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ON DESIGN, November 2008

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** Third International Conference On Design Principles And Practices **
15-17 February 2009
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
http://www.Design-Conference.com/

** Plenary Speakers **
http://g09.cg-conference.com/main-speakers
*Mario Antonio Minichiello, Birmingham City University BIAD, Birmingham, UK
*Magda Mostafa, 2008 winner of the International Award for Excellence in the Design Field, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/proposal-types. To submit a proposal, see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options, see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/options-fees. To register for the 2009 Design Conference, see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/registration.

** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Design Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website, please see: http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.

** Create a YouTube Presentation **
Whether presenting at the Conference or virtually, we encourage all participants to present on the International Conference on Design Principles and Practices YouTube Channel. These presentation recordings will be published to YouTube with a link to your Session Description on the Conference website, and (if your paper is accepted to the Journal), a link to the abstract of your paper on the Journal website. YouTube presentations may also be created for past presentations and published papers. For instructions on how to create and upload these presentations, visit the Conference website at http://g09.cg-conference.com/online-presentations.

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** Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 3 of the Journal.

Submission guidelines may be found at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/publish.html. You will first need to submit a Conference proposal. Please find details at http://g09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro. Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted, you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

Refereeing for submitted papers has commenced. If you are requested to referee, please submit your report by the date requested.

** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal to which they have contributed (the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers, please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume along with any research interests. If we have any appropriate papers, we will contact you.

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** Conferences **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
www.Arts-Conference.com/

Harvard Design Firm Leadership Conference 2009
17-19 March 2009, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/idp/dfl_program.html

2009 HOW Conference
24-27 June 2009, Austin, Texas, USA
http://www.howconference.com/

** Design News **
The Open Design Community
Open Source Website Designers from around the world provide thousands of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download.
http://www.opendesigns.org/

Open Design Alliance
A non-profit membership-based consortium of software companies, developers and users committed to promoting the open exchange of CAD data now and in the future. ODA also focuses on developing software libraries of exceptional quality that enable ODA members to develop applications capable of reading and writing the popular DWG and DGN CAD file formats.
http://www.opendwg.org/

The Creative Economy: Australia
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
Creative Economy is a gateway to research and commentary on developments in Australia's creative industries and their cultural and social impact.
http://www.creative.org.au/

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ON DESIGN, October 2008

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** Third International Conference On Design Principles And Practices **
15-17 February 2009, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
http://www.Design-Conference.com/

** Plenary Speakers **
Plenary speakers include:
Mario Minichiello, Head of Department and Chair of Visual Communications Programs, Birmingham
Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, UK

Magda Mostafa, Department of Architectural Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; 2008 winner of the International Award for Excellence in the Design Field

Please continue to visit http://g09.cg-conference.com/main-speakers as new plenary speakers are added to the conference.

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/proposal-types. To submit a proposal: http://g09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/options-fees. To register for the 2009 Design Conference see: http://g09.cg-conference.com/registration.

** Creator Sites **
All officially registered Design Conference delegates may make their own Creator Website. The first step is visiting the CGPublisher Creator page at
http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html.

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** Design Journal - Volume 3 (2009) **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 3 of the Journal.

Submission guidelines may be found at http://g09.cg-conference.com/publish-your-paper You will first need to submit a Conference proposal. Please find details at http://g09.cg-conference.com/proposal-entry-intro.

Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted, you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

Refereeing for submitted papers has already commenced. If you are requested to referee please submit your report by the date requested.

** Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008) **
The third issue has now been published.
You can view the contents of published issues at:
Volume 2, Issue 1: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.54
Volume 2, Issue 2: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.75
Volume 2, Issue 3: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.96

The fourth, and final, issue will be published shortly.

** Would you like to be an Associate Editor? **
All referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified). If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com, provide a short resume and research interests, and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.

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** Conferences **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
For more info: http://Arts-Conference.com/

AIGA "Gain" Business and Design Conference
23-25 October 2008, New York, New York, USA
For more info: http://gainconference2008.aiga.org/

2009 HOW Conference
24-27 June 2009, Austin, Texas, USA
For more info: http://www.howconference.com/

Harvard Design Firm Leadership Conference 2009
Spring 2009, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

For more info: http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/idp/dfl_program.html<>

The Open Design Community
The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers from around the world providing thousands of XHTML and CSS based free web design templates available for download.
For more info: http://www.opendesigns.org/

Open Design Alliance
The Open Design Alliance is a non-profit membership-based consortium of software companies, developers and users committed to promoting the open exchange of CAD data now and in the future. In addition to setting standards for CAD data formats, the ODA also focuses on the practical matter of developing software libraries of exceptional quality that enable ODA members to develop applications capable of reading and writing the popular DWG and DGN CAD file formats. For more info: http://www.opendwg.org/

The Creative Economy: Australia
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

Creative Economy is a gateway to research and commentary on developments in Australia's creative industries and their cultural and social impact, hosted by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI). The site draws on the resources of Australian Policy Online, together with outputs from industry groups, consultants and other researchers and research organisations.
For more info: http://www.creative.org.au/

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Newsletter subscriptions are free and open to anyone who intends to participate in the Conference or who is interested in the Journal and Conference concerns. If you have friends or colleagues who may like to receive this newsletter, please ask them to forward us their email details or enter them through the newsletter link on the journal website http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html.

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ON DESIGN, September 2008

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** Third International Conference On Design Principles And Practices **
15-17 February 2009, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
http://www.Design-Conference.com/

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Design Conference see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/registration.

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** International Award For Excellence In The Design Field - Winner Announced **

Congratulations to Magda Mostafa, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the design field.

Magda Mostafa's paper, Thinking Outside the Box: Addressing and Enhancing Visual/Spatial and Active Learning in Architectural Education, can be accessed in the online bookstore: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.70.

Paper abstract: This paper proposes the use of a series of abstract, three-dimensional, geometric modeling exercises in the primary stage of the curriculum, before the student begins formal design studios. The skill sets and learning styles-particularly the visual/spatial and active- of a case study group of students will be assessed at the beginning and end of this 12 week period during which the students will progress through the series of exercises. The impact of this "learning through doing" process on the three dimensional thinking skills necessary for architectural design will be analyzed, with a hope to reinstate such manual modeling studios as a pre-requisite for, and integral part of, traditional architectural design education.

If you have purchased or read this paper, please add a review at
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.70/addReview.

