LES ATELIERS DE LA RECHERCHE EN DESIGN

Observatoire du Design dans l’Economie de l’Immatériel (O.D.E.I)

2009-10-22T12:11:24+02:00

En collaboration avec l’Alliance Française des Designers ( AFD ) et le Knowledge Network de Parsons Paris School of Art +Design , création d’un Observatoire du Design dans l’économie de l’Immatériel au sein de l’UFR Sciences Sociales et Humaines de l’université Paris Ouest Nanterre Défense dont l’objectif est d’abord de fournir des statistiques sur l’industrie du design et ses différents acteurs , susciter des recherches sur les savoirs des différents métiers du design et réfléchir à la thématique de l’ « humain en devenir » et des nouvelles représentations dans les villes créatives mondiales .

Pour plus d’information : brigitte.borja@parsons-paris.com

WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2010

2009-10-01T15:34:48+02:00

DESIGN TO MAKE SEOUL A GLOBAL CITY

http://www.worlddesigncapital.com/news/releases/main67.htm

Seoul (South Korea) 30 June 2009 - For Seoul City, design is leverage not only to upgrade its appearance but also innovate its administration. Chung Kyung-won, the chief design officer at the Seoul Metropolitan Government, is the man who is leading the drive to make the capital truly global.

Inaugurated on 1 June 2009, Chung is now busy trying to make his mark on the city's cosmetic initiative, dubbed Design Seoul. His resume would appear to suggest he is suitably qualified: He is also a professor in the Department of Industrial Design at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and has participated in Seoul's design affairs as an outside committee member for the last two years.

Design is one of the major projects initiated by Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon to make the city a charming global city. It is Chung's job to ensure projects are coordinated effectively.

"Design is a shortcut to become a global city and the mayor knew it," he said.

To realise the dream, Oh launched the Design Seoul Headquarters in May 2007. Since then it has been spearheading the capital's facelift, carrying out efforts to remold city scenery and support the design industry.

Chung's predecessor, Kwon Young-Gull, a design professor at Seoul National University, was more focused on public design, and the results were immediately visible to citizens. Since it was a weakness, it was deemed natural to target its improvement as the first goal of Design Seoul.

But according to Chung, design is a consideration of both the human and natural worlds.

"Design is making artifacts more easy and fun for people to use. So good design should be aesthetic, economic and functional." he said. His motto is "pleasure by design," and he wants to raise the quality of life through this mantra.

"I will balance the development of the design industry and the public design of the city based on the two year's work," he added. "I will show sustainability and consistency to take over the previous projects and foster the design industry to develop various fields of design."

Achievements of Design Seoul
Design Seoul has four strategies - airy, integrated, collaborative and sustainable. This approach has been making Seoul more "soft," emphasising a culture and design that is moving away from the previous "hard" development, centered on a paradigm of efficiency.

The efforts appear to be paying off: The Design Seoul Headquarters won the designation of World Design Capital Seoul 2010; established Design Seoul guidelines, the city mascot Haechi and the Seoul colors; and held the Seoul Design Olympiad (SDO).

With 100 staff and an 86.8-billion-won budget, the Design Seoul Headquarters devises policy and sets the framework. The Design Seoul Foundation, a city-sponsored organisation, is a think tank for the promotion of design and will operate design-related facilities such as Dongdaemun Design Plaza and the Industrial Design Medical Center.

To prevent possible trial-and-error by city employees not specialised in design, Chung invites outside design experts to various committees to guide and monitor the projects. In fact, Chung himself was an outside advisor before he came to the chief position.

"World Design Capital (WDC) 2010 is an example of Mayor Oh's ambition to become a global city by design," Chung said.

The WDC accolade was something of a coup, with the bi-annual city promotion project acknowledging the merits of urban design and organised by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design in Canada.

A slew of "Renaissance" projects in Seoul - the Han River, Mt. Namsan and the city's streets - are some of the other major tasks confronting Chung.

"While the Han River Renaissance project is praised by foreign cities as a good example of restoring a waterside, the facelift of streets is welcomed by citizens who actually use them every day," he said.

