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style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">From:
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joelle@superficiel.org">joelle@superficiel.org</a><br>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">CALL FOR
EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">DATA
ACROSS SCALES : Reshaping Design</span><span
style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align:
baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial;
vertical-align: baseline;">Conference</span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Harvard
University - Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA —
17th of April 2015</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://datascales.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://datascales.wordpress.<wbr>com/</a></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">The
Harvard Graduate School of Design and the Doctor of Design
program are hosting an international interdisciplinary
conference open to the general public. The conference focuses on
‘data’ and how it is steering design practices across all
scales. We are looking for expressions of interest for talks
from theorists and practitioners alike.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>TOPIC</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">With the
rapid increase of information technologies in our personal and
professional lives, we produce, share, collect, archive, use and
misuse, consciously or unconsciously an immense amount of data.
This burst of data production and collection has already had a
profound impact on the way we organise ourselves as a
community. It drastically changes the way in which we conceive,
materialize and experience designs and the physical world. These
on-going transformations have permeated all layers of social
debates including issues of openness, transparency and civil
participation.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">The
questions brought about by these debates are also challenging
academic research and professional production. Under the
umbrella of ‘Data Across Scales’ this conference aims to reveal
and discuss how the accessibility and processing of ‘data’ is
shifting the design practices.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">The
conference ‘Data Across Scales’ opens an opportunity to
juxtapose these ongoing transformations in a diverse set of
design fields: from fabrication methodologies to evaluating and
representing the rapid transformation of the urban landscapes.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">We invite
expressions of interest for talks on the following topics -
among others:</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Data-driven design </span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> * Data
visualisation</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Computational design</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> * The
input of ‘programs’ in our daily environment</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> * Open
data and access to data</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Programmable materials</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Digital Fabrication</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Interactive Art</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Imagination, perception, representation, and production of
urban space</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> *
Research methodologies in design disciplines</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>
SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Talks: The
submission should express in a short text of 500 words what
their interest, statements and/or work is in relation to the
topic of data across scales.</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Please
send your submissions in PDF format (additional audiovisual
material can be submitted in the form of online material with
corresponding URL) to the following email address by 30th
October 2014, 23.59 GMT+1:</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a
href="mailto:datascales2015@gmail.com"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">datascales2015@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>IMPORTANT
DATES</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Deadline
for expressions of interest: 4th November 2014</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Notification
of acceptance: 19th November 2014</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Conference:
17th April 2015</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>FEE</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">The
symposium, all events included, will be free of charge for all
participants and audience. Speakers who are not supported by an
institution will get an aid for transport to Cambridge, MA and
accommodation. </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight:
bold; vertical-align: baseline;">CONTACT AND INFORMATION</span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">For more
information, please email us at </span><a
href="mailto:datascales2015@gmail.com"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">datascales2015@gmail.com</span></a><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> and/or
visit the conference website: </span><a
href="http://datascales.wordpress.com/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://datascales.wordpress.<wbr>com/</span></a><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>ORGANIZERS</b></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">Özlem
Altinkaya, Joëlle Bitton, Felix Raspall (DDes program, Harvard
GSD)</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a
href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/academic-programs/doctoral-programs/ddes/"
style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span
style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);
text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">http://www.gsd.harvard.edu/#/<wbr>academic-programs/doctoral-<wbr>programs/ddes/</span></a><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline;">The
conference is supported by Harvard GSD and the DDes program.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span
style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial; color:
rgb(17, 85, 204); vertical-align: baseline;"><a
href="http://www.gsd.harvard.edu" style="text-decoration:none"
target="_blank">http://www.gsd.harvard.edu</a></span></div>
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<div>Joëlle Bitton</div>
<div>Art, Design, Technology</div>
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