** International Award - List Of Runners Up **

Using a Fuzzy Pairwise Comparison Technique to Deal with Coupled Design Tasks in Engineering Design
K. P. Anagnostopoulos, O. Demesouka and G. Koulinas.
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.69

Supporting Multiple Stakeholders in the Design of more Sustainable and Systemic Solutions: The Case of the Sustainable Sports Car
Fiona Jayne Samantha Coley and Mark Lemon
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.88

Design Patterns and Knowledge Dissemination in Environmental Design Research: A Cross-Disciplinary Model
Newton D'souza
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.55

Sustainable Graphic Design: The Ecologically-Friendly Graphic Design Studio
Lisa Graham
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.109

Demarcations of Detachment: Tensions in Designed Images of Teachers
Dr. Elvira K. Kati
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.57

A New Viewpoint on Inclusive Design Practice: Implementing Design in a Small Manufacturing Company
Angela Stone, Nick Mathers and Avril Thomson< br/> http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.100

To be published in an upcoming issue:
How Big is Big? The Translation of the Enormity of Scale and Geologic Time in an Informal Learning Environment
Robert Brzuszek and Renee Clary

A Tessellation-Transformation Method for Categorizing and Generating Geometric Textile Design Patterns
Yang Liu and Godfried Toussaint

Learning Through Practice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Architectural Coursework

Andreas Savvides

** Design Journal - Volume 3 (2009) **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 3 of the Journal.
Submission guidelines can be found at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/publish.html. You will first need to submit a conference proposal, please see details at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro.

Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing. Refereeing for submitted papers has already commenced. If you are requested to referee please submit your report by the date requested.

** Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008) **
Refereeing is complete.
The third issue has now been published.
You can view the contents of published issues at:
Volume 2, Issue 1: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.54
Volume 2, Issue 2: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.75 Volume 2, Issue 3: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.96

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** Conference News **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
http://www.Arts-Conference.com/

The IIT 2007 Design Research Conference
21-22 September 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

For more info: http://trex.id.iit.edu/events/drc/2007/index.html

Harvard Design Firm Leadership Conference 2009
Spring 2009, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
For more info:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/idp/dfl_program.html

The Creative Economy: Australia
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation

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ON DESIGN, August 2008

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** Third International Conference On Design Principles And Practices **
15-17 February 2009, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
http://www.Design-Conference.com/

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Design Conference see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/registration

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** Design Journal - Volume 3 (2009) **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 3 of the Journal. Submission guidelines can be found at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/publish.html
You will first need to submit a conference proposal, please see details at
http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro
Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

** Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008) **
Refereeing is complete.
The second issue has now been published.
You can view the contents of published issues at:
Volume 2, Issue 1: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.54
Volume 2, Issue 2: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.75
The third issue will be published shortly.

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** Conference News **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
http://www.Arts-Conference.com/

The IIT 2007 Design Research Conference
21-22 September 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

For more info: http://trex.id.iit.edu/events/drc/2007/index.html

Fifth Annual Leadership Conference on Design Strategy, Innovation, and Change
22-24 September 2008, La Valencia Hotel, La Jolla, California, USA
For more info: http://www.di.net/about/conferences/5th_annual_leadership_conference/

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ON DESIGN, July 2008

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** Third International Conference On Design Principles And Practices **
15-17 February 2009, University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
http://www.Design-Conference.com/

** Call for Papers **
If you intend to present a paper at the Conference, your participation begins with submission of a paper proposal. For information on proposals, presentation types, and other options, see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_types.html. To submit a proposal: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro. Please note that if your proposal is accepted, you will then need to register for the Conference.

** Registration **
Those who submit paper proposals should register following the acceptance of the proposal. Conference delegates who do not intend to present may register at any time. For registration options see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/registration_types.html. To register for the 2009 Design Conference see: http://g09.cgpublisher.com/registration

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** Design Journal - Volume 3 (2009) **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 3 of the Journal. Submission guidelines can be found at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/publish.html
You will first need to submit a conference proposal, please see details at
http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

** Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008) **
Refereeing of submitted papers is almost complete. If you are requested to referee, please submit your report by the requested date. We appreciate the participation of all referees. The second issue has now been published. You can view the contents of published issues at:
Volume 2, Issue 1: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.54
Volume 2, Issue 2: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.75
The third issue will be published shortly.

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** Conference News **
Fourth International Conference on the Arts in Society
28-31 July 2009, Venice, Italy
http://a09.cgpublisher.com/

The IIT 2007 Design Research Conference
21-22 September 2008, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA
For more info: http://trex.id.iit.edu/events/drc/2007/index.html

Harvard Design Firm Leadership Conference 2009
Spring 2009, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA
For more info:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/idp/dfl_program.html

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ON DESIGN, June 2008

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** 2009 International Conference On Design Principles And Practices **
15-17 February 2009
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
http://www.design-conference.com/
To submit a proposal, see: http://G09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro
To register, see: http://G09.cgpublisher.com/registration

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** Design Journal - Volume 3 (2009) **
Paper submissions are now open for Volume 3 of the Journal. Submission guidelines can be found at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/publish.html . You will first need to submit a conference proposal, please see details at http://g09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro . Once you receive notification that your proposal has been accepted you will be able to upload your full paper for refereeing.

** Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008) **
Refereeing of submitted papers is almost complete. If you are requested to referee could you please submit your report by the requested date. We appreciate the participation of all referees. The first issue has been published and is available at
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.54
The second issue will be published shortly.

** Complimentary Electronic Subscription Access ** There are now nearly 70 published articles available. If you registered for the second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices take advantage of your complimentary electronic subscription by logging in at http://www.design-journal.com/ and downloading articles of interest to you. You'll also be able to download full issues in electronic format.

If you are not attending a conference but would like to subscribe you can do so at
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/subscriptions.html

If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume and research interests and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.

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** 5th Annual Leadership Conference on Design Strategy, Innovation, and Change **
22 - 24 September 2008
La Valencia Hotel, La Jolla, California, USA

Through small-group interactive sessions, this conference provides innovative design management models to allow you to use foresight and strategic optimism to lead critical and dynamic change. For more info:
http://www.di.net/about/conferences/5th_annual_leadership_conference/

** Harvard Design Firm Leadership Conference 2009 **
Spring 2009
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Featuring the latest research and thinking on financial and strategic management of design firms. For more info:
http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/research/research_centers/idp/dfl_program.html

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ON DESIGN, April 2008

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**2009 International Conference On Design Principles And Practices**
15-17 February 2009
University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany
www.Design-Conference.com
To submit a proposal, see: http://G09.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro
To register see: http://G09.cgpublisher.com/registration

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**Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008)**
Refereeing of submitted papers has commenced. If you are requested to referee could you please submit your report by the requested date. We appreciate the participation of all referees.

