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MARCH, 1995
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* CONTENTS *
* Assistant/Associate Professor, Industrial Design *
School of Design, Arizona State University
* ID Student Exhibition - San Jose State U *
* ACM - Springer MultiMedia System *
Call for Papers
* CORE - Industrial Design Web Site *
* co-design - New International Quarterly *
call for articles
* Embodied Knowledge & Virtual Space *
Final Call for Papers
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* Assistant/Associate Professor, Industrial Design *
The School of Design, Arizona State University, seeks candidates
for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in its Industrial
Design program. This is a full-time, tenure-track appointment.
Candidates must have knowledge and experience in one or more of
the following areas: Human Factors and Ergonomics, Computer-Aided
Industrial Design, Management, methodology, or Research; OR
Theoretical, Social or Cultural Issues. A terminal degree in
Industrial design or closely related discipline and
qualifications for membership in a professional society are
required. Rank and salary will be commensurate with experience
and achievements. Applications will be considered begining
November 30, 1994.
Send a statement of interest, vitae, portfolio and three
references to:
Industrial Design Search Committee,
School of Design,
Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ 85287-2105
The School of Design encourages diversity among its appicants.
For information call: 602.965 4135. Fax: 602. 965 9717
or e-mail: ICMJN@asuacad
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* STUDENT EXHIBITION - BAY AREA SCHOOLS *
Dear fellow subscribers,
I would like to inform you that next March 2nd, at San Jose State
U., there is an exhibition of students works. It will be an
occasion to see the works of more than one hundred students from
Bay area Universities/colleges with an ID program.
The institutions present are: Academy of Art College, California
College of Art and Craft, San Francisco State U., San Jose State
U., and Stanford U. The event will be an occasion to see and meet
the next generation of designer and to understand what is going
on at inside the departments of these important institutions.
As a member of the student community I invite all the
professional designers to attend at the event and give us your
feedback.
The even is organized by the local chapter of the IDSA and by the
student chapters of the respective schools.This is the first time
that all the schools of the Bay Area are represented together and
is an occasion that should not be missed.
The exhibition is at:
San Jose State University
Student Union Building, 2nd floor
Date: March 2nd
Time: 5:30-9:00 pm
Feel free to contact me for more details
Stefano Franchi
franchi@csli.stanford.edu
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CALL FOR PAPERS
ACM-Springer Multimedia Systems
Special issue on Multimedia and Multisensory Virtual Worlds
Submissions due: May 15, 1995
Virtual worlds are going beyond 3D graphics and are beginning to
use multimedia and multisensory technologies such as video, spatial
sound, speech, images, haptic and tactile feedback, and wind and
heat sensation. This has led to new applications for virtual
worlds in science, engineering, medicine, business, training,
entertainment and arts to explore physical environments that
exist remotely (telepresence), or simulated environments that do
not or could not exist; to enrich existing environments
(augmented realities); and to develop physical analogues for
abstract quantitative and organizational data.
Original, unpublished research and practice & experience papers
are sought that address issues in the design, implementation,
and evaluation of virtual worlds that use multimedia and
multisensory technologies. Topics include, but are not limited
to:
multimedia and multisensory interfaces for virtual worlds
software architectures for using multimedia in virtual worlds
enhancing presence with multimedia and multisensory technologies
distributed and multi-user virtual worlds
knowledge-based multimedia world modeling
manual and automated multimedia world design facilities
navigation, search, and retrieval in large multimedia virtual worlds
novel applications in visualizing, exploring and manipulating
rich multimedia information spaces
evaluation of the effectiveness of multimedia virtual
worlds, and their impact on users, applications, and
organizations
5 copies of each manuscript should be submitted to the special
issue editor at the address below. For papers that do not
include color pictures, email submission is encouraged.
Gurminder Singh
Institute of Systems Science
National University of Singapore
Kent Ridge, Heng Mui Keng Terrace
Singapore 0511
REPUBLIC OF SINGAPORE
Phone: +65 772-3651
Fax: +65 774-4998
Email: gsingh@iss.nus.sg
Submission May 15, 1995
Notification August 31, 1995
Revision September 31, 1995
Publication December, 1995
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CORE - Industrial Design Web Site
http://www.interport.net/CORE
New this month is CORE - Industrial Design Resources, a Web based
industrial design information center. This service is free to users
and is intended to promote design and designers as well as provide
educational, career and design related resources to anyone
interested. In addition to this the site will feature a comprehensive
overview of the ID department at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY,
where we are both graduate students.
