The Design Society, established in 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.
We see the development of Design Science, through design research, design teaching and design practice, as the enabler for maturing novel technologies into innovative solutions, as well as a way to engage diverse people in articulating their needs and challenges and to participate and even lead the creation of appropriate solutions.
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.
The Design Society has an extensive palette of conferences, seminars, meetings, research schools and other collaborations. Explore these here!
All DS publications are available electronically for Society members to download free of charge through this web site.
SIGs provide opportunities for DS members and non-members to network, share ideas, experience and knowledge, collaborate, learn and open new research topics.
11 - 15 October 2021 at CentraleSupélec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. This doctoral school is open to 20 people, in priority from EcoSD network, S-mart network, the Design Society and Université Paris-Saclay, but not only.
The industry of the future : beyond the Anthropocene - 2-4 Feb 2022 Troyes (France)
Technical University of Darmstadt invites applications in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
DRS2022 is hosted by the city of Bilbao, in Northwest Spain, in association with the University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) and the wider ecosystem of local academic and design institutions.
Call for Papers - Design and Technology Education: An International Journal - Co-Guest Editors Ross Brisco (University of Strathclyde) & Anne Louise Bang (VIA University College, Denmark)
With representatives from Design Society owned, co-owned and endorsed events
International workshop in Valletta, Malta, between the 17th and 18th March 2022.
VR Ecosystems and rehabilitation systems - Hosted by Philip Farrugia and Georgi V. Georgiev
University of Aalborg, Copenhagen, offers a unique opportunity for an Associate Professor of Staging Collaborative Design in Engineering Design; a field of high interest in Department of Planning.
