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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.
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AFRICA-DESIGN
AFRICA-DESIGN is a Design Society initiative to build a network of design researchers, educators, and practitioners based in African countries with particular emphasis on design for sustainable development.
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IEEE Transactions on ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Special Issue: Innovation in Design Processes
This special issue aims to foster this collaboration across fields and to explore the latest, emerging and innovative concepts, methodologies, tools and strategies for structuring, managing and planning design processes ...
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Lightweight Design in Product Development
The purpose of this thematic collection is to selectively address and discuss actual topics along the entire value chain from material to design and fabrication, sharing achievements at the leading edge of research ...
Job Vacancies
Job Vacancies
Open PhD Position in Engineering Design and Computing
The Engineering Design and Computing Laboratory has a fully-funded PhD position to work on cutting-edge research project within the research area of computational origami.
Job Vacancies
Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Job Vacancies
Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Job Vacancies
Fully-funded PhD scholarship in AR/VR Interface Design for Rehabilitation by Exoskeleton
Engineering Systems Design, DTU Management, DTU-Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a 3-year PhD in rehabilitation by exoskeleton, funded by the Horizon2020 EU project ReHyb - Rehabilitation based on Hybrid neuroprosthesis.
Job Vacancies
Post-Doc in Digital-twin Patient System Modelling for Rehabilitation by Exoskeleton
Engineering Systems Design, DTU Management, DTU-Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a 2-year Post-Doc in rehabilitation by exoskeleton, funded by the Horizon2020 EU project ReHyb - Rehabilitation based on Hybrid neuroprosthesis.
Job Vacancies
Professors for Teaching Sustainable Design Engineering at the new Universities of Canada in Egypt
The Universities of Canada is the first of a new model for delivering quality University Education located in the New Capital City in Egypt.
Conferences
Conferences
International Upcycling Symposium 2020: Research and Practice
Conferences
ICED21 International Conference on Engineering Design
We invite you all to Gothenburg and participate in the 23rd ICED conference in August 2021.
Conferences
10th International Joint Conference on Mechanics, Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing
We are pleased to invite all researchers, engineers and students to submit full papers (6 pages) that will be peer-reviewed for acceptance with the essential corrections and proposed for oral presentation.
Conferences
NordDesign 2020
The NordDesign conferences serve as a Nordic complement to the larger international conferences in design and product development, but we also wish to welcome participants from all other countries.
Conferences
CubeSat Symposium at the 2020 CSME International Congress
As part of the 2020 Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress, there will be a symposium on CubeSat innovation and research.
Conferences
22nd International Conference on Engineering & Product Design Education (E&PDE 2020)
The E&PDE conference will bring together representatives from education and industry who have an interest in sharing new perspectives on design education. The conference will provide a forum for educators, practitioners and students
Research schools and courses
Research schools and courses
Summer School on Integrated Product Development 2020 (IPD ISS)
With the industrial world looking at ways of how to overcome increasing demands on product performance and product individualisation, there is an increasing need to exploit product development to cope with these business challenges.
Research schools and courses
Research Methods in Design and Engineering Management (PhD short course)
The objective of this course is to train doctoral students in planning and execution of research methods in the field of design, innovation, and management research.
Workshops & Seminars
Workshops & Seminars
Canadian Design Workshop
The Canadian Design Workshop (CDW) is a biennial workshop modelled after the Clive L. Dym Mudd Design Workshops and in collaboration with the Center for Design Teaching at Harvey Mudd College.
Workshops & Seminars
PubliER 2020
Publications for Early Researchers: How can the Industries of the Future contribute to address the forthcoming challenges of our society?
Workshops & Seminars
MMEP workshop on Benchmarking process modelling and management tools
This workshop invites practitioners, researchers and educators that are actively using tools for modelling and managing design processes, e.g. as part of their professional activities in industry or teaching activities.
Workshops & Seminars
DTRS13 Design Thinking Research Symposium 13
The organising team invite you to the Technion in the spring of 2021 to participate in an event that promises to be challenging and fascinating.
Workshops & Seminars
13TH SIG DESIGN THEORY PARIS WORKSHOP
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Call for Papers on Sustainable Consumption and Production by Upcycling: Advances in Science and Practices
We invite contributions for a Special Issue on "Sustainable Consumption and Production by Upcycling: Advances in Science and Practices", to be published by Sustainability.
Call for Papers
IEEE Transactions on ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT Special Issue: Innovation in Design Processes
This special issue aims to foster this collaboration across fields and to explore the latest, emerging and innovative concepts, methodologies, tools and strategies for structuring, managing and planning design processes ...
Call for Papers
Lightweight Design in Product Development
The purpose of this thematic collection is to selectively address and discuss actual topics along the entire value chain from material to design and fabrication, sharing achievements at the leading edge of research ...
Call for Papers
The future of design cognition analysis
Design cognition analysis provides a basis for cognitive models and theories of design activity and is central to advancing scientific knowledge about designing.
Call for Papers
Design Research in Industry
This Thematic Collection seeks to contain high quality and novel contributions reporting on how design research relates to design practice.
Past events
Past events
National Symposium - The Need for System Integration Capability
The objectives of this seminar are to explore the current situation within the UK in the education and industrial experiences of Engineers, Product Designers and Computer Scientists in taking a systems approach to disciplinary integration.
Past events
Symposium on Design Theory and Innovation
The event will offer a unique opportunity to meet some of the leading researchers from the SIG, learn about their research and practical work on data-driven design, artificial intelligence, creativity, design thinking and more...
Past events
DTU Ørsted Lecture with Professor Steven Eppinger on 28th October 2019
DTU's next prestigious Ørsted Lecture will be delivered by Professor Steven Eppinger from Management Science and Innovation, MIT Sloan School of Management. All welcome to attend.
Past events
Design Practice Speaker Series - Prof. Tim McAloone and Dr. Daniela Pigosso - Your Sustainability Impact?
Design Practice SIG - Our mission is to “foster interaction between academics and practitioners to capture, understand, develop, improve, support, exchange and share design practice.”
Past events
7th CIRPe Global Web Conference 2019
Towards shifted production value stream patterns through inference of data, models, and technology.
Past events
21st International Dependency and Structure Modelling Conference (DSM 2019)
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.