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    • Call for Papers: Cubic Issue #9: Decolonizing Design DUE 1 FEB 2025
      01 Feb 2025 (All Day)   |   https://cubicjournal.org/index.php/cubic/announcement/view/4
      Cubic Journal Decolonising Design CfP Due 1 Feb 2025. see more

      Decolonial. Pluriversal. Relational.

      Issue Editors: Andrea Navarrete Rigo and Alfredo Gutiérrez Borrero (UTADEO).

      The Decolonizing Design call for papers encourages contributions that reposition design practice and research through decolonizing and decolonial lenses. We invite design researchers and practitioners to critically explore and examine ways in whichdesign could be reframed under a whole set of values that support pluriversal, relational and radical thinking, and align with decolonial thinking, challenge dominant narratives and showcase the effort put towards the inclusion of and reconciliation with Indigenous, Black and People of Colour (IBPOC) communities as a critical part of theirmethodological stance (Tunstall and Agi 2023).

      This call seeks to address historical biases and exclusions within design research, emphasizing the importance of incorporating diverse perspectives and challenging dominant narratives. We welcome submissions that delve into the ongoing impacts of modernist and colonial projects within design practices and propose radical design approaches to counteract them.

      Download the call for papers

      Important dates:

      • Call for contributions: 1 November 2024
      • Submission deadline: 1 February 2025
      • Peer review notification: 1 May 2025
      • Final publication: 1 August 2025
    • Call for Papers: Cubic Issue #10 – Peri-pheral Design
      01 Feb 2025 (All Day)   |   https://cubicjournal.org/index.php/cubic/announcement/view/5
      Call for Papers: Cubic Issue #10 – Peri-pheral Design. see more

       

      Call for Papers: Cubic Issue #10 – Peri-pheral Design

      Exploring emerging approaches at the peripheries of design towards resilient futures in a post-Anthropocene world
      Issue Editors: Krity Gera (Royal College of Art, London) and Ashley Hall (RCA)
       

      This call for papers for the Peri-pheral Design issue of Cubic Journal invites scholars and practitioners to highlight such peripheral approaches towards unimagined resilient design futures. For peri-pheral design, we consider three dimensions: social, making and the design economy. In this respect, we pose the following questions: What are the elements that signify peri-pheral design? Who or what comprise the peripheral agents and what is the significance of their roles? How does this approach/lens of peripheries contribute to the evolving landscape of design processes transitioning towards more equitable and resilient futures? What is the evolving role of technology within these peripheral arrangements? We welcome theoretical contributions, case studies, photo essays, pictorials and short videos that respond to one or more of the areas outlined in the download.
    • Interdisciplinary Textiles SIG: Remembering Julia Cassim
      26 Nov 2024   |   12:00pm to 1:00pm   |   https://teams.microsoft.com/v2/?meetingjoin=true#/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_NzhhZDMwZmItOGNiOC00MGU0LWIxNTgtOWFiNzI2ZjJmZGQ2@thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22158eda15-db33-49ca-96eb-4c11f0c62031%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%2293bb3aa2-e064-4dbd-9cd2-0d888a881238%22%7d&anon=true&deeplinkId=801fae81-25b6-49c9-874c-ca0b1adc87e2
      Remembering Julia Cassim. see more

      DRS’s Interdisciplinary Textiles together with Design for Inclusivity SIGs will organize a commemorative moment for Julia Cassim on 26th of November 2024 from 12.00 – 13.00 (GMT). Prof. Hua Dong, Prof. Kaori Ueda, Tincuta Heinzel and Sara Robertson invites you to remember Julia together with them following this link.

      Julia Cassim, a co-convenor of the Interdisciplinary Textiles Research SIG of the DRS, passed away unexpectedly on 16th of June 2024. She was Professor at the Kyoto Institute of Technology, charged with setting up the KYOTO Design Lab, as a centre for interdisciplinary design innovation projects in collaboration with industry, the public sector and other national and international partners and visiting professor at Tongji University in Shanghai, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem and Visiting Fellow at the RCA and an advisor to the Science Museum and Natural History Museum in London.

       

      “Julia Cassim, a co-convenor of the Interdisciplinary Textiles Research SIG of DRS and global inclusive design activist, passed away on the 16th June 2024. 

      Julia Cassim introduced ‘critical users’ through DBA Inclusive Design Challenges, at the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Royal College of Art. Julia brought her inclusive design innovation ideas to many countries. She had created new co-design-led inclusive business models that generated income and allowed disabled people to be economically independent. In 2010, Julia was listed in the Design Week’s Hot 50 that described her as “bringing together creative communities across the world to work with disabled or ageing people, allowing them to understand their needs in order to seek a remedy to them through design.”

      Hua Dong – Professor, Head of Brunel Design School London and co-chair of DRS – Design Research Society.

