CALL FOR PAPERS

Emerging Issues In Spatial Reasoning And Engineering Design

The editors of this ASME Journal of Mechanical Design special issue invite the submission of original research papers that address issues pertaining to spatial reasoning within the context of engineering design. (Submit by 15 September 2025)

Design Practice Speaker Series - Andreas Braun & Alexander Gelner

The Design Practice SIG is pleased to announce this presentation with guest speakers Andreas Braun & Alexander Gelner. AI – Hype or Means for the Support of HV Battery Development?

We Are Not Users: Dialogues, Diversity, and Design, MIT Press - A new book on design (Subrahmanian, Reich, Krishnan, 2020)

This book culminates work of over three decades on design. It addresses issues at the heart of contemporary challenges and debates and written in a way accessible to a large audience.

Registration open

The Scottish Design Workshop (SDW)

Join us for the Scottish Design Workshop 2025, inviting academics, practitioners, and others to discuss design and engineering issues. This one-day event will focus on the development of joint research proposals to tackle the most urgent and systemic challenges of today.

Design Engineering – Sustainable and Holistic (Wachs, 2022)

The book describes the potential of both design objects and concepts, as well as design as a process, with a specially strong focus on the process of design engineering in the past, present and future.

DS Membership Survey 2024 - NOW CLOSED

Thank you to all who completed the survey. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and essential in allowing us to continue developing the Design Society's activities in accordance with your interests and needs.

SIG

New SIG: Design Research Quality

The latest addition to our Special Interest Groups (SIGs) is Design Research Quality! The DRQ SIG aims to enhance the quality of design research by celebrating the diversity of perspectives, methodologies, outputs, and impacts within the field.

Design Society Fellow: Professor Panos Y. Papalambros

Design Society Fellowship was bestowed on Professor Panos Y. Papalambros in August 2021

Design Society Rigi Meeting 2021

Every year the Board of Management, Advisory Board and SIG and Chapter Leaders of the Design Society meet to discuss the development and administration of the Society and, in a day of scientific discussions.

Survey Invitation: Interactive modelling interfaces for model-based systems engineering

Haobo Wang, a PhD Student at Grenoble Institute of Technology, France, is conducting research on interactive modelling interfaces for model-based systems engineering and invites you to contribute to a 15-minute online survey.