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		<title>World IA Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 11th of February 2012  the 14th World Information Architecture Day will be organised. THe World IA Day wants to focus on the importance of information architecture and tries to bring together a community of interested at the same day throughout the world.  This years theme is on Designing Structures for Understanding and focusses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Call for papers: 8th International Conference  on Design &amp; Emotion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 8th International Conference on Design and Emotion, with the theme &#8216;Out Of Control&#8216;, will be organised in Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, London (UK) on the 11th-14th September 2012. The conference is a forum held where practitioners, academics and industry meet and exchange knowledge and insights concerning the cross-disciplinary field of design and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-design/call-for-papers-8th-international-conference-on-design-emotion</link>
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		<title>CFP: SupraSpace: On the Concept of Space and Place in Art and Visual Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SupraSpace: On the Concept of Space and Place in Art and Visual Culture International Conference Tel Aviv University, Art History Department June 3 &#8211; 04, 2012 Deadline CFP: Jan 15, 2012 Keynote speaker: Prof. Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University Space has been subject to aesthetic, art-historical, philosophical, anthropological, geographical and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/cfp-supraspace-on-the-concept-of-space-and-place-in-art-and-visual-culture</link>
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		<title>Making Things Visual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I (Ben Hagenaars) followed a thought provoking lecture by Bas Raijmakers at the FAK in Brussels. He is the co-founder of design research agency STBY in Amsterdam &#38; London. He explained his view on what it means to be doing design research. A very interesting topic considering I started my own PhD in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-design/making-things-visual</link>
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		<title>iGEM &#8211; Synthetic Biology Competition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In early ‘2011, the Media and Design faculty in Genk participated in the exhibition Alter Nature, where works from around twenty international artists explored how humankind manipulates nature. We got to know what synthetic biology is and how much more manipulative ‘design’ can be in this field. We also learned that as media designer or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-media/igem-synthetic-biology-competition</link>
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		<title>H(ello).E.T. &#8211; Design for human enhancement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, the research project for the students of the third year and bridging program at MAD-faculty focuses on design in the context of human enhancement. The project &#8220;H(ello).E.T.!&#8220; aims to explore the field of human enhancement and its implications in order to develop design outputs that relate to the debate concerning human enhancement technologies. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/hello-e-t-design-for-human-enhancement</link>
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		<title>Usewell project launches with workshop at E-culture Fair</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After a year of research and development, Usewell, the user-centred design roadmap, tool and website was launched with a workshop at the e-culturefair on the 17th of November. The workshop itself consisted of  an introduction into the research carried out during the develpment of the project, followed by two real world UCD method case-studies presented by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/usewell-project-launches-with-workshop-at-e-culture-fair</link>
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		<title>Eutropolis &#8211; Open Content Call</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eutropolis &#8211; imagine a city is an initiative of the SocialBeta Foundation in co-creation with NEIMED, Maurer United Architects and several other partners. We challenge designers, urbanists, photographers, researchers and other disciplines to imagine a city called Eutropolis. Share with us your idea or dream about Eutropolis and it’s future. Your contribution might be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/eutropolis-open-content-call</link>
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		<title>H o m e &#8211; S e n s e  dwelling and the Internet of Things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the 9th of December 2011 a one day conference &#8211; hosted by V2 in Rotterdam &#8211; will aggregate developments and focus on the issue: &#8220;What are the consequences for our home-environment with regard to the Internet of Things?&#8221; More information can be found here]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/social-media/h-o-m-e-s-e-n-s-e-dwelling-and-the-internet-of-things</link>
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		<title>Social Cities of Tomorrow: New Media &amp; Urban Design</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Social Cities of Tomorrow, a conference and workshop on new media and urbanism is organised by The Mobile City, Virtueel Platform and ARCAM. The conference will take place on 17 February 2012 in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. Several keynote speakers such as Usman Haque and Natalie Jeremijenko will speak about the promises and challenges in this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialspaces.be/public-space/social-cities-of-tomorrow-new-media-urban-design</link>
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