       

      “Julia worked on many advanced projects as a specially appointed professor in charge of the KYOTO Design Lab (establishment of a cross-disciplinary design centre for design innovation) at the Kyoto Institute of Technology from 2014 to 2019. Among these projects was the Textiles Summer School, which Julia launched in 2017, a residency-based workshop in connection to the Japanese dyeing and weaving industry. It was a large-scale initiative, inviting around 30 international participants every year. Julia oversaw everything from the start-up to the content. Her precise and passionate leadership succeeded in bringing together Japanese textile production areas and international researchers, a relationship that has remained unchanged to the present day. Through her designs, Julia brought Japan and the world together.”

      Kaori Ueda – Associated Professor, Kyoto Saga University of Arts, Japan.

       

      “We learnt with a lot of sadness that Julia Cassim, one of the co-convenors of the Interdisciplinary Textiles Research SIG of DRS passed away on 16th of June 2024. Julia actively supported the textiles research communities in the UK, Netherlands and Japan, building bridges and establishing collaborations that are still active today. Julia encouraged a vision in which the past techniques, the present infrastructures and knowledge, as well as the future of textiles are merging, being pivotal in initiating the Textiles Summer School in Kyoto Japan. Her dedication, energy and passion will be remembered.”

      Tincuta Heinzel – Senior Lecturer in Textiles, Loughborough University and Convenor of Interdisciplinary Textiles Research SIG of DRS.

       

      “What a joy it was to meet Julia in 2018 and to be swept up by her infectious passion for bringing people together through textiles. Her dedication to organising the textile summer camp left a lasting impact on me, and the experience of visiting Japan and being part of that vibrant community was something I owe entirely to her vision. Julia’s enthusiasm for uniting disciplines and cultures to foster knowledge-sharing was boundless, and her legacy in bringing people together lives on.”

      Sara Robertson - Co-CEO Sara + Sarah Smart Textile Design Llp.
    • CfP: Listening for the Echoes: heritage knowledges to shape fashion and design futures
      15 Feb 2025 (All Day)   |   Online
      CfP due 15 February 2025. see more

      Online, international symposium hosted by Istituto Marangoni London - 1st May, 2025

      The Listening for the Echoes: heritage knowledges to shape fashion and design futures online symposium offers a vital space in which to reflect upon a pluriverse of local knowledges and traditions, to gain insights into the ways that humanity has walked (and in some places continues to walk) more lightly on the Earth to create the clothing, products and artefacts that we need, sustainably. These approaches offer a stimulus to learn, dream, experiment and reimagine how, why and for whom we design and make, holding the potential to reconnect us to a natural world and to a distant past whose echoes we must listen for urgently.

      The symposium will raise philosophical and practical questions about the value of local and global cultural wisdom to creative possibility-finding – while respecting cultural, intellectual property and avoiding cynical extraction. It will reflect on the contemporary importance of traditional ecological knowledge: TEK rather than Tech. With six out of nine planetary boundaries already crossed and global warming on course to exceed agreed limits, it is vital to break away from the logic of growth and scale fed by neoliberalism and to revisit those very human technologies that may previously have been dismissed as primitive but which are in fact highly sophisticated.

      Presenters from all over the world will share their research, case studies, projects and calls to action that foster resourcefulness and creativity, are framed by notions of sufficiency, use-value rather than exchange-value, and formed through care for people and planet.

      Keywords: heritage, indigenous, TEK, regenerative fashion and design futures, sustainability, craft, community, making, place making, decolonised practices

      Some prompts:

      What might we learn from those indigenous communities that collaborate/have collaborated with their natural habitats in a spirit of reciprocity?

      In clothing, products, habitats and systems, how might we move beyond extraction to collaboration with the more than human inhabitants of the Earth?

      How have historic local and global clothing and artefact systems promoted creative resourcefulness and community cohesion through making? What communities of practice continue or are emerging today?

      What is there in our local and global cultural heritages which may offer clues that could help us to live more sustainably, harmoniously and wisely on the Earth?

      What is the value, meaning and agency of the handcrafted, the natural and the human today, in the face of increasing reliance on new technologies?

      Can we decouple from the dominant, Western, neoliberal paradigm of fashion? How was pre-industrialised Western clothing produced in local communities?

      What might fossil-fuel free clothing or product making systems look like? How might we achieve this? How might they foster community?

      How is fashion/design education promoting respect for and learning from TEK? How might fashion/design schools help to repair the sacrifice zones that Western design cultures have almost erased?

      Important information

      • You are invited to submit a 300-400-word abstract for your presentation or activity by 17.00 UK time on February 15th, 2025
      • Please submit abstracts to research.london@istitutomarangoni.com
      • All abstracts will be double-blind peer reviewed by our Scientific Committee.
      • You will be notified about acceptance by March 8th, 2025
      • We are open to a variety of contributions – these are likely to include research papers, case studies, calls to action, or workshop proposals, or something we haven’t even thought of. We aim to be inclusive and therefore will announce the full timeframe of the event at a later date, taking into account as much as possible to different time zones of participants.
      • There may be an opportunity to contribute to a peer-reviewed, edited book developed from the proceedings from this symposium.


