CITIES IN A CHANGING WORLD: QUESTIONS OF CULTURE, CLIMATE AND DESIGN

Dates: 16-18 June 2021

Location: Virtual / New York. City Tech, CUNY

Website: AMPS21-NY

1st deadline for submissions: 30 June 2020

A conference on architecture, urbanism, planning, sociology, health, environments, infrastructure and economies.

The premise of this conference is that the city is a site of interconnected problems. No single issue dominates its needs. No single discipline has the answers to its questions. As a result, the range of issues we deal with is vast. Urban designers are developing new models of settlement planning to address housing needs. Architects are renovating ever more existing buildings. Infrastructure designers are developing faster modes of transportation. Planners are demanding lower C02 emissions from industry. Health professionals are rethinking movement in the city. Policy makers are addressing grass-roots demands for regional governance.

While all such issues respond to unique and independent demands, they are all interrelated. Climate change is a perfect example. Scientists, policy makers, activists and designers the world over are engaged in the issue. Some focus on rehousing displaced peoples, others challenge throwaway culture and stress reuse. Health professionals examine disaster relief while planners look at shared transport models. Environmentalists seek to reduce energy consumption, while communities plan for resilience. At the same time, economists look to finance cleaner industries. In tackling a particular issue then, multiple disciplines are overlapping and drawing on the work of others. In short, their work is reaching beyond the boundaries of individual fields.

In looking at the city as a site of such inherent interdisciplinarity, the conference venue offers insights. New York is a city of over 8 million people. It has an affordable housing problem and, located on the coast, is threatened by rising sea levels. The site for the United States’ most iconic historic buildings, it demands 21st Century uses of them. The home of the US public health movement in the 19th Century, it is at the forefront of the healthy city agenda today. Historically a landing port for immigrants it knows the pressures of displacement and migration. A city for the wealthiest elites in the world, it exhibits poverty, social exclusion and periodic cultural tensions.

In this place, as in cites the world over, none of the issues that vex the metropolis are isolated, and none of their factors, consequences or responses are limited to single disciplines.

Disciplines & Themes

Whether we are architects, planners, infrastructural designers, transport engineers, policy makers, social activists or health professionals the work we do is informed by and informs the work of other fields when applied. On that basis, this conference seeks to explore best practices in:

Urban Design | Architecture | Sustainability | Engineering | Housing | Public Health | Sociology | Economics | Business | Governance | Art and Culture  |  History

Participants in these discipline areas are invited to propose ‘lead themes’. Reflecting the expertise of the City Tech, proposed themes include:

Cumulus 2020 - Design Culture(s)

The Sapienza University of Rome will host the Annual Cumulus Conference in June 2020 about the theme of “Design Culture (s)”.

Aligned with the vision of Cumulus Association, the aim of the Conference is to map the most advanced research and education in design, by reflecting on the idea of design as a form of culture, while drawing its field and opening to new directions.

Design Culture(s) is investigating not simply on the concept of culture as a monolithic expression of a specific knowledge that reflects on itself, but as the product of an investigation that is open to many different “Cultures” which are emerging and revolving around it in society, in the places, and in history.

Design as an expression of Culture(s) is taking into consideration the cultures we are inheriting from the past and which should be granted for the benefit of future generations, so intertwining past and future, tangible and intangible, innovation and tradition. This is the time when it is urgent to multiply the opportunities for knowledge sharing and dissemination, in order to tackle the cultural, societal, economic, technological and industrial shifts of the future, through design education and research.

The Conference is organized into 9 parallel tracks in order to address several different Cultures of Design. Each track is described with only three keywords to tackle and explore all possible approaches, methods, visions, experiments that can draw the scenario of different Design Cultures. Therefore, authors are invited to send innovative, original, inspiring and disruptive ideas in their contributions.

CULTURE (OF) ARTIFICIAL _ DIGITAL | TECHNOLOGY | ROBOTICS
CULTURE (OF) LANGUAGES _ AESTHETICS | EXPRESSION | VISUAL
CULTURE (OF) LIFE _ NATURE | BIOLOGY | HUMAN
CULTURE (OF) MAKING _ PROCESS | MANUFACTURING | POST-INDUSTRY
CULTURE (OF) MULTIPLICITY _ GENDER | PLURALISM | DIVERSITY
CULTURE (OF) PROXIMITY _ PLACES | PEOPLE | ECONOMY
CULTURE (OF) RESILIENCE _ SOCIAL INNOVATION | CIRCULAR ECONOMY | SUSTAINABILITY
CULTURE (OF) REVOLUTION _ CRITICAL THINKING | DISRUPTION | CHANGE
CULTURE (OF) THINKING _ THEORY | HISTORY | CRITICS

The selected papers and posters will be published in the Conference Proceedings (with ISBN).

