Past Congresses

2015** Gwangju (South Korea) – Design Connects
2013** Istanbul (Turkey) – Design Dialects Cancelled due to Force Majeure
2011** Taipei (Taiwan – Chinese Taipei) – Design at the Edges
2009 Singapore – Design Difference: Designing Our World 2050
2007 San Francisco (United States) – Connecting To People and Ideas
2005* Copenhagen (Prague), Oslo (Norway), Gothenburg (Sweden), Helsinki (Findland) – The Changing Role and Challenges of Design
2003 Hanover/Berlin (Germany) –  Reflecting Experience: Design Between Industrial Innovation and Enhanced User Services
2001 Seoul (Korea) – “Oullim” – The Condition of Being Undivided
1999* Sydney (Australia) – Viewpoint in Time
1997 Toronto (Canada) – The Humane Village
1995 Taipei (Taiwan) – Design for a Changing World – Toward Century 21
1993* Glasgow (Scotland) – Design Renaissance
1991 Ljubljana (Slovenia) – At the Crossroad
1989 Nagoya (Japan) – The Emerging Landscape: Order and Aesthetics in the Information Age
1987* Amsterdam (The Netherlands) –  Design Response
1985 Washington, D.C. (United States) – World Design
1983 Milan (Italy) – From Spoon to City, 30 years later
1981* Helsinki (Finland) – Design Integration
1979 Mexico City (Mexico) – Industrial Design as a Factor
1977 Dublin (Ireland) – Development Identity
1975 Moscow (Russia) – Design for Man and Society
1973 Kyoto (Japan) – Soul and Material Things
1971 Ibiza/Barcelona (Spain) – Seventh Congress
1969 London (United Kingdom) – Design, Society and the Future
1967 Ottawa/Montreal (Canada) –  Man to Man
1965 Vienna (Austria) – Design and the Community
1963 Paris (France) – Industrial Design – Unifying Factors
1961 Venice (Italy) – Towards an Aesthetic of the Invisible Design of Tradition
1959 Stockholm (Sweden) – First Congress

* Joint Congresses with Ico-D (formerly Icograda)
**Joint Congresses with Ico-D (formerly Icograda) and IFI