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2015

The International Association of Societies of Design Research Conference 2015
2-5 November 2015, Brisbane, Australia.
- Prof.Nagai will be the Chair of the conference.
- Conference website

2015.10.04: Prof.Nagai organized a workshop together with Mr.Kihara at Japan Creativity Society on November 4th. Click here

2015.09.28: Prof.Nagai lectured on creative thinking and innovation of design at Dalian Polytechnic University on Sept. 28th. Click here

The 32nd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society
18-20 September 2015, Chiba, Japan.
- The organization of the 32nd Annual Meeting in Chiba University will be planned by Kenji Kondo (Doctor Course).
- Conference website

Bundung Creative Movement2015
8-10 September 2015, Bandung, Indonesia.
- Prof. Nagai will be making the keynote speech at the conference held in Indonesia.
- Conference website

"Due date for the paper submission has been extended to July 14"
3rd ICDC - The 3rd International Conference on Design Creativity
12-14 January 2015, Bangalore, India.
- Prof. Yukari Nagai is the Vice Chair of the 3rd ICDC.
- Conference website
ICoRD'15 - The 5th International Conference on Research into Design, 7-9 January, 2015, Bangalore, India.
- Conference website

International Workshop on Design Creativity at ICED 2015, 27-30 July, Milano
- The conference website

　　　　　　Workshop info (PDF)

1. Assessing Creativity in Design Studio projects (Design Education and Design Creativity SIGs)
Monday, 27/Jul/2015: 14:00 -17:00
2. Bio-inspired design (Design Creativity SIG)
Monday, 27/Jul/2015: 9:30am -12:30pm

2014

2014.8.23: Design Research Lab. will hold a workshop in collaboration with Kripa Link in the Open Campus at the Ishikawa Prefectural Kutaniware Technology Training Center. Click here
2014.8.19: Design Research Lab. member will give a lecture in Komatsu Business Creation Plaza Seminar 2, at the Komatsu Komatsu science Hills. Title: "New Manufacturing Utilizing 3D Printer" Organized by: Komatsu City, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Click here
2014.8.9-10: Design Research Lab.will hold a workshop: KUTANI NIGHT ZOO in collaboration with Kripa link. Click here for more info
2014.07.4-6: Design Research Lab member will deliver presentation at the 61st Annual Conference of Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD) at The Fukui University of Technology. Click here for more info
2014.06.24: Design Research Lab. members gave a lecture about 3D printer in Kanazawa.
2014.06.21-22:International Workshop on Design Creativity at DCC14, London Click here for more info
2014.06.19: Design Research Lab. member receives the University Consortium Ishikawa 2014 Year Region field study seminar support project. Title: " Promotion of the sixth industry in Nomi-shi " Webpage.
2014.03.21: Design Research Lab members will be conducting a Workshop with Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD) on fiscal year 25 in Fukui Prefecture. Click here for more info
014.03.17-18: Design Research Lab members will be presenting a paper at the "Knowledge Science in the Field Manufacturing" on 4th Knowledge Co-Development Forum (FoKCs2014), to be held in Ishikawa Prefecture. [[Click here for more info:http://www.jaist.ac.jp/fokcs/]
2014.03.11: We will be holding a regular study group and Join Cognitive Science Society Research Subcommittee on "Design configuration and creation" in Ishikawa Prefecture. Click here for more info
2014.03.01: Design Research Lab members will report paper of "Social design: A case of timber recycling system in the building," adopted to support business seminar at the "University and regional cooperation active forum and special lecture" University Consortium Ishikawa. Click here for more info.
2014.02.28 - 05.31 A member of Design Research Lab. is invited as a Visiting Scholar at Furniture Research Group, Buckinghamshire New University, UK. supervised by Prof. Jake Kaner. Link
2014.02.23: City Government of Nomi and Nagai Lab, JAIST are inviting Asst. Prof. Zaini Alif, a university lecturer at Indonesian Art Higher School (STSI Bandung) who is also the founder of HONG community.
The HONG Community is a cultural group is dedicated to reinvent and to conserve Indonesian folk games and toys. Mr. Zaini and HONG community will be performing traditional games and musical workshop together with children at the Manabi Festa 2014 on February 23rd at city of Nomi, Japan.
2014.01.29: Poster presentation from Design Research Lab. member at International School on Knowledge Co-Creation (ISKCC2014), January 29, Bangkok, Thailand.