**Complimentary Electronic Subscription Access**
There are now nearly 50 published articles available. If you registered for the Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, take advantage of your complimentary electronic subscription by logging in at www.Design-Journal.com and downloading articles of interest to you. You'll also be able to download the full issue in electronic format.

If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume and research interests and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you.

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**IAP2 International Conference**
The next IAP2 International Conference will take place at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. The Conference title is: 'Public Participation and Corporate Social Responsibility: From Why to How'.
For more information, see:
http://www.strath.ac.uk/Departments/CADISPA/conf/papers.html

**New Items**
Please send news items to daniel.tessema@home.commongroundpublishing.com

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The Design Community Newsletter, March 2008

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Welcome
Community News
Design Conference News
Design Journal News
Contributing Editors Needed
Newsletter Subscriptions

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"No man was ever great by imitation." - Samuel Johnson Rasselas

Welcome to the March edition of the Design Community Newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to inform readers of current information about the Design Conference and Journal hosted by Common Ground Publishing. In addition, the Design Newsletter is a democratic forum supporting researchers, professionals and practitioners interested in design-related news, events and information.

The Design Community Newsletter is edited by Daniel Araya Tessema, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please email your contributions to:
daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com

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The 2008 IAP2 international conference: 'Public Participation and Corporate Social Responsibility: From Why to How' Running from August 27 - 29, the 2008 IAP2 international conference is based in Glasgow at the University of Strathclyde. It will be attractive to those in business, local authorities, the professions and third sectors, government, the armed forces, health and community sectors - in fact all those areas that would wish to perform public participation well, or perhaps better, than is happening at the moment. We are expecting first rate international speakers and rigorous debate. There will be a research strand running through the three days and a chance to hear what others have done and for you to experience immersion case studies where an effective partnership between public and business (however defined) has been established - to the benefit of all.

This will be a conference that is highly interactive: it will be both intellectually demanding and demonstrate good engagement processes. So, come and take part; come and present (should you wish) but most importantly, just come!

Please contact Diane Coyle on diane.coyle@strath.ac.uk for more information and a conference pack.

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Participatory Design Conference

The 2008 Participatory Design Conference will be held September 30 to October 4 at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, hosted by the IU School of Informatics. It will be the 10th PDC and a golden opportunity to reassess the achievements of the PD movement and to consider its future. We hope to broaden further the focus of PD and to consider the relevance of its traditions and commitments to the new debates over design. As the home of the first US PhD in informatics, the School of Informatics is very pleased to be hosting PDC. The Bloomington campus of Indiana University provides an excellent occasion for the Participatory Design community to extend its dialogue with leading scholars in international and global education. The campus is the site of several of the leading Area Studies programs (e.g., African Studies, East Asian Studies) in the US, as well as the so-called 'i-school' movement in the US. The i- or "information" schools are higher education units, typically professional schools, which are developing program that goes beyond the traditional computer science curriculum, even beyond programs in Information Technology. Several of the more that 50 i-schools were previously Schools of Library Science that now call themselves Schools of Information, Information Studies, or Informatics.

Call For Proposal Contributions

We encourage you to submit proposals reflecting on important trends, phenomena, developments, and views on participation and design. We have identified a variety of presentation formats to create an interesting and lively conference experience. Proposal formats include:

(1) Research papers (3/15/08 deadline for submission)
(2) Exploratory Papers,
(3) Interactive Workshops,
(4) Tutorials,
(5) Doctoral Consortium,
(6) Artifacts, Poster, Products, Interactive Demonstrations, and Participatory Art Installations

For more information, go to http://pdc2008.org/

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Contributions to The Newsletter

To contribute news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest, please email: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com

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2009 International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
www.Design-Conference.com

We're pleased to announce that the 2009 International Conference on Design Principles and Practices will be held in Berlin, Germany. Please keep checking the conference website for details as they become available.

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If you would like to referee papers please email cg-support@commongroundpublishing.com and provide a short resume and research interests and if we have any appropriate papers we will contact you. Referees will be credited as Associate Editors for the volume of the Journal in which they have contributed (although, of course, the particular papers they refereed will not be identified).

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Authors of papers, and people who are about to read an article often find post-publication reviews to be extremely helpful. This is why Common Ground provides all readers with the opportunity to comment on any paper that they've read via the 'Write a Review' feature. All you need to do is to go to the page for that particular article, go to the bottom of the page, click on the 'Write a Review' link and let your voice be heard. Give your review a title, add your review content and click on the star rating. All reviews are moderated by Common Ground's publishing team (to prevent irrelevant or slanderous submissions). Please note that the 'Write a Review' feature is not the place to inform us of typo's in the catalogue. If you note typo's that you'd like to let us know about please contact us at journals@commongroundpublishing.com noting the product link and the specific error.

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Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal
(www.Design-Journal.com)

Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008)

Paper submissions are now closed.

Refereeing of submitted papers has commenced. Authors will be notified when their paper has been assigned to referees. If you are requested to referee could you please submit your report by the requested date. We appreciate the participation of all referees.

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Design Journal - Volume 1 (2007)

All published issues can be found online at www.Design-Journal.com

You can view the contents of the full issue at:
Issue 1: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.4
Issue 2: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.15
Issue 3: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.26
Issue 4: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.37

Full issues can also be purchased in hardcopy or electronic format.

You can also purchase individual papers in both print and electronic formats.

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The Design Community Newsletter is intended to serve as a forum through which its recipients can communicate items of relevance to their colleagues and, in doing so, assist in the building of community around a shared interest in Design. Contributing Editors play a key role in the Newsletter by providing essential content, including information on conferences and symposia, fellowships, books by the Design Community members, opportunities to publish, and additional items of interest. The Contributing Editors are particularly well suited to this role because their disciplinary affiliation, professional networks and geographical location, among other things, often provide them with access to information that might be otherwise overlooked or inaccessible.

We are currently looking for additional Contributing Editors for the Design Community Newsletter. We greatly appreciate the continued participation of Peter Burrows of RMIT in Australia. However we recognize that, given the size of the task, additional Editors are needed to significantly increase Newsletter content. We are looking for people who are professionally engaged and interested in the mission of the Newsletter, as well as able to commit to submitting at least one contribution per month.

