Parallax Art Fair is Europe's largest consumer fair for independent artists, designers and creative-run galleries. The Kensington fairs attract over 350 exhibitors in all fine, decorative and applied mediums from all over the world and many collaborative projects over the years have come about through the meeting of like minds at the fair.



Dates and Deadlines:
The twenty-fourth edition takes place at the prestigious Kensington Town Hall just off Kensington High Street in London 15-17 February 2019.
The deadline for applications is 31st January 2019.

The twenty-fifth edition in London takes place at the original venue, the recently refurbished Chelsea Town Hall on King's Road, 22-24 February 2019.
The deadline for applications is 10th February 2019.

More information and application form: www.parallaxaf.co

Der Wettbewerb »100 beste Plakate des Jahres«, in seinen Ursprüngen Mitte der 60er Jahre in der DDR ins Leben gerufen, wurde seit 1991 vom Verband der Grafik-Designer e. V. (VGD) im geeinten Deutschland fortgesetzt und seit dem Jahrgang 2001 in der Trägerschaft des 100 Beste Plakate e. V. für den deutschsprachigen Raum in den Ländern Deutschland, Österreich und Schweiz ausgeschrieben. Ziel des Wettbewerbs ist es, aus allen Einreichungen die 100 besten zu ermitteln und gleichberechtigt – ohne Rangfolge, ohne Preise – in mehreren Ausstellungen und einem Jahrbuch zu präsentieren.

Es können Plakate aller Genres und Drucktechniken eingereicht werden, die in der Zeit vom 01. Januar bis zum 31. Dezember 2018 gestaltet, gedruckt und veröffentlicht wurden.

Deadline mit Upload der Einreichung ist der 21. Januar 2019.

Mehr Informationen finden Sie unter 100-beste-plakate.de.
Die Anmeldung zur Teilnahme am Wettbewerb und die Registrierung der Plakate erfolgen online unter www.registrierung.100-beste-plakate.de.

Design Culture & Somaesthetics
Conference in dialogue between post-disciplinary fields

Dates: 6-8 May 2019
Location: Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Budapest, Hungary

Design discourses, practices and products that are constituted in the synergy of all our senses are the protagonists of design culture studies that takes design culture as a flow of cultural products produced by social practices and reflected in cultural discourses. Both design culture studies and somaesthetics are interested in body-mind interactions and both include theory, methodology and practice alike within their action radius.
The purpose of this conference is to take a step backward and address design theorists, philosophers, anthropologists, aestheticians, social scientists, healthcare professionals, technology experts, artists, designers and educators to discuss the parallel and complementary possibilities of these post disciplinary approaches in the spirit of initial dialogue and pragmatic goodwill in order to create platforms of fulfilling and fruitful future collaborations.

Deadline for submissions: 20 January 2019
For further details and online submission please visit http://doktori.mome.hu
Or submit your proposal (in no more than 300 words with 5 keywords) of a 20-30 minutes presentation to
conference2019@mome.hu.

Artifact: Journal of Design Practice is an open access scholarly journal that publishes double-blind peer-reviewed design research broadly concerned with examining the nature of, developments in, and understandings of design practices. Design research is rapidly becoming a knowledge-intensive field characterized by an overwhelming scholarly interest in design’s many interfaces. These range from the role of design in solving complex societal problems to enhancing the sustainability and profitability of businesses across industries and geographies. Against this backdrop, the journal provides an outlet for researchers across disciplines and research approaches and encourages contributions from diverse perspectives that examine practices related to traditional and the emerging new activities of design, professions of design, and organizational uses of design. Moreover, the journal aims to reflect recent decades’ substantial transformation of the field of design research with contributions that touch on design practices from a broad spectrum of scientific fields such as semiotics, design semantics, critical discourse analysis, science and technology studies, design(erly) thinking, management, organization, and material history.

Call for Papers
For the upcoming journal issue, manuscripts are invited that may engage
with any of the following themes (but not limited to):
* Theoretical and conceptual perspectives on the nature of current and
future design practices.
* Theoretical and empirical inquiries into the nature and
understandings of design practices.
* The role of design practice in shaping and realizing entrepreneurial
processes and/ or strategies.
* The role of design practice in relation to societal or organizational
change, innovation and value creation from a competitive, financial,
social or sustainability perspective.

Deadline for submissions: 1 April 2019
For more information on the conference and submission guidelines please visit www.intellectbooks.co.uk

3rd NERD – New Experimental Research in Design (Basel, 1 – 2 Nov 19)

The particular epistemic and innovative potentials of Design Research are increasingly recognized within the wider academic sphere and are in constantly growing demand by businesses, institutions and politics alike. Yet, design research also is a field and practice that, due to its in-between nature, lacks the clear boundaries and formal dogmatisms of more traditional research disciplines, as well as their implicit notions of secured knowledge and linear progress.
Recognizing this inherent openness as one of its key qualities, the New Experimental Research in Design (in short: NERD) conference aims at providing a genuinely diverse and open platform for discussing, reflecting on and exposing to a wider public the manifold ways in which design’s unique perspective and proficiencies can intelligently be applied as a research competence. It does so by inviting presentations of empirical research projects by researchers from around the world and from all areas of design research with a focus on methodologically and thematically original approaches.

