Research & Education in Design Conference: People & Processes & Products & Philosophy

People & Processes & Products & Philosophy: mapping the territories of design knowledge

Hosted by Lisbon School of Architecture

Conference Dates: 14 and 15 November, 2019

The Research & Education in Design (REDES) group invites research papers for submission to its 2019 international conference. The REDES2019 conference aims to explore, analyse, and advance the connections between design research and design education; the conference themes are organised around the intersections of the four main sources of design knowledge: people, processes, products, and philosophy.

Conference themes:

1. People & Processes
2. People & Products
3. Processes & Philosophy
4. People & Philosophy
5. Philosophy & Products
6. Processes & Products

The paper submissions for REDES2019 will be selected through a double-blind review process conducted by an international review panel. The proceedings of REDES2019 will be published in electronic form, with potential indexation to ISI and Scopus, and summaries of all papers will be published in a printed format.

Full papers submission deadline: Tuesday 2 April 2019

Special Issue for the Journal of Interior Design

This special issue invites visual essays, research papers, and case studies that explore the meaning of the human body in the context of interior space. Possible submissions might engage with the following issues:

• How have interior designers imagined, served, regulated, coerced and shaped the human body historically?
• In a world obsessed with security, how is the human body controlled and regulated?
• Experiencing designed interiors through embodied sensory experience.
• Ideologies of health, gender and race reflected-in and constructed-by interior space.
• Interiors that have compelled ‘nonconforming’ bodies – colonized, disabled, queer, brown, or feminine -- to carry a ‘burden of difference’.
• The-body-inside, constituted by mechanical furnishings, technological prosthetics and social/cultural regulations, is no longer a ‘natural’ object.
• Rethinking representations of the human body -- through drawings, with quantitative and qualitative tools, and in written descriptions.
• Contemporary design projects (or practices) that are investigating new possibilities for the-body-inside -- projects which use innovative technical means, interiors which