Special Issue – International Conference on Design Futures 2022 (ICDF 2022)
Website: http://www.designfutures.cn/en/
Deadlines:
Please send your abstracts to: paper@designfutures.cn
Note: After submitting your abstract, please submit the complete paper here when you receive the acceptance notice. https://ojs.jfsdigital.org/index.php/jfs/about/submissions
Submission of the full paper deadline extended : February 7, 2023
Guest Editors:
Zhiyong Fu (Department of Information Art and Design, Tsinghua University, China)
Anna Barbara (Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Peter Scupelli (School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
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On December 2-3, 2022, the International Conference on Design Futures 2022 (ICDF 2022), focusing on educational action and social transformation, organized by the Global Design Futures Network (GDFN). Politecnico di Milano in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University, Tsinghua University, and other universities and institutions to review the ideas of post-pandemic globalization development from the perspective of design innovation.
The “Future Design-Education” and “Future Literacy” panels focus on promoting the reconstruction of the design education system and research ecology and spreading futures literacy education, collaborating with the UNESCO futures literacy team and members of the international futures literacy network.
Facing the challenges of social change and survival caused by Anthropocene and globalization crisis, rethinking and foreseeing the future social landscape is becoming the new direction of the design discipline. From the perspective of design innovation, the conference calls on participants to re-examine the diversified evolution trend of design concepts and tools in the post-epidemic era and explore the sustainable transformation direction of society and industry led by futures thinking. There are many different versions of futures thinking. How can they be integrated into design education? In the post-pandemic era, the problems that designers and educators should consider and deal with have changed significantly. On the one hand, new design problems require people to participate in constructing the new design value system actively. On the other hand, the ideas and methods to solve the problems have also changed. In order to cope with the uncertainty and common global issues, it is urgent for new design concepts and methods and corresponding reference cases to support. What role can design and the future play in training the next generation of designers so that they are ready to face such challenges after graduation? Thus, the cultivation model and approach for futures thinking in design education need to be clarified further.
This special issue aims to develop the knowledge system and design methodology and to integrate futures studies into design education and practice for cultivating compound talents much more with futures literacy.
We welcome your contributions in the form of theoretical/conceptual paper, research framework, course pedagogy, practical experience, etc., based on educational action. That would reference the rethink of the responsibility and mission of design education.
Papers may approach the theme of futures thinking in design education from various scenarios, ranging from resilient community, environmental education, low-carbon environmental protection, food system, crisis response, health well-being, clean energy, green transportation, and circular economy to analyze design opportunities and models for talents cultivation.
Paper submissions can be in the form of
1. Essays – 2000-3000 words in length (including references). Essays are expected to provide new viewpoints and visions, expressed through strong and intelligent prose.
2. Reports – 3000-4000 words in length (including references). Reports are expected to provide coverage of future studies related events (conferences, meetings, facilitated processes).
3. Articles – 4000-7000 words in length (including references). Articles are expected to make novel contributions to the futures studies field, build on the corpus of futures literature, be evidentially strong and develop clear themes and arguments. Articles are double-blind peer-reviewed.
Submission guideline : https://jfsdigital.org/invitation-to-authors/
