PRE Design Forum is present at the Cumulus Conference in KyotoFrom March 27-31 at Kyoto-Seika University.
PRE Design Forum presents to the board of CumulusAt the Cumulus conference in Bratislava October 12-14 PREDesign will present new initiatives for the Cumulus board.
Real-life, Not politics!PRE Design Forum runs a workshop Friday 15. June, 11:00 - 12:30 at Room 128
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30th May 2007
PRE Design Forum has, during the past years, grown both in importance and number of participants, and has now become an official working group in the Cumulus network.
PRE Design Forum will continue to pursue the integration of Practice, Research and Education through Cumulus and other professional networks like ELIA and WritingPAD to create an active forum for designers and design educators.
Cumulus seminar at the University of Lapland, Rovaniemi 22nd-23nd March that formed The Rovaniemi Group as a special interest group within the PRE Design Forum.
A short summary from the conference and following discussion can be found here....
- How not to reinvent the wheelSymposium at Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo (KHIO), The Oslo National Academy of the Arts
7th February 2007
Like many of you, a number of us at KHiO have developed a sense of dissatisfaction with the nature of conferences and symposiums. Our experience has been that though many talks given at these events are useful and interesting to us as professionals, there is never enough time in the formal sessions to raise questions, discuss pertinent issues or debate them in any depth. ......
Material from the symposium can be found here...
PRE Design went to the Cumulus Conference in Warsaw and hosted the only non-administrative workshop.We had two very succesfull sessions with many new friends joining the network and really good discussions (se below for mindmaps of the discussions). On more information about the Warsaw conference go here.
A Buro seminar of Utrecht School of the Arts.
At the beginning of the new course year, students of Visual Communication (Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography) explored the neighbourhoods of Utrecht. Their assignment was: create some form of public communications based on a personal relationship with the citizens of Utrecht. During one week five groups of students, under the supervision of five different designers developed their own way of artistic research. Their aim was to develop design solutions which bring about social change or to evoke a new view on social reality.
In the late spring of 2006, we taught a workshop on diagrams at Designskolen Kolding. The workshop began with a short introduction to mapping methods, which were later used by the group of students during a study trip to Berlin. Back in Kolding, the students had two weeks to use the mappings – first to do analytical diagrams and later producing diagrams.
In the context of PRE Design Forum this workshop is interesting from two points of view: First of all it was an exercise in bridging the ever-present gap between theory and practice, by applying theoretical knowledge about diagrams to the students design practice. Second, it was an exercise in how students produce new knowledge about their own methods and their subject matter through the act of design – their practice.
In the spring of 2006 Designskolen Kolding took the first step to create a virtual platform for design dialogue. The challenge of Virtual Platform was to create a way for virtual teams to work together without ever meeting in the real world. We wanted to develop a new virtual design tool, which makes it possible for designers to work together across borders, time zones, cultures, languages and economy ......Read more
Within the Bachelor of Arts educational programme research not only serves to prepare students for their MA studies, it is equally seen to enhance the design practice, resulting in better, well-balanced and more sound design solutions. This essay aims to put forward a didactic example of a research methodology for the purposes of conceptual research in graphic design ......Read more
This project is the work of a European student, who had lived in a number of different cities through out the world. The basis of her proposal for her Major Research Project was based on her perception that various cities such as New York, Paris, Kyoto, displayed architectural styles, such as the International or corporate style. However, the essential “feel” of each city was different and manifested itself in the way space was used by its inhabitants. She investigated and analysed the layout of each city using anthropology as critical framework, and focusing on approaches such as proxemics ......Read more
The Practice, Research & Education in Design Forum (P.R.E.Design Forum) was formed in order to investigate the role of research in Design education. The task of teaching in design has shifted from training (the apprenticeship system) to the education (with the introduction of the university BA to PhD system) of students, and this change has had....Read more
Historically, the culture of design education reflects an uneasy liaison between the mediaeval monastic (‘Book’) and the crafts guilds (‘design studio’) traditions. For this reason it has been difficult to integrate both modes of knowledge in design education. Common misunderstandings about ‘scholastic rigour’ are symptomatic of this confusion. ‘Rigorous’ writing is fundamentally rule-based ......Read more
Oslo, Monday May 15th 2006: we were in for a late afternoon dinner at the Teketopa café – around the block of KHiO-design – ordering dishes from a menu of Late Levantine cuisine. As we took our seats around the table, Maziar told us smiling how Anke and Thomas were arriving with their lugage from downtown Oslo, discussing various positions in postmodern theory ......Read more
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