Call for papers: LeNS Conference

LeNS Conference, Bangalore, India, 29th September to 1st October 2010

Challenges and Opportunities for Design Research, Education and Practice in the XXI Century.

The Sustainability in Design: Now! Conference is a platform for sharing the latest knowledge and experiences in product, service and system design, to promote sustainable systems thinking in design education, research and practice communities. The conference approach is to look at various stakeholders in this arena - designers, design educators and design researchers - as a unique learning community. The objective is the creation of a new ethos, within such a community, enabling all possible synergies and fruitful processes of knowledge and know-how osmosis and cross-fertilisation.

This conference is promoted and organized as the conclusive event of the LeNS project, funded by EU under the Asia-Link program, that aims at the development and diffusion of design for sustainability in design institutions.

The conference is for free and proceedings will be published (with ISBN); best paper will be published in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (IJSHE)."

Call for Papers

Participants are invited to submit papers in the areas related to the conference sub-themes outlined below. The conference is structured around three main themes that include:

       1. Design Research for Sustainability (DRfS)

       2. Design Education for Sustainability (DEfS)

       3. Design Practice for Sustainability (DPfS)

Key Dates

• Dead Lines for Abstract for Papers 31st March 2010
• Notification of Acceptance 1st May 2010
• Full Paper Submission 30th June 2010
• Announcement of Paper Presenters 31st July 2010
• Sustainability in Design NOW Conference  29,30th September and 1st October

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