[Image: CAFA at night (CAFA Art Museum designed by Japanese architect Isozaki in the foreground). Source: CAFA]

24 April: IEN Conference Call for Abstracts deadline

Friday 24 April 2009 is the deadline for the Call for Abstracts for the Icograda Education Network (IEN) Conference that will take place during the Icograda World Design Congress 2009 in Beijing, China.
The Education Conference theme literally signifies human speaking and hence message/letter in Chinese, Xin-信 and represents a primitive means of communication. Through the theme of Xin-信, Icograda World Design Congress 2009 Beijing seeks to explore the contemporary issues and challenges facing communication design.

Icograda continues to welcome papers from the international design education community addressing the following areas:
  • Design Education and Innovation
  • Design Education and Diversity
  • Design Education and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
  • Design Education and Regional Development

Papers should demonstrate one or more of the following aspects:
  • Exemplary education practices
  • Exemplary education institution and curricular framework
  • Research in Design Education development
  • Reflections on the status-quo and future of Design Education

Changes in critical dates for submission and selection are:

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 24 April 2009
Notification of abstract acceptance: 1 June 2009
Deadline for submission of papers: 3 August 2009
IEN Conference: 29-30 October 2009

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Above image: CAFA at night (CAFA Art Museum in the foreground)
Source: CAFA

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