Visual Learning: Development - Discovery - Design
Conference to take place in Budapest, December 1-2, 2011
Conference organized by theVisual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
Contributions
are invited from educational theorists, designers, architects,
philosophers, sociologists, psychologists, media theorists, and other
interested scholars on the following and related topics:
- educational theory and visual learning pictorial skills
- visual intelligence
- the visual mind
- scientific visualization
- visualization and higher education
- visualization and engineering skills
- design theory
- image and creativity
- visual argument
- information visualization
- images in the network age
slot of altogether 30 minutes is planned for each presentation. We envisage an ensuing volume of selected papers.
Submission
of abstracts (max. 200 words) and short biographical statements (max.
100 words) by Sept. 20, 2011 (deadline extended). Please send your
submissions simultaneously to Prof. Andras Benedek (Head, Department of
Technical
Education) and to Kristof Nyiri (Professor of Philosophy, Department of
Technical Education). Those submitting abstracts will be notified of
the decision concerning acceptance by Sept. 30, 2011.
No
conference fees will be charged. Participants are encouraged to arrange
their own accommodation. The conference venue (Budapest University of
Technology and Economics, 1117 Budapest, Magyar Tudosok korutja 2, Bld.
Q, Wing A) is located near downtown Budapest.
