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*Deadline for proposals: 23 of September 2012.*

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*Call for papers*

*Artists in Industry. The Role of Design in the Digital Age.*
*International Conference, Bucharest, Romania*
*November 1 - 2, 2012.*

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*Artists in Industry*, the International Conference on *The Role of Design
in the Digital Age*, will be held November 1-2, 2012, at “Ion Mincu”
University of Architecture and Planning in Bucharest, Romania.

The project *Artists in Industry* was initiated by 2580 Association with
the support of AFCN – National Administration of Romanian Cultural Fund.

*About the conference*
Considered by many as being one of the constitutive texts of modern design,
the 1919 Bauhaus manifesto aimed to put into discussion the place of the
arts in the modern world. Its program was to reconfigure and make
significant  the role of visual arts in the context of industrial
production.

These same questions, but in a more programmatic way, had also constituted
the corpus of the ideological debate that took place during the first years
of the Socialist Revolution in URSS. The “soviet model” was lately
implemented in the countries of the Eastern Europe. Although the presence
of artists in industry was encouraged - being seen as the only valuable
contribution artists could make to the socialist economy - the authorities
of the time continued to emphasize the expansion of production in the
detriment of creativity and innovation. Despite the fact that
industrialization was seen as materialization of socialist ideology - a
driving force towards economic development and modernization - it did not
really succeed in revolutionizing the structure of the production forces.

Living in today’s digital age and facing the problems related to worldwide
financial and economic crisis, questions related to the status of art and
design are resurfacing in various forms. If there were voices affirming
that once past the “information society” we would enter a post-industrial
era, some supported the idea of a hyper-industrialized world. The latest
developments in digital fabrication and interactive systems are about to
confirm the latest suppositions. Trying to answer the questions raised by
the digital industry and economy, we are more or less required to strike a
balance between an analytic and a programmatic evaluation.

By using the theoretical tools that a historical analysis of design
phenomena can provide, we would like to encourage a critical debate about
the status and manifestation of contemporary design in the current digital
industry and globalized economy.

The main objective of our project is to provide a better understanding of
the problems a designer may face by providing the necessary information and
analytical tools for a better understanding of the past, and by
establishing a platform for discussion on the future of industrial design.
Put it otherwise, we would like to discuss the relationship that exists
between design, industry and economy, and between design and technology in
order to produce a critical analysis of notions like “made in” or the
newest “designed in/designed by”, “sustainable design”, “open source
design”, “collaborative process design”.

*The questions to be addressed are:*

   - In which way the digitalization has an impact on the process of design
   and production?
   - What was the role of the artist/designer in the industrial society
   (being that liberal or socialist) and how does it compare to its present
   status?
   - Can the definitions of consumer and user still be informative in the
   context of a digital economy?
   - What were the design challenges in the industrial age and which are
   the challenges it faces in a digital economy?
   - We welcome papers and posters expanding on or challenging any of these
   questions.

*Possible topics to be addressed in the conference include, but are not
limited to: *

   - Design definitions and methodologies (art and design research,
   practice based design, research by design, etc.)
   - Design policies
   - Educational aspects of design
   - Production issues and design (craft, industrial design, co-design,
   open source, D.I.Y.)
   - Distribution and consumption issues and design (patents, Creative
   Commons).
   - Both theoretical approaches and study cases can be presented.

Papers and posters will be selected from the submitted proposals on the
basis of multiple peer reviews by the members of the Conference Committee.
Authors will be notified on the results via email by October 1st, 2012.

Generally, 20 minutes will be allowed for each presentation and 10 minutes
for discussion. A special posters session will be organized. Every proposal
for a paper or a poster has to be accompanied by an abstract (500 words)
and a short biography (100 words).

*Conference committee :* Bogdan Ghiu, Tincuta Heinzel, Augustin Ioan.

*Invitated speakers :* Janis Jefferies (Goldsmiths University of London),
Gesche Joost (UdK, Design Research Lab, Berlin), Zilvinas Lilas (KHM,
Cologne), Sophie Pène (ENSCI, Paris).

*Important dates:*
September 23, 2012  - Deadline for abstracts (500 words) and biography (100
words)
October 1, 2012 - Notification of acceptance
November 1 – 2, 2012 - Conference

Submissions should be sent in “.doc” or “.rtf” format as attachments only
to Tincuta Heinzel at: conference[at]artistsinindustry.com.
For more information please visit the conference's website :
http://conference.artistsinindustry.com

*
Special note from the organizer :* 2580 Association will grant
accommodation to all of the selected participants. Participants will be
responsible for their round-trip fares and living expenses during their
stay in Bucharest.

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