ERROR23: 4rd International Conference on Environmental Design Ginosa, Italy, May 9-11, 2024

Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icedconference2024
Abstract registration deadline	December 15, 2023
Submission deadline	January 30, 2024

The Conference 2024 | GINOSA| May 9-11 

One of the most fascinating characteristics of design is its lack of clear and defined boundaries, which has led to profound changes in its approaches, aims, scopes, objects, methodologies, and tools. Likewise, the ecosystems and our societies are going through processes of rapid and systemic modifications and transformations, which contribute to an increase in the level of complexity and interconnectedness of the world we live in.

In this scenario, transdisciplinarity, defined as a unity of knowledge that goes beyond the individual disciplines involved in the processes, should become the foremost approach to tackle and address wicked, complex, and systemic problems. A wicked problem presents various characteristics, firstly highlighted by Rittel and Webber (1973), such as their undefined formulation, their “no stopping rule”, and the impossibility of having “true-false” solutions and testing these. Wicked problems are consequential; they do not have a describable set of solutions, and they are unique. Every wicked problem is strongly linked to the others, and it can be explained in multiple ways that influence how the wicked problem will be approached and solved. Finally, wicked problems pose different difficulties for those who aim to solve them (Lawrence et al., 2022), and they are often accompanied by significant pressure due to their urgency (Bremer, 2013). Nowadays, there are uncountable wicked problems, such as climate change, the growth of digital technologies, sustainable development, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of these arguments, we are looking for contributions that explore the concept of transdisciplinarity to be found in design processes, approaches, methodologies, and research and shifting the paradigm that shows how integrating design into different fields of knowledge can contribute to the establishment of a transdisciplinary approach and to address wicked and complex issues.

The Actors:

The following are the different actors involved in the conference system:

• MDA is responsible for organizing the event and for its o scientific validity.
• The Municipality should provide the spaces to host the conference and the availability of public services and infrastructures.
• The sponsors are responsible for the private services to be provided for the conference.
• Scholars, PhD students, and Industries participate in the conference; Industries may also be sponsors for the conference.
• The audience attends the conference.

Opportunities

The opportunities for the Industries are:

• Knowledge: to take part in an international conference means acquiring new knowledge regarding topics and fields of interest.
• Benchmarking: by participating in the conference, all the companies will have the possibility to understand the state-of-the-art of the fields they are involved in.
• New visions and ideas: by confronting other companies, it should be possible to be stimulated to produce new visions and ideas.

The opportunities for the sponsors are:

• Visibility and advertising: to be part of an international means to become part of a spread network.
• Off-season tourism: the event should bring hundreds of people when usually there are fewer visits.

The opportunities for the Municipality are:

• Cultural visibility and communication: Hosting and providing public services for an international event can increase the visibility of the location, as well as make it the focus of cross-communication across multiple actors.
• Off-season tourism: the event should bring hundreds of people when usually there are fewer visits. 

Organization and Patronage

The Conference is organized by the MDA (Mediterranean Design Association).

Sponsorships will be requested from public/private institutions and research institutions.

 

Contributions

 

1. RESEARCH PAPER

The full papers should not exceed 5000 words, excluding abstracts and references, and they should adhere to the conference paper submission guidelines and template. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present their work at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and available for authors at the beginning of the conference.

2. INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTION

The full papers should not exceed 2000 words, excluding abstracts and references, and they should adhere to the conference paper submission guidelines and template. Authors of accepted papers are required to register and present their work at the conference. All accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and available for authors at the beginning of the conference.

3. POSITION PAPERS - WHITE PAPERS

The “Challenges” format consists of roundtables that explore a challenge related to the Conference Tracks and are proposed by one or more companies. The proposition should not exceed 500 words; it should highlight the traits of the challenge to be tackled and propose a set of questions related to the challenge itself. The round tables are going to be moderated by academics. The Proceedings of this session are going to be published after the conference as an annex to the general Conference Proceedings.

