NORDES 2017

15-17 June 2017

Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), Norway

This 7th Nordic Design Research Conference comes at a time when earlier social, political and economic conditions, expectations and frameworks are under pressure, and indeed change, globally. Relations between design and power are today perhaps more present that before and them are seemingly strongly polarised. What then are design practitioners, educators, researchers, policy makers and activists, among others, to make of these

LA+ Imagination design competition

Paradisiacal, utopian, dystopian, heterotopian – islands hold an especially enigmatic and beguiling place in our geographical imagination. Existing in juxtaposition to what’s around them, islands are figures of otherness and difference. Differentiated from their contexts and as much myth as reality, islands have their own rules, their own stories, their own characters, their own ecologies, their own functions, and their own forms.

This design ideas competition asks you to design a new island. You can locate it anywhere in the world, program it any way you want, and give it any form and purpose you can imagine.

USD $10,000 total prize money
• 5 winners to receive USD $2,000 and feature publication in LA+ Journal’s LA+ IMAGINATION issue
• 10 honorable mentions to receive feature publication in LA+ Journal’s LA+ IMAGINATION issue

Registration opens: Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Submission deadline: Friday, June 2, 2017

More information at the LA+ website.

Stimulus Respond: Post-truth

We are soliciting contributions for the next edition of Stimulus Respond, called Post-Truth. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Post-Truth, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond's undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film

Art and Architecture: Made by Women

9-12 Nov 2017, Chicago

In response to Call for Proposals, 49th ASEEES Annual Convention, Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile, Nov. 9-12, 2017, Convention Theme: “Transgressions” www.aseees.org/convention, we are composing a Panel Proposal “Art and Architecture: Made by Women” aimed at revealing and examining in a historical perspective creative work by women with select references to the centenary of the 1917 Revolution, and

Making cities liveable 2017

13-14 June 2017, Brisbane

Conference Streams:

• The New Urban Agenda: addressing existing and emerging challenges; contribution of government; transformative trends and actions
• Commitment to Health: promotion of health and prevention of disease; health public policy; planning for health – programs, food, lifestyle; building supportive environments
• Community Participation and Social Development: active roles for people in our

REDO: cumulus 2017

30 May - 2 June 2017, Kolding, Denmark

In order to open our forum to voices of academia and others, we welcome full papers and short papers as well as short films that touch upon the overall theme of the conference, and which explore exemplary and imaginative ways of REDOing. We are particularly interested in projects that develop, explore, investigate and generate new knowledge:

• projects that point to areas in which working with design can create an impact, or

Digitally Engaged Learning conference

Digitally Engaged Learning
14-15 September 2017, London

DEL (Digitally Engaged Learning) is an international conference exploring and evolving digitally engaged teaching and learning in art and design Higher Education. We encourage practitioners and educators from creative disciplines to share, harness and critique digital tools and spaces. Themed ‘Teaching Making / Making Teaching’, this year’s conference seeks to explore creative practices and processes of teaching with digital technology.

There are a number of submission formats, designed to accommodate participants at different stages and places in their digitally engaged teaching and learning journeys. You can propose any of the following:

Workshops

Workshops provide an opportunity for hands-on exploration and/or problem solving. They can be organized around a core challenge that participants come together to work on, or around a tool, platform, or concept. Workshops are scheduled for 90 minutes and should be highly participatory.

Presentation of scholarship (creative practice, teaching, research)

Presentations of scholarship give presenters a chance to speak for 10 minutes on their

New books in the library - January 2017

Below is a selection of some new books arriving in the library. you can also browse the list of new books in LibrarySearch - have a look at call numbers around 307, 700-730 and 745 for books on art, design and architecture. Please let me know if you have any suggestions for the library collection.

Refractions - artistic research in architecture.
This book focuses on new directions in architectural research, how architects develop new knowledge through their artistic design practice, working in a field between Art and Science. What new digital potentials are there in architectural media like models and drawings and how to put words on artistic research? The book offers theoretical articles, picture galleries of artistic projects, and interviews with senior-researchers at the Danish Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen and their built architectural projects.

Pierre Paulin: life and work
Author Nadine Descendre draws from previously unpublished archives a wealth of extraordinarily vivid drawings, models, and photographs, to reveal the restless energy of this mid‑century polymath. In addition to creating dozens of furniture and lighting designs for American and French firms, Paulin executed commissions for clients as diverse as Renault, Air France, Maison de la Radio, a hotel complex in Palmyra (Syria), and a delicately modulated series of rooms within the Elysée Palace (the French White House). Fascinated by the possibilities of new materials, Paulin was both a modernist and a traditionalist, a designer who took equal care whether designing ordinary objects such as fans, razors, and fondue pots or crafting superbly detailed furnishings for President Mitterand.