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Call for Expressions of Interest: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024
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Elisava, Barcelona School of Design and Engineering (UVic-UCC) is seeking postdoctoral researchers of any nationality interested in applying for a under the 2024 call for applications., Barcelona School of Design and Engineering of the Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya (UVic-UCC), fourth best Catalan university and sixth in Spain, promotes education, knowledge and research in the fields of design, industrial design engineering and communication. At Elisava we understand design and industrial design engineering as instruments to transform the world through innovation and critical reflection. Elisava is a university where you can question pre-established ideas, where you can experiment with new ways, where you can connect with the professional world and where you can find alternatives. For 60 years we have been committed to an open, flexible and multidisciplinary line of training and research, oriented towards the professional world. We have trained more than 20,000 students from over 90 countries who are prepared to face and overcome great professional challenges, taking into account social, environmental and gender aspects. Located on an urban campus in the centre of Barcelona, we have a direct impact on the city and are closely involved in its cultural life. , the R+D+i Center of Elisava, is a vibrant community of academic researchers in the fields of design and engineering and a solid ecosystem of international partners and collaborators. We lead the official and publish , an open-access scientific journal currently a first quartile journal (Q1) in the ‘Architecture’, ‘Cultural Studies’ and ‘Visual Arts and Performing Arts’ categories, according to the SCImago Journal & Country Rank.The objective of MCSA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to support researchers’ careers and foster excellence in research. The Postdoctoral Fellowships action targets researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers. PFs help researchers gain experience in other countries, disciplines and non-academic sectors. Applicants should have a PhD degree at the time of the deadline for applications (11/09/2024). Applicants who have successfully defended their doctoral thesis but who have not yet formally been awarded the doctoral degree will also be considered eligible to apply. Applicants must have a maximum of eight years experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree and should comply with the MSCA mobility rules. More details .Applicantsmust develop an application jointly with an host organisation, and we therefore invite Expressions of Interest (EoI) for proposals interested in Elisava as a host organization in the following topics (we my consider other suggestions as well):Temporary Public Spaces for Urban RegenerationRoger Paez, PhDTo successfully address today’s sustainability challenges, cities need to develop and implement temporary public spaces (TPSs) to creatively harness the uncertainty derived from global crises in positive ways. This demands new conceptual and operative tools such as adaptive policies, adaptive planning, and adaptable cities. Specifically, TPSs directly connect the (infra)structural relevance of public space with the need to provide flexible, adaptable solutions for urban regeneration. The challenges addressed by the project will activate culture and creativity to generate specific and innovative temporary public spaces that will contribute to envisioning and co-producing better cities. The project will use small/medium-scale interventions to develop and test temporary public spaces that are replicable, foster citizen engagement, support education in new skills and capacity building, and are extremely cost-effective in relation to their social impact. These temporary public spaces will be testbeds for new ways of life, community-building and co-responsibility towards our shared habitats, contributing directly to the European Green Deal, the New European Bauhaus and the global efforts towards a sustainable future.Soft Digital KnittingMarina Castán, PhDWe are interested in exploring the possibilities of digital knitting technology to design innovative soft products and spaces that facilitate disassembly and recycling. We recognize that design does not exist in isolation from the natural world and other species. It acknowledges the detrimental effects of traditional design practices on the environment, such as pollution, waste generation, and the exploitation of resources. We welcome proposals that seek to mitigate these negative impacts by integrating sustainable practices throughout the entire product design value chain, including using circular materials, energy-efficient production processes, and end-of-life recycling solutions.Collaborative and Experimental SystemsMassimo Menichinelli, Dr.One of the emerging trends in Design and HCI practice and research of the last two decades is the interest in addressing projects and groups of users with an amplified perspective, from products to services and policies, from artifacts to cities and regions, from single users to local and online communities, from isolated projects to whole complex systems, from designers to non-designers, from human actors to non-human ones. This focus works in extending whom is considered an actor in the design processes and ecosystems, in terms of a) scale and complexity, from User-centered Design to Community-centered Design and b) agency, with a Posthuman/More-than-Human approach. Several phenomena may be identified as the cause or influence of these changes, and ICT is one of the more relevant, from Internet to the World Wide Web (change of scale), to Internet of Things and automation (change of agency). This focus has required also a conceptual shift in terms of perspective: from actors and artifacts to systems and networks. We welcome proposals interested in working in these shifts of scale and agency, especially in the co-design of services and digital technologies, for example in terms of a) making and urban manufacturing, b) regulatory sandboxes, c) more-than-human systems, at scale and with a systemic perspective.In order to submit an EoI and for any question, please get in touch with:andIndicative timeline: * 3 July 2024: Deadline for sending EoIs to Elisava
- 25 July 2024: First internal draft of the proposals
- 1 September 2024: Second internal draft of the proposals
- 11 September 2024: Deadline for submitting proposals
- February / April 2025: Notification of call results to applicants and start of the project (indicative, TBC)
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