To submit your long abstract, go to the website.

Object Subject - National Design Writing Conference, Canberra

Calling designers, writers, bloggers, publishers, researchers, collectors and design lovers.  Object Subject: 2019 National Design Writing Conference is an international platform for writers to address design as a positive change agent in society.

At the inaugural national design writing conference, Object Subject (2017), keynote speaker and NY Times design critic Alice Rawsthorn called on the design sector to take seriously their responsibilities – social, environmental and ethical. This clarion call, teamed with multiple requests from national and international design writers to repeat the event, is a catalyst for the second design writing conference.

Presented as part of the popular DESIGN Canberra festival, Object Subject: 2019 National Design Writing Conference will build on the successful inaugural event, which inspired new conversations, connections and ideas, questioned the very role and responsibility of design,

TEI 2020 Pictorials (Feb 2020, Sydney, Australia)

Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Sydney, 9-12 February2020

Call for papers:

Contribution types

Authors are invited to submit high-quality papers (4-10 pages, not including references) that contribute to advancing this rapidly developing field through the following contribution types:

• Research – original, mature, and complete research in the field of TEI. Focus may be on developing and evaluating new technologies, techniques, and systems, user studies, modeling and simulation, reflective research-through-design studies, or rigorous theoretical analysis. Recommended paper length: 6-10 pages.
• Case study –  compelling stories based on concrete cases of research, design, and deployment that show how TEI concepts and methods can be applied and how they can be valuable in various contexts including (but not limited to) museums, education, health, homes, and smart environments. We invite contributions from practitioners and researchers.  Recommended paper length: 4-8 pages.
• Prototype – Demonstrable prototypes are front and center at the conference: these are artifacts that promote and provoke discussion of novel interactive technologies and design concepts. We invite contributions from research, industry, maker communities, the arts, and design communities. Prototypes could show (for example) interaction concepts, technologies, design toolkits, or new materials.  Recommended paper length: 4-6 pages. Submissions should include a video.

Respecting the diversity of approaches and methods that together make up TEI, each contribution type will be peer-reviewed on its own merits. We seek high-quality work regardless of the specific subdomain or topic and we expect the work to be positioned firmly in, and building on, prior research in our field, in particular, wherever relevant referencing work that was presented at earlier TEI conferences.

Accepted submissions of all contribution types will be included as papers in the conference proceedings, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library.

Call for Pictorials: 

General information

We are very pleased to announce a new Pictorials track for TEI2020. Pictorials were first introduced at DIS2014 with the aim of supporting the presentation and communication of research ideas, methods, provocations, insights, and contributions in a more visually rich format. Since then it has been successfully implemented in DIS and C&C conferences with an increasing interest from researchers and practitioners. We are very excited to offer this new track and welcome your submissions!

What are Pictorials?

Pictorials are papers in which the visual components (e.g. diagrams, sketches, illustrations, renderings, photographs, annotated photographs, and collages) play a major role in conveying the ideas and contributions of a study in addition to the accompanying text. Pictorials leverage the power of visual communication with the effective use of visual languages and high-quality images. They may have a practical or theoretical nature or both.

Through Pictorials, researchers, practitioners, industry professionals, artists, designers and students from various disciplines, including engineering, interaction design, computer science, product design, media studies and the arts are encouraged to express and unpack

Art Association of Australia and New Zealand - NGĀ TŪTAKI – ENCOUNTER/S | CALL FOR PAPERS

The Conference Committee would like to invite proposals for papers for the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) conference to be held at the University of Auckland and Unitec Institute of Technology 3-6 December 2019.

The deadline for paper proposals is 5pm NZST Friday 2 August 2019.

2019 AAANZ conference sessions thematic streams

• Indigenising and decolonising
• Early Modern Encounters
• Exchanges
• Methods
• Gender
• Embodiment and the Body
• Ecologies
• Politics and War
• Museums and galleries
• Art Education
• Performative encounters
• Architectural encounters

The full Call for Papers, Guidelines and further information can be downloaded here AAANZ 2019 Call for Papers (pdf).

More information at the AAANZ conference website.