10th Biennial International DATTA-Research Conference 2018 (prev. TERC)

Venue: 

Swinburne University of Technology

with Swinburne Senior Secondary College next door.

Dates:

5 - 8 December 2018, bookmark this date!
John Street, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

Conference theme: 

Fostering applied design led innovation capabilities: how do we know we are doing it better than any other subject?

The world we make defines us: so we better make good decisions!  Increasingly, applied design led innovation capability is a sought after new generation skill-set combining creativity and technical knowledge required for both industry and community life.   From emergent play to sophisticated pioneering capabilities, this international event asks:

•  ‘What must be the reformed vision for design and technology education that assures its future as a necessary and highly invested field of learning?’
•  ‘How can design and technology assert itself as the lead provider of applied design led innovation capability? A capability that uniquely develops the integrated mind and fosters innovation attributes that last a pupil’s lifetime.’

Swinburne's Factory of the Future

For more information contact:

Assoc. Professor Kurt Seemann at the Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne: [email protected]

Laura Murphy at DATTA Vic: [email protected]

Event Layout (as at May 2017) DOWNLOAD HERE

 Call for Participation for a study-day organised by the Laboratory of research GRIEF (ENSA Bretagne, Rennes, France), and The Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University (Melbourne, Australia)

(Official and unofficial political discourse in Montesacro, Rome. Photo by Flavia Marcello)

Public space and life in the polis were from the beginning public space tightly connected, both in terms of city governance and shared actions of its inhabitants. Whether carefully designed or loosely articulated, public space shapes behavior, providing a frame for the norms and rules of society. At the same time, it implicitly invites transgression. From the agora of Athens to the central squares in the former Communist Bloc, from the streets of San Francisco to the paths in the favelas or other informal communities, public spaces are arenas of political expression, where official discourse and unofficial voices meet/ overlap/ come into conflict with each other.

If official channels of political discourse are well-documented and built into the socio-political structures of modern society, unofficial means of expression are less studied. From explicit forms of protest to furtive integration, we are particularly interested in scenarios where distinctions between official and unofficial political discourses become blurred. This study day will examine how unofficial political voices are made manifest in the urban realm by focusing on one or more of the following questions:

• What tactics are used to make these unofficial voices ‘audible’?
• How does political expression turn the city into a space of dynamic visuality?
• What is the impact of ephemeral events on public space?

By questioning a certain normativity (but not only), we seek to stress the connections and the tensions between officially shaped (and designed) public spaces and unofficially used, occupied or appropriated places and/ or itineraries. By viewing political expressions – be they official or unofficial – in this way, we also want to question the very meaning of ‘what is political’.

We invite scholars from the fields of architecture, urban studies, history, political, cultural or social studies and art to engage with these broad concepts. We seek papers that focus on the analysis of both historical and contemporary case studies exploring how the urban realm can shape, frame and even incite political discourse. Presentations can address a range of manifestations in both material forms (from posters, graffiti, art interventions to simple placement of objects) and immaterial practices (rallies, protests, soap boxes, public speeches, art events, etc.).

Send your abstract (300 words) and your short bio (1000 words) to Carmen Popescu ([email protected]) and Flavia Marcello ([email protected]) by July 31, 2018.

The study day will be held on November 22, 2018, and is organised by the Laboratory of research GRIEF, at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne in Rennes, France, and The Centre for Design Innovation at Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. It will take place at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne, 44, boulevard de Chézy, Rennes.

Speakers will have to ensure they cover travel expenses/ we will try to provide a number of fellowships supporting these expenses. Accommodation will be provided for all speakers.

Please note that the language of the study day will be French and English.