DesignInquiry

DesignInquiry is a non-profit educational organization devoted to researching design issues in intensive team-based gatherings. An alternative to the design conference,
it brings together practitioners from disparate fields to generate new work and ideas around a single topic.

DesignInquiry selects a topic to explore at an intensive gathering of presentations, discussions, and workshops. We invite professionals, educators and students of diverse disciplines to contribute to the topic in any way they think is appropriate. We share these responses, while working toward a publication that binds the outcome: a free-to-download boost of information, meant to inspire and inform its readers.

DesignInquiry is an alternative to the one-way delivery of a standard conference: each participant contributes and is equally responsible for the quality of the gathering; a collaborative production where we both learn and teach the aesthetics and ethics that are central to Design (and life). Days become nights; the program doesn't stop when dinner is served.

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Topic: TBD June 19-24 2011

After the roaring successes of Summer '10: JOY (Vinalhaven) and Spring '10: Being Here (Marfa, TX) we have already committed to a venue and date on Vinalhaven, ME next summer.

The topic is to be determined: please send any ideas or inspirations to info@designinquiry.net

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PARTICIPATE

Anyone who has an interest in this year's topic, regardless of profession or status, is welcome to attend and/or contribute.

You can participate in many different ways:
- present your findings or ideas as a lecture at the gathering
- organize a workshop, exhibition or field trip at the event
- contribute to our journal, or
- make a tax-deductible donation *

APPLY
Contact us and we will send you a questionnaire in which you may propose anything you think is appropriate to the topic. These thoughts, ideas, experiences and observations will ideally become the starting point for a contribution to the DesignInquiry event and the publication. We will contact you to indicate if your proposal has been accepted. ie fits the mix for the gathering. Participants will be accepted until the program fills. Apply early.

* This helps us to fund:
- scholarships to help ensure that DesignInquiry attracts a
diverse and ever-changing mix of people
- publishing ventures such as the online journal and printed
trifold essays