call for papers15 January → 15 April → 21 April

Notification of acceptance19 May

registration (early bird)15 January → 08 June

• Attendee 60€

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  Non presenting public, non presenting co-authors.

As in the Conference's previous editions, we are looking for contributions and approaches that describe on-going exploration experiences, completed projects and case studies in design based-research, methodologies and practitioner fields.

Despite 2CO's focus on practice-based and 'practical' design-oriented approaches, more theory and methodology-centered contributions are also welcome.

The topics covered by the conference are:

• informative-animation;
• info-graphics;
• interactive data visualization;
• informative environments

The conference is structured around two – Full and Junior – tracks, therefore we are looking for two distinct forms of contributions:

Full track

The Full track, dedicated to formal presentations, and is aimed at scholars and professionals active in the field of communicating complexity.

Junior track

A special Junior track, designed to attract 'young researchers' (post-graduate students, PhD candidates in their early research stage, junior scholars and so on) willing to present their projects and experiences, in a case-studies format.

Once notified about their contribution's acceptance, authors will be asked to register to the conference (it is required that at least one author is registered to the conference to present the contribution).

The frame window for registering to the conference (Early Bird mode) is May 15th/June 21st. Latecomers may be still be able to register after this date (at full price) for a few extra days.

As in the past editions, the papers presented during the conference (both in full and junior track modes) will be considered for publication in a following book of contributions.

Although it is likely that the contributions presented at the conference will be included in the book, a live intermediate evaluation will be carried out by a small/flexible evaluation team (formed by members of the scientific committee) in which presentations will be further scrutinized. After this, possibly with extra hints and suggestions (whereas needed), authors will be given green light for submitting a final version for 2CO's (selected) 'book of contributions'.

As a last stage, following both the scientific committee's recommendations and the publication style guidelines, authors will be asked to submit a correctly formatted ‘camera ready' paper.

Publication

The papers that will successfully go through the Conference's reviewing process will find place in a publication within the Temes de Disseny platform, which hosts the Design Research Journal from ELISAVA.
The publication will be in English.
Started in 1986 and currently at its issue number 40, Temes de Disseny (Design Themes) addresses current social, environmental and economic challenges for design and engineering, with scientific rigor along with appealing graphics.

Abstracts submission

English is the official conference language: both for abstracts submissions and for presentations.

Please make sure the text your submit does not contain any personal information. Contributions must be fully anonymous. Please take notice that, the maximum number of authors for 2CO4 contributions is three (3).

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Submissions should be entered as plain text and must follow the following format:

• Author(s) name, affiliation, email.
• Title: (max 10 words)
• Abstract: (max 900 words)
• Keywords: (min 3, max 5)
• One significant image to illustrate the abstract, .pdf .jpg .png file - (Optional but preferable)
• References Please make sure to include also a short reference list (books, articles, websites) at the end of your abstract according to APA style.

The Conference will be held at the ELISAVA Facultad de Diseño e Ingeniería de Barcelona.

Conference: ELISAVA La Rambla 30-32 08002 Barcelona (España).

Social dinner: soon details.

Elisava Barcelona School of Design and Engineering is a faculty of UVic-UCC. It promotes education, knowledge and research in the fields of design, communication and engineering. Located in Barcelona, Elisava has trained more than 25,000 students in its 60-year history.

Together with Elisava Research, the school develops projects with companies, institutions and NGOs to generate and transfer knowledge, address present and future challenges and foster change. Elisava raises professionals with the skills needed to design products, services and environments that contribute towards creating a more environmentally responsible, inclusive and community-focused society.

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