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.

Study mode: Full Time

Duration: Variable

Venue: College of Health and Human Sciences, Department of Design and Human Environment

Course summary
This program on the profession of interior design as well as its history, theory and criticism. Research can focus on qualitative or quantitative analysis of design.

Program modules
The following are the modules: DHE 532 Advanced Housing Design Studio (3 credits), DHE 534 Housing the Aging Population (3 credits), DHE 543 Studio III: Commercial Design (4 credits), DHE 561 History of the Near Environment I (4 credits), DHE 562 History of the Near Environment II (4 credits), DHE 564 Contemporary History of Interiors and Housing (3 credits), DHE 577 Fashion Theory (4 credits), DHE 582 Aesthetic and Perceptual Theories of the Near Environment (2 credits), DHE 585 Human Behavior and the Near Environment (3 credits), DHE 665 Theories and Methods in Historical/Cultural Research of the Near Environment (3 credits), DHE 685 Advanced Topics in Human Behavior and the Near Environment (3 credits).

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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.

PhD in Interior Architecture

Study mode: Full Time

Duration: 3 – 4 years

Start date: FEB-12, JUL-12

Venue: University of South Wales

Course summary
The focus of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is on developing a student’s expert knowledge in this field of research, along with their research, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving skills. Also, students can enhance their career prospects in academic, business, government, industry or research related professions in the Built Environment field by developing their research competence as well as extending their capability in creative thinking, problem solving and self-directed learning.

PhD in Architecture

Study mode: Full Time

Duration: 3 – 4 years

Start date: FEB-12, JUL-12

Venue: University of South Wales

Course summary
The focus of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is on developing a student’s expert knowledge in this field of research, along with their research, critical and creative thinking, and problem solving skills. Also, students can enhance their career prospects in academic, business, government, industry or research related professions in the Built Environment field by developing their research competence as well as extending their capability in creative thinking, problem solving and self-directed learning.

PhD in Design

Study mode: Full Time

Duration: 3 – 4 years

Start date: FEB-12, JUL-12

Venue: College of Fine Arts Campus

Course summary
This course covers research areas in the fields of: architecture, landscape and urban design; ceramics; Asian art/craft/design and cultural history; design and gender studies; design and technology; design history and theory; design management; human computer interaction; interactive media; jewellery; object design; online design education; textiles; theatre design; and visual communication.

» visit the University of South Wales website

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.

Disciplines:

• Civil Engineering, Architecture & Construction
• Industrial Design

Location: Milano / Italy

Duration: 36 months

Start Date: October

Educational Form: Academic PhD

Education Variants: Fulltime

Funding:

• National: partial
• EEA: partial
• Non EEA: partial

Location flexibility: Primarily at University

Project type: Open PhD programme

Credits (ECTS): 180

Languages: English Italian

Qualifying elements of the curriculum:

• Customised teaching methods aimed at developing each student’s specific aptitudes in different areas of design, theoretical and critical historical research;
• Analysis of complex paradigms and development of split up methodologies of intervention with interdisciplinary integrations for proposing, design, theoretical and critical historical research purposes;
• Creation of virtual and actual models and application of computerized and classic simulation tools for the control of figurative, material, metric, chromatic, energy and light properties

Study methods:

• Lectures, training sessions, guided tours and seminar cycles given by teachers of the College and by visiting Professors;
• Workshop research in fields such as critical history and design, carried out through teaching, cooperation activities and horizontal and vertical exchange between students of different cycles;
• Individual research aided by tutors with the contribution of the entire teaching staff.

» visit the School of Doctoral Programmes website

» visit the Politecnico di Milano website

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

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.

Applicants should send, via U.S. Postal Service

• resumes or curriculum vitae
• statements of design and/or teaching philosophies
• digital portfolios
• original transcripts
• the names and contact information for three references from three different institutions.

to:

Terri Shockley, Administrative Assistant
Search and Screen Committee

Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design
Indiana University
1021 E. Third Street
Memorial Hall East #239
Bloomington, IN 47405

(812) 855-4184

tshockle@indiana.edu

To be certain of receiving full consideration, applications should be received by January 6, 2012. All materials must be received for consideration. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled.

EEO/AA Policy Indiana University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Culturally diverse candidates are invited and encouraged to apply.

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.

Book Launch and Christmas Drinks

The last six months has been an incredibly productive time for researchers in the School of Art and Design History at Kingston. We’d be delighted if you could join us at 5pm on Wednesday 14 December at Knights Park for a Christmas drink, and to help us celebrate the launch of nine books:

• Fiona Fisher, Trevor Keeble, Patricia Lara-Betancourt and Brenda Martin, eds. Performance, Fashion and the Modern Interior. Berg Publishers
• Anne Massey and Tom Avermaete, eds. Hotel Lobbies and Lounges: The Architecture of Professional Hospitality. Routledge
• Anne Massey. Chair. Reaktion
• Anne Massey. Ocean Liner Posters. Antique Collectors’ Club
• Jonathan Black. The Face of Courage: Eric Kennington, Portraiture and the Second World War. Philip Wilson Publishers
• Stephen Barber. The Walls of Berlin: Urban Surfaces, Art, Film. Solar Books
• Fran Lloyd, Helen Potkin and Davina Thakara. Public Sculpture of Outer South and West London. Liverpool University Press
• Nick Tromans. Richard Dadd: The Artist and the Asylum. Tate Publishing
• Nick Tromans. Hope: The Life and Times of a Victorian Icon. Watts Gallery

RSVP Doreen Harrison
D.Harrison@kingston.ac.uk

Doreen Harrison
Academic Support Administrator
School of Architecture and Landscape and School of Art & Design History
Kingston University
Knights Park
Grange Road
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 2QJ

Tel: 020 8417 4283 Ext 64038

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.

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