26th National Conference on the Beginning Design Student
College of Arts + Architecture, The University
of North Carolina at Charlotte
18–21 March 2010
MADE: Design Education & the Art of Making seeks to appraise the role of making past, present & future, both in teaching design and in the design of teaching.
The conference aims to examine theories & practices addressing fabrication & craft in all studio disciplines, and to take measure of their value in pedagogies of beginning design.
NEW! POSTER SESSION ANNOUNCED
We are now inviting submissions to our poster session. Posters may address one of three possible themes: Making Real, Making Pedagogy, and Open. (see Session Topics for more information on sessions)
Poster submissions should be in pdf format, 22” x 30” portrait (vertical) format, maximum file size of 10 MB. To ensure blind peer-review, please do not provide identifying information on the poster.
Submit posters by emailing them to:
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February 1: Deadline for poster submissions
February 7: Notifications sent out
February 15: Deadline for early-bird registration and special hotel rate (see below)
REGISTRATION:
Conference registration is now available online – please follow the ‘Registration’ link at the top of this page.
REGISTER NOW for early-bird price of $225
Registration after Feb. 15 will increase to $275
As part of the online registration process, you may order a shipped hardcopy of the conference proceedings for an additional fee of $30. A digital version of the proceedings will be included in the price of registration at no additional cost.
ACCOMMODATIONS:
Hotel reservations are now available online – please follow the ‘Accommodations’ link at the top of this page.
BOOK NOW – The conference rate is good only until Feb. 15
We have secured an especially good conference rate with the Uptown Charlotte Westin for $99 per night + taxes for a standard room (king/2 queens). Given that conference proceedings on Friday, March 19 will take place at the Charlotte Westin, we encourage conference attendees to consider making reservations at the hotel.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
David Leatherbarrow- University of Pennsylvania, author of Topographical Studies
Simon Unwin- University of Dundee, author of Analysing Architecture
SESSION TOPICS INCLUDE:
Making real
Making virtual
Making pedagogy
Making writing
Making drawing
Making connections
Making masters
Making the survey
Open session
(see Session Topics for more information on sessions)
Jeffrey Balmer & Chris Beorkrem , conference co-chairs
History
Over the past twenty-five years, The National Conference on the Beginning Design Student (NCBDS) has aimed to bring together educators from across the United States, and beyond, to discuss issues and opportunities arising from the teaching of design to novice students. Learning design is founded upon the acquisition of special skills, but more importantly, the education of a designer involves new ways of interpreting and imagining the human environment. It thus requires of the student entirely new modes of thinking.
The primary role of NCBDS is to serve as a national forum for the dissemination of emerging and effective models of design curriculum. This annual conference has showcased the work of innovative and effective instructors, and has served to advance the development of pedagogical research. Further, NCBDS serves to build the case for Beginning Design as a unique discipline, characterized by its own particular challenges and opportunities.
MADE: Design Education & the Art of Making is the theme of this year’s conference, hosted by the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte. Our theme is inspired as much upon the tradition of craft and manufacturing characteristic of the Charlotte region as it is upon one of the primary preoccupations of faculty and students at the College: the exploration of both traditional and emergent techniques of making, in its various iterations and practices.
Keynote Speakers
Our conference will be headl ined by two keynote lectures, delivered by two significant figures in the current discourse on Design and Making:
David Leatherbarrow is Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Graduate Group in Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia, where he has taught since 1984. He received his B.Arch. from the University of Kentucky and holds a Ph.D. in Art from the University of Essex. He has also taught in England, at Cambridge University and the Univers ity of Westminster (formerly the Polytechnic of Central London). He is primarily known for his contributions to the field of architectural phenomenology. Questions of how architecture appears, how architecture is perceived, and how topography shapes architecture often direct his research. Among his published works are: The Roots of Architectural Invention: Site, Enclosure, Materials, Cambridge University Press 1993, Uncommon Ground: Architecture, Technology, and Topography, MIT Press 2000, Architecture Oriented Otherwise, Princeton Architectural Press 2008.
Simon Unwin is Professor of Architecture at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He has taught and lectured on his work in China, Israel, India, Sweden, Turkey and the United States, and is author of several works, including Analysing Architecture, now in its third edition, and translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, and Spanish. Clear and accessible, Analysing Architecture opens a fresh way to understanding architecture. It offers a unique ‘notebook’ of architectural strategies to present an engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. Illustrated throughout with the author’s original drawings, examples are drawn to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study architecture. Since its first edition appeared in 1997, Analysing Architecture has established itself internationally as one of the key texts in architectural education.
Conference Deadlines
500 Word Abstracts due: Friday, October 30, 2009
Notifications: Friday, December 18, 2009
Poster Submissions due: February 1, 2010
Poster Notification: February 7, 2010
Final papers due: Friday, February 12, 2010
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