2022
Celebrating 40 Years (1982–2022) Study Group on Environmental Colour Design of the International Colour Association (AIC, Association Internationale de la Couleur)
CANADA, Toronto
Meeting of the AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (SG ECD)
online (English)
Celebrate with us!
In 2022, the AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (SG ECD) is celebrating its 40th anniversary!
Date: Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 10:45 am - 12:00 pm Eastern Time (ET) - [Time in Paris 16:45–18.00 CEST]
Theme: The Future of Environmental Colour Design: The Conscious and the Unconscious
Presenters:
- Verena M. Schindler, Chair SG ECD: Introduction
- Galyna McLellan (Brisbane, Australia): The controversy of monochromatic architecture in multicultural subtropical contexts
- Fiona McLachlan (Edinburgh, Scotland): Colour explorations: On becoming conscious
- Clino Trini Castelli (Milan, Italy): Toronto RGB Interior
- Lynnette Postuma (Toronto, Canada): A Living Canvas
- Changying Xiang, Barbara Szybinska Matusiak (Trondheim, Norway): Colour preference study for façade-integrated photovoltaic design
- Kazim Hilmi Or (Hamburg, Germany): Proposals for interior architectural colour design for ophthalmological low vision patients
- Pía López-Izquierdo Botín (Madrid, Spain): Freud’s preconscious and conscious and the process of communicative and emotional colour skills
- Ralf Weber (Dresden, Germany): Unconscious and conscious colour in architectural design
- Q&A
Theme description: The theme of this ECD meeting, which will be held during the AIC 2022 “Sensing Colour” in Toronto, is the future of environmental colour design with a special focus on the conscious and the unconscious. Conscious environmental colour design is a mental process based on rational thoughts and colour concepts designed for interior spaces or exterior environments such as cities, villages, public or semi-public urban spaces, and architecture. Colour practice based on the conscious awareness of a site at a given time participates actively to the physical application of colour in a real-world context. The unconscious mind, however, reveals the emotional and atmospheric quality of a space. Unconscious colour impacts people’s perception and feelings, and evokes moods, atmospheres, ambiences, memories, and affective ties to a place. The transition between the conscious and the unconscious can be dichotomous or gradual. These kinds of explorations can lead to new theoretical and methodological approaches relevant to the future of environmental colour design.
Format: Employing a presentation format called PechaKucha, which means "chit chat" in Japanese, each presenter is allotted 20 slides with 20 seconds comment per slide, for a total of 6 minutes & 40 seconds. Participation in the study group meeting is free for all registered AIC 2022 attendees.
Contact: ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com
AIC 2022 Toronto
Special Session – Recent Books on Colour - online
Date: Wednesday, 15 June 2022, 4:15 pm - 5:30 pm Eastern Time (ET)
Chair: Verena M. Schindler
Contact: ecd.studygroup@yahoo.com
Presenters:
- Clino Trini Castelli: No-Form 2020: 10 racconti oltre il design (2019)
- Fiona McLachlan: Colour Beyond the Surface: Art in Architecture (2022)
- Paula Csillag: Communication with Colors (2021)
- Kyoko Hidaka: Color Categorization (2021)
- Eva Fay: Shillito Design School: Australian Colour Education in the 70’s (2021)
More information:
http://www.aicecd.org/new_colour_books
SPAIN, Terrassa
XIII Congreso Nacional del Color, Terrassa, SPAIN
online (Spanish)
Dates: 29, 30 June and 1 July 2022
Organization: Comité del Color de la Sociedad Española de Óptica (SEDOPTICA)
Chair: Meritxell Vilaseca Ricart
Coordinator: Francisco J. Burgos
The XIII National Colour Congress (CNC) aims to be a forum for multidisciplinary discussion on issues related to the science and technology of colour, whose role is very relevant in the fields of scientific research, education and industrial applications. Therefore, the profile of the participants is very varied: opticians-optometrists, physicists, ophthalmologists, engineers, chemists, architects, painters, etc. In fact, the number of groups, research projects and companies that involve and develop their product around colour is very important nowadays, making this discipline a fundamental tool in the technological progress and development of our society.
