Nordic Design Research Conference, 30 August to 1 September 2009, Oslo, Norway
2009 SUBMISSION IS CLOSED
Engaging Artefacts
Welcome to the third Nordic Design Research Conference, NORDES’09, titled Engaging Artefacts! The conference will take place in Oslo, Norway, from 30 August to 1 September 2009 and will be hosted by The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, AHO, in collaboration with University of Oslo. The program includes paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, an exhibition, a doctoral consortium as well as lively social gatherings.
Design research aims to provide new insights to the ways in which we understand – and do – design. The conference invites contributions from researchers in universities, design schools and industry who share an interest in understanding and developing design as a trans-disciplinary practice that is always in the making. The scope of the conference reaches beyond the traditional design disciplines and includes other research areas with mutual interest in design research and engaging artefacts. NORDES ‘09 directs its interest towards the diversity, challenges and emerging practices and understandings of design. The conference theme reflects a range of issues that characterize design and design research today.
Confronted with the increasingly complex problems of our times, design should engage in new ways of thinking. Design objects are characterized by their form, aesthetics, functionality, materials as well as social, political and cultural codings. How do and might designers, and educators and researchers of design respond to these different perspectives in design? How can designers respond to the life cycle of artefacts? How can designers be better at designing artefacts for performability and sustainability? How do designers and researchers develop ways of researching knowledges, skills, theories, methods, intuition and passion in design practices?
In addressing these many issues, the Engaging Artefacts conference includes the following themes:
• Consumption: We invite critical perspectives on the increasing number and diversity of artefacts and their creative design but also use and abuse in global economy
• Production: Critical perspectives on the complexity, interrelations and consequences of production
• Technology: new forms given by new materials – and new materials developed to enable new forms
• Interactivity: performance and system oriented thinking regarding the interaction between artefacts, material systems, environments and users
• Politics: the role of artefacts in shaping alternative futures especially addressing accessibility, sustainability, poverty and democracy
So as to fully take up the theme Engaging Artefacts, we invite a range of contributions: full research papers, presentations of design cases, artefacts for exhibition, tutorials and workshops. We welcome the many voices of design and design research ⎯ including perspectives ranging from the humanities to physics, from ethnography to art, from engineering to marketing. Papers may cover experimental and exploratory research approaches to design and the production of knowledge. Papers may also be based on historical, histographical, cultural or philosophical studies that hold qualified contributions to the field in terms of insights, concepts and ideas. Submitted contributions are subject to an anonymous peer-review process. Accepted contributions will be published electronically on the conference website prior to the conference and in the conference proceedings.
Time and place
The conference will be held from 30 August to 1 September 2009 at the School of Architecture and Design in Oslo (www.aho.no). On Sunday 30 August there will be an optional programme of tutorials and workshops as well as a doctoral consortium on design research, and there will also be possibilities for participants to organize informal workshops or meetings. Monday 31 August and Tuesday 1 September will be the main, full-day conference program, with a conference dinner on Monday night. Wednesday 2 September will host the NORDES board meeting.
Important dates:
1 June 2009: Final paper submissions uploaded to website (accepted papers)
30 August – 1 September 2009: Conference in Oslo
Organizers and Programme committee
The Conference is organized by a network of Nordic Design researchers gathered in the conference programme committee. Nordic Design Research Conference is a biannual conference circulated in the Nordic countries. Responsibility for NORDES ‘09 lies with the programme committee, who are also responsible for reviewing submissions.
