Singapore – The call for papers for the Icsid Design Education Conference 2009 is now open. With the theme, “Design Difference – Design Education 2050,” the Education Conference will take place on 22 November, as part of the Icsid World Design Congress 2009 in Singapore.
Participants are invited to submit papers in the areas related to the conference sub-themes outlined below in design education: 2050, and particularly work addressing paradigm shifts mapping the future. Papers may reflect on a wide spectrum of design disciplines such as industrial design, architecture, environmental landscape, interior, visual communication, new media, transportation and urban design.
The conference is structured around six themes, each of which include, but are not limited to, the according sub themes:
- From now to the future
Forward Visions of Education
The Highly Connected World
New Thinking Design Studio
The Sustainable Future: New Education
Blue Sky, White Space - Synthetic future of design education
Trans Discipline Design Education
New Subject Matter in Design
Biotechnology and Design
Design Education in a Changing World - Future Epistemology in Design
Creativity and Critical Thinking in Design Teaching
Nature of Design Program
Alternative Ways for Teaching and Learning Design
Future Research-Based Pedagogy
New Service Learning
New Design Knowledge
New Curricula - Digital Technology in Design Education
Virtualization of Design Education
Digital Design Methods and Pedagogies
The Future and Digital Design
Web-Based Design
Computer-Mediated Collaborative Design
Virtual Reality and Design Education - New Tools of Design Education
Lighthouses of Knowledge
New Interactivity of Design and the Physical World
Designer’s Toolbox of the Future
Co-Creation Processes - Classrooms of the Future
A new space, new format
Delivery of Content: Podcasting, Videos, Image Wall etc.
Socio Cultural Issues
Virtual Design Studio
Digital Studio/E-Studio
Design Support Environments
Paper Review
Abstracts and papers will be reviewed by a distinguished Panel jointly chaired by Prof. Lorraine Justice and Prof. Luigi Ferrara. The Review Panel will shortlist 50 abstracts from all submissions. Shortlisted abstracts will need to complete their full paper submission for further review by the panel for presentation at the education conference on 22nd November 2009. Only 15-20 papers out of the 50 shortlisted full papers will be finally selected for formal presentation. All 50 papers will be published into a booklet for attending delegates, and also made available online. The Panel Review’s decision for selection is final.
Read the full Call for papers.
For more information about the Conference, please contact:
Conference Secretariat
e: education@icsidcongress09.com