In addition to assisting with the Newsletter, Contributing Editors serve on the International Advisory Board of the Conference on Design Principles and Practices (www.Design-Conference.com) and its corresponding Journal (www.Design-Journal.com). Advisory Board members provide suggestions on the themes of each year's Conference and Journal, as well as the overall intellectual direction. In return, Contributing Editors receive a complimentary registration to the Conference and subscription to the Journal.

Applicants should send a letter of interest and CV to Helen Agans at helen.agans@commongroundpublishing.com. Please note that because we are interested in the serving the diverse, and truly international, interests of the Technology Community, we hope to have a correspondingly diverse applicant pool. Once we have received and reviewed all applications, e-mail notifications will be sent to all applicants notifying them of the final decision.

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Newsletter subscriptions are free and open to anyone who intends to participate in the conference or who is interested in the journal and conference concerns. If you have friends or colleagues who may like to receive this newsletter, please ask them to forward us their email details or enter them through the newsletter link on the journal website:
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/newsletter.html

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Design Community Newsletter, February 2008

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Welcome
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Design Conference and Journal News
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"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
- Aristotle

Welcome to the February edition of the Design Community Newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to inform readers of current information about the Design Conference and Journal hosted by Common Ground Publishing. In addition, the Design Newsletter is a democratic forum supporting researchers, professionals and practitioners interested in design-related news, events and information.

The Design Community Newsletter is edited by Daniel Araya Tessema, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please email your contributions to:
daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com

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Miami Design Conference

The Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices was a terrific success and we want to thank all the participants for making it the most interesting Design Conference thus far. The Conference addressed a range of important themes and we're especially thankful to the main speakers who each contributed something unique: plenary speakers included Damian Barton and John Marquette, each of whom have a studio in Miami's Design District; Klaus Krippendorf, Norbert Wiener Medal winner and Past President of the International Communication Association; Mario Antonio Minichiello of the Birmingham City University in the UK; and Deana McDonagh of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Participatory Design Conference

The 2008 Participatory Design Conference will be held September 30-October 4 at Indiana University (IU) in Bloomington, Indiana, USA, hosted by the IU School of Informatics. It will be the 10th PDC and a golden opportunity to reassess the achievements of the PD movement and to consider its future. We hope to broaden further the focus of PD and to consider the relevance of its traditions and commitments to the new debates over design. As the home of the first US PhD in informatics, the School of Informatics is very pleased to be hosting PDC. The Bloomington campus of Indiana University provides an excellent occasion for the Participatory Design community to extend its dialogue with leading scholars in international and global education. The campus is the site of several of the leading Area Studies programs (e.g., African Studies, East Asian Studies) in the US, as well as the so-called 'i-school' movement in the US. The i- or "information" schools are higher education units, typically professional schools, which are developing program that goes beyond the traditional computer science curriculum, even beyond programs in Information Technology. Several of the more that 50 i-schools were previously Schools of Library Science that now call themselves Schools of Information, Information Studies, or Informatics.

Call for Proposal Contributions

(1) Reserach papers (3/15/08 deadline for submission)
(2) Exploratory Papers,
(3) Interactive Workshops,
(4) Tutorials,
(5) Doctoral Consortium,
(6) Artifacts, Poster, Products, Interactive Demonstrations, and Participatory Art Installations

For more information, go to http://pdc2008.org/

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Contributions to the Newsletter

To contribute news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest, please email: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com

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Miami Design Conference (Tony Stavely, Common Ground Publishing) Though January is cold month in much of the Northern Hemisphere, the Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices in Miami, Florida, USA, gave a warm and lively time to about 100 in-person delegates on the 9th, 10th, and 11th. Besides the on-site participants, the meeting included 31 virtual presentations via the World Wide Web. Miami's significant design community was represented by plenary speakers Damian Barton and John Marquette, each of whom have a studio in the city's Design District. Norbert Wiener Medal winner and Past President of the International Communication Association Klaus Krippendorf, Mario Antonio Minichiello of the Birmingham City University in the UK, and Deana McDonagh of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign rounded out the list of plenary speakers. On-site presenters of papers and workshops came from ten different countries, though it must be said the great majority arrived from the host country. They represented a wide variety of academic disciplines and included a number of design practitioners. From the first Talking Circle sessions on to the closing session, people had a lot to say to each other. One theme emphasized in the general discussion at the close was the importance of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary education for the rising generation of designers. To do much one must be in touch with much, must notice, investigate, and digest much.

Special thanks to Daniel Araya-Tessema of the University of Illinois and Heather Murray of the University of Toronto who were a big help in making things go in Miami. Scott Parker of the Hyatt Hotel and J.C. Gonzalez of the University of Miami Convention Center were great to work with and smoothly handled many technical details.

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2009 International Conference On Design Principles And Practices

We're pleased to announce that the 2009 International Conference on Design Principles and Practices will be held in Berlin, Germany. Please keep checking www.Design-Conference.com for details as they become available.

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Design Journal - Volume 2 (2008)

Paper submissions are open for Volume 2 of the Journal. The final deadline for submissions is 11 February 2008.

Refereeing of submitted papers has already commenced. Authors will be notified when their paper has been assigned to referees. If you are requested to referee could you please submit your report by the requested date. We appreciate the participation of all referees.

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Feedback

Authors and Readers Want Your Feedback

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Design Journal - Volume 1 (2007)

Volume 1 is now complete.

All published issues can be found online at www.Design-Journal.com

You can view the contents and/or purchase (or if you are subscribed download) the full issue at:
Issue 1: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.4
Issue 2: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.15
Issue 3: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.26
Issue 4: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.37

You can also purchase individual papers in both print and electronic formats.

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Design Community Newsletter, December 2007

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"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
-Henry David Thoreau

Welcome to the December edition of the Design Community Newsletter. The aim of this newsletter is to inform readers of current information about the Design conference and journal hosted by Common Ground Publishing. In addition, the Design Newsletter is a democratic forum supporting researchers, professionals and practitioners interested in design-related news, events and information.

The Design Community Newsletter is edited by Daniel Araya Tessema, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please email your contributions to: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com.

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COMMUNITY INTERESTS

In addition to the Design Conference in Miami in January, Common Ground Publishing is hosting a Technology conference in Boston later in that same month. The Fourth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society will be held at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, January 18-20, 2008. This may be of interest to some of you. For more information on the Technology Conference in Boston please look here: www.Technology-Conference.com.

