Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
Budapest, Hungary, 11-13 May 2023
In 1952, the Italian architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers used the motto “from the spoon to the city” to express the pervasiveness of architectural design, spanning from the very small scale of everyday tools to the much larger scale of urban spaces and environments. Inspired by this famous motto and its symbolic value, the conference aims to extend the notion of design to the whole realm of our everyday life, encompassing the various objects, spaces, and practices of our everydayness, and questioning how these may contribute to shaping our habits, tastes, behaviours, and lifestyles. Just as we design the tools that help us in the various tasks of our daily lives, so we design public and private places in the city to be used by the locals and enjoyed by the visitors. Similarly, in contemporary art, artists design, set up, and install spaces so that they yield a certain aesthetic experience for the visitor. In all these instances, more than as a profession with specific rules and know-how, design is understood as an act of planning and shaping that can apply to any object of our daily experience.
The conference will be structured around plenary sessions, with the contributed papers selected by a blind peer-review process. Contributed papers will be scheduled for a 25-minute presentation plus a 15-minute discussion.
Please submit long abstracts in English of 800-1000 words (references included), prepared for blind refereeing, by using the online submission form. Abstracts should state the position defended or the issue discussed and indicate the outline of the argument.
Deadline for submissions: December 31st, 2022
Communication of acceptance: February 10th, 2023
The language of the conference will be English. The conference will be held in person. We will monitor the development of the pandemic, and more reliable information will be provided in the upcoming months.
Registration Fee: Participation in the conference is subject to a registration fee. Bank account details to pay the conference fee and deadlines for registration will be provided in due course.
For further information, please contact: design.conference.2023@gmail.com
For more details, please, view the organisers’ website and CFP.
