São Paulo 2012

Design Frontiers:
Territories, Concepts, Technologies

Themes / Papers
Themes

Track 1 | History of Design Education

This track welcomes historical studies of design education, particularly comparative studies of design education in different countries, cultures, periods, in its relationship with art and technology education.

Track Chairs:
Haruhiko Fujita (Osaka University, Japan)
Silvio Barreto Campello (Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil)


Track 2 | Identities and Territories

In this track we expect participants to contribute with discussions on topics such as micro history, collective identities, gender, internationalization, marginalization, globalization, and other studies that focus on design from the perspective of identity and territorial issues.

Track Chairs:
Oscar Salinas Flores (National University of Mexico, Mexico)
Clice Mazzilli (University of São Paulo, Brazil)


Track 3 | National Policies on Design

This track invites submissions that study totally or partially state-funded plans and institutions for the promotion of design. Plans and institutions must be studied as signifying practices in both their economic and their cultural dimensions.

Track Chairs:
Javier Gimeno-Martínez (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands & Artesis University College of Antwerp, Belgium)
Cyntia Malaguti (University of São Paulo, Brazil)


Track 4 | Techniques and Technologies

Papers submitted to this track may be concerned with various methodologies and different models of process and practice (for example user centered design, codesign or open design); new territories of practice emerging from cross disciplinary or interdisciplinary collaborations; or histories of technique and practice. Papers may also develop discourse around emerging and enabling technologies that have impacted or will impact on the production, reception and consumption of design; or describe different histories of technologies.

Track Chairs:
Paul Atkinson (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Charles Vincent (Mackenzie Presbyterian University, Brazil)


Track 5 | The New Imperialism: the international face of design and design history

Papers submitted to this track should draw attention to the nature of design practice and history in the wider world, beyond the orthodox mapping of activity in the mainstream industrialized nations of the west, therefore helping to redraw the world map of design activity, history and politics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Track Chairs:
Jonathan Woodham (University of Brighton, UK)
Denise Dantas (University of São Paulo, Brazil)


Track 6 | Open Strand

This track welcomes papers that relate to the general topic of the Conference, but that do not fit the other tracks.

Track Chairs:
Victor Margolin (University of Illinois at Chicago, US)
Priscila Farias (University of São Paulo, Brazil)


Papers

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