      Any further questions or enquiries? Please email: research.london@istitutomarangoni.com

       
    • NORDES 2025 - RELATIONAL DESIGN
      06 Aug 2025 to 09 Aug 2025   |   9:00am to 5:00pm   |   https://nordes.org/
      NORDES 2025 marks the 11th bi-annual conference in this series. see more

      NORDES 2025 - RELATIONAL DESIGN

       

      The 11th Nordic Design Research Society (NORDES) Conference

      www.nordes.org

      Wednesday 6 August – Saturday 9 August 2025

      Located at OsloMet University, Oslo, Norway

       

      ORIENTATION

      NORDES 2025 marks the 11th bi-annual conference in this series. Launched in 2005, the Nordic Design Research Conferences have been shaped and sustained through commitment and participation from a range of Nordic design research institutions, together with regional and international participants.

      NORDES 2025 symbolises a collective arrival for this community at the completion of the first quarter of the 21st century. The event offers a range of shared spaces and formats for reconsidering what we intended and may have achieved so far in design inquiry.

      However, at this juncture, this occasion also invites us to reconsider designing and related practices, pedagogies and research as we look towards the mid-21st century. We do so in the contexts of pervasive, difficult and emergent challenges, compound crises, and deepening complexities and uncertainties about how to achieve and secure substantive and durative transformation in a world undergoing rapid ecological and systemic demands and changes.

       

      THEME

      NORDES 2025 takes up the open theme Relational Design to offer perspectives and means through which we may together investigate and discuss complex dilemmas and current responses, along with design’s futures and futures designing.

      Relational Design gives attention to ontological multiplicity in evolving processes of becoming and emergence. It accentuates working with possibilities, tensions, paradoxes and contraditictions in re-framing and shaping resonances, alliances, linkages and networks of making and researching.

      Working within and across difference, Relational Design instantiates interrelations, intersections and distinctions. It facilitates non-normative, situated knowledge experimentation and its generative practices. Relational designing treasures linked, participative and dynamic agency to bring forward pragmatically viable, equitable and bearable transformative potentials and their resonant effects.

      Designing and researching relationally asks us to consider the shaping of re-directive design as well as analytical and methodological frames and practices linked with values, ethics, concepts and methods centred on repair, regeneration and reinvigoration.

      This includes how agency be realised when embedded within alliances, networks and webs of relationships to cultivate incipient ventures and bolder analyses in articulating relational design activities and pluralist design research formations.

      Overall, rethinking and re-making design relationally invites engagement in working with entanglements - of places, zones,values, processes and participation - that are enmeshed in living and regenerative situations, environments, systems and situated acts of worldmaking.

       

      Conference fee & registration

      Fees includes the opening event, daily refreshments, lunches and the conference dinner.

      Registration opens: 10 April 2025

       

      Early Bird:

      Students, including PhD students, with valid student ID (before 22 May 2025): 250 €

      Regular participants: (before 22 May 2025): 450 €

       

      Standard:

      Student (closes 12 June 2025): 300 €

      Regular (closes 12 June 2025): 500 €

       

      Late & onsite registration (one fee for full or partial attendance):

      Student (with valid student ID): 400 €

      Regular: 600 €

       

      PROGRAMME & PUBLICATION

      Programme

      Final programme published: 20 June 2025

      Programme outline:

      Wednesday 6 August 2025: Welcome, Keynote, Refreshments and Snacks

      Thursday 7 & Friday 8 August 2025: Keynotes, Conference presentations and events

      Saturday 9 August 2025: Doctoral Consortium

       

      Publication

      All accepted submissions will be available as open access publications during and after the conference via the NORDES Digital Archive. Subsequently, publications will be accessible via the online DRS Digital Library and in the format of an integrated Conference Proceedings.

       

      ABOUT NORDES 2025

      Location

      In 2025 NORDES returns to Oslo. The conference is located at the OsloMet city centre campus. On this occasion, we have three closely connected conference chairs from three leading design research institutions and a lively local organising committee and a team of Nordic organisers and regional and international reviewers.

      Conference co-chairs

      University of Oslo (Prof Alma Leora Culén), OsloMet (Prof Laurence Habib) and AHO (Prof Andrew Morrison)

      Organisers, reviewers, theme and session chairs, assistants, communication design and sponsors will be posted online at a later date.

