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.

International Conference on Product Design Research

Emerge 2027

Emerge 2027 is the second international conference aimed at fostering emerging research in Product Design. It has the specific intent of providing a platform for early-career researchers, practitioners, and students to discuss, debate, and develop their work in the field of product and industrial design. The Emerge 2027 theme is ‘Product Design for a Changing World’. Today, the world around us is changing rapidly, and the changes happening are often hard for human beings to predict. The changes and transformations occurring in the world we live in are driven by advancements in digital and computational technology, rising sustainability and regulatory requirements, growing user expectations, and fluctuating socio-economic and cultural contexts. The current conference focuses on investigating how product design as a discipline can respond to these transformations without losing its core focus on functionality, usability, desirability, and human well-being.

Design Theory Week

Join the 20th Design Theory Paris Workshop 2027

We are pleased to announce that the 20th Design Theory Workshop will take place from 04 - 05 February 2027 (Abstract submission deadline: Nov 2026)

Design Theory Week

Join the 11th SIG Tutorial on Design Theory 2027

We are pleased to announce that the 11th SIG Tutorial on Design Theory will take place from 01 - 03 February 2027, in Paris, France.

Milan, Italy, 29 Sep - 01 Oct 2026

DSM 2026 - Call for Contributions

The International DSM Conference provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and developers of DSM-related tools to exchange experiences, discuss trends, and showcase results and tools. DSM 2026 will be hosted at Politecnico de Milano, Italy.

29 Sep - 01 Oct 2026, Milan, Italy

DSM 2026 - Host Announced

The International DSM Conference provides a platform for researchers, practitioners, and developers of DSM-related tools to exchange experiences, discuss trends, and showcase results and tools.

Call for Contributions

Making Sustainability 2026: International Conference on Craft, Design and Innovation

The Making Sustainability 2026: International Conference on Craft, Design and Innovation (on 7-8 in September 2026 at De Montfort University, UK and online) will bring together researchers, practitioners, educators, and industry leaders to explore how craft, design, innovation, and technology intersect to shape sustainable futures. (Abstract submission deadline: 10 March 2026)

CONFERENCES

E&PDE 2026 - 28th International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education

The Conference will bring together representatives from education and industry interested in sharing new perspectives on design education.

Summer School: Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of production and consumption in a systems perspective (2026)

This course introduces the concept of absolute sustainability assessment, gives important examples of its application to, e.g., countries, companies and products, and enables the participants to carry out absolute assessments in practice. The course has a special focus on the participants´ self-defined case studies, thereby enabling them to incorporate absolute sustainability assessment in their own work.