EPSRC 'DESIGN FOR THE 21st CENTURY (D24C) SPECIAL SESSION

http://www.design21.dundee.ac.uk/

The UK Arts and Humanities Research Council and the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council jointly established the 'Design for the 21st Century' initiative in 2004 to:

• Promote the formation of new communities of design researchers, design practitioners and end-users of design;

• Build a common reference framework and shared understanding of theoretical concepts, cultures, languages and methods within different design communities;

• Stimulate new ways of design thinking that will meet the challenges of designing for 21st Century society.

• Support leading-edge design research that is self-reflective, socially aware, economically enterprising and internationally significant.

Funding for twenty-one, 12 month Design Clusters was awarded to support interdisciplinary design collaboration in 2005.  A full listing of these Clusters can be found on the D24C website.

Computational  Intelligence has been a major aspect of the activities of a number of these Clusters and the Special Session, which takes place on the morning of Wednesday, 26th April, comprises invited talks from the Principal Investigators of these Clusters. Session details follow:

10.20  Introduction to the AHRC / EPSRC 'Designing for the 21st Century' Initiative.

Ian Parmee, ACDDM Lab, Bristol UWE

10.30  Nature Inspired Creative Design

Thorsten Schnier, CERCIA, University of Birmingham

11.00  Designing Physical Artefacts from Computational Simulations and Building Computational Simulations of Physical Systems

Mark d'Inverno, University of Westminster.

11.30  Embracing Complexity in Design

Jeffrey Johnson, The Open University

12.00  Discovery in Design: People-centred Computational Issues

Ian Parmee. ACDDM Lab, Bristol UWE

12.30  Panel Discussion

12.45  Lunch

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