      Previous conferences

      Papers from and material about earlier NORDES conferences can be found at www.nordes.org

      and also archived in the DRS digital library https://dl.designresearchsociety.org/nordes/
    • CfP DUE 2 FEB 2025: Second Design and Retail Services Futures Colloquium
      02 Feb 2025 (All Day)   |   https://www.retailexperiencelab.com/drsfc2025/
      CfP due 2 February 2025! see more

      The Special Interest Group (SIG) Designing Retail & Services Futures from the Design Research Society (DRS) was established in 2021 under the guidance of the Design Research Society. The SIG strives to gain a better understanding of the value of design in the commercial sector, including disciplines, such as interior design, architecture, retail and hospitality, branding, marketing, strategic design, design management and consumer psychology. Design and its value have been a subject of study for many years and from many different disciplinary perspectives (ranging from product design to marketing, business economics, service design, management, environmental psychology, (interior)architecture, etc.). However, these perspectives have been developed in a fragmented way with discrete research methods and results that present limitations to practically applying these findings holistically across the inter-related fields of design, retail, and services.

      Recent developments have integrated services into retail and vice versa. This shift, driven by consumer needs and retailer dedication, has led to new approaches combining service and retail design. Whether online or offline, for products, services, or experiences, these changes highlight the need for research support. This colloquium aims to unite various disciplines to share knowledge and reach a consensus on terms and meanings related to retail and service design. Emphasizing sustainability, it seeks to ensure that advancements in these fields are environmentally, socially, and culturally responsible. By integrating sustainable practices, the goal is to make retail and service design more holistic, encompassing, and relevant to contemporary global challenges.

      Find out more on Theme and Tracks.

      Where

      Auditorium Carlo De Carli, Building B9, Campus Bovisa Durando (Milan, Italy)

      Google Maps

      Open Street Map

      When

      14-15 May 2025

      Call for papers

      Here to download the Call for Papers.

      Submission date February 2nd, 2025

      Find out more about Submission Guidelines.

      Key dates

      Submission of papers: Midnight February 2nd, 2025 (CET)

      Notification of acceptance: February 28th, 2025

      Registration opens: March 1st, 2025

      Colloquium: 14 – 15th May 2025

      Who

      Find out on Colloquium Commitee.

      Contacts

      Any inquiries about this colloquium can be directed to ICDRSFColloquium@outlook.com
    • Second Design and Retail Services Futures Colloquium
      14 May 2025 to 15 May 2025   |   9:00am to 5:00pm   |   https://www.retailexperiencelab.com/drsfc2025/
      Second Designing Retail & Services Futures SIG colloquium. see more

      Key dates

      Registration opens: March 1st, 2025

      Colloquium: 14 – 15th May 2025

      The Special Interest Group (SIG) Designing Retail & Services Futures from the Design Research Society (DRS) was established in 2021 under the guidance of the Design Research Society. The SIG strives to gain a better understanding of the value of design in the commercial sector, including disciplines, such as interior design, architecture, retail and hospitality, branding, marketing, strategic design, design management and consumer psychology. Design and its value have been a subject of study for many years and from many different disciplinary perspectives (ranging from product design to marketing, business economics, service design, management, environmental psychology, (interior)architecture, etc.). However, these perspectives have been developed in a fragmented way with discrete research methods and results that present limitations to practically applying these findings holistically across the inter-related fields of design, retail, and services.

      Recent developments have integrated services into retail and vice versa. This shift, driven by consumer needs and retailer dedication, has led to new approaches combining service and retail design. Whether online or offline, for products, services, or experiences, these changes highlight the need for research support. This colloquium aims to unite various disciplines to share knowledge and reach a consensus on terms and meanings related to retail and service design. Emphasizing sustainability, it seeks to ensure that advancements in these fields are environmentally, socially, and culturally responsible. By integrating sustainable practices, the goal is to make retail and service design more holistic, encompassing, and relevant to contemporary global challenges.

      Find out more on Theme and Tracks.

      Where

      Auditorium Carlo De Carli, Building B9, Campus Bovisa Durando (Milan, Italy)

      Google Maps

      Open Street Map

      When

      14-15 May 2025

      Who

      Find out on Colloquium Commitee.

      Contacts

      Any inquiries about this colloquium can be directed to ICDRSFColloquium@outlook.com
    • Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED 2025) CFP DUE 22 NOV 2024
      29 Jan 2025 (All Day)   |   https://soundforenergy.net/sonihed2025
      CfP due 15 November 2024 for SoniHED2025. see more

       We are delighted to announce the third Conference on Sonification of Health and Environmental Data (SoniHED 2025), which will be HYBRID (online or in person) on 29 January 2025 at KTH Royal institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

      This year's conference is organised in collaboration with the DRS SIG on Sound-Driven Design, the EU MSCA Lullabyte Doctoral Network, the Sound for Energy Project and with the support of Digital Futures Centre. 


      See the conference webpage for more information: 

      https://soundforenergy.net/sonihed2025

      Call for Papers
      Sonification, and more generally sound design, sonic interaction design and sound-driven design, are concerned with using data and information in sonic form so that listeners (experts and/or non-experts) can perceive and engage with data structures, complex information and their meaning. 

      We are interested in short (max 4 pages) or long research papers (max 8 pages) at the intersection of sound, health and environmental science. 

