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Jan 7, 2009

International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD '09) at IISC Bangalore

National Science Seminar Complex,
Indian Institute of Science,Bangalore, India
7-9 January, 2009

Bangalore : ICoRD'09 is the second in a series of conferences intended to be held every two years in India to bring together the international community from diverse areas of design practice, teaching and research, to: showcase cutting edge research about design to the stakeholders; aid the ongoing process of developing and extending the collective vision through emerging research challenges and questions; and provide a platform for interaction, collaboration and development of the community in order for it to take up the challenges to realise the vision.

The conference will have:

* Invited presentations from eminent international experts and practitioners;
* Presentations of refereed papers as podium, poster,panel or theme presentations;
* Industrial sessions to present perspectives from industry and studies in practice.

It also coincides with the Centennial year of Indian Institute of Science, and is part of the Centennial Celebrations of the Institute. The conference is intended for all stakeholders of design, and in particular for its practitioners, researchers, teachers and students.

ICoRD'09 will have 7 keynote addresses delivered by eminent speakers from around the world in a variety of areas of design research and practice.

These include (list incomplete) the following:

1. Automotive Product Development - Concept to Delivery Mr. Ashok Joshi, TATA Motors, Head CAE, Pune, India
2. Computational Explorations of Design Creativity Prof. John Gero, George Mason University, USA
3. Teaching Product Design: The Delft Experience Prof. Norbert Roozenburg, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
4. Capturing Design Rationale Prof. Ken Wallace, University of Cambridge, UK
5. Human-Oriented Product Design Prof. Soo-Won Chae, The Korea University, Korea
6. Product Semantics: Completing the Jigsaw Puzzle Prof. Uday Athavankar, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India
7. Meeting the challenges and opportunities of sustainability through product development Prof. Tim McAloone, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

For more information please see http://cpdm.iisc.ernet.in/icord%2709/index.html