Main speakers include some of the leading thinkers in Technology today, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations. Main Speakers include: Karim Gherab Martín, Jody Berland, David Matheson, McKenzie Wark, James Paul Gee, Ronald Sandler, and Jody Berland. More information on the Main Speakers can be found here: http://t08.cgpublisher.com/main_speakers.html

CREATOR SITES

All officially registered Design Conference participants can make their own Creator Website. The first step is visiting the CGPublisher Creator page (http://www.cgpublisher.com/ui/about/for_creators.html). When you've logged in, you can proceed to develop a website to serve as private storage and collaborative space, and publicly display publications, biographical and contact information, weblog entries, and external links.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER

To contribute news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest, please email: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com.

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CONFERENCE NEWS

The Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices will be held at the University of Miami Conference Centre, Florida, USA, from January 9-11, 2008. More information can be found here: www.Design-Conference.com.

This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships related to design. Main speakers include some of the leading thinkers in this area, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations. Main Speakers include: Damian Barton, Deana McDonagh, Klaus Krippendorff, and Modesta Nyirenda-Zabula. More information on the Main Speakers can be found here http://g08.cgpublisher.com/main_speakers.html.

For those who are unable to attend the conference in-person you can still participate through a virtual registration. Virtual registration provides the opportunity to participate in the following ways: Your conference proposal will be listed in the Session Description of the conference. Acceptance of a conference proposal for a virtual participant is based on the same criteria as that for an attending participant. You can submit a paper to the corresponding journal. Your journal paper submission will be refereed by conference participants (either in-person or virtual) and you will in turn referee paper submissions of other conference participants. If accepted, your paper will be published in the same volume as conference participants from the same year. You will have online access to all papers published in the journal from the time of registration until one year after the conference end date. In addition, you will receive the community newsletter.

CONFERENCE DINNER

The conference dinner will be held at WISH at The Hotel in Miami Beach:

Wish at The Hotel
801 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, Florida

A recipient of the Mobil Travel Guide Four-Star Award 2001-2005, The Hotel's romantic indoor/outdoor restaurant, Wish, also boasts a prestigious AAA Four Diamond rating. Under the guidance of award-winning executive chef Michael Bloise, Wish serves classic American cooking with accents from contemporary Asian cuisine.

Wish's interior décor by fashion designer Todd Oldham is both exotic and cozy, while the exterior boasts a magical, tropical garden setting that is without a doubt, one of the most romantic al fresco dining areas in South Florida. The "Inner Garden" also evokes the lush outdoors with lush, tropical plants surrounding a delightfully intimate indoor dining area.

For more information please contact: Helen Agans at helen.agans@commongroundpublishing.com. In addition, details can be found online on the conference website: http://g08.cgpublisher.com/extra_options.html.

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION AT THE CONFERENCE

Common Ground is now working with Suzi Davis Travel (a travel agency based in the U.S.). Hotel accommodation for all future Common Ground conferences will be reserved through Suzi Davis Travel. As hotels become available for the conference, the information will be posted on the website (http://g08.cgpublisher.com/accommodation_options.html) along with a contact name and a link to Suzi Davis Travel so that the delegates can reserve their hotel rooms for the conference. In addition, Suzi Davis Travel will be able to help our delegates with their air transportation, travel insurance, and any other travel needs they may have.

TRAVEL INSURANCE

Common Ground now offers travel insurance through Suzi Davis Travel. The most carefully planned trip can be complicated by unforeseen events. Whether it's lost luggage, cancelled flights, or a medical emergency, an unexpected mishap can turn a business trip into a taxing experience. Suzi Davis Travel's travel insurance is designed to keep your travel on track. If you have to cancel your trip to the conference for a medical reason you will receive a full refund on your trip price and on your conference registration. Please contact Suzi Davis Travel for more information www.suzidavis.com/corporate-travel.

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JOURNAL NEWS

Design Principles And Practices: An International Journal
www.Design-Journal.com

VOLUME 2 (2008)
Paper submissions are open for Volume 2 of the Journal.

Submission guidelines can be found at http://g07.cgpublisher.com/publish.html. You will first need to submit a conference proposal, please see details at http://g08.cgpublisher.com/proposal_entry_intro.

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VOLUME 1 (2007)

We are now in the final stages of typesetting. Once the last remaining papers are approved the final issue of this volume will be published.

Three issues have been published and appear online at www.Design-Journal.com Or you can view the contents of each issue at:
Issue 1 - http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.4
Issue 2 - http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.15
Issue 3 - http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.26

DESIGN JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION

All officially registered Humanities Conference participants have a complimentary one-year subscription to the International Journal of the Humanities. This subscription is valid for one year following the end date of the conference. To access the subscription, please visit the Journal website (http://ijg.cgpublisher.com) and click on the "log in" link at the top right corner.

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Design Community Newsletter, November 2007

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Design is art optimized to meet objectives.
-Shimon Shmueli, Founder of Touch360

Welcome to the November edition of the Design Community Newsletter. The Design Newsletter is a democratic forum for design-related news, thoughts, & information. I am Daniel Araya Tessema, a research assistant with Common Ground Publishing and a doctoral student at the University of Illinois. As the new Publishing Editor for the Design Community Newsletter, I want to begin by thanking Peter Burrows for his careful attention and support to the Design community. This electronic newsletter aims to keep its readers up-to-date on current information about the Design conference and journal hosted by Common Ground Publishing. It also aims to build an international community of researchers, professionals and practitioners interested in issues related to design.

The Design Community Newsletter is edited by Daniel Araya Tessema, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Please email your contributions to: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com.

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Community News is a democratic space for all of us within the Design community to share news and information. If you'd like to contribute any ideas (including web directory links, articles, projects, etc.) or simply give your opinion please email: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com

AWARD WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT

Congratulations to Wendy E. Keay-Bright, the winner of the International Award for Excellence in the Design Field.

Paper abstract: This paper demonstrates the importance of participation with end-users and interdisciplinary collaboration with experts, to the design process. The context for this study is interaction between autistic children and computers in education. Whereas computers in education are conventionally associated with task-based learning, my research uses the computer as a tangible interface for embodied play activities. I make two claims with regard to the participatory design process. (1) There is, I argue, an important relationship between the participatory design process and the design of play for autistic children. End-user participation in this context allows the highly particular responses and reactions of autistic children to be recorded and included in the evolutionary design process. (2) The interdisciplinary approach to collaboration presents a challenging paradox for designers, as it requires both imaginative and empirical design methods. Whilst it is often critical to have statistic analysis to satisfy scientific approaches, it is of equal importance, within this area of research, to understand the idiosyncratic behavioural patterns of individuals on a spectrum of autistic difference. In this paper, I (a) set out my work on the computer as a tangible interface for embodied play, (b) demonstrate, through examples of the Reactive Colours research methods, how autistic children claim the embodied play environment as their own, and (c) describe how this appropriation by the children and interdisciplinary collaboration is incorporated into the design process. I also indicate the benefits which the tangible interface has for enhancing the learning capacities of autistic children.

