Board of Management

BM Elections 2025 - Call for Nominations

All members of the Society are eligible to participate in the election process. A member may nominate another member for candidature; however, self-nominations are not permitted. Nominees should be active in Society activities and organisation.

19 Nov 2025, Online, 20:30 (UTC+0)

Design Justice and Ethics SIG: Seminar Series

The DJE SIG is launching a talk series, with Dr. Grace Burleson as guest speaker at the inaugural talk "Designing for People and Context: Integrating Social, Political, and Institutional Factors in Product Design" - Register here!

NordDesign Attendees: Get involved with our Nordic Chapter

Find out how to sign up here

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.

WIE TALK SERIES

A woman on the move – a life of experiences in engineering design with Lucienne Blessing

The Design Society is launching a series of online talks to encourage women to explore opportunities in engineering and foster diversity and equality. A recording of the inaugural talk by Lucienne Blessing is available now.

Data Informed Design

Our newest Special Interest Group (SIG) - Data Informed Design

CONFERENCES

ICED27 - 26th International Conference on Engineering Design

ICED is the Design Society’s biennial flagship event, uniting global researchers, practitioners, and educators to share advances in design. Covering methods, processes, human factors, management, and emerging technologies, it fosters academia–industry collaboration through keynotes, papers, workshops, and networking, strengthening the international design community.

Design Society Fellow: Professor William Ion

Design Society Fellowship was bestowed on Professor William Ion in May 2022.

Congratulations to Panos Papalambros

Panos Papalambros has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), citing his “contributions to complex systems optimization and leadership in advancing transformative engineering design research and education.”

Retrospective PAD2022 in Gothenburg

A reflection on the events and success of PAD2022, held last year in Gothenburg.