Desire 2011 - Creativity and Innovation in Design

Desire 2011: Creativity and Innovation in Design

The DESIRE Network announced the Second International Conference on Creativity and Innovation in Design, to be held in Eindhoven on October 19-21, 2011.

The conference theme of the first DESIRE conference, held in Aarhus, Denmark, on August 16 - 17, 2010, was theories and models of creative processes in design. The conference theme of this second DESIRE conference is theory and practice of creative processes in design.

Full papers and workshop proposals are invited on the following topics:
- Methods, tools and techniques for supporting creative design processes
- Methods, tools and techniques for observing and studying creative design processes
- Design cases illustrating the role of creativity in design
- Theoretical insights into creative design processes
- Visions on teaching & research in creative design
- Creativity by teams, organizations, and communities
- Representations supporting creative design

Authors are invited to submit their papers through the conference website. Submissions for all categories should be formatted using the ACM SIGCHI publications format. Contributions are invited in the following categories:

- Workshop proposals (max 2 pages) by March 15, 2011
- Long papers (max 12 pages), by May 31, 2011
- Short papers (max 4 pages), by May 31, 2011
- Posters (max 4 pages), exhibits (max 2 pages), workshop position papers, by Sept 16, 2011

This conference is organized In-Cooperation with ACM and the proceedings will be published in the ACM library. Keynote speakers are Marc Hassenzahl and Linda Candy.