The International Conference of the Color Society of Russia
Prof. Dr. Yulia A. Griber
Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
Verena M. Schindler MA, MA, MSc
Art and Architectural Historian, Zollikon, Switzerland
International Scientific Committee
Juliet Albany, Urban Designer, Perth, Australia
Kine Angelo, Associate Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Technology and Design, Trondheim, Norway
Ulrich Bachmann, Professor, Institute of Colour and Light, Zurich, Switzerland
Doreen Balabanoff, Professor, Environmental Design, Design for Health, Inclusive Design, Faculty of Design, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
Janet Best, Applied Color Psychologist, Textile Institute Associate, London, United Kingdom and Moscow, Russia
Sabina Bračko, PhD, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Engineering, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Michael H. Brill, PhD, Director of Research, Datacolor, United States
Ingrid Calvo Ivanovic, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; Assistant Professor, Design Department, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Vien Cheung, Associate Professor, Colour and Imaging Science, School of Design, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Elisa Cordero-Jahr, Professor, Universidad Austral de Chile, Faculty of Architecture and Arts, School of Design, Valdivia, Chile
Paula Csillag, Professor, Department of Design, ESPM College, São Paulo, Brazil
Osvaldo Da Pos, Senior Scholar, University of Padua, Department of General Psychology, Padua, Italy
Maria João Durão, Professor, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade de Lisboa, Chair of Colour and Light Research Group CIAUD, Director of Laboratório da Cor/ColourLab FAUL, Lisbon, Portugal
Brian Funt, Professor Emeritus, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Yacine Gouaich, PhD, University Abdelhamid Ibn Badis of Mostaganem, Mostaganem, Algeria
Paul Green-Armytage, PhD, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
Kyoko Hidaka, Associate Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Robert Hirschler, PhD, Colour Consultant, Chair of AIC Study Group on Colour Education, Budapest, Hungary
John B. Hutchings, Visiting Professor, School of Design, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
Domicele Jonauskaite, Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Robin Kingsburgh, Professor, York University, Faculty of Science, Division of Natural Science, Toronto, Canada
Agata Kwiatkowska-Lubańska, PhD, Professor, Dean of Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, Poland
Jean-Philippe Lenclos, Professor Emeritus, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
Maggie Maggio, Chair, AIC/ISCC Joint Colour Literacy Project; Co-Chair of AIC Study Group on Colour Education, Portland OR, United States
Banu Manav, Professor, Kadir Has University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Istanbul, Turkey
Fiona McLachlan, Professor of Architectural Practice, Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Manuel Melgosa, Full Professor, Department of Optics, University of Granada, Granada, Spain
Galina Paramei, Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Laurence Pauliac, Art and Architectural Historian, Université Paris-Nanterre, and Université du Québec Montréal, Bordeaux, France
Saara Pyykkö, MSc Landscape Architecture, MA Art and Design, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Espoo, Finland
Maurizio Rossi, Full Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Jada Schumacher, Professor, Communication Design Pathways, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY, United States
Elza Tantcheva-Burdge, PhD, Art and Architectural Historian, Tickenham, United Kingdom
Justyna Tarajko-Kowalska, PhD Arch., Cracow University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Kraków, Poland
Jinghong Wang, PhD, Researcher, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, China
Ralf Weber, Professor of Architecture, Chair of Spatial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Mark Wentworth, Executive Board Member of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP), United Kingdom
The International Conference of the Color Society of Russia
(The Second Russian Congress on Color)
The conference publications are fourfold and freely available.
RUcolor2020 – ONLINE
1–5 December 2020
Venue: ONLINE (Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia)
You may have listened to the talks either on Zoom or YouTube. If you missed the presentations, on YouTube you can still experience the five-day conference – a video, a day. Click on the links below to go to YouTube. Enjoy the talks!
Video recordings
We had an amazing time sharing knowledge and experience on colour in all its facets.
RUcolor2020 in numbers
YouTube videos of a total of 42 hours, 41 minutes, 20 seconds;
Dec. 6, 2:00 PM Moscow, Russia (GMT+3): 2650 views on YouTube;
16 invited talks;
182 authors from 27 different countries, and
17 regions of the Russian Federation;
110 presentations;
52 members of the Scientific Committee from 22 countries;
Youtube viewers from 49 countries.
