterpress, hand-drawn type and graphic authorship; on the other, digital installations, data visualisation and ‘designed experiences’ are becoming more prominent as discipline boundaries are blurred. As the profession moves into an expanded practice, so too must the ways in which we approach research and its teaching within the academy. This includes all

Journal for Artistic Research

Call for Submissions: JAR Issue 13 – Spring 2017

JAR publishes artistic research from all arts disciplines, with or without academic affiliation, and includes the work of artistic research practitioners and theorists. Rethinking the traditional journal format, JAR offers its contributors a free-to-use online space called the Research Catalogue (RC) where text can be woven together with image, audio and video material. Developed over the last

Converge - Disciplinarities and digital scholarship

Converge: Disciplinarities and Digital Scholarship 
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1-3 June 2017 

Palgrave Communications - 'Interiority and the interior'

Special issue: Interiorities: artistic, conceptual and historical reassessment of the interior 

Call for papers:

"Palgrave Communications is inviting article proposals for a collection dedicated to the theme of 'Interiority and the the Interior'. The collection addresses Interiority as a concept

Architecture and Culture

Special issue: Behind the scenes: anonymity and the hidden mechanisms of design and architecture

Call for papers:

"...We seek contributions from a wide range of practices and disciplines to interrogate the hidden, the intangible and the anonymous in design and architecture.  We welcome

New books in the library - October 2016

Some new books in the library are listed below - both print and e-books. Please send any purchase

Library display for 'Design Pioneers - 20th Century Furniture Design'

Visitors to the RMIT Carlton library in building 94 might notice a new display of students' work next to the library entrance.

Students enrolled in the course 'Design Pioneers - 20th Century Furniture

Cumulus Kolding: REDO

Cumulus Kolding: REDO

30 May - 2 June 2017, Kolding, Denmark

"With the theme "REDO", the 2017 conference wishes to discuss and share ways of

Envisioning Architecture: Space/Time/Meaning

Envisioning Architecture: Space/Time/Meaning (EAEA13)

6-8 September 2017, Glasgow, Scotland

"Three themes are proposed: Space, Time and Meaning. These are intended to encourage - rather than constrain - contributions to the event and we particularly wish to have the

New Experimental Research in Design

New Experimental Research in Design

15-16 June 2017, Braunschweig, Germany

"The BIRD conference New Experimental Research in Design/NERD wants to be a platform

Canadian Journal of Education

Special issue: Teaching Creatively, Creatively Teaching: Exploring the Arts & Design Thinking in Education

Call for papers:

"...We invite authors to critically engage with the arts and design thinking as methods for

Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education

Special issue: Territories of Graphic Design Education

Call for papers:

This special issue seeks to explore "the physical, intellectual and existential terrain of

ATN grants scheme for excellence in learning and teaching 2017

[from the DVC Learning & Teaching blog]

The Australian Technology Network (ATN) has established a collaborative grants scheme for Excellence in Learning and Teaching. The aim of the grants program is to provide funding to facilitate scholarship and research into learning and teaching, and promote systemic change in the sector. 

Call for proposals
The ATN are calling for academic and professional staff to submit applications for Strategic Initiative Grants to investigate, discover, develop and implement innovations in learning and teaching in higher education.

Priority Areas

• Employability skills for the 21st Century

• Assessment and promotion of student learning

• Designing learning for the future

• Learning analytics

Applications close 14 November, but RMIT staff should submit applications to the DVC (Education) by 24 October.

More information at the DVC Learning & Teaching blog.

New books in the Library

Some new books for the library are listed a below - a mix of print and e-books. Send any purchase suggestions to Tristan.

MODE - Motion Design Education Summit

MODE - Motion Design Education Summit
7-9 June 2017, Columbus, Ohio

MODE is a gathering of design educators who specialize, research and teach in the area of motion design. We see this event of particular interest and relevance to graphic design, visual communication design, typography, cinema, theatre, fashion design, animation and

CAD '17

CAD '17
10-12 August 2017, Okoyama, Japan

CAD'17 welcomes novel contributions on the theory and applications of Computer Aided

Living and sustainability

Living and sustainability
9-10 February 2017, London


The conference, co-organised with AMPS, welcomes case studies, design proposals,

Trial Databases

The library is currently trialing a number of databases which may be of interest.  Your evaluation has a direct influence (along with cost) on the decision about which products we purchase.  Please explore the databases currently on trial at  http://www1.rmit.edu.au/library/trials

