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.

The organizing committee of the 10th European Academy of Design Conference – Crafting the Future – is pleased to invite proposals for papers to the following tracks:

1. Designing Future Mobility
2. Design Development of Future Homes for Future Cities
3. Design and Innovation
4. MAKING TOGETHER – Open, Connected, Collaborative
5. The craft of design in design of service
6. Fashion Design for Sustainability
7. Design history as a tool for better design
8. Power to the People: Practices of Empowerment through Craft
9. Design & Craft (Crafting the Education of Design)

Full academic papers
We expect papers of 3000-5000 words. If you wish to submit a full paper to the conference, please send in an “intention to submit” form, which includes a short abstract.

Important Dates
Submission of intention to submit: Until May 15, 2012
Submission of full paper: September 15, 2012
*Notification of acceptance or revision: November 1, 2012
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2012
Conference date: April 17-19, 2013

*Full papers are: Accepted / Accepted with revision / Not Accepted

Conference coordinator
Ms Mina Dennert
Project manager

Tel: +46 (0)31 786 63 14
Mobile: + 46 (0)709 12 41 01
E-mail: mina.dennert@hdk.gu.se

The European Academy of Design
www.ead.lancs.ac.uk

Nicky Sarjent
ImaginationLancaster

Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Tel: + 44 (0) 1524 510873
Email:n.sarjent@lancaster.ac.uk

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)

» alla versione italiana

SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS

Papers and abstracts sent by e-mail will not be accepted. For submission it is mandatory the usage of the on-line platform for the conference management EasyChair, available at the address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=8cnc2012

To submit abstract and/or papers it is necessary to register on the mentioned website for creating an EasyChair account or using your personal account if you are already registered. You only need to register once. For the first registration select “Signup for an account” in the first page and follow instructions. It’s important to submit complete data, filling the module with attention, especially giving valid e-mail in order to receive communications from the conference organization. If you are already registered the acronym to access the VIII Conference of Color is “8 CNC 2012”.

It is necessary that at least one of the authors of the accepted papers subscribe for the conference before 5 June 2012.

IMPORTANT DATES (deadlines in red)

06 February 2012 | Abstract submission deadline (max 3000 character), Italian or English.
20 February 2012 | Abstract acceptance notification
13 April 2012 | Papers final version deadline
18 May 2012 | Papers final version acceptance notification
05 June 2012 | Authors registration deadline
14 August 2012 | Cut fare registration deadline
13-14 September 2012 | Conference

For programmes, rates, accommodation or any other information, please visit the official website.

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Obiettivo della conferenza è favorire l’aggregazione multi e interdisciplinare di tutte le realtà che in Italia si occupano del colore e della luce da un punto di vista scientifico e/o professionale. La conferenza sarà introdotta, nella prima mattina, da alcuni tutorial relativi a diversi temi di interesse. I lavori proseguiranno poi con l’esposizione dei contributi accettati.

TEMI DI INTERESSE DELLA CONFERENZA

1. COLORE E MISURAZIONE /PRODUZIONE. Colorimetria, fotometria e atlanti dei colori: metodo, teoria e strumentazione.
2. COLORE E DIGITALE. Riproduzione, gestione, correzione digitale del colore, elaborazione delle immagini, grafica, fotografia, tecniche di stampa, produzione video, visione artificiale, realtà virtuale.
3. COLORE E ILLUMINAZIONE. Metamerismo, resa del colore, adattamento, costanza cromatica, apparenza, illusioni, memoria cromatica e percezione, colore in ambienti extra-atmosferici.
4. COLORE E FISIOLOGIA. Meccanismi della visione nei loro aspetti sperimentali e teorici, deficienze e anomalie, aspetti clinici e biologici.
5. COLORE E PSICOLOGIA. Fenomenologia in generale dei colori, aspetti percettivi, emotivi, estetici, diagnostici.
6. COLORE E MERCEOLOGIA. Alimenti e bevande, tessile, materie plastiche, ceramica, vernici.
7. COLORE E RESTAURO. Archeometria, materiali pittorici, diagnostica e tecniche di conservazione, restauro e valorizzazione dei beni culturali, coloriture e sintassi architettonica, identità territoriali.
8. COLORE E AMBIENTE COSTRUITO. Urbanistica, piani del colore, architettura.
9. COLORE E PROGETTAZIONE. Arredo, design, moda, tessile, grafica, comunicazione, packaging, lettering, cosmesi.
10. COLORE E CULTURA. Arte, storia, filosofia, antropologia, sociologia, estetica, rappresentazione e disegno, lessicologia, semantica.
11. COLORE ED EDUCAZIONE. Pedagogia, didattica del colore, educazione estetica, educazione artistica.

INVIO DI ABSTRACT E PAPER

Non saranno accettati abstract o paper inviati per email, per l’invio utilizzare il sistema informativo on-line per la gestione delle conferenze EasyChair, disponibile all’indirizzo: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=8cnc2012

Per inviare abstract e/o paper è necessario registrarsi prima nel sito su menzionato per creare un account EasyChair o usare quello che avete se siete già registrati. La registrazione va fatta una sola volta. Per registrarvi la prima volta scegliete “Signup for an account” nella prima pagina e seguite le istruzioni. È importante inserire i dati completi compilando accuratamente il format, inserendo dati reali ed e-mail valide affinché l’organizzazione della conferenza possa contattarvi. Se siete già registrati l’acronimo per entrare nella VIII Conferenza del Colore è “8 CNC 2012 “.