Being a multidisciplinary congress, with characteristics and connotations of the different areas of knowledge that make up the Colour Committee of the Spanish Optical Society, the Congress covers, among others, the following areas: science and technology of colour and multispectral imaging, colour perception, colour in art and architecture, in food, in lighting and in industry in general, colour and education.
Talk by Verena M. Schindler: "Celebrando 40 años del grupo de estudio Environmental Colour Design (1982–2022) de la Asociación Internacional del Color"
https://www.congresonacionalcolor.com/el-congreso/
GERMANY, Berlin
International Conference
Colour and Health: Humans – Nature – Light – Material – Space (Talks and Workshops)
onsite (German)
„Farbe und Gesundheit“ – Mensch – Natur – Licht – Material – Raum
Dates: 25–26 August 2022
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Organized by Deutsches Farbenzentrum (DFZ)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Axel Buether
The conference focus is on the search for strategies to create sustainable design for healthy environments worth living in.
The first part of the conference addresses the impact of the colours of nature and the architecture for health and well-being. The second part shows future-oriented design strategies using new colour materials, products, and lighting solutions.
The University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft und Kunst, HAWK, https://www.hawk.de/en) Colour Design Forum complements the programme and offers young designers and studios a platform for their ideas.
Invited Talk by Verena M. Schindler: "Farbe und Gesundheit im internationalen Kontext"
Programme available: https://deutsches-farbenzentrum.de/farbe-und-gesundheit/
ITALY, Florence
17th Color Conference
mixed on site/online (Italian/English)
Dates: 12–13 September 2022
Venue: Conference Hall “Toraldo di Francia”, Centro ricerca e impresa, Via Madonna del Piano, 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino FI
Organisation: Gruppo del Colore – Associazione Colore Italia in collaboration with the “Nello Carrara” Institute of Applied Physics of the IFAC-CNR National Research Council (www.ifac.cnr.it)
Chair: Andrea Siniscalco, Politecnico di Milano, IT
Program
Committee:
Fabrizio Apollonio, Università di Bologna, IT; Gianluca Guarini, Politecnico di Milano, IT; Marcello Picollo, IFAC-CNR, IT
Invited Talk by Verena M. Schindler, Art and Architectural Historian, Zollikon, Switzerland: "On different approaches to Environmental Colour Design"
Programme available:
https://www.gruppodelcolore.org/la-conferenza/
CHINA, Hangzhou
Jointly organised by Prof. Jianming Song and Dr. Jie Xu, China Academy of Art; President of China Fashion and Color Association, Mrs. Zhu Sha; and, Verena M. Schindler, Chair of AIC Study Group on Environmental Colour Design
2022 marks the 40th anniversary celebration of the Study Group on Environmental Colour Design (SG ECD) of the International Colour Association (AIC), since its inception in 1982. This special event is jointly organized with the Chinese Fashion Color Association, which coincidentally is also celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2022. Our host is China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. The celebration event aims at promoting a deeper understanding of the relevance of colour in the overall design process and at establishing a theoretical and practical basis for a transnational discussion concerning a cross-cultural appreciation of environmental colour design.
Speakers from China:
- 宋建明 Jianming Song (China Academy of Art, Hangzhou)
- 祝遵凌 Zunlin Zhu (Design School, Nanjing University, Nanjing)
- 成朝晖 Zhaohui Cheng (China Academy of Art, Hangzhou)
- 李路珂 Luke Li (School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing)
- 李飒 Sa Li (School of Art, Tsinghua University, Beijing)
- 袁樵 Qiao Yuan (Fudan University, Shanghai)
- 丁圆 Yuan Ding (China Academy of Art, Hangzhou)
- 魏强 Qiang Wei (Design School, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou)
- 马克辛 Kexin Ma (Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang)
Invited International Speakers:
- Fiona McLachlan (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
- José Luis Caivano (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- Juan Serra (Valencia, Spain)
- Paul Green-Armytage (Perth, Australia)
- Ralf Weber (Dresden, Germany), Kine Angelo (Trondheim, Norway), Maya Weber (Dresden, Germany)
- Stefanie Wettstein, Marcella Wenger-Di Gabriele (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Verena M. Schindler (Zollikon, Switzerland)
http://www.aicecd.org/projects