Databases currently on trial include:

The Journal of Architectural Education

The Journal of Architectural Education Issue 71:2 seeks Scholarship of Design, Design as Scholarship, and Micro-Narratives that critically examine architecture’s prevailing

Digital landscape architecture conference 2017

Digital Landscape Architecture

7-10 June 2017, Bernburg, Germany

"For the 18th DLA Conference, the Editors and the Board of Editors of the Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture cordially invite you to submit proposals for original, unpublished

Design Principles & Practices conference

Design Principles & Practices

2-4 March 2017, Toronto

We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, virtual

Intellect journals collection

The Library has recently purchased a collection of journals from Intellect. Some that may be of interest to the School of Architecture and Design include:

• International journal of food design

• Craft Research

• Design Ecologies

• Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice

• Journal of Writing in Creative Practice

• Visual Enquiry

• Journal of Curatorial Studies

• Technoetic Arts

• Visual Inquiry

• Choreographic Practices

• Applied Theatre Research

The journals can be accessed via LibrarySearch or the Ingenta database.

Help us improve the Library website

From the Library News blog:

The Library website gives you access to hundreds of thousands of resources, but is the information easy to find?

This online usability test will help us find out.

If you have any “I really like…”, “I can never find…” or "You should…” comments, you can tell us at the end.

Please share your thoughts on how we can improve the website, it will only take 10 minutes.

Go to the Library website user testing page and have a go!

New books in the library

Some new books for the library are listed a below - a mix of print and e-books. Send any purchase suggestions to Tristan.




The Acoustic City

"How does sound shape urban life? What do soundscapes reveal about the experience of modernity?  This innovative essay collection explores a series of critical themes including the diversity of urban soundscapes; acoustic flanerie and different ways of listening to the city; the emergence of specific associations between place, music and sound; and the acoustic ecology of architecture, landscape and urban design"









Hong Kong Architecture 1945 - 2015: From Colonial to Global

"This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global - the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture.  The book reveals hardships the city encountered in the 1950s and the glamour enjoyed in the 1980s.  It depicts the public and private developments, and especially the public housing which has sheltered millions of residents.  The author identifies the architects practising in the formative years and the representatives of a rising generation after the 1980s. Suffering from land shortage and a dense environment, the urban development of Hong Kong has in the past 70 years met the changing demands of fluctuating economic activities and

Interstices 17

Interstices

In 2016, after many years of publishing the work of emerging and established researchers,Interstices: Journal of Architecture and Related Arts is resuming its earlier commitment to the publication of postgraduate student research design projects. Recent or ongoing postgraduate researchers in architecture and related art and design fields are invited to submit projects for a new peer-reviewed section of the journal.

Projects should be complete at the time of submission and are to include a design synopsis of 1500 words.

Project documentation and the synopsis should meet the following criteria:

• Be original and unpublished previously
• In the case of visual material, include no more than six indicative views of the proposal
• In the case of moving image, animated sequences, or audio works, not exceed 4 minutes duration
• Include a scholarly and critically contextualising synopsis for the project coauthored by both the project’s creator and the supervisor(s) involved. The synopsis should bear the name of the researcher as the primary author and the supervisor as the secondary author.
• Establish an overt relationship with a particular journal issue thematic (where this exists).

While there is no specific thematic for issue 17, project authors may choose in this case to focus on the issue’s sub-theme, Return to Origins, when considering submissions.

Please submit full project documentation for the Interstices 17 journal issue to Dr Sue Hedges (shedges[AT]aut.ac.nz) by 8 August 2016. 22 August 2016

More information at the Interstices website.

Institutional Modernism: Public Art and Architecture

Institutional Modernism: Public Art and Architecture
1-3 December 2016, Canberra

The Annual Conference of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ). Proposals for papers should address the conference theme 'The Work of Art'.

More information: http://goo.gl/YtRvN4

Proposal due date: 26 August 2016.

ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe

ABE Journal - Architecture Beyond Europe

Call for papers: 'Paradoxical Southeast Asia'.