Si ricorda che almeno uno degli autori dei paper accettati deve iscriversi alla conferenza entro il 5 giugno 2012.

DATE IMPORTANTI (deadline in rosso)

06 febbraio 2012 | invio degli abstract di max 3000 battute, in lingua italiana o inglese
20 febbraio 2012 | notifica di accettazione dell’abstract
13 aprile 2012 | invio dei paper, in lingua italiana o inglese formattati secondo istruzioni
18 maggio 2012 | notifica definitiva di accettazione del paper
05 giugno 2012 | Termine ultimo per iscrizione autori.
14 agosto 2012 | Termine ultimo per iscrizioni a tariffa ridotta.
13-14 settembre 2012 | Conferenza

Per programmi, costi, accommodation o qualsiasi altra informazione, vi invitiamo a visitare il sito ufficiale.

2-4 November 2011
CCIB Forum, Barcelona

Inside is a brand-new festival celebrating the finest interiors and their creators. Through a series of curated events, talks, installations and a prestigious awards programme, Inside will be a vibrant platform for creative thought, mutual inspiration and idea exchange – capturing the design zeitgeist in style over two exciting days in Barcelona.

WHY VISIT INSIDE?
Inside will be an unmissable fixture in the interior design calender; a buzzing hub of creative thought and mutual inspiration. Make sure you are included in the who’s who of interior design and architecture and book your place at the event that everyone in the design world will be talking about today.

ATTEND INSIDE TO:

• Be inspired by the world’s most exciting design projects of the last year – hear directly from all shortlisted Inside awards entrants and see their projects up close at the Inside awards gallery.
• Exchange ideas with more than 2,000 designers and architects representing 60 countries, broaden your horizons and make new contacts.
• Establish valuable contacts and speak to influential, global clients who are looking to meet their next designer at Inside’s exclusive drinks reception, parties and fringe events.
• Take away vital insight and knowledge that will inform your future work – be enlightened and updated with two days of future focussed talks and seminars with the world’s leading industry voices.
• Experience Barcelona through the eyes of local designers with Inside’s guided design tours and get the inside track on the city’s established and emerging design scene.
• Plus! All passes purchased will give you access to Inside’s sister event, the World Architecture Festival, find out more here www.worldarchitecturefestival.com.

GLOBAL AWARDS

At the festival’s heart is the international awards programme. Pitching the planet’s most exciting designers against each other to find the finest interior space of the past year, an Inside award could well make your career.
You could be one of the winners. If your practice has created an outstanding space in the last year you can enter it here to win one of 11 prized category awards, and even walk away with the overall award for World Interior of the Year.

Categories range from the most prestigious new hotels and bars to civic spaces, offices and shops. In a nail-biting finale shortlisted entrants from each category will go head to head for the overall prize of World Interior of the Year live at the Festival. Follow this link to see all categories »

INTERNATIONAL JURY

An esteemed jury of internationally respected designers and key industry figures will decide who will compete live at Inside and ultimately walk away with the World Interior of the Year trophy.
For details of our judges, follow this link »

TALKS

Inside Talks
Be inspired and informed by the theory behind the products. With the industry’s leading lights all present in one place, Inside’s programme of talks and discussions are bound to illuminate and educate. Even the surroundings will provide inspiration, with London-based graphic studio Multistorey collaborating with designers Frank to create a dynamic exhibition space to host the talks.
A full talks programme will announced soon. If you would like to be involved in the Inside talks please contact jessica.mcfarlane@emap.com

Dezeen talks
Each category winner will be interviewed at the event by Marcus Fairs, editor of Dezeen, Inside’s online media partner. Footage of all the interviews will appear on Dezeen directly after the festival, and then form an online archive. Two million people a month visit Dezeen for the latest news in the design world; winners at the inaugural Inside will play their own part in this.

For futher details, follow this link »

AWARDS GALLERY

The cream of this year’s interiors are under the spotlight in the Inside awards gallery. Scrutinize all shortlisted projects up close and personal to find out what set them apart from the crowd and why they stood out for the jury.

INSIDE BAR

All that inspiration can make even the most dedicated design fan thirsty. When you’re not experiencing the talks, awards crits, installations and exhibitions at Inside, make a beeline for the Inside bar. Aside from offering some well-earned refreshment in the form of your favourite tipple and some tasty local repast, the bar will also be mingling heaven, where you’ll be rubbing shoulders with international clients, contemporaries and international design press.
Naturally the Inside bar will also look pretty good; it’s not just a bar, it’s the exhibition’s focal point and an installation that has been designed specially for Inside.

Keep up to date with the latest behind-the-scenes developments with our updates in Latest news.

FRINGE EVENTS

As if there wasn’t enough to see and do, Inside is also putting on a series of fringe events, design tours, receptions and parties. These will be held throughout the host city of Barcelona – a place not only revered for its architecture but as one of the world’s great party cities.

More information coming soon - sign up for updates here.

Clock here for the Seminar’s speakers list.

For queries about entering or the entry process please contact INSIDE customer services team:

T +44 (0)20 7554 5800 / 0845 056 8339
E info@insidefestival.com

May 25, 2012
The Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College – London

Proposal’s submission (max. 250 words) by November 30, 2011

Bodily, psychic and spatial interiors can be mapped, traversed and violated in multiple ways. This one-day conference will interrogate and re-evaluate the contested terrain of the interior in its varied forms. It will examine the interlacing and overlapping of different types of interiors, and seek to re-position the ‘interior’ in critical terms. Moreover, it will attempt to develop new ways of thinking about the relationship between the decorative arts, furniture, bio-technologies, anatomy and space. The conference will take place in The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and conclude with a keynote address in the Anatomy Theatre at King’s College London.

