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DRS CUMULUS OSLO 2013

DRS // CUMULUS Oslo 2013 -- The 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers. 14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway.

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Symposium: ‘Good Things and Bad Things’ Nottingham June 2013

Symposium: ‘Good Things and Bad Things’ will be held in Nottingham on 10th/ 11th June 2013.
The good/ bad things in question include guns, things in questionable taste, immaterial things, sportified things, criminal things… among others.

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Design4Health conference

DRS members and Fellows have discounted registration for the Design4Health conference at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. The special rates are £350 for 3days and £160 for 1 day registration (see 'Read More' for details) . The conference is 3rd – 5th July 2013.

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Verena Ziegler DRS Student Bursary Report 2012/13

DRS student member Vera Ziegler received a DRS Student Bursary to support her research into Auckland University of Technology (AUT) titled “Hybrid Knowledge Production through Epistemic Objects – towards Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries”. The report on this project  is available here.

 

About DRS

The Design Research Society is a multi-disciplinary learned society for the design research community worldwide.The DRS was founded in 1966 and facilitates an international design research network in around 40 countries.
Read the Welcome message from the President of the Design Research Society, Professor Nigel Cross.
DRS is a founder member of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR).

 

DRS 2014 Conference

Design Research Society Conference 2014
June 16-19, 2014 Umeå, Sweden

Välkommen! We welcome you to join us for the Design Research Society 2014 conference in Umeå, Sweden.

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DRS AGM & Symposium 2013

agm-symp-logoYou are warmly invited to attend the DRS 2013 AGM and Symposium at Loughborough Design School, UK on Monday 17th June 2013. This year symposium’s theme is 'Value of Design Research'. We are fortunate to secure three prominent design researchers to address this year symposium’s theme.

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EKSIG conference July 2013

eksig 2013 logoInternational Conference EKSIG 2013: Knowing Inside Out - experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseurship organised by the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July 2013 at Loughborough University, UK

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Andreas Peter DRS Student Bursary Report 2012/13

DRS student member Andreas Peter received a DRS Student Bursary to fund a series of controlled experiments conducted at Central Saint Martin‘s College of Art and Design in London to better understand correlations between prototyping materials and design discussions. The report is available here.

 

Design Studies Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 Design Studies Award, for the best paper published in the journal. The award is to be made to Shraddha Sangelkar, Nicholas Cowen and Daniel McAdams (Texas A&M University, USA) for their paper User activity – product function association based design rules for universal products, published in Vol. 33, Number 1 (January 2012) Pages 85–110; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2011.06.002

See the article here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142694X11000408

 

IASDR 2013: TOKYO

The 5th World Conference on Design Research, organised by IASDR (the International Association of Societies of Design Research), of which the DRS is a founding member organisation, will be held in Tokyo, Japan, on August 26 - 30, 2013.
www.iasdr2013.jp/

Doctoral Colloquium
A new category of paper submission has been set. Submission to the Doctoral Colloquium is independent from IASDR2013. Doctoral candidates can submit a paper to this in addition to the regular/invited session. http://www.iasdr2013.jp/doctoral.html

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New DRS Fellow

We are pleased to announce the election of a new DRS Fellow: Professor Tracy Bhamra, Professor of Sustainable Design, Loughborough University, UK.

Conferment of the title of Fellow of the Design Research Society acknowledges an established record of achievement in design research, and attainment of peer recognition as a researcher of professional standing and competence. Members of DRS can apply for election to Fellow; see 'Becoming a DRS Fellow' in the members menu item on the left.

 

AGM & Symposium

You are invited to the 2013 DRS AGM & Symposium at Loughborough Design School, 17th June 2013. This year's theme is 'Value of Design Research' with presentations from  three prominent design researchers.

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DRS Elections!

Time to nominate for DRS Council! Deadline for nomination forms is 12noon GMT 22 May 2013 to Rebecca Cain at R.Cain.1@warwick.ac.uk

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IASDR Doctoral Colloquium

Doctoral Colloquium at IASDR 2013, Tokyo

The Doctoral Colloquium at IASDR 2013 is a special forum where doctoral students and candidates meet with other doctoral students and internationally leading design researchers to discuss and obtain feedback on their work-in-progress dissertation research.

Short paper and supporting document submission: extended to May 20

Notification of acceptance: May 31
Submission of final paper: June 28
Doctoral colloquium: 9:00 - 17:00 August 26

 

http://www.iasdr2013.jp/doctoral.html

 
DRS 2012 PROCEEDINGS

DRS 2012 Proceedings
AVAILABLE!
Click Proceedings in left menu.

 
EKSIG 2013 conference

Knowing Inside Out - experiential knowledge, expertise and connoisseur-ship International Conference 4-5 July 2013, Loughborough University, UK.

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DRS 2014 Conference

DRS 2014Conference
June 16-19, 2014 Umeå, Sweden

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