Designs on eLearning 2012 - call for papers

Cloud and Crowd: Towards a collaborative future

 

Designs on eLearning

5, 6 and 7 September 2012

University of the Arts, London

 

Call for papers
The eighth Designs on E-Learning international conference in the use of technology for teaching and learning in art, design and communication will be hosted by the Centre for Learning and Teaching (cltad) at University of the Arts, London, UK, on the 5th, 6th and 7th September 2012.

 

Conference Themes:  

Social Media  

The Studio and Technolog   

Digital Literacy 

User Generated Content

Collaboration and Community Building

Sustainability 

Submitted abstracts will be assessed in a blind review process.

 

The format of the conference will be innovative, with barcamps, streamed sessions, discussions, performances and creative work. We are particularly interested in submissions by artists, museums and galleries and those involved in Art and Design practice in education.

 

Designs on eLearning  invites the submission of abstracts for consideration by 20^th April 2012.   The abstract should not exceed 1000 words in length. This will be the version published in the Designs on eLearning 2012 Conference Proceedings.   

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The Designs on E-Learning website will be available for the uploading of Abstracts and other proposals from 5^th February 2012.

The conference Review Committee will make a decision in May based on the abstract.

 

The accepted papers will be available on the website well in advance of the conference.  Presentations at the conference will be of limited duration to maximise the time for discussion.

 

Please add your details to our Mailing List if you intend to submit an Abstract, or you wish updates on the Conference.

 

Posters/Demos/Workshop Sessions

There will be space available for the display of work in progress, ongoing projects, creative performances and research findings relating to the use of computers in teaching and learning in art, design and communication.  The Designs on eLearning Committee will consider descriptions of projects or concepts of no more than 500 words for proposals.

 

It is the intention of the Organising Committee to select the most interesting presentations at the conference and invite the presenters to expand the material into a full research paper to be published in a special edition of an appropriate journal, following peer review by a distinguished international committee.  Negotiations are underway with journals in the field to secure this.

 

Robin Shaw
Conference Organiser

r.shaw@arts.ac.uk

Charlotte Webb

Administrator

CLTAD
University of the Arts
65 Davies Street
London W1K 5DA

c.webb@arts.ac.uk

+44(0)20 7514 9325
 

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Istanbul Design Biennial

Istanbul Design Biennial

http://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/enhttp://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en

Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima appointed curators of The Istanbul Design Biennial
13 October–12 December 2012
tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en

Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima have been appointed as the curators of the first Istanbul Design Biennial, which will be realized between 13 October–12 December 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts.

The curators will independently interpret the theme "Imperfection", adopted at the suggestion of Deyan Sudjic, Director of The Design Museum in London, and a member of the biennial's advisory board. Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima will present two different approaches within the framework of the biennial theme. The framework of their curatorial studies will be announced at the beginning of 2012. 

Critical Photography series

Since 1986, Intellect has provided a vital space for widening critical debate in new and emerging subjects. As a leading academic publisher in the fields of creative practice and popular culture, Intellect has a strong list of visual culture and contemporary art focused publications. We aim to offer a platform for photographers, writers and creative artists to present and critically reflect on their work and to produce original, adventurous projects.

Call for papers
We are interested to receive proposals both in photography and critical writing for the series. To send a proposal for a volume in the series, please download a questionnaire
(http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/MediaManager/File/Author_questionnaire.doc) or contact books@intellectbooks.com. For further information, contact the series editor Alfredo Cramerotti (alfredo@intellectbooks.com).

Stimulus Respond - Ritual

We are currently soliciting contributions for the next edition of Stimulus Respond, called Ritual. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Ritual, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond's undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy.

Textile Exhibition

We will be hosting a textile exhibition between 9th April to 20th May 2011 at The Butterfly Rooms in Saltaire. Enquiries from all areas of textile design welcome from fashion designers, surface pattern graduates through to millinery and anything in between! This will be a varied and exciting exhibition, celebrating the work of designers from across the region.

If you would like to be involved please email me: angela@thebutterflyrooms.co.uk.