The conference will be built around three themes: Threshold, Incision and Autopsy. We encourage prospective speakers to outline how their papers engage with one or more of these themes.

Download the call

This conference welcomes papers from across a wide range of periods and regions. Issues addressed might include, but are not limited to:

• Modes of mapping space

• Figurative and literal gateways/boundaries

• Temporality and space

• Space and subjectivity

• Domestic interiors

• Decorative arts and the body

• The fabrication of furniture

• Anatomical drawing

• Different types of medical imaging

• Medical portraiture

Please send your proposals of no more than 250 words (20-minute papers) by 30 November 2011 to probingtheinterior@gmail.com

Organised by Dr Lucetta Johnson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (King’s College London)

This event is supported by The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum and the Centre for the Humanities and Health, King’s College London

A conference to be held at The Courtauld Institute of Art and King’s College, London

EAAE/ARCC Conference on Architectural Research

7-12 June 2012
Milan- Politecnico di Milano

Submission of 500 word abstracts November 6, 2011
Download guidelines here.

Schools of architecture constitute fundamental repositories of knowledge and ability which have, along with the training of students, contributed for a long time to the growth of research in architecture and the city, fields in which they have made and make valuable contributions to society in terms of ideas, proposals and projects.

As institutions heterogeneous, rich in culture and interdisciplinary interests, schools of architecture develop strong links with the city and the surrounding areas, and together constitute a unique operational network capable of contributing in an organic and extended way to the solution of cities’ and regions’ problems of organization, technique and expression.

The Conference aims are linked to the knowledge and sharing of issues, problems and results of research conducted in European and American schools of architecture related to city issues, which are seen as the vast sea into which the rivers of research in architecture flow.

The central goals of the Conference are to increase our knowledge of tools and experimental methods which explore the active relationships between disciplines in solving problems and to examine major achievements.
Other objectives of the conference include recognizing the network of schools, defining their characteristics and abilities and exploring its potentialities through discussion.
Given the complexity, the importance and the dimension of the problems linked to people living in the world today, it is useful to propose a broad and open discussion, knowing that the questions should be addressed in a general way and shared by different cultures.

The intention of the Conference is to involve scholars and teachers from all the continents to compare problems, issues and solutions.

Preliminary schedule of the conference.
For further updates, please visit the conference official website.

The Conference Themes

The well known sentence by Leon Battista Alberti: The house is like a small city and the city is like a big house, stressing a recognized Italian tradition on urban studies, is a brief and clear indication of the Conference themes that underlines the tight connections among Architecture and City. The Conference proposal is to discuss the role of architectural research in relation to issues linked to urban transformation, which are more relevant than ever given the widespread urbanization of large parts of the world, given the problems of diametrically opposed so-called shrinking cities and also given the severity of the effects of climate change and energy issues.
Since research in architecture mainly concerns the relationships between nature, technique, history and society, arguments are developed in a thematic matrix in which the issues of sustainability and energy are always included. The general topics are closely related to the problems that architectural research must unavoidably face today, particularly in cities that can be crucial contributors to climate change.

The Conference invites teachers, researchers and scholars to send in abstracts for papers about Ideas, Methods, Techniques, Tools and Case Studies of urban transformations on the following general themes:

1. Knowledge of the City for Urban Transformation
Studies and experiences of technical knowledge that allow us an almost complete understanding of the physical realities of the cities and the surrounding areas. At the same time, the city’s history has played and plays a central role in the understanding of urban form and identity and their possible transformations.

2. History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Urban Design
Studies and historical cases in the relationships between architectural design and town development – from the transformation of ancient sites to a megalopolis, with its lack of balance between downtown and suburbs, to the construction of new towns. Current theory and critical thinking required to deal with the challenge faced by architecture from the new global and local dimensions of the urban experience.

3. Criticism, Conservation and Restoration
Studies and design or planning experiences in conservation and restoration, aimed to create a critical attitude when making conscious choices within the existing city.
The development of refined analytic, diagnostic and intervention techniques and procedures for tutorship, conservation, maintenance and compatible reuse of the heritage, which we recognize to be important in tracing the culture of the past that must be considered a living part of the present and of the future.

4. Housing and the Shape of the City
Studies and experiences in housing and residential settlements, taking account of the careful use of soil, proper integration between public and private spaces, and of a wide variety of types and housing solutions.

5. Architecture and Technical Innovation
Studies and experiences in current areas of innovation in architecture, including the characteristics of materials and construction processes, in view of a city that can properly resolve constructive problems through solutions for rapid and durable realization. Evaluation of the role of energy needs in the processes of transformation and construction of the new city, as well as other areas of technological innovation relevant to the conference theme.

6. Infrastructure Networks and Landscape
Studies and examples of infrastructure design as a field of interdisciplinary practices, characterized by the research on the compatibility between networks and affected landscapes and as a field of study in new terminal nodes and new public spaces.

7. Education in Architecture
Teaching experiences on issues connected to the transformation of cities in relation to the various fields of knowledge

Deadlines

Abstracts due: 06 November 2011
Acceptance notification: 18 December 2011

Full papers due: 05 February 2012
Acceptance notification: 11 March 2012

Final full papers due: 15 April 2012

Abstracts/papers submission

The paper review of this Conference will be conducted in two stages. The first stage consists of a peer review of the brief abstract. Successful review at this stage will result in an invitation to submit a full paper for peer review.
Abstracts and papers must be in English and should be well written, clearly organized and compelling.

