The Design Society, founded in the year 2000, is an interdisciplinary community of academics and industry practitioners with the goal of developing and promoting a robust, usable and scalable means of designing complex solutions that a sustainable and globalised society needs to thrive, in the 21st century. Our aim is to develop the innovative means that support designers in their practice. At the same time, we support the exchange of best practices to improve the routine design and conduct research to develop and maintain solid theoretical foundations of design.
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.
The symposia of Virtual Environments and Systems (VES) aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art and cutting-edge research and developments in the enhancement of practice in engineering...
The role of Soft Operational Research, Problem Structuring Methods, Systems Thinking and Design
Join us for a talk with Dr. Soeren Striepe on Open Innovation.
Visit our 'Online Learning Zone' to watch videos of seminars and keynotes from notable names in the design community.
We invite you all to Gothenburg and participate in the 23rd ICED conference in August 2021.
The Summer School on Engineering Design Research is aimed at PhD students/candidates who are working on topics related to Design Science. For the first time, this will be an online event.
Umberto Cugini 1941-2021: The Design Society sadly announces the passing of Prof. Umberto Cugini, well-known by many DS members for his active role in the world of engineering design and ICT technologies.
Join the MATChE project's free webinars to learn about circular economy readiness and they have supported 350+ companies in transitioning. Tune in Monday to Friday the 25-29th January daily between 15:00 and 16:00 CET.
The research collaboration of Prof. Isaksson, Prof. Otto, Prof. Krause and Prof. Moon aims to broaden the knowledge of young researchers in the field of product architecture design and modularity and to create a platform to interact and discuss.
