CONFERENCE ON DESIGN THINKING & INNOVATION: TOWARDS A GLOBAL/ASIAN PERSPECTIVE
01.03.2006 News
Victor
Margolin is much known for his design books and reviews (Design
Resource, Design Issues with Richard Buchanan, Looking Closer-Critical
Writings on Graphic Design with Michael Bierut et. al., The Future of
Futurism, The Idea of Design, The Visual Rhetoric of Propaganda, The
Bionic Computer, Art is Work with Milton Glaser, Dialects in Design and
many more). He is also the Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art
in the US.
Along with Victor are others, an illustrious
list that includes Dr. Micheal Siu from Hong Kong Polytechnic
University (area of expertise in Asian Design and Culture with articles
in the Harvard Asia Pacific Review, Design Issues and the Journal of
Popular Culture), Dr Leong Chan from University of NSW, Australia (area
of expertise: Graphics and Contemporary Society and written books such
as; Images in Art and Design and The Iconography of Belonging), Mr
Young-ill Kim, Vice President of Hyundai, South Korea, Dr. Milton Tan,
Director of Design Singapore, Michele Capuani, Director of
Transportation Design, Domus Academy, Prof. Yrjo Somataa, Rector,
University of Art and Design Helsinki, Finland and others.
This
International Design conference is endorsed by the Japan Design
Foundation, MICA and Design Singapore, IDSA USA . The conference is
organized in collaboration with CUMULUS, the European Association of
Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media, a prominent design
grouping for European design.
Asia and Asian designs are
gaining a foothold in the international design arena. With the rise of
India, China and Asia as a region, the implications to design from new
emergence viewpoint of the enormity of mega-sized consumer markets and
low cost production capabilities are something that all designers
cannot and must not ignore. This conference has a focus on Asian Design
Thinking but with a global perspective.
Diversity, or
"cognitive variety," is essential to innovation. Design in today's
terms must be at once global, yet regionally specific. A world view
must include Asia. This conference will offer insights and design
perspectives on how an awaking growing giant thinks and innovates.
The main theme for the conference is entitled: Design Thinking & Innovation: Towards an
Asian Perspective . Within this main theme, there are sub-themes and
are garnered from current pertinent issues that are obfuscating the
design landscape. They will be issues that practitioners and academics
will want to deliberate and confabulate on. The scope of knowledge and
experiences that are emerging at present from the international design
community, debating about these topics are a challenge for a symposium
aspiring to offer an egression, not a series of positional parametric
rhetoric on design issues, but a kind of cynosure to engage, postulate
and clarify divergent views on design thinking and innovation,
particularly from an Asian perspective. The activities that approximate
design thinking and innovation creates this incubatory, fertile ground,
where the past and present ambuscade the new in its efforts to be something else that will propagate a neoteric future for design.
More information can be garnered from visiting the conference website: www.designunplugged.info.
For further information please contact:
T. 6780 5133
F. 6784 6144
E: deshotline@tp.edu.sg
Icograda is pleased to endorse this event, organised by a member of the Icograda Education Network. The Icograda Eduction network currently includes 77 schools in 28 countries around the world. education.icograda.org
About Temasek Design School
Temasek Design School aims to mould highly professional designers for industry and practice. We believe in hands-on, student-centred learning in a flexible academic structure. The project-oriented curriculum marries the Problem-Based Learning approach to maximise exploration and discovery of design principles and issues.
Our students learn via a lively exchange of ideas, cultural exchanges, overseas and local field trips, 'live' industry projects and internship opportunities both local and international. Our students are trained in professional and technical competencies, language and communication, cultural studies and business practice in the various disciplines.
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