For details/images of the gallery and current exhibitions please visit our blog at

IC tomorrow Digital Innovation Contest

A total fund of £200,000 is on offer through the Digital Innovation Contest for up to 20 UK digital entrepreneurs, application and service providers to conduct consumer trials to bring innovative creative sector applications to market.

Working in partnership with major global content providers, including EMI, Getty Images and Sony Music, the competition is aimed at applications across the creative market sectors, including music, TV, film, publishing and a 'wildcard'/cross sector option.

Proposals should address one or more of the following challenges facing the digital industry:

* Creating innovative business models.
* Opening new markets.
* Enhancing or creating value for existing digital assets.
* Encouraging new forms of digital content consumption.

Up to 20 consumer trials will be funded through the scheme, with £10,000 funding available, plus access to the IC tomorrow digital test bed, one-to-one licensing advice and commercial content, to undertake consumer trials over a six month period.

The competition is likely to be of specific interest to organisations that already have a digital application or service and require access to commercial grade content or a controlled trial environment in which to test new business and licensing models.

The deadline for entries is 11 March.

Up to 40 entries will be selected for a final live pitching session, taking place at the D_Media conference at BAFTA, London on 30 March to determine the winners. Successful projects will start in early May 2011 and last for up to six months.

Public Realm projects

Collaborative working, with other artists and architects for joint tendering, for public space design including heritage and other environmentally sensitive sites: Jenny Exley Associates, Urban Designers and Chartered Landscape Architects, are looking for creative individuals or companies.

email: jenny@jennyexley.com
initial contact please do not forward images
or call 0845 347 9351

Documenting Fictions

Documenting Fictions Conference

Tuesday 5th April 2011
Lister Lecture Theatre
Bradford School of Arts and Media

Wednesday 6th April 2011
Cubby Broccoli Cinema
Bradford Media Museum

This conference, hosted by the MA Visual Arts at Bradford School of Arts and Media, is concerned with visual representation in all its forms. Abstracts are invited from academics, visual artists, photographers and film makers to contribute to this vibrant and exciting opportunity for discursive discussion. Any subject or topic can be addressed although an understanding of the politics and social responsibility of representation is assumed.

The National Portfolio Funding Programme - ACE

Launch of Programme
The National Portfolio Funding Programme aims to contribution to the creation of conditions in which great art can be made, experienced and appreciated by everyone.

The minimum annual award available is £40,000. There is no upper limit on the level of assistance provided. Supported activities could include attending an arts event, taking part in an arts activity, or creating a work of art.

Assistance is available to support a range of artforms and a range of artistic practice. Artists and arts organisations often work across and between different artform areas. The funding provider groups the organisations it funds into six artfrom areas in order to help consider its investing in different parts of the arts sector. These are: combined arts (which use multiple artforms to achieve their aims), dance, literature, music, theatre and visual arts.

Socially Responsive Design

CoDesign: International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts

Understanding the differences between service design, social
design and social innovation and identifying tools and methods
for designing and evaluating social change

CALL FOR PAPERS

Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture, Design and Education

17 May 2011: Cabinet: Connection and Collection: Architecture,
Design and Education
School of Architecture, Design and Environment, University of
Plymouth and Plymouth City Museum and Archives: Tuesday 17th May
2011

This event, hosted by University Plymouth, and the Design
Knowledge Research Group in partnership with Plymouth City Museum
and Archives is a one-day conference to coincide with an
exhibition in Peninsula Arts Gallery. The symposium will detail
notions of heritage, place-making, museum and university
connections.

Introduction
Is the best defence to funding cuts to accelerate the drive to
think less about museums as places where things are kept, and
more about them as places where interactive learning takes place,
playing a role in a wider civic, social and economic context? Are
we now shifting into an era where we move away from designing for
people and towards designing with people, through active
co-creation, where people are active participants in the process
rather than passive test subjects or observers? And can we go
further towards the emerging practice, towards designing by
people? How can our museums and universities facilitate this?
What can be the radical, contemporary strategies that release the
historical perspectives of the architectures of the museum and
refocus them towards different connections and how can the design
of museums and the design of experiences contribute to this?

