The Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel and the Swiss Design Network are pleased to invite you to participate in the 6th Annual Swiss Design Network Conference in Basel, Switzerland, October 28-30, 2010.

The SDN Conference belongs to the leading European design 

research conferences and brings together scholars, professionals and 

students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in 

design and design research. The 2010 conference theme addresses the 

topic of "negotiating futures. design fiction." It builds on the 

assumption, that 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 therewith addresses 

the question of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of 

possible new futures is negotiated and realized. Keynote speakers 

include James Auger, Julian Bleecker, Ruth Durrer, Franz Liebl and 

Alexandra Midal.

Call for Papers

We invite you to present your research at the SDN Conference 2010. We 

are looking for high quality papers in the field of design research to 

be published in the conference proceedings. While the conference 

addresses all current areas of design research, we especially 

encourage the submission of work that addresses the main conference 

theme of "design fiction" and the respective empirical research, 

theories, methods, and educational work.

Deadline for the submission of abstracts is May 2, 2010, deadline for 

the submission of final papers is July 18, 2010. For more and updated 

information on the conference and on how to submit your work, please  

see the attached call for papers and visit the main conference website 

at www.sdn2010.ch .

Martin Wiedmer

President Swiss Design Network

http://www.swissdesignnetwork.org/

Call information  sdncfp