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AHO: PhD Fellowship – Designing for Additive Manufacturing

PhD Fellowship – Designing for Additive Manufacturing
AHO

Application deadline: 28.2.2014
Expected Start Date: September 2014
Contacts:
Rachel Troye
Steinar Killi
Telephone: +47 22997146
Mobile: +47 90108728

Designing for Additive Manufacturing is regarded of the more important contemporary topics to research within the community of product design. Additive Manufacturing has been a buzzword for several years now. Research has been performed around the technical aspects of this production technology, but very scarcely around actual design processes. Additive Manufacturing (AM) is predicted to have the potential to start the ‘next industrial revolution’, being disruptive is not enough though. What is needed is informed and situated design production, knowledge and critique in design research terms too.This design  PhD Fellowship position is centered in practice-oriented design inquiry that involves production with analysis. At the core is a need to develop design methodology and design processes that would be useful for designers and companies and to reflect on these in and as formal researches.

Vacant position: Assistant Professor in Industrial Design, Umeå Institute of Design

Apply for a four-year research position, Assistant Professor in Industrial Design,
at Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University Sweden
Link with all information:
http://www8.umu.se/umu/aktuellt/arkiv/lediga_tjanster/2.2.1.2-89-14.html#eng
Deadline: March 31, 2014

“Next step – the Sky” workshop in Finse

CIRRUS students engaged in various forms of art, design and architecture are hereby invited to take part in the 2014 Finse workshop “Next Step – the Sky”, 23-28 February. With this chosen theme in mind combined with a distinctive landscape, light and climate, the stage is set for exploring the winter-mountains. We wish to experiment, to seek out and develop concepts, objects and spatial conditions at Finse where the landscape melts with the sky. The framework for this year’s collective project «Next step – the sky» raises questions on how the character of, and the changes in nature provide relevance to projects based on materials of snow and ice.

Finse, on the divide between Norway’s east and west, offers a unique light on the mountain plateau and glacier, and is surrounded by the Hardangervidda nature reserve. Finse and its buildings are devoted chiefly to business, but strictly regulated to protect the environment. No road leads to Finse – only tracks. Your application should consist of an idea – a description of your purpose for joining, and any special interest needs.

Details and program

Number of available CIRRUS places: 2

Course level: BA & MA

Fee: NOK 1500,-(appr 200 EUR)

CIRRUS/Nordplus will still pay out the regular 330 EUR travel (Iceland 660 EUR) + 70 EUR a week grant. The price 1500 NOK for the workshop (appr. 200 EUR) includes accommodation and food. No extras will be paid out.

All applicants are kindly asked to send their motivation statement to tale.vik@khib.no by 26 January (please note that the application deadline for CIRRUS students differs from the deadline in the flyer). Your application should consist of an idea – a description of your purpose for joining the workshop. Your ideas will be part of the workshop as a joint venture.

2014 summer workshop in Iceland

SUMMER WORKSHOP IN ICELAND 2014   – UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND – ICELAND ACADEMY OF THE ARTS – ÍSLENSKI BÆRINN – UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN – HÁSKÓLAFÉLAG SUÐURLANDS –  PRESENT:

A R C H A I S M ,   A M N E S I A  

A N D   A N A R C H Y   I N / O F    

A R C H I T E C T U R E   

 

LEVEL:   BA / MA
CREDITS:   10 ECTS

LANGUAGE:   ENGLISH
EMAIL:   sbh@hi.is
The workshop intends to explore traditions and appropriation of ideas of sustainability, heritage and energy with leading thinkers and experts,

in the exotic and extreme setting of Iceland.

Participants get hands-on experience with basic natural building materials – turf, stone, clay, wind and water – in the context of critical theory.
We engage in dialogue with experts, examine the tactile qualities of various materials from the point of view of the participants´ own experiences, background and notions of sustainability, recycling and contemporary architectural and three-dimensional practice and possibilities. Participants will also experience the unique Icelandic setting in terms of geography, climate, natural energy, history and society through fieldwork and excursions.

Professor / Associate Professor (full-time position) in illustration at KHiB

The Department of Design at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) has a vacancy for a full-time position as professor / associate professor in design focusing on illustration for a fixed term of six years from 1 August 2014.

KHiB invites active illustrators with a high-profile career in illustration to apply for the position.

KHiB is looking for a professor / associate professor with expertise in the field of illustration who has ambitions when it comes to expanding and testing the limits of illustration practice, and who is interested in and open to a variety of forms of expression and media. Applicants should have wide-ranging practical experience, a strongly contextualised practice and the ability to see illustration in a larger historical, social and communicative context.

Application deadline
The closing date for application is 31 January 2014.

Please consult our webpages for a full description:
http://khib.easycruit.com/vacancy/1098869/79290?iso=gb

Arvo Pärt Centre International Competition

International Two-stage Architectural Design Contest of Building for Arvo Pärt Centre

In collaboration with the Union of Estonian Architects, the Arvo Pärt Centre has announced a two-stage competition for designing a building for the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, near Tallinn. The aim of the competition is to find the best architectural solution for the building, which will house the Arvo Pärt archive at its core.