The National Portfolio Funding Programme - Launch of Programme

The National Portfolio Funding Programme aims to contribution to the creation of conditions in which great art can be made, experienced and appreciated by everyone.

The minimum annual award available is £40,000. There is no upper limit on the level of assistance provided. Supported activities could include attending an arts event, taking part in an arts activity, or creating a work of art.

arts@leeds Grant Aid Programme

Deadline 14 January 2011
The arts@leeds Grant Aid Programme aims to increase people's access to the arts and enable people to take part fully and with greater confidence, achieving a balance of creative opportunity across the city for the benefit of all communities.

Grants awarded are not generally for more than £1,000. Applicants seeking a larger amount should contact the Senior Arts Development Officer. At least 10% of project costs must be found from other sources. Applications for the total cost of a project will not normally be considered.

Current: An Experiment in Collecting Digital Art

Artist Call: Now open for submissions
Deadline: 17th December 2010
£1000 exhibition fee to short-listed artists; £10,000 acquisition fee for final selection.

An exhibition, acquisition and debate, presented in partnership by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery and folly.
http://current-experiment.org.uk/

The Project:
Artists working in digital media are invited to propose work for a public display at and acquisition by the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, as part of 'Current: an Experiment in Collecting Digital Art'.

IDATER Online conference: Graphicacy and Modelling

It is important to establish some foundations for research in graphicacy and consequently contributions are welcome that either discuss an aspect of graphicacy in depth, or its relationship to design modelling. It is hoped to organise a one day conference in December 2010 concerning the online contributions that have been made to the graphicacy debate and publish an IDATER Online Book relating to the collection in early 2011 http://idater.lboro.ac.uk/

We Have Never Had It So Good

INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

An exhibition by guest curator Noëmi Lakmaier at The Pigeon Wing, November 2010.

We Have Never Had It So Good, takes Harold Macmillan’s (UK Prime Minister 1957 – 1963) often misquoted citation ‘most of our people have never had it so good’ as its starting point, and re-contextualises it within the contemporary economic and political framework of the credit crunch and global economic downturn.

During his inaugural address to the conservative party in 1957, Macmillan painted a rosy picture of the economy. A boom in production had lead to an increase in wages and investment. Yet he warned that inflation was the country’s biggest problem of the era.

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture

Call For Papers:

Intellect is delighted to announce the next journal in our popular culture series, The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture.

This new peer-reviewed journal is the official journal of the Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand (Popcaanz). The journal is devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures and is concerned with the study of the social practices and the cultural meanings that are produced and are circulated through the processes and practices of everyday life. As a product of consumption, an intellectual object of inquiry, and as an integral component of the dynamic forces that shape societies.

Binary - next edition of Stimulus Respond

With the new issue, Master, now online at www.stimulusrespond.com, we are now soliciting contributions for the next edition of Stimulus Respond, called Binary. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Binary, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond's undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy.

Book 2.0

Call For Papers: Book 2.0 (http://bit.ly/Bookjournal)

Aims & Scope
Book 2.0 (http://bit.ly/Bookjournal) is a new, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish articles and reviews on developments in book creation and design, including the latest advances in technology and software affecting illustration, design and book production.

It will also explore innovations in distribution, marketing and sales, and book consumption, and in the research, analysis and conservation of book-related professional practices. Book 2.0 aims to provide a forum for promoting and sharing the most original and progressive practice in the teaching of writing, illustration, book design, book production and publishing across all educational sectors.

Home Made Festival Commissions

Chisenhale Dance Space is seeking to commission three independent dance, movement or live artists (who feel dance, movement or the body holds a key place in their practice) to work with local community groups this autumn. Each community group and artist, through a series of collaborative workshops, will create a piece of work to be shown at the Home Made Festival at Chisenhale Dance Space on the 27th and 28th of November 2010.

Home Made is our, yearly dance festival, funded by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The festival seeks to use dance as a tool to celebrate the diverse heritage, vibrant communities and rich history of our home borough as well as to showcase the dance work that occurs at the space on a daily basis.