      This year we especially, but not exclusively, welcome research addressing the theme: Sound and Sleep. Sleep and relaxation play crucial roles in maintaining physical, mental, and emotional health. Many people use sound and music to aid their sleep. In this context, there is growing interest in interactive sonic designs and applications informed by sleep data that can embed in our lives and sleeping habits in a more sustainable and personal way.

      For details on topics of interest, submission instructions, and additional conference information please visit:
      https://soundforenergy.net/sonihed2025


      Important Dates:

      Friday 22 November 2024: Submission of abstract (NEW DATE!)

      Friday 29 November 2024: Submission of full paper (NEW DATE!)

      Friday 20 December 2024: Notification of acceptance (NEW DATE!)

      Wednesday 15 January 2025: Submission of camera-ready paper

      Wednesday 29 January 2025: SoniHED 2025
    • CfP: The Built Ocean EAHN Porto 2025 Thematic Conference
      18 Jan 2025 (All Day)   |   https://www.thebuiltocean.com/
      CfP for 'The Built Ocean' due 1 January 2025. see more

      The Built Ocean

      Thematic Conference of the European Architectural History Network

      EAHN Porto 2025

      Hosted by the research project Fishing Architecture “The Built Ocean” will take place at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto 10-13 September 2025.

      Architects require solid ground on which to base their practice, yet oceans have always been a key element shaping the history of architecture and the built environment. This themed conference aims to shift the focus of architectural history from the land to the sea. It will address the planet’s bodies of salt water either as areas of increasing urbanization (through the building of structures such as underwater cables, oil rigs, windmills, etc.), as connectors between space and cultures (navigation routes for people and resources, transported in the form of knowledge, labour, and materials), or as an ecosystem functioning, in connection with the land, as an essential life-support system (defining climatic patterns, providing resources from food to raw materials, and securing services from carbon sequestration to large-scale habitats). The conference aims to bring together scholars representing a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge and sets out to cover a broad chronological scope, from deep history and archaeological sources to more recent accounts of ecological decline and potential futures. Where is the architecture of the sea? To what extent does the built environment impact saltwater landscapes? What reciprocal impacts do seascapes have on the built environment?

      Proposals are to be submitted using the conference’s online platform, via a link soon available; they should include an abstract of no more than 400 words and an author’s bio (c.200 words per author).

      Abstracts will be evaluated primarily on the basis of their relevance to the conference theme; innovative methods, interdisciplinary exploration, and sound research will also be taken into account. Contributions should be the result of original research and should not have been previously published or be in the process of being published elsewhere.

      We welcome and encourage proposals from researchers from around the world, at any career stage and representing a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches to architecture and the built environment—including but not limited to marine biology, ecology, literary studies, history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, or media studies.

      For further details, please see the conference website: www.thebuiltocean.com

      Email: fish@arq.up.pt

      Fishing Architecture is funded by the European Research Council (ERC) through a Consolidator Grant under the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 101044244). More information about the project can be found at www.fishingarchitecture.com.
    • CfP: IASDR2025
      01 Mar 2025 to 01 May 2025   |   6:00pm to 7:00pm   |   https://iasdr2025.org/#dates
      Submission portal opens 1 March and closes 1 May 2025. see more

      01 Submission portal open

      March 1, 2025

      02 Main submission deadline

      May 1, 2025, (May 31 hard deadline)

      03 Announcement of acceptance

      August 31, 2025

      04 Revision Due; Camera-Ready Copy

      Sept 30, 2025

      After twenty years of growth, IASDR 2025 returns to Taiwan, the site of its inaugural event, marking a significant milestone for reflection and renewed departure. The theme for this 2025 conference delves into the changes in design research following pivotal paradigm shifts highlighted at the Milan 'design change' in IASDR 2023. It will explore NEXT innovative actions subsequent to these changes, examining new topics in design research such as more than human-centered design , and new methodologies, such as digital environments and AI collaboration. The conference is hosted by the Taiwan Design Research Institute and the Chinese Institute of Design, showcasing Taiwan's collaborative effort. This integration of design research and practice will particularly address industry and public design issues. As design research and practice often manifest in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations, this conference also emphasizes design-driven integrative innovation and the reflection on different cultures as sources of design meaning and value. These themes, encompassing systems, AI, culture, and new cross-disciplinary approaches, will also be addressed in discussions on global critical issues such as health, aging, and sustainability. IASDR 2025 aims to gather collective wisdom and action to forge a better future through design.