Abstracts
Abstracts should be 500-word (maximum). Images (two maximum, 72 dpi) may be included as part of the abstract if they enhance the text and are an integral element of the abstract.
All abstracts must be submitted in electronic form upon registration on the conference website, with identification of the author/s, together with a 100-word CV (maximum) in pdf.
Papers sent by email will not be accepted.
Multiple abstracts dealing with different issues may be submitted by a single author (maximum 3 by any author). An acknowledgement of receipt will be sent to each submitter via e-mail.

Full papers
Full papers should not exceed 5,000 words and must be submitted for peer review in electronic form on the conference website.
The final sessions will be decided on the basis of the papers approved

To submit a paper you have to register.
You may find general guidelines here.

If you wish to take part as a visitor, please remember to register.

Conference Committee

Organization
Adalberto Del Bo (Head of Committee)
Ebbe Harder, The Royal Danish Academy of fine Arts

Scientific Committee
Politecnico di Milano
Federico Bucci
Adalberto Del Bo
Giancarlo Floridi
Martina Landsberger
Maurizio Meriggi
Ilaria Valente

ARCC
Leonard Bachman, University of Houston
J. Brooke Harrington, Temple University
Philip Plowright, Lawrence Technological University
Hazem Rashed-Ali, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Katherine Wingert-Playdon, Temple University

EAAE
Per Olaf Fjeld, Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO)
Maire Henry, Waterford Institute of Technology
Johannes Käferstein, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences
Stefano Musso, Università di Genova
Herman Neuckermans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Aart Oxenaar, Amsterdam Academy of Architecture
David Vanderburgh, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Secretariat
Cristina Giannetto, Marco Grassi

Hosting Institution
Politecnico di Milano
P.zza L. da Vinci, 32
Milano (Italy)

Contacts

email: eaae-arcc.milano@polimi.it

Politecnico di Milano
P.zza L. da Vinci 32
20133 Milano – Italy

For further informations on venue, accommodation, how to get to Milan or social programs please visit the conference website.

8 February 2012 – 10 February 2012
Melbourne, Australia

The new deadline for 300 word abstracts is September 21, 2011

For further informations:
Professor Gini Lee gini.lee@unimelb.edu.au
Associate Professor Mark Taylor mark.taylor@qut.edu.au

FLOW 2, the second of the FLOW conferences will be hosted by the Landscape Architecture program, Melbourne School of Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia, from the 8th to the 10th of February, 2012. The FLOW 2 conference invites theoretical and practice based scholarship that focuses on interiors and landscapes that arise from the emergence of increasingly fluid and virtual spatial environments.
In 2011 FLOW 1 introduced a historical perspective to the transitional and intermediary relationships between interiors and landscapes and was hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre (MIRC) in collaboration with the Landscape Interface Studio, Kingston University, London.

Recent interior focused conferences such as Interior Spaces in Other Places (IDEA 2010) and FLOW 1 (MIRC 2011) explored interior and landscape as they relate to the transference of thoughts and ideas across disciplinary boundaries and cultures. Themes from these conferences broadly investigated theories of historic and contemporary space including the transitional spaces of the modern interior as intermediate zones of occupation and performance that expand into the territories of exterior space. Building upon these earlier enquiries FLOW 2 (2012) is concerned with the theoretical and practice based examination of historical and contemporary interiors and landscapes, particularly where new ideologies emerge that are shaped by corporate, political and ecological initiatives. Fluid urban conditions such as supermodern public spaces – international airports, shopping malls, urban plazas and post industrial parks – render problematic the relatively simple concepts of ‘inside’ and ‘outside’, ‘private’ and ‘public’, ‘domestic’ and ‘non-domestic’, and place and ‘non-place’. Likewise global concerns such as climate variability, economic instability and transnationalism are similarly informing discussion about design, occupation and conservation, particularly where local ecologies and practices are impacted by the flow of change.

6 to 10 September 2012
Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Interior: a State of Becoming
Hosted and convened by the Interior Architecture program, School of the Built Environment, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

Close of 400 word abstracts: 1 October 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS and CREATIVE WORKS for EXHIBITION:
Academics, research students and practitioners are invited to submit design research papers, critical project works and / or creative works that engage with interior design/interior architecture theory and practice for the IDEA Symposium 2012: Interior: a State of Becoming.

For further information: Lynn Churchill, l.churchill@curtin.edu.au

Download the full call

Provocation:

Interior: a State of Becoming explores, extends and challenges the world of the interior as a state of constant and dynamic ‘becoming’ rather than ‘being’. The focus of the 2012 Symposium, the interior in flux, draws attention to the following questions:

Entropy followed by death and renewal is the natural cycle. How do we reconsider the interior and the occupant becoming ‘old’? Where is the value in constantly ‘becoming’ new? How do facebook, the virtual window of the computer, the mobile phone, and their precedents, the book, the magazine, the camera, the ‘big’ screen and the television drive our expectations, visions and experiences of actual, physical interiors? What is adaptive re‐use (as distinct from the practice of ‘conservation’)? What and how do we recycle? How do we re‐vision the history of interiors in the light of ‘becoming’? What are the potential roles and responsibilities for Interior Designers / Architects in addressing becoming homeless and ‘being’ disadvantaged?

