Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design Conference 2013

The first Research Through Design conference aims to explore multi-textural opportunities for presenting and discussing non discipline specific research through design and resists the temptation to adopt a traditional format for both paper submission and presentation in favour of an exhibition of design research accompanied by roundtable presentations and discussions in ‘rooms of interest’. The exhibition will be used as a platform to present and express outcomes of research, demonstrate examples of research enquiries and generate debate about the role of making in design research. The conference theme of Praxis and Poetics represents the different modes and approaches to practice as well as a larger ethos around content related to poetics, beauty and grace.

Conference Chairs:
Dr Jayne Wallace & Dr Joyce Yee (Design, University of Northumbria)

This conference will be co-located with DPPI – Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces conference. Find out more about both conferences at www.praxisandpoetics.org

The information below gives a brief description of the conference themes, submission information and important dates.  For the complete in depth Praxis and Poetics: Research Through Design: CALL FOR SUBMISSION including submission process please download the PDF via the download button or from the right hand side of this page.

Contributions
Contributions may fall under these themes but are not limited to:
• Making (What do we experience?)
- Making as exploration 
- Making as a collaborative activity
- Understanding the logic, beauty and meaning of objects

• Doing (How do we practice research?)
- Craft as methodology
- Research through design approaches
- Innovations in research approaches and methods

• Viewing (How do we perceive objects?)
- Perceptions of objects
- Beauty / aesthetics
- Digital originals

• Meaning (How do we critique making and its outcomes?)
- Persuasion through objects
- Critical craft, Critical objects
- Interdisciplinary explorations and viewpoints

• Being (What does it mean?)
- Ageing beautifully / Gracing agefully
- Personhood
- The body, memory and desire

Submissions information
Submissions will take the form of an artefact (exhibited at the conference) accompanied by a maximum of a four-page commentary paper. We welcome submissions of both final and developmental research. All submissions will be double peer reviewed and the exhibition will be curated. All papers and images of the artefacts will be published in ISBN digital conference proceedings. Our aspiration is that works of exceptional quality will be invited to be part of an edited book that will be published following the conference.

Important Dates
Abstract Submission -25th March, 2013 
Authors Notified - 5th April, 2013 
Paper Submission -31st May, 2013
Authors Notified re amendments -10th June, 2013
Final Paper Submission - 1st July, 2013
Artefact Arrival Date - 27th August, 2013

For general conference enquiries please email ad.RTDconference@northumbria.ac.uk  

Additional information oncan be found at www.praxisandpoetics.org/researchthroughdesign