Alternative Practices in Design: The Collective - Past, Present and Future
SYMPOSIUM - ALTERNATIVE PRACTICES IN DESIGN: THE COLLECTIVE - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Friday 9 July 2010
RMIT University, Melbourne Australia
From 19thC experiments in the Arts and Crafts guilds to web-based global
collaborations, the collective offers powerful models of conceptualising
and experiencing the practice of design.
In Melbourne, the Fashion Design Council (fdc est. 1983) stands out. The
FDC promoted and supported independent Australian designers. Its members
were predominantly young fashion designers but included artists, craft workers and designers from other disciplines. The RMIT Design Archives holds an extensive FDC collection.
The RMIT Design Archives and Design Research Institute's Geoplaced
Knowledge will host a Symposium in July 2010 on the past, present and
future of the design collective. We welcome papers on a broad range of
subjects that engage notions of the collective as a basis for creative
practice. The symposium hopes to uncover historical and contemporary
examples: real, virtual or theoretical; cultural and organisational
theories; and, associated collective modes of practice and their
ramifications for gender and political activism.
Submissions
Email abstract of no more than 300 words to rmitdesignarchives@rmit.edu.au
as a Word file containing author details (name, affiliation and biography
of 200 words maximum) and as a pdf file with no identifying details. In
subject field insert: fdc_lastname (example: fdc_Smith). Abstracts and
accepted papers will be double blind refereed and published as proceedings.
Deadline for abstracts
Monday 21 Dec 2009
Symposium Convenors:
Harriet Edquist - Professor of Architectural History in the School of
Architecture and Design
Laurene Vaughan - Associate Professor of Design and Communication in the
School of Media and Communication
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Presented by RMIT University, RMIT Design Archives, RMIT Design Research
Institute