       
    • IASDR2025
      02 Dec 2024 to 05 Dec 2025   |   6:00pm to 7:00pm   |   https://iasdr2025.org/
      IASDR2025 will take place Dec 2-5 in Taipei, Taiwan. see more

      IASDR 2025

      Organization
      TDRI (Taiwan Design Research Institute)
      CID (Chinese Institute of Design)

      Date
      Dec 02-05, 2025

      City
      Taipei, Taiwan

      Location
      Songshan Cultural and Creative Park

      After twenty years of growth, IASDR 2025 returns to Taiwan, the site of its inaugural event, marking a significant milestone for reflection and renewed departure. The theme for this 2025 conference delves into the changes in design research following pivotal paradigm shifts highlighted at the Milan 'design change' in IASDR 2023. It will explore NEXT innovative actions subsequent to these changes, examining new topics in design research such as more than human-centered design , and new methodologies, such as digital environments and AI collaboration. The conference is hosted by the Taiwan Design Research Institute and the Chinese Institute of Design, showcasing Taiwan's collaborative effort. This integration of design research and practice will particularly address industry and public design issues. As design research and practice often manifest in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaborations, this conference also emphasizes design-driven integrative innovation and the reflection on different cultures as sources of design meaning and value. These themes, encompassing systems, AI, culture, and new cross-disciplinary approaches, will also be addressed in discussions on global critical issues such as health, aging, and sustainability. IASDR 2025 aims to gather collective wisdom and action to forge a better future through design.

      01 Submission portal open

      March 1, 2025

      02 Main submission deadline

      May 1, 2025, (May 31 hard deadline)

      03 Announcement of acceptance

      August 31, 2025

      04 Revision Due; Camera-Ready Copy

      Sept 30, 2025
    • International Conference on Research Into Design
      08 Jan 2025 to 10 Jan 2025   |   9:00am to 5:00pm   |   https://design.iith.ac.in/icord25/
      DRS Members receive 10% discount! see more

      DRS Members Receive a 10% Discount!
      Early bird registration: 20 Sept – 04 Oct 2024
      Explore the dynamic world of design research at ICoRD’25 from January 8th to 10th, 2025, at the Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad which also celebrates the shaping of a decade of “Design Excellence” at the Intersection of Innovation and Collaboration.

      This tenth edition of this biennial conference delves into the multifaceted nature of design, showcasing cutting-edge research and fostering collaboration. It aims to showcase cutting-edge research about design to the stakeholders; aid the ongoing process of developing and extending the collective vision through emerging research challenges and questions; and provide a platform for interaction, collaboration and development of the community in order for it to take up the challenges to realize the vision.

      Organized jointly with the Department of Design and Manufacturing (DM) (erstwhile Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing – CPDM), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, this event brings together practitioners, researchers, pupils, and educators in a vibrant space where technology and human experience intersect. Join us in shaping the future of design innovation.

      Learn more about the conference. 

      Register Here.
    • Using local design to support STEAM education in Nepal
      10 Jan 2025   |   1:00pm to 2:00pm   |   https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjFhYTg0ZTctODIwNC00OTM4LThkOWEtM2UzNjdjZjQ3MTky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229d5de340-2ae8-46a6-94b1-d7bcd3a8aad8%22%7d
      Using local design to support STEAM education in Nepal see more

      This event will present a toolkit co-designed to support STEAM education in Nepal.

      Further event description to follow!

      When: 10 January 2025 at 13:00 BST
      Who: Alessandra Campoli
      What:       Using local design to support STEAM education in Nepal
      Where: Teams Meeting

      The Futures of Design Educaiton series oraganises monthly presentations and discussion on key topics in global design education. The aim is to highlight and share the plurality of contemporary, global practice and issues, as well as how this may inform futures of design education. 

      Each event hosts a presentation or conversation starter followed by open discussion. Anyone interested in design education is welcome to attend and take part. The 2024 series of events can be found on the DRS events page: https://www.designresearchsociety.org/event_list 

      Recordings of all past events can be found here.

      Further details of the DRS Pedagogy SIG can be found here.
    • Topic To Be Confirmed
      14 Mar 2025   |   1:00pm to 2:00pm   |   https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjFhYTg0ZTctODIwNC00OTM4LThkOWEtM2UzNjdjZjQ3MTky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229d5de340-2ae8-46a6-94b1-d7bcd3a8aad8%22%7d
      Topic to be confirmed. see more

      Event theme to be confirmed.

      When: 14 March 2025 at 13:00 BST
      Who: TBC
      What: TBC
      Where: Teams Meeting

      The Futures of Design Educaiton series oraganises monthly presentations and discussion on key topics in global design education. The aim is to highlight and share the plurality of contemporary, global practice and issues, as well as how this may inform futures of design education. 

      Each event hosts a presentation or conversation starter followed by open discussion. Anyone interested in design education is welcome to attend and take part. The 2024 series of events can be found on the DRS events page: https://www.designresearchsociety.org/event_list 

      Recordings of all past events can be found here.

      Further details of the DRS Pedagogy SIG can be found here.
    • Topic To Be Confirmed
      14 Feb 2025   |   1:00pm to 2:00pm   |   https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjFhYTg0ZTctODIwNC00OTM4LThkOWEtM2UzNjdjZjQ3MTky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229d5de340-2ae8-46a6-94b1-d7bcd3a8aad8%22%7d
      Topic to be confirmed. see more

      Event theme to be confirmed.

