Job Vacancies
Professorship (W3) for Machine Components
University of Stuttgart, Institute for Machine Components welcome applications.
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Welcome to the Design Society!
Promoting and supporting design research education -
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Welcome to the Design Society!
A worldwide community for design research, education and practice -
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Welcome to the Design Society!
Organising international conference events -
Welcome to the Design Society!
Promoting knowledge exchange through networking events and publications
Explore the DS
The Design Society, founded in the year 2000, is an interdisciplinary community of academics and industry practitioners with the goal of developing and promoting a robust, usable and scalable means of designing complex solutions that a sustainable and globalised society needs to thrive, in the 21st century. Our aim is to develop the innovative means that support designers in their practice. At the same time, we support the exchange of best practices to improve the routine design and conduct research to develop and maintain solid theoretical foundations of design.
News & Events
The Design Society has an extensive palette of conferences, seminars, meetings, research schools and other collaborations. Explore these here!
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All DS publications are available electronically for Society members to download free of charge through this web site.
Special Interest Groups
SIGs provide opportunities for DS members and non-members to network, share ideas, experience and knowledge, collaborate, learn and open new research topics.
Latest News & Events
Design Society Seminar Series
The Design Society Seminar Series: Dan Whitney
Join us as Dan will discuss the development of his ideas on design.
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Design for Sustainability and Circular Economy
Workshops & Seminars
Call for Papers: DESIGNING THROUGH MAKING: 2-D and 3-D Representations of Designs
Industry
The Impact of Covid19 on Product Development
Conferences
Resource Efficient Vehicles conference (rev2021)
Call for abstracts 18th December 2020. This vehicle-centric conference aims to bring together participants from academia, industry and public agencies to discuss research from fields connected to resource efficiency in vehicles and more.
Design Society Seminar Series
The Design Society Seminar Series: Terry Knight
Connecting the Dots - the dots seem far apart but the connections, in retrospect, are interestingly straightforward to draw out. Join us as a part of the Design Society Seminar Series with talks taking place until the end of 2020.
Conferences
Ninth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition - DCC'20
Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience and computational theories to design research. 14-16 December 2020. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Preceded by Workshops 12-13 December 2020.
Past events
DESIGN 2020 - 16th International Design Conference is online now
The DESIGN Conference programme offers broad exchange possibilities to researchers and practitioners, strategic decision makers, managers, design and engineering professionals, national or regional agencies or governmental bodies.
Design Society Chat Room
Watch: The Design Society Chat Room: Ethics in Design
Thursday 29th October 2020 @ 8pm GMT/UTC. Join us in the discussion as part of the DS Chat Room: Ethics in Design with Dr Ricardo Sosa Medina
News
Online Learning Zone
Visit our 'Online Learning Zone' to watch videos of seminars and keynotes from notable names in the design community.
Research schools and courses
Summer School on Tolerance Management
The Institute of Engineering Design (KTmfk) of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg organizes the biennial Summer School on Tolerance Management.