Call for papers ICDC 2012
The 2nd International Conference on Design Creativity (ICDC 2012) will take place on 18-20.09.2012 in Glasgow, Scotland and welcomes papers on following themes:
- Collaborative creative design
- Cognition in creative design
- Creative design processes, methods and techniques
- Creative design styles and cultures
- Design creativity support tools
- Formal education in creative design
- Global creativity and innovation
- Measuring creativity and its impact
- Social dimensions of creative design
Full paper submission: 09 March 2012
Please check the conference website for further details.
Call for papers Cumulus//Helsinki 2012
Open, participative cities: how design knowledge can support public services in the development of open, participative human environment”
The Cumulus conference, interlinked in the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012, is organized in the premises of Aalto University, in the School of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland and in the neighboring city of Espoo.
The Cumulus conference organizing committee is pleased to announce the first call for abstracts/proposals (deadline 15the of November)
For more information can be found here!
Internship at Social Spaces
For the last two years we had an intern. First there was Sabina, who mainly worked on the Map-It project then there was Lila who did a great job in the first phases of the ATOM-project. This year we are looking for new interns…
If you are interested in social design, experiments with technology and media in public space and you do not mind to join us in baking muffins once in a while, then read what you need to do to apply after the break…
Presentation at RCA’s Method Lab
As Liesbeth already wrote yesterday I gave a presentation at the RCA Method Lab on the ATOM project and more specifically on the participatory design phase we are working on. You can found the presentation at the bottom of the post.
The presentation was followed by some questions of the audience mainly focussing on the reasons why we choose to work with dementia in this project and how the individual needs of persons with dementia can be reflected in this approach. The latter remark is quite relevant: throughout the observations we also noticed that each person goes through in individual traject in their disease and that it is hard to predict how dementia will evolve and whether a certain solution will work for this person. The ATOM project however is exploratory in nature as it tries to experiment with technology (internet of things) that has not been used for these extreme uses. To present several prototypes that show the potential of this technology might proof the potential of the technology.
Methods Lab ‘Ageing in Kensington’
Two Social Spaces researchers and four Media, Arts and Design Faculty students are in London this week to participate in the Royal College of Art Methods Lab ‘Ageing in Kensington’. Tonight we will present our mapping and our Touch of Memory project. A report will follow soon!
