EAD2007: The 7th International Conference of the European Academy of Design
June 12, 2006 | Levent OZLER
The Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey, will host the 7th conference of the EAD between 11-13 April 2007 under the general headline: Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse & Disaster.
Three thematic components of this design conference - disaster, discourse and disorder - indicate three interrelated but relatively autonomous fields that highlight various aspects related to contemporary issues in design.
Design discourse involves the current language of design, i.e., the terms with which we conceptualize and talk about design.
Design management, design research and current issues in design are some of the specific topics that can be addressed within this framework.
This area of the conference includes presentations that seek to go beyond the over-asked question of "what is design?" and advocate a re-appraisal of accepted design conventions.
Definitions of design include such terms as plan, purpose, intention and function, besides others such as artistry and creativity that take central importance in definitions of art.
Plan, purpose, intention and function are concepts related to predictability and hence systematic thinking.
Systematic thinking in turn is related to order.
Design brings order to the relationship between us, and the objects that we use, see, and
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