2013

2013: A new journal called International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation (Taylor & Francis) will be launched in January 2013. The journal is currently accepting manuscripts for review. Journal homepage, Call for Papers.
2013.10.28: Design Research Lab. & The Research Center for Innovative Lifestyle Design will hold the 1st Lifestyle Design Research Center Seminar. We invite Associate Professor Kunio Nikata from Kanazawa College of Art.
Title: Cognitive Science approach in Design Research
Date and time: October 28, 2013, (Mon) 15:00pm-16:30pm
Location: Lecture Room, School of Knowledge Science Building.
※Pre-registration is not necessary, please come to the venue directly.
Contact: Administrative and Planning Section, Research Affair Department: r-soukatsu@jaist.ac.jp
2013.10.12: Design Research Lab takes part in science-government collaboration project with Nomi City at JAIST Festival. This is a part of the Regional Development by the Next Generation of Cultural Creation. We distribute 100 pieces of 3D printer Gotochi character with round potato (Nomi specialty) "Nomi maru" to 100 first visitors. Detail.
2013.10.1 (14pm to 16pm): Design Research Lab hold a seminar entitled Social Design through Timber Recycling System in the Building. The purpose of this seminar is expansion in activities that captures civilized resources, and cultural resources towards a sustainable society, to study the mechanism of value conversion by the knowledge scientific approach. Location: Nomi City Community Collaboration Development Center Webpage.
2013.08.26-30: Prof. Nagai and Design Research Lab. member will present papers at 5th The International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR) World Conference on Design Research (IASDR13), Tokyo. Webpage.
2013.08.19-22: Prof. Nagai is chairing (SIG Workshop) Creativity in design synthesis - 1 at 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2013), Korea. Webpage.
2013.08.19-22: Presentation from colleagues and Design Research Lab. at 19th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 2013), Korea. Webpage.
2013.08.06 Design Research Lab. collaborated with National Institute of Organization for Small & Medium Enterprises to held 13th i-BIRD matching Seminar with theme: "3D printer is changing the business!" at University of Ishikawa cooperation incubator (i-BIRD). Webpage.
2013.07.18: Design Research Lab. member receives the University Consortium Ishikawa 2013 Year Region field study seminar support project. Title: "Social Design Research Seminar with attention to design of timber recycling system in the building" Webpage.
2013.07.18: Design Research Lab. held the 5th Knowledge Sciences Seminar on Kansei evaluation method with guest speaker, Assoc. Prof. Masaki Sakamoto (The University of Electro-Communications, Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering). Presentation title: "New Sensibility Evaluation Method based on Natural Language." Webpage.
2013.06.21-23: Presentation from Design Research Lab at 60th Annual Conference of JSSD in Tsukuba, Japan. Webpage.
2013.06.17-20: Poster presentation from Design Research Lab. at 9th ACM International Conference on Creativity and Cognition 2013, Sydney, Australia Webpage.
2013.05.20: A member of Design Research Lab. (Nagai Lab.) receives Student Research Bursary Award 2013 from Design Research Society (DRS), UK.
2013.05.14-17: A presentation from Design Research Lab. at DRS//CUMULUS 2013, an International Conference for Design Education Researchers at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, at Oslo, Norway. Webpage.
2013-2014: Team of Design Research Lab. (Nagai Lab.) receives the 8th Research Grant for Educational Practice for Children HAKUHO FOUNDATION. This research will be conducted within one year at rural craft villages in Japan and Indonesia.
2013.01.29: A seminar held by Design Research Lab. at JAIST, presented by Florencio PAIVA (France) and Kanami MORITA (Japan) at Collaboration Room 2, JAIST, School of Knowledge Science, 2013.01.29, 15pm-17pm.
2nd Call for Papers of 9th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 17-20 June, 2013, UTS, Sydney, Australia. Theme: `Intersections and Interactions’. Sponsored by ACM, SIGCHI, Interaction Consortium, Centre for Human Centred Technology Design (HCTD) UTS. Webpage
2013.01.07-09: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ICoRD'13, an International Conference at IIT Madras, Chennai, India. Webpage

2012

2012.10.16-17: Presentation from Design Research Lab at Design Symposium 2012 in Kyoto, Japan. Webpage.
2012.09.18-20: Poster presentation from Design Research Lab at ICDC 2012. - 2012.08.1-4 Prof. Nagai presented a poster presentation at COGSCI 2012 in Sapporo, Japan. Webpage.
2012.08.27: KS-seminar with Prof. Kazuhisa Todayama from Nagoya University.
2012.07.1-5: Presentation from Design Research Lab at DRS 2012 Conference in Bangkok. Webpage.
2012.06.22-24: Prof. Nagai presented a paper at The 59th Annual Conference of JSSD in Sapporo. Webpage.
2012.05.21-24: Prof. Nagai presented a paper at DESIGN 2012 Conference in Croatia. Webpage.
2012.05.7-11: Presentation from Design Research Lab at TMCE 2012 Symposium. Webpage.
2012.02.29: Presentation from Prof. Nagai at JST Plaza. Details.
2012.02.27: KS-seminar with Prof. Tanaka from Kanazawa Institute of Technology. Homepage.
2012.01.30-31: Prof. Nagai at Design Theory SIG Workshop held in Paris, France. Details.

