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This looks pretty interesting indeed. Strange though, that given the ‘theme’ of the conference they are inviting papers for submission.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION NOW OPEN!
EKSIG 2011 will address the theme of ???SkinDeep ??? Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication???. The conference will be convened by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by the University for the Creative Arts, UK.
Date: Thursday and Friday, 23 — 24 June 2011 Organisers: Kerstin Mey, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour Roworth-Stokes, Linden Reilly Venue: University for the Creative Arts, UK Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org Contact: info@experientialknowledge.org
CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite submissions for the theme ???SkinDeep — Experiential Knowledge and Multi Sensory Communication???. With this theme, we aim to provide a forum for debate about the multi faceted, multi sensory and multi modal possibilities of communicating knowledge in the creative and practice-led disciplines.
The need to address the issue of communication has arisen from the different approaches and requirements regarding the dissemination of knowledge and experience in research and creative practice. For example, creative practice tends to convey its content and meaning through its outcomes, which can relate to different, often intersecting or converging sensory stimuli such as visual, aural, tactile or olfactory. Equally, procedural or process knowledge ??? in the creative disciplines more commonly known as skill ??? relies on demonstration and first hand experience for its communication as much, or more so, than on written text.
In contrast, the presentation of research traditionally has been fixed to its verbal and textual articulation with a whole tradition of dissemination, mainly in written formats, such as peer reviewed conferences and journals. This predominance of textual presentation has long been questioned in the creative disciplines, and recent workshops on the role and balance between text and other forms of the communication of research, and on the multi modal presentation of research have indicated a strong interest and need to exchange knowledge and experiences on the issue of multi sensory communication of research.
With this conference, we wish to explore the different ways in which tacit knowledge can be given more appropriate consideration within the framework of research. This may include for example investigations into the nature, aims, validity, evaluation, and/or necessity of different modes of communication and exchange.
Questions of interest are, for example:
We wish to bring together engaged practitioners and scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds, fields of knowledge production, and methodological approaches to explore these issues. We invite contributions from the art and design disciplines (design, engineering, craft, media, fine art, etc), philosophy, education, health and knowledge management, neuroscience and others that are concerned with multi sensory and multi modal communication of knowledge in research and in creative and professional practice.
SUBMISSIONS
For EKSIG 2011, we invite papers, which offer challenging new views on the subject. Papers will be selected subject to a double blind review process by an international review team. In the first instance we ask for the submission of abstracts. Authors of selected abstracts will be asked to submit full papers.
We invite the submission of abstracts of 800 words including title and references by 30 September 2010. Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit full papers (4000???5000w) in January 2011. Please submit your abstract through the conference submission system, which can be accessed from the conference website:
