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<\/span>Nordcode<\/span> together with <\/span>Designarkivet<\/span> in Nybro, are hosting the 16<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup> Nordcode seminar 7-9 November 2017.<\/span><\/p>\nWe hereby invite you to participate by submitting work on the role of sketching in design.<\/span><\/p>\n Sketch: Hans Krondahl<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n The purpose of Nordcode is to stimulate scholarly discussion and act as a platform to support growing a design research community by encouraging established as well as emerging researchers in the field. Scholars, doctoral students, practitioners and others from the fields of design studies, design history and culture, media, communication and branding studies, interaction design and related fields, are welcome to take part in the seminar with working papers. The papers may present finished research, work-in-progress or initial ideas, as we believe in the value of discussion and co-development of proposed ideas. <\/span><\/p>\n Sketches are material remains of individual and collective design processes. Designarkivet in Nybro, which is a detached department of Kalmar konstmuseum, gathers design sketches, drawings and reference materials from different design fields. The archive contains approximately 120,000 sketches from more than 700 Swedish designers. Some material is donated in connection with retiring or the closure of a design firm; some designers donate materials continuously. It is clear that the designers themselves put value on their material and sees the importance of saving the material for posterity. A large amount of the donated material also have a high artistic quality.<\/span><\/p>\n The importance of having sketching skill in the design profession cannot be overlooked, but sketching is not a uniform activity. The sketches may have various shapes and purposes. They differ between individuals, between different design fields, between different production methods and products. <\/span><\/p>\n Despite the significance of sketching for the design profession, historically and still, the sketches themselves are in many ways taken for granted. Sketches have not received the attention they deserve, neither in design research nor in other literature about design processes and design methods. An illustrative example is when words related to sketch and sketching are missing from the registry list in methodological books. <\/span><\/p>\n The ways of working in design are also rapidly changing in the digital era. Is there a future for traditional sketch work or are sketches obsolete? What comes instead? What will we save for posterity tomorrow?<\/span><\/p>\n The topic of the 2017 Nordcode seminar: ”Traces of the Design Process” takes its starting point in the role of sketching in the design process, and in the significance of the sketch for designers, today and tomorrow. Here are some proposed topics:<\/span><\/p>\n Several areas adjacent to the questions above can be included in the seminar topic. <\/span>In addition to the special topic of the seminar, we also welcome submissions that fall under the various other traditional Nordcode themes within communicative design.<\/span><\/p>\nTopic: Traces of the Design Process<\/h2>\n
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