2011

2011.11.3-6: Poster and presentation from Design Research Lab at ACM Creativity & Cognition 2011, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Homepage and Program.
2011.10.31-11.04: Presentation and poster from Design Research Lab at 4th World Conference on Design Research, IASDR2011, Delft, the Netherlands. Homepage and Program.
2011.09.23-25: Presentations and poster from Design Research Lab at The 28th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Cognitive Science Society. http://www.jcss.gr.jp/meetings/JCSS2011/program/index.html
2011.08.17: Presentation from Design Research Lab at ICED11. http://www.iced11.org/Programme.aspx
2011.02.29: KS-seminar with presentations from:
- Prof. Kazuhiro Ueda, Tokyo University (Topic: The structure of demand-side innovation―Which is more important for idea generation resulting in innovation, personality feature or preceding information?)

2010

Dr. Sachiko Kiyokawa, Chubu University

2010.11.29-12.1: Presentations and posters from Design Research Lab at the First International Conference on Design Creativity, Kobe, Japan. http://www.org.kobe-u.ac.jp/icdc2010/
2010.07.03/04: Two presentations from Design Research Lab at the Annual Conference of JSSD http://www2.nagano.ac.jp/jssd/info.html
2010.04.23/26: Dr. Ian Gwilt's lecture and exhibition:
- Lecture "Compumorphic art - the computer as muse", Friday 23rd April, 4pm – 5:30pm, Collaboration Room 2 – KS Building 5F
- Exhibition "Natural Fabrications", Monday 26th April, 12pm – 5pm, Communication hall - 1F in front of the JAIST cafeteria
2010.04: Dr. Ian Gwilt, Director of Visual Communication, University of Technology, Sydney, is visiting researcher at Design Research Lab http://datasearch.uts.edu.au/dab/staff/details.cfm?StaffId=2075

2009

2009.10.27: The 7th ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference at Berkeley Art Museum & UC Berkeley http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/schedule.htm A paper form Design Research Lab was presented at Workshop "Creativity and Cognition in Engineering Design" http://www.ccedworkshop.org/
2009.10.18-22: Two papers from Design Research Lab were presented presented on IASDR 2009 conference in Seoul, Korea http://www.iasdr2009.org/

2009.7.14: Prof. Takashi Kiriyama, Tokyo University of the Arts, presented "Observation and Analysis of Behaviors in an Interactive Art Installation" on KS seminar

2009.6.06: Open Campus day at JAIST. Design Research Lab presented several posters (poster1).

2009.3.23: Prof. Ernest Edmonds and Dr. Linda Candy (Creativity and Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sidney, Australia) visited our laboratory

http://www.creativityandcognition.com/ and http://www.uts.edu.au/

2009.2.17: Assoc. Prof. Samuel Gomes, PhD, University of Technology Belfort-Montbéliard (UTBM), France, visited Design Research Lab and presented "Collaborative Design and Knowledge factory - CoDeKF" at KS Seminar on Feb. 16th.

http://set.utbm.fr/index.php?pge=297

2009.2.06: Call for Papers::ACM 7th Creativity and Cognition conference 2009:: Everyday Creativity: Shared Languages and Collective Action, October 27-30, 2009, Berkeley Art Museum, CA, USA, Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI, in co-operation with SIGMM/SIGART

2008 http://www.creativityandcognition09.org/

2008.9.29:Two research works were presented at 18th Design and Systems conference http://www.jsme.or.jp/conference/dsdconf08/
2008.7.25: The two awards are reported in the events section of the university's homepage http://www.jaist.ac.jp/news/award/2008/0725.html
2008.7.01: Two presentations from Design research lab are among the selection of excellent research presentations on The 55th JSSD conference http://jssd.jp/modules/bulletin/article.php?storyid=258
2008.6.28-29: Research presentations at The 55th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for the Science of Design (JSSD) from 27 to 29th of June 2008 held in Hiroshima International University http://jssd.jp/ http://www.hirokoku.jp/jssd_s08/
2008.6.7: JAIST Open Campus
2008.4.19-21: Laboratory members participated in The East Asian A3 Project meeting held in Taiwan.
2008.4.5-7: Laboratory members participated in The East Asian A3 Project meeting held in Seoul, South Korea.
2008.4.5: JAIST Entrance ceremony
2008.3.25-27: Andy Dong, PhD., Senior Lecturer in University of Sydney <http://web.arch.usyd.edu.au/~adong>, visited our laboratory and gave talk entitled "Language technologies in design" on 10th KS-seminar

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