Speakers:

Teruyuki Monnai, Keynote Speaker (Kyoto University, Japan)
Ellen Yi-Luen Do (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Mark D. Gross (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Andre van der Hoek (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Kumiyo Nakakoji, Symposium Chair (Kyoto University, Japan)
Tetsuo Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Keiichi Sato (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)
Pieter Jan Stappers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Michael Terry (University of Waterloo, Canada)

March 15th (Saturday)

 

10:30-11:00 Registration

11:00-12:30 Prologue (Chair: Kumiyo Nakakoji)

  Welcome & Symposium Motivation: Projecting Design-Beings
  　Kumiyo Nakakoji (Kyoto University, Japan)

  Speaker Introductions
  　All Speakers

  Keynote Address:
  A Design Vision for Knowledge Society from the Viewpoint of Semiotics
  　Teruyuki Monnai (Kyoto University, Japan)

12:30-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Topical Session 1: Driving Force (Host: Kumiyo Nakakoji)

  Design Visions – Pulling You into the Future
  　Pieter Jan Stappers (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

  Design Thinking and Computational Thinking
  　Mark D. Gross (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Topical Session 2: Humans and Systems (Host: Gerhard Fischer)

  Semiotics Design and Analysis of Human-Machine Systems
  　Tetsuo Sawaragi (Kyoto University, Japan)

  Human System Design and Integration: Designing for Meaning of Life
  　Keiichi Sato (Illinois Institute of Technology, USA)

18:00-20:00 Reception

(2,500JPY for participants, 1,500JPY for students)

March 16th (Sunday)

 

10:00-11:30 Topical Session 3: Making, Building, and Constructing
　　　　　　　(Host: Michael Terry)

  Being CUTE – Creating Unique Technology for Everyone
  　Ellen Yi-Luen Do (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
  When Design Becomes Too Complex
  　Andre van der Hoek (University of California, Irvine, USA)

11:30-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:30 Topical Session 4: Societal Tensions (Host: Mark Gross)

  Design Freedoms
  　Michael Terry (University of Waterloo, Canada)
  “Quality of Life”: A Design Vision for Socio-Technical Environments of the Future
  　Gerhard Fischer (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

14:30-15:00 Coffee Break

15:00-16:30 Design Visions Discussions(Chair: Kumiyo Nakakoji)

  　All Participants

16:30-16:45 Closing Remarks

Theme:

Design has been viewed as the science of the artificial, investigating what things ought to be (H.A. Simon). As technologies become ubiquitous in terms of place, time, and context, a designed artifact (including physical, digital, and logical) inevitably affect how people live, learn, and work, as well as how they think, perceive, and feel. The designers of such an artifact must not only plan the artifact itself, but also envision and project how people would use, interact with, engage in, and live with the artifact in the future in a variety of time scales. Rather than the social impacts or implications of design, a primary part of the design should entail cognitive, organizational, and social envisionments.

This symposium addresses the view that design has to come to involve a future-oriented vision. Specifically, the focus of design should be on (1) framing a desirable yet ethically, cognitively, socially, environmentally, and technologically feasible future; and (2) depicting an artifact with a realization that would guide and induce people and society toward the future.

The name of this symposium has dual connotations. First and foremost, vision must be the first class object to be framed together with an artifact, and second, participants are encouraged to share visions of design research as future directions.

The symposium features speakers who are renowned experts on design theories, design support tools and environments, and design research education. Discussions focus on but are not limited to:

vocabulary and diagrams to talk about design visions

representations, media, and tools to coevolve visions and artifacts

communicative environments to incrementally embrace, nurture, and share visions among present

stakeholders and future stakeholders

models and theories for design

creativity, inspiration, imagination, and simulation

time, change, and evolution in a wide variety of societal scales

recontextualization of design rationale

new forms of design skills and knowledge

design curricula