Our project is currently in prototype stage, but should be active by
March 7th. In order to make this service more valuable for
everyone, and to help us grow as quickly as possible, we are
requesting submissions from everyone on this list. We are looking
for design firm names, school listings, services, competitions,
manufacturers and suppliers, as well as commentary and other
design related news and articles. Please send this to us via e-mail or
through the feedback forms at the site. We are also interested in
design critiques on our site - either on the graphics or on the system
itself. Tell us your thoughts and criticisms and we will try to
incorporate them. Suggestions for things we left out of our site are
welcome too.
Thanks, and see you there!
CORE - http://www.interport.net/CORE
Stuart Constantine (stucon@interport.net)
Eric Ludlum (forrest@interport.net)
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CO-DESIGN - CALL FOR NEW ARTICLES AND NEW READERS
co-design is a new international quarterly journal in the territory of
design and its context. It launched its first edition in
(Autumn/Winter 1994) and is soon to release its Winter/Spring
1995 number!
Many existing design journals are either:
1 wordy, arcane, and text-oriented
2 glossy, superficial, and anecdotal
co-design seeks a middle path that will make it readable by busy
professionals yet offering serious exploration of important issues in
a way that reflects the culture of the design world.
co-design does not wish to reinforce the boundaries which are
usually drawn around the design professions. Therefore it embraces
all the disciplines that entail design activities, whatever the local
bias, from aesthetic to technological. We also seek no orthodoxy in
the processes of design, in the development and management of
products, services, communications and environments. In
considering design as a 'total' process connecting many areas, the
journal seeks to broadcast best teaching and consultancy practices.
It is devoted to research, case studies, teaching resources and
practitioners' experiences which explore new paradigms for design.
co-design will also reflect the world-wide changes taking place to
the social and economic dimensions of society as manifested in
management thinking, patterns of trade and economics,
demographic shifts and deeply cultural changes. Editorial policy will
be responsive to these changes as they take place.
In support of our claim to be inter-disciplinary we open our pages to
a wide spectrum of analysts, practitioners and commentators.
co-design, in addition to crossing boundaries laterally, also intends
to operate on several connected levels within design. It seeks to
meet the needs of those who practise design and its management.
The dissemination of the experiences of design practitioners is a
prime aim of the journal.
co-design welcomes submissions of articles within this editorial
policy. These contributions may be in the form of research reports,
design evaluation reports, reviews, general articles and points of
view. We wish to encourage styles of writing which are down-to-
earth and without pretension. Texts should be prepared with a
multi-disciplinary readership in mind.
co-design emeritus board
Professor Eric Billett, Faculty of Education, Brunel University, UK
Geoffrey Caban, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and
Design, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Professor Colin Clipston, Director of Architecture Planning and
Research Laboratory, University of Michigan, USA
Wendy Powell, Head of the Department of Design Management, De
Montfort University, UK
David Weightman, Dean of the School of Design and Ceramics,
Staffordshire University, UK
Professor Geoffrey Spyer, Head of the School of Product and
Architectural Design, Middlesex University, UK
Industrial advisors
Chris Hughes, Vice President, Global Cordless Group, Black and
Decker plc
Tony Key, Corporate Head of Design, British Telecom
Raymond Turner, Design Director, BAA plc
TO SUBMIT IDEAS, ARTICLES, OR TO SUBSCRIBE, CONTACT:
David Walker and Barry Dagger, editors
2, Mount Mill Cottages
Stratford Rd
Wicken
Milton Keynes
MK19 6DG
UK
tel. or fax +44 (0)908 567842
co-design WEB PAGE viewable SOON via the IDEAbase page:
http://futures.gold.ac.uk/IDEAbase/welcome.html
John Wood (Senior Lecturer)
MA in design futures
Department of Design Studies
Goldsmiths' College, University of London Lewisham Way, New Cross
London SE14 6NW
UK
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INTERNET j.wood@gold.ac.uk
JANET j.wood@uk.ac.gold
tel. 0171 919 7794
fax. 0171 919 7793
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FINAL CALL FOR CONFERENCE PROPOSALS & PAPERS:
Embodied Knowledge & Virtual Space
To be held at Goldsmiths University of London: 19th and 20th June
1995. This event has been organised to mark the launch of our new
MA in Design Futures.
The interest about the InterNet, e-mail, and virtual space will
provide the context for a fresh look at types of 'knowledge' and
'practice' that are known variously as: 'tacit knowledge', 'personal
knowledge', 'situated knowledge', embodied knowledge, etc.
The conference welcomes submissions from artists, designers,
theorists, academics, commercial, and technical experts. It will
comprise a celebratory and open-ended exchange of papers,
performances, installations, and presentations to explore possible
relationships between 'embodied knowledge', and 'virtual space'.
The extreme mixture of mindsets and methods of the proceedings
may require some patience from participants, but we are confident
that it will promote an invaluable interplay of specialisms and
approaches.