Streams:
Topics will be streamed in relation to the themes: (TBC)

• Interior: in flux
• Interior: as adaptation
• Interior: as less
• Interior: as a force field
• Interior: as virtual
• Interior: as performance
• Interior: as waste
• Interior: as cinematic
• Interior: in its everydayness

Keynote speakers:

Professor Beatriz Colomina, Professor of Architecture, Director Graduate Studies, PhD, Founding Director Program in Media and Modernity Princeton University.

Professor Charles Rice, Professor Architectural History and Theory and Head of School of Art and Design History Kingston University.

Beatriz Colomina is Professor of Architecture and Founding Director of the Program in Media and Modernity at Princeton University.
She is the author of Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media (MIT Press, 1994), which was awarded the 1995 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects and has been published in eight languages, Sexuality and Space (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), which was awarded the 1993 International Book Award by the American Institute of Architects, and Domesticity at War (ACTAR and MIT Press, 2007).
Recently she curated with a team of Ph.D. students from Princeton the exhibition “Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X‐197X,” which opened at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and travelled to the CCA in Montreal, Documenta 12, the Architectural Association in London, Norsk Form in Oslo, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, the Disseny Hub Barcelona, the Colegio de Arquitectos de Murcia and the NAI Maastricht/Bureau Europe in Maastricht. The catalogue of the exhibition, Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X‐197X, co‐edited with Craig Buckley, has just been published by ACTAR. Her next research project is “X‐Ray Architecture: Illness as Metaphor.”

Charles Rice is an architectural historian, theorist and critic. He received a Bachelor of Design Studies (Honours) from the University of Queensland in 1996, a Master of Research from the London Consortium (Birkbeck, University of London) in 1998, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales in 2003. He was a lecturer in the Architecture Programme at the University of New South Wales from 2000‐2005, and was most recently Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Technology Sydney, where he had taught since 2005. Charles was appointed Professor of Architectural History and Theory and Head of the School of Art and Design History at Kingston University in December 2010. He has lectured at universities and cultural institutions internationally, and has taught architectural history and theory at the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
Charles’ research considers questions of the interior in the context of domestic and urban culture. His book The Emergence of the Interior: Architecture, Modernity, Domesticity was published by Routledge in 2007. He has co‐edited special issues of The Journal of Architecture and AD. Recent essays have appeared in anthologies including Architecture and Authorship (2007), Intimate Metropolis (2009), and Space Reader (2009). He is currently working on a project investigating the emergence of interior urbanism in the atrium hotels and urban developments of architect and developer John Portman.

CALL for PAPERS:

We invite abstracts of 400 words from researchers, theorists, historians and practitioners to reflect upon the themes of Interior: a State of Becoming in all its possible contexts. We welcome research on a broad range of topics that engage notions of ‘becoming’ including historical, psychological, philosophical, spatial, virtual, political, economic and significantly, futuristic notions of ‘becoming’. We encourage early career researchers to contribute. Please include a 50 word biographical statement including name and affiliation to be entered online. Submit the complete proposal using the URL below by 1 October 2011.

PROCEEDINGS: Abstracts and papers are to be double‐blind refereed and published as CD Rom of papers and a booklet of abstracts. Abstracts and papers will be uploaded on the IDEA website.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES / DATES

Call for abstracts 400 words: 28 August 2011

Close of abstracts: 1 October 2011

Author notification refereed abstracts: 14 November 2012

Submission of Papers: 1 March 2012

Author notification refereed papers: 1 May 2012

Final submission of papers: 1 July 2012

Publication of hardcopy abstracts CD ROM of Conference Proceedings: Sept 1 2012

Event: Symposium OPENING/ REGISTRATION: 6pm Thursday 06 September 2012

PARALLEL SESSIONS: Friday 07 ‐ Sunday 09 September 2012

Adjunct Events: refereed exhibition (6‐9 September 2012), public lectures (7, 8 September 2012) and Master Class (10 September 2012)

Contact: l.churchill@curtin.edu.au

Submissions to be lodged at: http://www.ocpms.com.au/conference‐papers/SelfRegistration.php?page=modifyconfID=22

CALL for CREATIVE WORKS for EXHIBITION:

The common desire to be a designer is to create and produce speculative and/or tangible works. For designers who have shifted into education and by association research practice, the framing of research through design and with design has been a challenge. Recently research authorities have broadened their fields to validate creative work in a variety of manifestations. This ‘becoming’ of creative work as research not only addresses the separation [or frustrations] for the design practitioner/educator but also prompts critical reflection on the process and fields of creative work as research.

The state of ‘becoming’ as to happen, from the verb ‘hap’ [as spontaneous event or display] is the tenet to engender creative research output for the Exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming.

The curators of the exhibition Interior: a State of Becoming invite proposals from researchers in interior architecture and interior design education and practice to submit proposals of speculative and or tangible creative work for exhibition. The exhibition will run in conjunction with the 2012 IDEA Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming. Therefore similar to the call for written papers, responses to the same provocation and themes of the 2012 IDEA Symposium are sought for the exhibition. Proposals may include active and static, virtual and non‐virtual, 2‐dimensional and 3‐dimensional, constructed, speculative or performative piece/pieces or installations.

