[ecrea] Disclosure International Design Conference - Madeira Islands

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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