SIG-Design Creativity

27 October 2009 - 30 October 2009
Call for Papers :: ACM 7th Creativity and Cognition Conference (CC09) :: Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA, Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, in co-operation with SIGMM/SIGART
http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/

23 August 2009 - 27 August 2009
Interenational Conference of Enginiering Design (ICED) 09 info:
http://iced09.stanford.edu/

Design Creativity Workshop (DCW' 08) is over.
Thanks to all who attended or contributed to the workshop.

DCW' 08: Call For Paper, Program

Conference info:
http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgero/conferences/dcc08/

Agenda

The objective of SIG - Design Creativity is to study creativity in design. We have not sufficiently clarified creativity, especially in the context of design, although it is a very interesting characteristic in the thinking process of humans.
This research discusses creativity in design instead of trying to identify its standard characteristics. That is, it tries to answer the question "What is design?" from the viewpoint of creativity, for two perspectives.

First, this SIG discusses the characteristics of creative thinking (i.e. creativity in synthesis) in the process of forming new concepts rather than understanding it 'as is'. This means that, characteristics of creativity in cognition and conceptual understanding (i.e. creativity in understanding) are not the central scope of discussion in this SIG, while pursuing them should help the SIG to clarify the creativity of design.
Second, this SIG explores the characteristics that are common and specific to diverse kinds of design, such as engineering and industrial design.

We expect that the results of our study will help to clarify the "Essence of Design."

The focus in this SIG is posed on a series of questions including but not limited to the following:
Are there common aspects of creativity across different kinds of design?
Are there aspects of creativity specific to each kind of design?
Are these aspects of creativity specific to creating understanding (for representing reality as is) or designs (for changing reality 'as should be')?

WORK PLAN

Mode of Operation:

1st Phase: two years (2007-2008)

2nd Phase: two years (2009-2010)

3rd Phase: two years (2011-2012)

Type of events:

Regular meetings:

Workshops: At ICED conference (2007, 2009, and 2011) and some other international design conferences.

Conferences: International Symposium on Design Creativity:

Type of Publication:

Proceedings of Workshops

Journal (Special Issue)

A Book on Design Creativity

Membership Information

Saeema Ahmed (DENMARK) ,

Shigeki Amitani (AU),

Eiji Arai (JAPAN) ,

Petra Badke-Schaub (NL) ,

Zafer Bilda (Australia) ,

Lucienne Blessing (LUXEMBOURG)

Margaret A Boden (UK) ,

Erik Bohemia (UK) ,

Nathalie Bonnardel (FRANCE),

Jean-Franc,ois Boujut (FRANCE),

Carole Bouchard (FRANCE) ,

Ste'phanie Buisine (FRANCE) ,

Linda Candy (AU) ,

Hernan Casakin (ISRAEL) ,

Amaresh Chakrabarti (INDIA) (Co-Chair),

Thom Corah (UK),

Lin-Lin Chen (TAIWAN) ,

Hoon Seok Choi (KOREA) ,

Henri Christiaans (NL) ,

Nigel Cross (UK) ,

Andy Dong (AU) ,

Kees Dorst (AU),

Newton Dsouza (UK),

Alex Duffy (UK) (Co-Chair),

David Durling (UK),

Peter Eades (AU) ,

Claudia Eckert (UK) ,

Ernest Edmonds (AU) ,

Hany El-Said (EGYPT) ,

Gilles Fauconnier (USA) ,

Ian Ferris (UK) ,

Gerhard Fischer (USA) ,

Ken Friedman (Norway) ,

Kikuo Fujita (JAPAN) ,

Georgiev Georgi V (BULGARIA)

John Gero (AU) (Co-Chair),

Ashok Goel (USA) ,

Gabriela Goldschmidt (ISRAEL) ,

Mark D Gross (USA) ,

Sean Hanna (UK) ,

Amihud Hari (ISRAEL) ,

Tom Howard (UK) ,

Tom Hewett (USA) ,

Yuemin Hou (CHINA) ,

Xiaodi Huang (AU) ,

Iwan M Jambak (NL) ,

Yan Jin (USA) ,

Lorraine Justice (CHINA) ,

Jeff, Wai Tak, KAN (AU) ,

Panagiotis Kampylis (FINLAND) ,

Yong Se Kim (KOREA) (Co-Chair),

MyungSuk Kim (KOREA) ,

Kari-Hans Kommonen (FINLAND) ,

Gul Kremer (USA) ,

Jens Krzywinski (Germany) ,

Justin Lai (USA) ,

Larry Leifer (USA) ,

Ji-Hyun Lee (KOREA) ,

Pascal Le Masson (FRANCE) ,

Udo Lindemann (GERMANY) (Co-Chair),

Ann McKenna (USA) ,

Tadaoki Mitani (JAPAN) ,

Niels CCM Moes (NL) ,

Junya Morita (JAPAN) ,

Celine Mougenot (FRANCE) ,

Tamotsu Murakami (JAPAN) ,

Paul Murty (AU) ,

Yukari Nagai (JAPAN) (Co-Chair),

Koichi Ohtomi (JAPAN) ,

Sotiris Papantonopoulos (GREEK) ,

Miquel Prats (UK)

Stephen D Prior (UK)

Josef Ponn (GERMANY) ,

Vesna Popovic (AU),

R.P.C. Janaka Rajapakse (Sri Lanka) ,

Yoram Reich (ISRAEL) ,

Jack Rees (US) ,

Edoardo Rovida (ITALY) ,

Pertti Saariluoma (FINLAND) ,

Prabir Sarkar (INDIA) ,

John Shackleton (New Zealand) ,

Siu-Tsen Shen (TAIWAN)

Steven Smith (US),

Ricardo Sosa (Mexico),

Hsien-Hui Tang (TAIWAN) ,

Toshiharu Taura (JAPAN) (Chair),

Graham Thompson (UK) ,

Akira Tsumaya (JAPAN) ,

Tatsuo Tomiyama (NL) ,

Barbara Tversky (USA) ,

Yasushi Umeda (JAPAN) ,

Noe Vargas Hernandez (USA) ,

Cynthia Villagomez (MEXICO) ,

Tom Ward (USA) ,

Qiawen Wu (USA) ,

Kazuhiko Yamazaki (Japan) ,

Seda Yilmaz (US)

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