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Poster submissions will through the use of graphic language, address issues and the core themes of the conference. We are keen to explore and demonstrate the use of graphic design as a means to critique and reflect upon its future. Submissions are sought from either individuals or groups and from Design students, Design Faculty and Professional Design Studios. Each academic institution may submit no more than 5 posters, Design Studios 1 entry. Further details for required format upon request. Selected works will be included in the traveling exhibition and/or the digital exhibition.
Thank you to all who submitted posters
Call for Papers
Papers and posters are solicited for this international symposium which seeks to look in depth at the broader questions that graphic designers are facing today in terms of the graphic design profession and educational practices. At the same time, the symposium is meant to generate debate and to provide direction, solutions, and identify what new challenges might lay ahead for practitioners, academics, industry and the profession overall. New Views sets out to offer a platform for enabling academics and practitioners from a broad range of international perspectives and approaches to discuss the current state of their practices.
Audience
New Views 2 will provide a stimulating event for all designers and those working in related visual fields as well as students, academics, professional bodies and related industry. It is hoped submissions will also come from outside the main discipline to embrace the fields of geography, literature, science, urban planners, architects, engineers, government policy makers, and so forth.
Structure
We have adopted the terms ‘conversations’ and ‘dialogues’ to suggest the sharing of ideas amongst a group. We believe in fostering collaborative design discussions and the potential this method has for moving forward the exchange of knowledge in new and innovative ways. By facilitating large and smaller more focused groups of delegates, New Views 2, aims to identify the challenges we are currently facing in graphic design, but more importantly proposing potential ways forward.
Themes to be addressed might include:
- Who are we? Problems of defining terminology: visual communication, communication design, graphic design, information environments
- the role of graphic design for the ‘real world’
- graphic design and interdisciplinarity
- graphic design and research methods
- design writing/criticism and repositioning the debate
- practice-led PhD research in the field of graphic design
- responsive curriculums and shifting paradigms
- research, innovation and new critical thinking
Paper Abstracts
Abstracts should be no more than 400 words as seen as position statements in relation to the above themes. Those who have accepted abstracts may be invited to develop their papers more fully for inclusion in a proposed publication.
Key Dates
Deadline for Paper Abstracts:
29 February 2008
Notification of acceptances of Abstract:
14 April 2008
Submission of posters:
15 May 2008
Submission for amended Abstracts:
30 April 2008
Symposium
July 9 – 11, 2008
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
UK
Exhibition
9 – 21 July 2008
Opens in London and then travels to RMIT, Australia
A digital exhibition will also be presented through the conference website.
Contact the organisers:
Professor Teal Triggs
t.triggs@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Head of Research,
School of Graphic Design,
LCC
and co-Director,
UAL Research Unit for Information Environments, London
Dr. Laurene Vaughan
laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au
Director of Research and Innovation School of Applied Communication,
RMIT
Supported in part by:
UAL Research Unit for Information Environments
RMIT Design Institute
