News
Online Learning Zone
Visit our 'Online Learning Zone' to watch videos of seminars and keynotes from notable names in the design community.
News
News
In Memoriam: Umberto Cugini
Umberto Cugini 1941-2021: The Design Society sadly announces the passing of Prof. Umberto Cugini, well-known by many DS members for his active role in the world of engineering design and ICT technologies.
News
Short webinar series on circular economy readiness
Join the MATChE project's free webinars to learn about circular economy readiness and they have supported 350+ companies in transitioning. Tune in Monday to Friday the 25-29th January daily between 15:00 and 16:00 CET.
News (Members only )
Algorithmic approach to engineering design
This Content is Available for Members Only
News
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.
News
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.
Job Vacancies
Job Vacancies
Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellow in Digital Manufacturing
Strathclyde Global Talent Programme Be innovative and collaborative. Be a 'Strathclyder'. The department for this vacancy is Design, Manufacturing and Engineering Management.
Job Vacancies
Faculty Positions in Mechanical Engineering
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Mechanical Engineering seeks candidates for faculty positions starting July 1, 2021 or on a mutually agreed date thereafter.
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
Virtual environments systems (VES) symposia of the 2021 IDETC/CIE conference
The symposia of Virtual Environments and Systems (VES) aims to provide an international forum for the presentation and discussion of the state-of-the-art and cutting-edge research and developments in the enhancement of practice in engineering...
Conferences
ICED21 International Conference on Engineering Design
We invite you all to Gothenburg and participate in the 23rd ICED conference in August 2021.
Conferences
TRIZ Future Conference 2021 - Creative solutions for a sustainable development
Conferences
2021 IEEE Technology & Engineering Management Conference – Europe
TEMSCON 2021 theme: INNOVATION NETWORKS, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
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.
Research schools and courses
Research schools and courses
22nd Summer School on Engineering Design Research (SSEDR ’21)
The Summer School on Engineering Design Research is aimed at PhD students/candidates who are working on topics related to Design Science. For the first time, this will be an online event.
Research schools and courses
5th Tutorial of the Design Theory SIG
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.
Workshops & Seminars
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Call for Papers - Thematic Collection: Perspectives on Data-Enabled Design
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Using Participatory Systems Approaches to Improve Healthcare Delivery
The role of Soft Operational Research, Problem Structuring Methods, Systems Thinking and Design
Call for Papers
Special Issue on Design for Sustainability and Circular Economy
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
Past events
Past events
International Workshop on Design Theory
Past events
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 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.
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.
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).