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Design is an important driver of innovation, creation, production, consumption and transformation towards a sustainable world. Organized by Hong Kong Design Institute, this event will take place from 3 to 5 May 2023 and bring together sustainability experts from Hong Kong and Switzerland to explore the future of sustainable design through a series of hybrid lectures […]
On the occasion of Berlin Design Week and the 2023 iF Design Awards, WDO and iF Design hosted a panel discussion exploring the topic of Creative Responsibility: Why we still need designers in the age of AI. The event brought together designers and design theorists for a conversation around the possibilities of AI and what this […]
Andreu World will be hosting Works Magazine at their London showroom on Tuesday, 23 May starting at 5pm for a discussion on Designing well-being at work. The panel will be moderated by editor Mick Jordan with the goal to lift the lid on strategies used to foster well-being, productivity, and employee satisfaction in the workplace. […]
POLI.design invites you to participate to its Phygital Open Days: online and in-person appointments that will give participants the opportunity to learn about our educational programmes, the faculty and the facilities on Campus. The presentation days are divided according to the the thematic areas of design. 13 June: Communication and Digital Interaction 27 June: Business […]
Greenhouse is a unique capacity building programme in service and policy design methodologies and tools. It has been created by PDR based on years of research and experience delivering design-driven innovation projects in the public sector. Greenhouse combines a live project, with design tools and techniques training. From 21-23 June 2023, participants will get to […]
In celebration of World Industrial Design Day 2023, meet the design representatives, creators, communicators, practitioners and thinkers at the Studio of Young Designers Association!
“Industry” has changed and is changing; design has also changed and must continue changing. The whole society should have a single focus and that is to avoid dangerous climate change and biodiversity loss – how can design play a role in this current, historical, important times? Help us celebrate #TheFutureWeWant and join the online conversation […]
We are honored to invite you to attend the special interview with Arch Ammar Khammash on an open dialogue about his beginning, practice and his design philosophy & school. Ammar Khammash (born 8 October 1960) is a Jordanian architect, designer and artist. His work is based on the integration of building designs with nature and […]
ServDes, the Service Design and Innovation conference, is the premier research conference for exchanging knowledge within Service Design and service innovation studies. Born as a yearly Nordic conference, ServDes has now become a bi-annual international event with the aim of bringing researchers and practitioners together to discuss, share and evolve the emerging discipline of Service […]
The International Experience Design Conference (IXDC) 2023 will be held in Beijing in August! IXDC 2023 will share cutting-edge experience trends, theories, methods, cases, and practices from around the world in design, technology, and business, leading the development of the experience design industry. The five-day conference plans to invite over 150 global design leaders, technology […]
Attend to meet industry leaders, innovative creatives and smart thinkers for three days of conversations, debates and, of course, a hearty Bavarian welcome. More than 20 speakers and 200 international attendees will come together to exchange perspectives on building a better future in life and business. At this global summit, you’ll meet and build connections […]
The Change by Design Conference explore design's role in the climate crisis: reimagining needs, resource scarcity, human resilience, and symbiotic relationships among humans, nature, and organisms. The conference's first day is dedicated to Fintech and Green Tech Design, followed by two days delving into the impact of design on ecosystems and fostering a radical design […]
The 2nd World Design Cities Conference (WDCC), hosted by Shanghai Municipal Government, will take place in Shanghai from Sep.26 to Oct.2 this year. With the theme of "Design beyond Creativity", the event comprises high-level forums (e.g. International Design 100 Summit, 12th Emerging Practices Design Research and Education Conference), thematic exhibitions (e.g. NICE Commune), release ceremony, […]
TypoDay 23 will be held for the sixteenth time during 26-28 of October 2023 hosted by Faculty of Visual Arts Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in collaboration with the IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay. The theme for this year's event is 'The Sacred and Typography' Day 1: Workshops on Typography + Typography Quiz Day 2 […]
The 38th Şişecam International Glass Conference will be featuring the theme “Collaborate to Innovate: For a Sustainable Future.” The event will be held in a hybrid format in İstanbul (Turkey) on November 2-3, 2023. The conference is an ideal opportunity to reach out to the world’s leading scientists and researchers and discuss the constantly expanding […]
A hybrid global Design Conference for the design community in APAC. It’s a two day event organised by Salesforce designers here we invite design leaders, professionals, academicians and students from the design fraternity to dialogue, develop and share experiences! on emerging themes What started as an humble outreach, has turned out to be a pivotal […]
Jointly organised by The Hong Kong Federation of Design and Creative Industries (FHKDCI), The Design Alliance Asia (tDA Asia) and HKDI, Asian Convergence 2023 will be held from 27 to 29 November 2023 in hybrid mode. Themed “AI Unleashed: Exploring the Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence”, the programme will include keynote presentations, seminars and roundtables, exhibition […]
Asia’s premier annual event on design, innovation and brands is back! Under the theme 'Game Changers', Business of Design Week 2023(BODW2023) Summit partners with the Netherlands and CreativeNL - world-renowned pioneers of circularity - to bring together policymakers, entrepreneurs and creative leaders to drive innovation that contributes to a sustainable future. Join us at Hong […]
Design Education Conference will be held on the 10 th and 11 th February 2024 with the aim to discuss, reflect and debate the evolving pedagogical aspects of Design in the context of socio-cultural and technological changes at at the Department of Design, IIT Delhi in collaboration with the IDC, IIT Bombay. Track A: Design […]
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