      When: 14 February 2025 at 13:00 BST
      Who: TBC
      What: TBC
      Where: Teams Meeting

      The Futures of Design Educaiton series oraganises monthly presentations and discussion on key topics in global design education. The aim is to highlight and share the plurality of contemporary, global practice and issues, as well as how this may inform futures of design education. 

      Each event hosts a presentation or conversation starter followed by open discussion. Anyone interested in design education is welcome to attend and take part. The 2024 series of events can be found on the DRS events page: https://www.designresearchsociety.org/event_list 

      Recordings of all past events can be found here.

      Further details of the DRS Pedagogy SIG can be found here.
    • Discussion with Pluriversal SIG and beyond (TBC)
      13 Dec 2024   |   1:00pm to 2:00pm   |   https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NjFhYTg0ZTctODIwNC00OTM4LThkOWEtM2UzNjdjZjQ3MTky%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%220e2ed455-96af-4100-bed3-a8e5fd981685%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%229d5de340-2ae8-46a6-94b1-d7bcd3a8aad8%22%7d
      EdSIG and PluriSIG collaborative event (TBC) see more

      Event theme to be confirmed.

      When: 13 December 2024 at 13:00 BST
      Who: TBC
      What: TBC
      Where: Teams Meeting

      The Futures of Design Educaiton series oraganises monthly presentations and discussion on key topics in global design education. The aim is to highlight and share the plurality of contemporary, global practice and issues, as well as how this may inform futures of design education. 

      Each event hosts a presentation or conversation starter followed by open discussion. Anyone interested in design education is welcome to attend and take part. The 2024 series of events can be found on the DRS events page: https://www.designresearchsociety.org/event_list 

      Recordings of all past events can be found here.

      Further details of the DRS Pedagogy SIG can be found here.
    • Learn X Design 2025 Call for Papers
      09 Dec 2024 (All Day)   |   Aveiro, Portugal
      LearnXDesign 2025

      Call for Papers       see more

      We are pleased to announce the forthcoming 2025 Design Research Society (DRS) Special Interest Group (EdSIG) Learn X Design conference, which will be held at the University of Aveiro, Portugal, from 22nd to 24th September 2025. This event is hosted by the Lab OIKOS – Design Ecosystemic Spaces of Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+) of the University of Aveiro. 

      intertwinia in design education

      In today’s increasingly interconnected world, the field of design education finds itself at pivotal juncture, demanding unified and collaborative approaches to tackle emerging challenges and opportunities. The 2025 edition of Learn X Design conference underscores the significance of integrating diverse perspectives, disciplines, communities and cultures. This conference intends to serve as a hub for nurturing meaningful interactions, stretching traditional boundaries and encouraging the intersection of expertise. By intertwining these threads, our goal is to catalyse unforeseen and transformative outcomes for design education, leading to the creation of a new Intertwinia.

      The conference’s four tracks aim to explore a variety of questions, including but not limited to:

      1. creators and connectors

      Who are the creators of design education Intertwinia and how do they intertwine? How do attractive and repulsive forces influence interactions between mentors and learners, professionals and beginners, and privileged and underprivileged groups in design education? What unseen connections bind these individuals involved in design education?

      2. principles and methods

      Which methods and/or practices are most effective in intertwining disciplines, cultures, and communities within design education? How can design programmes strategically promote collaboration across different fields?

      3. tensions and challenges 

      What challenges and strains define the landscape of design education Intertwinia, requiring both skill and patience to untangle? What essential elements are currently lacking in design education Intertwinia, and how can we identify and integrate them effectively?

      4. future and uncharted connections

      How are the present and the future of design education intertwined? What connections are waiting to be explored amidst the rich diversity within design and its relationship with other fields? What career paths and prospects might design graduates anticipate (or not) await them, and how can design education empower students to effectively navigate whatever these may be?

      types of submissions

      Full papers (3000 – 6000 words) 

      Case Studies (4 000 words) 

      Statements of Pedagogy (2000 – 3000 words) 

      Conversations (length dependant on case)  

      Letters (1000 – 2000 words) 

      Visual Submissions (maximum 2000 words) 

       

      important dates

      call for submissions opening: July 28, 2024

      full submissions deadline: December 09, 2024

      notification of acceptance: April 28, 2025

      camera ready deadline: June 23, 2025

       

      registration

      early bird: from May 28 to June 23, 2025

      regular registration: from June 24 to July 30, 2025

       

      submission

      We welcome submissions from authors with formal academic affiliations or professional organization affiliations, as well as authors that are independent researchers. 

      Each author can submit a maximum of two works as the lead author. The participant fee includes up to two submissions, all of which are subject to peer review. To be included in the proceedings, at least one of the authors must register, attend, and present their work physically at the conference.

