CALL FOR OBJECTS - Cabinet of Curiosities

CUMULUS GENK CONFERENCE 2010:

BORDERLINE - PUSHING DESIGN OVER THE LIMIT

Themes

The Cumulus Genk Conference will be hosted by the Media and Design Academy of Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg form 26th May through 30th May 2010. The theme of the conference is BORDERLINE-Pushing Design over the Limit.

In this conference we wish to explore and to experience the various facets of border lines and how limits and limitations are overcome. This is a multidimensional, social and societal relevant theme that will illustrate how geographical, cultural, social, philosophical and virtual boundaries are crossed.

Teachers, managers, artists, researchers are invited to take part and submit work relating to the general theme, the two sub-themes and concept tags that are listed below. They can participate as speakers in parallel sessions, or organise a poster session. But this conference will organise a novel approach. This should be a conference with many possibilities to experience things.

We will therefore organise a Wunderkammer, a Cabinet of Curiosities. 

Below you will find what we intend to do, what we are looking for and what we are asking of YOU, the participant.

BORDERLINE - PUSHING DESIGN OVER THE LIMIT

CRITICAL DESIGN

BOUNDLESS CURIOSITY

TAGS

Within these two subthemes we are looking for papers and posters that can exemplify these two fields. We are looking for presentations focusing on:

curiosity, critical design, service design, social design, design thinking, transformation design, social innovation, experience design, transdisciplinarity, crossovers, open laboratory, city living lab, tribalism, sustainability, comeback city, open source, etc.

We want every participant to bring along a curio from your home country, an object with a story, an object that can be used to create a ready-made Wunderkammer, which then is a metaphor.

We are looking for three types of objects:

- A curio or object that is typical for the region you come from and which could be metaphorically used to tell us something about that region

- It could be an object or piece of art that you have made yourself

- Objects that can be used to inspire us, a piece of inspiration for artists, designers, researchers, teachers and students

The objects will be catalogued, photographed for publication and used in an exhibition during the CUMULUS conference. If so wished the objects will be returned to the owners, if not, they will become part of the permanent collection.

Call in pdf.  call_for_objects__cabinet_of_curiosities_genk

CONTACT

For more information on the Cumulus Genk Conference 2010: www.borderlinedesign.eu

Conference General Secretary: Luk Van der Hallen

Conference Co-General Secretary: Eija Salmi

Coordinator for papers: Michael Joris This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Assistant of coordinator: Christa Vandersmissen This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

Cumulus Secretariat: Justyna Maciak This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it