July 2004

Participatory Design Conference 2004

Artful Integration: Interweaving Media, Materials and Practices (July 27-31, 2004 - Toronto, Canada)
"Participatory Design (PD) is a diverse collection of principles and practices aimed at making technologies and social institutions more responsive to human needs. A central tenet of PD is the direct involvement of people in the co-design of the (mainly computerized) systems they use. The Participatory Design Conferences, held every two years since 1990, have brought together a multidisciplinary and international group of software developers, researchers, social scientists, designers, activists, practitioners, users, citizens, cultural workers and managers who adopt distinctively participatory approaches in the development of information and communication artifacts, systems, services and technologies."

Start date: July 27, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

VR'04 Third International Conference

Visual Spatial Reasoning in Design (July 22-24, 2004 - MIT, Cambridge MA, USA)
"The design process has become the focus of an increasingly intense research effort. Of central importance in designing is the interplay between two types of knowledge - abstract, conceptual knowledge and perceptually based knowledge. Visual and spatial reasoning are the cognitive and/or computational processes that link these two types of knowledge and it is this aspect of the design process that forms the focus of the conference."

Start date: July 22, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

4th International Conference on Design and Emotion

(July 12-14, 2004 - Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
"After the success of the previous three conferences, our aim is to face a new challenge by exploring connections with new areas that broaden the spectrum of design and emotion."

Start date: July 12, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Research into Practice Conference

(July 2, 2004 - University of Hertfordshire, UK, EU)
"Research into Practice has a core interest in the fundamental principles, philosophies, and problems that underpin studio-based research in art and design. Its objectives include understanding how research contributes to the development of the discipline; and the problem of the relationship of the image, the object, the presentation and the word. It seeks to facilitate the highest level of debate amongst professional researchers, academics, practitioners and postgraduate students; to respond to the national and international context; and to contribute to the development of policy in art and design research."

Start date: July 02, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink