About us & Sponsorship
The London College of Communication is part of the University of the Arts London, which groups six of the world’s best-known art, communication, design and related technologies organisations. University status was awarded following a long run of outstanding evaluation of teaching quality, and sector-leading research performance. Formerly the London College of Printing, LCC re-launched in 2004 and now operates from a striking building with state-of-the-art facilities. As a specialist college, LCC has around 9,000 students of all ages and from a variety of backgrounds and cultures with staff including successful academics and practitioners engaging in London’s thriving design, photography, broadcasting, publishing, advertising, film, printing, retailing and media industries.
For further details on courses, research and other related college activities please see:
http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk
The School of Applied Communication is located within the Design and Social Context Portfolio at RMIT University, in Melbourne, Australia. Programs within the School span the Communication Professions; including Media, Journalism, Cinema, Communication Studies, Public Relations, Advertising and Communication Design. The diversity of disciplines results in undergraduate and postgraduate education programs, and research and professional activities which endeavour to result in innovative and professionally relevant outcomes. RMIT is renowned for collaborating with industry, providing solutions, new ideas and processes that deliver real outcomes for businesses.
For further details on courses, research and other related activities please see:
http://www.rmit.edu.au/appliedcommunication
Sponsors
Research Unit for Information Environments
The University of the Arts London
Professor Teal Triggs and Professor Phil Baines, Co-Directors
Dr Patrick Roberts, Associate Director
The remit for Information Environments (IE) is to explore, examine and contribute to the shifting paradigms of our contemporary information and knowledge-based society. We define Information Environments as any virtual or physical spaces where information is generated, received and experienced. IE questions what is meant by information with a view to documenting its history, engaging with the communities and environments in which it occurs and the technologies used in its mediation.
What makes this research unit unique is the potential for developing new synergies between art and design with a focus on communication and information environments. Thirty members hail from four of the six UAL colleges and include specialist research in the areas of digital arts, site-specific installation, graphic and information design, design history, architecture, typography, spatial drawing, interaction design and oral history. IE external partners consist of organisations and professional design practices specialising in areas that enhance IE’s own staff research. An International Advisory Board provides guidance and support as IE’s research potential is established.
Design Institute
RMIT University
Dr Laurene Vaughan and Professor Harriet Edquist, Co - Research Leaders, Communication Interfaces/Digital Artefacts, Geoplaced Knowledges Program
Professor Mark Burry, Design Institute Director
User-led design resulting in new understandings, innovative products, enhanced performance and well-being
The purpose and objectives of the Design Institute are to engage with new design technologies to enhance community and individual life. Its research focuses on the delivery of space, environments, services and products through design methodologies that elicit and guide our needs and wishes.
The Institute aims to:
- Build design research capability and community.
- Develop new products, services and constructed and virtual environments.
- To be recognised internationally as a design research institute delivering excellence through a distinctive approach to the iterative integration of community with design methodologies.
- Develop new products, services and constructed and virtual environments.
The Design Institute brings together researchers from a range of ‘design disciplines’ to work in teams around project challenges such as new urban environments, customized manufacture of apparel, creating healthy and supportive workplaces, art in public and private places and interactive construction of spatial maps and archives.
It actively explores the applied design , production and marketing potential of selected research outcomes and seeks to forge key external industry partnerships and raise awareness of the value of design.
Overseen by Academic Leaders and an International Advisory Committee, the Design Institute has five streams of inquiry: Customising Space, Rapid Manufacture, Intervention through Art, Geoplaced Knowledges and Urban Liveability. It will facilitate and fund five major projects in 2008 and seed a number of smaller projects. The outcomes of these projects include refereed articles and books, national and international keynote presentations, exhibitions, symposia, programs, studies and products.
Key Dates
Deadline for Paper Abstracts:
29 February 2008
Notification of acceptances of Abstract:
14 April 2008
Submission of posters:
15 May 2008
Submission for amended Abstracts:
30 April 2008
Symposium
July 9 – 11, 2008
London College of Communication
University of the Arts London
UK
Exhibition
9 – 21 July 2008
Opens in London and then travels to RMIT, Australia
A digital exhibition will also be presented through the conference website.
Contact the organisers:
Professor Teal Triggs
t.triggs@lcc.arts.ac.uk
Head of Research,
School of Graphic Design,
LCC
and co-Director,
UAL Research Unit for Information Environments, London
Dr. Laurene Vaughan
laurene.vaughan@rmit.edu.au
Director of Research and Innovation School of Applied Communication,
RMIT
Supported in part by:
UAL Research Unit for Information Environments
RMIT Design Institute