CONFERENCE THEMES
Specific themes are offered here as a general guide to the subjects
outlined. Other perspectives on the general theme may also be
acceptable if they inform the discussion in an interesting way.
* Case studies of designers establishing 'virtual communities' *
Theories of 'virtual space' from a philosophical,
psychological, sociological etc. perspective * Case studies of
teleworking by designers or artists * Theories of 'embodied
knowledge', tacit knowledge, etc.,
that may inform the practice of design
* Clashes between the cultures of studio practice and text
based research
* Cultural or political readings of technology and its
meanings
Please notify us of your intention to contribute as soon as possible,
and send an abstract paper and/or an outline proposal
DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: no later than March 27th 1995 (the
editorial panel will contact you by the 10th April)
ABSTRACT LENGTH: no more than 400 words
FORMAT: Floppy diskette with WordPerfect, WORD or Claris WORKS:
AND _either: e-mail: text without line-breaks. Images/figures may be
'attached.
or: A4 printed, double spaced, in Times 12 point.
FULL PAPERS: no more than 5000 words
What is Embodied Knowledge?
The conference will explore possible meanings of this term as a way
to challenge ideas of knowledge and action such as, for example,
received notions of an objective, rational, cerebral knowledge that
underpins the academic research tradition. Many artists and
designers experience a conflict between the library research culture,
and the more 'practice-oriented' atelier traditions of art and design.
Arguably, this historical division has encouraged the idea of two
autonomous knowledge types: 'knowing that', and 'knowing how'.
These questions may be considered as part of the troublesome
legacy of Western thought that separates 'mind' from 'body'. The
conference will consider recent research that tends to support the
notion of a situated flow of information within a widely dispersed
and manifold ('embodied') structure of 'mind'.
The distinction between 'knowing how' and 'knowing that' is
pedaled by the famous idea that knowing how to ride a bicycle is not
reducible to verbal descriptions or explanations.
This raises provocative questions about how theories, skills, and
ideologies relate to our actual day-to-day practices. For example:
* Is it useful (or even possible) to represent impulsive or
intuitive actions in the form of text?
* How much does text based argumentation influence behaviour and
what are the ethical implications?
* How do our emotions, habits, and predelictions affect our
critical judgements and capabilities?
In some respects, new 'consumer-led' commmunication
technologies are helping to bridge the theory/practice divide, as
theorists become more aware of practical 'design' issues, and as
many artists and designers believe that theorising is a vital way
inform their studio practices.
* If 'mind' is really a distributed network of neural
transactions within (and beyond?) the body, then surely, all
knowledge is 'embodied knowledge', and if so, how would this affect
academic traditions of rigorous, linear, text-centred argumentation?
* Whose body are we thinking of when we say that knowledge is
embodied?
The assumed body of Western epistemology is currently being
exposed as a very specific body indeed; naming gender, race,
disability reveals the self-invisible and calls into question any
singular use of 'the body'. It also raises questions about the role of
automata within a human society.
Virtual Space
Psychoanalytically speaking, it could be argued that Euclidean
geometry, with its infinitessimally slender lines and infinitely flat
surfaces is a profoundly 'disembodied' principle. On the one hand
we know that the use of this geometry - with its monocular
perspective - is still at the heart of most computer 3-D modelling
programmes. On the other hand, we 'half believe' certain dubious
theories of representation that may lull us into accepting that
'reality' can be emulated or rendered in some ideologically 'neutral',
or objectively truthful way. Technology offers ever more beguiling
illusions that tend to sustain such arguments, making them difficult
to refute.
* Are 'virtual communities' merely 'real communities' that are
dispersed geographically?
* Are 'virtual things' really any different from 'real things',
or does the way we perceive the world rely on the ability to
'imagine' possible worlds before we can recognise them?
Embodied Knowledge and/or/in Virtual Space In her critique of
orthodox science, Donna Haraway advocates a 'situated, embodied
partial knowledge' that would rival our post-Baconian determinism.
This is inspiring, but still leaves us with uncertainties about the
possible relations between embodied mind and virtual space. We
may muse upon the young Einstein's famous 'thought experiment' in
which he imagined himself riding on a beam of light to acquire
knowledge about the universe.
The results are well-known for their counter-intuitive properties,
and for their unintended ramifications on the military level.
* Do such methods help us empathise with other viewpoints, or
will they lead to more reclusivity?
* Will the 'whole person' eventually become fragmented by using
the technology of the InterNet?
The conference aims to develop some replies to some of these
questions. This work will be published, and may provide the basis
for subsequent conference/s and virtual meetings.
John Wood (Senior Lecturer)
MA in design futures
Department of Design Studies
Goldsmiths' College, University of London Lewisham Way, New Cross
London SE14 6NW
UK
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JANET j.wood@uk.ac.gold
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fax. 0171 919 7793
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