27-28 May 2025 Saint-Etienne (France)

Call for Proposals > Submission modalities

How to submit a proposal

Complete proposals (summary of research and elements to be presented) must be submitted via SciencesConf by 20 December 2024 at the latest.


Conference objectives

  • To bring together the research communities of art and design schools to discuss their programmes, practices, results and shared perspectives.
  • To make art and design school research visible, to show its value in the evolution of schools and environmental changes.
  • To bring to light the knowledge produced in relation to the topics of the conference.
  • To express through research a current point of view on ‘making’ in art and design, its aims and meanings, its own effects (on authors and on environments), its tangible powers in relation to the social and political, historical framework within which it unfolds.


Expected entries

Who is this call adressed to?

  • The call for participation is primarily aimed at research and teaching teams from art and design schools who are carrying out projects, including and not exclusively with their students. The optimal situation would be to have a recently concluded project, and to return to it on the conference, to analyse it on the basis of a research question.
  • It is also aimed at university teacher-researchers, especially as they are in contact with schools through university clusters or cooperations. The conference will have a strong interest in interdisciplinary research.
  • Proposals may be submitted by two institutions, e.g. one higher school of art and design and one university department, two higher schools of art and design.
  • The call is also open to work by industrial R&D and agencies.
  • Open by nature, the call concerns any creative research practice in art and design, linked to the call. It is therefore not closed to individual research insofar as it can be linked to the themes of the call.
  • This conference of art and design schools has a predominantly French-speaking audience. However, it is international, and fully open to French-speaking artist-researchers and designers working in European and international universities and schools. The call for proposals is also available in English, one of the languages of the conference. English-speaking proposals are of course welcome.

Content of the proposals

  • The conference consists of two parts: a Colloquium (two days, 27-28 May 2025) and an Exhibition (22 May-6 July 2025), which are in synergy, since the aim is to materialise the research in the dual form of viewing and analysing: the research exhibited, and the research discussed. The call for participation concerns these two events.
  • Research without a proposal for the exhibition, and therefore concerning the Colloquium strand only, is not excluded, although preference is given to research based on a plastic practice.
  • On the other hand, it is not desired that proposals include only an ‘Exhibition’ component.
  • The final sessions of the meeting will be provided once the programme has been published. They depend on the number and types of entries. The information here is intended to help participants configure their replies.
  • Several sessions are already planned:
    • Project presentations within the Faire, encore exhibition, explorations-discussions in small groups.
    • Thematic sessions (round tables).
    • Discussion workshops, led according to set objectives to address common issues raised by the research presented.
    • Plenary lectures (introduction, conclusion).

Editions

  • A printed exhibition leaflet presents the conference, the projects exhibited and the conference program;
  • The pre-acts of the conference are edited in digital form and published on HAL.

Colloquium

The event is prepared by a text called a research summary. This can be any type of research related to the call for proposals:

  • research-creation, research through art and design
  • ethnography and autoethnography
  • critical study of projects and programmes
  • analysis of a medium
  • analysis of teaching practice from a research perspective
  • review of a creative research project
  • case studies and field studies
  • overviews
  • philosophical, aesthetic and historical approaches
  • presentation of works, visual and aesthetic analyses, critical work
  • etc.

There is no prior declaration of intent in the form of an abstract.

By 8 January 2025 at the latest, authors are invited to submit their proposals for papers on the conference website (https://ad-rec2025.sciencesconf.org), following the instructions below:

  • Mention of the theme of the call in which the paper falls;
  • Title and subtitle of the paper;
  • Synthesis of 1000 characters including spaces, in French and English;
  • Five keywords in French and English;
  • Text of 6000 to 9000 signs maximum spaces included, clearly setting out the research question, its theoretical framework, developing as far as possible the successive stages of the research (preparatory research, documentary and formal studies, its contributions). Ideally, the text should provide the keys to understanding the material and the research results to be presented.
  • Bibliography (APA standard) limited to the works and articles referred to;
  • Document in odt, .doc, or word format;
  • Text in Calibri font (preferably without serifs); 
  • Level 1 headings without bold numbering and size 14;
  • Headings level 2 without bold numbering and size 12;
  • The document is anonymous. The title of the document and information about the authors is entered on the platform.

After receiving notification of their acceptance (12 February 2025) and before 5 March 2025, the final submission date on the conference website, the respondents will finalise their text:

  • Possibly rewritten according to the recommendations of the evaluations;
  • Including author and affiliation mentions, 10000 signs maximum, spaces included, bibliography (APA standard) not included, 5 keywords, and summaries in French and English.

Languages

The languages of the meeting are French and English.

Exhibition

By questioning “making” and its tangible effects, the exhibition shows how we produce things and how we carry out research, how each of us makes progress, by investigating, drawing, photographing, assembling, etc. The elements that will be proposed for the exhibition can be very diverse since they materialise the research, its dynamics, its branches, its development: state of the art, pages of texts chosen as references, archives, drawings, research notebook/laboratory notebook, data cards, timelines, photos, formal research, objects produced (digital, visual).

Details and list of elements requested in ANNEX 1.
Outline of the scenography in ANNEX 2.

Key Dates

20 December 2024

  • Items you plan to exhibit to present your project, with captioned images collated in a PDF uploaded to the Scienceconf platform.
  • Dimensions of the items (including printed editions).

5 March 2025

  • Definitive list of exhibits (including those making up the ‘research folder’, if applicable).
  • Completed image rights assignment contract.
  • Cartels according to the above nomenclature.
  • Audiovisual equipment required (according to BID stock and only if video/digital interface/sound, are inherent to the project).

28 March 2025

  • Reception of the objects - including printed editions - sent by mail (the cost of sending the items is borne by the participants) to the address: ESADSE/Cité du Design, 3 rue Javelin Pagnon 42000 Saint-Étienne (precise address to be confirmed).
  • Images/visuals in 300 dpi (tiff or jpg) sent to the following address: adrec.bid2025@esadse.fr.
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