NORDES 2021: Nordic Design Research Conference 2021 Design School Kolding and the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) – Kolding. Kolding, Denmark, August 15-18, 2021 |
Conference website | http://conference2021nordes.org |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nordes2021 |
Submission deadline | January 20, 2021 |
Nordes is short for an open network society on design research that started with the first Nordic Design Research Conference in Copenhagen 2005. In addition to organising the bi-annual Nordes conferences and Summer schools Nordes promotes the publication and dissemination of design research through the Nordes Digital Archive.
Submission Guidelines
Call for submissions
Scale is ubiquitous in the world of design, but its implications mostly go unnoticed. Terms that are easy to use, like the global or human-scale, have widespread allure and even impact, yet they also hide and confuse. Although scale is a fundamental feature of all systems, artefacts and organisms, it is surprisingly rarely reflected upon in design. In the abstract, scale points to mathematical features but it is, above all, inherently relational and comparative. To think about scale nearly always involves thinking about another context of activity or reception that is either inside, outside or beyond the immediate field of practice. Design research may be pivotal in how matters of scale are understood and acted on. In these times of urgent troubles, problems appear to be large-scale and designers are often invited to ‘scale up’ their efforts to solve them, or defend the wellbeing or the rights of a universal ‘human’. Meanwhile viruses, for instance, wreak havoc in machines and bodies across different orders of scale, connecting and disconnecting in complicated ways. If size, temporal duration, scope, territory and impact work in scalar ways in design, whether noticed or not, how can we learn to take scale seriously?
NORDES 2021 provides opportunities to explore the multiple roles, processes and impacts of scales across all areas of design and design research in all their manifestations. How does scale matter in the context of design, designs and designers? What kinds of scalar relationships does design involve and how does or might design research identify and problematise these? Full papers, exploratory papers, exhibition artifacts and workshops that, in design research, explicitly address the topic of ‘Matters of Scale’ are invited.
For furthher information see https://conference2021nordes.org
The Nordes 2021 conference invites original papers and submissions addressing matters of scale in various ways.
Papers will undergo double blind peer-reviews and accepted papers will be presented in the conference programme and published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be available as an open access online database during and after the conference.
Templates for submissions are accessible at https://conference2021nordes.org/call-for-submissions/
FULL PAPERS
Full Papers should be limited to maximum 10 pages including abstract and references. Make sure to limit the file size to 5MB or less.
EXPLORATORY PAPERS
Short research papers should be limited to maximum 5 pages, including abstract and references. Make sure to limit the file size to 5MB or less.
EXHIBITION
Exhibition proposals should be submitted according to the requirements described on the conference website. Make sure to limit the file size to 5MB or less.
WORKSHOPS
Workshop descriptions should be submitted in this template. Maximum length of a workshop description isa maximum length of 3 pages excluding references, and a maximum file size of 5MB.
DOCTORAL CONSORTIUM
The submissions for the Doctoral Consortium (DC) consists of a 2-page position paper including the following elements: a short summary of your PhD project (300 words); an outline of your concerns and positions in relation to matters of scale; a list of your plans and needs for further research, depending where you are in your research.
List of Topics
THE MATTERS OF SCALE
Potential conference themes may include, but are not limited to:
Audit, measurement and ranking
Manufacture, modularity and making
Human-, non-human and other scales and calibrations
Queer scales
Communities, publics, diasporas, networks
Governance, design for policy and implementation
Downscaling, relocalising, resilience, resistance
Territories, borders, shrinkage, dead spaces
Economies of scale
Temporal regimes: routines and irregularities; sprints and hacks
Open, big and small data
Prototypes, toolkits, archetypes, blueprints, guidelines, models
Platforms and one-offs
Representations, reproductions, fakes
Invited Speakers
- Jamer Hunt
- Celia Lurie
- Mikael Colville Andersen
Venue
Nordes 2021 is hosted jointly by Design School Kolding and the University of Southern Denmark (SDU) – Kolding, Denmark. The main conference venues will be shared between to two institutions which are situated just 150 meters apart, and close to the center of the city of Kolding and the fjord.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to nordes2021@nordes.org