The following must be considered:

1. FUNDING and TRANSPORT: Exhibitors will be responsible for obtaining funding for making, exhibiting and transporting the work (to and from Perth) and strictly within the nominated timeline;

2. TIMELINE AND INSTALLATION: Proposals must outline how and when the work will take place and what additional material, if any, may be required as part of the proposed exhibit;

3. FINAL PRESENTATION OF WORKS: Where, when and how ‐ will be decided via negotiation with the exhibition curatorial team and symposium organisers who will make the final decision;

4. REGISTRATION: All exhibitors must register for the Symposium Interior: a State of Becoming.

Proposal Submission requirements: 1 document (with 3 images as per instructions outlined below)

Proposals are to include a 300 word abstract and 3 images inserted for blind review in PDF format no larger than 10 MB. Please also submit online using the URL below a 50 word biography including your name and affiliation and noting any previous exhibitions. Submit the complete proposal using the URL below by 1 October 2011.

EXHIBITION CATALOGE: proposals and also the creative works to be exhibited along with contextualising statement are to be blind refereed. Contextualising statement and images of work will be published and available at the symposium.

IMPORTANT DEADLINES / DATES

Call for creative works proposals: 28 August 2011

Deadline for submission of proposal abstracts, 3 images and 50 word bio: 1 October 2011

Notification of acceptance of proposals: 14 November 2011

Submission of contextualising 500 word statement and description of work: 1 March 2012

Notification of acceptance of exhibition work: 1 April 2012

Deadline for submission of description of work + images for catalogue: 14 May 2012

Installation of exhibition work: 5 + 6 September 2012

Event: Symposium + Exhibition: Thursday 6 – Sunday 9 Sept 2012

Demount work: 10 + 11 September 2012

Contact: Marina Lommerse
m.lommerse@curtin.edu.au
+61 437 726 459

Submissions to be lodged at: http://www.ocpms.com.au/conference‐papers/SelfRegistration.php?page=modifyconfID=22

INSTRUCTIONS FOR UPLOADING IMAGES:

• Enter the abstract text directly into the submission page. Once the ‘abstract’ has been submitted, you will be automatically logged into the system.
• So to add images you can then go directly to the ‘Upload Documents’ link to upload any images.

Exhibition Working Party:

Associate Professor Marina Lommerse, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
Jane Lawrence, Interior Architecture, University of South Australia
Stuart Foster, Spatial Design, Massey University
Sven Mehzoud, Interior Architecture, Monash University

SYMPOSIUM Convenor: Dr Lynn Churchill, Senior Lecturer, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
Contact: l.churchill@curtin.edu.au
Submissions to be lodged at: http://www.ocpms.com.au/conference‐papers/SelfRegistration.php?page=modifyconfID=22

Steering Committee:

Dr Lynn Churchill
Associate Professor Dianne Smith, Head of Program, Interior Architecture, Curtin University
Associate Professor Marina Lommerse, Interior Architecture, Curtin University

Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Hosted and convened by the Interior Architecture program, School of the Built Environment, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
24 _ 25 June 2010

Consumption and image: these two words can describe the conditions of contemporary society, whose life space is increasingly less real and more and more imagined, increasingly less steady and more transitory. Unreal and represented, the painted or illuminated surface, the sketched project or the model replace the concrete way for things to be, overcoming the traditional concept of “building”, which means creating firm and enduring materialities. In such new conditions, architecture is more and more often an exhibition set and a staged space.

We are faced with a peculiar aesthetics of space: it is the aesthetic of the temporary, of media, advertising and spectacle: generally speaking, the aesthetics of communication.
The city, with its architectures and its “exterior” [outdoor] and “interior” [indoor] spaces, cannot be measured only in its volumes, in its voids and heights, but identifies itself more and more often with messages and images, in a sort of disarticulation and pulverization of the elements that used to define it. The new space spreads in different directions, it is overlapping and coexisting; it is a plural idea of public space: space of knowledge, culture, consumerism, goods. The city appears like a chaotic whole of contrasting forces, from which every idea of harmony and composition seems to be banished.

Division and contrast, hybridisation and contamination, these are the new words upon which it seems possible to build a new urban order and a new system of logical connections. They involve the spaces of community life, where interior architecture and exhibition design contribute to spatially and figuratively defining sceneries.

Download the full programme (italian/english)

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POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Faculty of Architecture and Society
Faculty of Civil Architecture
Faculty of Design

Department of Architectural Design
Department of Architecture and Planning
INDACO Department

PhD in Interior Architecture and Exhibition Design
PhD in Design

Master in Exhibition Design_Architecture of Display
IDEA Associazione Italiana Exhibition Designers

SCIENTIFIC BOARD

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Uwe R. Brueckner Mario Mastropietro / Henri Rivière / Pierluigi Salvadeo / Gernot Tscherteu

HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

Maurizio Boriani / Arturo Dell’ Acqua Bellavitis / Patrizia Gabellini

PROJECT AND ORGANISATION

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Pierluigi Salvadeo

Davide Fabio Colaci / Cristina Colombo / Luigi De Ambrogi Cristina Fiordimela / Giorgia Fontana / Chiara Lecce / Lucilla Zanolari Bottelli

PROGRAMME

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First session
24 June 2010_10am / 2pm
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
THE ARCHITECTONIC DRAMATURGIES OF URBAN SPACE

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Second session
24 June 2010_3pm / 7pm
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
EXHIBITION DESIGN IN THE AGE OF GLOBAL COMMUNICATION

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Third session
25 June 2010_10am / 2pm
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
THE “TATTOOED” SKIN OF THE MULTIMEDIA CITY

