The Design Society is an international non-governmental, non-profit organisation whose members share a common interest in design. The Society strives to contribute to a broad and rigorous understanding of all aspects of design, and to promote the use of design knowledge for the good of humanity and the world we live in.
The Design Society has an extensive palette of conferences, seminars, meetings, research schools and other collaborations. Explore these here!
All DS publications are available electronically for Society members to download free of charge through this web site.
SIGs provide opportunities for DS members and non-members to network, share ideas, experience and knowledge, collaborate, learn and open new research topics.
With the industrial world looking at ways of how to overcome increasing demands on product performance and product individualisation, there is an increasing need to exploit product development to cope with these business challenges.
The Canadian Design Workshop (CDW) is a biennial workshop modelled after the Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshops and in collaboration with the Center for Design Teaching at Harvey Mudd College.
The Engineering Design and Computing Laboratory has a fully-funded PhD position to work on cutting-edge research project within the research area of computational origami.
The objective of this course is to train doctoral students in planning and execution of research methods in the field of design, innovation, and management research.
We invite you all to Gothenburg and participate in the 23rd ICED conference in August 2021.
The year 2020 marks a milestone for The Design Society achieving 20 years of a worldwide community towards Design research, education and practice.
Publications for Early Researchers: How can the Industries of the Future contribute to address the forthcoming challenges of our society?
We are pleased to invite all researchers, engineers and students to submit full papers (6 pages) that will be peer-reviewed for acceptance with the essential corrections and proposed for oral presentation.
The NordDesign conferences serve as a Nordic complement to the larger international conferences in design and product development, but we also wish to welcome participants from all other countries.
