Important dates 2010

2 May
9 May
2 June
18 July
15 August
August
30 September

28 October


Deadline for Abstracts
Ext. Deadline for Abstracts
Notification of Acceptance
Deadline for Final Papers

Ext. Deadline WS Proposals
Papers Accepted / Revised
Deadline Registration Conference Dinner
Conference opens

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Negotiating Futures - Design Fiction

Designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference addresses the questions of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of possible new futures is negotiated and realized.

Latest News

 

Extended Submission Deadline of Wokshop Proposals

The submission deadline of the workshop proposals
has been extended until August 15, 2010.

 

Notifications of Acceptance

Notifications of acceptance have been delivered. Successful authors can find detailed submission instructions for final papers here.

 

 

Call for Workshop Proposals

We invite you to submit proposals for high quality workshops in the field of design research to be held during the Swiss Design Network Conference (Basel, 28 - 30 October, 2010). Read more.