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College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University
The 2nd Asia Design and Innovation Conference (ADIC) will take place on 20–21 November 2025, in Shanghai, China. The theme, Designing for a Smart and Sustainable World, will explore core issues in design and innovation research and education, as well as emerging topics such as designing for smart and sustainable human experiences.
The 2nd Asia Design and Innovation Conference (ADIC) will be held on 20-21 November 2025 in Shanghai, China, as an endorsed event of the Design Society. The host is the College of Design and Innovation at Tongji University. ADIC conferences are held to foster collaboration in design research, education and practices in Asia while connecting to the other active communities of design research and education.
ADIC is an expanded continuation of the Asia Design Engineering Workshops (A-DEWS), held in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 as the events of the Asia Chapter of the Design Society (DS). The first ADIC was held on 5–6 December 2024 successfully with 53 full papers selected through peer reviews from more than 90 submissions.
The theme of ADIC 2025 will be Designing for Smart and Sustainable World addressing both basic and fundamental design and innovation research and education issues and new breakthrough research and education topics including design for smart and sustainable human experiences. ADIC 2025 program will include keynote speeches, invited theme papers, paper presentations, workshops and networking. ADIC 2025 venue is the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai.
ADIC 2025 is soliciting submissions of papers in broad design and innovation research and education areas including (but not limited to) the following:
• Smart and Sustainable Experience Design
• Design for Smart Living, Design for Smart Learning, Design for Smart Health
• Experience Design, Interaction Design
• Sustainable Design, Design for Circular Economy
• AI in Design, Data-Driven Design, Design Informatics, Design for Digital Transformation
• Product-Service Systems Design, Service Design, Health Systems Design
• Design Process and Theory, Design Methods and Tools
• Design Thinking, Design for Innovation, Design and Business Model Innovation
• Human Behavior in Design, Design Creativity, Design Cognition
• Digital Design, Digital Pedagogy, Design for X
• Design Learning, Design Education
• Design Practice and Entrepreneurship
Full paper template and summary template are available at the following links respectively.
Full Paper Template: www.jianguoyun.com/p/Dar2jJkQt5nSDRi9y44GIAA
Paper Summary Template: www.jianguoyun.com/p/DWwKoZMQt5nSDRi-y44GIAA
Conference Management System: www.conftool.net/adic2025/
Inquiries: adic@tongji.edu.cn
Note: Refereed papers of ADIC 2025 will be published on the website of the Design Society.
Conference Chair: Yong Se Kim (Tongji University)
Conference Co-Chairs: Yutaka Nomaguchi (Osaka University), Cees de Bont (National U. of Singapore), Jianxi Luo (City University of Hong Kong)
Chair: Xiaofang Yuan (Tongji University)
Avril Accolla (Tongji University) | Eun Ji Co (Tongji University) | Linna Hu (Tongji University) | Meng Wang (Tongji University) | Qi Wang (Tongji University) | Le Yi (Tongji University) | Huasen Zhao (Tongji University) | Zhinan Zhang (Shanghai Jiaotong University) | Rudy Wimmer (New York University Shanghai)
Marco Bertoni (Blekinge Institute of Technology) | Kom Campiranon (Thammasat University) | Juyoung Chang (Dongseo University) | Chun-Hsien Chen (Nanyang Technological University) | Hong Chen (Tongji University) | Takanori Chihara (Kanazawa University) | Christina Choi (Royal College of Art) | Daniel Chong (Sunway University) | Ethan Chong (Singapore Institute of Technology) | Chih-Hsing Chu (National Tsing-Hua University) | Zhu Gao (Shanghai University of Engineering Science) | Georgi Georgiev (University of Oulu) | Le Ha (Foreign Trade University) | Christopher Han (University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City) | Ji Han (University of Exeter) | Spring Han (Kyoto University) | Ting Han (Shanghai Jiaotong University) | Yasuyuki Hayama (Kyushu University) | Yu-Hsiu Hung (National Cheng Kung University) | Masato Inoue (Meiji University) | Tie Ji (Hunan University) | Takeo Kato (Keio University) | Chang H. Kim (Xian Jiaotong–Liverpool University) | Yusuke Kishita (University of Tokyo) | Tsuyoshi Koga (Yamaguchi University) | Edwin Koh (Singapore University of Technology and Design) | Ji-Hyun Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) | Ji Hwan Lee (Pukyong National University) | Jung-Ju Lee (National University of Singapore) | Sheng-Hung Lee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) | Jun Li (Donghua University) | Zhijun Li (Tongji University) | Wei Liu (King’s College London) | Ding Bang Luh (Guangdong University of Technology) | Shijian Luo (Zhejiang University) | Celine Mougenot (Imperial College London) | Seung Ki Moon (Nanyang Technological University) | Yukie Nagai (University of Tokyo) | Thai Nguyen (Van Lang University) | Dave Rosen (Agency for Science, Technology and Research) | Melanie Sarantou (Kyushu University) | Yoshihiro Sejima (Kansai University) | James Self (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology) | Wenyan Song (Beihang University) | Lingyun Sun (Zhejiang University) | Hsien-Hui Tang (Taiwan University of Science and Technology) | Kevin Tseng (National Taipei University of Technology) | Xiaochao Xi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications) | Hideyoshi Yanagisawa (University of Tokyo) | Jun Wang (East China University of Science and Technology) | Zuoxu Wang (Beihang University) | Lijun Zhang (Tongji University) | Linghao Zhang (Nanjing University of the Arts) | Chao Zhao (Tsinghua University) | Pai Zheng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
