PhD in Design and the Near Environment – Interior Design

Oregon State University, USA

This Department embraces a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between people and the designed environment as that environment affects the social, psychological and physical well-being of individuals, families and communities. The knowledge base is grounded in consumer behavior and management theory, the arts, humanities, and the social and physical sciences. This applied discipline is concerned with the enhancement of each individual’s daily life as affected by the production, distribution, use and design of clothing, textiles, residential and commercial structures that make life meaningful.

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PhD in Interior Architecture / PhD in Architecture / PhD in Design

University of South Wales, Sidney, Australia

The University of New South Wales is one of Australia’s leading international universities attracting students and scholars from around the world. It is widely regarded for its teaching excellence and research innovation. The University is a founding member of the Group of Eight research intensive universities in Australia and a member of the Universitas 21 international consortium.
Established in 1949, the University now has close to 52,000 students, including more than 11,000 international students from over 120 different countries. It has three campuses and two sub-campuses.

The University offers more than 300 undergraduate and 600 postgraduate programs through various faculties. The faculties at the University are Arts and Social Sciences, Australian School of Business, Built Environment, College of Fine Arts, Engineering, Law, Medicine, Science and UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy).
The University fosters groundbreaking, multidisciplinary research by offering almost 100 research programs in various disciplines. The University is a member of 15 Cooperative Research Centres and is affiliated with a number of medical research institutes.

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Interior Architecture and Design

Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
School of Doctoral Programmes

This field of studies gives the opportunity to develop the research, organize, record and re-elaborate abilities with the purpose of knowing and divulging historical as well as contemporary documents in the interior design discipline (architecture, furnishing, decoration, scenography, installations, museology, furniture production).
Doctorate students learn to develop their abilities in the problem framing, programming, technical elaboration and management of particularly complex projects for specific areas related to the disciplinary sector.

Besides the development of a specific individual curriculum, the candidates will be able to span the whole discipline of Interior Architecture and Installations, articulating their studies according to appropriate analytical and design scales in different sectors.

You may find more information in our DRAIA page.

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PhD in Architecture, Interior Architecture or Audiovisual and Visual Art

Hasselt University, Belgium
Faculty of Architecture

Disciplines:

• Design
• Civil Engineering, Architecture & Construction
• Industrial Design

Duration: 48 months

Start Date: Anytime

Educational Form: Academic PhD

Project type: Open PhD programme

Languages: English

» visit the Hasselt University website

Two Assistant or Associate Professor Positions in Architecture
School of Architecture, Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL

Application deadline: January 31, 2012

The School of Architecture at Florida A&M University announces a search to fill two tenure-earning faculty positions, to start in August 2012, at the ranks of Assistant or Associate Professor.

Salaries will be competitive and determined on the basis of experience and qualifications.

The School of Architecture is organized into two Divisions: the Division of Architecture and the Division of Engineering Technology. The Architecture Program is one of seven architecture programs offered at a Historically Black College and University and one of six programs in Florida’s State University System. Seventy percent of the School’s 300 students are enrolled in the four year Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies. The Bachelor degree feeds the two SOA professional programs — the Bachelor of Architecture and the Master of Architecture. The Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.) degree is a design studio-centered undergraduate degree. The Master of Architecture (M.Arch.) degree is a thesis-/research-centered graduate experience.

These nine month, tenure-track positions involve teaching and research responsibilities. Successful candidates will possess the ability to teach undergraduate and graduate level design studio and/or lecture courses for Architecture majors in the B.Arch and M.Arch degree programs, carry out scholarly research agendas and have expertise in two or more of the following areas: Design, Structures, Digital Technologies, Environmental Systems, Building Technologies, Architectural History and/or Historic Preservation.

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Assistant Professor of Architecture
University of Minnesota – School of Architecture, Saint Paul, MN

Application deadline: January 31, 2012

The University of Minnesota’s School of Architecture, has opened a search to fill a tenure-track position in Design.

We are seeking an applicant who is, first and foremost, an exceptional design studio instructor and also a critical thinker, ideally with a record of academic engagement with contemporary cultural issues and social challenges. This requires a fundamental understanding of design as a unique mode of thought, while retaining interest in its engagement with broader contemporary issues.

The School’s primary objective is to hire a faculty member who excels at teaching design studio across all levels of the undergraduate or graduate program, with the capacity to lead large introductory design courses. The selected candidate must also present a compelling research agenda, with demonstrated expertise in bridging research and design and whose own design practices reveal the sophisticated integration of research. While this research could be pedagogical in nature, the candidate’s eventual tenure case may be best served by an additional, non-pedagogical research trajectory. The selected candidate will be expected to participate in faculty governance, at the school, college and university levels and contribute, with commitment and enthusiasm, to the intellectual life of the community.