Synopsis video
The link to a 2-minute video on RUcolor2020 produced by ColorLab is: https://yadi.sk/d/0mFRKulIckOtTQ
We had a wonderful team that included:
Prof. Dr. Olga Lavrenova
Our special thanks go to Prof. Dr. Olga Lavrenova, RUcolor2020 Vice Chair of the Organizing Committee, who delivered the Opening Lecture and an Invited Lecture. She is Leading Researcher at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN), the National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, and, the GITR Film & Television School.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vasilii Dvoinev
As well, we enthusiastically thank our moderator who was at the forefront during 5 conference days for his professionalism, friendliness and precision! Dr. Vasilii Dvoinev, RUcolor2020 Administrator of the Project, is Associate Professor of the Department for Sociology and Philosophy, Head of Sociological Research Laboratory at Smolensk State University.
And we cannot thank enough the further members of our team:
Anastasia Larchenko, M.A., Conference Interpreter;
Vladimir Ustimenko, B.A. Student, Conference Design;
Alexey Delov, B.A. Student, Web Developer;
Karina Tsygankova, B.A. Student, Web Developer;
Tatiana Samoilova, PhD, Conference Network Engineer;
Lyubov Puzyreva, PhD, Conference Editor;
Ekaterina Skalka, PhD Student, Event Manager;
Anastasia Razumnaya, M.A., Head of Press-Office;
Vladimir Ustimenko, B.A. Student, Conference Designer, who gave our conference an identity with the creation of the logo;
Nataliya Kibisova, Director, Smolensk Nuclear Energy Information Center, and
Pavel Derevyanko, Technical Specialist, Smolensk Nuclear Energy Information Center, who provided the room and the devices for Zoom and YouTube live streaming.
Organisers
Smolensk State University;
Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences;
Research and Education Center "Color Lab";
AIC Study Group on Environmental Color Design; and,
Publishing House "Soglasiye".
Our special thanks go to the Invited Speakers:
Axel Buether (Wuppertal, Germany): Assessment of the psychological and medical effects of the environmental factors colour and light on patients and staff in the department of intensive-care medicine.
Yuri Burykin (Surgut, Russia): Computer stabilometrics in assessing the postural stability of individuals in the visual perception of color information.
José Luis Caivano (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Color order systems, color mixtures and the role of cesia.
Enrique del Acebo Ibáñez (Buenos Aires, Argentina): Antarctica as the white continent: Color, values and magic.
Balaganapathi Devarakonda (Dehli, India): Colour symbolism in Indian Tradition.
Andrey Vladimirovich Efimov (Moscow, Russia): The theory of urban color environment.
Domicele Jonauskaite (Lausanne, Switzerland): Colour-emotion associations in trichromatic and dichromatic participants: The role of conceptual mechanisms.
Vladimir Leopoldovich Kagansky (Moscow, Russia): Colorful body and uncolorful colorless: two poles of semiotic systems.
Olga Lavrenova (Moscow, Russia): «Mountains with the color of roses and honey»: coloristic semantics of the cultural landscape; and, Philosophy of color and light in the Roerich's creative heritage.
Jean-Philippe Lenclos, (Paris, France): Colour Design and “The Geography of Colour”.
Natalya Panova, (Moscow, Russia): From color theory to practice in architectural design
Verena M. Schindler (Zollikon, Switzerland): The philosophy of colour in the French period of environmental colour design.
Nicolay Viktorovich Serov (Saint-Petersburg, Russia): Color and “colors” of dye.
Juan Serra Lluch (Valencia, Spain): Evidences about warm and cool colors in interior architecture for the elderly.
Mikhail Yuryevich Shishin (Barnaul, Russia): Semantic color analysis in Mongolian art culture.
As well, we warmly thank all the 182 authors for their interesting, constructive and instructive presentations. We greatly enjoyed hearing about your color research!
Topics Color Psychology; Colour Sociology; Color in Communication; Color in Art and Design; and, Color in Science and Technology
Funding The Conference is funded by the Presidential Grant Foundation (project № 20-2-000280).
Fees Participation in the Second Russian Congress on Color is free of charge.
