You could be presenting at CONNECTING'07, the 2007 ICSID/IDSA International Education Symposium.

The IDSA National Education Council invites submissions for papers and presentation proposals for the 2007 IDSA International Education Symposium in San Francisco, California, October 17 through 20. As in 2006, the IDSA National Education Symposium will run concurrently with the IDSA National Conference, but this year the two will be combined with ICSID into the ICSID/IDSA World Design Congress, a biennial gathering that was last held in the U.S. in 1985.

This will be a momentous event for design and design education. An international audience of designers and educators will share morning plenary sessions and evening celebrations. The International Education Symposium will run in the afternoons, parallel with the World Design Congress breakout sessions. Practitioners and educators from around the world will be able to choose from a full slate of offerings in either track. For information about the Congress, please visit the web site at http://www.connecting07.org/.

Educators, graduate students and practitioners are encouraged to submit abstracts of their recent work. Proposals will be considered for presentation, publication, or both. The Education Council encourages abstracts / proposals on subject areas related to the field of industrial design practice, research, teaching or other emerging design education issues. Ideas for panel discussions, workshops, or poster sessions are also encouraged.

Abstract Submission Protocol

Abstracts submission is closed.

• Make the body of the abstract blind without any reference to your name or school.
• Keep the abstract as brief as possible-one page maximum-with no artwork. (Exception: proposals for poster sessions should show examples of the proposed visual presentation - Web standard JPEG format (no larger than 72 dpi and 1 MB per image)
• Write both abstract and subsequent article in the third person.

• presentation only
• publication only
• presentation and publication

• preparing students for real-world practice
• teaching methodology / pedagogy
• sustainability
• multidisciplinary collaborations (i.e. business, engineering and design)
• design research
• universal design / user-centered design
• design for the majority
• globalism
• design methodology
• curriculum
• other

• presentation
• panel discussion
• workshop
• poster session
• other

Note: Presentation at the conference, and/or publication in the Proceedings, is not guaranteed by approval of the abstract. The jury will make the final evaluation for acceptance into any category on review of the finished piece. Although most of the articles accepted in the "presentation and publication" category will be accepted for both venues, the jury reserves the right to recommend that a paper submitted in that category be presented but not published, or published and not presented, at their discretion.

Peer Review Criteria for Papers and Abstracts

Papers at the IDSA National Education Conference each year include scholarly works from academia and industry. The IDSA Education Council juries submissions and promotes high standards of excellence among submissions. As an aid to those submitting their work for peer review, the Council offers the following guidelines used to guide the jury process:

We seek abstracts, proposals, and papers that are:

Significant:
The abstract, proposal or paper has intellectual merit and impact, and is thought provoking and provocative. The conclusions are important, clearly stated, consistent with the observations, and the implications for design education and the profession are apparent.

Forward-moving:
The abstract, proposal or paper shows observations, techniques, and vision that are fresh and forward-thinking, challenge existing norms, and advance the profession.

Relevant:
The subject is relevant to industrial design education and practice.

Clear:

• The proposal or objective is well-defined.
• Findings and data are clearly stated, logically reported, and build to a sound and relevant conclusion.
• (For research) Methodology and references are cited; research protocol is defensable.

Important Deadlines and Information:

• Abstract deadline is January 19, 2007.
• Abstracts submission is closed.
• Pending approval of abstract, final paper will be due April 20, 2007.