'In Southeast Asia, a space characterized by intense regional and global traffic networks since the sixteenth century, the architectural landscape is often seen as a palimpsest of styles. The hybrid and syncretic nature of Southeast Asian architectural forms is seen as the result of the successive waves of contacts that marked the history of this part of the world called by some the "Asian Mediterranean." (F. Gipoloux). In this genealogy of architectural types, the colonial moment has been often considered a rupture that introduced radically new forms in vernacular architecture. Following this logic, the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century are considered as moments of further intensification of this architectural acculturation. The adoption of the international style in the megacities of the

Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice

Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice

Call for Papers: Volume 2 Issue 1

Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice (DRTP) promotes and disseminates contemporary drawing practice and research in its current cultural and disciplinary diversity. The journal encourages pluralist forms of discourse, addressing current issues of theory and practice. It is concerned with drawing as an interactive process and product, as a form of writing or visual narrative, as a model of representation; an investigative, descriptive or interpretive pursuit, a recording and communicative tool; an interactive and dynamic 'site of conception'; as performance, an aid to critical thinking, an interpretative medium and as a site of production.

DRTP invites practitioners, researchers, educators and theorists in the disciplines of fine art, architecture, design, visual communication, technology, craft, animation, etc. to contribute articles, projects, essay and papers that deal with the various knowledges and representations of drawing.

More information: http://goo.gl/fMnGZr

Deadline 5 September 2016.

Design Education in the Nordic Countries

Design Education in the Nordic Countries
23-24 September 2016, Helsinki

The conference examines interaction within the Nordic region and in the international framework. What was the relation to the German Bauhaus and other 20^th century progressive design schools in Europe and in the USA? What kind of connections were there to design schools of the Baltic countries during Soviet era and later. And how is it now: what is the status of education in national design policies of the Nordic countries?

We welcome abstracts for 20 minutes conference papers from scholars from a diverse range of disciplines on the theme of design education. Topics that may be considered include, but are not limited to:

- Methods of research in design education

- Locality / nationality as context of design education

- Interaction and collaboration between Nordic actors of design education

- Bauhaus and other "foreign" influences in Nordic design education

- Links to design schools in the region of the former Soviet Union

- Professionals coming outside of design education

- Characteristics of contemporary design education in the Nordic countries

- Design policies and design education in the Nordic countries

- Turning points in design education

- Continuum and ruptures in the design curriculum

- Role of history in design education

Deadline for submission: 15 August 2016 [abstracts of up to 250 words by 12 August 2016 to pekka.korvenmaa [AT] aalto.fi]

VIRAL, Inaugural Issue of Technology | Architecture + Design

VIRAL, Inaugural Issue of Technology | Architecture + Design

VIRAL--the inaugural call for papers for TECHNOLOGY | ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN (TAD)--asks whether architecture is once again on the threshold of significant changes in the material, technical and procedural context of design. In the twenty-first century, information technologies are transforming how buildings are designed, constructed, delivered, occupied and assessed. From crowdsourcing to collective wisdom, information technology is redefining our relation to the environment and to each other. Yet, to what extent are architects, and those who educate them, actively involved in articulating a path for such technologies within their work—be it in their research, scholarship, or design work? Alternatively, to what extent are architectural educators cautious, resistant, or critical of this highly speculative engagement with barely recognizable or material forms of technology? 

TAD seeks contributions from scholars, educators, designers, and architects who research, test and create using these emerging technologies and who seek to articulate and theorize the impact they will have on the built environment. The journal seeks articles that feature primary research in information technologies and their impact on materials, construction, structures, building systems, energy studies, environmental design, sustainability and resiliency, project delivery, and practice-based innovations. Papers should advance scholarship with a focus on the impact, translation and integration of technology in architecture and design.

Submissions due 1 September 2016.

More information at the journal website.

Critical Collaborations: Neutralizing Power in Art and Design History

Critical Collaborations: Neutralizing Power in Art and Design History
15-18 February 2017, New York

We welcome submissions that look to histories of art and design collaboration that confront and disarm power structures, be they institutional, research methods-based, or material. This panel aims to foster a dynamic discussion that will address projects that focus on histories of collaboration and engagement practices. Contributions focusing on non-Western contexts will be favored to consider not what history or design mean in various constituencies, but what present collaboration across geographies can afford the intellectual, social and cultural aspects of art and design. 

Potential Subject Areas: 1) Art History-Decorative Arts/Textiles/ Design History; 2) Interdisciplinary-Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Art Criticism; 3) Interdisciplinary-Studio Art & Art History

Deadline for submission: 30 August 2016

Full call for papers and submission information: http://bit.ly/29orooj