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From: "Sita Popat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS:
Emergent Objects: Performing Design Invited Colloquium on Thursday
7th and Friday 8th June 2007 at the University of Leeds
Emergent Objects: designing the human/technology interface through
performance is a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) and Engineering and Physical Sciences
Research Council (EPSRC) programme Designing for the 21st Century.
At the colloquium, we want to share our research so far with design
practitioners (e.g. interaction design, experience design, product
design, fashion and clothing, robotics, digital and media art,
engineering, architecture and computing) and reflect on how a range
of design disciplines might make use of the particular approaches
and concepts we are using in the Emergent Objects project.
The project draws on performance knowledge to explore and
articulate the emergent nature of the interface between
technological object and human that is fundamental to the
development of new design thinking and practices. The project uses
performance perspectives to investigate the modelling of a role of
design in a technological society and asks questions about the
desirable relationships between users and designed artefacts,
systems or environments. Key research questions include:
- How do performance processes facilitate
interdisciplinary communication and collaboration in a design
context and what new insights does this bring to design thinking?
- How can practice-based methodologies which are used in
performance practice and research be usefully applied to the design
process?
- How can performance knowledge of play, embodiment and
composition inform the design of interfaces between humans and
technological objects?
- How do we design interfaces that are fluid, malleable
and emerging, to promote human engagement with technological
objects as an expressive, communicative and creative act?
You can read more about the Emergent Objects project and the June
event on our website: <http://www.emergentobjects.co.uk/>
http://www.emergentobjects.co.uk/
We have a limited number of funded places (travel, accommodation
and attendance at the event will be covered for). If you would like
to be involved, please send 50 words on what you think you can
contribute to this research event to
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] by 25th April 2007?
We hope you will be interested in this opportunity to contribute to
an exciting and interdisciplinary research initiative. We look
forward to hearing from you.
Emergent Objects: designing the human/technology interface through
performance
Principal Investigator: Prof Mick Wallis, University of Leeds
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