3rd NERD, held at the Academy of Art and Design and hosted by the Institute Integrative Design in Basel Switzerland on November 1 & 2, 2019, once again will feature a careful selection of 30-minute presentations of research projects, each followed by another half an hour of time for questions and intense discussion with the audience. Developed and realized by BIRD, the Board of International Research in Design for the eponymous design research book series published by Birkhäuser, as an annual event with changing venues, this conference format has already proven its productivity twice.

Call for Papers
Deadline: Apr 22, 2019
Contributions should employ an original and well-conceived design-based and empirical/experimental approach and may deal with all kinds of interesting, engaging and socially, culturally and intellectually relevant questions. Contributions by NERDs from other fields who share a similar commitment to new experimental approaches in design research are also welcome.

For more information on the conference and submission guidelines please visit

Socially Engaged Design Conference
Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 October 2019
Limassol, Cyprus

Call 2019:
Initiate, sustain, expand
The value of socially engaged practices in social change

Socially Engaged Design Conference (SED) is a two-day event that discusses how researchers and practitioners propose and implement solutions to tackle contemporary societal issues. SED 2 will explore the role of art and design in driving social change. Under the umbrella theme of socially engaged practices through the arts and design (current and future) the speakers will present and debate their stance on political theories, democracy, the actual impact of socially engaged practices, social cities and co-design.

Themes
01 / Art, Design & Politics
02 / Socially Engaged Practices & Democracy
03 / The future of Socially Engaged Practices
04 / Social cities

Important dates
Submission of Abstracts: 11 January 2019 Reviews to authors: 12 April 2019
Submission of Workshop proposals: 3 May 2019 Notification to accepted Workshops: 26 July 2019 Camera Ready Papers: 13 September 2019

Submissions are made through the EasyChair management system

For more information on the conference, themes and submission guidelines please visit www.sedconference.com

The International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) 2019 Conference will be hosted by Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK on 02-05 September 2019.

The conference theme – DESIGN REVOLUTIONS – is organised under 10 parallel tracks that reflect the breadth and opportunities of the norm, the now and the new of design research. For the first time IASDR will be held in the UK and will foster new thinking towards a compelling, meaningful and radical dialogue regarding the role that design plays in addressing societal and organisational issues.

The biannual conference enables academics, practitioners and students join together to explore contemporary agendas, emerging directions and future challenges that are at the forefront of design research. IASDR 2019 will provide opportunities for the presentation and publication of a collection of high-quality peer reviewed research papers alongside the space to discuss and debate the evolution and revolution of design.

Submission Guidelines

Full papers should be 4000-5000 words in length excluding abstract and references. Authors should directly address one of the conference track themes demonstrating a high-degree of academic scholarship, clearly articulate their research focus, provide a concise synthesis of the research context, describe the methods used to undertake the research, present the findings of the research and summarise the key contribution to the field.

Final deadline for full paper submission: 15 February 2019

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Unsere Ernährungsweise beeinflusst nicht nur unsere Körper, unsere Gesundheit und unsere Selbstwahrnehmung, sondern hat zunehmend Auswirkungen auf die gesamte Erde.
Inwieweit gestalten wir durch unser Essen den Planeten? Was wird das Essen der Zukunft sein und wie können wir die Weltbevölkerung ernähren, ohne die fragilen Ökosysteme zu zerstören?

BIOTOPIA – ein neuartiges Museum der Biowissenschaften derzeitig in Planung in München – macht diese Fragen zum Thema seines dreitägigen Festivals „EAT“, das vom 24.-26. Mai 2019 im und am
Schloss Nymphenburg stattfindet.

Das Festival erkundet in einer köstlichen und Denkanstöße liefernden Entdeckungsreise die Welt des Essens in all seinem Facettenreichtum. Das Festival bietet Erlebnisse aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln und bringt führende Vertreter*innen aus Wissenschaften, Kunst, Design, Kulinarik, Industrie, Innovation und Praxis miteinander und mit dem Publikum ins Gespräch und bewegt sich an der Schnittstelle von Biowissenschaft, Kunst und Design, von Menschen und nicht-menschlichen Organismen wie Mikroorganismen, zwischen Essen als biologischer Notwendigkeit und kultureller Aneignung von Geschmack und Ästhetik.

Mit dem Open Call for Participation lädt BIOTOPIA innovative, inspirierende und das Publikum einnehmende Arbeiten aller Genres und Arten zur Teilnahme und Präsentation während des dreitägigen Festivals im Mai 2019 ein. Alle eingegangen Projektvorschläge werden von einer international und interdisziplinär besetzten Jury bewertet und werden mit bis zu 10.000 Euro unterstützt.

Für Informationen zum Open Call inkl. dem Bewerbungsprozess besuchen Sie bitte www.biotopia.net.