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!
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SIGs provide opportunities for DS members and non-members to network, share ideas, experience and knowledge, collaborate, learn and open new research topics.
King’s College London, one of the top 25 universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2018), is seeking to appoint leading academics to complement the development of our engineering offering in the heart of our central London campus.
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The Product Development Symposium is DTU Mechanical Engineering’s annual forum for industry practice and research in product development-related state-of-the-art results and projections.
The Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Healthcare Systems Design will be part of the research division of Engineering Systems, Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), north of Copenhagen.
The Chair of Engineering Design at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are looking for a Research Assistant in the field of mechatronic systems.
The LWD-PD 2018, Lightweight Design in Product Development symposium, will take place at ETH Zurich on 13-15 June 2018. We call for submission of oral and poster contributions from PhD-students.
The Institute of Engineering Design at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are recruiting a full-time Research Assistant (m/f) in the field of tolerance management – tolerance optimization.
The Institute of Engineering Design at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are looking for a full-time research assistant in the field of Assistance Systems - multi-criteria analysis
The Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) was newly established in 2017 with a vision to epitomize the use of project-based experiential learning in design education.
This spring school is open to 20 people, in priority from EcoSD network, the Design Society and Université Paris-Saclay, but not only. It is supervised by Pr. Bernard Yannou, administrator of EcoSD and member of the Design Society.
Ken Wallace 1944-2018: It is with great sadness that the Design Society has learnt of the death of founder member and Honorary Fellow Professor Ken Wallace.
Held in fanciful Helsinki Finland at the Design Factory at Aalto University, this PhD researcher course will cover the latest research in modularity and product architecture.
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