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Designing for the Divide: Call for Entries

Monday, January 16, 2012 West Virginia University Morgantown, WV

Whether we think of issues of governance, religion, race, the environment, economic development, education, or health care, the inability to communicate, cooperate or compromise erodes social capital and weakens the ability to draw on diverse skill sets to address common challenges. Designers have a voice and a role to play in bringing divided sides together for the public good. This conference is March 23-24 on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown.

Designing for the Divide: A Conference on Civic Action Across Lines of Difference calls for ideas that help bridge social divides from the fields of communication design, service design, user experience design, behavioral and social psychology and partners in civic engagement.These will include projects, media innovations and citizen brigades among others. The conference will also schedule workshops and planning sessions to jump start some of those ideas.

A call for presentations, projects, posters, and infographics has a deadline of January 16, 2012.

Speakers include Amy Piloton of Project H, Andrea Pellegrino of Design ignites Change and WorldStudio, and Bob Stains of Public Conversations. Posters will be juried by internationally renown poster artists Yossi Lemel of Tel Aviv and Chaz Maviane-Davies of Zimbabwe and MassArt, and TED speaker Jonathan Haidt.

Event details can be found at: http://designingforthedivide.org/

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