Dr Keay-Bright's paper, The Reactive Colours Project: Demonstrating Participatory and Collaborative Design Methods for the Creation of Software for Autistic Children, can be accessed in the online bookstore: http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.17

If you have purchased or read this paper, please add a review at http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.17/addReview

INTERNATIONAL AWARD - LIST OF RUNNERS UP

Towards Understanding Design Expertise as a Developmental Dynamic: A Learner's Perspective by Tanja Golja and Lynette Schaverien will be published in an upcoming issue.

Producing Individuals, Eliminating Difference: A Study of the Design Aims and Assumptions Behind the Enactment of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002, Gemma John
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.22

Defamiliarising Design by Ann Light, Mark Blythe and Darren Reed will be published in an upcoming issue.

Interdisciplinary and Participatory Design in the Context of Healthy Schools: Interdisciplinary working in participation: a case study Wendy Mayfield and Katie Hill.
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.32

Analog Processes and Serendipitous Results: A Binary Case Study by Rob McClure will be published in an upcoming issue.

A Cross-Disciplinary Examination of Individual Differences in Approach to Design Practice Mairghread McLundie will be published in an upcoming issue.

The Conflict in Design (or, the Conflict of Design), Ryan McVeigh
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.16

Designing for Privacy Compliance and Performance Management in Health Care, Liam Peyton, Sepideh Ghanavati and Daniel Amyot.
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.29

Connecting Practice to Research (and back to practice): Making the Leap from Design Practice to Design Research, Joyce S R Yee
http://ijg.cgpublisher.com/product/pub.154/prod.11

CREATOR SITES

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER

To contribute news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest, please email: daniel.tessema@commongroundpublishing.com.

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CONFERENCE NEWS

The Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices will be held at the University of Miami Conference Centre, Florida, USA? from January 9-11, 2008.
www.Design-Conference.com

This conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships related to design. Main speakers include some of the leading thinkers in this area, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations. Main Speakers include: Deana McDonagh, Klaus Krippendorff, and Modesta NyirendaZabula. More information on the Main Speakers can be found here http://g08.cgpublisher.com/main_speakers.html

In addition, the Conference Dinner will be held on Saturday, January 19 2008
(http://g08.cgpublisher.com/extra_options.html).

HOTEL ACCOMMODATION AT THE CONFERENCE

TRAVEL INSURANCE

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JOURNAL NEWS

Design Principles And Practices: An International Journal
www.Design-Journal.com

VOLUME 2 (2008)
Paper submissions are open for Volume 2 of the Journal.

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VOLUME 1 (2007)

We are now in the final stages of typesetting. Once the last remaining papers are approved the final issue of this volume will be published.

DESIGN JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION

All officially registered Humanities Conference participants have a complimentary one-year subscription to the International Journal of the Humanities. This subscription is valid for one year following the end date of the Conference. To access the subscription, please visit the Journal website (http://ijg.cgpublisher.com) and click on the "log in" link at the top right corner.

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Design Community Newsletter, July 2007

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         I was of three minds,
         Like a tree
         In which there are three blackbirds
         Wallace Stevens – Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird

Welcome to the July edition of the Design Community Newsletter, a forum for design-related news, thoughts, & information. We are looking for contributions to the newsletter the aim of which is to foster engagement with and between people from different design-related disciplines – the newsletter needs your contributions.

This newsletter also contains updates on Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal.

The Newsletter is edited by Dr. Peter Burrows from the Globalism Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Please email your contributions to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

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We welcome a broad range of submissions for inclusion in this section: 'Calls for Papers' or conference or symposium announcements; short book or article reviews; and any news you believe will be of interest to the community.

CALL FOR PAPERS – SPECIAL EDITION - visual:design:scholarship
Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association

This Special Issue of visual:design:scholarship : Research Journal of the Australian Graphic Design Association, invites your contribution to the exploration and evaluation of the potential relationships between graduate design education, design research and the design professions.

Themes
For this edition of visual:design:scholarship contributions are sought from design educators and practitioners who are engaged in this field knowledge creation in theory and practice. Although the focus of the journal is on Graphic Design, contributions from other fields of design practice will be accepted if they explore and/or contribute to broader understandings of design education and practice.

Themes to be explored may included:

The role of graduate education in the broader development of the design professions
The role of the doctorate (PhD or Professional) to the everyday practice of design
Who is graduate education for – the academy or the industry and can we differentiate?
Mastery – is a Master’s qualification enough and what does mastery through research and education mean?
A research degree or a coursework degree: differences, similarities, relevance and opportunities
The language and the form: the thesis, the project, the theory and the practice

Contributions in the form of case studies of the experiences of educators or students are also encouraged. In particular we invite practitioners who have completed graduate programs of study to reflect on and critique how this experience has informed their professional practice. Has your graduate education experience had an ongoing influence on professional practice? Equally, the perspective of industry on postgraduate education would add a rich dimension to the discussion. Such case study submissions must be more than historical narratives; they need to include reflections and critique of the challenges, successes, theoretical frameworks and/or influences that have informed the author's experiences.

The Guest Editor is particularly interested in contributions that explore this important and dynamic area of education and practice. As visual:design:scholarship Research Journal is a publication within the visual design domain, contributors are encouraged to consider the form of their submission and are encouraged to make use of visual communication tools and methods in their submission. All submissions will be peer reviewed. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that their submission meets the guidelines as listed below, and that submissions have author details removed from file names etc. The main discussion equivalent file must also be submitted as a single file that can be distributed electronically.

Procedure: The normal conditions and guidelines of the journal apply for this Special Issue. Full submissions should be sent directly to the Special Issue Guest Editor: Laurene Vaughan (laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au), to arrive no later than midnight, Friday, 21st of September 2007. As the journal is electronic, all articles accepted on recommendation of the peer reviewers will be published.
For submission guidelines go to
http://www.agda.asn.au/education/designresearchjournal/index.html

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 07
A reminder for the 12th annual conference in the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' which was mentioned in last month's newsletter. The conference organizers say on their website: 'Sustainable Innovation 07 will provide a platform to discuss 'state of the art thinking' in sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. It will highlight best practice and provide a range of case studies and examples.'