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Fourth session
THEATRE PERFORMANCE: MATERIALS FOR THE FALL OF AN EMPIRE…
from Eschilo and Erodoto
1st performance 24 June 2010 9pm
2nd performance 25 June 2010 9pm
Spazio Patio, via Ampère, 2, Milano

METTERE IN SCENA
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METTERE IN MOSTRA

CONVEGNO INTERNAZIONALE
POLITECNICO DI MILANO 
24 _ 25 giugno 2010

Consumo e immagine: con questi due termini possono essere descritte le condizioni della società contemporanea, il cui spazio di vita è sempre meno reale e sempre più immaginato, sempre meno stabile e sempre più transitorio. L’irreale e il rappresentato, la superficie illuminata o dipinta, il progetto abbozzato o il modello, si sostituiscono al modo di essere sostanziale delle cose, superando il concetto classico di “edificare”, cioè di creare materialità stabili e durature. In queste nuove condizioni l’architettura è sempre più spesso luogo allestito e spazio scenografico.

Siamo posti di fronte ad una particolare estetica dello spazio: è l’estetica del provvisorio, dei media, della pubblicità e dello spettacolo: in generale della comunicazione.
La città, con le sue architetture e i suoi spazi “esterni” ed “interni”, non si misura più solo nei suoi volumi, nei suoi vuoti e nei suoi pieni, ma si identifica sempre più spesso con messaggi e immagini, in una sorta di disarticolazione e polverizzazione degli elementi che tradizionalmente la connotano. Il nuovo spazio si è espanso secondo differenti direzioni, è sovrapposto e compresente; è un’idea più plurale degli spazi della vita collettiva: dei saperi, delle culture, dei consumi, delle merci. La città appare come un insieme disordinato di forze che si contrappongono, da cui sembra bandita ogni idea di armonia e di composizione.

Divisione e contrasto, ibridazione e contaminazione, sono i nuovi termini su cui è possibile costruire un nuovo ordine urbano e un nuovo sistema di nessi logici che coinvolgono i luoghi del vissuto collettivo, nei quali le discipline dell’architettura degli interni e dell’allestimento intervengono a qualificarne spazialmente e figurativamente gli scenari.

POLITECNICO DI MILANO

Facoltà di Architettura e Società
Facoltà di Architettura Civile
Facoltà del Design

Dipartimento di Progettazione dell’Architettura
Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
Dipartimento INDACO

Dottorato di Ricerca in Architettura degli Interni e Allestimento
Dottorato di Ricerca in Design

Master in Exhibition Design_Architettura dell’Esporre
IDEA Associazione Italiana Exhibition Designers

COMITATO SCIENTIFICO

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Uwe R. Brueckner Mario Mastropietro / Henri Rivière / Pierluigi Salvadeo / Gernot Tscherteu

DIRETTORI DI DIPARTIMENTO

Maurizio Boriani / Arturo Dell’ Acqua Bellavitis / Patrizia Gabellini

PROGETTO E ORGANIZZAZIONE

Luca Basso Peressut / Giampiero Bosoni / Pierluigi Salvadeo

Davide Fabio Colaci / Cristina Colombo / Luigi De Ambrogi Cristina Fiordimela / Giorgia Fontana / Chiara Lecce / Lucilla Zanolari Bottelli

PROGRAMMA

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Prima sessione
24 giugno 2010_ore 10 / 14
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
LE DRAMMATURGIE ARCHITETTONICHE DELLO SPAZIO URBANO

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Seconda sessione
24 giugno 2010_ore 15 / 19
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
L’EXHIBITION DESIGN NELL’ETA’ DELLA COMUNICAZIONE GLOBALE

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Terza sessione
25 giugno 2010_ore 10 /14
Aula Rogers, via Ampère, 2, Milano
LA PELLE “TATUATA” DELLA CITTA’ MULTIMEDIALE

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Quarta sessione
PERFORMANCE TEATRALE: MATERIALI PER LA CADUTA DI UN IMPERO…
da Eschilo e Erodoto
1° rappresentazione 24 giugno 2010 ore 21
2° rappresentazione 25 giugno 2010 ore 21
Spazio Patio, via Ampère, 2, Milano

Thursday 29th and Friday 30th March 2012
Ravensbourne, London.

Reinventing Architecture and Interiors: the past, the present and the future
An International Conference on the re-use and re-design of buildings in contemporary settings

Submission of 300 word abstracts November 1, 2011

Conference Outline:

The history of design has traditionally been a story of new ideas, new theories and, above all, new construction. However, today, the developed world is on the cusp of a new era. The financial crisis, the sustainability movement and the conservation agenda are all leading to ever more alterations of existing buildings and ever fewer new build projects. This new condition will have major consequences for all those involved in the design of the built environment both now and in the future.

The objective of the conference is to examine the practice of interior design and architectural re-use in the context of this new condition. It will look at historical tendencies, current conditions and future possibilities.

The conference will be diverse and inclusive in outlook. It will encourage debate on professionalism, the creative process, representation, innovation and the importance of precedent. It welcomes case studies, research projects, theoretical texts, technological insights and thoughts on education and practice.

The theme of PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE offers participants the chance to look at any aspect of the theme from the vantage point of time.

Delegates are expected to deliver a 20 minute presentation and submit a 3000 word paper. Selected texts will be published in an accompanying book.