And the design headquarters provides specific guidelines and supervises city work in a bid to maintain identity.

One of the more acute projects involves working on Seoul's symbols. Haechi, an imaginary lion-like animal embedded in the city's rich history and tradition, now adorns the city official's collar in the form of a badge and is carried on local cabs. Even an animated film and documentary featuring Haechi are to be produced.

The symbolic colors of Seoul were selected from representative shades of the city, such as red from dancheong, the coloring of traditional Korean buildings, and white from the Han River.

"To better promote Seoul's colors, we plan to set up a Seoul-colored figure at the Seoul Museum of Art and paint under the Mapo Bridge with the Seoul colors," Chung said. "We want the symbols to dissolve into citizens' lives."

Two Seoul fonts have also been developed - Seoul Han River and Seoul Mt. Namsan, representing the two important landmarks. They have been distributed for free for anyone to use.

But as the former president of the Korea Institute of Design Promotion, Chung also cares about factoring the design industry into the equation.

"We can support small- and medium-sized firms which are not capable of developing design by providing know-how and the latest trends," he said.

Seoul will put in about 113 billion won over the next three years to improve the design capabilities of SMEs, as well as their industrial competitiveness. The city has already bought an old hospital building in the Dongdaemun area that will be revamped into the Industrial Design Medical Center, a research and education facility.

"In addition to the design medical center, we will build two smaller design supporting facilities in Mapo and Gangnam," he said. "A design base camp connecting designers and small businesses will be established near Guro Digital Complex as well."

Design Seoul Is About Citizens
"The most important part of Design Seoul is for citizens to understand and enjoy design," the Chung said. "For example, some 2 million visited the first SDO last year. We will make design take root in the mind of Seoulites."

To encourage their participation, the city is holding a public design competition named "Seoul, I Design" in which citizens can submit any design under the theme of "Interflow and Consilience."

SDO is another opportunity open to citizens. The Olympiad is a comprehensive design festival and people can visit and experience various design-related events and exhibitions. Each city district is tasked with designing a seating section of the main stadium at Jamsil Sports Complex, which was vacated last year.

"Design Seoul Village" provides guidelines and professional support to local residents to help them design and improve their village independently. The project aims to raise the value of villages through inhabitants.

"The city tries to induce citizen participation and I want the people to suggest what needs to be improved in their environment," Chung said. "We can raise the quality of the city's design and make the city image better through these citizen efforts."

According to Chung, design can revitalise the city during times of economic difficulty.

"Design is not a luxury. It prospers during financial hardships," he said. "Design Seoul is going to maximise and make the lives of citizens better because Seoul invested in design during this economic crisis."

Despite the economic downturn, the importance of design is growing. According to research by the Samsung Economic Research Institute, 52 percent of Korean CEOs indicated design was the core of their competitiveness and 51 percent said they would invest more in design.

"The design management I pursue is not different from the Design Seoul concept," Chung said. "I will upgrade successful public design to make the city more comfortable and pleasant and develop the design industry to create revenue and make it a new growth power."

Author: Kwon Mee-yoo, Staff Reporter, meeyoo@koreatimes.co.kr
Source: www.koreatimes.co.kr

25 Novembre 2009: And the winner is....

2009-10-01T15:25:43+02:00

WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL 2012

210709_WDC2012_Shortlist_Press release_vf.pdf

Villes nominées:

Helsinki ou Eindhoven?

25 novembre 2009

congrès ICSID

Singapour

And the winner is....

Design & culture

2009-10-01T15:13:24+02:00

Design and Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum. Members receive the journal as part of their membership package. To join the Forum or to renew your membership, please select the Membership button.

This is the age of design. Even as recognition of its social, economic and cultural force grows, however, the design field's largely unseen 'edges' are increasingly becoming its driving forces.