      All accepted submissions will be published as part of the Proceedings of Learn X Design series and archived in the DRS Digital Library.

      As with all DRS archive publications, all papers will be double blind peer reviewed, with third reviews where necessary. Authors will be expected to engage in reviewing as part of the Call for Papers.

      CONFERENCE WEBSITE: https://www.lxd2025.com

       

       

       
    • EKSIG 2025: Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes
      11 May 2025 to 13 May 2025   |   6:00pm to 7:00pm   |   https://eksig2025.mome.hu/#eksig2025
      EKSIG 2025: Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes. see more

      Over the centuries our understanding of what constitutes data has – and continues today – to shift. In the 18th century, datum, the singular of data, referred to a piece of information through which inferences could be drawn. For the scientific community, the focus shifted from receiving what is given to extracting what is not. Data transitioned from an entity that was previously unknown or unexplored to being the epitome of what scientists strive to uncover via systematic investigation and observation.

      More recently, the art and design community’s engagement with data has once again shifted understanding of the term. Data became an experimental medium for artists and designers and data literacy of general audiences began to emerge. These changes have prompted a more nuanced understanding of the term. Beyond the purely quantitative, data are now recognised to carry temporal and emotional qualities that can be meaningful, malleable and evocative.

      Making with data is no longer exclusively digital. Data appear in hybrid and physical forms that invite various perspectives, interpretations, and reflections. For example, data can be found in physical forms like 3D-printed models, sculptures, or even tactile exhibits in museums. In addition, users can explore the embodied nature of data in virtual environments, offering unique perspectives on data's virtual materiality and influencing our perception of scale, complexity, and interconnections between humans and data. Data are no longer exclusively a scientific output either, but instead appear in art and design accessible to entirely different publics. The growth of self-tracking technologies now allows anyone to track, experiment with, and explore data in ways that extend what is known about the self and decision-making in everyday life. More recently, artificial intelligence has once again contributed to shaping our understanding of the term through the use of generative technologies. Even design education has shifted in recent years, using data to inspire, support, and expand students' projects.

      Thus, the idea of data has expanded beyond its conventional scientific boundaries and has become a versatile and ever-changing medium that influences how we see the world, stimulates creative expression, and enhances our daily lives in new and remarkable ways.

      Dates

      Sunday-Tuesday, 11-13 May 2025

      Venue

      Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest
      9-25 Zugligeti Str., H1121, Budapest, Hungary
    • Call for Proposals: The Human-Centered Design Studies Collection
      31 Dec 2024 (All Day)   |   https://livedplacespublishing.com/page/design-studies
      Call for books, edited volume, or other scholarship on Human-Centered Design. see more

      Collection Editor:
      D. S. Nicholas

      Vision for the Collection:

      Designers create spaces, places, tools, artifacts, and services that reflect and are products of the lived experiences of the people they serve. As humans deal with global changes and forces resulting from past industrial and design decisions, many who live in poverty are threatened by climate, market, and international powers.

      The Human-Centered Design Studies Collection seeks work revealing lived experiences globally and locally at all scales driven by human centered design. This collection will include course readings on health, justice, poverty, and technology situated in our challenging and complex 21st-century environment.

      Today, many designers work to impact the lives of people who need healthier, sustainable spaces and affordable care solutions, especially for families. The Human-Centered Design Studies Collection presents how empathetic and evidence-based design can change peoples’ lived experience, especially in populations of need. We are particularly interested in design as a culture of care, i.e., spaces, technologies, places, ideas, thoughts, and objects designed to support healing, human health, well-being, justice, and equity for those who need and use them. Culture of care is a form of re-imagination that calls on all to put care at their center for those in need.

      Over the past 40 years in design, as buildings, products, and services and the roles they play in our lives and the environment have become more intricate, our focus as designers has shifted to deeply research-oriented practices. Due to the complexity of design practice, evidence-based human-centered and patient-centered approaches to design are increasingly necessary. These practices are generating new knowledge, resulting in novel solutions. This collection will specifically focus on how these design practices have a social impact on those affected. We are interested in examining both positive and adverse design outcomes, appreciative and critical viewpoints.

      Change-oriented critical thinking is encouraged here. We seek to both shine a spotlight on the negative impact of current and past designs, and also to advance design as a force to create change. Design is a vital and change-oriented set of practices. Underlying these practices are design leadership, theories of design change, research and other scholarship, including the scholarship of teaching and learning. Adding these for context in these course readings is encouraged.

      But most of all, this collection focuses on the human level – where real humans live, work, and play. In this collection, “Lived Places” include the physical and the personal. Interest in place can be urban, rural, ex-urban, technological, and personal at all scales, including the private individual and the “public.” We welcome submissions from authors employing intersectional and inter or trans-disciplinary lived approaches. We invite all design disciplines and the “design-minded” to submit. Highly inclusive of viewpoints, practices, places, ideas, and identities, this collection will seek to embody the change we see in our designed lived experiences.

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