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Design Dialogues

An interesting and provocative website, I came across yesterday is Design Dialogues by Peter Jones. Peter's contributions to the Transforming Transformation discussion group are always insightful. His website is useful and good value!
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AIGA Design Educators

Join AIGA Design Educators Community! AIGA Design Educators community seeks to enhance the abilities of design educators and educational institutions to prepare future designers for excellence in design practice, design theory and design writing at the undergraduate and graduate levels while supporting the fundamental mission of AIGA. We'd like to bring momentum to the community of design educators.
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Prof Eng

For engineering designers and design researchers, the new edition of Professional Engineer is online for free now. This is published by the UK Institution of Mechanical Engineers.

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CFP: JDH - new section on Collections and Archives

Call for Articles: The Journal of Design History, Oxford University Press. has a new section on "Archives, Collections and Curatorship" The editor is calling for new articles on this topic.
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New design: baterry by virus

New Virus-Built Battery Could Power Cars, Electronic Devices. Design culture is developing in new territories. This new design  crosses multiple disciplinary design fields to uses a common bacteriophage to construct the difficult to create anode and cathode of a high performance lithium-ion battery.

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TOC: Emergence, Complexity and Organisation Journal

Table of contents of first issue of Volume 11 of the international journal Emergence: Complexity & Organization - An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems now available. Details  below.

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Re-Public - Service Design

Special Issue of the on-line journal Re-public (ISSN 1791-857X) on "Innovative Service Design for All" is now freely available on-line in English and Greek.

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Urgent! Mullins Prize

URGENT! Mullins Prize.  Deadline - July 7th 2009. The Nicholas C. Mullins Award is awarded each year by the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) for an outstanding piece of scholarship by a graduate student in the field of Science and Technology Studies. The prize consists of a check for $US 1,000 and a plaque.
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CFP: Re-Public special issue on Service Design

Call for papers: Re-public on-line journal special issue on " Innovative service design shaping societies of the future" Service design lies in the centre of attention in contemporary, increasingly service-oriented knowledge economies. In such contexts, user experience is paramount, including both the interfaces and interactions that customers use to contact the service provider, as well as the back-office activities performed by the service provider. Given the complexity of services in modern, multicultural, networked societies and the criticality of their environmental impact, service design becomes a major issue for the years to come.
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Alertbox April 6

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for April 6 is now online. Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items.
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TOC: IJKSD

The contents of the latest issue of: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD) Volume 1, Issue 2, April-June 2009 are below.

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