General Conference Co-Chairs:
Tone Bratteteig, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Birger Sevaldson, Institute of Industrial Design, Oslo School of Architecture and design, Norway
Programme Co-chairs:
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Håkan Edeholt, School of Art, Culture and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
Tuuli Mattelmäki, University of Art and Design, Helsinki. Finland
Andrew Morrison, InterMedia, UiO/ Oslo School of Architecture and design (AHO), Norway
Programme Co-chairs - exhibition
Michael Hensel, Oslo School of Architecture and design (AHO), Norway
Ole Smørdal, InterMedia, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Maziar Raein, Oslo Art School, Norway
Programme Co-chairs - design cases
Trond Are Øritsland, Interaction Design. NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
Turkka Keinonen, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Programme Chair - tutorials and workshops
Christina Mörtberg, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Doctoral Consortium Co-chairs
Dag Svanæs, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway
Ben Matthews, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Dagny Stuedahl, Dept. of Media and Communication, University of Oslo, Norway
Members of the Programme Committee
Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup, Center for Design Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Martin Avila, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies Konstfack, Sweden
Thomas Binder, Center for Design Research, Danmarks Designskole, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jacob Buur, Mads Clausen Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Alma Culén, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Halina Dunin-Woyseth, Inst. of urbanism and landscape, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
Håkan Edeholt, School of Art, Culture and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
Pelle Ehn, School of Art, Culture and Communication, Malmö, Sweden
Ida Engholm, Danish Center for Design Research, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sisse Finken, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Katja Grillner, School of Architecture, KTH, Sweden
Lars Hallnäs, Interaktionsdesign, University College of Borås, Sweden
Maria Hellström-Reimer, Deppt. of Landscape Architecture SLU, Sweden
Michael Hensel, Oslo School of Architecture and design (AHO), Norway
Jo Herstad, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Stefan Holmlid, Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
Rolf Hughes, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
Karl Georg Høyer, Oslo University College, Norway
Sara Ilstedt Hjelm, Product and service design, KTH, Sweden
Sonja Iltanen, University of Art and Design Helsinki
Birgit Jevnaker, BI Norw. School of Management, Dept. of Innovation and Economic Organization, Norway
Troels Degn Johansson, Danmarks Designskole, Danish Center for Design Research, Denmark
Ulla Johansson, Business & Design Lab, University of Göteborg, Sweden
Ilpo Koskinen, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Peter Krogh, Alexandra Institute, Aarhus, Denmark
Esko Kurvinen, Elisa Corporation, Finland
Kari Kuutti, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
Thomas Leerberg, Designskolen Kolding, Danish Center for Design Research, Denmark
Katrine Lotz, Royal Academy of fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jonas Löwgren, School of Art, Culture and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
Ramia Mazé, Interactive Institute, Göteborg, Sweden
Liv Mjelde, Akershus University College, Norway
Anders Mørch, InterMedia, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway
Maarit Mäkelä , TAIK, Helsinki, Finland
Frans Mäyrä, University of Tampere Hypermedia Lab, Tampere, Finland
Liv Merete Nielsen; Oslo University College, Norway
Johan Redström, Interactive Institute, Göteborg, Sweden
Anne Lisæth Schøyen , Akershus University College, Norway
Astrid Skjerven, Akershus University College, Norway
Anne-Louise Sommer, Danmarks Designskole, Danish Center for Design Research, Denmark
Lena Sperling, Industrial Design, Lund University, Sweden
Erik Stolterman, Department of Informatics, Indiana University, USA
Dagny Stuedahl, University of Oslo, Norway
Yngve Sundblad, KTH, Sweden
Peter Ullmark, Design and Research, KTH, Sweden
Minna Uotila, University of Lapland, Finland
Bosse Westerlund, Design, Kalmar University, Sweden
Kristin Støren Wigum, Industrial design, Akershus University College, Norway
Timo Honkela, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Pekka Korvenmaa, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Susann Vihma, University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland
Conference website:
http.//www.nordes.org/conference
Author Guidelines
2009 SUBMISSION IS CLOSED
The conference is open for papers, exploratory papers, presentations of design cases, artefacts for exhibition, workshops and tutorials that relate to the conference theme. All submissions must be in English. Submission template: Word | Creative Paper/References
How to upload your final paper
In order for all papers to be accepted at the final stage we ask that you deliver the following:
- full, corrected and proof-read paper as PDF in the stylistic format required
- total file size 5MB (includes images)
- all author details added back in
- corrected references, cross checked with body text
Note:
- Research papers are a maximum of 10 pages.
- Exploratory papers are a maximum of 4 pages.
- Longer texts will not be accepted.
The final date for the delivery of your paper is 1 June 2009, 18h00.
You will find your submissions under "User home" > "Author" at www.nordes.org/conference. Go to the "Review" view to upload your final paper, "Author version".
If you do not have your username and password for the conference's web
site, see " Forgot your password?" link under "Log in".
Research papers
(full paper - maximum 10 pages)
Research papers should report on completed research, which provides new insights within the design field. The research presented should be positioned in relation to other research within the same field. Each submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. Authors are encouraged to minimize references that may reveal their identities and their companies or institutions through out the document. Accepted papers should be revised according to the review reports. At the conference authors of accepted research papers will have 15 minutes for presentation followed by discussion.
Exploratory papers
(maximum 4 pages)
We invite design professionals, researchers, and students to bring recently concluded as well as on-going work to the conference. Exploratory papers should present ideas, concepts or design processes that could benefit from discussion with members of the design field. The exploratory papers may include work-in-progress, experiences of reflective practitioners, and first drafts of novel concepts and approaches. Each submitted paper will be double blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers should be revised according to the review reports. At the conference authors of accepted exploratory papers will have 7 minutes for presentation followed by discussion.
Doctoral consortium
(maximum 4 pages proposal)
The doctoral consortium is a full day session taking place on Sunday 30 August. It is intended for Ph.D. students working in the field of design. The doctoral consortium is an opportunity to present issues of concern in the doctoral studies, meet fellow Ph.D. students, and get extensive feedback from the session co-chairs and other participants. Enrolment is limited and selection will be based on application submissions. The proposal should give an overview of the Ph.D.- project, including research question, method, how the Ph.D.-work is related to the design field, the status of current work, major findings and plans for further research. Accepted applicants will be asked to provide a revised and elaborated proposal before the conference.
Design cases
(maximum 2 pages proposals)
We invite design professionals, researchers, and students to bring new design cases to be reflected upon together with design colleagues. The design case should describe purpose of project and one or more approaches/methods/techniques that have been applied, outcome and challenges. The proposal should finish with 1-3 questions that the project holder would like to discuss in more detail. To each design case 1-2 experienced designers and/or researchers are assigned as opponents who comment on and guide the exploration of the specific design case. Design cases are perfect for common reflections and interactive learning.
Artefacts for exhibition
(maximum 2 page proposals)
Artefacts for exhibition should be described by visuals and text on maximum 2 pages. The description should include a description of the artefact, its aim and how it relates to the conference theme. The proposal need to describe how the artefact will be displayed if accepted for the conference exhibition - e.g. in 3D/2D full size, a physical scale model, computer simulations, sound, still/moving images etc. During the conference there will be a time-slot where each person who display an artefact in the exhibition can make a one-minute pitch about the artefact.
Tutorials
(maximum 2 page proposals)
Tutorial will be held on Sunday 30 August They should be half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) sessions that offer introductions to (new) approaches, methods or techniques in design research to participants. The proposal should include title, relevance, goals, approach/method/technique, time schedule, and how intended participants will be recruited to the tutorial. Tutorials with ‘hands-on’ sessions included are preferred. Please also describe in the proposal if you plan to make handouts for the participants.
Workshops
(maximum 2 page proposals)
Workshops will be held on Sunday 30 August. They should be half-day (3 hours) or full-day (6 hours) sessions that include methods, practices, and other areas of interest for the design field. The workshop format should support active participation by the participants. The proposal should justify the need for the workshop and must contain a title, goals, technique, relevance to the design field and a schedule. Intended participants and how they will be recruited should also be described.
Submissions for this conference were closed on 2009-02-24.