Date: October 29-30 2007
Venue: Farnham Castle International Briefing and Conference Centre
Farnham, Surrey, UK
Website: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd12/index.html

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER
Contribute your news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest via email to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

Peter Burrows
Newsletter Editor
Design Community

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*CONFERENCE NEWS *

The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
(http://www.Design-Conference.com)

* The Second International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
Venue: University of Miami Conference Centre, Florida, USA
Date: 9-11 January 2008

For those who were unable to attend the conference in-person you can still participate through a virtual registration. Virtual registration provides the opportunity to participate in the following ways:
- Your conference proposal will be listed in the Session Description of the conference. Acceptance of a conference proposal for a virtual participant is based on the same criteria as that for an attending participant.
- You can submit a paper to the corresponding journal.
- Your journal paper submission will be refereed by conference participants (either in-person or virtual) and you will in turn referee paper submissions of other conference participants.
- If accepted, your paper will be published in the same volume as conference participants from the same year. You will have online access to all papers published in the journal from the time of registration until one year after the conference end date.
- You will receive the community newsletter.

Details will be available shortly at: http://design-conference.com/

Further details can be found on the conference website at: http://g07.cgpublisher.com/index.html

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*JOURNAL NEWS *

DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL – VOLUME 1
(www.Design-Journal.com)

Most authors have now received their referee results and been offered a publishing agreement. Once agreements have been accepted authors will be requested to submit a final version of their paper for typesetting. Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy.

The first issues will be published soon. Authors will be notified when their paper has been published.

We have a small number of papers still requiring referee reports. If you have been requested to referee could you please submit your report by the due date to assist in finalizing the refereeing. We appreciate the cooperation and participation of referees.

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Design Community Newsletter, June 2007

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Anything that comes to my mind comes just like this, not from the root, but only from somewhere around its middle. Let someone try to hold it then, let someone try to hold onto a stem of grass that has begun to grow only from its middle. (Kafka 1910)

Sounds like Kafka is describing what it's like to be a designer.

Welcome to this issue of the Design Community Newsletter, a forum for design-related news, thoughts, & information. Thanks to everyone who submitted contributions for this month’s newsletter. As previously mentioned the aim of the newsletter is to foster engagement with and between people from different design-related disciplines.

This newsletter also contains updates on Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal and the International Conference on Design Principles and Practices.

The Newsletter is edited by Dr. Peter Burrows from the Globalism Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Please email your contributions to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

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The aim of the newsletter is to offer readers a broad range of community news however its success depends on your contributions. We welcome: 'Calls for Papers' or conference or symposium announcements; short book or article reviews; and any news you believe will be of interest to the community.

HOW DESIGN CONFERENCE 07

The How Design Conference is on this week at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta – June 10-13 – targeted at the graphic design community. The conference organizers claim that this is ‘your chance to rejuvenate and refresh’. If you are in Atlanta this coming week there are daily tickets still available.

NEXT: AIGA DESIGN CONFERENCE

Also in the USA later this year is ‘Next’ the 2007 annual AIGA Design Conference - October 11–14, 2007
Colorado Convention Center
700 14th Street
Denver, Colorado.

The theme of this year’s AIGA conference relates to answering the question ‘what’s next?’
Register here: http://designconference2007.aiga.org/content.cfm/dc_register

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 07

This is the 12th annual conference in the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' The conference organizers say on their website: 'Sustainable Innovation 07 will provide a platform to discuss 'state of the art thinking' in sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. It will highlight best practice and provide a range of case studies and examples.'

Date: October 29-30 2007
Venue: Farnham Castle International Briefing and Conference Centre
Farnham, Surrey, UK
Website: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd12/index.html

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER
Contribute your news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest via email to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

Peter Burrows
Newsletter Editor
Design Community

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The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
(http://www.Design-Conference.com)

Further details can be found on the conference website at: http://g07.cgpublisher.com/index.html

We hope to announce details of next year’s conference in the next newsletter.

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DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL – VOLUME 1
(www.Design-Journal.com)

All submissions have been assigned to referees. We have a small number of papers still requiring referee reports. If you have been requested to referee could you please submit your report by the due date to assist in finalizing the refereeing. We appreciate the cooperation and participation of referees.

Many authors have now received their referee results and been offered a publishing agreement. Once agreements have been accepted authors will be requested to submit a final version of their paper for typesetting.

Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy.

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Design Community Newsletter, April 2007

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Welcome
Community News
Design Conference and Journal News
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[1] Welcome

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Welcome to the second issue of the Design Community Newsletter, a forum for design-related news, thoughts, & information. Thanks to those people who submitted contributions for this month’s newsletter. As mentioned last month the aim of the newsletter is to foster engagement with and between people from different design-related disciplines.

This newsletter also contains updates on Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal and the International Conference on Design Principles and Practices.

The Newsletter is edited by Dr. Peter Burrows from the Globalism Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Please email your contributions to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

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As mentioned last month this newsletter aims to offer readers a broad range of community news however its success depends on your contributions. These can include anything you think is relevant to our community. ‘Calls for Papers’ or conference or symposium announcements are particularly welcome. Concise book or article reviews are also encouraged. This newsletter depends on you for interesting reading…

COMPUTER HUMAN INTERACTION CONFERENCE 07

Just a reminder about the Computer Human Interaction Conference which is to be held in San Jose California later this month. The focus of this year’s HCI conference is Reaching Beyond – ‘beyond our comfortable methods and praxis; beyond our exciting and innovative technology; beyond our established scientific frameworks and reputations; beyond the common ground of professional and national cultures; and beyond our far-flung social networks.’

Date: 28 April - 3 May, 2007

Venue: San Jose McEnery Convention Center San Jose, California, USA Website: http://www.chi2007.org/

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DESIGN

The editor of the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Design Lin-Lin Chen invites members of the design community to check out this open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design. According to Lin-Lin this new journal aims to provide an international forum for exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures, by encouraging research on the impacts of cultural factors on design theory and practice. It also seeks to promote transfer of knowledge between professionals in academia and industry, by emphasizing research where results are of interest or applicable to design practices. Congratulations Lin-Lin and to all the contributors – it is great to have another outlet for design research.

Website: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER

Contribute your news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest via email to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

Peter Burrows
Newsletter Editor
Design Community

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CONFERENCE NEWS

The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices
(http://www.Design-Conference.com)

Further details can be found on the conference website at: http://g07.cgpublisher.com/index.html

We are still in negotiations regarding the host and venue for the 08 conference – we hope to announce details of the conference in the next newsletter.

