Nineteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices

Topics

• Design in Society
  • Health and Safety - public welfare in design practice
  • Design in Social Policy - planning and politics
  • Human Systems and Cultural Processes - globalization and the design professions
  • Design as Business - Markets for design and designing for markets
  • Design for Diversity - culture, gender, and sexual orientation
  • Design Without Designers - everyday, amateur, organic and living designs
  • The ends of Design - pragmatic, aesthetic, and emancipatory
  • Design Politics - making technologies, spaces and institutions more responsive to human needs
  • Values, Culture and Knowledge Systems - the role of perspective, subjectivity, and identity
  • The Humanistic and Technological -tensions and synergies
  • Niche Markets - working with diverse clients and users
  • Cross-cultural Encounters - working on diverse and global design teams
• Design Education
  • Problem Solving - recognition procedures, hypothesis development, reasoning processes, solution testing
  • Design Thinking - cognitive modes and learning styles
  • Innovation and Creativity - meanings in theory and practice
  • Residues - learning from our historical and contemporary design experiences
  • Professional Stances - acquiring the designer`s skills, capacities and attitudes
  • Cases - empirical studies of design practices
  • High and Low Theory - every day and theorizing the empirical
  • Methods of Observation - frames of interpretation and criteria for assessment of design
  • Design Pedagogies - teaching and learning in the design professions
  • Conceiving Design - complexity, heterogeneity and holism
  • Points of Comparison - precedent, analogy and metaphor in the design process
  • Educational Designs -teacher as an instructional designer
• Visual Design
  • Viewpoint, Perspective, Interest - designer as agent or advocate
  • Media and Mediation - singular and universal visual grammars
  • Forms for Communicating Design - photography, film, animation, graphic design, and typography
  • Negotiating Authenticity and Authority - power of continuity and change
  • Modeling and Representation - graphic, symbolic, logical, and mathematical
  • New Media and Digital Aesthetics - the evolving avant-garde
  • Fine Arts - illustration, photography, film and video
  • Synesthesia or Crossing Representational Modes - language, image, space, and medium
  • Information Systems and Architectures - interface design, digital, software, and social media design
  • Visual Economies - advertising, marketing and logos
  • Copyright, Patents, and Intellectual Property - proprietary and the commons, commercial and in the public domain
  • Public and Professional Understandings - the role of the designer as communicator
• Designed Objects
  • Design Narratives - stories and sense making in the design process
  • People and Artifacts - exploring uses and usability
  • Embodied and Disembodied - ethnographies of design
  • Cultural Studies - difference, diversity, and multiculturalism in design
  • Function and From - the politics of Industrial design
  • Material and Immaterial - mediating ideas and materials
  • Science and Technology in Design - critical analysis of techno-determinism
  • Sociology of Design - decorative arts, folk movements, and communities of practice
  • Co-designed Process and Objects - designing with users and communities
  • Media Ecologies and Object Orientation - designed artifacts and processes as learning experiences
  • Universal Design and Access - measuring participatory design systems
  • Close to Customers - design as dialogue
• Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design
  • Life Cycles - designing products and services for the longer term
  • Common Spaces - ecological footprints, atmospheres, biospheres, eco-spheres
  • Standards and Regulations - implicit, explicit and social certifications
  • Relations of human and Ecological Value - static or dynamic
  • Nature Designed - parks, wilderness, and elementary ecologies
  • Planning the Urban - cross-disciplinary perspectives on cities of the future
  • On Sustainability and Eco-Design - design in an environmental, economic, social, and cultural setting
  • Understanding Human Impacts - natural resource use and environmental footprints
  • Scenario Planning - designing for alternative futures
  • Interdisciplinary Ecological Practices - working with scientists, social scientists, and economists
  • Documenting Sustainable Design Process - methodologies, heuristics, and routines
  • Making and Breaking Codes - regulation in the design industries
• Design Management and Professional Practice
  • Common Knowledges - sharing insights, research, theories, and designs in communities of practice
  • Designing Design - from conceptualization to specification
  • Professionalism and its Trajectories - narrowing specialisms and/or multiskilling
  • Multidisciplinary and Cross-Professional - approaches to design
  • Business of Speed - the economics and pragmatics of rapid delivery and design alongside construction
  • Working with Research - design practitioners as researchers or users of research
  • Democratization of Design and Public Accountability - consultation and consensus building
  • Logics of Collaboration - interactivity, responsiveness, and reflexivity in communities of practice
  • Expertise as facilitation - designers who know what they might not know
  • Evolutionary Design - collaborations over time
  • User-Centered or Client-Centered Project Management - the changing role of the designer as advocate
  • Designing Projects - planning, management, and project afterlife