Social Cities of Tomorrow: New Media & Urban Design
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 newly emerging and highly interdisciplinary field of urban design. T
They are currently welcoming proposals in the fields of urban design interventions, projects by housing corporations, media artists, citizen initiatives, technology companies, or others.
Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2011
For more information, consult the conference website.
CFP: Social Media – New Masses
CFP: Soziale Medien – Neue Massen (Lueneburg, 2-4 Feb 11)
Deadline: Aug 31, 2011
2. Medienwissenschaftliches Symposion der DFG: SOZIALE MEDIEN — NEUE MASSEN
Call for papers: Cumulus Denver 2011
The Cumulus Denver 2011 conference – “From Understanding to Design and Back Again” – invites you to submit conference papers that address the conference themes and/or sustainability design focus.
The main theme of the conference is “From Understanding to Design and Back Again: Creating a Sustainable Present”. Sub-themes include (but are not limited to): human-centered design, research, ethics and sustainability, sustainable design, art and theory, green design, education, Fine Arts as part of global discourse, collaboration, trans/multi/inter/disciplinary and new frontiers and innovation.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is April 15th, 2011. 20-30 Abstracts will be selected for 50-minute conference presentations (approximately 25-30 minute presentation and 15-20 minute discussion) in Denver.
The Cumulus Denver 2011 conference takes place in Denver, Colorado (U.S.A.) from September 29th until October 1st. For more information, see: http://www.cumulus2011denver.org/
Call: Impact! Design for Social Change summer intensive
What?
Impact! Design for Social Change is a six-week summer intensive at the School of Visual Arts in New York City (U.S.A.).
To remain competitive, corporations are looking for innovation and impacts in the area of social change as it relates to their business. The non-profit world is seeking new ways to support their constituencies through design strategy. Impact! Design for Social Change introduces participants to the growing field of design for social advocacy.
Impact: Design for Social Change is an advanced program that runs on two parallel tracks: ‘Track One’ will focus on social entrepreneurship and educate students on how to conceive, execute and fund their own projects for social change – projects that are not client-based. Along ‘Track Two’, students will participate in the development and execution of a team project that addresses a pressing need for a New York City-based non-profit organization.
Who?
Professionals, educators and advanced students in the disciplines of advertising, graphic design, product design, information design, interactive design, fashion design, photography and illustration are invited to participate. The program is oriented towards these design disciplines but that doesn’t mean that e.g. architects and social entrepreneurs can’t apply!
And?
The summer intensive will take place from July 11 – August 19, 2011 and the application deadline is May 1, 2011.
Tuition to the six week full-time program is $6,000.
For more information (and for the application form), see: http://impact.sva.edu.
Technarte: call for papers
Technarte – International Conference on Art & Technology has launched a call for papers. If you send in your paper before the 1st of November, it will be featured at the Technarte conference that merges art and technology. It takes place at the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall in Bilbao (Spain) on the 19th and 20th of May 2011. Here you can find examples of the topics that were discussed on previous editions of Technarte.
According to its website, “Technarte will bring together in Bilbao, Spain, artists, experts of Centres of Technological Research and professionals of the art world and technology in all its forms (researchers and developers of art centres and research labs, professionals of museums, universities, etc.), with which you can share your experiences and who will show you the most innovative artistic disciplines.”
If you want to know more (and for more details on the call), see: http://technarte.org/en/