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[ecrea] Disclosure International Design Conference - Madeira Islands

Tue Jul 18 16:59:00 GMT 2017




The 9th Edition of the internacional Design Conference, Senses & Sensibility, presents this year the theme "Design Beyond Borders”. Organized in collaboration with Madeira University, Art and Design Department. The conference will take place in Funchal - Madeira Islands on 24th till 27 of October 2017. Its open to all Design Fields: Visual Communication, Product Design; Service Design; Brand and Fashion; Social Innovation; Interaction and WebDesign and so on, as long as the contributions reflect the general themes of the conference. The keynoters panel is very interesting, offering communications in different and broad design perspectives. Teresa Franqueira from Aveiro University; Guy Julier from Brighton University and Victoria and Albert Museum; Thomas Pausz from Iceland University and Nini Andrade Silva an international awarded Interior Designer. The call for full papers, workshops proposals or research posters is open till 30th of August.

The conference aims to discuss the role of Design in peripheral areas. The concept of borders can be understood in geographical, as well as theoretical and practice levels. In a globalized society, a cultural centralization paradoxically emerges, dictating patterns, trends and somehow defining, to a certain extent, a universal design thinking and practice. SSDBB emphasizes the significance that design acquires in neighboring areas, beyond the big western decision makers.

SSDBB asks: is the designer’s role changing into a more hybrid profile? Who are the people working in transdisciplinary scenarios or multidisciplinary teams, beyond the borders of traditional Design paradigms? What are the challenges, difficulties or joys of design practice, education, culture, technology, as well as strategic and social environments? These are the tracks where the conference’s theme, “Design Beyond Borders”, pretends to generate scientific knowledge.

We would also like to enlarge the discussion on how Design operates in neighboring countries, cities and/or isolated territories. How design contributes to your town, to your community, city, culture and/or helped to improve the local economy and industry in an efficient, decentralized, as well as unique/genuine way.

In times as we are now facing, where walls are asked to be built, and therefore intensifying limits, how can design enhance a more transnational knowledge, exchange of best practices and promote a common wealth being?

The SSDBB’17 will also have an affiliated conference, Rhizomes. This smaller conference aims to promote a reflection on the intersection between handicraft, design and art productions in insular spaces, in the context of globalization and increasing transnational mobility. Attention will also be given to new mainland cultural constellations resulting from these artistic migrations.

Official website: http://senses2017.unidcom-iade.pt/
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/DesignBeyondBorders/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
Mail: (ssdbb17 /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(ssdbb17 /at/ gmail.com)>


Chairs
/Emília Duarte - UNIDCOM/IADE/
/Susana Gonzaga - Madeira University/


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