The 'Putting the Human back into Colour' course, to be held in the town of Charleville-Mézières, France, will bring together international researchers from a wide range of disciplines, including approaches to colour from anthropological, linguistic or emotional perspectives, colour in architecture and interior design, and colour used for therapy.
Questions explored at the 21-24 February course will include why people finding certain colours calming while others can enrage, and why we are unlikely to choose food in brown packaging, through a mix of practical workshops and theoretical sessions.
This is the second event in the Create (Colour Research for European Advanced Technology Employment) programme, which brings together a group of colour experts from eight universities in Europe and received a £359,849 (€500,000) grant from the EU's Marie Curie Framework 6 scheme to fund a series of seven training projects and conferences over four years.
The first conference, 'Managing Colour in Digital Processes and the Arts', took place in Bristol in September 2007, and was attended by 80 delegates from more than 20 countries.
The deadline for applications is 17 December.
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