The National College
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NCAD DESIGN FACULTY Design Added Value SeminarIn Collaboration with: Date: February 21st 2008 Speaker presentations are now available to download. The aim of this seminar is to endorse the importance of design in adding value to the world in which we live, to convert the design sceptic, and to energise the designer. It is aimed equally at design educators, students, designers and business clients. We are proud to welcome the involvement of key Irish organizations like the Institute of Designers in Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Design Ireland Skillnet and the Centre for Design Research and Innovation As design educators, we are aware of the need to engage with industry by exposing our students to the rich community of design through live projects and research initiatives. We welcome the chance to engage in a lively panel of presentation and discussion to explore how we can build on this to explore new opportunities in education, design and business practice. A large part of creating a national culture of innovation is an understanding of the key factors in Irish business and design, and Dr. David Tormey from the Centre for Design Innovation will explore some key research findings in relation to design and the SME sector in Ireland. David Stephens of Design Partners will explore some case studies of successful design and David Flood from Enterprise Ireland will outline how this relationship between design and industry can be advanced through partnership with third level institutes. SCHEDULE
* all presentations to include brief discussion time Click here for biographical notes on speakers Contact: Derek Mc Garry Please check the Research Events page for details of upcoming events. |
Love Objects: engaging material culture conference13th & 14th February 2008, NCAD, Dublin.Organised by Design Research Group and the Faculty of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design, the Love Objects conference invites discussion and reconsideration of the relationships between people and their objects, concerning the role of objects in negotiations surrounding sex, desire, romance, identity and memory. Keynote speakers include: Margolin is the curator of the Museum of Corn-temporary Art and the author of many publications including: Culture is Everywhere: Selections from the Museum of Corntemporary Art (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2002), The Politics of the Artificial: Essays on Design and Design Studies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) and The Struggle for Utopia: Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, 1917-1946 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997). Purbrick has published extensively on the meanings of everyday life and the domestic world, new museum practices and cultural policies at sites of conflict and the material culture of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Her recent publications include The Wedding Present: Domestic Life Beyond Consumption (London: Ashgate, 2007) and 'Sites, Histories, Representations' in Louise Purbrick, Jim Aulich and Graham Dawson, (eds.), Contested Spaces: Sites, Histories and Representations (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007). Convened by the Conference Steering Committee, Design Research Group, NCAD. Click here for further information Click here for registration forms |
