[Commlist] CFP - The City, Design Informatics and Ethics

As part of the hybrid CULTURES, COMMUNITIES and DESIGN conference, talks 
and publications will be organised around the themes and speakers below. 
The conference seeks to connect digital design to ethical positions on 
development.

Cultures, Communities and Design Conference
Virtual and In-person – Calgary, Canada

28-30th June, 2022

https://architecturemps.com/calgary/


- CHRIS SPEED – Design Informatics: From Countryside to Country-side

Prof. Chris Speed FRSE, is Chair of Design Informatics at the University 
of Edinburgh where he collaborates with a wide variety of partners to 
explore how design provides methods to adapt and create products and 
services within a networked society. Chris directs the Institute for 
Design Informatics that is home to a combination of researchers working 
across the fields of interaction design, temporal design, anthropology, 
software engineering and digital architecture, as well as the PhD, 
MA/MFA and MSc and Advanced MSc programmes. He is Director of the 
Creative Informatics R&D Partnership and Co-I to the Next Stage Digital 
Economy Centre DECaDE led by Surrey with the Digital Catapult. He was 
made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2020.


- WILLIE ERMINE – Ethical Space

Willie is an Assistant Professor with the First Nations University of 
Canada. He is from the Sturgeon Lake First Nation in the north-central 
part of Saskatchewan where he lives with his family. As a faculty member 
with the First Nations University of Canada, he lectures in the areas of 
Education, Humanities, Indigenous Studies and Research Methods. He has 
published numerous academic articles and contributed reports to the 
Tri-Council Panel on Research Ethics. He has presented at various 
national and international conferences and symposiums on topics such as 
education, research and in particular, the nature of Indigenous thought. 
Throughout his research, Professor Ermine has worked extensively with 
Elders. He promotes ethical practices of research involving Indigenous 
Peoples and is particularly interested in the conceptual development of 
the ‘ethical space’–a theoretical space between cultures and worldviews.


https://architecturemps.com/calgary/





OVERALL CALL:

‘The Countryside’ – a polemically generic term Rem Koolhaas has recently 
used to reposition debates about our cities to those of rural areas. 
While posited as ‘new’, it is, in reality, a well established mode of 
thinking. Through notions such as the peri-urban for example, 
geographers, sociologists, architects, urban designers and regional 
economists have all debated the urban-rural relationship for several 
decades. Under this framework we are obliged to consider the city and 
its architecture on its own terms, but also address the ‘rural’ in its 
particular context and, importantly, explore the parallels and mutual 
influences at play.

According to this logic, the environmental, social, cultural, planning 
and design issues relevant in our cities find parallels outside the city 
fringe. Calgary, the host city of this conference, is a perfect example. 
It has heavy industry, a thriving business economy and a growing tourist 
sector. However, pockets of the city contend with poverty, pollution and 
gentrification. As a city, Calgary also ‘pressures’ its surrounding 
lands including the Rockies and the Banff nature reserve.

While such debates are of concern today around the world, they were also 
highlighted 50 years ago when the host school of this conference was 
founded. Back then, Archigram and Buckminster Fuller argued that 
architecture, technology and the ‘earth’ were interconnected. Jane 
Jacobs connected the built environment with social concerns. Aldo van 
Eyke fought for communities and the participatory practices and, in 
1971, the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA) was 
founded in the United States.

Picking up on its 50th year anniversary, the Faculty of Environmental 
Design / School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at the 
University of Calgary seeks to foster debate around issues relevant at 
its opening which remain important and unresolved today.



Dates: June 28th, 2022 – In-person and virtual

Abstracts: 01 April, 2022

https://architecturemps.com/calgary/

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