General Discussion

English for Runaways – unter diesem Stichwort könnte die Scheu vor dem professionellen Einsatz der englischen Sprache als internationale Konferenzsprache stehen.

found on the web:

An introduction to formgiving in
Chinese product design

Vigleik Norheim
Department of Product Design
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Remarks on the current state of design criticism
by Francois Burkhardt

This seems a bit off-topic, but please comment if you would appreciate more web-findings, interviews, books.

Designboom has an interview with author bruce sterling (shaping things, 2005) who outlined an interesting view of tomorrows design and meaning in his writings.

http://www.designboom.com/eng/interview/brucesterling.html

Welchen Einfluss haben Metaphern auf Design, Kommunikation Wissen und Technik?

Der angehängte Texte geht auf die folgenden Fragen ein:

A difficult question I would like to discuss with you - what do you think are the best design schools today?

Dear Users of Design Research Network,

Most of the 200 members aren’t active. What is the reason for it?

Dear all,
this is the paper my colleague Donato and I presented at the IASDR 2007 Conference in Hong Kong Polytechnic.

Dear researchers, designers and designer-researchers,
this contribution aims to present my PhD research results and to open the discussion about how design can provide tools that can facilitate social integration processes between complex systems.

Re-public , an online journal published in
Greece, focuses on theoretical and practical innovations that might renew

Am 7. Mai 2008 findet in der Akademie der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Berlin das Kolloquium der Gottlieb Daimler- und Karl Benz-Stiftung statt.

die Fakultät Gestaltung an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar bietet einen neuen Promotionsstudiengang speziell für Absolventen von Kunst-, Design- und Gestaltungshochschulen an.
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Dear DRN, as you might have noticed:

The call for Papers for the DRN Conference "Questions & Hypotheses" is out!

Despite all methodology, PhD Students often struggle with motivation and health issues.

There is some experience about design research to share with others.