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Lecturer- Interior Design
Indiana University, Bloomington

Application deadline: January 6, 2012

Indiana University is seeking a lecturer for the Interior Design Studies Program (http://iub.edu/~amid).

The lecturer position, to begin in August 2012, is based at Indiana University’s main campus in Bloomington, a CIDA-accredited program. Candidates must have professional design degrees and Master’s degrees in interior design or related design fields. NCIDQ certification is highly desirable. Other professional qualifications in design (e.g., LEED) are beneficial. Commercial interior design experience is highly desirable.

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Faculty Positions in Architectural Design
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Screening of applications will begin on: 1st January 2012

EPFL’s School ENAC (Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering) seeks Full, Associate and Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Architectural Design.

The successful candidates will develop outstanding teaching (undergraduate and graduate) and research programs. Teaching and research will focus on architectural design from a theoretical and practical point of view, coupled to a strong interdisciplinary vision. The positions require superb knowledge in the theory and practice of architectural design as well as acknowledged skills in designing and completing bold and innovative architectural projects and building experiences. Highest professional and/or academic standing at the international level is expected. Domains of particular interest include: architectural design, urban design, landscape architecture.

The candidates will engage directly in coupling project and subject studies as part of the Bachelor, Master and Doctoral studies of Architecture as well as enhancing interactions within the ENAC School and EPFL in general..

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Crafting the Future
10th European Academy of Design Conference

17-19 April 2013
School of Design and Crafts (HDK), University of Gothenburg – Gothenburg

Submission of intention to submit: until May 15, 2012

Design is a central field for practice and research in visioning and crafting the future – and facilitating changes that could lead to a better future. Business has realized this to a great extent but also many public organizations have discovered the value of design for developing and communicating services. With the changing role of design, the boundaries of design as well as its practice has changed. When packaged in a process format and language to appeal to managers and large organizations, the core of what designers do is at risk of getting blurred. Designing is about crafting, making, visualizing, and imagining the future, regardless of whether we are involved with products, services, fashion, interactions, or other areas of practice. Have these core activities changed?

We invite design researchers and practitioners to celebrate the 10th conference of the European Academy of Design with contributions to our conversation on the role of design and designers in crafting our futures. We invite empirical studies that return to the roots of design practice, and theoretical frameworks that help us better explore and understand the role of our practice in business and society.

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VIII COLOR CONFERENCE

13-14 September 2012
Engineering Faculty, Università di Bologna – Bologna

Abstract submission: before 6 February 2012

Aim of the conference is to encourage multi and interdisciplinary aggregation of the research centres and people that deal with color and light from a professional and scientific point of view. Conference will be opened (in early morning) by a series of tutorials about different color related topic. Works will continue with the presentations of the submitted works.

THEMES OF INTEREST FOR THE CONFERENCE

1. COLOR AND MEASUREMENT / PRODUCTION. Colorimetry, photometry and color atlas: method, theory and instrumentation.
2. COLOR AND DIGITAL. Reproduction, management, digital color correction, image processing, graphics, photography, printmaking, video production, artificial vision, virtual reality.
3. COLOR AND LIGHTING. Metamerism, color rendering, adaptation, color constancy, appearance, illusions, memory color and perception, color in extra-atmospheric environments.
4. COLOR AND PHYSIOLOGY. Mechanisms of vision in their experimental and theoretical aspects, deficiencies, abnormalities, clinical and biological aspects.
5. COLOR AND PSYCHOLOGY. Phenomenology of color, perceptive, emotional, aesthetic and diagnostic aspects.
6. COLOR AND PRODUCTS. Foods and beverages, textiles, plastics, ceramics, paints.
7. COLOR AND RESTORATION. Archaeometry, painting materials, diagnostics and techniques of conservation, restoration and enhancement of cultural heritage, coloring and architectural syntax, territorial identities.
8. COLOR AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT. Urban planning, plans of color, architecture.
9. COLOR AND DESIGN. Furniture, design, fashion, textiles, graphics, communication, packaging, lettering, cosmetics.
10. COLOR AND CULTURE. Art, history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, aesthetics, representation and design, lexicology, semantics.
11. COLOR AND EDUCATION. Pedagogy, color’s didactics, aesthetic education, artistic education.

Download the Call (English) – (Italian)

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