Design Research

Am 23. Oktober 2011 veranstaltet die Themengruppe »DESIGN promoviert« der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Design Research Network und der Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbisch Gmünd das 6. Kolloquium »DESIGN promoviert«. [more...]

Das Symposium anlässlich des 125. Geburtstags Mies van der Rohes möchte exponierte und originelle Forschungsansätze und -perspektiven zur Frage nach der Aktualität des architektonischen und konzeptuellen Erbes Mies van der Rohes präsentieren. [more...]

Call for papers and projects
Who designs design?
Practice, theory and history of participatory design

The Eighth Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF)
Conference Venue: Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd
Date: October 21-22, 2011

Submission deadline: May 9 (www.dgtf.de/conftool) [more...]

Call for Papers and Participation: The Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality. Oct. 26-29, 2011, Basel, Switzerland. [more...]

Universal Design – strongly supported by Ron Mace in the 1980s at New York State University – has since then become a well known concept, ranging similar to »inclusive design« and »design for all«. Mainly based on 7 basic principles it is worth questioning how influential the concept is today and which impacts it has for today´s design community. The international conference for Universal Design is a four-yearly event which provides the most prominent event to verify this question. [more...]

The 6th International Workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement: DeSForM 2010
November 3 - 5, 2010, Lucerne, Switzerland

After four successful workshops in Europe and an inspiring excursion to Taiwan in 2009, DeSForM returns to Europe. The Lucerne School of Art and Design is looking forward to inviting you to DeSForM 2010, an international workshop on Design & Semantics of Form & Movement, to be held on November 3 - 5, 2010 in Lucerne. [more...]

"Design. Knowledge. Production – Design Research in Context of Application"
Annual conference of the German Society of Design Theory and Research (DGTF)
Venue: University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin
Date: 23/24 October 2009

We are please about the excellent quality and overwhelming response to this year's conference. Check out the program! [more...]

5th–6th November at Media Lab
University of Art and Design Helsinki

The doctoral programme in Media Lab Helsinki will organize a symposium about openness in November 5–6, 2009, which is the second edition of the event. [more...]

Together with one of the big Theorists - A 'Field Report' [more...]