4. DOCTORATE SYMPOSIUM

PhD candidates can present their PhD research during the Panel session, which represents a moment of peer review and dialogue. The contributions should not exceed 1000 words and adhere to the conference paper submission guidelines and template. Accepted authors are required to register and present their work at the conference. All accepted contributions will be published in the Conference Proceedings and available for authors at the beginning of the conference.

PhD candidates will have the possibility to organize workshops as part of their research plan. To present the application, the Ph.D. candidates should submit a short abstract (not exceeding 200 words) in which they have to highlight the structure and the aim of the WS and what they need to fulfill the activities. The Proceedings of the workshop session will be published after the conference as an annex to the general Conference Proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. 

• Deadline for paper titles, abstracts, and authors: December 15, 2023
• Final deadline for full papers: January 30, 2023
• Acceptance notification: March 10, 2023
• Final deadline for submitting revised papers and author payments: March 30, 2023

Committees

Program Committee

• Amoruso Giuseppe | Politecnico di Milano
• Arquilla Venanzio | Politecnico di Milano
• Alessandro Biamonti | Politecnico di Milano
• Cristina Boeri | Politecnico di Milano
• Monica Bordegoni | Politecnico di Milano
• Daniela Calabi | Politecnico di Milano
• Carullo Rossana | Politecnico di Bari
• Giovanni Maria Conti | Politecnico di Milano
• Giorgio De Ponti | Politecnico di Milano
• Clice De Toledo Sanjar Mazzilli | Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da USP
• Barbara Del Curto | Politecnico di Milano
• Dincyrek Ozgur | Eastern Mediterranean University
• Distefano Elisabetta | Università degli Studi di Palermo
• Luca Fois | Politecnico di Milano
• Franca Garzotto | Politecnico di Milano
• Luca Guerrini | Politecnico di Milano
• Hockemeyer Lisa | Politecnico di Milano
• Matteo Ingaramo | Politecnico di Milano
• Valentina Nisi | University of Madeira
• Nuno Jardim Nunes | University of Lisbon
• Stefania Palmieri | Politecnico di Milano
• Frida Pashako | Epoka University - Tirana
• Pier Paolo Peruccio | Politecnico di Torino
• Silvia Piardi | Politecnico di Milano
• Pinto Reaes | Università LUSIADA Lisbon
• Russo Dario | Università degli Studi di Palermo
• Francesco Zurlo | Politecnico di Milano
• Mauro Ceconello | Politecnico di Milano
• Antonio Scontrino | Bowling Green State University
• Cesare Sposito | Università degli Studi di Palermo
• Tiziano Aglieri Rinella | IUAV Venezia
• Claudio Gambardella | Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli
• Marco Sosa | Zayed University
• Min Wang | China Central Academy of Fine Arts
• Francesca Rizzo | Politecnico di Milano
• Lorenzo Imbesi | Università la Sapienza - Roma
• Luca Donner | American University in the Emirates
• Haidamous Toufic | American University in the Emirates
• Ruben Garcia Rubio | Tulane university- New Orleans
• Francesca Scalisi | Università degli Studi di Palermo
• Mario Bisson | Politecnico di Milano
• Diana Navas | PUC - San Paulo
• Sandra Hipatia Nuñez Torres | Universidad Técnica de Ambato
• Diego Vainesman 
• Riccardo Culotta 
• Carlo Martino | Università la Sapienza – Roma
• Lina Ahmad 
• Andres López Vaca | Universidad Internacional SEK
• Antonino Benincasa | Libera Università di Bolzano
• Paolo Tamborrini | Università di Parma
• Michele Fiorentino | Politecnico di Bari
• Giuseppe Lotti | Università degli Studi di Firenze
• Cui Wei | Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology

Organizing Committee

• Federico Picone
• Mario Bisson
• Giorgio De Ponti
• Stefania Palmieri
• Crispino Lanza
• Dario Russo
• Giulia Alvarez
• Benedetta Meretti

Scientific Director

Prof. Mario Bisson - Politecnico di Milano (Italy)

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to info@mda.center