Call for Submissions─2022 International Symposium on Reputation and Cultural Value in Design Soft Power
Shandong University of Art and Design(SUAD) warmly invite paper proposals for the two-day international Symposium on ‘Reputation and Cultural Value in Design Soft Power’. This symposium will take place online and offline from October 28 to 29, 2022 (unless otherwise notified), at Shandong University of Art & Design in Shandong, China, and will run concurrently with the International Design Literacy Conference.
Keynote Speakers:
Chris Rowley（Kellogg College, University of Oxford），Pan Lusheng(Shandong University of Art and Design)......
Conference Outline
1. About the symposium
Reputation of a country or region is based on the beliefs and opinions that are generally held about its long-term design and cultural activities. The capacity to design determines the overall impression and comprehension of a country’s soft power and its right to speak. The greater a country’s or region’s design innovation capabilities, the greater its cultural soft power and external reputation.
The Chinese government has said unequivocally that one of its strategic goals is to create “a country with a thriving culture,” characterized by increased civic development, civility, and national soft power. When it comes to building the national soft power, design encompasses much more than packaging, marketing, and supporting culture. It should be seen as a culture-development strategy and implemented accordingly.
“Reputation and Cultural Value in Design Soft Power” will be the focus of this international symposium. We’ll look at how design innovation can be used to promote cultural soft power, identify its core value, meaning, structure, and importance in practice, consider how Chinese cultural soft power can be better represented, understood and spread around the world through design innovation, and make recommendations for China design as a global strategy.
From an interdisciplinary perspective, scholars and professionals in the fields of design and culture from home and abroad will discuss design’s soft power in cultural endowment, transformation, solidarity, and competitive edge, as well as cross-cultural dialogue and national reputation. We hope to recreate the design knowledge graph and make effective use of design to achieve sustainable growth.
2. Symposium information
Endorsed by
Cummulus Association.
Hosted by
Design Policy Union (DPU), UK
Design Strategy Research Center, SUAD, China
Sponsored by
Shandong University of Art & Design (SUAD), China
Co-organized by
Academy for Design Innovation Management, UK
Institute of Design Strategy and Prototype Innovation , Art and Science Research Center , Tsinghua University, China
3. Submit your paper
We invite anyone interested to submit to the symposium. We encourage authors to concentrate on a particular topic as listed below, and create a title for your paper based on your research area.
Topics
1. National reputation and design policy
2. The benchmark and index study in Reputation and Design Soft Power
3. Leadership driven by design thinking
4. Design transformation of cultural resources
5. The value of culture and design as intangible assets
6. The construction of creative communities and social solidarity
7. Design for correlative to meaning
8. Cultural solidarity and social innovation design
9. Design based on product life cycle
10. Supply chain management update driven by design innovation
11. Design quality, technology and competitive advantage
12. Cross-cultural dialogue and cross-cultural design
13. Case study on cross-cultural design and communication between countries
14. Design for social responsibility
15. Design capability updated based on cultural soft power construction
Submission requirements
1. Authors must submit their original works that have not been published before and are not currently being considered for publication anywhere. All incoming papers should be screened for plagiarism using iThenticate, a plagiarism detection software, with a similarity score of less than 15%.The author will be held responsible for any papers that are rejected owing to unacceptable similarity.
2. Title, author’s name, affiliation, city, country, abstract, keywords, introduction, main body (with level 1 headings), conclusion, and a reference list with at least 6 entries are required in the full paper.
3. The recommended length for a paper should be between 2,000 to 6,000 English words.
4. All diagrams in the paper must be given a name. The graphics in the paper must be in jpg format.
5. All links in the reference list must be valid.
6. The submitted paper should be a Microsoft Word document.
7. For the formatting of English papers, please refer to the APA 7th Edition.
Deadline and contact information
1. For symposium participants, please return the completed Information Form (the abstract of your paper included) to the email address below by Sept. 15, 2022. A jury will determine the accepted abstract before Sept 20, 2022, based on how relevant the titles are to the topics and their innovativeness. The authors will be notified by email.
2. PLease submit your full paper before Oct. 15, 2022. The jury will decide speakers for the symposium based on the quality of the submitted papers. The results will be notified by email on Oct.20.
3. Outstanding papers will be recommended for publication in core journals first.
Please send to this email address your Information Form (see Appendix) and your full paper as attachment.
4. Email: shaohongbo@sdada.edu.cn
The symposium registration, proceedings and outstanding paper recommendation are all free of charge. Accepted papers will be selected for publication.
A special session – the Young Scholars’ Forum will be held during the symposium. Graduate students (Master’s or PhD) are expected to attend.
