Making Sustainability 2026

Call for Papers: Special Issue of Crafts

The Special Issue of Crafts, "Regenerative Craft and Circular Practice: Material, Technological, and Socio-Cultural Dimensions of Sustainable Making", invites contributions that advance our understanding of sustainable making through craft-based practices, with a focus on the following themes: (i) material innovation; (ii) technological integration; (iii) socio-cultural dynamics; (iv) systems thinking and framework; and (v) case studies and interventions.

Design Society UK Members - Income Tax Relief

The Design Society (DS) has been approved by the Commissioners for HM Revenue and Customs under Section 344 of the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 allowing UK taxpayers to claim tax relief on professional membership fees.

Radical Innovation Design - An open access e-book for DS Members

Bernard Yannou and François Cluzel have produced an open-access e-book on a "Radical Innovation Design" methodology for managing innovation projects.

Survey on the use of virtual reality for design review sessions (model-based design strategy)

Please support this research survey effort if you have experience in industrial design review practice.

Design Society Fellow: Professor Emeritus Margareta Norell Bergendahl

Design Society Fellowship was bestowed on Professor Emeritus Margareta Norell Bergendahl in August 2021

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Help Shape the Future of Design Research Quality

The Design Research Quality SIG is developing an open-access hub of resources to promote best practices around research quality in the design field.

WIE TALK SERIES

Engineering with Empathy: Lessons from a Cross-Disciplinary Career

The Design Society has launched a series of online talks to encourage women to explore opportunities in engineering and foster diversity and equality. Our next talk is by Malin Hane Hagström and can be watched LIVE on 30 April 2025.

Call for bids to host ICED27 (now closed)

After announcing that ICED25 will be hosted in Dallas, the Design Society Board of Management is calling for bids to host ICED27.

Survey on Design Co-creation and Elderly

Support this research work if you have experience as a professional working in the field of Design.

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.