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Algorithmic approach to engineering design
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We Are Not Users: Dialogues, Diversity, and Design, MIT Press - A new book on design (Subrahmanian, Reich, Krishnan, 2020)
This book culminates work of over three decades on design. It addresses issues at the heart of contemporary challenges and debates and written in a way accessible to a large audience.
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Design Society 'Rigi' Meeting 2020
Every year the Board of Management, Advisory Board and SIG and Chapter Leaders of the Design Society meet to discuss the development and administration of the Society and, in a day of scientific discussions.
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20 years of The Design Society
The year 2020 marks a milestone for The Design Society achieving 20 years of a worldwide community towards Design research, education and practice.
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New Members' Dashboard
We have made it easier for you, as Design Society member, to access and edit your data and to contribute to the Design Society website.
Job Vacancies
Job Vacancies
Assistant Professor of Industrial Design (Tenure-Track)
University of Washington - The Division of Design in the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington in Seattle invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of Industrial Design to start in Sep 2021.
Job Vacancies
Carnegie Mellon - Tenure-track Faculty Positions Available in Mechanical Engineering
Currently recruiting for multiple tenure-track faculty positions.
Job Vacancies
Postdoc in modeling, optimization, validation and verification of autonomy-enabled vehicles
Clemson University Department of Mechanical Engineering are seeking to hire a postdoc beginning as early as August 2020 to work on a project funded through Army GVSC on modeling, optimization, validation and verification of autonomy-enabled vehicles.
Job Vacancies
Building future mobility for and with the inhabitants of a territory: a human-centered scenario-based design approach
At IRT SystemX, located in the heart of the world-class scientific campus of Paris-Saclay, you will take an active part in the development of a technological research centre in the field of digital transformation of industry, services and territories
Job Vacancies
TU Delft - Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering is hiring – Department of Sustainable Design Engineering
Designing AI-powered systems, Design for sustainability, Smart textiles and wearable technologies and Biodesign
Job Vacancies
TU Delft - Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering is hiring – Department Human-Centered Design
Design for Change, Foundations of Interaction and The Human Touch
Conferences
Conferences
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.
Conferences
ICED21 International Conference on Engineering Design
We invite you all to Gothenburg and participate in the 23rd ICED conference in August 2021.
Conferences
The 5th International Conference on Design Engineering and Science (ICDES2020)
Conferences
8th International Conference on Research Into Design (ICoRD'21)
ICoRD'21 is the eighth in a series of conferences intended to be held every two years in India to bring together the international community from diverse areas of design practice, education and research.
Research schools and courses
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.
Research schools and courses
5th Tutorial of the Design Theory SIG
Workshops & Seminars
Workshops & Seminars
Design Practice Speaker Series - How has Additive Manufacturing transformed Design Practice at General Motors?
A joint Design Practice SIG and Design for Additive Manufacturing SIG webinar with special guest Mr. Ali Shabbir, Engineering Group Manager at General Motors.
Workshops & Seminars
Design Culture Symposium (DCS) 2020
Call for papers extended to September 26th 2020. Design Culture Symposium (DCS) is a conference interested in promoting a dialogue between design culture and strategic design.
Workshops & Seminars
International Workshop on Design Theory
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Special Issue Years of Design Creativity Research: What is Industry Aware of?
Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology welcome submissions that could contribute in shedding light about how and to what extent industry actually use and/or takes into consideration the outcomes from the Design Creativity stream of research.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers: Thematic Collection on Robust Design Methodology
Submissions are invited for a Thematic Collection (TC) of the Design Science Journal on robust design methodology, exploring a wide range of achievements, approaches and perspectives relating to the fundamental idea of robustness in design.
Call for Papers
Design Studies Virtual Special Issue Call for Papers: Research Notes
Design Studies is introducing Research Notes, which will be short communications focusing specifically on research dealing with quality related issues in studies of designing, including research methods, literature review, theory development, design
Call for Papers
Strategic Design Research Journal special issue on COVID-19
SDRJ is a peer-reviewed, open-access, international journal that publishes articles related to the design process, for developing design theory and practice.
Call for Papers
Special Issue "Design to Drive Behavior Change for Sustainability and Circular Economy"
A special issue in the MDPI Sustainability journal, edited by the Sustainable Design SIG
Call for Papers
Applied Sciences: Special Issue "Requirements in design processes: open issues, relevance and implications"
Submissions are open until October 31st, 2020. Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; CODEN: ASPCC7) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on all aspects of applied natural sciences published semi-monthly online by MDPI.
Past events
Past events
Launch of the Health Systems Design SIG @ DESIGN2020
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Health Systems Design SIG taken place as part of DESIGN2020 online.
Past events
AFRICA-DESIGN @ DESIGN2020
If you are attending the DESIGN 2020 Online Conference, we would like to invite you to participate in the online workshop on DESIGN FOR GLOBAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, October 26th, 14:30-16:00 (Central European Time).
Past events
PhD online course in Product-Service Systems
This course aims to give an overview of Product-Service System (PSS), i.e. a production with focus on servitization where value is created through a shift from selling the product to selling total customer solutions.
Past events
Summer School Tolerance Management
The focus is on the knowledge and experience exchange between industry, research and young talents in tolerancing.
Past events
Webinar: How do users perceive the products´ sustainability performance?
Yuri Borgianni, Assistant Professor at the Free University of Bozen (Italy)
Past events
DFX 2020 31st SYMPOSIUM DESIGN FOR X
Online via Zoom and Erlangen, Germany. 16-17 September 2020. DFX 2020 offers young scientists a platform for presenting new ideas and approaches for improving product development.