| The Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices Society - A conference organized by the Design Principles and Practices Research Network, Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal Founded in 2007, the Design Principles and Practices Research Network offers an interdisciplinary forum to explore the meaning and purpose of design. In professional and disciplinary terms, the network traverses a broad sweep to construct a trans-disciplinary dialogue, which encompasses a wide array of design paradigms and practices. As a Research Network, we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tension https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/about -------- CALL FOR PAPERS https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2023-conference/call-for-papers Place: Online + Lisbon Polytechnic, Portugal Format: A mix of live, pre-recorded, and in-person (at a scale that's allowed) presentations and social interaction spaces. Dates: 29-31 March 2023 The Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices calls for research addressing the following conference themes and special focus: Special Focus - New Agendas for Design: Principles of Scale, Practices of Inclusion Modern frameworks for understanding and action have been viewed as anachronistic since the advent of a "post-modern" world. These frameworks are now commonly seen as representing a process of a universalizing knowledge colonization, asserted over space and time; determined by the totalizing force of commodification; critiqued as a viable path of history if we seek to move towards more equitable social, political, and economic formations. Strategically, a "post-modern" critical posture is underwritten by the quest to create room for alternatives. It is to suggest not only that other social worlds were possible, but if we cared to look, already existing in some sites of social and cultural practice. Such social worlds, presently or future-oriented, are not based on universal(izing) worldviews but principles of multiple scale and practices of inclusion grounded in the insistence of authentic personhood and localized senses of authenticity. This strategic move has helped decolonize knowledge systems, offered a critique of capitalist development, and informed fundamental social justice pathways for people who have been historically marginalized by mainstream society and totalizing frameworks of knowledge and culture. Meanwhile, history moves forward. The appearance of political, economic, biological, and ecological crises reveals new fissures in everyday life, and novel conceptual and practical problems to solve. We live in times that see us greatly divided along ideological lines, by economic disparities, and between communities of affinity and identity. We seem to have lost sight of the ideal of commonly accepted truths. Our public debates rarely rise above the shallows of personal opinion. Feelings of affinity seem to apply to ever more narrowly defined groups while crisis becomes more universal. The assertion of individual personhood has become the prime source of unfettered value in informational economies, rather than sociable principles of self in the context of community emancipation. At the Seventeenth International Conference on Design Principles and Practices, we want to put design principles and practices at the center of this conversation. The designer plays a critical role as a constitutive element of our cultural and material reality. The logic of our design(ing) practices embody principles of community and sociality. The immaterial and material objects we share with the world manifest as forms of intervention. In new and dynamic ways, the time has come to reflect on the post-modern turn and the utility of its principles for understanding and action in our current times. We will ponder the ways in which this conceptual framework might have become outmoded too. And if so - what comes next? Conference Themes Theme One - Design Education Theme Two - Design in Society Theme Three - Design Objects Theme Four - Visual Design Theme Five - Design Management and Professional Practice Theme Six - Architectonic, Spatial, and Environmental Design -------- A BLENDED CONFERENCE For over 30 years, Common Ground has been invested in developing technologies that seek to break down barriers of access in scholarly communication. In each phase, we've built media platforms to support spaces for interdisciplinary dialogue, before such approaches were in vogue; connected international voices, when disciplines were too often isolated in national silos; and supported an agenda of access and equality, by offering pathways and opportunities for diverse voices. We now propose another kind of intervention - to build a scholarly communication infrastructure for a blended future. Our blended model seeks to transcend physical boundaries by offering a platform to extend in-person conference content online, while ensuring online-only delegates are afforded equal participatory and experiential spaces within the platform. At the same time, the model offers participants a legacy resource to which they can return in the Event application, with access to a social space in our Community application where fellow participants can keep connected long after the conference ends. Our blended conference experience is delivered on the CGScholar platform - developed by the Common Ground Media Lab, the research and technology arm of Common Ground Research Networks. https://designprinciplesandpractices.com/2023-conference -------- RELATED CONFERENCES We understand travel is difficult in the current climate. For this reason, we also offer related thematic events in our sister Research Networks that you might be able to attend in-person. This way we build for our Research Network Members flexible, and at the same time resilient, spaces for communication, engagement, and participation. View other Common Ground Research Networks conferences: https://cgnetworks.org/conferences/conference-calendar |
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