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DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL–VOLUME 1

Paper submissions are now closed for Volume 1 of the Journal.

Nearly all submissions have now been assigned to referees.

Authors will be notified when their paper has been assigned to referees. If you have submitted a paper you may be requested to referee up to three other paper submissions. If you are requested to referee please submit your report by the requested due date. We appreciate the participation of all requested referees.

Some authors have now received their referee results and been offered a publishing agreement. Once agreements have been accepted authors will be requested to submit a final version of their paper for typesetting.

Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy.

Typesetting will commence in the coming weeks.

Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal
(http://www.Design-Journal.com)

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Design Community Newsletter, March 2007

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Welcome
Community News
Design Conference and Journal News
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[1] Welcome

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Welcome to the inaugural issue of the Design Community Newsletter, a forum for design-related news, thoughts, & information. The newsletter will, with your help and thoughtful contributions, contain announcements, profiles, and information pertinent to anyone with an interest in design. The aim of the newsletter, as with the inaugural International Conference on Design Principles and Practices held in London in January this year, is to foster engagement with and between people from different disciplines related to design.

The newsletter will contain updates on the International Journal of Design Principles and Practices and on the associated annual International Conference on Design Principles and Practices – we hope to announce details of the 08 conference in the next issue.

The Newsletter is edited by Dr. Peter Burrows from the Globalism Institute at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia. Please email your contributions to him at: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

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In this section of the newsletter we aim to offer readers a broad range of community news but in keeping with our participatory ideals the success of this newsletter will depend on your contributions. These contributions can include:information relevant to the community e.g. government policies and initiatives, recent debates where you are that you believe might be relevant to the broader community, awards or scholarships that you would like to share with others, new degree courses offered by your institution; information – including conferences, ‘Calls for Papers’ in relation to relevant publications, such as books, monographs, journal articles, special editions and web-based articles that you believe would be of interest to the community; and last but perhaps most importantly profiles of community members and their activities. This probably means someone writing a profile about someone else and submitting that profile to the newsletter… (please)

However, in the interest of providing a ‘democratic space’ in which as many people as possible are heard, we ask you to use short summary paragraphs with links and contact details for further information. The following are examples of what we have in mind…

AIGA DESIGN CONFERENCE 07: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

It seems that everyone is wondering about the future of design. The committee organizing this years AIGA Design conference are asking prospective participants ‘Where do we go from here?’ They declare on their website that participants at this year’s conference will ‘experience new directions in design, hear from considered voices on the evolution of designing, and learn what steps you'll need to pursue for your work to be relevant well into the 21st century’. With more than 2500 delegates expected don’t forget to pack your illuminated name-tag… Details follow:

Date: October 11-14 2007

Venue: Colorado Convention Center,

700 14th Street

Denver, CO 80202ES

Website: http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/designconference_07

SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION 07

This is the 12th annual conference in the ‘Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences and perhaps deserves to attract the brightest minds in design. After all, is there any other topic at the moment that is hotter in our community than sustainable design? (Editorial bias…) The conference organizers say on their website: ‘Sustainable Innovation 07 will provide a platform to discuss 'state of the art thinking' in sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. It will highlight best practice and provide a range of case studies and examples.’

Date: October 29-30 2007

Venue: Farnham Castle International Briefing and Conference Centre

Farnham, Surrey, UK

Website:

BETTER BY DESIGN: BATTLING THE THROWAWAY CULTURE

Staying with the theme of sustainable design those of you who may be teaching design this year could be interested in an article with the above title from the January 04 2007 issue (2585) of New Scientist magazine. The article, by Ed Douglas, is written in an easily accessible manner and outlines the case for sustainable design practices and designing things that last. He references Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins’ book Natural Capitalism and talks with Ezio Manzini as well as other famous design figures. An excellent article suitable for undergrads and as a conversation starter for postgrads.

NOT JUST FOR ACADEMICS: INTEL TECHNOLOGY JOURNAL

The academy is not the only place where interesting research is taking place. Many companies large and small are involved in fascinating research projects and in some cases making at least some of that research public. The folk at Intel are a case in point – we don’t always have to love the big guys but at least we should hear what they are up to… Many of the brightest and most creative people in the design community work inside organizations – their contributions are actively encouraged in this newsletter.

Website:

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NEWSLETTER

This newsletter will be as interesting and worth reading as we make it together. It is a newsletter for anyone with an interest in design. Contribute your news, announcements, profiles, information, comments, or thoughts of interest via email to: peter.burrows@rmit.edu.au

Peter Burrows

Newsletter Editor

Design Community

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The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices (http://www.Design-Conference.com)

Venue: Imperial College, London University

Date: 4-7 January 2007

Thank you to all who made the 2007 Design Conference such a success, and particularly to our keynote presenters and to all those people who presented at the conference. There was a sense of equality, tolerance and good humour evident amongst the participants, which contributed to a stimulating and collegial atmosphere throughout the four days. We would also like to thank the staff at Imperial College for their support throughout this year’s conference.

Further details can be found on the conference website at: http://g07.cgpublisher.com/index.html

We hope to announce details of next year’s conference in the next newsletter.

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Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal (http://www.Design-Journal.com)

It is very exciting to be working on the first volume of this new Journal. The DPP journal is a site of discussion exploring the meaning and purpose of 'design', as well as speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artefacts and processes. The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical, research and application, market pragmatics and social idealism.

In professional and disciplinary terms, the journal traverses a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of: anthropology, architecture, art, artificial intelligence, business, cognitive science, communication studies, computer science, cultural studies, design studies, education, e-learning, engineering, ergonomics, fashion, graphic design, history, information systems, industrial design, industrial engineering, instructional design, interior design, interaction design, interface design, journalism, landscape architecture, law, linguistics and semiotics, management, media and entertainment, psychology, sociology, software engineering, technical communication, telecommunications, urban planning and visual design.

The journal is relevant for academics in the design and applied sciences, professions, social sciences and humanities, research students, design practitioners, industry-based designers, professionals and managers, public administrators and trainers and industry consultants.

The DPP journal is fully peer-reviewed with a rigorous refereeing process to ensure a high standard of quality. The editors and advisory board comprise leading scholars in the education field.

Further information about the journal can be found at www.Design-Journal.com

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DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL – VOLUME 1

Paper submissions are now closed for Volume 1 of the Journal.

Once final papers are received they will be typeset and authors will be sent a PDF proof for approval of the typeset copy. If you have received your PDF proof for approval, please check your PDF proof by the due date and either request corrections or accept the typeset copy as-is.

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