Design and Culture examines these developments, looking for rigorous and innovative critical frameworks to explore 'design' as a cultural phenomenon today. As a forum for critique, the journal features a substantial reviews section in each issue. Moreover, in-depth essays analyze contemporary design, as well as its discourse and representations. Covering a field that is increasingly interdisciplinary, Design and Culture probes design's relation to other academic disciplines, including marketing, management, cultural studies, anthropology, material culture, geography, visual culture and political economy.

Peer-reviewed, full-color and handsomely designed throughout, Design and Culture is the official journal of the Design Studies Forum.

Comments:

A truly interdisciplinary and international peer-reviewed academic design journal that outrivals the excellent national and regional design periodicals! Marjatta Hauska, Librarian and Head of Humanities Section, Stockholm University Library, Sweden

Design and Culture promises to open up disciplinary boundaries and explore the links between creative practices. Such a venture is important to sustain the critical edge of design, lest it lapse into mere marketing. It should be read with great expectations. Kevin Murray, craft writer, Australia

This journal is both welcome and timely - it will facilitate the emerging collaborations between theorists in design and the sociology of consumption. Jack Ingram, Birmingham City University, UK

For so long design has been neglected as an area worthy of serious academic study and cutting edge analysis. At last a journal to fill the void by finally addressing the enormous impact and relevance of design in contemporary culture. Alison Clarke, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

Call for papers MEI 31: ‘Objects and communication’

2009-08-22T17:50:16+02:00

Call for papers

MEI 31: ‘Objects and communication’

Edited by Bernard Darras , the MEI review number 31 will be entitled: ‘Objects and Communication’. This issue intends to be an important step in the study of material culture and its role in communication.

While research on objects is still rare both in semiotics and information and communication science, the central question addressed in this issue primarily concerns the methods of communication of objects and their role in the relationships with people and machinery. This question assumes that the products of material culture are not passive devices but mediators of beliefs, emotions, representations, habits, agencies and obviously commands, actions and uses.

In this context, design as a process for the conception of the products of material culture is seen as a powerful set of tools for adapting and transforming the world of objects, and is therefore a major player in shaping social and cultural relationships.
Although this issue will emphasize the semiotic approaches, all research papers aiming at better understanding the function of communication of the resulting objects and design are welcome.

Organisation of the publication
1- The title and abstract (500 words) of your paper in French or English  must be sent by e-mail to Bernard.Darras@univ-paris1.fr
2- The closing date to receive titles and abstracts is 31st September 2009.
3- The results of the reading panel will be published on 15th October.
4- The final papers in French or English must reach the review no later than  15th November in order to be sent to the reading panel.
5- Feedback from the reading panel will be made available before 30th  November.
6- The review will be published in French and English in December 2009.

MEI ‘Mediation and Information’

The MEI ‘Mediation and Information’ review which was established in 1993, is an international journal of communication with a reading panel which publishes two  editions of about 200 pages annually.
- MEI is a scientific review supported by Centre National du Livre (CNL)
- It is a qualifying review recognized by:
o the Conseil National des Universités (CNU de Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication) (The National Universities Council, Information science  and Communication)
o the Agence d’Evaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur  AERES. (Evaluation Agency for Research and Higher Education, AERES).

MEI WEBSITE:

http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=revue&no=80

Le fichier thèse design est disponible

2009-08-06T10:45:35+02:00

C'est quoi une thèse sur le design?

Les thèses classées par lieu et université.

FICHIER THESE DESIGN.xls

Vous êtes en cours de thèse, vérifiez que vous êtes dans notre fichier avec les bonnes informations.

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Merci et bonnes vacances.

Brigitte Borja de Mozota

Ps: N'oubliez pas d'aller sur cette adresse pour consulter en fichier son mp3 (téléchargeable) et en vidéos podcast (streaming) les débats du jeudi 11 juin 2009 à l'adresse suivante:

http://epi.univ-paris1.fr/mdew

Videos et podcast des ARD disponibes

2009-07-27T18:28:45+02:00

Les vidéos et les podcast Mp3 des Ateliers de la Recherche en Design sont enfin disponibles.

Vous les trouverez à l'adresse suivante.

http://epi.univ-paris1.fr/mdew

Bon visionnage!