dyd02 Call for Submissions
text-only (for email publicity) | Low-res Poster (317K) | Hi-res Poster (841K) 2nd International Conferenceon Open Collaborative Design
for Sustainable Innovation
December 1-2, 2002
Bangalore, India
INTRODUCTION
Although technological advances into the 21st century have brought many benefits to industrialized society, a significant part of the world (nearly 2 billion people) still does not have access to clean water, adequate nutrition, and affordable health care. The rural population of the world's developing countries and many indigenous groups lack basic educational, economic, and political rights and freedoms. This conference seeks to establish a critical dialogue towards collaborative and sustainable design innovation to tackle global challenges in the environment and underserved communities.
Sustainable technologies may be developed in areas such as human generated power, low-cost communication, emergency relief, non-polluting transportation, arsenic remediation, household water treatment, mobile medical laboratories, environmental sensing, educational aids, bilingual language learning, expressive interfaces for people with special needs and corrective eyewear for everyone. All these specialized problem domains share many common challenges and opportunities for novel tools, processes, methodologies and design approaches.
- Critical challenges for sustainable innovation in the environment
and underserved communities.
- What methods and practices support the design of sustainable
technologies in developing countries and indigenous communities?
- How must these interventions be developed to support local knowledge,
resources, social and environmental concerns?
- What technologies and practices must we adopt in the "developed world"
to conserve and minimize the environmental burden everywhere?
- Case studies from the design of sustainable technology and development interventions.
- How do we assess the social, economic and environmental impact of deploying novel technologies?
- How do we develop collaborative mechanisms to facilitate exchange, raise
awareness and harness the expertise of researchers and stakeholders
towards sustainable design of technology for their own communities and the environment?
- Developing interdisciplinary curriculum for teaching sustainable design.
- What are the intellectual property issues involved in collaborative
open-source engineering design?
- How should meaningful partnerships be developed between academia,
industry, government and non-governmental sectors to address the challenges of sustainable design?
All participants should submit a 5-10 page technical paper, 2 page
position paper, a poster or video entry (10-15 mins) with 1-2 page abstract.
All submissions must be
posted online
at the conference website in PDF and MS
Word format (video tapes should be mailed to the organizers).
The program committee will review all papers online and we invite the
general public for open peer reviews as well.
Participants can choose either public or private reviews for their
submissions.
The submissions should include abstract, organizational
background, references, and description of the problem domain, design
approaches and/or evaluations of novel interventions. Alternatively, papers
may describe novel policies, methodologies or design practices and processes
towards open source collaborative design in this context. Please include
what you consider the key challenges (technological, environmental, social
or political) for design and deployment in these settings. See the dyd02 Submission Guidelines for more details.
All papers will be made available online to participants before the conference. Revised papers will be included in the conference proceedings distributed at the conference, as well as published online. The conference program will consist of panel sessions and working groups around topics of interest.
We expect to have 200-300 participants. There may be a small conference fee. Selected
participants (with minimal funding support) may qualify to receive travel
reimbursement or accomodation.
Please indicate any financial constraints in the online submission form
or contact us at
.
Nitin Sawhney
OR
Poonam Bir Kasturi
Mailing Address for Video Submissions:
(mail VHS video tapes with abstract to either address)
dyd02 Video Submissions
MIT Media Lab, E15-384B
20 Ames Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
dyd02 Video Submissions
Srishti School of Art Design & Technology
PO Box 6430, Yelahanka New Town
Bangalore 560 064, India