Language English, Russian.
Important Dates
July 15, 2020 First announcement
July 31, 2020 Website ready for abstract submission
July 31, 2020 Start of participants registration
August 1, 2020 Second announcement
August 24, 2020 Third announcement
September 15, 2020 (extended) Deadline for abstract submission
October 1, 2020 Deadline for review of abstracts by the Scientific Committee
October 15, 2020 Notification of acceptance
November 1, 2020 Deadline for submission of final version of abstracts
November 1, 2020 End of participants registration
November 10, 2020 Program announcement
December 1–5, 2020 Conference
December 7, 2020 Deadline for submission of full papers for the proceedings or a special issue (both options only for participants who presented their findings during the RUcolor2020 Conference in any form, Poster/Skype)
January 5, 2021 Deadline for review of full papers by the Scientific Committee
January 7, 2021 Notification of acceptance
January 15, 2021 Deadline for submission of final version of full papers.
Submission Guidelines for Abstracts All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Please use the RUcolor2020 Template – download available at the end of this page. The following paper categories are welcome:
Oral presentation (Online)
Short Oral presentation (Poster)
Steps for submission
Write your abstract in English or Russian using the template.
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Contact
E-mail: ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com
Publications RUcolor2020 Conference results are fourfold.
1) Book of Abstracts (with ISBN; abstracts will be published in the original language, either in English or in Russian);
2) Conference Proceedings (with ISBN; accepted papers will be published in the original language, either in English or in Russian);
3) The Scientific Notes of the Color Society of Russia, Vol.2, will be a special issue on Color Design for the Elderly (Book series with ISBN. English papers will be translated into Russian);
4) The Sociological Studies, special issue for young scientists and students (Book series with ISBN. The main goal is to publish high-quality papers by young scientists and students. These papers have to be reviewed by the author's supervisor. The name of the supervisor will not be published as a co-author, but as a supervisor. English papers will be translated into Russian).
Scientific Committee Members
Chair: Julia Aleksandrovna Ustimenko, PhD in Pedagogy, Vice-Rector, Head of the Department of Design and Decorative and Applied Arts, Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
Vadim Sergeyevich Andreev, Dr of Philology, Head, Department of Foreign Languages, Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
Viktor Vladimirovich Bakharev, Dr of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Department of Sociology and Management, Department of Architectural Environment Design, Belgorod State Technological University named after V.G. Shukhov, Belgorod, Russia
Marina Borisovna Bulanova, Dr of Sociology, Professor, Leading Researcher, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia
Yuri Gennadievich Burykin, PhD in Biology, Head, Department of Medical Biophysics and Human-Machine Interaction, Scientific Research Institute of System Analysis, Surgut, Russia
Irina Markovna Bykhovskaya, Dr of Philosophical Sciences, Professor, Moscow City University, Institute of Natural Sciences and Sports Technologies, Moscow, Russia
Alexander Grigoryevich Egorov, Dr of Philosophy, Professor, Head of the Department of Sociology and Philosophy, Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
Svetlana Alexandrovna Malyutina, PhD, Associate Director, Center for Language and Brain, National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow, Russia
Aleksandra Vladimirovna Pankratova, PhD of Philosophical Sciences, Head, Department of Design, National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute", Smolensk, Russia
Vladimir Vladimirovich Selivanov, Dr of Psychology, Professor, Head, Department of Psychology, Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
Tatiana Sergeevna Semyonova, Dr of Arch., Director of the Color Center, Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Architecture, Europe's Color Expert, Russia
Nikolai Viktorovich Serov, Dr of Culturology, Professor, D.S. Rozhdestvensky Optical Society, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Tatyana Alexandrovna Sidorchuk, PhD in Psychology, Director, Institute of the Third Age, Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
Elena Evgenievna Sukhova, PhD in Sociology, Dean, Faculty of Sociology, Smolensk State University, Smolensk, Russia
This screenshot provides a glimpse of a Zoom session where people met from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Iran, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
Colorful greetings,
Yulia A. Griber, Chair of the RUcolor2020 Organizing Committee, y.griber@gmail.com
Verena M. Schindler, Co-Chair of the RUcolor2020 Organizing Committee, ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com
