13 June 2012
CfP: International jewellery conference
Kolding School of Design, Denmark
November 17 -19, 2012
Sumbissions by August 1, 2012
Design represents a central form of cultural communication. Today, practical and functional needs are often put aside in favour of other values. This is for example the case with memory design produced by firms such as the Italian design firm Alessi. When designers from Alessi create their products, they are usually inspired by cultural forms, often specifically by the concept of memory in philosophy, sociology and psychology. The concept of memory is valued because it adds a cultural dimension to design objects, enabling the objects to make an identity-forming impact.
In Italy, there has been a long tradition in schools of design and architecture of focusing on the humanities, making culture and memory issues an essential part of the education. Traditionally, Danish design has focused on form and function with frequent references to the forms of Nature. The question is if the concept of memory also plays a role in Danish design. Whereas memory is used deliberately in Italian design, it is perhaps manifested more intuitively as a non-culturally generated memory in Danish design, a memory which is founded in the organic, in nature metaphors.
The purpose of this conference is to bring memory in design in theory and practice into focus. Participation of designers, theorists and firms with different approaches to design will create an exciting forum for an exchange of opinions concerning the use of memory in general and more specifically the use of memory in design. Thematic differences and similarities between Italian and Danish design and design thinking will be discussed.
The conference, which features several prominent and internationally acclaimed keynote speakers and participants, has already received much attention. Among the keynote speakers are Director of Alessi Alberto Alessi (topic: design between memory and poetry), Professor Alba Cappellieri (topic: memory in theory and practice), Architect and Professor, Helsinki University of Technology emeritus Juhani Pallasmaa (topic: architecture, design and phenomenology), Architect, Designer Massimiliano Fuksas (topic: design between memory and forgetting); Professor, Department of Language, Literature & Culture at the University of Aarhus, Svend Erik Larsen (topic: memory and forgetting in theory and practice), Jewellery Designer Kim Buck (topic: memory in practice), and Professor, dr.phil, Department of Culture and Society Department of the History Ideas who together with PhD student at Kolding School of Design, Sisse Tanderup, will debate how memory can have form and meaning. Danish design is represented by designers from Georg Jensen (Kim Buck) and Pandora (Lone Frandsen and Lisbeth Larsen).
http://www.designskolenkolding.dk/index.php?id=4075
Participation / Call for papers
The three-day conference will present a number of invited speakers and a maximum of 75 participants. The conference fee is DKK 700.
If you would like to participate, please submit your paper to Research Secretary Lise Yde
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no later than Wednesday 1 August 2012 at 12.00. Maximum length: 1 A4 page. A jury comprising Professor Alba Cappellieri, Professor Svend Erik Larsen, Associate Professor Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Jewellery Designer Kim Buck and PhD Fellow Sisse Tanderup will evaluate the papers. Papers within the following topics will be accepted:
- The relationship between design and memory.
- The relationship between theory and practice.
- The relationship between cultural and non-cultural memory.
- The relationship between memory and forgetfulness.
- The relationship between narration and design.
Conference language: English
Additional information
Please contact PhD Fellow Sisse Tanderup
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The conference is supported by The Danish Council for Independent Research | Humanities.