Key note speakers:  David Dunster and Paul Finch

A conference organised by Interior Educators and Ravensbourne
For further information on paper proposal: graham.cairns@writtle.ac.uk

view the complete Call

Key dates:

• 1^st November 2011 Submission of 300 words abstracts14^th November 2011 Abstract Feedback
• 12^th December 2011    Full Paper Submission
• 16^th January  2012 Full Paper Feedback
• 24^th February  2012   Revised Full Paper Submission Deadline
• 29^th and 30^th March  2012.   Conference – Ravensbourne (London)

Suggested Themes:

The conference aims to be diverse and inclusive. Proposals are welcome from all disciplines. The common thread is a focus on the renovation of buildings and interiors seen in the context of the past, the present or the future.

The following is simply a guideline of possible questions / themes:

• What are the socio-economic, political or cultural factors that have led to an increased importance for the renovation of buildings and their interiors?
• What themes dominate the practice of re-design and re-use today?
• Do current issues have historical roots and will they resonate in the future?
• What will be the cultural and social changes of the future that will influence the re-design of existing spaces and buildings?

• How have the artistic, creative, theoretical, scientific and / or philosophical trends of the past influenced our approach to alteration today?
• What are the past, current and future characteristics of education that could inform our tactics and strategies of re-use?
• Is the traditionally understood distinction between architecture and interior design likely to change in a context of ever growing re-use?
• Is there a direct relationship between re-use and sustainability and if so, what are its defining characteristics?

• What was / is / will be the role of construction, design and visualisation technologies in our approach to re-designing existing spaces?
• What are, have been, and what will be, the creative processes used by spatial designers working with existing structures and buildings?
• Is there anything that distinguishes the creative process of designers working with existing structures?

Abstract submission:
Deadline: 1st November 2011

A 300 word abstract to be submitted to graham.cairns@writtle.ac.uk (subject header: IE International Conference 2012 – Abstract). Include the title of the paper, author name(s), contact details and company / institutional affiliation. For full details on formatting download the IE International Conference – abstract template

Also, include a CV and a biographical paragraph (max. 200 words). This will appear in the conference programme and published proceedings.

Full Paper submission:
Deadline: 12th December 2011

A paper (3000 word max.) to be submitted to graham.cairns@writtle.ac.uk (subject header: IE international Conference 2012 – Full Paper). For full details on formatting download the IE International Conference – full paper template

Costs and Registration:

Standard registration fee for delegates: £90

Each institution associated with IE gets one member of staff free.

Students may submit a paper. Fee: £45

Free to students as members of audience.

To book your place as either a student, IE member or paying delegate contact:
Louise Fowler. l.fowler@rave.ac.uk

Travel details:

For details on travel by road, rail or bus please click this link: http://www.rave.ac.uk/about/maps-and-directions/

Further Information on abstract or paper proposals:

graham.cairns@writtle.ac.uk

Further Information on registration, transport or accommodation:

l.fowler@rave.ac.uk T +44 (0) 20 3040 3500

Ravensbourne
6 Penrose Way
London SE10 0EW

http://www.rave.ac.uk/2011/06/28/ie-international-conference-2012/

Ravensbourne

6 Penrose Way
Greenwich Peninsula
London
SE10 0EW
United Kingdom

A conference organised by Interior Educators and Ravensbourne

Thursday 12 and Friday 13 May 2011
Lawley Lecture Theatre
Kingston Hill Campus
Kingston University

The conference is hosted by the Modern Interiors Research Centre and the Landscape Interface Studio, Kingston University in collaboration with Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

For BOOKINGS and the FULL CONFERENCE PROGRAMME please visit:
www.kingston.ac.uk/flowconference

CALL FOR POSTERS deadline 2nd May 2011

‘FLOW: a conference in two parts’ will address issues of the complex relationships between interiors and landscape, which have become increasingly relevant to the understanding of the modern interior.
In 2011, FLOW 1 will take a historical perspective covering the period from the late 19th century to the present day. Queensland University of Technology will host FLOW 2 in Brisbane, Australia in February 2012, with the aim of developing themes that emerge from the London conference.

Keynote speakers:

Sandy Isenstadt, University of Delaware
Sandy Isenstadt teaches the history of modern architecture at the  University of Delaware. His writings range widely, including essays on post-World War II reformulations of modernism by émigré architects, modern architecture in the Middle East, visual polemics in the urban proposals of Leon Krier and Rem Koolhaas, refrigerators, picture windows, landscape views, and real estate appraisal. His book, “The Modern American House,” winner of the
2009 Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, describes the visual enhancement of spaciousness in the architectural, interior, and landscape design of American domestic  architecture. Currently, he is writing a book on the novel luminous spaces introduced by electric lighting in the early twentieth century.

Joel Sanders, Architect
Joel Sanders is an architect practicing in New York City. He is also Associate Professor (Adjunct) at Yale University. Prior to joining Yale, he taught at Princeton University and the Parsons School of Design, where he was the director of the Graduate Program in Architecture. His work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions, including “Open House” at the Vitra Design Museum, “Glamour” at SF MoMA, “New Hotels for Global Nomads” at the Cooper- Hewitt, National Design Museum, the “Bienal de São Paulo” in São Paulo, Brazil, and “Unprivate House” at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Projects designed in his practice belong to the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, SF MoMA, and the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh and his work has been showcased in numerous publications, including Architecture, Interior Design, Architectural Record, The New York Times, Wallpaper, and A+U. The editor of Stud: Architectures of Masculinity, he frequently writes about art and design, most recently for Art Forum and the Harvard Design Magazine. Monacelli Press released a monograph of his work, Joel Sanders: Writings and Projects, in 2005.